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  1. Tiger King 2020

    Documentary

    A zoo owner spirals out of control amid a cast of eccentric characters in this true murder-for-hire story from the underworld of big cat breeding.

    The sides of Tiger King

    • A private zoo full of tigers in Oklahoma
    • A feud between Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin
    • A murder-for-hire plot

    Good for you if

    • you can laugh at how far a feud between zoo owners goes.
    • you like a real story stranger than anything you'd make up.
    • you like a cast of big cat breeders who each seem invented.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch big cats kept in cages and badly treated.
    • you need answers, and the disappearance of Carole Baskin's husband is never solved.

    About: obsession · rivalry · greed

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  2. Fyre 2019

    Documentary

    He promised supermodels and yachts, but delivered tents and cheese sandwiches. How one man engineered a music festival disaster.

    The sides of Fyre

    • A luxury festival sold with supermodels on a beach
    • Guests arriving to disaster tents and a cheese sandwich
    • The staff who tried to keep the promise alive

    Good for you if

    • you laugh at a disaster you can watch coming from the first ad.
    • you like seeing how a fraud keeps going one lie after another.
    • you like the people who built it explaining how it all went wrong.

    Bad for you if

    • you want a patient film. This one moves like a social media feed.
    • you want to understand the man behind it. The film stays on the fallout.

    About: hype · greed · influence

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  3. The Imposter 2012

    Documentary

    In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.

    The sides of The Imposter

    • A Texas boy missing for three years, found in Spain
    • A family welcoming him home
    • A man telling the camera how he lied

    Good for you if

    • you like a story that gets stranger every ten minutes.
    • you like an investigation where the questions keep changing.
    • you like hearing a con man explain his con himself.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take a real missing child and a grieving family.
    • you can't stand not knowing who to believe. Each witness tells the story their own way.

    About: identity · lies · grief

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  4. Bowling for Columbine 2002

    Documentary

    This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.

    The sides of Bowling for Columbine

    • A bank that hands out a rifle when you open an account
    • Columbine security camera footage
    • An interview with Charlton Heston at his home

    Good for you if

    • you want a road trip through America asking why it has so many shootings.
    • you can laugh at a cartoon history of America while the subject is gun deaths.
    • you like a sardonic narrator who questions everyone from Marilyn Manson to Charlton Heston.

    Bad for you if

    • a school shooting and a six-year-old girl's death are too much for you.
    • you can't watch real footage from inside a school during a shooting.

    About: guns · fear · violence

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  5. American Animals 2018

    Documentary

    Lexington, Kentucky, 2004. Four young men attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in the history of the United States.

    The sides of American Animals

    • Four students planning to rob their university library
    • The real men interviewed next to the actors who play them
    • Rare books worth millions

    Good for you if

    • you like a heist planned by people who have no idea what they're doing.
    • you like hearing the four real men tell it while actors replay it.
    • you laugh at clumsy disguises and a plan that falls apart.

    Bad for you if

    • you want a slick heist with car chases. This one targets a university library in Kentucky.
    • you want one clear version of events. The men remember it differently.

    About: boredom · friendship · guilt

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  6. Searching for Sugar Man 2012

    Documentary

    Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.

    The sides of Searching for Sugar Man

    • Rodriguez, a Detroit singer who sold almost nothing at home
    • His record everywhere in apartheid South Africa
    • Two fans trying to find out how he died

    Good for you if

    • you like discovering songs you've never heard, and hearing why they mattered.
    • you like an investigation that starts with record sleeves and royalties.
    • you can be moved by how much a few songs meant to people on the other side of the world.

    Bad for you if

    • you want more happening than interviews and songs.
    • you'd rather a made-up story than a documentary about real people.

    About: fame · humility · second chances

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  7. Fahrenheit 9/11 2004

    Documentary

    Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

    The sides of Fahrenheit 9/11

    • The 2000 election and September 11
    • A president in a classroom after the attacks
    • A mother from Flint who lost her son in Iraq

    Good for you if

    • you want news footage and interviews from the Bush years in one film.
    • you like following money and oil between Washington and Saudi Arabia.
    • you like Michael Moore's mocking edits and pop songs over politicians.

    Bad for you if

    • a mother reading her dead son's last letter is too much for you.
    • you can't watch real footage of wounded civilians and soldiers in Iraq.

    About: war · grief · politics

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  8. New York, 1980. Three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives – and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.

    The sides of Three Identical Strangers

    • Three 19-year-olds who discover they are triplets
    • Talk shows and fame in 1980s New York
    • A secret study behind their adoption

    Good for you if

    • you like a happy story that turns dark halfway through.
    • you like hearing the brothers tell it themselves.
    • you want to think about what we owe to genes and what we owe to parents.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take mental illness in a real family, told by the people who lived it.
    • you want the joyful reunion to stay joyful.

    About: identity · nature and nurture · brotherhood

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  9. Wild Wild Country 2018

    Documentary

    When a controversial cult leader builds a utopian city in the Oregon desert, conflict with the locals escalates into a national scandal.

    The sides of Wild Wild Country

    • A guru's followers building a city in the Oregon desert
    • Ma Anand Sheela, his right hand
    • A small town fighting back

    Good for you if

    • you like a fight between a commune and a town that becomes a national case.
    • you can't look away from Sheela telling her own story decades later.
    • you like a true story that gets stranger with each episode, and you can't guess where it goes.

    Bad for you if

    • six episodes of over an hour each is too much for you.
    • you need momentum, and the archives and interviews take their time.

    About: faith · power · utopia

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  10. Icarus 2017

    Documentary

    While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, director Bryan Fogel connects with renegade Russian scientist Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov—a pillar of his country’s “anti-doping” program. Over dozens of Skype calls, urine samples, and badly administered hormone injections, Fogel and Rodchenkov grow closer despite shocking allegations that place Rodchenkov at the center of Russia’s state-sponsored Olympic doping program.

    The sides of Icarus

    • An amateur cyclist doping himself to test the system
    • A Russian scientist on Skype calls
    • Russia's state doping programme at the Olympics

    Good for you if

    • you like a film that starts as a stunt and turns into a political thriller.
    • you want to know how athletes beat the drug tests.
    • you like a true story told by the man who ran Russia's anti-doping lab.

    Bad for you if

    • you want an easygoing sports film. Icarus is about doping, lies and a whistleblower who fears for his safety.
    • you want more than calls, documents and interviews.

    About: cheating · courage · the state

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  11. Inside Job 2010

    Documentary

    A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.

    The sides of Inside Job

    • The 2008 financial crisis, from Iceland to Wall Street
    • Bankers, regulators and economists in front of the camera
    • Professors who can't answer a simple question

    Good for you if

    • you want to know who made money from the crash and who paid.
    • you like a case built with real figures, real names and real interviews.
    • you like interviews where the person in the chair starts to squirm.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't want to follow derivatives and credit default swaps for an evening.
    • you want a reassuring ending. Here almost nobody goes to jail.

    About: greed · corruption · the economy

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  12. Making a Murderer 2015

    Documentary

    Filmed over 10 years, this real-life thriller follows a DNA exoneree who, while exposing police corruption, becomes a suspect in a grisly new crime.

    The sides of Making a Murderer

    • A man freed by DNA after 18 years in prison
    • A new murder charge two years later
    • A nephew's confession and the trials that follow

    Good for you if

    • you want to weigh the evidence in the Steven Avery case yourself.
    • you like seeing how a county police force and a court work up close.
    • you like a case followed over ten years, hearing by hearing.

    Bad for you if

    • a real young woman's murder and a teenager's interrogation are too much for you.
    • you need some hope, and a family's ten-year fight through prison visits and appeals wears you down.

    About: justice · doubt · family

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  13. Unsolved Mysteries 2020

    Documentary

    Real cases of perplexing disappearances, shocking murders and paranormal encounters fuel this gripping revival of the iconic documentary series.

    The sides of Unsolved Mysteries

    • Real disappearances and unsolved murders
    • UFO sightings and ghost stories
    • Families still waiting for answers

    Good for you if

    • you like a case you can try to solve in an hour.
    • you can live with an episode that ends without an answer.
    • you like UFO lights in the sky between two murder cases.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real families still grieving a loved one.
    • you can't take paranormal episodes next to real crimes.

    About: disappearance · the unexplained · grief

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  14. The Tinder Swindler 2022

    Documentary

    Posing as a wealthy, jet-setting diamond mogul, an Israeli conman wooed women online then conned them out of millions of dollars. Now, some victims plan for payback.

    The sides of The Tinder Swindler

    • A man posing as a diamond heir on a dating app
    • Private jets paid for with other women's loans
    • Three women who decide to fight back

    Good for you if

    • you like seeing exactly how a con works, message by message.
    • you like hearing the women he fooled tell it themselves.
    • you like the moment the money runs out and the threats start.

    Bad for you if

    • you came for a love story. This is about how one was faked.
    • you can't watch real people sink into debt and fear.

    About: trust · money · betrayal

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  15. Waltz with Bashir 2008

    Documentary

    A film director from Israel interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

    The sides of Waltz with Bashir

    • An Israeli director who can't remember his war
    • Interviews with fellow veterans of Lebanon, 1982
    • Animated memories that end on real footage

    Good for you if

    • you want to know what a war does to the memory of those who fought it.
    • you like a director investigating his own past.
    • you like dreamlike animated images, like soldiers rising from the sea at night.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not see a war documentary in animation.
    • you won't read subtitles. It's in Hebrew.
    • you can't take a film about guilt and the dead of a war, seen through a soldier's nightmares.

    About: memory · guilt · war

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  16. The film profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they attract true believers and the things they do in the name of religion.

    The sides of Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

    • Eight former members of the Church of Scientology
    • How a science fiction writer founded a religion
    • Testimony about abuse inside the church

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing people explain how they came to believe, and how they left.
    • you want to know how an organisation keeps control of its members.
    • you like long testimonies where people choose every word.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't listen to accounts of psychological abuse and broken families.
    • you lose track when names pile up. Eight former members, two church leaders and a few film stars come and go.

    About: belief · control · leaving

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  17. A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

    The sides of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    • A has-been superhero actor on Broadway
    • A film that seems to be one shot
    • A voice in his head

    Good for you if

    • you like actors going all in, on stage and off.
    • you like a camera that floats through a theatre without stopping.
    • you like a bitter, funny look at fame and ego.

    Bad for you if

    • magical realism and floating actors aren't for you.
    • you need a clear ending. The last shot leaves you guessing what became of Riggan.

    About: ego · relevance · art

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  18. The Big Short 2015

    Film

    The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

    The sides of The Big Short

    • Outsiders who saw the 2008 crash coming
    • Celebrities explaining finance
    • Betting against the economy

    Good for you if

    • you like angry, fast comedy about real disaster.
    • you like sharp, cynical characters.
    • you like to understand how something really happened.

    Bad for you if

    • you find banks and mortgages dull. The whole film is about money.
    • you need some hope. The bankers walk away and millions lose their homes.

    About: greed · truth · systems

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  19. Super Size Me 2004

    Documentary

    Morgan Spurlock subjects himself to a diet based only on McDonald's fast food three times a day for thirty days without exercising to try to prove why so many Americans are fat or obese. He submits himself to a complete check-up by three doctors, comparing his weight along the way, resulting in a scary conclusion.

    The sides of Super Size Me

    • Thirty days of McDonald's three times a day
    • Three doctors watching his health drop
    • School lunches and fast food marketing

    Good for you if

    • you want to see one man's body change over a month of fast food.
    • you like a filmmaker who jokes his way through Big Macs and checkups.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at message films. Spurlock turns his month into a warning about fast food.
    • you need hard science. It's one man's month, not a study.

    About: health · food · the food industry

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  20. BoJack Horseman 2014

    Series

    Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s , 20 years later. He's a curmudgeon with a heart of...not quite gold...but something like gold. Copper?

    The sides of BoJack Horseman

    • A washed-up 90s sitcom horse
    • Hollywoo, where humans and animals live side by side
    • Friends he keeps letting down

    Good for you if

    • you like animal puns next to jokes about addiction and death.
    • you want a show that looks hard at why BoJack keeps hurting the people who love him.
    • you can take a comedy that doesn't promise anyone gets better.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch addiction, depression and an overdose on screen.
    • you don't watch animated series.

    About: fame · addiction · depression · regret

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