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  1. Senna 2010

    Documentary

    The remarkable story of Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since attained, is the subject of Senna, a documentary feature that spans the racing legend's years as an F1 driver, from his opening season in 1984 to his untimely death a decade later.

    The sides of Senna

    • Ayrton Senna's Formula One years, 1984 to 1994
    • The rivalry with Alain Prost
    • Only archive footage, no talking heads on screen

    Good for you if

    • you like onboard laps in the rain at Monaco.
    • you like a life told entirely through real footage from the time.
    • you like a rivalry that turns into collisions on the track.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather skip politics. Much of it is the fight with the sport's rulers over penalties and points.

    About: ambition · rivalry · faith · death

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  2. Cobain: Montage of Heck 2015

    Documentary

    Hailed as one of the most innovative and intimate documentaries of all time, experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the only ever fully authorized portrait of the famed music icon. Academy Award nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen expertly blends Cobain's personal archive of art, music, never seen before movies, animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest friends.

    The sides of Cobain: Montage of Heck

    • Home videos and cassettes from Cobain's own archive
    • Animated sequences built from his notebooks
    • Seattle before and after Nirvana

    Good for you if

    • you want his own tapes and drawings rather than someone else's version of him.
    • you came for Nirvana and the noise behind the records.
    • you want the portrait of one person, his family and his marriage, not a tour of the hits.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit with addiction, depression and an ending you already know is coming.
    • over two hours this close to someone's pain is too much for one evening.

    About: addiction · fame · family

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  3. The Last Dance 2020

    Documentary

    A 10-part documentary chronicling the untold story of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls dynasty with rare, never-before-seen footage and sound from the 1997-98 championship season – plus over 100 interviews with famous figures and basketball’s biggest names.

    The sides of The Last Dance

    • The Chicago Bulls' 1997-98 season
    • Michael Jordan watching old clips on a tablet
    • Rare footage from inside the locker room

    Good for you if

    • you like basketball games replayed with the players telling you what they felt.
    • you want Jordan, Pippen, Rodman and Phil Jackson in their own words.
    • you like the 1990s NBA, from the Bad Boys Pistons to the sixth title.

    Bad for you if

    • ten episodes on one team is too much for you.
    • a hundred interviews and a whole roster to keep track of lose you.

    About: winning · competition · fame

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  4. Free Solo 2018

    Documentary

    Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000 foot high El Capitan wall. With no ropes or safety gear, this would arguably be the greatest feat in rock climbing history.

    The sides of Free Solo

    • A free climb of El Capitan with no rope
    • A camera crew afraid to film a fall
    • A climber who lives in a van

    Good for you if

    • you like holding your breath through a climb you already know the end of.
    • you want the real Alex Honnold, his doubts, his girlfriend and his training.
    • you like the granite wall of Yosemite filmed from every angle.

    Bad for you if

    • you have no interest in sport. It's two years of training for one climb.
    • you need momentum, and the climb only comes after months of preparation.

    About: fear · ambition · risk

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  5. A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

    The sides of The Pursuit of Happyness

    • A father and son with nowhere to sleep
    • An unpaid internship
    • A Rubik's cube in a taxi

    Good for you if

    • you like a story of struggle with a moving end.
    • you like a real father and son on screen together.
    • you like a sincere story about never giving up.

    Bad for you if

    • homelessness with a child is too hard for you tonight.
    • you want to laugh with Will Smith. Here he plays it straight, down to a night in a subway bathroom.

    About: perseverance · fatherhood · poverty

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  6. Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.

    The sides of Bohemian Rhapsody

    • A shy boy becoming Freddie Mercury
    • How the hits were made
    • Twenty minutes at Live Aid

    Good for you if

    • you like singing along to Queen in the cinema.
    • you like an actor disappearing into a legend.
    • you want a crowd-pleaser that ends on a high.

    Bad for you if

    • you want the hard part told in full. It ends at Live Aid, years before Freddie's death.
    • you roll your eyes at big speeches. Freddie tells the band they are his family before Live Aid.

    About: fame · identity · family

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  7. The Crown 2016

    Series

    The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

    The sides of The Crown

    • Elizabeth II from her young reign to old age
    • Weekly meetings with her Prime Ministers
    • A royal family torn between duty and love

    Good for you if

    • you like the second half of the 20th century seen from inside Buckingham Palace.
    • you like a family drama where a sister, a husband and children all come second to the Crown.
    • you like who really decides things between the palace and Downing Street.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and many episodes are quiet conversations in palace rooms.
    • six seasons of royal life is too much for you.

    About: duty · family · the monarchy

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  8. Citizenfour 2014

    Documentary

    In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.

    The sides of Citizenfour

    • Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room
    • Journalists deciding what to publish
    • A fire alarm that makes everyone freeze

    Good for you if

    • you like the days before a leak, filmed as they happen in one hotel room.
    • you want to watch Snowden explain, in his own words, why he did it.
    • you like seeing how governments watch their own citizens.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and most of it is people talking at a desk.
    • you want scale and sound, not a laptop and a hotel bed.

    About: surveillance · privacy · courage

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  9. Amy 2015

    Documentary

    A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.

    The sides of Amy

    • Home videos of a teenage singer in London
    • The recording of Back to Black
    • Paparazzi flashes outside her door

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing Amy Winehouse's lyrics on screen as she sings them.
    • you want her life told only through home videos, voicemails and friends' voices.
    • you like being moved by someone you watch slip away.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take addiction, an eating disorder and an overdose on screen.
    • you need some hope, and you know how this one ends.

    About: fame · addiction · talent

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  10. 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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  11. American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.

    The sides of Ford v Ferrari

    • A car designer and a hot-headed driver
    • Ford against Ferrari
    • Twenty-four hours of Le Mans

    Good for you if

    • you like racing scenes you can feel.
    • you like a friendship between two stubborn men.
    • you like true stories about rivalry.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours is too long for your evening.
    • you don't care about motor racing. The final act is the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

    About: friendship · integrity · speed

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  12. Rush 2013

    Film

    In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.

    The sides of Rush

    • Hunt against Lauda
    • A crash at the Nürburgring
    • The 1976 Formula One season

    Good for you if

    • you like racing scenes that put you in the car.
    • you like two rivals who need each other.
    • you like true sports stories.

    Bad for you if

    • you find burns and hospital scenes hard to watch. One crash is shown up close.
    • you'd rather skip James Hunt's many sex scenes, or you're watching with family.

    About: rivalry · risk · respect

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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. Tells the story of Justin Bieber, the kid from Canada with the hair, the smile and the voice: It chronicles his unprecedented rise to fame, all the way from busking in the streets of Stratford, Canada to putting videos on YouTube to selling out Madison Square Garden in New York as the headline act during the My World Tour from 2010. It features Usher, Scooter Braun, Ludacris, Sean Kingston, Antonio "L.A." Reid, Boyz II Men, Miley Cyrus, Jaden Smith, Justin's family members and parts of his crew and huge fanbase in a mix of interviews and guest performances.

    The sides of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never

    • Home videos of a boy drumming in Stratford
    • A Madison Square Garden show sold out fast
    • A mother, a grandmother and a manager

    Good for you if

    • you want the Madison Square Garden night and the songs around it.
    • you like watching how videos online turn into a tour.
    • you like a sixteen year old carrying something far bigger than him.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at speeches about believing in your dream.
    • you want a story with stakes and this one builds to one concert.

    About: fame · family · ambition

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  16. A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

    The sides of Catch Me If You Can

    • A teenager posing as a pilot and a doctor
    • An FBI agent always one step behind
    • A boy who wanted his family back

    Good for you if

    • you like a light, clever cat-and-mouse chase.
    • you like rooting for a teenage con man who forges cheques.
    • you like true stories that sound impossible.

    Bad for you if

    • over two hours of chase is too long for you.
    • you want action. The chase is all phone calls and cheques, without a single gunfight.

    About: lies · family · charm

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  17. U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.

    The sides of American Sniper

    • The deadliest sniper in US history
    • Four tours in Iraq
    • A family waiting at home

    Good for you if

    • you like long, silent moments behind a rifle scope.
    • you want a war story that really happened.
    • you like a soldier who can't leave the war behind.

    Bad for you if

    • killings seen through a scope, children included, are too much.
    • war trauma and its toll on a family are too heavy tonight.

    About: duty · trauma · family

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  18. Into the Wild 2007

    Film

    After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

    The sides of Into the Wild

    • A graduate who gives everything away
    • A road trip across America
    • An abandoned bus in Alaska

    Good for you if

    • you like wide landscapes and life in the wild.
    • you like a young man searching for meaning.
    • you like the true story of a graduate who gave away his savings and hitchhiked to Alaska.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours is too long for your evening.
    • you can't watch parents suffering. His family waits two years with no word from him.

    About: freedom · family · nature

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  19. The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

    The sides of The King's Speech

    • A king who can't speak in public
    • An unusual speech therapist
    • A war speech on the radio

    Good for you if

    • you like a quiet, powerful lead performance.
    • you want a gentle film about a stammering king and the teacher who won't give up on him.
    • you like a friendship told through conversations.

    Bad for you if

    • you want something to happen. It's conversations.
    • you can't get into royal period dramas. It's palaces, corgis and 1930s London.

    About: courage · friendship · duty

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  20. My Octopus Teacher 2020

    Documentary

    After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher: a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal’s trust and they develop a never-before-seen bond between human and wild animal.

    The sides of My Octopus Teacher

    • A diver in a kelp forest off South Africa
    • A year following one octopus
    • A shark hunting her in the shallows

    Good for you if

    • you like cold water, kelp and the life hidden in it.
    • you like seeing how clever an animal can be up close.
    • you can be moved to tears by a bond with an octopus.

    Bad for you if

    • a man's voice-over about his feelings for an animal makes you roll your eyes.
    • you need a story that moves. This is slow dives, day after day.

    About: connection · healing · the life cycle

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