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  1. This four-part documentary series follows the story of India Oxenberg's perilous journey through the dark and criminal world of the notorious self-help-group-turned-sex-slave-cult NXIVM.

    The sides of Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult

    • A young actress drawn into NXIVM
    • A self-help group that became a cult
    • A mother fighting to get her daughter out

    Good for you if

    • you want India Oxenberg telling her own story.
    • you want to understand how a group took control of its members.
    • you're moved by a mother who refuses to give up on her daughter.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch accounts of manipulation and sexual abuse.
    • you want the whole cult told through many former members. This one stays close to India and her mother.

    About: manipulation · control · recovery

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  2. After the death of her daughter at the hand of her boyfriend, Marisela Escobedo began to fight for justice not only against the murderer but also against the corrupt Mexican judicial system.

    The sides of The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo

    • A mother pursuing her daughter's killer
    • A Mexican justice system that lets him go
    • Years of protest in Chihuahua

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story of Marisela Escobedo's fight for justice.
    • you want to follow a femicide case through Mexico's police and courts.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take a mother's grief and a murdered daughter on screen.
    • you won't read subtitles.
    • you need a story where justice wins in the end.

    About: justice · grief · corruption

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  3. Audrie & Daisy 2016

    Documentary

    A documentary film about three cases of rape, that includes the stories of two American high school students, Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman. At the time of the sexual assaults, Pott was 15 and Coleman was 14 years old. After the assaults, the victims and their families were subjected to abuse and cyberbullying.

    The sides of Audrie & Daisy

    • Two teenage girls who were sexually assaulted
    • Families facing the aftermath
    • Online harassment in small towns

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear what happened from the families and survivors themselves.
    • you can be moved by families speaking about a loss.
    • you want to see how small towns turned on two girls instead of the boys they accused.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a film about sexual assault and suicide.
    • you need justice at the end of a true story, and these cases leave you angry.

    About: consent · victim blaming · cyberbullying · grief

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  4. One Child Nation 2019

    Documentary

    Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and destroyed — countless lives in China.

    The sides of One Child Nation

    • China's one child policy
    • A new mother going back to her village
    • Officials, midwives and families speaking

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear the people who lived the policy, in their own words.
    • you want to see how a state reaches into every family.
    • you like a filmmaker questioning her own parents and relatives.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't face forced abortions and abandoned babies, even in testimony.
    • you need some hope by the end of a documentary.

    About: state control · silence · motherhood · guilt

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  5. For Sama 2019

    Documentary

    A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.

    The sides of For Sama

    • A young mother filming for her baby daughter
    • A hospital in Aleppo under bombing
    • The choice to stay or to leave

    Good for you if

    • you want a war told from inside by the woman living it.
    • you like a love letter from a mother to her child.
    • you want to understand what years of siege did to Aleppo.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't bear to see wounded children and grieving families.

    About: motherhood · freedom · loss · hope

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  6. Collective 2019

    Documentary

    In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move into action uncovering the mass corruption of the health system and of the state institutions. Collective follows journalists, whistle blowers, and authorities alike. An immersive and uncompromising look into a dysfunctional system, exposing corruption, propaganda, and manipulation that nowadays affect not only Romania, but societies around the world.

    The sides of Collective

    • A nightclub fire in Bucharest
    • Sports journalists investigating hospitals
    • A new health minister inside the system

    Good for you if

    • you want a true investigation filmed as it happens.
    • you like seeing how corruption reaches from hospitals to ministers.
    • you like a documentary that plays like a political thriller.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for a film in Romanian.
    • you can't watch burn victims and grieving families on screen.

    About: corruption · journalism · grief · public health

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  7. Filmmaker Liz Garbus investigates the mysterious tragedy of Diane Schuler in an effort to understand what went wrong.

    The sides of There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane

    • A wrong-way crash on a New York parkway
    • A family that rejects the toxicology report
    • A crash that killed eight people

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand what happened in that car.
    • you like a careful look at a real tragedy and the people left behind.
    • you can live with questions the evidence never settles.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take the death of children and a grieving family on screen.
    • you want an evening that leaves you feeling light.

    About: grief · denial · addiction

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  8. Four Daughters 2023

    Documentary

    Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.

    The sides of Four Daughters

    • A Tunisian mother and her four daughters
    • Two daughters who left home and never came back
    • Actresses standing in for the missing

    Good for you if

    • you like a story about mothers and daughters told without hiding the hard parts.
    • you want a true story told by the family who lived it.
    • you want to be moved to tears by two sisters facing the actresses who play their missing sisters.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for a film in Arabic.
    • you can't watch a family talk about abuse, violence and radicalisation.

    About: motherhood · sisterhood · radicalisation · memory

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  9. In interviews and rare home video footage, ex-FLDS members share the truth about their isolated community — and the events that pushed them to leave.

    The sides of Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey

    • A closed polygamist church in the American West
    • Warren Jeffs, a self-declared prophet
    • Former members and their home videos

    Good for you if

    • you want former members telling the truth about a world they escaped.
    • you like seeing how one man took control of a whole community.
    • you are drawn to stories of mothers and daughters breaking away.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take real stories of child abuse and underage marriage.
    • you need some light in a story, and this one stays dark for long stretches.

    About: faith · control · escape

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  10. Mommy Dead and Dearest 2017

    Documentary

    Child abuse, mental illness, and forbidden love converge in this mystery involving a mother and daughter who were thought to be living a fairy tale life that turned out to be a living nightmare.

    The sides of Mommy Dead and Dearest

    • A mother and a daughter everyone pitied in Missouri
    • A daughter who was never really sick
    • A crime planned with an online boyfriend

    Good for you if

    • you want the Gypsy Rose Blanchard case from the people who lived it.
    • you like a story where the victim and the culprit keep trading places.
    • you want to understand a mother and daughter bond turned into a prison.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take years of child abuse told in detail.
    • you need a true story with someone to fully root for.

    About: control · abuse · freedom

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  11. Suicide, murder... or something else? This docuseries examines chilling truths and theories around the deaths of 11 members of a Delhi family.

    The sides of House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths

    • Eleven members of one Delhi family found dead
    • Police, reporters and relatives looking for answers
    • Handwritten diaries left in the house

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand a real case that shook Delhi.
    • you like an investigation weighing suicide, murder and belief.
    • you want to see how one family's history and shared beliefs shaped what happened.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a documentary about the deaths of a whole family.
    • you need some hope or comfort at the end.

    About: family · belief · grief · the media

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  12. Using raw, firsthand footage, this documentary examines the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her children, and the terrible events that followed.

    The sides of American Murder: The Family Next Door

    • A family's own videos and messages
    • Police bodycam from the night she vanished
    • A husband speaking to news cameras

    Good for you if

    • you want a case told only through the footage and messages left behind.
    • you want to see a family from the inside, a marriage under strain and two small daughters.
    • you follow real investigations closely.

    Bad for you if

    • a case built around a young mother and her two children is more than you can watch.
    • you need a documentary that leaves you some hope.

    About: grief · domestic violence · denial

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  13. In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this film, a gift to the child.

    The sides of Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

    • A film made as a letter to a baby boy
    • Friends remembering one man one by one
    • Grandparents fighting for their grandson

    Good for you if

    • you want a film that will take you apart.
    • you like a documentary built from home movies and the voices of friends.
    • you want grandparents and their grandson at the centre.

    Bad for you if

    • a murder and a family in grief are too much for you.
    • you need a documentary that ends with some hope.

    About: grief · memory · parental love

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  14. Bus 174 2002

    Documentary

    On 12 June 2000, in Rio de Janeiro, Ônibus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to kill all the passengers. Transmitted live on all national networks, this shocking and tragic event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the most terrifying examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.

    The sides of Bus 174

    • A bus held hostage in Rio in 2000
    • Live television footage of the standoff
    • The life of the young man holding the gun

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand a real hostage crisis that Brazil watched live.
    • you can sit through hours of a standoff that could break at any second.
    • you can take a true story with no comfort at the end.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real footage of a hostage taking that ends in death.
    • you can't face a street kid's life of loss, prison and police abuse.
    • you won't read subtitles for a film in Portuguese.

    About: poverty · police violence · invisibility

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  15. Our Father 2022

    Documentary

    After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.

    The sides of Our Father

    • A DNA test revealing many half siblings
    • A fertility doctor in Indianapolis
    • Siblings fighting for a new law

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story of the doctor who used his own sperm on patients.
    • you like siblings piecing the truth together one DNA match at a time.
    • you like a documentary where each new test makes it worse.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take stories of deep betrayal of patients.
    • you need to see justice done in the end.

    About: betrayal · identity · consent

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  16. Discover the untold story of the toxic and abusive environment inside '90s kids' TV. Hear harrowing accounts from former child stars and crew who probe the balance of power in the industry and reveal an era that inflicted lasting wounds still felt today.

    The sides of Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV

    • Former child actors from 90s kids' TV
    • Crew members describing life on set
    • Abuse behind shows made for children

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear former child stars tell their own story.
    • you want to understand who held power over children on a TV set.
    • you follow true crime about abusers who worked on children's shows.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't hear testimony about the sexual abuse of children.
    • you need hope, and these wounds are still open.

    About: abuse · power · childhood

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  17. The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.

    The sides of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    • Nan Goldin and her photographs
    • Protests in museums against the Sackler family
    • A sister lost young

    Good for you if

    • you like a true fight against the family behind OxyContin.
    • you like seeing museums made to take a name off their walls.
    • you like an artist telling her own life through her slideshows.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch addiction, AIDS and a sister's suicide on screen.
    • you'd rather not see intimate and nude photographs.

    About: addiction · activism · grief

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  18. The Act 2019

    Series

    Gypsy Blanchard struggles to deal with the toxic relationship with her overprotective mother, but her attempts to free herself lead to murder.

    The sides of The Act

    • The true story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard
    • A mother who kept her daughter ill
    • A murder in Missouri

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand a true crime from inside the house.
    • you like Joey King and Patricia Arquette in a mother-daughter story.
    • you like dread that builds toward something you know will happen.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand child abuse and medical cruelty on screen.
    • you need some hope, and Gypsy's life is a cage that keeps closing in.

    About: control · abuse · freedom · motherhood

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  19. The Perfect Neighbor 2025

    Documentary

    Police bodycam footage reveals how a long-running neighborhood dispute turned fatal in this documentary about fear, prejudice and Stand Your Ground laws.

    The sides of The Perfect Neighbor

    • A neighborhood feud seen through police bodycam footage
    • A mother shot through a closed door in Florida
    • Florida's Stand Your Ground law

    Good for you if

    • you like watching a small dispute build call after call toward something worse.
    • you want a story told almost only through real police footage.
    • you want to see how Florida's Stand Your Ground law plays out after a shooting.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a real mother's death and her children's grief.
    • you need some hope by the end of a true story.

    About: fear · prejudice · justice

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  20. Why Did You Kill Me? 2021

    Documentary

    The line between justice and revenge blurs when a devastated family uses social media to track down the people who killed 24-year-old Crystal Theobald.

    The sides of Why Did You Kill Me?

    • A mother searching for her daughter's killers
    • Fake social media profiles
    • A family torn between justice and revenge

    Good for you if

    • you want a true story told by the family who lived it.
    • you're drawn to a murder case pursued online by a victim's family.
    • you like a mother who won't stop until she knows who killed her daughter.

    Bad for you if

    • you find a family's grief over a murdered daughter too much.
    • you can't follow a grieving family as their search turns toward revenge.

    About: grief · revenge · justice

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