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Each title says who it's good for, and who it isn't. Tap what you want tonight, or say no to one and why.

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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Grizzly Man 2005

    Documentary

    Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.

    The sides of Grizzly Man

    • A man who spent thirteen summers among Alaskan grizzlies
    • His own video footage, shot alone
    • Werner Herzog's voice weighing his choices

    Good for you if

    • you like a portrait made from a man's own tapes.
    • you like bears filmed close, in the wild.
    • you like trying to understand someone who chose to live outside the world.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a film built around a real death, his and his partner's.
    • you want a gentle animal film. This one leaves you uneasy.

    About: obsession · nature · death

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  4. 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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  5. Blackfish 2013

    Documentary

    Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.

    The sides of Blackfish

    • Tilikum, a captive killer whale
    • Former SeaWorld trainers telling what they saw
    • The death of a trainer during a show

    Good for you if

    • you like former trainers admitting what they didn't want to see.
    • you care about how intelligent animals live.
    • you like seeing a company's story taken apart piece by piece.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real attacks and a real death described in detail.
    • you want a light animal film. This one leaves you angry.

    About: captivity · guilt · profit

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  6. In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

    The sides of Grave of the Fireflies

    • Two orphaned children in wartime Japan
    • An abandoned bomb shelter as a home
    • A tin of fruit drops

    Good for you if

    • you want a film that leaves you crying.
    • you want to see the war from the side of Japanese civilians.
    • you like a brother trying to keep his little sister alive.

    Bad for you if

    • you need some hope by the end.
    • you can't bear to watch children go hungry.
    • you don't watch anime.

    About: war · childhood · pride · hunger

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  7. The Social Dilemma 2020

    Documentary

    This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

    The sides of The Social Dilemma

    • Former tech insiders explaining what they built
    • A fictional family glued to their phones
    • The algorithm played by three actors

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear from the people who designed the like button and the feed.
    • you like seeing who profits from the hours you spend scrolling.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at dramatized scenes and warnings about the end of society.
    • you can't take figures on teen self-harm and depression.

    About: technology · manipulation · addiction

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  8. 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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  9. The Jinx 2015

    Documentary

    Robert Durst, scion of NY's billionaire real-estate family, has been accused of three murders but has evaded justice for over 30 years. Durst speaks in this true crime series, revealing secrets of a case that has baffled authorities.

    The sides of The Jinx

    • Robert Durst answering questions on camera
    • Three deaths across New York and Texas
    • Old letters and a handwriting match

    Good for you if

    • you like a New York real-estate heir who seems out of reach of the law.
    • you like a cold case reopened piece by piece.
    • you like watching a man answer questions he could have refused.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through real murders and grieving families.
    • you need momentum, and long interviews lose you.

    About: wealth · guilt · justice

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  10. Stories from survivors fuel this docuseries examining how convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein used his wealth and power to carry out his abuses.

    The sides of Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich

    • Survivors telling their own stories
    • A billionaire's homes in Palm Beach and New York
    • A 2008 plea deal and its consequences

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear the survivors in their own words.
    • you want to understand how money and connections protected one man for years.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't hear accounts of the sexual abuse of teenage girls.
    • you need some hope, and justice here comes late and incomplete.

    About: abuse of power · justice · survivors

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  11. 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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  12. Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.

    The sides of American History X

    • A neo-Nazi coming out of prison
    • A younger brother following his path
    • Black and white memories

    Good for you if

    • you like a lead performance that's terrifying and then human.
    • you can take a story with no easy comfort.
    • you like watching someone try to unlearn hate.

    Bad for you if

    • one infamous scene of violence is too much for you.
    • racism and hate crimes on screen are too heavy for you tonight.

    About: hate · family · redemption

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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. Beneath the sunlit glamour of 1985 L.A. lurks a relentlessly evil serial killer. In this true-crime story, two detectives won't rest until they catch him.

    The sides of Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer

    • Los Angeles in the summer of 1985
    • Two detectives on a serial killer's trail
    • Witnesses and survivors telling what they saw

    Good for you if

    • you like a manhunt where the city waits for the next attack.
    • you like the feel of 1980s Los Angeles in archive footage.
    • you want the detectives who worked the case to tell it.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't hear survivors recall attacks in their own homes.
    • you can't look at crime scene photos.

    About: fear · the hunt · justice

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  16. Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.

    The sides of The Haunting of Hill House

    • Five siblings and the house they fled
    • A night their father never explained
    • Ghosts hiding in the background of shots

    Good for you if

    • you want ghosts you only spot in the corner of the frame.
    • you like a horror story that is really about brothers and sisters.
    • you like a reveal that makes you rethink the first episode.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take grief, addiction and suicide on screen.
    • you need horror that moves fast. This one lingers on memories.

    About: grief · family · memory

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  17. The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

    The sides of Schindler's List

    • A businessman who saves his workers
    • Black and white, and a red coat
    • A list that means life

    Good for you if

    • you like striking black and white images, and a little girl in a red coat you won't forget.
    • you like a villain who's frighteningly human.
    • you want to understand a true story from the inside.

    Bad for you if

    • the Holocaust on screen is too much for you tonight.
    • over three hours is too long for one evening.
    • black and white puts you off.

    About: humanity · courage · evil

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  18. Chernobyl 2019

    Series

    The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

    The sides of Chernobyl

    • The night a reactor exploded
    • Scientists against the lies of a state
    • Men sent onto the roof

    Good for you if

    • you like dread that never lets go.
    • you want to understand a real disaster.
    • you can take a grim, unflinching story.

    Bad for you if

    • radiation sickness shown in detail is too hard for you.
    • you can't watch animals being shot. Soldiers clear the zone of the pets left behind.

    About: truth · sacrifice · lies

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  19. 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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  20. 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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