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Documentaries like Nostalgia for the Light

Not everyone loves Nostalgia for the Light for the same reason. Pick the one that was yours, and the picks follow.

The 3 reasons people love Nostalgia for the Light

Read them all. One will sound more like you than the others.

  1. You like looking at the stars and thinking about where we come from.

  2. You like a quiet, patient film that leaves room to think.

  3. You want to understand how Chile lives with the Pinochet years.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

Tick them here or with “That’s me” above. The picks re-sort by how many of your reasons they share.

  • The Look of Silence2014

    • a quiet, patient film that leaves room to think
    • you want to understand how Chile lives with the Pinochet years

    Good for you if you want to understand a mass killing that is rarely talked about.

  • Shoah1985

    • a quiet, patient film that leaves room to think
    • you want to understand how Chile lives with the Pinochet years

    Good for you if you want the Holocaust told by those who were there.

  • Challenger: The Final Flight2020

    • you want to understand how Chile lives with the Pinochet years

    Good for you if you like the 1980s space program told by the people who lived it.

  • Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror2021

    • you want to understand how Chile lives with the Pinochet years

    Good for you if you like seeing how one day reshaped the following twenty years.

  • First Man2018

    • a quiet, patient film that leaves room to think

    Good for you if you like a quiet, patient portrait with long silences.

  • Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution2005

    • you want to understand how Chile lives with the Pinochet years

    Good for you if you want to understand how Auschwitz was built and run.

  • Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple2006

    • a quiet, patient film that leaves room to think
    • you want to understand how Chile lives with the Pinochet years

    Good for you if you like archive footage that shows a story from the inside.

  • For All Mankind1989

    • looking at the stars and thinking about where we come from

    Good for you if you like seeing Earth from the Moon in real footage.

  • Voyage of Time: Life's Journey2017

    • looking at the stars and thinking about where we come from

    Good for you if you like feeling small in front of billions of years.

Reasons taken from Nostalgia for the Light's card. Picks from the Ipsomap catalogue. This application uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.

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