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Documentaries like The House Is Black

Not everyone loves The House Is Black for the same reason. Pick the one that was yours, and the picks follow.

The 3 reasons people love The House Is Black

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

  1. You like black and white images that stay with you.

  2. You have twenty minutes, not two hours.

  3. You want to see real lives most people never look at.

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.

  • Waltz with Bashir2008

    • black and white images that stay with you
    • you want to see real lives most people never look at

    Good for you if you like a director investigating his own past.

  • The Image Book2018

    • black and white images that stay with you

    Good for you if you like images cut, saturated and set against each other.

  • Titicut Follies1967

    • you want to see real lives most people never look at

    Good for you if you want to see a real prison hospital with no narrator telling you what to think.

  • The Seventh Seal1957

    • black and white images that stay with you

    Good for you if you like black and white images that stay with you, like the dance of death on the hill.

  • Fire at Sea2016

    • you want to see real lives most people never look at

    Good for you if you want to see the migrant crisis from the island where boats arrive.

  • Lessons of Darkness1992

    • black and white images that stay with you

    Good for you if you like burning oil fields filmed like an alien world.

  • Blue1993

    • you want to see real lives most people never look at

    Good for you if you want Derek Jarman's own account of living with AIDS.

  • The Salt of the Earth2014

    • black and white images that stay with you
    • you want to see real lives most people never look at

    Good for you if you can look at black and white photographs for nearly two hours.

  • The Elephant Man1980

    • black and white images that stay with you

    Good for you if you love David Lynch's black and white images.

  • One More Time with Feeling2016

    • black and white images that stay with you

    Good for you if you like stark black and white images.

  • Night and Fog1956

    • you want to see real lives most people never look at

    Good for you if you want the record itself, the archives and the places as they were left.

  • NAZA2026

    • you want to see real lives most people never look at

    Good for you if you want firsthand testimony about real lives lost in Gaza.

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