Saltar al contenido principal

Why you loved it

Documentaries like Time

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

The 3 reasons people love Time

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

  1. You want a true story about a family and the prison system.

  2. You like Fox Rich holding her family together for twenty years.

  3. You like black and white images that make home videos feel like memory.

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.

  • Hoop Dreams1994

    • a true story about a family and the prison system
    • Fox Rich holding her family together for twenty years

    Good for you if you want real lives followed over five years, with no script.

  • Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids2004

    • a true story about a family and the prison system
    • black and white images that make home videos feel like memory

    Good for you if you want real children from Calcutta's red light district telling their own lives.

  • Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey2022

    • a true story about a family and the prison system
    • Fox Rich holding her family together for twenty years

    Good for you if you want former members telling the truth about a world they escaped.

  • Grey Gardens1976

    • Fox Rich holding her family together for twenty years

    Good for you if you like a mother and daughter who bicker and can't leave each other.

  • Return2023

    • a true story about a family and the prison system
    • Fox Rich holding her family together for twenty years

    Good for you if you want to see a persecution the news rarely shows.

  • For Sama2019

    • a true story about a family and the prison system
    • Fox Rich holding her family together for twenty years

    Good for you if you want a war told from inside by the woman living it.

  • Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult2020

    • a true story about a family and the prison system
    • Fox Rich holding her family together for twenty years

    Good for you if you want India Oxenberg telling her own story.

  • Honeyland2019

    • a true story about a family and the prison system
    • Fox Rich holding her family together for twenty years

    Good for you if you like a real life filmed over three years, with no narrator.

  • Titicut Follies1967

    • a true story about a family and the prison system

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

  • Four Daughters2023

    • a true story about a family and the prison system
    • Fox Rich holding her family together for twenty years

    Good for you if you like a story about mothers and daughters told without hiding the hard parts.

  • One More Time with Feeling2016

    • black and white images that make home videos feel like memory

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

  • The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo2020

    • a true story about a family and the prison system

    Good for you if you want the true story of Marisela Escobedo's fight for justice.

Reasons taken from Time'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.

That's one documentary.

Ipsomap does this with everything you watch. Write a few honest lines after each one, and it works out which reasons are yours, then finds picks that share them.

Find your reasons

Should you watch Time?More titles, by reasonWhy we don't do top-ten lists