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Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids 2004
Documentary
Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with their children. Briski began giving photography lessons to the children and became aware that their photography might be a way for them to lead better lives.
The sides of Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
- Children of sex workers in Calcutta
- Cameras handed to kids in a red light district
- A photographer trying to get them into school
Good for you if
- you want real children from Calcutta's red light district telling their own lives.
- you can be moved by kids who still laugh where they grow up.
- you like seeing a place through the photos the children took themselves.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch children growing up around prostitution and violence.
- you need a happy ending for every child.
About: childhood · poverty · art as a way out
Five Broken Cameras 2011
Documentary
Five broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent resistance when the Israeli army encroached upon its land to make room for Jewish colonists. Emad buys his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel. Over the course of the film, he becomes the peaceful archivist of an escalating struggle as olive trees are bulldozed, lives are lost, and a wall is built to segregate burgeoning Israeli settlements.
The sides of Five Broken Cameras
- A Palestinian farmer filming his village
- Weekly protests against a separation wall
- A son growing up in front of the camera
Good for you if
- you want to see Bil'in through the eyes of a man who lives there.
- you like a father filming his youngest son as he grows up.
- you like a story told by one man and his cameras, year after year.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real people being hurt and killed on camera.
- you need some hope by the end of a film.
About: resistance · land · fatherhood · loss
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
Generation Wealth 2018
Documentary
Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence. Underscoring the ever-increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, portraits reveal a focus on cultivating image over substance, where subjects unable to attain actual wealth instead settle for its trappings, no matter their ability to pay for it.
The sides of Generation Wealth
- Twenty-five years of Lauren Greenfield's photos
- People chasing the look of wealth
- The photographer's own family
Good for you if
- you want real people telling how money took over their lives.
- you like questioning what money and status do to us.
- you like a filmmaker who also looks at money in her own family.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch debt, addiction and broken families on screen.
- you lose track when a film jumps between dozens of people over 25 years.
About: money · image · excess
Val 2021
Documentary
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood's most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors, has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.
The sides of Val
- Val Kilmer's own home videos over forty years
- His son reading his words
- Throat cancer and a lost voice
Good for you if
- you like an actor's life told through his own camera.
- you can be moved by Val Kilmer struggling to speak after cancer.
- you like a family story, from 16mm films made with his brothers to his son reading his words.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch illness and a body that fails.
- you want the energy of his films, not a quiet look back.
About: art · illness · memory
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
Everybody’s Everything 2019
Documentary
The story of artist Lil Peep from his birth in Long Island and meteoric rise as a genre blending pop star & style icon, to his death due to an accidental opioid overdose in Arizona at just 21 years of age.
The sides of Everybody’s Everything
- Lil Peep, from Long Island to stardom
- His family and friends remembering him
- A death from an overdose at 21
Good for you if
- you love Lil Peep's songs or want to know where they came from.
- you're ready to be moved by a life cut short at 21.
- you want the story told by the people who loved him.
Bad for you if
- you can't take drugs, depression and an overdose on screen.
- you need more than home videos and interviews.
About: grief · fame · addiction
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
One of Us 2017
Documentary
Penetrating the insular world of New York's Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation.
The sides of One of Us
- Three people leaving a Hasidic community in New York
- A mother fighting to keep her children
- A closed world seen from the inside
Good for you if
- you want real people telling what leaving cost them.
- you like following three lives over time, up close.
- you want to follow a mother fighting her own community to keep her children.
Bad for you if
- you can't take stories of abuse and addiction.
- you want a hopeful story with a clean ending.
About: freedom · faith · belonging · family
Dallas Buyers Club 2013
Película
Basada en la vida real de Ron Woodroof, un cowboy de rodeo texano, drogadicto y mujeriego, al que en 1986 le diagnosticaron SIDA y le pronosticaron un mes de vida. Empezó entonces a tomar AZT, el único medicamento disponible en aquella época para luchar contra tan terrible enfermedad
Las caras de Dallas Buyers Club
- Un vaquero de rodeo diagnosticado con VIH
- Medicinas de contrabando a través de fronteras
- Un socio improbable
Buena para ti si
- te gustan los actores transformados en cuerpo y alma.
- te gustan las historias reales de gente que luchó contra el sistema.
- te gusta un hombre lleno de prejuicios que cambia.
Mala para ti si
- la enfermedad y la muerte por sida son demasiado pesadas para ti esta noche.
- prefieres evitar las escenas de sexo explícitas, o la estás viendo en familia.
Temas: la supervivencia · los prejuicios · el desafío
Cobain: Montage of Heck 2015
Documentary
Hailed as one of the most innovative and intimate documentaries of all time, experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the only ever fully authorized portrait of the famed music icon. Academy Award nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen expertly blends Cobain's personal archive of art, music, never seen before movies, animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest friends.
The sides of Cobain: Montage of Heck
- Home videos and cassettes from Cobain's own archive
- Animated sequences built from his notebooks
- Seattle before and after Nirvana
Good for you if
- you want his own tapes and drawings rather than someone else's version of him.
- you came for Nirvana and the noise behind the records.
- you want the portrait of one person, his family and his marriage, not a tour of the hits.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit with addiction, depression and an ending you already know is coming.
- over two hours this close to someone's pain is too much for one evening.
About: addiction · fame · family
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.
- you won't read subtitles for a film mostly in Arabic.
About: motherhood · freedom · loss · hope

The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo 2020
Documentary
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 need a story where justice wins in the end.
About: justice · grief · corruption
Take Care of Maya 2023
Documentary
When Jack and Beata Kowalski are wrongfully accused of child abuse after their 10-year-old daughter Maya visits the ER, a nightmare unfolds.
The sides of Take Care of Maya
- A sick ten-year-old taken into state custody
- Parents accused of abuse after a hospital visit
- A family suing the hospital
Good for you if
- you want to follow a family fighting to get their daughter back.
- you want to see how a hospital and child services can overrule parents.
- you're ready to be moved by what the Kowalskis went through.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a sick child kept away from her parents for months.
- you need some hope to hold on to in a true story.
About: false accusations · motherhood · institutions
Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror 2021
Documentary
Modern history can be divided into two time frames: before 9/11 and after 9/11. This five-part docuseries is a cohesive chronicle of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., offering illuminating perspectives and personal stories of how the catastrophic events of that day changed the course of the nation.
The sides of Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror
- The September 11 attacks
- Twenty years of war in Afghanistan
- Survivors, soldiers and officials remembering
Good for you if
- you want the personal stories of people who lived through that day.
- you like seeing how one day reshaped the following twenty years.
- you want to understand the choices made in Washington after the attacks.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch footage of the attacks and accounts of torture.
- you want something light for your evening.
About: terrorism · grief · security and freedom

Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult 2020
Documentary
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
There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane 2011
Documentary
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
Athlete A 2020
Documentary
Follow the Indianapolis Star reporters that broke the story about USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's abuse and hear from gymnasts.
The sides of Athlete A
- Reporters at the Indianapolis Star
- Gymnasts telling what Larry Nassar did
- A federation that protected itself
Good for you if
- you want to hear the gymnasts tell their story in their own words.
- you want to see how USA Gymnastics kept the abuse quiet for years.
- you like following a newspaper investigation as it closes in.
Bad for you if
- you can't take testimony about the sexual abuse of young athletes.
- you want something gentle and safe to watch tonight.
About: abuse · justice · courage · journalism
Bully 2011
Documentary
This year, over 5 million American kids will be bullied at school, online, on the bus, at home, through their cell phones and on the streets of their towns, making it the most common form of violence young people in this country experience. The Bully Project is the first feature documentary film to show how we've all been affected by bullying, whether we've been victims, perpetrators or stood silent witness. The world we inhabit as adults begins on the playground. The Bully Project opens on the first day of school. For the more than 5 million kids who'll be bullied this year in the United States, it's a day filled with more anxiety and foreboding than excitement. As the sun rises and school busses across the country overflow with backpacks, brass instruments and the rambunctious sounds of raging hormones, this is a ride into the unknown.
The sides of Bully
- Kids bullied at school and on the bus
- Parents who lost sons to suicide
- Schools that look away
Good for you if
- you want to hear bullied kids and their parents in their own words.
- you're ready to be moved by families speaking after a loss.
- you care about what school really feels like for kids who don't fit in.
Bad for you if
- you can't take a film about children who took their own lives.
- you need a film that offers more answers than pain.
About: bullying · grief · childhood
The Hunting Ground 2015
Documentary
A startling expose of rape crimes on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. The film follows the lives of several undergraduate assault survivors as they attempt to pursue—despite incredible push back, harassment and traumatic aftermath—both their education and justice.
The sides of The Hunting Ground
- Students who survived sexual assault on campus
- Universities protecting their name
- Two survivors building a national movement
Good for you if
- you want to hear survivors tell what happened to them in their own words.
- you want to see how institutions cover up crimes to protect themselves.
- you want to be moved by families and students fighting for justice.
Bad for you if
- you can't listen to testimonies of rape.
- you roll your eyes at documentaries that end in a call to action.
About: justice · silence · courage