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  1. The Times of Harvey Milk 1984

    Documentary

    Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.

    The sides of The Times of Harvey Milk

    • Harvey Milk's rise in San Francisco politics
    • One of the first openly gay elected officials in the US
    • The 1978 assassination and the city's response

    Good for you if

    • you want the real Harvey Milk, in the footage of his time.
    • you like seeing 1970s San Francisco and its fight for gay rights.
    • you can be moved by a candlelight march for a murdered man.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not sit through a real assassination and its grief.
    • you find 1980s documentary footage dated.

    About: gay rights · political courage · grief

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  2. I Am Not Your Negro 2017

    Documentary

    Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.

    The sides of I Am Not Your Negro

    • James Baldwin's unfinished book
    • Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King
    • Archive footage of America then and now

    Good for you if

    • you want Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes.
    • you want the real archive footage of the civil rights years.
    • you like James Baldwin's words, read by Samuel L. Jackson.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch archive images of racist violence.
    • you need a story that moves faster than an essay.

    About: racism · memory · American identity

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  3. O.J.: Made in America 2016

    Documentary

    A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.

    The sides of O.J.: Made in America

    • A football star's rise in the 1960s and 70s
    • Los Angeles, race and the LAPD
    • The 1995 murder trial and what came after

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand a trial through the city around it.
    • you like a true crime story told with care for the facts.
    • you want O.J. the running back at USC and Buffalo, long before the trial.

    Bad for you if

    • nearly eight hours is too much for you.
    • you can't look at real crime scene photos of two victims.

    About: race · fame · justice · America

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  4. 13th 2016

    Documentary

    An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

    The sides of 13th

    • The loophole in the amendment that ended slavery
    • From chain gangs to mass incarceration
    • Historians, activists and politicians on camera

    Good for you if

    • you like an argument built from archives, laws and numbers.
    • you want to see how a law from 1865 still shapes prisons today.
    • you want to know who profits from locking people up.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real footage of Black people killed by police.
    • you want to come out lighter. This one leaves you angry.

    About: racism · justice · freedom

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  5. RBG 2018

    Documentary

    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.

    The sides of RBG

    • Ruth Bader Ginsburg at 84
    • The equal rights cases she argued
    • Her marriage to Marty Ginsburg

    Good for you if

    • you want the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her own words.
    • you like seeing how a few court cases changed the law for women.
    • you're moved by her long marriage to Marty.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at an admiring portrait.
    • you need more than interviews and archive footage.

    About: equality · law · marriage

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  6. 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

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  7. Santiago, Italia 2018

    Documentary

    After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the regime, and extradited many of them to Italy.

    The sides of Santiago, Italia

    • The 1973 coup against Allende in Chile
    • An embassy that took in people fleeing the regime
    • Refugees remembering their new life in Italy

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand what happened in Santiago in 1973.
    • you like hearing the people who lived it tell it themselves.
    • you're drawn to how ordinary diplomats stood up to a dictatorship.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for a film in Italian and Spanish.
    • you can't sit through testimonies of arrests and torture.

    About: exile · dictatorship · solidarity

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  8. Hitler: A Career 1977

    Documentary

    A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.

    The sides of Hitler: A Career

    • Archive footage of Hitler's rise
    • Crowds at Nazi rallies
    • The Weimar Republic sliding into dictatorship

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how the Weimar Republic fell to the Nazis.
    • you're interested in how crowds are swayed by propaganda.
    • you want the story told through footage from the time.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours of archive footage is too much for you.
    • you can't sit through so many images of Nazi crowds and war.

    About: propaganda · mass psychology · dictatorship

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  9. When We Were Kings 1996

    Documentary

    It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.

    The sides of When We Were Kings

    • Muhammad Ali against George Foreman in Zaire
    • A music festival with James Brown and B.B. King
    • Don King and a dictator's money

    Good for you if

    • you like the Rumble in the Jungle and Ali's rope-a-dope.
    • you like Muhammad Ali talking, joking and believing he can win.
    • you like soul and African music filling a documentary.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch men punching each other.
    • you find 1970s archive footage dated.

    About: pride · black identity · comeback

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  10. Disclosure 2020

    Documentary

    An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.

    The sides of Disclosure

    • Trans actors and writers talking about the screen
    • Decades of film and TV clips
    • How Hollywood shaped the way people see trans lives

    Good for you if

    • you want trans people telling their own story of growing up with Hollywood.
    • you like tracing a century of film and TV images.
    • you like being moved by people recalling what the screen did to them.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through cruel jokes and painful scenes being replayed.
    • you'd rather keep your distance from heartfelt, personal testimony.

    About: representation · identity · media

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  11. Harlan County U.S.A. 1976

    Documentary

    A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

    The sides of Harlan County U.S.A.

    • Coal miners on strike in Kentucky
    • Wives and mothers on the picket line
    • Armed strikebreakers at dawn

    Good for you if

    • you want to stand on a real picket line for thirteen months.
    • you like seeing a mining town take on a corporation.
    • you like the union songs that run through it.

    Bad for you if

    • you find 1970s footage dated.
    • you can't watch a community living with guns on the picket line and miners sick with black lung.

    About: labour · solidarity · class

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  12. Pray Away 2021

    Documentary

    In the 1970s, five men struggling with being gay in their Evangelical church started a bible study to help each other leave the "homosexual lifestyle." They quickly received over 25,000 letters from people asking for help and formalized as Exodus International, the largest and most controversial conversion therapy organization in the world. But leaders struggled with a secret: their own “same-sex attractions” never went away. After years as Christian superstars in the religious right, many of these men and women have come out as LGBTQ, disavowing the very movement they helped start. Focusing on the dramatic journeys of former conversion therapy leaders, current members, and a survivor, PRAY AWAY chronicles the “ex gay" movement’s rise to power, persistent influence, and the profound harm it causes.

    The sides of Pray Away

    • Former leaders of the ex-gay movement
    • Exodus International and its letters
    • A survivor of conversion therapy

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story of conversion therapy told by those who led it.
    • you like seeing how a church movement gained political weight.
    • you like hearing people face the harm they caused.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch stories of shame, self-harm and religious pressure.
    • you roll your eyes at tearful, heartfelt confessions to camera.

    About: faith · identity · guilt

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  13. A principios de los años setenta, una época de gran agitación social con la encarnizada lucha por los derechos civiles como telón de fondo, Ron Stallworth se convierte en el primer detective negro del departamento de policía de Colorado Springs, pero es recibido con escepticismo y hostilidad por los mandos y los agentes. Sin amedrentarse, decide seguir adelante y hacer algo por su comunidad llevando a cabo una misión muy peligrosa: infiltrarse en el Ku Klux Klan y exponerlo ante la ciudad.

    Las caras de Infiltrado en el KKKlan

    • Un policía negro infiltrado en el KKK
    • Un compañero judío que le presta el cuerpo
    • Llamadas con el Gran Mago

    Buena para ti si

    • te gustan las historias reales absurdas contadas con humor.
    • te gustan las historias que ocurrieron de verdad.
    • te gustan las escenas de infiltración que pueden salir mal.

    Mala para ti si

    • la violencia racista real que se muestra al final es demasiado para esta noche.
    • prefieres dejar la política fuera de tu noche. Termina en Charlottesville en 2017.

    Temas: el racismo · la identidad · la resistencia

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  14. What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

    The sides of The Trial of the Chicago 7

    • Antiwar activists on trial after Chicago 1968
    • A judge hostile to the defence
    • Bobby Seale bound and gagged in court

    Good for you if

    • you like Aaron Sorkin's fast courtroom exchanges.
    • you like a crowd of defendants, lawyers and prosecutors who all clash.
    • you want to understand a real trial from the Vietnam era.

    Bad for you if

    • you roll your eyes at big closing speeches.
    • you'd rather not spend an evening on 1960s protest and politics.

    About: justice · protest · free speech

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  15. Basada en un hecho real ocurrido en 1850, narra la historia de Solomon Northup, un culto músico negro -y hombre libre- que vivía con su familia en Nueva York. Tras compartir una copa con dos desconocidos, Solomon descubre que ha sido drogado y secuestrado para ser vendido como esclavo en el Sur en una plantación de Louisiana. Renunciando a abandonar la esperanza, Solomon contempla cómo todos a su alrededor sucumben a la violencia, al abuso emocional y a la desesperanza. Entonces decide correr riesgos increíbles y confiar en la gente menos aparente para intentar recuperar su libertad y reunirse con su familia.

    Las caras de 12 años de esclavitud

    • Un hombre libre secuestrado y esclavizado
    • Doce años en plantaciones
    • Una esperanza que nunca suelta

    Buena para ti si

    • te gustan las interpretaciones difíciles de ver e imposibles de olvidar.
    • quieres ver la historia sin apartar la mirada.
    • te gusta una historia real sacada de las propias memorias de Solomon Northup.

    Mala para ti si

    • la crueldad de la esclavitud mostrada por completo es demasiado para ti esta noche.
    • los latigazos mostrados durante tanto rato se te hacen demasiado duros.

    Temas: la esclavitud · la supervivencia · la dignidad

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  16. He Named Me Malala 2015

    Documentary

    A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education and the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.

    The sides of He Named Me Malala

    • Malala Yousafzai and her father Ziauddin
    • A Taliban gunman on a school bus
    • Hand-painted animated flashbacks

    Good for you if

    • you like a girl's speech about school at the United Nations.
    • you want to know the teenager behind the Nobel Peace Prize.
    • you like a father and daughter who share the same fight.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take the story of a child shot for going to school.
    • you don't like animated scenes in your documentaries.

    About: education · courage · fatherhood

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  17. The Civil War 1990

    Documentary

    A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

    The sides of The Civil War

    • Archive photographs of soldiers and battlefields
    • Letters and diaries read aloud
    • From secession to Lincoln's assassination

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how the United States came apart and back together.
    • you like a haunting fiddle tune that returns through every episode.
    • you want the battles told through the people who fought them.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't give more than ten hours to one documentary.
    • you need moving footage, not slow pans over still photographs.

    About: slavery · the union · sacrifice

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  18. Invictus 2009

    Film

    Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

    The sides of Invictus

    • Nelson Mandela newly president
    • The Springboks before the 1995 World Cup
    • A rugby captain played by Matt Damon

    Good for you if

    • you like the true story of Mandela and South Africa's rugby team.
    • you like rugby, with Matt Damon leading the Springboks onto the pitch.
    • you like a big-hearted story about forgiveness and unity.

    Bad for you if

    • you want the darker side of apartheid, and this story stays with hope and rugby.
    • you want more action than meetings and training sessions.

    About: reconciliation · leadership · forgiveness

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  19. Over 93 days in Ukraine, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution and full-fledged civil rights movement.

    The sides of Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

    • 93 days on Kyiv's Maidan square
    • Students facing riot police in the snow
    • Footage filmed from inside the crowd

    Good for you if

    • you want to see the 2013 Maidan protests from inside the crowd.
    • you want to see ordinary people stand up to their own government in the snow.
    • you like living every night of a standoff in the freezing cold.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch protesters being beaten and shot.
    • you find real grief for the people who died on the square too much.

    About: freedom · protest · courage

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  20. This biopic profiles history's most spectacular madman, tracing his journey from humble roots to complete mastery of Germany.

    The sides of Hitler: The Rise of Evil

    • Hitler's rise from Vienna to power
    • Robert Carlyle as Hitler
    • A journalist who tried to warn Germany

    Good for you if

    • you want to see how Germany handed power to Hitler step by step.
    • you want to watch Robert Carlyle's Hitler.
    • you want the true story of Fritz Gerlich, the journalist who tried to warn Germany.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't bear spending hours with Hitler.
    • you want the Second World War, and this story stops before it begins.

    About: power · complicity · the rise of fascism

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