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  1. 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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  2. Diego Maradona 2019

    Documentary

    Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the personal life and career of the controversial football player Diego Maradona who played for SSC Napoli and Argentina in the 1980s.

    The sides of Diego Maradona

    • Maradona's years at Napoli
    • Never-seen footage from the 1980s
    • The 1986 World Cup and the Hand of God

    Good for you if

    • you like football told through its most famous goals.
    • you like a life told only with footage from the time.
    • you like a man split between the hero Diego and the star Maradona.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch cocaine and a slow fall from grace.
    • two hours and ten minutes is too much for you.

    About: fame · Naples · addiction · talent

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  3. Imagine: John Lennon 1988

    Documentary

    The biography of former Beatle, John Lennon—narrated by Lennon himself—with extensive material from Yoko Ono's personal collection, previously unseen footage from Lennon's private archives, and interviews with David Bowie, his first wife Cynthia, second wife Yoko Ono and sons Julian and Sean.

    The sides of Imagine: John Lennon

    • John Lennon telling his own life
    • Home footage from Yoko Ono's archives
    • Cynthia, Julian and Sean looking back

    Good for you if

    • you love the Beatles and Lennon's solo songs.
    • you want Lennon in his own voice, from Liverpool to New York.
    • you like a portrait of a man with all his contradictions.

    Bad for you if

    • you find old 1960s and 70s footage dated.
    • you can't revisit his murder in New York in 1980.

    About: fame · love · peace · loss

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  4. Chernobyl 2019

    Serie

    En Abril de 1986, la Central Nuclear de Chernóbil en Ucrania (en aquel entonces, la Unión Soviética), sufrió una explosión masiva que liberó material radioactivo en Bielorrusia, Rusia, Ucrania, así como en zonas de Escandinavia y Europa Central. La serie relata lo que aconteció en 1986, en uno de los mayores desastres provocados por el hombre en la historia reciente, así como los sacrificios realizados para salvar al continente de un desastre sin precedentes.

    Las caras de Chernobyl

    • La noche en que explotó un reactor
    • Científicos contra las mentiras de un Estado
    • Hombres enviados al tejado

    Buena para ti si

    • te gusta una angustia que nunca suelta.
    • quieres entender un desastre real.
    • puedes con una historia sombría y sin adornos.

    Mala para ti si

    • la enfermedad por radiación mostrada con detalle es demasiado dura para ti.
    • no soportas ver animales abatidos a tiros. Los soldados limpian la zona de las mascotas abandonadas.

    Temas: la verdad · el sacrificio · la mentira

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  5. Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.

    The sides of Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

    • Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple
    • Former members and survivors speaking
    • The move to Guyana in 1978

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how ordinary people followed Jim Jones.
    • you like archive footage that shows a story from the inside.
    • you can watch a slow descent you know will end in tragedy.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't face the deaths of more than 900 people, children among them.
    • you need some hope at the end of a story.

    About: faith · manipulation · belonging

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  6. The Fog of War 2003

    Documentary

    Former corporate whiz kid Robert McNamara was the controversial Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, during the height of the Vietnam War. Augmented by archival footage and cabinet conversation recordings, Errol Morris gives the conflicted McNamara a platform on which he attempts to confront his and the U.S. government's actions in Southeast Asia in light of the horrors of modern warfare, the end of ideology and the punitive judgment of history.

    The sides of The Fog of War

    • Robert McNamara looking back at his life
    • The Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam
    • White House recordings

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing a man in power explain his own decisions.
    • you want the Cold War told from inside the room.
    • you want to think about how wars are decided and why they go wrong.

    Bad for you if

    • you want a clear verdict on McNamara, and the film leaves you to judge him.
    • you need momentum, and this is one man talking to the camera.

    About: responsibility · war · memory · power

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  7. Grizzly Man 2005

    Documentary

    Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.

    The sides of Grizzly Man

    • A man who spent thirteen summers among Alaskan grizzlies
    • His own video footage, shot alone
    • Werner Herzog's voice weighing his choices

    Good for you if

    • you like a portrait made from a man's own tapes.
    • you like bears filmed close, in the wild.
    • you like trying to understand someone who chose to live outside the world.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a film built around a real death, his and his partner's.
    • you want a gentle animal film. This one leaves you uneasy.

    About: obsession · nature · death

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  8. A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity.

    The sides of The Elephant Man

    • A disfigured man shown as a sideshow freak
    • A surgeon played by Anthony Hopkins
    • Victorian London in black and white

    Good for you if

    • you like being moved by John Merrick's gentleness.
    • you like John Hurt under heavy makeup, acting with his voice and eyes.
    • you love David Lynch's black and white images.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a man mocked and beaten for how he looks.
    • you need an ending that doesn't break your heart.

    About: dignity · cruelty · kindness

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  9. Tupac: Resurrection 2003

    Documentary

    Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most beloved, revolutionary, and volatile hip-hop MCs of all time.

    The sides of Tupac: Resurrection

    • Tupac Shakur telling his own life
    • Home movies, photos and his poems
    • A rapper's rise and his death at 25

    Good for you if

    • you want Tupac's life in his own voice, from his own interviews.
    • you love 90s hip-hop and the man behind its biggest songs.
    • you like a portrait full of contradictions: poet, rebel, son.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not relive a young life cut short by gunfire.
    • you want an inquiry into who killed him. The film is about his life, not the case.

    About: fame · violence · mothers and sons

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  10. Engineers, officials and the crew members' families provide their perspective on the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and its aftermath.

    The sides of Challenger: The Final Flight

    • The 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
    • Families of the seven crew members
    • Engineers who warned against the launch

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how the Challenger disaster happened.
    • you like the 1980s space program told by the people who lived it.
    • you care about the human cost of space travel.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not relive a real tragedy through grieving families.
    • you want a big space adventure. This is four episodes of interviews about decisions made on the ground.

    About: responsibility · grief · ambition

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  11. Tyson 2008

    Documentary

    Director James Toback takes an unflinching, uncompromising look at the life of Mike Tyson--almost solely from the perspective of the man himself. TYSON alternates between the controversial boxer addressing the camera and shots of the champion's fights to create an arresting picture of the man.

    The sides of Tyson

    • Mike Tyson talking straight to camera
    • Fight footage from his career
    • A childhood in Brooklyn

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand Tyson without being told to forgive him.
    • you like boxing and want to see Tyson in the ring.
    • you want Tyson's life told in his own words.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through talk of abuse, prison and a rape conviction.
    • you can't watch knockouts and blows to the head.

    About: fear · fame · self-destruction

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  12. An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).

    The sides of Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

    • Miles Davis and his trumpet
    • Jazz from bebop to fusion
    • Musicians and family remembering him

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear Kind of Blue and the records that changed jazz.
    • you like a portrait that shows a genius and his darker side.
    • you're curious about racism in America through one musician's life.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't face drug addiction and abuse of a wife on screen.
    • you can't spend two hours admiring a man you wouldn't root for.

    About: genius · reinvention · racism

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  13. 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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  14. Cuba and the Cameraman 2017

    Documentary

    This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.

    The sides of Cuba and the Cameraman

    • An American filmmaker returning to Cuba for decades
    • Three Cuban families growing old
    • Fidel Castro seen up close

    Good for you if

    • you want ordinary Cuban lives filmed over more than forty years.
    • you like history seen from a farm and a city street.
    • you like watching the same people age on camera.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take poverty and loss up close.
    • you need a story that moves faster than decades of slow change.

    About: time · poverty · revolution · family

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  15. Marley 2012

    Documentary

    Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. Directed by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), MARLEY is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best.

    The sides of Marley

    • Bob Marley from a Jamaican village to world stages
    • Reggae and the politics of 1970s Jamaica
    • Interviews with his family and bandmates

    Good for you if

    • you like reggae and want to know where these songs came from.
    • you want the whole life of Bob Marley told by people who knew him.
    • you like music caught up in a country's politics.

    Bad for you if

    • you find almost two and a half hours too much for one evening.
    • you need a faster pace than a life told from the very beginning.

    About: faith · peace · legacy

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  16. Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and unleashed mass hysteria.

    The sides of To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb

    • J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project
    • The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    • Archive footage and historians' interviews

    Good for you if

    • you want the real story behind the Oppenheimer film.
    • you like the question of who decides to use a weapon.
    • you want to understand how the bomb changed war forever.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't look at the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
    • you want a big-screen drama more than archive and interviews.

    About: guilt · science · war · responsibility

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  17. Red Army 2015

    Documentary

    A documentary highlighting the Soviet Union's legendary and enigmatic hockey training culture and world-dominating team through the eyes of the team's Captain Slava Fetisov, following his shift from hockey star and celebrated national hero to political enemy.

    The sides of Red Army

    • The Soviet Union's hockey team
    • Captain Slava Fetisov
    • A national hero turned political enemy

    Good for you if

    • you like hockey and a team that played it like a ballet.
    • you want to see how the Soviet state used its athletes.
    • you like the Cold War told through one player's life.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles. Fetisov and his teammates tell it in Russian.
    • you find long stretches of old archive footage dated.

    About: the Cold War · loyalty · freedom

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  18. 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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  19. Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen (nor heard) home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.

    The sides of Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

    • Hunter S. Thompson from 1965 to 1975
    • Home movies and unpublished writing
    • Campaign trails, drugs and Wild Turkey

    Good for you if

    • you like a portrait built from Thompson's own tapes and pages.
    • you like a brilliant writer you wouldn't want to live with.
    • you like his war with Nixon and the 1972 campaign.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take drug abuse and a suicide in a real life story.
    • two hours of archive on one writer is too much for you.

    About: freedom · excess · journalism

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  20. 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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