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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
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2022
Documentary
The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
The sides of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- Nan Goldin and her photographs
- Protests in museums against the Sackler family
- A sister lost young
Good for you if
- you like a true fight against the family behind OxyContin.
- you like seeing museums made to take a name off their walls.
- you like an artist telling her own life through her slideshows.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch addiction, AIDS and a sister's suicide on screen.
- you'd rather not see intimate and nude photographs.
About: addiction · activism · grief
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
Waste Land 2010
Documentary
An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.
The sides of Waste Land
- One of the world's largest landfills near Rio
- Pickers of recyclables who become portrait subjects
- The artist Vik Muniz
Good for you if
- you want real people from Jardim Gramacho telling their own lives.
- you like being moved by people seeing their portraits in a museum.
- you like giant portraits made from garbage.
Bad for you if
- you can't take hard stories of poverty and the loss of a child.
- you won't read subtitles for the Portuguese.
About: dignity · art · hope
Waiting for "Superman" 2010
Documentary
Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.
The sides of Waiting for "Superman"
- Five children hoping to win a school lottery
- Families chasing a good public school
- A look at the American school system
Good for you if
- you want to follow real families through a charter school lottery.
- you like asking who decides how schools are run.
- you're ready to be moved by children waiting for their name to be called.
Bad for you if
- you want a light, easy evening. Five families wait on a lottery for their children's future.
- you roll your eyes at a passionate call to action.
About: education · inequality · hope
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

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
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
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
Time 2020
Documentary
Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. An intimate, epic, and unconventional love story, filmed over two decades.
The sides of Time
- A wife fighting for her husband's release
- Home videos filmed over two decades
- Six sons growing up without their father at home
Good for you if
- you want a true story about a family and the prison system.
- you like Fox Rich holding her family together for twenty years.
- you like black and white images that make home videos feel like memory.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum more than a patient portrait.
- you find black and white hard to sit through.
About: waiting · love · justice
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
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
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

Bus 174 2002
Documentary
On 12 June 2000, in Rio de Janeiro, Ônibus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to kill all the passengers. Transmitted live on all national networks, this shocking and tragic event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the most terrifying examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
The sides of Bus 174
- A bus held hostage in Rio in 2000
- Live television footage of the standoff
- The life of the young man holding the gun
Good for you if
- you want to understand a real hostage crisis that Brazil watched live.
- you can sit through hours of a standoff that could break at any second.
- you can take a true story with no comfort at the end.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real footage of a hostage taking that ends in death.
- you can't face a street kid's life of loss, prison and police abuse.
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Portuguese.
About: poverty · police violence · invisibility
Tarnation 2003
Documentary
Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture of snapshots, Super-8, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, and more -- culled from 19 years of his life.
The sides of Tarnation
- A son filming his mother's mental illness
- Home movies, photos and answering machine messages
- Growing up gay in Texas
Good for you if
- you want a true life told by the person who lived it.
- you're drawn to the bond between a son and a mother who is ill.
- you like a collage of snapshots, Super 8 and video diaries.
Bad for you if
- you can't face abuse, mental illness and electroshock on screen.
- you need some hope and an ending that lifts you up.
About: mental illness · a mother and her son · memory
Hoop Dreams 1994
Documentary
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excellence of its basketball program. Gates and Agee dream of NBA stardom, and with the support of their close-knit families, they battle the social and physical obstacles that stand in their way. This acclaimed documentary was shot over the course of five years.
The sides of Hoop Dreams
- Two Chicago teenagers dreaming of the NBA
- A long daily commute to a suburban basketball school
- Five years of their families' lives
Good for you if
- you like basketball as the dream that holds a family together.
- you want real lives followed over five years, with no script.
- you're moved by parents who sacrifice everything for their sons.
Bad for you if
- nearly three hours is too much for you in one sitting.
- you need a story that moves faster than real life.
About: ambition · poverty · family · race
The Wolfpack 2015
Documentary
Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed ‘The Wolfpack’, the brothers spend their childhood reenacting their favorite films using elaborate home-made props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the brothers escapes and everything changes.
The sides of The Wolfpack
- Six brothers raised inside a Manhattan apartment
- Home-made remakes of Reservoir Dogs and The Dark Knight
- A first walk outside without their father
Good for you if
- you like a true story stranger than most fiction.
- you like six brothers who share everything in a few rooms.
- you like the Angulo brothers remaking Tarantino with cardboard props.
Bad for you if
- you can't face a father who kept his children locked away.
- you want every question about the family answered.
About: confinement · cinema · freedom · brotherhood

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
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
House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths 2021
Documentary
Suicide, murder... or something else? This docuseries examines chilling truths and theories around the deaths of 11 members of a Delhi family.
The sides of House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
- Eleven members of one Delhi family found dead
- Police, reporters and relatives looking for answers
- Handwritten diaries left in the house
Good for you if
- you want to understand a real case that shook Delhi.
- you like an investigation weighing suicide, murder and belief.
- you want to see how one family's history and shared beliefs shaped what happened.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a documentary about the deaths of a whole family.
- you need some hope or comfort at the end.
About: family · belief · grief · the media