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American: The Bill Hicks Story 2010
Documentary
American: The Bill Hicks Story is a biographical documentary film on the life of comedian Bill Hicks.
The sides of American: The Bill Hicks Story
- A stand-up comedian from Texas
- Club sets and old photos brought to life
- Friends and family telling his story
Good for you if
- you like stand-up and want to see where Bill Hicks's jokes came from.
- you laugh at jokes about religion, war and advertising that go too far.
- you like the real life of a comedian told by the people who knew him.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a young man's death from cancer.
- you roll your eyes at a loving tribute told by friends and family.
About: comedy · truth · rebellion · early death
Knock Down the House 2019
Documentary
In 2018, a young bartender in the Bronx, a coal miner’s daughter in West Virginia, a grieving mother in Nevada and a registered nurse in Missouri join a movement of insurgent candidates challenging powerful incumbents in Congress. Without political experience or corporate money, these four women are attempting to do what many consider impossible.
The sides of Knock Down the House
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez behind a bar in the Bronx
- Four women running for Congress
- Campaigns with no corporate money
Good for you if
- you want to see Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez before anyone knew her name.
- you like underdogs taking on powerful incumbents.
- you care about four women with no political experience, not only the one who won.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at hopeful campaign speeches.
- you'd rather not cry over a mother running for Congress after losing her daughter.
About: politics · the underdog · hope
Fahrenheit 11/9 2018
Documentary
Michael Moore's provocative documentary explores the two most important questions of the Trump Era: How did we get here, and how do we get out.
The sides of Fahrenheit 11/9
- Michael Moore on the 2016 election
- The Flint water crisis
- Students marching after the Parkland shooting
Good for you if
- you want the Flint water crisis told by the people who lived it.
- you like Michael Moore asking how Donald Trump came to power.
- you like Michael Moore's sarcastic stunts.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at Michael Moore's angry, heartfelt pleas to camera.
- you can't watch the Flint water crisis and a school shooting up close.
About: democracy · protest · public health
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
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
Citizenfour 2014
Documentary
In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.
The sides of Citizenfour
- Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room
- Journalists deciding what to publish
- A fire alarm that makes everyone freeze
Good for you if
- you like the days before a leak, filmed as they happen in one hotel room.
- you want to watch Snowden explain, in his own words, why he did it.
- you like seeing how governments watch their own citizens.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, and most of it is people talking at a desk.
- you want scale and sound, not a laptop and a hotel bed.
About: surveillance · privacy · courage
I Am Greta 2020
Documentary
Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike evolved into a global movement as the quiet teenage girl on the autism spectrum becomes a world-famous activist.
The sides of I Am Greta
- A 15-year-old on school strike for the climate
- A sailing trip across the Atlantic
- Speeches in front of world leaders
Good for you if
- you want to see Greta Thunberg up close, away from the cameras.
- you like a quiet teenager growing into a global voice.
- you care about the climate and how people fight for it.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for the Swedish.
- you roll your eyes at heartfelt speeches to world leaders.
About: activism · the future · autism
Inequality for All 2013
Documentary
Based on Reich's 2010 book Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, the film examines widening income inequality in the United States. U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich tries to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap. He publicly argued about the issue for decades, and producing a film of his viewpoints was a "final frontier" for him. In addition to being a social issue documentary, Inequality for All is also partially a biopic regarding Reich's early life and his time as Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton's presidency. Warren Buffett and Nick Hanauer, two entrepreneurs and investors in the top 1%, are interviewed in the film, supporting Reich's belief in an economy that benefits all citizens, including those of the middle and lower classes.
The sides of Inequality for All
- Robert Reich explaining the income gap
- A former Labor Secretary's own story
- Investors from the top 1% who agree with him
Good for you if
- you want the American wealth gap explained in plain terms.
- you like asking who the economy really works for.
- you enjoy Robert Reich himself, funny and warm in front of his students.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at a lecture with a mission.
- you need a story that moves, not charts and a classroom.
About: inequality · the middle class · work
Weiner 2016
Documentary
Documentary featuring a jaw-dropping, behind-the-scenes look at the attempted comeback of Anthony Weiner in 2013 as he mounts a campaign for New York City mayor in the wake of his sexting scandal. Featuring unfettered access to the candidate and his campaign.
The sides of Weiner
- Anthony Weiner running for New York mayor in 2013
- A new sexting scandal breaking mid-campaign
- Huma Abedin watching from the campaign office
Good for you if
- you like a camera that keeps rolling while a campaign falls apart.
- you want to see a New York mayoral race from the inside.
- you can laugh at a candidate digging himself deeper on live television.
Bad for you if
- you can't root for a candidate who keeps hiding the truth from his own team.
- you need something light, and watching a marriage strain in public isn't.
About: ambition · shame · the media
The Unknown Known 2013
Documentary
Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The sides of The Unknown Known
- Donald Rumsfeld facing the camera
- His thousands of office memos
- The road to the Iraq war
Good for you if
- you want to hear a man who ran the Pentagon explain himself.
- you like Errol Morris questioning someone who plays with words.
- you're fine ending a film without a clear answer about the man.
Bad for you if
- you need more than one man talking for an hour and a half.
- you'd rather not revisit the Iraq war through the man who planned it.
About: power · language · responsibility
9/11: Inside the President's War Room 2021
Documentary
Experience the events of September 11, 2001 through the eyes of President Bush and his closest advisors as they personally detail the crucial hours and key decisions from that historic day.
The sides of 9/11: Inside the President's War Room
- George W. Bush recalling September 11
- Advisers telling the day in their own words
- The hours between the attacks and the evening address
Good for you if
- you like hearing decisions told by the people who made them.
- you want to relive September 11 hour by hour.
- you like seeing how a government reacts in a crisis.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch the towers fall again.
- you roll your eyes at solemn, heartfelt accounts of leading through a crisis.
About: leadership · crisis · grief
The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020
Film
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
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
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
Spellbound 2002
Documentary
This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scripps Howard national spelling bee championship in Washington D.C.
The sides of Spellbound
- Eight kids heading for the national spelling bee
- Parents and coaches drilling word lists
- A final round in Washington
Good for you if
- you hold your breath over one letter in a hard word.
- you want kids you root for, from very different homes.
- you like real kids and their real families, followed all the way to the national final.
Bad for you if
- you need more happening than children spelling words.
- you roll your eyes at hard work and the American dream.
About: ambition · immigration · childhood
Hail Satan? 2019
Documentary
The story of The Satanic Temple, a controversial movement that combines religion and activism with the apparent purpose of questioning the basic foundations of US society.
The sides of Hail Satan?
- The Satanic Temple and its members
- A goat-headed statue at a state capitol
- Fights over religion in public life
Good for you if
- you want to meet the real people behind a movement that sounds like a joke.
- you like activists using Satan to make a serious point with a grin.
- you like a film about religion, the law and who gets a say.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not see black masses and Baphomet statues.
- you want devil-worship horror, and this is about lawsuits and town councils.
About: religious freedom · activism · belonging
Cheer 2020
Documentary
The stakes on the mat are high, but for these cheerleaders, the only thing more brutal than their workouts and more exceptional than their performances are the stories of adversity and triumph behind the athletes themselves.
The sides of Cheer
- A college cheer team in Texas
- Coach Monica Aldama
- The road to the national championship in Daytona
Good for you if
- you like a sport you never took seriously shown as brutal and precise.
- you like real athletes telling where they come from.
- you like being moved by young people fighting for a spot on the mat.
Bad for you if
- you can't take hard childhoods, injuries and real trouble told on camera.
- you want something light, and the pressure is hard to watch.
About: ambition · belonging · sacrifice
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates 2019
Documentary
Take a trip inside the mind of Bill Gates as the billionaire opens up about those who influenced him and the audacious goals he's still pursuing.
The sides of Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates
- Bill Gates talking about his childhood
- His foundation's work on toilets, polio and nuclear power
- The people who shaped him
Good for you if
- you like a portrait of a real man in his own words.
- you want to understand how Bill Gates thinks.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at big plans to save the world with new toilets and vaccines.
- you need momentum. Much of it is Gates thinking out loud on long walks.
About: ambition · philanthropy · the mind
Inside Job 2010
Documentary
A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
The sides of Inside Job
- The 2008 financial crisis, from Iceland to Wall Street
- Bankers, regulators and economists in front of the camera
- Professors who can't answer a simple question
Good for you if
- you want to know who made money from the crash and who paid.
- you like a case built with real figures, real names and real interviews.
- you like interviews where the person in the chair starts to squirm.
Bad for you if
- you don't want to follow derivatives and credit default swaps for an evening.
- you want a reassuring ending. Here almost nobody goes to jail.
About: greed · corruption · the economy
Virunga 2014
Documentary
Virunga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Africa’s oldest national park, a UNESCO world heritage site, and a contested ground among insurgencies seeking to topple the government that see untold profits in the land. Among this ongoing power struggle, Virunga also happens to be the last natural habitat for the critically endangered mountain gorilla. The only thing standing in the way of the forces closing in around the gorillas: a handful of passionate park rangers and journalists fighting to secure the park’s borders and expose the corruption of its enemies. Filled with shocking footage, and anchored by the surprisingly deep and gentle characters of the gorillas themselves, Virunga is a galvanizing call to action around an ongoing political and environmental crisis in the Congo.
The sides of Virunga
- Rangers guarding Africa's oldest national park
- Orphaned mountain gorillas and their keeper
- Hidden camera footage of an oil company's dealings
Good for you if
- you love the mountain gorillas and the man who raises them.
- you like hidden cameras catching bribes as they happen.
- you want to see rangers risking everything for a park in Congo.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real gunfire and war footage.
- you roll your eyes at a documentary built as a call to save the park.
About: conservation · courage · greed · war