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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Salesman 1969

    Documentary

    This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Paul "The Badger" Brennan, Charles "The Gipper" McDevitt, James "The Rabbit" Baker and Raymond "The Bull" Martos. Times are tough for this hard-living quartet, who spend their days traveling through small-town America, trying their best to peddle gold-leaf Bibles to an apathetic crowd of lower-middle-class housewives and elderly couples.

    The sides of Salesman

    • Four Bible salesmen on the road
    • Sales pitches in working-class living rooms
    • Motel rooms between visits

    Good for you if

    • you like watching real door-to-door salesmen at work in 1960s America.
    • you like following Paul Brennan as his pitch stops working.
    • you enjoy black and white documentaries from the sixties.

    Bad for you if

    • you need more happening than sales pitches in living rooms.
    • you need music to carry a film. There's no score and no narrator, just the salesmen talking.

    About: work · failure · the American dream

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  5. Andrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling is a remarkable black and white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' album Skeleton Tree. Originally a performance based concept, the film evolved into something much more significant as Dominik delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. The result is stark, fragile and raw, and a true testament to an artist trying to find his way through the darkness. It documents the writing, recording and performing of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree.

    The sides of One More Time with Feeling

    • Nick Cave recording an album after losing his son
    • A studio filmed in black and white
    • A family living with grief

    Good for you if

    • you like watching songs take shape in the studio.
    • you like a film that sits quietly with real grief.
    • you like stark black and white images.

    Bad for you if

    • a parent's grief is too much for you.
    • you need some hope by the end.

    About: grief · creation · fatherhood

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  6. 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

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  7. 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

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  8. This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.

    The sides of The Devil and Daniel Johnston

    • Daniel Johnston's home tapes and drawings
    • A songwriter living with manic depression
    • Parents caring for their adult son

    Good for you if

    • you love raw songs recorded on cassette in a basement.
    • you want a close portrait of one fragile, gifted man.
    • you like a life told through its own tapes and home movies.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch mental illness take hold of someone up close.
    • you want a feel-good music story, and you get a hard and tender one.

    About: mental illness · art · family

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  9. 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

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  10. Hacia rutas salvajes 2007

    Película

    A principios de los años noventa, el joven e idealista Christopher McCandless adopta el nombre de Alexander Supertramp, deja sus posesiones y sus ahorros a la beneficencia y abandona el mundo civilizado con rumbo a la salvaje Alaska para entrar en contacto con la Naturaleza y descubrir el verdadero sentido de la vida. Adaptación del best-seller de Jon Krakauer, basado en las notas del diario de McCandless.

    Las caras de Hacia rutas salvajes

    • Un graduado que lo regala todo
    • Un viaje por carretera por Estados Unidos
    • Un autobús abandonado en Alaska

    Buena para ti si

    • te gustan los grandes paisajes y la vida salvaje.
    • te gusta un joven en busca de sentido.
    • te gusta la historia real de un graduado que regaló sus ahorros y viajó a dedo hasta Alaska.

    Mala para ti si

    • dos horas y media es demasiado para tu noche.
    • no soportas ver sufrir a unos padres. Su familia espera dos años sin noticias suyas.

    Temas: la libertad · la familia · la naturaleza

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  11. Grey Gardens 1976

    Documentary

    Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.

    The sides of Grey Gardens

    • A mother and daughter in a decaying mansion
    • Little Edie's improvised outfits and songs
    • Cats and raccoons in the house

    Good for you if

    • you like spending time with Big Edie and Little Edie as they are.
    • you like a mother and daughter who bicker and can't leave each other.
    • you like a strange, closed world on a Long Island estate.

    Bad for you if

    • you need a story that goes somewhere.
    • you find 1970s handheld footage dated.

    About: mother and daughter · solitude · the past

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  12. The Central Park Five 2012

    Documentary

    In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, this is the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.

    The sides of The Central Park Five

    • Five Harlem teenagers arrested in 1989
    • Confessions taken after hours of questioning
    • Years in prison before the real attacker confesses

    Good for you if

    • you want the Central Park case told carefully, with the facts.
    • you want to see how police, press and public rushed to judgment.
    • you want the five men to tell it in their own words.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit with a rape case and teenagers sent to prison.
    • you need some hope, and stolen years are hard for you to watch.

    About: injustice · racism · the press

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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. Titicut Follies 1967

    Documentary

    Employing methods of direct cinema–observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention–this stark look into the State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts shows its denizens, who were often kept in barren cells and infrequently bathed, forced to strip naked publicly, force feeding, and the indifference and bullying by many of the hospital's staff.

    The sides of Titicut Follies

    • Bridgewater State Hospital in 1967
    • Patients and guards with no narration
    • A variety show put on by staff and inmates

    Good for you if

    • you want to see a real prison hospital with no narrator telling you what to think.
    • you like raw black and white footage from the 1960s.
    • you want to see what total power over patients looks like.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch patients stripped, mocked and force fed.
    • you need some hope by the end.

    About: confinement · dignity · cruelty

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  16. Christopher Wallace, AKA The Notorious B.I.G., remains one of Hip-Hop’s icons, renowned for his distinctive flow and autobiographical lyrics. This documentary celebrates his life via rare behind-the-scenes footage and the testimonies of his closest friends and family.

    The sides of Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell

    • Christopher Wallace growing up in Brooklyn
    • Rare footage from before the fame
    • His friends and his mother remembering him

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing where Biggie's lyrics came from.
    • you want rare footage of Christopher Wallace before the fame.
    • you like his Brooklyn friends telling who he really was.

    Bad for you if

    • you need hope, and you know he was killed at 24.
    • you want answers about who killed him. This is about his life, not the case.

    About: Brooklyn · fame · loss

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  17. Whitney 2018

    Documentary

    Examines the life and career of singer Whitney Houston. Features never-before-seen archival footage, exclusive recordings, rare performances and interviews with the people who knew her best.

    The sides of Whitney

    • Whitney Houston from church choir to world tours
    • Family and friends who were close to her
    • Unseen archive footage and recordings

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing Whitney Houston's voice in her prime.
    • you like a life story that moves you to tears.
    • you want the people closest to her telling what happened.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take addiction and childhood abuse being discussed.
    • you need some hope by the end.

    About: fame · family · addiction

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  18. Janis: Little Girl Blue 2015

    Documentary

    Janis Joplin is one of the most respected and iconic rock & roll singers of all time, a tragic and misunderstood figure who captivated millions of listeners and blazed new creative trails before her death in 1970 at age 27. Director Amy Berg explored Joplin's story in depth. A portrait of a complicated, driven and often beleaguered artist. Joplin's own words recount a series of letters she wrote to her family over the years. Janis was a vessel of energy when she sang. Her rapid rise and untimely death changed music forever.

    The sides of Janis: Little Girl Blue

    • Janis Joplin's letters home, read aloud
    • Her performances at Monterey and Woodstock
    • A Texas girl who never felt accepted

    Good for you if

    • you love Janis Joplin singing live at full force.
    • you want her own words, from the letters she wrote her family.
    • you like a portrait of a lonely, driven artist.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch heroin pull someone down.
    • you find grainy sixties footage dated.

    About: loneliness · fame · addiction

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  19. 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

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  20. The first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer.

    The sides of Bobby Fischer Against the World

    • A Brooklyn chess prodigy
    • The 1972 match against Spassky in Reykjavik
    • A champion who vanishes into paranoia

    Good for you if

    • you like the true story of a genius who never fit in.
    • you like the Cold War played out on a chessboard.
    • you're drawn to an obsessive mind, brilliant and troubled.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't bear to watch a man's mental decline.
    • you need more movement than archive footage of chess games.

    About: obsession · genius · isolation

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