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Will & Harper 2024
Documentary
When Will Ferrell's good friend Harper comes out as a trans woman, they take a road trip to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self.
The sides of Will & Harper
- Will Ferrell and his old friend Harper
- A road trip across America
- A trans woman seeing the country again as herself
Good for you if
- you like a long friendship tested and made stronger.
- you want Will Ferrell being silly on the road.
- you like hearing Harper Steele tell her own story.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at heartfelt talks in a car.
- you don't want to cry at a Will Ferrell movie.
About: friendship · identity · acceptance
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
Amend: The Fight for America 2021
Documentary
Will Smith hosts this look at the evolving, often lethal, fight for equal rights in America through the lens of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment.
The sides of Amend: The Fight for America
- Will Smith hosting a history of the 14th Amendment
- Actors reading the words of real historical figures
- Equal rights from emancipation to marriage equality
Good for you if
- you like the real people who fought for equal rights in America.
- you want to understand one line of the Constitution across 150 years.
- you like seeing who has been counted as equal, and who decided.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch the lynchings and violence of that fight.
- you roll your eyes at celebrity hosts and stirring speeches.
About: equality · citizenship · racism
The Celluloid Closet 1996
Documentary
Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s.
The sides of The Celluloid Closet
- A hundred years of gay characters on screen
- Clips from more than a hundred Hollywood films
- Actors and writers looking back
Good for you if
- you like seeing a century of Hollywood through one lens.
- you want actors and writers telling what was hidden in plain sight.
- you love classic Hollywood clips and the subtext between the lines.
Bad for you if
- you lose track when clips from over a hundred films go by one after another.
- you'd rather not revisit decades of gay characters mocked or killed off.
About: representation · censorship · identity
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson 2017
Documentary
Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the days of Stonewall, who along with fellow trans icon Sylvia Rivera, founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), a trans activist group based in the heart of NYC’s Greenwich Village. Her death in 1992 was declared a suicide by the NYPD, but friends never accepted that version of events. Structured as a whodunit, with activist Victoria Cruz cast as detective and audience surrogate, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson celebrates the lasting political legacy of Johnson, while seeking to finally solve the mystery of her unexplained death.
The sides of The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
- A trans activist found dead in the Hudson in 1992
- Victoria Cruz reopening the case
- Stonewall and the birth of S.T.A.R.
Good for you if
- you want to know who Marsha P. Johnson was beyond the Stonewall legend.
- you like a cold case reopened by an activist who won't let it go.
- you care about New York's gay and trans history since Stonewall.
Bad for you if
- you can't face a death ruled a suicide and the violence against trans women around it.
- you need a case that ends with an answer.
About: trans rights · justice · memory
Shoah 1985
Documentary
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.
The sides of Shoah
- Survivors, bystanders and perpetrators interviewed
- The sites of the camps filmed decades later
- No archive footage at all
Good for you if
- you want the Holocaust told by those who were there.
- you can sit with long silences and slow train journeys.
- you can be moved to tears by a barber breaking down as he recalls Treblinka.
Bad for you if
- you can't give more than nine hours to one film.
- you won't read subtitles, and the film moves between many languages.
- you can't hear first-hand accounts of mass murder.
About: memory · testimony · genocide
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
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
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie 2023
Documentary
A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—only to find the course of his life altered by a stunning diagnosis. What happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease?
The sides of STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
- Michael J. Fox telling his own life
- A Parkinson's diagnosis at twenty-nine
- Clips from Back to the Future and Family Ties
Good for you if
- you like hearing Michael J. Fox tell his story in his own words.
- you like being moved by his family standing by him.
- you like his jokes about his own falls and tremors.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch someone live with an incurable illness.
- you want a grim, unresolved look at Parkinson's. His optimism carries every scene.
About: illness · optimism · fame
Little Girl 2020
Documentary
7-year-old Sasha has always known that she is a girl. Sasha’s family has recently accepted her gender identity, embracing their daughter for who she truly is while working to confront outdated norms and find affirmation in a small community of rural France.
The sides of Little Girl
- A seven-year-old girl named Sasha
- A mother fighting for her daughter at school
- A family in rural France
Good for you if
- you like a family standing together around one child.
- you like being moved by a mother's love and doubts.
- you want a gentle, close portrait of a real childhood.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles.
- you can't watch a child face rejection from adults around her.
About: identity · childhood · acceptance · motherhood
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
Paris Is Burning 1991
Documentary
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.
The sides of Paris Is Burning
- Harlem ball houses competing for trophies
- House mothers taking in young people with nowhere to go
- Voguing, shade and reading, explained by the people who made them
Good for you if
- you want the ballroom scene from the people who built it, in their own words.
- you want to spend an hour with Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey and Willi Ninja.
- you want New York in the late 1980s as it was lived in Harlem.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit with the poverty, the AIDS years and the violence these lives carried.
- you want something light, and the joy in it comes with real loss.
About: identity · chosen family · survival
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind 2018
Documentary
A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at large, from the wild days of late-1970s L.A. to his death in 2014.
The sides of Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
- Robin Williams in his own words
- Stand-up clips from the late 1970s
- Friends and family remembering him
Good for you if
- you want to laugh again at Robin Williams improvising at full speed.
- you like a portrait that makes you laugh and cry in the same scene.
- you want to hear the man behind Mork and Mrs. Doubtfire talk about himself.
Bad for you if
- you can't face depression and a death by suicide on screen.
- you roll your eyes at loving tributes from famous friends.
About: comedy · mental health · fame
The Look of Silence 2014
Documentary
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.
The sides of The Look of Silence
- A man facing those who killed his brother
- Eye tests as a way into conversations
- Indonesia's 1965 killings
Good for you if
- you want to see a family ask the questions it was never allowed to ask.
- you want to understand a mass killing that is rarely talked about.
- you like quiet, patient conversations that say a lot.
Bad for you if
- you can't bear to hear killers calmly describe what they did.
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Indonesian.
About: guilt · memory · justice · grief
I Am Heath Ledger 2017
Documentary
The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera.
The sides of I Am Heath Ledger
- Heath Ledger's own home videos
- Friends and family remembering him
- A young actor from Perth to Hollywood
Good for you if
- you want to see Heath Ledger through his own camera.
- you want a portrait that moves you to tears.
- you like hearing who he was away from the set.
Bad for you if
- you can't take a story you know ends with an early death.
- you roll your eyes at a tribute where everyone only praises.
About: creativity · grief · fame
Val 2021
Documentary
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood's most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors, has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.
The sides of Val
- Val Kilmer's own home videos over forty years
- His son reading his words
- Throat cancer and a lost voice
Good for you if
- you like an actor's life told through his own camera.
- you can be moved by Val Kilmer struggling to speak after cancer.
- you like a family story, from 16mm films made with his brothers to his son reading his words.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch illness and a body that fails.
- you want the energy of his films, not a quiet look back.
About: art · illness · memory
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 2024
Documentary
Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After becoming a quadriplegic, he became a charismatic leader and activist in the quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as a passionate advocate for disability rights and care.
The sides of Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
- The actor who played Superman, paralysed after a riding accident
- His wife Dana and his three children
- A fight for spinal cord research
Good for you if
- you like being moved by a man learning to live again.
- you want the real Christopher Reeve, from Superman to activist.
- you like a story told by his children, about a father they nearly lost.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch paralysis, hospitals and grief up close.
- you roll your eyes at a tribute full of courage and love.
About: courage · disability · fatherhood
Spielberg 2017
Documentary
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
The sides of Spielberg
- Steven Spielberg telling his own story
- From Jaws to Lincoln
- His parents and his childhood
Good for you if
- you want Steven Spielberg telling his own story, film by film.
- you like hearing how his parents' divorce runs through his films.
- you like fifty years of Hollywood seen through one career.
Bad for you if
- you find two and a half hours of interviews too much.
- you roll your eyes at filmmakers praising each other.
About: childhood · ambition · cinema
Circus of Books 2019
Documentary
For decades, a nice Jewish couple ran Circus of Books, a porn shop and epicenter for gay LA. Their director daughter documents their life and times.
The sides of Circus of Books
- A Jewish couple running a gay porn shop in LA
- Their daughter behind the camera
- Decades of gay life in Los Angeles
Good for you if
- you like a family portrait where parents and children finally talk.
- you want to see gay Los Angeles from the 1970s on through one shop.
- you like real people with a secret life that sounds made up.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not see the gay porn on the shop's shelves.
- you can't watch the AIDS years, when the shop lost friends and staff.
About: family secrets · gay history · acceptance
The Last Days 1998
Documentary
This Oscar-winning documentary recounts the harrowing stories of five Hungarian Jews who endured the horrors of the Holocaust and Hitler's reign.
The sides of The Last Days
- Five Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust
- Survivors returning to their childhood homes
- Memories of the camps
Good for you if
- you want to hear survivors tell their own stories.
- you want to understand the Holocaust in Hungary through five lives.
- you're ready to be moved to tears by people going back to where it happened.
Bad for you if
- you can't bear firsthand accounts of the camps.
- you can't look at archive footage of bodies in the camps.
About: memory · survival · loss