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  1. Blackfish 2013

    Documentary

    Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.

    The sides of Blackfish

    • Tilikum, a captive killer whale
    • Former SeaWorld trainers telling what they saw
    • The death of a trainer during a show

    Good for you if

    • you like former trainers admitting what they didn't want to see.
    • you care about how intelligent animals live.
    • you like seeing a company's story taken apart piece by piece.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real attacks and a real death described in detail.
    • you want a light animal film. This one leaves you angry.

    About: captivity · guilt · profit

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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. 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

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  4. 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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  5. Isle of Flowers 1989

    Documentary

    A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.

    The sides of Isle of Flowers

    • A tomato from a field to a dump
    • A narrator explaining everything like a textbook
    • People waiting after the pigs for food

    Good for you if

    • you like a cold, deadpan voice that makes you laugh before it hurts.
    • you can take an ending that leaves you with nothing to hold on to.
    • you want something that hits hard in thirteen minutes.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles, even for a short film in Portuguese.
    • you can't bear to see hunger and poverty on screen.

    About: poverty · money · dignity

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  6. This documentary series tackles one of history's most horrifying subjects: the Holocaust and the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

    The sides of Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution

    • The history of Auschwitz-Birkenau
    • Testimony from survivors and former perpetrators
    • Reconstructions of Nazi decisions

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how Auschwitz was built and run.
    • you need to hear survivors and former guards tell it themselves.
    • you want to understand the Second World War beyond the battlefields.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch testimony about mass murder.
    • you need some hope from what you watch.

    About: memory · genocide · responsibility

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  7. LA 92 2017

    Documentary

    Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, LA 92 immerses viewers in that tumultuous period through stunning and rarely seen archival footage.

    The sides of LA 92

    • The Rodney King beating on videotape
    • Six days of riots in Los Angeles
    • Archive footage with no narrator

    Good for you if

    • you want to see the 1992 Los Angeles riots as they were filmed at the time.
    • you want to see how a city answers police brutality and a verdict that cleared four officers.
    • you like the feeling of a city coming apart hour by hour.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real beatings and fires on screen.
    • you'd rather not sit through real racism and real deaths.

    About: racism · police · anger

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  8. Taxi to the Dark Side 2008

    Documentary

    An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.

    The sides of Taxi to the Dark Side

    • An Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar
    • Detention at Bagram and Guantanamo
    • Soldiers and officials on interrogation orders

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story of one innocent man who died in US custody.
    • you want to see how orders from the top reached a prison cell.
    • you want to understand what the war on terror did behind closed doors.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take a story of torture and death of an innocent man.
    • you can't look at photos of prisoners being abused.

    About: torture · responsibility · justice

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  9. 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

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  10. 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

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  11. 20 Days in Mariupol 2023

    Documentary

    As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.

    The sides of 20 Days in Mariupol

    • Ukrainian journalists trapped in a besieged city
    • Hospitals filling with the wounded
    • Getting the footage out

    Good for you if

    • you want to see what the first weeks of the invasion looked like on the ground.
    • you want to understand what a siege does to a city and its people.

    Bad for you if

    • the grief of parents losing children is too much for you.
    • you can't watch real dead and wounded people on screen.

    About: war · the truth · grief · journalism

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  12. 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

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  13. Hearts and Minds 1974

    Documentary

    Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.

    The sides of Hearts and Minds

    • Interviews with generals and veterans
    • Vietnamese villagers after the bombing
    • The Vietnam War filmed while it was still going on

    Good for you if

    • you want to see what the Vietnam War did to the people on both sides.
    • you like a film made in the middle of the events it shows.
    • you like seeing official speeches set against what happened on the ground.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real footage of napalm and wounded civilians.
    • you find seventies footage dated.

    About: war · propaganda · guilt

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  14. Seaspiracy 2021

    Documentary

    Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species — and uncovers an alarming global conspiracy.

    The sides of Seaspiracy

    • A filmmaker following plastic into the ocean
    • Industrial fishing fleets and what they catch by accident
    • Eco-labels and the bodies that award them

    Good for you if

    • you want a filmmaker going and seeing for himself.
    • you care what happens to the ocean and what lives in it.
    • you want to know who certifies what you buy.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch animals being killed on camera.
    • you need some hope left by the end.

    About: the ocean · the food chain · responsibility

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  15. 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

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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. The Act of Killing 2012

    Documentary

    After befriending documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of various American film genres. As they recreate their past atrocities, the line between reality and performance blurs, exposing the lingering impact of Indonesia's 1965-66 anti-communist purge and the unsettling psychology of its perpetrators.

    The sides of The Act of Killing

    • Men who led death squads in 1965 Indonesia
    • Their killings restaged as film scenes
    • A country where the killers were never tried

    Good for you if

    • you want history told by the people who carried it out.
    • you can sit with a story that offers no comfort at the end.
    • you want to see who stayed in power after the killings.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take mass killing described calmly by the men who did it.
    • over two and a half hours of this is too much for one evening.
    • you won't read subtitles, and the film is in Indonesian.

    About: impunity · memory · guilt

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  19. 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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  20. NAZA 2026

    Documentary

    Filmed at night from Tel Aviv rooftops, this investigative documentary examines the civilian casualties of Israel's military operations in Gaza and the systems behind targeted killings of Palestinians.

    The sides of NAZA

    • Night footage from Tel Aviv rooftops
    • Anonymous testimonies from former soldiers
    • Civilian deaths in Gaza

    Good for you if

    • you want firsthand testimony about real lives lost in Gaza.
    • you want to understand how a war is waged from the inside.
    • you want to look at the systems behind targeted killings.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't bear accounts of civilian deaths.
    • you need some hope at the end of a film.

    About: war · responsibility · testimony

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