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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
Stories We Tell 2012
Documentary
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending on their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
The sides of Stories We Tell
- Sarah Polley questioning her own family
- A mother who died when Sarah was young
- Home movies, some of them restaged
Good for you if
- you like siblings and fathers each telling a mother's story their own way.
- you like a film that keeps changing what you thought was true.
- you can be moved by a daughter looking for her mother's secret.
Bad for you if
- you need things to happen, and this is people remembering.
- you want one clear version of the truth at the end.
About: memory · truth · family secrets
Tim's Vermeer 2013
Documentary
Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Holland, on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artista David Hockney, and eventually even to Buckingham Palace. The epic research project Jenison embarques on is as extraordinary as what he discovers.
The sides of Tim's Vermeer
- An inventor who has never painted
- A room in Texas rebuilt like Vermeer's
- Mirrors, lenses and years of patience
Good for you if
- you like a theory tested with real lenses and mirrors.
- you like a centuries old question about how Vermeer painted.
- you like Dutch painting from the 1600s.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, and months of painting wear you out.
- you want Penn and Teller's stage comedy. Here they mostly watch a friend paint.
About: art · obsession · patience

Nude 2017
Documentary
NUDE explores perceptions of nudity in art by chronicling the creative process of photographer David Bellemere as he's commissioned by NU Muses founder Steve Shaw to shoot a fine art calendar of nude photographs.
The sides of Nude
- Photographer David Bellemere at work
- A fine art calendar of nude photographs
- Models talking about posing nude
Good for you if
- you like watching how a photographer builds an image.
- you like hearing the models talk about their bodies and why they pose.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not watch nudity, or you watch with others.
- you need a story with conflict and suspense.
About: art · the body · beauty
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead 2018
Documentary
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.
The sides of They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
- Orson Welles making his last film
- The Other Side of the Wind
- Years of chaotic shooting and money troubles
Good for you if
- you want the real story behind a film shot over years and left unfinished.
- you like a portrait of a stubborn filmmaker late in life.
- you love old Hollywood and the era of Welles.
Bad for you if
- you need a story told in order, without a flood of archive footage.
- you want a warm, easy watch rather than a chaotic shoot.
About: ambition · legacy · art
The Beaches of Agnès 2008
Documentary
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
The sides of The Beaches of Agnès
- Agnès Varda looking back at eighty
- Mirrors set up on a beach
- Her life with Jacques Demy
Good for you if
- you like a filmmaker telling her own life in her own way.
- you like playful images, from mirrors on the sand to a street turned into a beach.
- you want time with a warm, curious, funny woman.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a French film.
- you need a documentary that moves fast and sticks to the facts.
About: memory · aging · love · cinema
Bobby Fischer Against the World 2011
Documentary
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
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
The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes 2022
Documentary
This documentary explores the mystery surrounding the death of movie icon Marilyn Monroe through previously unheard interviews with her inner circle.
The sides of The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
- Unheard interviews with Marilyn's inner circle
- The night of her death in 1962
- Hollywood stardom and its price
Good for you if
- you like hearing the people who actually knew Marilyn Monroe.
- you want to go back over the questions around her death.
- you like old Hollywood told through archive footage.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not dwell on a lonely death and a troubled life.
- you need a clear answer, not theories.
About: fame · loneliness · secrets
The Velvet Underground 2021
Documentary
Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.
The sides of The Velvet Underground
- Lou Reed, John Cale and the birth of a band
- Andy Warhol's Factory in 1960s New York
- Split screens full of archive footage
Good for you if
- you love the drone and noise of the Velvet Underground.
- you like Todd Haynes cutting archive footage into split screens.
- you want to be dropped into the New York avant-garde of the sixties.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand experimental films and art-school strangeness.
- you find two hours of interviews and archives too much.
About: art · rebellion · New York
The September Issue 2009
Documentary
A documentary chronicling Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's preparations for the 2007 fall-fashion issue.
The sides of The September Issue
- Anna Wintour preparing Vogue's biggest issue
- Grace Coddington fighting for her pages
- Shoots, cuts and meetings at the magazine
Good for you if
- you like watching who decides what at the top of fashion.
- you like the duel between Anna Wintour and Grace Coddington.
- you like a real look inside Vogue while one huge issue is made.
Bad for you if
- you need more happening than meetings and photo shoots.
- you want a documentary that moves you.
About: fashion · work · authority
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 2019
Documentary
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
David Lynch: The Art Life 2017
Documentary
An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors.
The sides of David Lynch: The Art Life
- David Lynch talking while he paints
- A childhood in small town America
- Art school in a dark Philadelphia
Good for you if
- you love Lynch and want to see where his strangeness comes from.
- you like watching paintings take shape in his studio.
- you like a portrait of an artist before he became famous.
Bad for you if
- you want answers. Lynch tells his memories and leaves them unexplained.
- you need momentum, and long quiet shots of painting bore you.
About: art · childhood · becoming yourself
The Salt of the Earth 2014
Documentary
During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.
The sides of The Salt of the Earth
- Forty years of photographs by one man
- A gold mine crowded with thousands of workers
- A dead family farm replanted into a forest
Good for you if
- you can look at black and white photographs for nearly two hours.
- you want the man who took the pictures to tell you where he was standing.
- you like whales, glaciers and a forest growing back.
Bad for you if
- you can't look at photographs of famine and massacre.
- you won't read subtitles while the photographer speaks his own language.
About: humanity · despair · renewal
The Fog of War 2003
Documentary
Former corporate whiz kid Robert McNamara was the controversial Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, during the height of the Vietnam War. Augmented by archival footage and cabinet conversation recordings, Errol Morris gives the conflicted McNamara a platform on which he attempts to confront his and the U.S. government's actions in Southeast Asia in light of the horrors of modern warfare, the end of ideology and the punitive judgment of history.
The sides of The Fog of War
- Robert McNamara looking back at his life
- The Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam
- White House recordings
Good for you if
- you like hearing a man in power explain his own decisions.
- you want the Cold War told from inside the room.
- you want to think about how wars are decided and why they go wrong.
Bad for you if
- you want a clear verdict on McNamara, and the film leaves you to judge him.
- you need momentum, and this is one man talking to the camera.
About: responsibility · war · memory · power

Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film 2001
Documentary
With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films. Director Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law and sometime collaborator, interviews heavyweights like Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and Sydney Pollack, who explain the influence of Kubrick classics like "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," and how he absorbed visual clues from disposable culture such as television commercials.
The sides of Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
- Stanley Kubrick's life and films
- Interviews with Jack Nicholson and others who worked with him
- Home footage from his family
Good for you if
- you love Dr. Strangelove, 2001 and the films around them.
- you want to know the man behind the legend from people who knew him.
- you care about how every Kubrick frame was built.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through almost two and a half hours of documentary.
- you need a story, not a career told in interviews.
About: obsession · creation · cinema
This Is Not a Film 2011
Documentary
Renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support for the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election. In this film, which was shot secretly by Panahi's close friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and smuggled into France on a USB stick concealed inside a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, Panahi documents his daily life under house arrest as he awaits a decision on his appeal.
The sides of This Is Not a Film
- A director banned from making films
- An apartment in Tehran under house arrest
- A film smuggled out inside a cake
Good for you if
- you want to see a ban on filmmaking from the inside.
- you care about Jafar Panahi defying a state that silenced him.
- you like a quiet day at home, phone calls and a pet iguana.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles in Persian.
- you need clear answers, and this film leaves you unsure what is staged and how Panahi's appeal ends.
About: censorship · freedom · creation
Alias Grace 2017
Series
Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A decade after, Dr. Simon Jordan tries to help Grace recall her past.
The sides of Alias Grace
- An Irish maid convicted of murder in 1843
- A doctor trying to unlock her memory
- A woman's life told from inside prison
Good for you if
- you like the lives of servants in 19th-century Canada.
- you like wondering, scene after scene, whether Grace did it.
- you like Sarah Gadon's calm, unreadable Grace.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, and most of it is Grace and the doctor talking quietly in a prison room.
- you want to know for sure who killed Thomas Kinnear.
About: memory · guilt · women's lives · class
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids 2004
Documentary
Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with their children. Briski began giving photography lessons to the children and became aware that their photography might be a way for them to lead better lives.
The sides of Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
- Children of sex workers in Calcutta
- Cameras handed to kids in a red light district
- A photographer trying to get them into school
Good for you if
- you want real children from Calcutta's red light district telling their own lives.
- you can be moved by kids who still laugh where they grow up.
- you like seeing a place through the photos the children took themselves.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch children growing up around prostitution and violence.
- you need a happy ending for every child.
About: childhood · poverty · art as a way out
Voyeur 2017
Documentary
Legendary journalist Gay Talese unmasks a motel owner who spied on his guests for decades. But his bombshell story soon becomes a scandal of its own.
The sides of Voyeur
- Gay Talese, a famous journalist
- A Colorado motel owner who spied on his guests
- A magazine story that turned into a scandal
Good for you if
- you like a true story about how a big article gets made.
- you like not knowing which of the two men to believe.
- you like watching a reporter and his source get tangled together.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit with a man calmly describing years of spying on strangers.
- you need things to happen, and this is mostly interviews.
About: privacy · truth · journalism