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  1. Flee 2021

    Documentary

    Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he’s kept hidden for 20 years.

    The sides of Flee

    • A man telling a friend what he fled from
    • A childhood in Kabul, then years hidden in Russia
    • A secret kept for twenty years from the man he loves

    Good for you if

    • you want a true story told by the person who lived it.
    • you like animation used to protect a face and still show everything.
    • you want one life followed from Kabul to a house in Denmark.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch animated films.
    • you won't read subtitles for a Danish film.
    • you can't sit with fear, separation and a family split apart.

    About: exile · secrets · home

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Collective 2019

    Documentary

    In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move into action uncovering the mass corruption of the health system and of the state institutions. Collective follows journalists, whistle blowers, and authorities alike. An immersive and uncompromising look into a dysfunctional system, exposing corruption, propaganda, and manipulation that nowadays affect not only Romania, but societies around the world.

    The sides of Collective

    • A nightclub fire in Bucharest
    • Sports journalists investigating hospitals
    • A new health minister inside the system

    Good for you if

    • you want a true investigation filmed as it happens.
    • you like seeing how corruption reaches from hospitals to ministers.
    • you like a documentary that plays like a political thriller.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for a film in Romanian.
    • you can't watch burn victims and grieving families on screen.

    About: corruption · journalism · grief · public health

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  5. Nostalgia for the Light 2010

    Documentary

    In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.

    The sides of Nostalgia for the Light

    • Astronomers in Chile's Atacama Desert
    • Women searching the sand for their dead
    • Pinochet's political prisoners

    Good for you if

    • you like looking at the stars and thinking about where we come from.
    • you like a quiet, patient film that leaves room to think.
    • you want to understand how Chile lives with the Pinochet years.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't face mothers still searching for the remains of their children.

    About: memory · grief · the cosmos · justice

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  6. 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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  7. The White Helmets 2016

    Documentary

    As daily airstrikes pound civilian targets in Syria, a group of indomitable first responders risk their lives to rescue victims from the rubble.

    The sides of The White Helmets

    • Rescue workers in Aleppo
    • Survivors dug out of rubble after airstrikes
    • Training in Turkey between missions

    Good for you if

    • you want to see ordinary men who chose to run toward the bombs.
    • you like being moved by a child pulled alive from the rubble.
    • you want something short, about forty minutes.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real airstrikes and their victims.
    • you won't read subtitles.

    About: courage · war · hope

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  8. Honeyland 2019

    Documentary

    When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland’s basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.

    The sides of Honeyland

    • Hatidze, a wild beekeeper in North Macedonia
    • Her old, bedridden mother
    • A nomadic family moving in next door

    Good for you if

    • you like bees, rocks and light in a remote Balkan valley.
    • you like a real life filmed over three years, with no narrator.
    • you're moved by Hatidze caring for her mother alone.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles.
    • you need momentum. The film follows the bees season by season.

    About: balance · solitude · greed

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  9. The House Is Black 1963

    Documentary

    Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.

    The sides of The House Is Black

    • A leper colony in northern Iran
    • Poetry read over the images
    • Children at school in the colony

    Good for you if

    • you like black and white images that stay with you.
    • you have twenty minutes, not two hours.
    • you want to see real lives most people never look at.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not see illness and disfigurement up close.
    • you find black and white films from the sixties dated.
    • you won't read subtitles over Persian poetry.

    About: suffering · faith · dignity

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  10. 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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  11. Into the Abyss 2011

    Documentary

    We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes.

    The sides of Into the Abyss

    • Werner Herzog talking to a man days before his execution
    • A triple murder in a small Texas town
    • Families of the victims and of the killers

    Good for you if

    • you like Herzog's quiet questions and the long answers they get.
    • you can take a film about death with no easy comfort.
    • you want to hear everyone touched by one crime, on every side.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through grieving families and a death row countdown.
    • you need momentum more than long, still interviews.

    About: the death penalty · loss · guilt

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  12. 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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  13. Waltz with Bashir 2008

    Documentary

    A film director from Israel interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

    The sides of Waltz with Bashir

    • An Israeli director who can't remember his war
    • Interviews with fellow veterans of Lebanon, 1982
    • Animated memories that end on real footage

    Good for you if

    • you want to know what a war does to the memory of those who fought it.
    • you like a director investigating his own past.
    • you like dreamlike animated images, like soldiers rising from the sea at night.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not see a war documentary in animation.
    • you won't read subtitles. It's in Hebrew.
    • you can't take a film about guilt and the dead of a war, seen through a soldier's nightmares.

    About: memory · guilt · war

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  14. Santiago, Italia 2018

    Documentary

    After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the regime, and extradited many of them to Italy.

    The sides of Santiago, Italia

    • The 1973 coup against Allende in Chile
    • An embassy that took in people fleeing the regime
    • Refugees remembering their new life in Italy

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand what happened in Santiago in 1973.
    • you like hearing the people who lived it tell it themselves.
    • you're drawn to how ordinary diplomats stood up to a dictatorship.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for a film in Italian and Spanish.
    • you can't sit through testimonies of arrests and torture.

    About: exile · dictatorship · solidarity

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  15. The Summit 2013

    Documentary

    The Summit is a 2012 documentary film about the 2008 K2 disaster directed by Nick Ryan. It combines documentary footage with dramatized recreations of the events of the 2008 K2 disaster. On the way to and from the summit, eleven climbers died during a short time span creating one of the worst catastophes in climbing history. Much of the documentary footage was captured by Swedish mountaineer Fredrik Sträng. Sträng was planning to do a Documentary which was aborted due to the fact that he did not reach the summit. The footage was still valuable to help solving what really did happen since all the climbers had different stories about what happened.

    The sides of The Summit

    • The 2008 K2 disaster
    • Real expedition footage mixed with reconstructions
    • Climbers caught in the death zone

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand what it takes to stay alive near the top of K2.
    • you like a real climb where every hour high on the mountain counts.
    • you want a sober account of what really happened to the climbers.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a story where real climbers die on a mountain.
    • you need one clear answer, and the survivors' stories don't agree.

    About: ambition · survival · grief

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  16. Verano de 1945. La aviación estadounidense somete las ciudades japonesas a continuos ataques aéreos. En uno de ellos, una incursión con bombas incendiarias convierte la ciudad de Kōbe en un infierno humeante, para los dos protagonistas (Seita, de 14 años, y su hermanita Setsuko, de 5). El joven Seita y su pequeña hermana Setsuko son hijos de un oficial de la marina japonesa. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ambos viven con su madre, pero un día, tras un bombardeo, ellos se retrasan y no consiguen llegar al búnker donde ella los espera.

    Las caras de La tumba de las luciérnagas

    • Dos niños huérfanos en el Japón en guerra
    • Un refugio antiaéreo abandonado como hogar
    • Una lata de caramelos de frutas

    Buena para ti si

    • quieres una película que te deje llorando.
    • quieres ver la guerra desde el lado de los civiles japoneses.
    • te gusta un hermano que intenta mantener con vida a su hermana pequeña.

    Mala para ti si

    • necesitas algo de esperanza al final.
    • no soportas ver a unos niños pasar hambre.
    • no ves anime.

    Temas: la guerra · la infancia · el orgullo · el hambre

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  17. British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.

    The sides of Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

    • Nick Broomfield's interviews with Aileen Wuornos
    • Her last days on death row
    • Her childhood in Michigan

    Good for you if

    • you want a real person behind the headlines.
    • you like a portrait of someone you can't easily judge.
    • you can take a story that ends in an execution.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take childhood abuse and mental illness on screen.
    • you want a gentle evening, and this is a woman on death row.

    About: the death penalty · trauma · madness

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  18. 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

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  19. 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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  20. OceanGate's Titan tourist submersible imploded in 2023 on a deep-sea dive to the Titanic. This documentary details how a bold vision ended in tragedy.

    The sides of Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster

    • A tourist submersible diving to the Titanic
    • Warnings from engineers and former staff
    • Five people lost in 2023

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand what happened to the Titan submersible.
    • you like watching a disaster build step by step.
    • you want the engineering and the safety warnings explained.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a film about real people who died.
    • you need some hope in a story you know ends in tragedy.

    About: ambition · risk · responsibility

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