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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
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
Saving Mr. Banks 2013
Film
Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
The sides of Saving Mr. Banks
- P.L. Travers fighting Walt Disney over Mary Poppins
- A childhood in Queensland with a drinking father
- Songwriters at a piano in 1960s Los Angeles
Good for you if
- you like Emma Thompson's prickly author slowly letting people in.
- you like a film that reveals the father behind Mr. Banks and makes you cry.
- you like the true story behind a film you grew up with.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at Disney telling a heartwarming story about Disney.
- you can't watch a little girl growing up with an alcoholic father.
About: childhood · grief · fathers · creation
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
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
Sly 2023
Documentary
His love of film began as an escape from a rocky childhood. From underdog to Hollywood legend, Sylvester Stallone tells his story in this documentary.
The sides of Sly
- Sylvester Stallone telling his own story
- A rough childhood and a hard father
- Rocky written by an unknown actor
Good for you if
- you like hearing a movie star tell his life in his own words.
- you like the man behind Rocky and Rambo more than the muscles.
- you want to see how a hard father shaped his films.
Bad for you if
- you want the fights from his films, not an hour and a half of talking.
- you roll your eyes at an underdog story told by the underdog himself.
About: ambition · fathers · fame
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
En busca de la felicidad 2006
Película
Chris Gardner es un vendedor brillante y con talento, pero su empleo no le permite cubrir sus necesidades más básicas. Tanto es así que acaban echándolo, junto a su hijo de cinco años, de su piso de San Francisco y no tienen ningún lugar al que ir. Cuando Gardner consigue hacer unas prácticas en una prestigiosa correduría de bolsa, los dos protagonistas tendrán que afrontar muchas adversidades parar hacer realidad su sueño de una vida mejor. Basada en hechos reales.
Las caras de En busca de la felicidad
- Un padre y su hijo sin dónde dormir
- Unas prácticas sin sueldo
- Un cubo de Rubik en un taxi
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una historia de lucha con un final conmovedor.
- te gusta ver en pantalla a un padre y un hijo de verdad.
- te gusta una historia sincera sobre no rendirse nunca.
Mala para ti si
- vivir en la calle con un niño es demasiado duro para ti esta noche.
- quieres reírte con Will Smith. Aquí lo hace en serio, hasta una noche en el baño del metro.
Temas: la perseverancia · la paternidad · la pobreza
John Candy: I Like Me 2025
Documentary
Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-before-seen archival footage, imagery, and interviews.
The sides of John Candy: I Like Me
- John Candy's life and comedy
- Friends and family remembering him
- Archive footage never seen before
Good for you if
- you grew up laughing at John Candy in Uncle Buck or Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
- you can be moved by friends talking about a man they still miss.
- you like hearing a real life told by the people who were there.
Bad for you if
- you can't face grief and an early death on screen.
- you roll your eyes at warm tributes from famous friends.
About: kindness · grief · fame
Quincy 2018
Documentary
An intimate look into the life of icon Quincy Jones. A unique force in music and popular culture for 70 years, Jones has transcended racial and cultural boundaries; his story is inextricably woven into the fabric of America. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores. He moved easily between musical genres, producing major pop hits of the early 1960s and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations in the same time period.
The sides of Quincy
- Quincy Jones looking back on seventy years of music
- Jazz bands, pop records and film scores
- A portrait co-directed by his daughter Rashida Jones
Good for you if
- you like hearing how jazz, pop and film music passed through one man.
- you like a famous life told up close, health scares included.
- you like American history seen from inside the recording studio.
Bad for you if
- two hours of one life is too much for you.
- you roll your eyes at a loving tribute made by the subject's own daughter.
About: music · legacy · race in America · fatherhood
Andre the Giant 2018
Documentary
An ambitious and wide-ranging documentary exploring Andre’s upbringing in France, his celebrated career in WWE, and his forays in the entertainment world.
The sides of Andre the Giant
- A giant from a farm in France
- Wrestling legends telling his story
- A body that never stopped growing
Good for you if
- you like the life of André Roussimoff, from a French farm to the WWE.
- you like wrestling told by Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair.
- you can be moved by a giant who never fit in the world.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a man's body slowly failing him.
- you want full matches more than interviews.
About: loneliness · fame · the body
He Named Me Malala 2015
Documentary
A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education and the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.
The sides of He Named Me Malala
- Malala Yousafzai and her father Ziauddin
- A Taliban gunman on a school bus
- Hand-painted animated flashbacks
Good for you if
- you like a girl's speech about school at the United Nations.
- you want to know the teenager behind the Nobel Peace Prize.
- you like a father and daughter who share the same fight.
Bad for you if
- you can't take the story of a child shot for going to school.
- you don't like animated scenes in your documentaries.
About: education · courage · fatherhood
Dick Johnson Is Dead 2020
Documentary
With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.
The sides of Dick Johnson Is Dead
- A daughter filming her father's last years
- Staged deaths with stunt doubles
- A father living with dementia
Good for you if
- you can laugh at a daughter staging her father's death again and again.
- you want to be moved by a father and daughter saying goodbye.
- you like a close, playful bond between a father and his daughter.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a parent's memory fade right now.
- you'd rather a documentary stay plain, without staged scenes of heaven.
About: death · memory · father and daughter
Pavarotti 2019
Documentary
Featuring never-before-seen footage, concert performances and intimate interviews, filmmaker Ron Howard examines the life and career of famed opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti.
The sides of Pavarotti
- Luciano Pavarotti from Modena to the world's stages
- Concert footage and home videos
- The Three Tenors and his last years
Good for you if
- you want to hear Pavarotti sing, at full voice, again and again.
- you like being moved by a great voice and the life behind it.
- you like an intimate portrait of a real artist by Ron Howard.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at a warm, admiring tribute.
- you won't read subtitles. His wives and daughters speak in Italian.
About: fame · love · the voice · family
Listen to Me Marlon 2015
Documentary
With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.
The sides of Listen to Me Marlon
- Marlon Brando's private audio tapes
- A digital head of Brando speaking
- His life told in his own voice
Good for you if
- you like hearing Marlon Brando tell his own life, with no interviews.
- you like a portrait of a troubled man beyond his famous roles.
- you love clips of A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that moves, not a voice over archives.
- you can't take the family tragedies that marked his later life.
About: fame · acting · solitude
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey 2011
Documentary
Beloved by children of all ages around the world, Elmo is an international icon. Few people know his creator, Kevin Clash, who dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson. Displaying his creativity and talent at a young age, Kevin ultimately found a home on Sesame Street. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this documentary includes rare archival footage, interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O’Donnell, Cheryl Henson, Joan Ganz Cooney and others and offers a behind-the-scenes look at Sesame Street and the Jim Henson Workshop.
The sides of Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
- Kevin Clash, the man inside Elmo
- A Baltimore teenager building puppets at home
- Behind the scenes of Sesame Street
Good for you if
- you like the true story of the puppeteer behind Elmo.
- you want a warm look behind the scenes of Sesame Street.
- you can be moved by a boy who gets to work with his idol Jim Henson.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at a feel-good tale of a dream come true.
- you need suspense to stay with a film.
About: dreams · craft · childhood
The Captains 2011
Documentary
The Captains is a feature-length documentary film written and directed by William Shatner. The film follows Shatner as he interviews the other actors who have portrayed starship captains in the Star Trek franchise.
The sides of The Captains
- William Shatner interviewing the other Star Trek captains
- Actors talking about the roles that defined them
- Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew and Chris Pine on camera
Good for you if
- you like hearing actors talk honestly about their careers.
- you want to know the people behind Kirk, Picard and Janeway.
- you grew up on the bridge of the Enterprise.
Bad for you if
- you want starships and space battles. This is actors talking in rooms.
- you roll your eyes when actors open up about their feelings.
About: fame · legacy · fandom
Undertaker: The Last Ride 2020
Documentary
The anticipated WWE Network docuseries will look back on The Undertaker’s storied WWE career and place a focus on the ongoing challenges the wrestling legend appears to have with a career beginning to near it's end.
The sides of Undertaker: The Last Ride
- A wrestling legend near the end of his career
- Mark Calaway behind The Undertaker character
- Matches he can't stop chasing
Good for you if
- you grew up watching The Undertaker in the ring.
- you like seeing the man behind a character he kept up for decades.
- you can be moved by a fighter whose body won't let him wrestle the way it used to.
Bad for you if
- you want full matches rather than interviews and backstage talk.
- you roll your eyes at big men getting emotional about their legacy.
About: aging · legacy · the body
Beckham 2023
Documentary
With never-before-seen footage, this docuseries follows David Beckham's meteoric rise from humble beginnings to global football stardom.
The sides of Beckham
- A boy from East London at Manchester United
- A red card at the 1998 World Cup
- A marriage to a Spice Girl
Good for you if
- you like football from the inside, Old Trafford to Madrid.
- you like a famous man looking back on the years the press turned on him.
- you like David and Victoria telling how they met and fell for each other.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a man relive the hate and threats he got after 1998.
- four long episodes on one footballer's life is too much for you.
About: fame · ambition · marriage