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9/11 2002
Documentary
An on-the-scene documentary following the events of September 11, 2001 from an insider's view, through the lens of two French filmmakers who simply set out to make a movie about a rookie NYC fireman and ended up filming the tragic event that changed our lives forever.
The sides of 9/11
- Two French brothers filming a New York firehouse
- A rookie firefighter
- The morning of September 11, 2001
Good for you if
- you want to see that morning as the firefighters lived it.
- you like getting to know the men of one firehouse before the day changes everything.
Bad for you if
- you can't relive that day, even years later.
- you need some hope, and this film stays close to the loss.
About: courage · grief · brotherhood
Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak 2020
Documentary
In this docuseries, meet the heroes on the front lines of the battle against influenza and learn about their efforts to stop the next global outbreak.
The sides of Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak
- Researchers working on a universal flu vaccine
- Doctors facing flu outbreaks around the world
- A series released just before COVID-19
Good for you if
- you like meeting the real people who work to stop the next outbreak.
- you like following doctors and researchers through long days at work and at home.
Bad for you if
- you lose track when a series keeps cutting between doctors and researchers in several countries.
- you roll your eyes at heroic portraits of people at work.
About: public health · science · dedication
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
Dallas Buyers Club 2013
Película
Basada en la vida real de Ron Woodroof, un cowboy de rodeo texano, drogadicto y mujeriego, al que en 1986 le diagnosticaron SIDA y le pronosticaron un mes de vida. Empezó entonces a tomar AZT, el único medicamento disponible en aquella época para luchar contra tan terrible enfermedad
Las caras de Dallas Buyers Club
- Un vaquero de rodeo diagnosticado con VIH
- Medicinas de contrabando a través de fronteras
- Un socio improbable
Buena para ti si
- te gustan los actores transformados en cuerpo y alma.
- te gustan las historias reales de gente que luchó contra el sistema.
- te gusta un hombre lleno de prejuicios que cambia.
Mala para ti si
- la enfermedad y la muerte por sida son demasiado pesadas para ti esta noche.
- prefieres evitar las escenas de sexo explícitas, o la estás viendo en familia.
Temas: la supervivencia · los prejuicios · el desafío
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
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari 2022
Documentary
A close examination of the Whakaari / White Island volcanic eruption of 2019 in which 22 lives were lost, the film viscerally recounts a day when ordinary people were called upon to do extraordinary things, placing this tragic event within the larger context of nature, resilience, and the power of our shared humanity.
The sides of The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
- The 2019 eruption on Whakaari White Island
- Tourists caught on the crater floor
- Pilots and boat crews who went back in
Good for you if
- you want survivors and rescuers telling it in their own words.
- you like following a rescue minute by minute.
- you like stories of ordinary people who refused to leave others behind.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a film about real deaths and severe burns.
- you want something light for your evening.
About: courage · a natural disaster · grief
One of Us 2017
Documentary
Penetrating the insular world of New York's Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation.
The sides of One of Us
- Three people leaving a Hasidic community in New York
- A mother fighting to keep her children
- A closed world seen from the inside
Good for you if
- you want real people telling what leaving cost them.
- you like following three lives over time, up close.
- you want to follow a mother fighting her own community to keep her children.
Bad for you if
- you can't take stories of abuse and addiction.
- you want a hopeful story with a clean ending.
About: freedom · faith · belonging · family
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
Take Care of Maya 2023
Documentary
When Jack and Beata Kowalski are wrongfully accused of child abuse after their 10-year-old daughter Maya visits the ER, a nightmare unfolds.
The sides of Take Care of Maya
- A sick ten-year-old taken into state custody
- Parents accused of abuse after a hospital visit
- A family suing the hospital
Good for you if
- you want to follow a family fighting to get their daughter back.
- you want to see how a hospital and child services can overrule parents.
- you're ready to be moved by what the Kowalskis went through.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a sick child kept away from her parents for months.
- you need some hope to hold on to in a true story.
About: false accusations · motherhood · institutions
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
For Sama 2019
Documentary
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
The sides of For Sama
- A young mother filming for her baby daughter
- A hospital in Aleppo under bombing
- The choice to stay or to leave
Good for you if
- you want a war told from inside by the woman living it.
- you like a love letter from a mother to her child.
- you want to understand what years of siege did to Aleppo.
Bad for you if
- you can't bear to see wounded children and grieving families.
- you won't read subtitles for a film mostly in Arabic.
About: motherhood · freedom · loss · hope
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
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
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
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin 2024
Documentary
The secret life of a young World of Warcraft gamer is vividly reimagined when his online friends contact his family after his death.
The sides of The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
- A young man with a muscle wasting disease
- His life online in World of Warcraft
- Parents discovering his friends after his death
Good for you if
- you're ready to cry over a life that was richer than his parents knew.
- you believe friends made online can be real friends.
- you want a true story pieced together from his game logs and chat messages.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a Norwegian film.
- you can't face a young man's illness and death.
About: friendship · disability · grief
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
Life Itself 2014
Documentary
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.
The sides of Life Itself
- Roger Ebert in his last months
- The Siskel and Ebert rivalry
- Chaz Ebert at his side
Good for you if
- you want the life of Roger Ebert, from Chicago newsrooms to television.
- you like being moved by a man facing the end with humor.
- you like a rivalry with Gene Siskel that turned into deep affection.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a long illness and its hospital scenes up close.
- you need a story that moves faster than a life told in interviews.
About: mortality · love · cinema
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
Tupac: Resurrection 2003
Documentary
Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most beloved, revolutionary, and volatile hip-hop MCs of all time.
The sides of Tupac: Resurrection
- Tupac Shakur telling his own life
- Home movies, photos and his poems
- A rapper's rise and his death at 25
Good for you if
- you want Tupac's life in his own voice, from his own interviews.
- you love 90s hip-hop and the man behind its biggest songs.
- you like a portrait full of contradictions: poet, rebel, son.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not relive a young life cut short by gunfire.
- you want an inquiry into who killed him. The film is about his life, not the case.
About: fame · violence · mothers and sons
There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane 2011
Documentary
Filmmaker Liz Garbus investigates the mysterious tragedy of Diane Schuler in an effort to understand what went wrong.
The sides of There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
- A wrong-way crash on a New York parkway
- A family that rejects the toxicology report
- A crash that killed eight people
Good for you if
- you want to understand what happened in that car.
- you like a careful look at a real tragedy and the people left behind.
- you can live with questions the evidence never settles.
Bad for you if
- you can't take the death of children and a grieving family on screen.
- you want an evening that leaves you feeling light.
About: grief · denial · addiction