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The Central Park Five 2012
Documentary
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, this is the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.
The sides of The Central Park Five
- Five Harlem teenagers arrested in 1989
- Confessions taken after hours of questioning
- Years in prison before the real attacker confesses
Good for you if
- you want the Central Park case told carefully, with the facts.
- you want to see how police, press and public rushed to judgment.
- you want the five men to tell it in their own words.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit with a rape case and teenagers sent to prison.
- you need some hope, and stolen years are hard for you to watch.
About: injustice · racism · the press
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
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson 2017
Documentary
Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the days of Stonewall, who along with fellow trans icon Sylvia Rivera, founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), a trans activist group based in the heart of NYC’s Greenwich Village. Her death in 1992 was declared a suicide by the NYPD, but friends never accepted that version of events. Structured as a whodunit, with activist Victoria Cruz cast as detective and audience surrogate, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson celebrates the lasting political legacy of Johnson, while seeking to finally solve the mystery of her unexplained death.
The sides of The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
- A trans activist found dead in the Hudson in 1992
- Victoria Cruz reopening the case
- Stonewall and the birth of S.T.A.R.
Good for you if
- you want to know who Marsha P. Johnson was beyond the Stonewall legend.
- you like a cold case reopened by an activist who won't let it go.
- you care about New York's gay and trans history since Stonewall.
Bad for you if
- you can't face a death ruled a suicide and the violence against trans women around it.
- you need a case that ends with an answer.
About: trans rights · justice · memory
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
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
Pray Away 2021
Documentary
In the 1970s, five men struggling with being gay in their Evangelical church started a bible study to help each other leave the "homosexual lifestyle." They quickly received over 25,000 letters from people asking for help and formalized as Exodus International, the largest and most controversial conversion therapy organization in the world. But leaders struggled with a secret: their own “same-sex attractions” never went away. After years as Christian superstars in the religious right, many of these men and women have come out as LGBTQ, disavowing the very movement they helped start. Focusing on the dramatic journeys of former conversion therapy leaders, current members, and a survivor, PRAY AWAY chronicles the “ex gay" movement’s rise to power, persistent influence, and the profound harm it causes.
The sides of Pray Away
- Former leaders of the ex-gay movement
- Exodus International and its letters
- A survivor of conversion therapy
Good for you if
- you want the true story of conversion therapy told by those who led it.
- you like seeing how a church movement gained political weight.
- you like hearing people face the harm they caused.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch stories of shame, self-harm and religious pressure.
- you roll your eyes at tearful, heartfelt confessions to camera.
About: faith · identity · guilt
Orange Is the New Black 2013
Series
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
The sides of Orange Is the New Black
- A New Yorker sent to a women's prison
- Inmates with a backstory each
- Prison friendships, gangs and guards
Good for you if
- you like a show where every inmate at Litchfield gets her own story.
- you like laughing at prison life while it hurts.
- you want women who become each other's family behind bars.
Bad for you if
- seven seasons is too much for you.
- you'd rather not watch frequent sex scenes, or you watch with others.
- you can't take deaths, addiction and abuse inside a prison.
About: prison · sisterhood · second chances
Disclosure 2020
Documentary
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
The sides of Disclosure
- Trans actors and writers talking about the screen
- Decades of film and TV clips
- How Hollywood shaped the way people see trans lives
Good for you if
- you want trans people telling their own story of growing up with Hollywood.
- you like tracing a century of film and TV images.
- you like being moved by people recalling what the screen did to them.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through cruel jokes and painful scenes being replayed.
- you'd rather keep your distance from heartfelt, personal testimony.
About: representation · identity · media
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
Dark Days 2000
Documentary
A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.
The sides of Dark Days
- People living in the train tunnels under New York
- Shacks built in the dark beside the tracks
- A crew made up of the tunnel residents
Good for you if
- you want to see how people really lived under Manhattan.
- you like hearing people tell their own lives with humour and honesty.
- you like a DJ Shadow score under grainy images.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch addiction and poverty up close.
- you find grainy black and white footage hard to watch.
About: homelessness · dignity · community
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
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
Harlan County U.S.A. 1976
Documentary
A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
The sides of Harlan County U.S.A.
- Coal miners on strike in Kentucky
- Wives and mothers on the picket line
- Armed strikebreakers at dawn
Good for you if
- you want to stand on a real picket line for thirteen months.
- you like seeing a mining town take on a corporation.
- you like the union songs that run through it.
Bad for you if
- you find 1970s footage dated.
- you can't watch a community living with guns on the picket line and miners sick with black lung.
About: labour · solidarity · class
Minding the Gap 2018
Documentary
Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.
The sides of Minding the Gap
- Skateboarders filming each other in Rockford, Illinois
- A director turning the camera on his own family
- A young father struggling with his temper
Good for you if
- you like a friendship followed over more than a decade of skate footage.
- you want to watch boys become men, with all the mistakes that brings.
- you like a documentary where the filmmaker is part of the story.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch frank talk about domestic abuse and violent fathers.
- you came for skateboarding tricks and need more of them.
About: growing up · domestic violence · friendship · fatherhood
The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness 2021
Documentary
The Son of Sam case grew into a lifelong obsession for journalist Maury Terry, who became convinced that the murders were linked to a Satanic cult.
The sides of The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness
- A journalist obsessed with the Son of Sam case
- A theory of a Satanic cult
- 1970s New York in fear
Good for you if
- you like 1970s New York, its tabloids and its summer of fear.
- you like following a theory that the killer did not act alone.
- you like a portrait of a man consumed by his own investigation.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not revisit the murders of real young people.
- you need a theory backed by proof, not obsession.
About: obsession · truth · fear
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 Last Days 1998
Documentary
This Oscar-winning documentary recounts the harrowing stories of five Hungarian Jews who endured the horrors of the Holocaust and Hitler's reign.
The sides of The Last Days
- Five Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust
- Survivors returning to their childhood homes
- Memories of the camps
Good for you if
- you want to hear survivors tell their own stories.
- you want to understand the Holocaust in Hungary through five lives.
- you're ready to be moved to tears by people going back to where it happened.
Bad for you if
- you can't bear firsthand accounts of the camps.
- you can't look at archive footage of bodies in the camps.
About: memory · survival · loss
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
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
Amend: The Fight for America 2021
Documentary
Will Smith hosts this look at the evolving, often lethal, fight for equal rights in America through the lens of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment.
The sides of Amend: The Fight for America
- Will Smith hosting a history of the 14th Amendment
- Actors reading the words of real historical figures
- Equal rights from emancipation to marriage equality
Good for you if
- you like the real people who fought for equal rights in America.
- you want to understand one line of the Constitution across 150 years.
- you like seeing who has been counted as equal, and who decided.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch the lynchings and violence of that fight.
- you roll your eyes at celebrity hosts and stirring speeches.
About: equality · citizenship · racism