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  1. New York, 1980. Three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives – and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.

    The sides of Three Identical Strangers

    • Three 19-year-olds who discover they are triplets
    • Talk shows and fame in 1980s New York
    • A secret study behind their adoption

    Good for you if

    • you like a happy story that turns dark halfway through.
    • you like hearing the brothers tell it themselves.
    • you want to think about what we owe to genes and what we owe to parents.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take mental illness in a real family, told by the people who lived it.
    • you want the joyful reunion to stay joyful.

    About: identity · nature and nurture · brotherhood

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  2. 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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  3. Blackfish 2013

    Documentary

    Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.

    The sides of Blackfish

    • Tilikum, a captive killer whale
    • Former SeaWorld trainers telling what they saw
    • The death of a trainer during a show

    Good for you if

    • you like former trainers admitting what they didn't want to see.
    • you care about how intelligent animals live.
    • you like seeing a company's story taken apart piece by piece.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real attacks and a real death described in detail.
    • you want a light animal film. This one leaves you angry.

    About: captivity · guilt · profit

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  4. 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

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  5. 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

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  6. Leaving Neverland 2019

    Documentary

    Explores the experiences of James Safechuck and Wade Robson, who were both befriended and sexually abused by singer Michael Jackson, and the complicated feelings that led them both to confront their experiences.

    The sides of Leaving Neverland

    • Two men recounting their childhood with Michael Jackson
    • Their mothers and wives on camera
    • Years of silence before speaking out

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear two men tell their own story in their own words.
    • you like long, patient interviews with the people involved and their families.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a film about the sexual abuse of children.
    • four hours over two parts is too much for you.

    About: abuse · memory · family · fame

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  7. 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

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  8. One Child Nation 2019

    Documentary

    Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and destroyed — countless lives in China.

    The sides of One Child Nation

    • China's one child policy
    • A new mother going back to her village
    • Officials, midwives and families speaking

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear the people who lived the policy, in their own words.
    • you want to see how a state reaches into every family.
    • you like a filmmaker questioning her own parents and relatives.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't face forced abortions and abandoned babies, even in testimony.
    • you need some hope by the end of a documentary.

    About: state control · silence · motherhood · guilt

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  9. This four-part documentary series follows the story of India Oxenberg's perilous journey through the dark and criminal world of the notorious self-help-group-turned-sex-slave-cult NXIVM.

    The sides of Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult

    • A young actress drawn into NXIVM
    • A self-help group that became a cult
    • A mother fighting to get her daughter out

    Good for you if

    • you want India Oxenberg telling her own story.
    • you want to understand how a group took control of its members.
    • you're moved by a mother who refuses to give up on her daughter.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch accounts of manipulation and sexual abuse.
    • you want the whole cult told through many former members. This one stays close to India and her mother.

    About: manipulation · control · recovery

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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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

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  13. 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

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  14. This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.

    The sides of The Devil and Daniel Johnston

    • Daniel Johnston's home tapes and drawings
    • A songwriter living with manic depression
    • Parents caring for their adult son

    Good for you if

    • you love raw songs recorded on cassette in a basement.
    • you want a close portrait of one fragile, gifted man.
    • you like a life told through its own tapes and home movies.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch mental illness take hold of someone up close.
    • you want a feel-good music story, and you get a hard and tender one.

    About: mental illness · art · family

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  15. Chasing Coral 2017

    Documentary

    Coral reefs are the nursery for all life in the oceans, a remarkable ecosystem that sustains us. Yet with carbon emissions warming the seas, a phenomenon called "coral bleaching" -- a sign of mass coral death -- has been accelerating around the world, and the public has no idea of the scale or implication of the catastrophe silently raging underwater.

    The sides of Chasing Coral

    • Divers filming reefs as they turn white
    • Underwater time lapse cameras
    • A coral enthusiast and his team of scientists

    Good for you if

    • you like the ocean filmed up close, fish and coral in full colour.
    • you like time lapse cameras catching a reef bleaching over weeks.
    • you like a team of divers and scientists racing to document a disaster.

    Bad for you if

    • you need some hope, and watching reefs die is hard for you.
    • you want something light for the evening.

    About: climate change · the ocean · loss

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  16. 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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  17. Bully 2011

    Documentary

    This year, over 5 million American kids will be bullied at school, online, on the bus, at home, through their cell phones and on the streets of their towns, making it the most common form of violence young people in this country experience. The Bully Project is the first feature documentary film to show how we've all been affected by bullying, whether we've been victims, perpetrators or stood silent witness. The world we inhabit as adults begins on the playground. The Bully Project opens on the first day of school. For the more than 5 million kids who'll be bullied this year in the United States, it's a day filled with more anxiety and foreboding than excitement. As the sun rises and school busses across the country overflow with backpacks, brass instruments and the rambunctious sounds of raging hormones, this is a ride into the unknown.

    The sides of Bully

    • Kids bullied at school and on the bus
    • Parents who lost sons to suicide
    • Schools that look away

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear bullied kids and their parents in their own words.
    • you're ready to be moved by families speaking after a loss.
    • you care about what school really feels like for kids who don't fit in.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take a film about children who took their own lives.
    • you need a film that offers more answers than pain.

    About: bullying · grief · childhood

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  18. Hearts and Minds 1974

    Documentary

    Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.

    The sides of Hearts and Minds

    • Interviews with generals and veterans
    • Vietnamese villagers after the bombing
    • The Vietnam War filmed while it was still going on

    Good for you if

    • you want to see what the Vietnam War did to the people on both sides.
    • you like a film made in the middle of the events it shows.
    • you like seeing official speeches set against what happened on the ground.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real footage of napalm and wounded civilians.
    • you find seventies footage dated.

    About: war · propaganda · guilt

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  19. Hacia rutas salvajes 2007

    Película

    A principios de los años noventa, el joven e idealista Christopher McCandless adopta el nombre de Alexander Supertramp, deja sus posesiones y sus ahorros a la beneficencia y abandona el mundo civilizado con rumbo a la salvaje Alaska para entrar en contacto con la Naturaleza y descubrir el verdadero sentido de la vida. Adaptación del best-seller de Jon Krakauer, basado en las notas del diario de McCandless.

    Las caras de Hacia rutas salvajes

    • Un graduado que lo regala todo
    • Un viaje por carretera por Estados Unidos
    • Un autobús abandonado en Alaska

    Buena para ti si

    • te gustan los grandes paisajes y la vida salvaje.
    • te gusta un joven en busca de sentido.
    • te gusta la historia real de un graduado que regaló sus ahorros y viajó a dedo hasta Alaska.

    Mala para ti si

    • dos horas y media es demasiado para tu noche.
    • no soportas ver sufrir a unos padres. Su familia espera dos años sin noticias suyas.

    Temas: la libertad · la familia · la naturaleza

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  20. 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

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