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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 Fog of War 2003
Documentary
Former corporate whiz kid Robert McNamara was the controversial Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, during the height of the Vietnam War. Augmented by archival footage and cabinet conversation recordings, Errol Morris gives the conflicted McNamara a platform on which he attempts to confront his and the U.S. government's actions in Southeast Asia in light of the horrors of modern warfare, the end of ideology and the punitive judgment of history.
The sides of The Fog of War
- Robert McNamara looking back at his life
- The Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam
- White House recordings
Good for you if
- you like hearing a man in power explain his own decisions.
- you want the Cold War told from inside the room.
- you want to think about how wars are decided and why they go wrong.
Bad for you if
- you want a clear verdict on McNamara, and the film leaves you to judge him.
- you need momentum, and this is one man talking to the camera.
About: responsibility · war · memory · power
Pelé 2021
Documentary
Against the backdrop of a turbulent era in Brazil, this documentary captures Pelé's extraordinary path from breakthrough talent to national hero. Mixing rare archival footage and exclusive interviews, this documentary celebrates the legendary Brazilian footballer who personified football as art.
The sides of Pelé
- Pelé at the World Cups from 1958 to 1970
- Brazil under military dictatorship
- Pelé looking back late in life
Good for you if
- you like archive footage of Pelé winning three World Cups.
- you like hearing Pelé tell his own story late in life.
- you like seeing football tangled with Brazil's turbulent years.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles in Portuguese.
- you'd rather keep politics out of a football story.
About: fame · pressure · national pride
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
Hitler: A Career 1977
Documentary
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
The sides of Hitler: A Career
- Archive footage of Hitler's rise
- Crowds at Nazi rallies
- The Weimar Republic sliding into dictatorship
Good for you if
- you want to understand how the Weimar Republic fell to the Nazis.
- you're interested in how crowds are swayed by propaganda.
- you want the story told through footage from the time.
Bad for you if
- two and a half hours of archive footage is too much for you.
- you can't sit through so many images of Nazi crowds and war.
About: propaganda · mass psychology · dictatorship
When We Were Kings 1996
Documentary
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.
The sides of When We Were Kings
- Muhammad Ali against George Foreman in Zaire
- A music festival with James Brown and B.B. King
- Don King and a dictator's money
Good for you if
- you like the Rumble in the Jungle and Ali's rope-a-dope.
- you like Muhammad Ali talking, joking and believing he can win.
- you like soul and African music filling a documentary.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch men punching each other.
- you find 1970s archive footage dated.
About: pride · black identity · comeback
Best of Enemies 2015
Documentary
A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers, and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, "What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?"
The sides of Best of Enemies
- Gore Vidal against William F. Buckley Jr.
- Televised debates during the 1968 conventions
- A night when the insults went live
Good for you if
- you love two brilliant speakers trading cutting lines.
- you like politics as a duel, the liberal Vidal against the conservative Buckley.
- you're drawn to 1968 America, Miami and Chicago.
Bad for you if
- you need something to look at, not archive footage of two men seated in a TV studio.
- you find grainy sixties TV footage dated.
About: politics · television · rivalry
Get Me Roger Stone 2017
Documentary
From his days of testifying at the Watergate hearings to advising recent presidential candidate Donald Trump, Roger Stone has long offended people on both sides of the political fence as a force in conservative America. Outspoken author, pundit, ahead of his time election strategist, this is his story.
The sides of Get Me Roger Stone
- Roger Stone from Nixon to Trump
- A strategist proud of his dirty tricks
- His own rules for politics
Good for you if
- you like spending time with someone who's proud of his dirty tricks.
- you want Roger Stone explaining himself in his own words.
- you like tracing American campaigns from Watergate to 2016.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not spend an evening on campaign politics.
- you can't take a film made almost entirely of interviews and pundits talking.
About: power · image · politics

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations 1938
Documentary
Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love letter to the human body and spirit, culminating with the marathon, where Jesse Owens became the first track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympics.
The sides of Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
- The 1936 Berlin Olympics
- Jesse Owens winning four gold medals
- A film made for the Nazi regime
Good for you if
- you like Leni Riefenstahl's camera angles that shaped how sport is filmed.
- you like watching athletes in motion, event after event.
- you want to see how the Nazi regime staged the 1936 Games.
Bad for you if
- you find black and white films from the 1930s dated.
- you won't read subtitles for German narration.
About: propaganda · the body · competition
O.J.: Made in America 2016
Documentary
A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.
The sides of O.J.: Made in America
- A football star's rise in the 1960s and 70s
- Los Angeles, race and the LAPD
- The 1995 murder trial and what came after
Good for you if
- you want to understand a trial through the city around it.
- you like a true crime story told with care for the facts.
- you want O.J. the running back at USC and Buffalo, long before the trial.
Bad for you if
- nearly eight hours is too much for you.
- you can't look at real crime scene photos of two victims.
About: race · fame · justice · America
The Gatekeepers 2012
Documentary
In an unprecedented and candid series of interviews, six former heads of the Shin Bet — Israel's intelligence and security agency — speak about their role in Israel's decades-long counterterrorism campaign, discussing their controversial methods and whether the ends ultimately justify the means.
The sides of The Gatekeepers
- Six former heads of the Shin Bet
- Interviews about decades of counterterrorism
- Archive footage of attacks and the occupation
Good for you if
- you want to hear spy chiefs speak frankly about what they did.
- you're drawn to questions of means and ends at the top of a state.
- you like long, candid interviews with men who rarely talk.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles.
- you can't watch footage of attacks and their aftermath.
About: security · conscience · conflict
The Times of Harvey Milk 1984
Documentary
Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.
The sides of The Times of Harvey Milk
- Harvey Milk's rise in San Francisco politics
- One of the first openly gay elected officials in the US
- The 1978 assassination and the city's response
Good for you if
- you want the real Harvey Milk, in the footage of his time.
- you like seeing 1970s San Francisco and its fight for gay rights.
- you can be moved by a candlelight march for a murdered man.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not sit through a real assassination and its grief.
- you find 1980s documentary footage dated.
About: gay rights · political courage · grief
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

The Untold History Of The United States 2012
Documentary
Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.
The sides of The Untold History Of The United States
- Oliver Stone narrating American history
- From the Second World War to the present
- Presidents, bombs and the Cold War
Good for you if
- you like a sweeping run through the American century.
- you like asking who really made the big decisions.
- you like archive footage of real leaders and real events.
Bad for you if
- you find almost ten hours too much for one documentary.
- you'd rather not spend hours on wars and bombs.
About: empire · power · memory

Hugo Chávez, El Comandante 2017
Documentary
The life of Hugo Chavez; from childhood, his arrival to power, confrontations, and loves to his last days as president.
The sides of Hugo Chávez, El Comandante
- A soldier from the Venezuelan plains who becomes president
- A failed coup and a prison cell
- Years of speeches and oil money
Good for you if
- you want the life of a real president, from childhood to his last days.
- you like watching how a man takes a country and keeps it.
- you want the Venezuela of the nineties and the two thousands up close.
Bad for you if
- you want suspense, and you already know how this life ends.
About: power · ambition · a country
The Unknown Known 2013
Documentary
Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The sides of The Unknown Known
- Donald Rumsfeld facing the camera
- His thousands of office memos
- The road to the Iraq war
Good for you if
- you want to hear a man who ran the Pentagon explain himself.
- you like Errol Morris questioning someone who plays with words.
- you're fine ending a film without a clear answer about the man.
Bad for you if
- you need more than one man talking for an hour and a half.
- you'd rather not revisit the Iraq war through the man who planned it.
About: power · language · responsibility
The Martha Mitchell Effect 2022
Documentary
She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: a Republican wife who was discredited by Nixon to keep her quiet. Until now.
The sides of The Martha Mitchell Effect
- The wife of Nixon's attorney general
- Late-night phone calls to reporters
- A campaign to call her crazy
Good for you if
- you like seeing how Nixon's men silenced a woman who talked.
- you want the forgotten true story of Martha Mitchell.
- you like Watergate seen from an unexpected side.
Bad for you if
- you find 1970s TV archive footage dated.
- you want the full Watergate story. This runs forty minutes and stays on Martha.
About: truth · political scandal · gaslighting
Oppenheimer 2023
Película
Película sobre el físico J. Robert Oppenheimer y su papel como desarrollador de la bomba atómica. Basada en el libro 'American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer' de Kai Bird y Martin J. Sherwin.
Las caras de Oppenheimer
- El hombre que construyó la bomba
- Un pueblo secreto en el desierto
- Una audiencia que decide su destino
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una interpretación protagonista sostenida por la mirada.
- te gustan las salas llenas de gente brillante discutiendo.
- quieres sentir la primera prueba en el pecho.
Mala para ti si
- tres horas de conversación son demasiado para una sola noche.
- quieres acción. Son sobre todo reuniones y audiencias.
- quieres una historia contada en orden. Salta entre épocas.
Temas: la culpa · el poder · la ciencia
Icarus 2017
Documentary
While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, director Bryan Fogel connects with renegade Russian scientist Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov—a pillar of his country’s “anti-doping” program. Over dozens of Skype calls, urine samples, and badly administered hormone injections, Fogel and Rodchenkov grow closer despite shocking allegations that place Rodchenkov at the center of Russia’s state-sponsored Olympic doping program.
The sides of Icarus
- An amateur cyclist doping himself to test the system
- A Russian scientist on Skype calls
- Russia's state doping programme at the Olympics
Good for you if
- you like a film that starts as a stunt and turns into a political thriller.
- you want to know how athletes beat the drug tests.
- you like a true story told by the man who ran Russia's anti-doping lab.
Bad for you if
- you want an easygoing sports film. Icarus is about doping, lies and a whistleblower who fears for his safety.
- you want more than calls, documents and interviews.
About: cheating · courage · the state
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb 2023
Documentary
Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and unleashed mass hysteria.
The sides of To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb
- J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project
- The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Archive footage and historians' interviews
Good for you if
- you want the real story behind the Oppenheimer film.
- you like the question of who decides to use a weapon.
- you want to understand how the bomb changed war forever.
Bad for you if
- you can't look at the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- you want a big-screen drama more than archive and interviews.
About: guilt · science · war · responsibility