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Chronicle of a Summer 1961
Documentary
Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.
The sides of Chronicle of a Summer
- Passersby in Paris asked if they are happy
- Workers, students and friends talking about their lives
- Paris and Saint-Tropez in the summer of 1960
Good for you if
- you like black and white films that invented a way of filming.
- you like long, honest conversations with ordinary people.
- you want to feel France in 1960, with the Algerian war in the background.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles.
- you need momentum more than long conversations.
About: happiness · work · friendship · the human condition
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
Titicut Follies 1967
Documentary
Employing methods of direct cinema–observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention–this stark look into the State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts shows its denizens, who were often kept in barren cells and infrequently bathed, forced to strip naked publicly, force feeding, and the indifference and bullying by many of the hospital's staff.
The sides of Titicut Follies
- Bridgewater State Hospital in 1967
- Patients and guards with no narration
- A variety show put on by staff and inmates
Good for you if
- you want to see a real prison hospital with no narrator telling you what to think.
- you like raw black and white footage from the 1960s.
- you want to see what total power over patients looks like.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch patients stripped, mocked and force fed.
- you need some hope by the end.
About: confinement · dignity · cruelty
Land Without Bread 1933
Documentary
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.
The sides of Land Without Bread
- Villages of Las Hurdes in 1932
- Luis Buñuel behind the camera
- Poverty filmed with a cold narrator
Good for you if
- you like Buñuel turning a documentary into something strange.
- you can take a film about misery with no comfort offered.
- you want to see rural Spain before the civil war.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch sick children and animals dying on screen.
- you can't take a narrator's dry irony over real people's suffering.
- you find films from the 1930s dated.
About: poverty · isolation · the gaze of outsiders
El irlandés 2019
Película
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, un veterano de guerra de origen irlandés que trabaja como camionero, conoce accidentalmente al mafioso Russell Bufalino. Una vez convertido en su hombre de confianza, Bufalino envía a Frank a Chicago con el encargo de ayudar a Jimmy Hoffa, un poderoso líder sindical relacionado con el crimen organizado, con quien Frank mantendrá una estrecha amistad durante casi veinte años.
Las caras de El irlandés
- Un sicario que recuerda desde un asilo
- Jimmy Hoffa
- Décadas de mafia
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una historia de gánsteres lenta y reflexiva.
- te gustan las leyendas actuando juntas una última vez.
- te gusta un final sobre la soledad y el arrepentimiento.
Mala para ti si
- tres horas y media te parecen demasiado.
- quieres una película de gánsteres rápida.
Temas: la lealtad · envejecer · el arrepentimiento
Grey Gardens 1976
Documentary
Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
The sides of Grey Gardens
- A mother and daughter in a decaying mansion
- Little Edie's improvised outfits and songs
- Cats and raccoons in the house
Good for you if
- you like spending time with Big Edie and Little Edie as they are.
- you like a mother and daughter who bicker and can't leave each other.
- you like a strange, closed world on a Long Island estate.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that goes somewhere.
- you find 1970s handheld footage dated.
About: mother and daughter · solitude · the past
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
Gates of Heaven 1978
Documentary
A showcase of workers in the animal burial industry while dealing with heavier existential questions regarding mortality and the afterlife. Floyd 'Mac' McClure believes that a graceful burial is as important for pets as it is for people; he chronicles his struggles to keep his niche business afloat, and interviews several of his associates and one of his competitors, the manager of a rendering plant.
The sides of Gates of Heaven
- A man who believed pets deserve graceful burials
- Two pet cemeteries in California
- A rendering plant manager
Good for you if
- you like the true story of a small pet cemetery business fighting to stay afloat.
- you can laugh and wince at grief over dead pets at the same time.
- you like Errol Morris letting ordinary people talk until they reveal themselves.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum and not long talking heads.
- you find 1970s documentary footage dated.
About: mortality · the afterlife · grief
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
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan 2005
Documentary
A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.
The sides of No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
- Bob Dylan from 1961 to 1966
- Greenwich Village folk clubs
- Fans booing when he goes electric
Good for you if
- you want to hear Dylan's songs as they were first played.
- you like the sixties, from the folk scene to the protest years.
- you like a life story told by the people who were there.
Bad for you if
- three and a half hours is too much for you.
- you find black and white footage from the sixties dated.
About: reinvention · fame · the voice of a generation
Time 2020
Documentary
Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together while fighting for the release of her incarcerated husband. An intimate, epic, and unconventional love story, filmed over two decades.
The sides of Time
- A wife fighting for her husband's release
- Home videos filmed over two decades
- Six sons growing up without their father at home
Good for you if
- you want a true story about a family and the prison system.
- you like Fox Rich holding her family together for twenty years.
- you like black and white images that make home videos feel like memory.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum more than a patient portrait.
- you find black and white hard to sit through.
About: waiting · love · justice
Roger & Me 1989
Documentary
A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.
The sides of Roger & Me
- Michael Moore chasing the head of General Motors
- Flint, Michigan after the plant closures
- Evictions at Christmas
Good for you if
- you like laughing at a town's collapse to keep from crying.
- you like seeing who pays when a giant company leaves.
- you want the real people of Flint telling their own story.
Bad for you if
- you need some hope, and Flint keeps losing.
- you can't watch families being evicted from their homes on camera.
About: unemployment · corporate power · a hometown
Love Meetings 1965
Documentary
Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if they know where babies come from; asks old and young women if they support gender equality; asks both sexes if a woman's virginity still matters, what do they think of homosexuality, if divorce should be legal, or if they support the recent abolition of brothels. He interviews blue-collar workers, intellectuals, college students, rural farmers, the bourgeoisie, and every other kind of people, painting a vivid portrait of a rapidly-industrializing Italy, hanging between modernity and tradition — toward both of which Pasolini shows equal distrust.
The sides of Love Meetings
- Pasolini with a microphone across Italy
- Children asked where babies come from
- Questions on divorce, virginity and homosexuality
Good for you if
- you like ordinary people answering questions they never get asked.
- you want to see Italy in the sixties, torn between old and new.
- you like interviews where the hesitations say as much as the answers.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles.
- you find black and white documentaries dated.
About: sexuality · tradition · modernity · morality
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
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room 2005
Documentary
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
The sides of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- Enron's executives and their fake profits
- Traders and the California blackouts
- Employees who lost their savings
Good for you if
- you like watching executives build a giant on numbers that weren't real.
- you want to understand how Enron fell in 2001.
- you can laugh grimly at traders joking on tape about California's blackouts.
Bad for you if
- you need more than charts, tapes and interviews.
- you need some hope, and thousands of employees lose everything here.
About: greed · deception · money

Day of the Fight 1951
Documentary
Stanley Kubrick’s debut documentary, following Irish-American middleweight boxer Walter Cartier on April 17, 1950—the day of his bout with Bobby James. The film traces Cartier’s quiet morning rituals, training, and anxious hours before the match, culminating in his swift victory that night in Newark. Opening with a brief history of boxing, Kubrick’s tightly crafted short captures the discipline, isolation, and tension behind a fighter’s daily routine.
The sides of Day of the Fight
- A middleweight boxer on the day of his fight
- Stanley Kubrick's first film
- A twin brother at his side
Good for you if
- you like seeing a boxer's day away from the ring.
- you like a real fighter, Walter Cartier, filmed as he was in 1950.
- you like the slow wait of the hours before a fight.
Bad for you if
- you find black and white newsreels dated.
- you want a long fight, not a short one at the end.
About: discipline · solitude · waiting

Seven Up! 1985
Documentary
A group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. The filmmakers plan to re-interview them at 7 year intervals to track how their lives and attitudes change as they age.
The sides of Seven Up!
- Fourteen British children aged seven
- Kids from rich and poor backgrounds
- The first film of a series that returns every seven years
Good for you if
- you like real children talking honestly about money, school and the future.
- you like seeing where lives begin before you watch them grow.
- you like small portraits of very different kids.
Bad for you if
- you find 1960s black and white footage dated.
- you want to know how their lives turn out, and this first film leaves them at seven.
About: class · childhood · destiny
The Elephant Man 1980
Film
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity.
The sides of The Elephant Man
- A disfigured man shown as a sideshow freak
- A surgeon played by Anthony Hopkins
- Victorian London in black and white
Good for you if
- you like being moved by John Merrick's gentleness.
- you like John Hurt under heavy makeup, acting with his voice and eyes.
- you love David Lynch's black and white images.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a man mocked and beaten for how he looks.
- you need an ending that doesn't break your heart.
About: dignity · cruelty · kindness
The Beatles: Get Back 2021
Documentary
The three-part documentary series, compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage, captures the warmth, camaraderie, and creative genius that defined the legacy of music's most iconic foursome. The series also includes – for the first time in its entirety – The Beatles' final performance at London's Savile Row.
The sides of The Beatles: Get Back
- The Beatles writing songs in a studio
- Unseen footage from January 1969
- The rooftop concert in full
Good for you if
- you like watching songs like Get Back take shape from nothing.
- you like long sessions where almost nothing happens and then a song appears.
- you want to see the four of them joke, argue and work together.
Bad for you if
- nearly eight hours of rehearsals is too much for you.
- you find 1969 footage dated, even restored.
About: creation · friendship · the end of a band
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