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  1. 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

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  2. 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

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  3. 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

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  4. 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

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  5. Modern history can be divided into two time frames: before 9/11 and after 9/11. This five-part docuseries is a cohesive chronicle of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., offering illuminating perspectives and personal stories of how the catastrophic events of that day changed the course of the nation.

    The sides of Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror

    • The September 11 attacks
    • Twenty years of war in Afghanistan
    • Survivors, soldiers and officials remembering

    Good for you if

    • you want the personal stories of people who lived through that day.
    • you like seeing how one day reshaped the following twenty years.
    • you want to understand the choices made in Washington after the attacks.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch footage of the attacks and accounts of torture.
    • you want something light for your evening.

    About: terrorism · grief · security and freedom

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  6. The World at War 1973

    Documentary

    A documentary series that gives a historical account of the events of World War II, from its roots in the 1920s to the aftermath and the lives it profoundly influenced.

    The sides of The World at War

    • World War II from its roots to its aftermath
    • Interviews with soldiers, civilians and leaders
    • Archive footage narrated by Laurence Olivier

    Good for you if

    • you want the whole Second World War told in order, front by front.
    • you like hearing soldiers who were there tell what they saw.
    • you like the grave, haunting Carl Davis theme that opens every episode.

    Bad for you if

    • you find 1970s television and black and white archives dated.
    • you can't watch footage of the camps and the dead.
    • you won't commit to twenty six episodes of nearly an hour each.

    About: war · memory · genocide

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  7. 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

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  8. With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films. Director Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law and sometime collaborator, interviews heavyweights like Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and Sydney Pollack, who explain the influence of Kubrick classics like "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," and how he absorbed visual clues from disposable culture such as television commercials.

    The sides of Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film

    • Stanley Kubrick's life and films
    • Interviews with Jack Nicholson and others who worked with him
    • Home footage from his family

    Good for you if

    • you love Dr. Strangelove, 2001 and the films around them.
    • you want to know the man behind the legend from people who knew him.
    • you care about how every Kubrick frame was built.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through almost two and a half hours of documentary.
    • you need a story, not a career told in interviews.

    About: obsession · creation · cinema

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  9. 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

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  10. The Civil War 1990

    Documentary

    A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

    The sides of The Civil War

    • Archive photographs of soldiers and battlefields
    • Letters and diaries read aloud
    • From secession to Lincoln's assassination

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how the United States came apart and back together.
    • you like a haunting fiddle tune that returns through every episode.
    • you want the battles told through the people who fought them.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't give more than ten hours to one documentary.
    • you need moving footage, not slow pans over still photographs.

    About: slavery · the union · sacrifice

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  11. 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

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  12. The Crown 2016

    Series

    The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

    The sides of The Crown

    • Elizabeth II from her young reign to old age
    • Weekly meetings with her Prime Ministers
    • A royal family torn between duty and love

    Good for you if

    • you like the second half of the 20th century seen from inside Buckingham Palace.
    • you like a family drama where a sister, a husband and children all come second to the Crown.
    • you like who really decides things between the palace and Downing Street.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and many episodes are quiet conversations in palace rooms.
    • six seasons of royal life is too much for you.

    About: duty · family · the monarchy

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  13. Citizenfour 2014

    Documentary

    In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.

    The sides of Citizenfour

    • Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room
    • Journalists deciding what to publish
    • A fire alarm that makes everyone freeze

    Good for you if

    • you like the days before a leak, filmed as they happen in one hotel room.
    • you want to watch Snowden explain, in his own words, why he did it.
    • you like seeing how governments watch their own citizens.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and most of it is people talking at a desk.
    • you want scale and sound, not a laptop and a hotel bed.

    About: surveillance · privacy · courage

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  14. I Am Not Your Negro 2017

    Documentary

    Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.

    The sides of I Am Not Your Negro

    • James Baldwin's unfinished book
    • Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King
    • Archive footage of America then and now

    Good for you if

    • you want Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King through James Baldwin's eyes.
    • you want the real archive footage of the civil rights years.
    • you like James Baldwin's words, read by Samuel L. Jackson.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch archive images of racist violence.
    • you need a story that moves faster than an essay.

    About: racism · memory · American identity

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  15. 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

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  16. Cuba and the Cameraman 2017

    Documentary

    This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades.

    The sides of Cuba and the Cameraman

    • An American filmmaker returning to Cuba for decades
    • Three Cuban families growing old
    • Fidel Castro seen up close

    Good for you if

    • you want ordinary Cuban lives filmed over more than forty years.
    • you like history seen from a farm and a city street.
    • you like watching the same people age on camera.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take poverty and loss up close.
    • you need a story that moves faster than decades of slow change.

    About: time · poverty · revolution · family

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  17. Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place in Dallas on November 22, 1963.

    The sides of JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

    • Oliver Stone back on the Kennedy case
    • Declassified files from the assassination
    • Dallas, November 22, 1963

    Good for you if

    • you want to go through the real documents released decades after Dallas.
    • you like going back over who shot Kennedy, piece by piece.
    • you want to look at what the CIA and Washington knew in 1963.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch the Zapruder footage of the shooting played again.
    • you need a final, settled answer about who killed Kennedy.

    About: political assassination · government secrecy · american history

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  18. Lincoln 2012

    Film

    The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.

    The sides of Lincoln

    • Lincoln's last months in office
    • A vote in Congress to abolish slavery
    • Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln

    Good for you if

    • you like politics made of speeches, deals and backroom arguments.
    • you want to watch Daniel Day-Lewis become Lincoln.
    • you like the Civil War seen from inside the White House.

    Bad for you if

    • you need battles, not rooms full of men talking.
    • two and a half hours of votes and debates is too much for you.

    About: slavery · compromise · leadership

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  19. Julian Assange. Bradley Manning. Collateral murder. Cablegate. WikiLeaks. These people and terms have exploded into public consciousness by fundamentally changing the way democratic societies deal with privacy, secrecy, and the right to information, perhaps for generations to come. We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks is an extensive examination of all things related to WikiLeaks and the larger global debate over access to information.

    The sides of We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

    • Julian Assange and the rise of WikiLeaks
    • Chelsea Manning and the leaked war files
    • Governments, secrets and journalists

    Good for you if

    • you like seeing who controls secrets and who pays for leaking them.
    • you want the real story behind Cablegate and the war logs.
    • you'd rather judge Assange yourself than be handed a hero.

    Bad for you if

    • you find two hours of interviews too much for one evening.
    • you can't watch real footage, filmed from a helicopter, of civilians shot in Baghdad.

    About: secrecy · freedom of information · power · betrayal

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  20. 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

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