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  1. 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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  2. British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.

    The sides of Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

    • Nick Broomfield's interviews with Aileen Wuornos
    • Her last days on death row
    • Her childhood in Michigan

    Good for you if

    • you want a real person behind the headlines.
    • you like a portrait of someone you can't easily judge.
    • you can take a story that ends in an execution.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take childhood abuse and mental illness on screen.
    • you want a gentle evening, and this is a woman on death row.

    About: the death penalty · trauma · madness

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  3. 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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  4. Bus 174 2002

    Documentary

    On 12 June 2000, in Rio de Janeiro, Ônibus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to kill all the passengers. Transmitted live on all national networks, this shocking and tragic event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the most terrifying examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.

    The sides of Bus 174

    • A bus held hostage in Rio in 2000
    • Live television footage of the standoff
    • The life of the young man holding the gun

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand a real hostage crisis that Brazil watched live.
    • you can sit through hours of a standoff that could break at any second.
    • you can take a true story with no comfort at the end.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real footage of a hostage taking that ends in death.
    • you can't face a street kid's life of loss, prison and police abuse.
    • you won't read subtitles for a film in Portuguese.

    About: poverty · police violence · invisibility

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  5. Audrie & Daisy 2016

    Documentary

    A documentary film about three cases of rape, that includes the stories of two American high school students, Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman. At the time of the sexual assaults, Pott was 15 and Coleman was 14 years old. After the assaults, the victims and their families were subjected to abuse and cyberbullying.

    The sides of Audrie & Daisy

    • Two teenage girls who were sexually assaulted
    • Families facing the aftermath
    • Online harassment in small towns

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear what happened from the families and survivors themselves.
    • you can be moved by families speaking about a loss.
    • you want to see how small towns turned on two girls instead of the boys they accused.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a film about sexual assault and suicide.
    • you need justice at the end of a true story, and these cases leave you angry.

    About: consent · victim blaming · cyberbullying · grief

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  6. After the death of her daughter at the hand of her boyfriend, Marisela Escobedo began to fight for justice not only against the murderer but also against the corrupt Mexican judicial system.

    The sides of The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo

    • A mother pursuing her daughter's killer
    • A Mexican justice system that lets him go
    • Years of protest in Chihuahua

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story of Marisela Escobedo's fight for justice.
    • you want to follow a femicide case through Mexico's police and courts.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take a mother's grief and a murdered daughter on screen.
    • you need a story where justice wins in the end.

    About: justice · grief · corruption

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  7. The Perfect Neighbor 2025

    Documentary

    Police bodycam footage reveals how a long-running neighborhood dispute turned fatal in this documentary about fear, prejudice and Stand Your Ground laws.

    The sides of The Perfect Neighbor

    • A neighborhood feud seen through police bodycam footage
    • A mother shot through a closed door in Florida
    • Florida's Stand Your Ground law

    Good for you if

    • you like watching a small dispute build call after call toward something worse.
    • you want a story told almost only through real police footage.
    • you want to see how Florida's Stand Your Ground law plays out after a shooting.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a real mother's death and her children's grief.
    • you need some hope by the end of a true story.

    About: fear · prejudice · justice

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  8. 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

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  9. The Dissident 2020

    Documentary

    When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.

    The sides of The Dissident

    • A journalist who walks into a consulate in Istanbul
    • His fiancée waiting outside
    • Dissidents fighting a state online

    Good for you if

    • you want the facts of the Jamal Khashoggi case laid out piece by piece.
    • you like an investigation that plays like a thriller.
    • you want to understand how a state hunts its critics abroad.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit with a real murder and the grief of the people left behind.
    • you can't hear the details of a killing described.

    About: free speech · surveillance · impunity

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  10. The Invisible War 2012

    Documentary

    An investigative and powerfully emotional documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military, the institutions that perpetuate and cover up its existence, and its profound personal and social consequences.

    The sides of The Invisible War

    • Survivors of rape inside the US military
    • A chain of command that covers it up
    • Veterans fighting for justice

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear survivors tell what happened to them in their own words.
    • you care about how an institution protects its own.
    • you're ready to be moved by veterans fighting for justice.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through detailed accounts of sexual assault.
    • you need to see abusers punished. Most of these cases go nowhere.

    About: justice · trauma · institutions

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  11. 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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  12. Taxi to the Dark Side 2008

    Documentary

    An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.

    The sides of Taxi to the Dark Side

    • An Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar
    • Detention at Bagram and Guantanamo
    • Soldiers and officials on interrogation orders

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story of one innocent man who died in US custody.
    • you want to see how orders from the top reached a prison cell.
    • you want to understand what the war on terror did behind closed doors.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take a story of torture and death of an innocent man.
    • you can't look at photos of prisoners being abused.

    About: torture · responsibility · justice

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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. Via interviews with friends, players and insiders, this docuseries examines how Aaron Hernandez went from an NFL star to a convicted killer.

    The sides of Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez

    • An NFL star convicted of murder
    • Friends, teammates and reporters looking back
    • A brain damaged by years of football

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how Aaron Hernandez went from the Patriots to prison.
    • you like true crime that looks at the man as much as the case.
    • you're curious about what football culture hides behind the stadium.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a young man's life fall apart into murder and prison.
    • you want one clear answer to why he killed, and this series weighs several.

    About: masculinity · secrets · violence

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  15. Engineers, officials and the crew members' families provide their perspective on the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and its aftermath.

    The sides of Challenger: The Final Flight

    • The 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
    • Families of the seven crew members
    • Engineers who warned against the launch

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how the Challenger disaster happened.
    • you like the 1980s space program told by the people who lived it.
    • you care about the human cost of space travel.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not relive a real tragedy through grieving families.
    • you want a big space adventure. This is four episodes of interviews about decisions made on the ground.

    About: responsibility · grief · ambition

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  16. The Hunting Ground 2015

    Documentary

    A startling expose of rape crimes on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. The film follows the lives of several undergraduate assault survivors as they attempt to pursue—despite incredible push back, harassment and traumatic aftermath—both their education and justice.

    The sides of The Hunting Ground

    • Students who survived sexual assault on campus
    • Universities protecting their name
    • Two survivors building a national movement

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear survivors tell what happened to them in their own words.
    • you want to see how institutions cover up crimes to protect themselves.
    • you want to be moved by families and students fighting for justice.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't listen to testimonies of rape.
    • you roll your eyes at documentaries that end in a call to action.

    About: justice · silence · courage

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  17. Discover the untold story of the toxic and abusive environment inside '90s kids' TV. Hear harrowing accounts from former child stars and crew who probe the balance of power in the industry and reveal an era that inflicted lasting wounds still felt today.

    The sides of Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV

    • Former child actors from 90s kids' TV
    • Crew members describing life on set
    • Abuse behind shows made for children

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear former child stars tell their own story.
    • you want to understand who held power over children on a TV set.
    • you follow true crime about abusers who worked on children's shows.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't hear testimony about the sexual abuse of children.
    • you need hope, and these wounds are still open.

    About: abuse · power · childhood

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  18. 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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  19. 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

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  20. 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

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