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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema 2006
Documentary
A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most exciting ideas on personal subjectivity, fantasy and reality, desire and sexuality.
The sides of The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
- Slavoj Žižek talking through famous films
- Rebuilt sets from Hitchcock and Lynch films
- Psychoanalysis applied to desire and fantasy
Good for you if
- you like an excited philosopher talking nonstop about movies.
- you like strange readings of Psycho, The Birds and Blue Velvet.
- you love classic Hollywood and want to see it with new eyes.
Bad for you if
- two and a half hours of lecture is too much for you.
- you need a story with people to follow, not one man talking over film clips.
About: desire · fantasy · cinema
The Corporation 2003
Documentary
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
The sides of The Corporation
- The corporation treated as a legal person
- A psychiatric checklist applied to big business
- Interviews with CEOs, activists and economists
Good for you if
- you want to understand how companies came to hold so much power.
- you like real case studies more than abstract theory.
- you enjoy a long argument built from dozens of interviews.
Bad for you if
- nearly two and a half hours of documentary is too much for you.
- you want striking images, and this is built from interviews and archive footage.
About: capitalism · democracy · responsibility
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
Inside Job 2010
Documentary
A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
The sides of Inside Job
- The 2008 financial crisis, from Iceland to Wall Street
- Bankers, regulators and economists in front of the camera
- Professors who can't answer a simple question
Good for you if
- you want to know who made money from the crash and who paid.
- you like a case built with real figures, real names and real interviews.
- you like interviews where the person in the chair starts to squirm.
Bad for you if
- you don't want to follow derivatives and credit default swaps for an evening.
- you want a reassuring ending. Here almost nobody goes to jail.
About: greed · corruption · the economy
Zero Days 2016
Documentary
Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and Israeli governments, this malware was designed to specifically sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme. However, the complex computer worm ended up not only infecting its intended target but also spreading uncontrollably.
The sides of Zero Days
- A computer worm aimed at Iran's nuclear program
- Officials who won't speak on record
- Alex Gibney chasing who built Stuxnet
Good for you if
- you like a true story about the first cyberweapon to break real machines.
- you want to know how governments wage secret wars with code.
- you like an investigation that feels like a spy thriller.
Bad for you if
- you want things blowing up, and this is mostly interviews and lines of code.
- you need clear answers, and many people here refuse to give them.
About: secrecy · cyberwar · state power
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
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
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
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
HyperNormalisation 2016
Documentary
We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…
The sides of HyperNormalisation
- Decades of politics told through archive footage
- Syria, Libya and Wall Street in one story
- The early internet as an escape
Good for you if
- you like a sweeping take on how the powerful manage the world.
- you like decades of recent history, from the 1970s on, told as one story.
- you like archive footage set to unexpected pop and ambient music.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through nearly three hours of documentary.
- you need some hope at the end of a film.
About: power · post-truth · disillusion
The Century of the Self 2002
Documentary
The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it's a phenomenon to which most are unaware. The film is an exhaustive examination of his theories on human desire, and how they're applied to platforms such as advertising, consumerism and politics.
The sides of The Century of the Self
- Freud's nephew inventing public relations
- Advertising that sells to our desires
- Politicians governing by focus group
Good for you if
- you like learning how Freud's ideas shaped advertising and politics.
- you like the true story of Edward Bernays turning his uncle's theories into marketing.
- you like a century of history told through archive footage.
Bad for you if
- four hours of archive and interviews is too much for you.
- you find grainy old archive footage dated.
About: consumerism · desire · democracy
This Is Not a Film 2011
Documentary
Renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support for the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election. In this film, which was shot secretly by Panahi's close friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and smuggled into France on a USB stick concealed inside a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, Panahi documents his daily life under house arrest as he awaits a decision on his appeal.
The sides of This Is Not a Film
- A director banned from making films
- An apartment in Tehran under house arrest
- A film smuggled out inside a cake
Good for you if
- you want to see a ban on filmmaking from the inside.
- you care about Jafar Panahi defying a state that silenced him.
- you like a quiet day at home, phone calls and a pet iguana.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles in Persian.
- you need clear answers, and this film leaves you unsure what is staged and how Panahi's appeal ends.
About: censorship · freedom · creation
Room 237 2012
Documentary
A subjective documentary that explores various theories about hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments.
The sides of Room 237
- Five fans and their theories about The Shining
- Voices over clips from Kubrick's film
- Minotaurs, moon landings and hidden messages
Good for you if
- you like hunting for hidden meanings in a film you thought you knew.
- you want to watch The Shining again right after.
- you enjoy theories that get stranger the longer they go.
Bad for you if
- you need every theory to hold up against the evidence.
- you want to see the people talking, not only hear their voices.
About: obsession · interpretation · cinema
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward 2011
Documentary
A presentation of a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical 'life ground' attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a 'Resource-Based Economy'.
The sides of Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
- A case against the monetary system
- A proposed resource-based economy
- Interviews, animation and narration
Good for you if
- you like questioning who money really serves.
- you like hearing real experts such as Gabor Maté and Robert Sapolsky on what shapes human behaviour.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through two hours and forty minutes of argument.
- you roll your eyes at a film that pleads one case from start to finish.
About: money · society · sustainability
NAZA 2026
Documentary
Filmed at night from Tel Aviv rooftops, this investigative documentary examines the civilian casualties of Israel's military operations in Gaza and the systems behind targeted killings of Palestinians.
The sides of NAZA
- Night footage from Tel Aviv rooftops
- Anonymous testimonies from former soldiers
- Civilian deaths in Gaza
Good for you if
- you want firsthand testimony about real lives lost in Gaza.
- you want to understand how a war is waged from the inside.
- you want to look at the systems behind targeted killings.
Bad for you if
- you can't bear accounts of civilian deaths.
- you need some hope at the end of a film.
About: war · responsibility · testimony
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
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks 2013
Documentary
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
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? 2013
Documentary
A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.
The sides of Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
- Noam Chomsky in conversation
- Michel Gondry's hand-drawn animation
- Questions about language and how we think
Good for you if
- you like hearing Noam Chomsky explain language and the mind.
- you like Michel Gondry's doodles moving to every idea.
- you want to hear Noam Chomsky talk about his own childhood and family.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated films.
- you'd rather not work through linguistics and philosophy.
About: language · thought · curiosity
An Inconvenient Truth 2006
Documentary
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.
The sides of An Inconvenient Truth
- Al Gore's slideshow on global warming
- Melting glaciers, before and after
- A politician's own story between the charts
Good for you if
- you like a clear case built on data and photographs.
- you care about glaciers, oceans and the climate.
- you like a man who believes every word he says on stage.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum. Most of it is a lecture with graphs.
- you'd rather keep politics out of it. A former US vice president makes the case.
About: climate · responsibility · politics
Requiem for the American Dream 2015
Documentary
Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority – while also looking back on his own life of activism and political participation. He provides penetrating insight into what may well be the lasting legacy of our time – the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy.
The sides of Requiem for the American Dream
- Noam Chomsky in long interviews
- Ten principles of wealth and power
- The decline of the American middle class
Good for you if
- you want to understand how money shapes American politics.
- you like Chomsky looking back on decades of activism.
- you like a dense argument told plainly in seventy-three minutes.
Bad for you if
- you need some hope when a film looks at democracy.
- you want images, not one man talking.
About: inequality · democracy · wealth