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Under the Sun 2015
Documentary
Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.
The sides of Under the Sun
- A Pyongyang family filmed for a year
- Officials directing every scene
- What happens between the takes
Good for you if
- you like everyday life that feels staged and surreal.
- you want to see how a regime scripts its own people.
- you're curious about a real family in North Korea.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum and long silent shots wear you out.
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Korean.
About: propaganda · control · childhood
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
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
American Factory 2019
Documentary
In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.
The sides of American Factory
- A Chinese glass company in an old GM plant in Ohio
- American and Chinese workers on the same line
- A vote on whether to join a union
Good for you if
- you want to see real workers in an Ohio plant bought by Fuyao.
- you like watching who holds the power when a union vote looms.
- you like hearing American and Chinese workers tell their own lives on the same line.
Bad for you if
- you need things to happen fast.
- you won't read subtitles for the Mandarin parts.
About: work · culture clash · automation
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
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
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
Collective 2019
Documentary
In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of investigative journalists move into action uncovering the mass corruption of the health system and of the state institutions. Collective follows journalists, whistle blowers, and authorities alike. An immersive and uncompromising look into a dysfunctional system, exposing corruption, propaganda, and manipulation that nowadays affect not only Romania, but societies around the world.
The sides of Collective
- A nightclub fire in Bucharest
- Sports journalists investigating hospitals
- A new health minister inside the system
Good for you if
- you want a true investigation filmed as it happens.
- you like seeing how corruption reaches from hospitals to ministers.
- you like a documentary that plays like a political thriller.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Romanian.
- you can't watch burn victims and grieving families on screen.
About: corruption · journalism · grief · public health
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
Mr. Nobody Against Putin 2025
Documentary
As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his own school.
The sides of Mr. Nobody Against Putin
- A teacher filming in his own school
- War propaganda in Russian classrooms
- A small Russian town
Good for you if
- you want to see what Russian schools did after the invasion of Ukraine.
- you want to see how propaganda reaches children.
- you want to see a war from far behind the front.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles.
- you need some hope by the end.
About: propaganda · courage · childhood
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
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass 2021
Documentary
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
Return 2023
Documentary
"Behind every strong man is a strong woman!", Mumine shouts as her husband is arrested. She has 4 children, she's in her mid-30s, and she's the wife of a Crimean Tatar political prisoner. Muslim Crimean Tatars have been oppressed for a long time. They were deported under Stalin, allowed to return under Gorbachev, and since the occupation of Crimea in 2014 under Putin, they are being persecuted again. "Return" is a portrait of Mumine and Maye, two strong women struggling with the consequences of oppression. Their traditional understanding of their role as women does not stand in the way of their dedication. They possess strength, beauty and dignity. Only in their most intimate moments, they are overwhelmed by desperate helplessness.
The sides of Return
- Wives of Crimean Tatar political prisoners
- A mother of four after her husband's arrest
- Life in Crimea after 2014
Good for you if
- you want to see a persecution the news rarely shows.
- you like a portrait of mothers holding a family together.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles.
- you can't stand watching arrests and the despair of the families left behind.
About: oppression · dignity · motherhood
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
Hail Satan? 2019
Documentary
The story of The Satanic Temple, a controversial movement that combines religion and activism with the apparent purpose of questioning the basic foundations of US society.
The sides of Hail Satan?
- The Satanic Temple and its members
- A goat-headed statue at a state capitol
- Fights over religion in public life
Good for you if
- you want to meet the real people behind a movement that sounds like a joke.
- you like activists using Satan to make a serious point with a grin.
- you like a film about religion, the law and who gets a say.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not see black masses and Baphomet statues.
- you want devil-worship horror, and this is about lawsuits and town councils.
About: religious freedom · activism · belonging
Red Army 2015
Documentary
A documentary highlighting the Soviet Union's legendary and enigmatic hockey training culture and world-dominating team through the eyes of the team's Captain Slava Fetisov, following his shift from hockey star and celebrated national hero to political enemy.
The sides of Red Army
- The Soviet Union's hockey team
- Captain Slava Fetisov
- A national hero turned political enemy
Good for you if
- you like hockey and a team that played it like a ballet.
- you want to see how the Soviet state used its athletes.
- you like the Cold War told through one player's life.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles. Fetisov and his teammates tell it in Russian.
- you find long stretches of old archive footage dated.
About: the Cold War · loyalty · freedom
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
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 Yes Men 2003
Documentary
A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they gain worldwide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization (WTO) on television and at business conferences around the world.
The sides of The Yes Men
- Two pranksters posing as the WTO
- Fake speeches at business conferences
- Audiences who never catch on
Good for you if
- you like watching a straight face hold through an absurd speech.
- you like real pranks played on real conference rooms.
- you like seeing the global economy mocked to its face.
Bad for you if
- you can't laugh at a fake WTO speech about recycling hamburgers for the Third World.
- you can't stand a film made mostly of speeches.
About: activism · globalization · satire
No Other Land 2024
Documentary
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
The sides of No Other Land
- Villages of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank
- Homes and a school torn down
- A Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist
Good for you if
- you want to see events filmed by the people living them.
- you like a bond between Basel and Yuval across a divide.
- you want to see who holds power over a home.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch families losing their homes, filmed as it happens.
- you won't read subtitles.
About: home · occupation · friendship · resistance