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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2022
Documentary
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
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley 2019
Documentary
With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.
The sides of The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
- Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos
- A blood test machine that never worked
- A ten billion dollar company that collapsed
Good for you if
- you want the true story of Theranos and its blood test.
- you like watching hype and investors carry a company to ten billion dollars.
- you want to understand how Elizabeth Holmes convinced so many people.
Bad for you if
- you need more than interviews and boardroom footage.
- you want surprises, and you already know how Theranos ended.
About: fraud · ambition · hype
Finding Vivian Maier 2014
Documentary
Vivian Maier's photos were seemingly destined for obscurity, lost among the clutter of the countless objects she'd collected throughout her life. Instead these images have shaken the world of street photography and irrevocably changed the life of the man who brought them to the public eye. This film brings to life the interesting turns and travails of the improbable saga of John Maloof's discovery of Vivian Maier, unravelling this mysterious tale through her documentary films, photographs, odd collections and personal accounts from the people that knew her. What started as a blog to show her work quickly became a viral sensation in the photography world. Photos destined for the trash heap now line gallery exhibitions, a forthcoming book and this documentary film.
The sides of Finding Vivian Maier
- A nanny who secretly took thousands of photos
- Boxes of negatives bought at an auction
- The families she worked for remembering her
Good for you if
- you like piecing together who a secretive woman really was.
- you love street photography of the American city in the fifties and sixties.
- you like a real discovery told by the man who made it.
Bad for you if
- you want every question about her life answered.
- you need more happening on screen than people talking about photos.
About: art · privacy · recognition
Iris 2014
Documentary
IRIS pairs legendary 87-year-old documentarian Albert Maysles with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. More than a fashion film, the documentary is a story about creativity and how, even in Iris’ dotage, a soaring free spirit continues to inspire. IRIS portrays a singular woman whose enthusiasm for fashion, art and people are life’s sustenance and reminds us that dressing, and indeed life, is nothing but an experiment.
The sides of Iris
- Iris Apfel at 93
- A New York apartment full of clothes and jewelry
- Her husband Carl, nearly a hundred
Good for you if
- you love a sharp old woman who dresses however she likes.
- you want a warm film about staying curious at any age.
- you enjoy Iris's quick, dry one-liners.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that goes somewhere, not a portrait.
- you'd rather a darker portrait than a joyful one.
About: style · old age · creativity
Weiner 2016
Documentary
Documentary featuring a jaw-dropping, behind-the-scenes look at the attempted comeback of Anthony Weiner in 2013 as he mounts a campaign for New York City mayor in the wake of his sexting scandal. Featuring unfettered access to the candidate and his campaign.
The sides of Weiner
- Anthony Weiner running for New York mayor in 2013
- A new sexting scandal breaking mid-campaign
- Huma Abedin watching from the campaign office
Good for you if
- you like a camera that keeps rolling while a campaign falls apart.
- you want to see a New York mayoral race from the inside.
- you can laugh at a candidate digging himself deeper on live television.
Bad for you if
- you can't root for a candidate who keeps hiding the truth from his own team.
- you need something light, and watching a marriage strain in public isn't.
About: ambition · shame · the media
Tabloid 2011
Documentary
One of America's top documentary filmmakers turns his attention to the outrageous and nearly unbelievable story of Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming beauty queen who gained a great deal of notoriety after being accused of kidnapping a young Mormon missionary, restraining him in chains and raping him in 1977 England. The unbalanced McKinney is extensively interviewed, particularly about her ambition to write a memoir telling her side of the tale.
The sides of Tabloid
- A former beauty queen telling her side
- A Mormon missionary who vanished in 1977 England
- British tabloids racing for the scoop
Good for you if
- you like laughing at a true story so strange it sounds invented.
- you like a real 1977 scandal and the British tabloids that fought over it.
- you can't look away from Joyce McKinney telling her version with total conviction.
Bad for you if
- you need to know at the end who was telling the truth.
- you can't hear a kidnapping and rape accusation told as a strange, funny story.
About: obsession · the press · truth

The Defiant Ones 2017
Documentary
A four-part documentary series that tells the stories of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre -- one the son of a Brooklyn longshoreman, the other straight out of Compton - -- and their improbable partnership and surprising leading roles in a series of transformative events in contemporary culture.
The sides of The Defiant Ones
- Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre telling their stories
- From Brooklyn and Compton to the studio
- Selling Beats to Apple
Good for you if
- you like hearing how records you know were made.
- you like two real lives from rough starts to the top of the business.
- you like an unlikely partnership between a producer and a rapper.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at success stories told by the people who lived them.
- you can't give four long episodes to a music documentary.
About: ambition · partnership · success

Chiara Ferragni: Unposted 2019
Documentary
Chiara Ferragni, the first fashion influencer in the world, reveals how the digital revolution has changes business world, communication, fashion, culture, through a portrait in which she's the protagonist, both as a woman and as digital entrepreneur.
The sides of Chiara Ferragni: Unposted
- Chiara Ferragni building a business on Instagram
- A fashion blogger turned global brand
- Family videos next to fashion weeks
Good for you if
- you want to see how one woman turned a blog into a fashion empire.
- you're curious about how followers became money and influence.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not read subtitles for the Italian parts.
- you roll your eyes at talk of chasing your dreams and believing in yourself.
About: fame · social media · work · image
El diablo viste de Prada 2006
Película
En el vertiginoso mundo de la moda en Nueva York, la revista 'Runway' es el Santo Grial. Dirigida con puño de hierro y elegante manicura por Miranda Priestly, trabajar en ella es un temible reto para todo aquel que quiera triunfar en ese mundo. Hacerlo como ayudante de Miranda podría abrirle cualquier puerta a Andy Sachs, recientemente graduada. Pero ella es una chica que destaca por su desaliño dentro del pequeño ejército de guapísimas redactoras de la revista. Andy comprende muy pronto que para triunfar en ese negocio va a necesitar algo más que iniciativa y determinación. Y la prueba definitiva está delante de ella, vestida de Prada de pies a cabeza.
Las caras de El diablo viste de Prada
- La asistente de una jefa aterradora
- Una moda que al principio le da igual
- La Semana de la Moda de París
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una jefa cuyos comentarios en voz baja destruyen a la gente.
- te gusta una villana interpretada con una elegancia helada.
- quieres una película ligera e inteligente sobre el trabajo y la ambición.
Mala para ti si
- quieres acción o peligro. Aquí las batallas se libran por cinturones y suéteres color cerúleo.
- quieres una historia de amor. El novio de Andy se pasa el tiempo esperándola en casa.
Temas: la ambición · el trabajo · la identidad
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine 2015
Documentary
When Steve Jobs died the world wept. But what accounted for the grief of millions of people who didn’t know him? This evocative film navigates Jobs' path from a small house in the suburbs, to zen temples in Japan, to the CEO's office of the world's richest company, exploring how Jobs’ life and work shaped our relationship with the computer. The Man in the Machine is a provocative and sometimes startling re-evaluation of the legacy of an icon.
The sides of Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
- Steve Jobs from the suburbs to Apple
- Former colleagues speaking on camera
- The grief of millions who never met him
Good for you if
- you like a documentary that questions the legend of Steve Jobs.
- you like seeing how one man ran the world's richest company.
- you like a portrait of a man full of contradictions.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not hear about worker suicides at the factories that build iPhones.
- you can't spend two hours with a man who denied his own daughter.
About: ambition · technology · legacy
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

Nude 2017
Documentary
NUDE explores perceptions of nudity in art by chronicling the creative process of photographer David Bellemere as he's commissioned by NU Muses founder Steve Shaw to shoot a fine art calendar of nude photographs.
The sides of Nude
- Photographer David Bellemere at work
- A fine art calendar of nude photographs
- Models talking about posing nude
Good for you if
- you like watching how a photographer builds an image.
- you like hearing the models talk about their bodies and why they pose.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not watch nudity, or you watch with others.
- you need a story with conflict and suspense.
About: art · the body · beauty
Mr. McMahon 2024
Documentary
WWE experienced record-breaking highs and crushing lows under Vince McMahon's leadership. This docuseries delves into the mogul's controversial reign.
The sides of Mr. McMahon
- Vince McMahon in his own interviews
- Decades of WWE history
- Allegations of sexual misconduct
Good for you if
- you want to hear the people who built WWE tell it themselves.
- you like watching how one man ran an empire and everyone in it.
- you grew up on pro wrestling and want to see behind the curtain.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through accounts of abuse and coercion.
- you want a light trip down memory lane with your old wrestling heroes.
About: power · ambition · accountability
Becoming 2020
Documentary
Join former first lady Michelle Obama in an intimate documentary looking at her life, hopes and connection with others.
The sides of Becoming
- Michelle Obama on her book tour
- A childhood on the South Side of Chicago
- Eight years as first lady
Good for you if
- you like hearing Michelle Obama tell her own story.
- you like sincere talks about hope and connecting with people.
- you want a warm, gentle portrait to watch on a calm evening.
Bad for you if
- you need conflict and suspense to stay interested.
- you want to keep politics out of your evening, and the Obama years are never far.
About: identity · family · hope
McQueen 2018
Documentary
Alexander McQueen's rags-to-riches story is a modern-day fairy tale, laced with the gothic. Mirroring the savage beauty, boldness and vivacity of his design, this documentary is an intimate revelation of McQueen's own world, both tortured and inspired, which celebrates a radical and mesmerizing genius of profound influence.
The sides of McQueen
- Alexander McQueen, from East London to Paris
- Runway shows staged like theatre
- Archive footage and memories of those close to him
Good for you if
- you love fashion shows that look like dark fairy tales.
- you want the real story of a cab driver's son who rose to the top of fashion.
- you like a portrait that leaves you moved.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not face grief and suicide on screen.
- you need a life story that ends in hope.
About: genius · fame · grief
Waking Sleeping Beauty 2010
Documentary
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.
The sides of Waking Sleeping Beauty
- Disney animation in crisis in the mid-1980s
- Studio executives fighting over control
- The run from The Little Mermaid to The Lion King
Good for you if
- you want the true story of how Disney went from flops to The Lion King.
- you like the studio fights between Katzenberg, Eisner and Roy Disney.
Bad for you if
- you need more than interviews and home video footage.
- you don't care about animated films, even how they were made.
About: creativity · rivalry · reinvention
Pamela, A Love Story 2023
Documentary
In her own words, through personal video and diaries, Pamela Anderson shares the story of her rise to fame, rocky romances and infamous sex tape scandal.
The sides of Pamela, A Love Story
- Pamela Anderson's home videos and diaries
- A rise from small town Canada to Baywatch
- A stolen sex tape and the tabloids
Good for you if
- you want Pamela Anderson telling her own story, from her home videos and diaries.
- you like someone taking back a life the tabloids wrote for her.
- you are curious about her marriages, Tommy Lee included.
Bad for you if
- you can't hear about childhood abuse and a stolen sex tape.
- you need more than a woman reading her diaries at home.
About: fame · privacy · love
The Pixar Story 2007
Documentary
A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company's relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits. The contributions of John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs are profiled. The decline of two-dimensional animation is chronicled as three-dimensional animation rises. Hard work and creativity seem to share the screen in equal proportions.
The sides of The Pixar Story
- John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs
- The making of Toy Story
- Pixar's early years with Disney
Good for you if
- you like the true story of how a small studio changed animation.
- you want a warm, upbeat story of artists getting to make the films they dreamed of.
- you like getting to know John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs and what each brought to Pixar.
Bad for you if
- you want a documentary with real conflict and suspense.
- you roll your eyes at a company telling its own success story.
About: creativity · teamwork · technology
The Armstrong Lie 2013
Documentary
In 2009, Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession. The Armstrong Lie picks up in 2013 and presents a riveting, insider's view of the unraveling of one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of sports. As Lance Armstrong says himself, "I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one."
The sides of The Armstrong Lie
- A comeback film that became a confession
- Lance Armstrong and the Tour de France
- Years of doping and denial
Good for you if
- you want the inside story of a lie told to the whole world.
- you like cycling and the Tour de France from inside the team.
- you want to spend two hours with a champion you can't quite root for.
Bad for you if
- two hours of interviews and archive footage is too much for you.
- you'd rather skip the lawyers, sponsors and cycling officials who kept the lie going.
About: lies · ambition · fame
Good Hair 2009
Documentary
An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, GOOD HAIR visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, scientific laboratories and Indian temples to explore the way hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of the Black community.
The sides of Good Hair
- Chris Rock asking why his daughter wants good hair
- A hair show battle in Atlanta
- Temples in India where hair is shaved for weaves
Good for you if
- you like Chris Rock cracking jokes in salons and barbershops.
- you want to know where weaves come from and what they cost.
- you like a father trying to answer his little girl's question.
Bad for you if
- you need a story with something at stake.
- you want hard numbers rather than a comedian's interviews.
About: beauty · self-esteem · money