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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage 1980
Documentary
Carl Sagan covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.
The sides of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
- Carl Sagan explaining the universe
- The whole history of the cosmos on one calendar
- A spaceship of the imagination
Good for you if
- you like feeling small in front of the age of the universe.
- you like stars, planets and how we learned what they are.
- you like a scientist who speaks about humanity with real feeling.
Bad for you if
- you find 1980 effects and pacing dated.
- you need momentum. Carl Sagan takes his time, with long pauses on music and images of space.
About: our place in the universe · science · humanity
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey 2017
Documentary
A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us now: science and spirit, birth and death, the grand cosmos and the minute life systems of our planet.
The sides of Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
- The birth of the universe
- Life appearing and evolving on Earth
- A narrator asking questions to a mother figure
Good for you if
- you like feeling small in front of billions of years.
- you want galaxies, volcanoes and cells as pure images.
- you like the cosmos from its first moment to its end.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that moves, not a long meditation.
- you roll your eyes at whispered questions to the universe.
About: creation · the meaning of life · time
Nostalgia for the Light 2010
Documentary
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.
The sides of Nostalgia for the Light
- Astronomers in Chile's Atacama Desert
- Women searching the sand for their dead
- Pinochet's political prisoners
Good for you if
- you like looking at the stars and thinking about where we come from.
- you like a quiet, patient film that leaves room to think.
- you want to understand how Chile lives with the Pinochet years.
Bad for you if
- you can't face mothers still searching for the remains of their children.
About: memory · grief · the cosmos · justice
The Unbelievers 2013
Documentary
Scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss travel the globe promoting a scientific worldview and the rational questioning of religious belief.
The sides of The Unbelievers
- Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss on tour
- Science against religious belief
- Packed halls and debates around the world
Good for you if
- you like long conversations about science and belief.
- you want arguments built on evidence.
- you like spending time on the road with two well-known scientists.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at people making the case for their own side on stage.
- you want a portrait of the men themselves. The film follows their talks more than their lives.
About: reason · religion · doubt

The Apocalypse of St John 2024
Documentary
Embark on an epic journey through time and faith with 'The Apocalypse of Saint John.' Join the Apostle John in a stunning visual narrative that unravels the visions of the End Times. Experience each vision like never before, with striking visual effects and epic scenes that immerse you in the apocalyptic narrative.
The sides of The Apocalypse of St John
- The Apostle John's visions of the end times
- The Book of Revelation staged scene by scene
- Visual effects for the apocalypse
Good for you if
- you like the visions of the Book of Revelation brought to the screen with effects.
- you want the end of the world played out as a vast vision in epic scenes.
Bad for you if
- you need characters to get to know. John is the witness of the visions, not the subject of a portrait.
- you roll your eyes at a solemn, faith-driven telling.
About: faith · the end of the world
Life in a Day 2011
Documentary
A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.
The sides of Life in a Day
- One day, the 24th of July 2010
- Home videos sent from all over the world
- Births, breakfasts, work and goodbyes
Good for you if
- you like feeling how big and varied the world is in one day.
- you want ordinary people filming their own lives.
- you get moved by small moments from strangers.
Bad for you if
- you lose track when a film jumps between hundreds of strangers.
- you need momentum more than a gentle flow of moments.
About: daily life · humanity · time
Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb 2020
Documentary
This documentary follows a team of local archaeologists excavating never before explored passageways, shafts, and tombs, piecing together the secrets of Egypt’s most significant find in almost 50 years in Saqqara.
The sides of Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb
- Egyptian archaeologists digging at Saqqara
- Shafts and tombs opened for the first time
- A family tomb from ancient Egypt
Good for you if
- you love ancient Egypt and its tombs.
- you like the moment a sealed chamber is opened.
- you like following a real dig with the team doing it.
Bad for you if
- you want more happening than careful digging.
- you won't read subtitles. The Egyptian team speaks Arabic on camera.
About: discovery · the afterlife · heritage
Ancient Apocalypse 2022
Documentary
Journalist and writer Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civilizations dating back to the last Ice Age. He attempts to prove that a climatic event 12,000 years ago wiped out an entire civilization far more sophisticated than the simple hunter-gatherers some archaeologists believe lived at that time.
The sides of Ancient Apocalypse
- Graham Hancock visiting ancient sites
- Göbekli Tepe and Gunung Padang
- A theory of a lost Ice Age civilization
Good for you if
- you like a host chasing a lost civilization across the world.
- you like megaliths, pyramids and underground cities.
- you like imagining a world wiped out 12,000 years ago.
Bad for you if
- you need theories that most archaeologists accept.
- you need answers by the end. Hancock leaves you with questions, not proof.
About: lost civilizations · the ice age · catastrophe
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple 2006
Documentary
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
My Octopus Teacher 2020
Documentary
After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher: a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal’s trust and they develop a never-before-seen bond between human and wild animal.
The sides of My Octopus Teacher
- A diver in a kelp forest off South Africa
- A year following one octopus
- A shark hunting her in the shallows
Good for you if
- you like cold water, kelp and the life hidden in it.
- you like seeing how clever an animal can be up close.
- you can be moved to tears by a bond with an octopus.
Bad for you if
- a man's voice-over about his feelings for an animal makes you roll your eyes.
- you need a story that moves. This is slow dives, day after day.
About: connection · healing · the life cycle
Shoah 1985
Documentary
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.
The sides of Shoah
- Survivors, bystanders and perpetrators interviewed
- The sites of the camps filmed decades later
- No archive footage at all
Good for you if
- you want the Holocaust told by those who were there.
- you can sit with long silences and slow train journeys.
- you can be moved to tears by a barber breaking down as he recalls Treblinka.
Bad for you if
- you can't give more than nine hours to one film.
- you won't read subtitles, and the film moves between many languages.
- you can't hear first-hand accounts of mass murder.
About: memory · testimony · genocide
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word 2018
Documentary
Pope Francis responds to questions from around the world, discussing topics including ecology, immigration, consumerism and social justice.
The sides of Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
- Pope Francis talking straight to the camera
- Wim Wenders as director
- Questions on poverty, migration and the planet
Good for you if
- you want to hear Pope Francis in his own words.
- you like sincere talk about the poor, the planet and kindness.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum more than a man speaking calmly to the camera.
- you want a documentary with conflict and hard questions.
About: faith · poverty · ecology · justice
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
Salesman 1969
Documentary
This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Paul "The Badger" Brennan, Charles "The Gipper" McDevitt, James "The Rabbit" Baker and Raymond "The Bull" Martos. Times are tough for this hard-living quartet, who spend their days traveling through small-town America, trying their best to peddle gold-leaf Bibles to an apathetic crowd of lower-middle-class housewives and elderly couples.
The sides of Salesman
- Four Bible salesmen on the road
- Sales pitches in working-class living rooms
- Motel rooms between visits
Good for you if
- you like watching real door-to-door salesmen at work in 1960s America.
- you like following Paul Brennan as his pitch stops working.
- you enjoy black and white documentaries from the sixties.
Bad for you if
- you need more happening than sales pitches in living rooms.
- you need music to carry a film. There's no score and no narrator, just the salesmen talking.
About: work · failure · the American dream
Human 2015
Documentary
A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human. Through these stories full of love and happiness, as well as hatred and violence, it brings us face to face with the Other, making us reflect on our lives. From stories of everyday experiences to accounts of the most unbelievable lives, these poignant encounters share a rare sincerity and underline who we are – our darker side, but also what is most noble in us, and what is universal. Our Earth is shown at its most sublime through never-before-seen aerial images accompanied by soaring music, resulting in an ode to the beauty of the world, providing a moment to draw breath and for introspection. This film is a politically engaged work which allows us to embrace the human condition and to reflect on the meaning of our existence.
The sides of Human
- Faces talking straight to the camera
- Aerial views of the Earth
- Stories of love, war and poverty
Good for you if
- you like aerial images of the Earth that hold you still.
- you're moved by strangers telling you about love and loss.
- you like a soaring score between the voices.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through three hours in one evening.
- you can't take testimonies of war and poverty face to face.
- you won't read subtitles in dozens of languages.
About: humanity · love · injustice
Into the Inferno 2016
Documentary
With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.
The sides of Into the Inferno
- Werner Herzog and volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer
- Lava lakes in Vanuatu and Ethiopia
- A North Korean volcano treated as sacred
Good for you if
- you like standing at the edge of a boiling lava lake.
- you want eruptions and lava flows filmed up close.
- you like Herzog drifting from volcanoes to cults and myths.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, not Herzog's long detours.
- you want eruptions back to back, not interviews between them.
About: nature · belief · the end of the world
The God Who Wasn't There 2005
Documentary
Did Jesus exist? This film starts with that question, then goes on to examine Christianity as a whole.
The sides of The God Who Wasn't There
- A question about whether Jesus existed
- A filmmaker revisiting his Christian upbringing
- Interviews with scholars and believers
Good for you if
- you like asking what is actually known about the historical Jesus.
- you like a first-person documentary about faith and doubt.
- you want a documentary that fits in an hour.
Bad for you if
- you want the question left open. Brian Flemming argues for one answer.
- you'd rather follow people than an argument.
About: faith · doubt · history
Cave of Forgotten Dreams 2010
Documentary
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.
The sides of Cave of Forgotten Dreams
- The Chauvet cave in southern France
- The oldest known paintings by humans
- Werner Herzog's voice in the dark
Good for you if
- you feel awe before horses painted more than thirty thousand years ago.
- you want to see a prehistoric cave few people will ever enter.
- you like rock walls lit by torchlight, filmed up close.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, not long silent shots of cave walls.
- you roll your eyes at Herzog's strange musings and albino crocodiles.
About: prehistory · art · time

Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution 2005
Documentary
This documentary series tackles one of history's most horrifying subjects: the Holocaust and the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
The sides of Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution
- The history of Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Testimony from survivors and former perpetrators
- Reconstructions of Nazi decisions
Good for you if
- you want to understand how Auschwitz was built and run.
- you need to hear survivors and former guards tell it themselves.
- you want to understand the Second World War beyond the battlefields.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch testimony about mass murder.
- you need some hope from what you watch.
About: memory · genocide · responsibility
Tim's Vermeer 2013
Documentary
Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically 150 years before the invention of photography? Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Holland, on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artista David Hockney, and eventually even to Buckingham Palace. The epic research project Jenison embarques on is as extraordinary as what he discovers.
The sides of Tim's Vermeer
- An inventor who has never painted
- A room in Texas rebuilt like Vermeer's
- Mirrors, lenses and years of patience
Good for you if
- you like a theory tested with real lenses and mirrors.
- you like a centuries old question about how Vermeer painted.
- you like Dutch painting from the 1600s.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum, and months of painting wear you out.
- you want Penn and Teller's stage comedy. Here they mostly watch a friend paint.
About: art · obsession · patience