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  1. Blackfish 2013

    Documentary

    Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.

    The sides of Blackfish

    • Tilikum, a captive killer whale
    • Former SeaWorld trainers telling what they saw
    • The death of a trainer during a show

    Good for you if

    • you like former trainers admitting what they didn't want to see.
    • you care about how intelligent animals live.
    • you like seeing a company's story taken apart piece by piece.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real attacks and a real death described in detail.
    • you want a light animal film. This one leaves you angry.

    About: captivity · guilt · profit

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  2. 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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  3. Harlan County U.S.A. 1976

    Documentary

    A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

    The sides of Harlan County U.S.A.

    • Coal miners on strike in Kentucky
    • Wives and mothers on the picket line
    • Armed strikebreakers at dawn

    Good for you if

    • you want to stand on a real picket line for thirteen months.
    • you like seeing a mining town take on a corporation.
    • you like the union songs that run through it.

    Bad for you if

    • you find 1970s footage dated.
    • you can't watch a community living with guns on the picket line and miners sick with black lung.

    About: labour · solidarity · class

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  4. Sicko 2007

    Documentary

    A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States whose main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance, the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.

    The sides of Sicko

    • Americans refused care by their insurers
    • Hospitals in Canada, Britain, France and Cuba
    • Michael Moore sailing to Guantanamo with 9/11 rescue workers

    Good for you if

    • you want to know how an insurer makes money by saying no.
    • you like ordinary people telling what their illness cost them.
    • you let yourself be moved by 9/11 rescue workers finally treated in a Havana hospital.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take grief on screen. Families tell how a loved one died after an insurer said no.
    • you roll your eyes at emotional appeals and swelling music.

    About: health · money · dignity

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  5. Roger & Me 1989

    Documentary

    A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.

    The sides of Roger & Me

    • Michael Moore chasing the head of General Motors
    • Flint, Michigan after the plant closures
    • Evictions at Christmas

    Good for you if

    • you like laughing at a town's collapse to keep from crying.
    • you like seeing who pays when a giant company leaves.
    • you want the real people of Flint telling their own story.

    Bad for you if

    • you need some hope, and Flint keeps losing.
    • you can't watch families being evicted from their homes on camera.

    About: unemployment · corporate power · a hometown

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  6. Investigators reveal how Boeing’s alleged priority of profit over safety could have contributed to two catastrophic crashes within months of each other.

    The sides of Downfall: The Case Against Boeing

    • Two 737 MAX crashes months apart
    • Families of the victims
    • Engineers and pilots on the record

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand what led to two real crashes.
    • you like seeing how money can win over safety inside a company.
    • you want the technical failures explained clearly.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch grieving families talk about the people they lost.
    • you need some hope by the end. The families are still waiting for justice.

    About: profit · accountability · grief

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  7. Gasland 2010

    Documentary

    It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas." Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called "fracking"-and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.

    The sides of Gasland

    • A filmmaker driving across fracking country
    • Tap water that catches fire
    • Families living next to gas wells

    Good for you if

    • you like a filmmaker knocking on doors to see fracking for himself.
    • you want to see families up against an energy industry.
    • you care about what happens to rivers and land near gas wells.

    Bad for you if

    • you need some hope at the end of a film.
    • you want something light for your evening.

    About: pollution · energy · land

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  8. Waste Land 2010

    Documentary

    An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

    The sides of Waste Land

    • One of the world's largest landfills near Rio
    • Pickers of recyclables who become portrait subjects
    • The artist Vik Muniz

    Good for you if

    • you want real people from Jardim Gramacho telling their own lives.
    • you like being moved by people seeing their portraits in a museum.
    • you like giant portraits made from garbage.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take hard stories of poverty and the loss of a child.
    • you won't read subtitles for the Portuguese.

    About: dignity · art · hope

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  9. Betting on Zero 2016

    Documentary

    Controversial hedge fund titan Bill Ackman is on a crusade to expose global nutritional giant Herbalife as the largest pyramid scheme in history while Herbalife execs claim Ackman is a market manipulator out to bankrupt them and make a killing off his billion dollar short.

    The sides of Betting on Zero

    • Bill Ackman's billion dollar bet against Herbalife
    • Families who lost their savings
    • A fight over what a pyramid scheme is

    Good for you if

    • you like watching billionaires fight over money and influence.
    • you want the real Wall Street battle over Herbalife.
    • you like a bet where every share price move counts.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch families losing everything they saved.
    • you want something light, and this stays serious.

    About: greed · the American dream · finance

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  10. Modern history can be divided into two time frames: before 9/11 and after 9/11. This five-part docuseries is a cohesive chronicle of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., offering illuminating perspectives and personal stories of how the catastrophic events of that day changed the course of the nation.

    The sides of Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror

    • The September 11 attacks
    • Twenty years of war in Afghanistan
    • Survivors, soldiers and officials remembering

    Good for you if

    • you want the personal stories of people who lived through that day.
    • you like seeing how one day reshaped the following twenty years.
    • you want to understand the choices made in Washington after the attacks.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch footage of the attacks and accounts of torture.
    • you want something light for your evening.

    About: terrorism · grief · security and freedom

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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

    The sides of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

    • Enron's executives and their fake profits
    • Traders and the California blackouts
    • Employees who lost their savings

    Good for you if

    • you like watching executives build a giant on numbers that weren't real.
    • you want to understand how Enron fell in 2001.
    • you can laugh grimly at traders joking on tape about California's blackouts.

    Bad for you if

    • you need more than charts, tapes and interviews.
    • you need some hope, and thousands of employees lose everything here.

    About: greed · deception · money

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  14. 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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  15. Waiting for "Superman" 2010

    Documentary

    Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.

    The sides of Waiting for "Superman"

    • Five children hoping to win a school lottery
    • Families chasing a good public school
    • A look at the American school system

    Good for you if

    • you want to follow real families through a charter school lottery.
    • you like asking who decides how schools are run.
    • you're ready to be moved by children waiting for their name to be called.

    Bad for you if

    • you want a light, easy evening. Five families wait on a lottery for their children's future.
    • you roll your eyes at a passionate call to action.

    About: education · inequality · hope

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  16. Fahrenheit 9/11 2004

    Documentary

    Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

    The sides of Fahrenheit 9/11

    • The 2000 election and September 11
    • A president in a classroom after the attacks
    • A mother from Flint who lost her son in Iraq

    Good for you if

    • you want news footage and interviews from the Bush years in one film.
    • you like following money and oil between Washington and Saudi Arabia.
    • you like Michael Moore's mocking edits and pop songs over politicians.

    Bad for you if

    • a mother reading her dead son's last letter is too much for you.
    • you can't watch real footage of wounded civilians and soldiers in Iraq.

    About: war · grief · politics

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  17. Isle of Flowers 1989

    Documentary

    A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.

    The sides of Isle of Flowers

    • A tomato from a field to a dump
    • A narrator explaining everything like a textbook
    • People waiting after the pigs for food

    Good for you if

    • you like a cold, deadpan voice that makes you laugh before it hurts.
    • you can take an ending that leaves you with nothing to hold on to.
    • you want something that hits hard in thirteen minutes.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles, even for a short film in Portuguese.
    • you can't bear to see hunger and poverty on screen.

    About: poverty · money · dignity

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  18. 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

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  19. 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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  20. 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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