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  1. Hearts and Minds 1974

    Documentary

    Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. Filmmaker Peter Davis uses Johnson's phrase in an ironic context in this anti-war documentary, filmed and released while the Vietnam War was still under way, juxtaposing interviews with military figures like U.S. Army Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland with shocking scenes of violence and brutality.

    The sides of Hearts and Minds

    • Interviews with generals and veterans
    • Vietnamese villagers after the bombing
    • The Vietnam War filmed while it was still going on

    Good for you if

    • you want to see what the Vietnam War did to the people on both sides.
    • you like a film made in the middle of the events it shows.
    • you like seeing official speeches set against what happened on the ground.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real footage of napalm and wounded civilians.
    • you find seventies footage dated.

    About: war · propaganda · guilt

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  2. 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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  3. 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

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  4. Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.

    The sides of The Untold History Of The United States

    • Oliver Stone narrating American history
    • From the Second World War to the present
    • Presidents, bombs and the Cold War

    Good for you if

    • you like a sweeping run through the American century.
    • you like asking who really made the big decisions.
    • you like archive footage of real leaders and real events.

    Bad for you if

    • you find almost ten hours too much for one documentary.
    • you'd rather not spend hours on wars and bombs.

    About: empire · power · memory

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  5. The World at War 1973

    Documentary

    A documentary series that gives a historical account of the events of World War II, from its roots in the 1920s to the aftermath and the lives it profoundly influenced.

    The sides of The World at War

    • World War II from its roots to its aftermath
    • Interviews with soldiers, civilians and leaders
    • Archive footage narrated by Laurence Olivier

    Good for you if

    • you want the whole Second World War told in order, front by front.
    • you like hearing soldiers who were there tell what they saw.
    • you like the grave, haunting Carl Davis theme that opens every episode.

    Bad for you if

    • you find 1970s television and black and white archives dated.
    • you can't watch footage of the camps and the dead.
    • you won't commit to twenty six episodes of nearly an hour each.

    About: war · memory · genocide

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  6. Last Days in Vietnam 2014

    Documentary

    During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the panicked South Vietnamese people desperately attempt to escape. On the ground, American soldiers and diplomats confront a moral quandary: whether to obey White House orders to evacuate only U.S. citizens.

    The sides of Last Days in Vietnam

    • The fall of Saigon in April 1975
    • Americans smuggling South Vietnamese allies out
    • Helicopters on the embassy roof

    Good for you if

    • you like witnesses telling what they did in the last hours.
    • you like a countdown you know ends badly.
    • you want to understand how the Vietnam War ended.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch people left behind on a rooftop.
    • you want combat, and this is interviews and archive footage.

    About: duty · conscience · escape

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  7. Apocalypse: World War I 2014

    Documentary

    Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally unknown Italian-Austrian, German-Polish-Russian, Japanese-German, Ottoman Empire- Allied and African German Colonies, and other unknown or forgotten fronts and battles.

    The sides of Apocalypse: World War I

    • Archive footage of the Great War in color
    • Fronts from Flanders to Africa and the Ottoman Empire
    • Soldiers and civilians caught in four years of war

    Good for you if

    • you want the whole of World War I told in order, forgotten fronts included.
    • you want to see the trenches as the soldiers lived them.
    • you like real faces from 1914 brought closer by color.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real footage of the wounded and the dead.
    • you can't take the scale of real loss in one evening.

    About: war · memory · loss

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  8. 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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  9. The Civil War 1990

    Documentary

    A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

    The sides of The Civil War

    • Archive photographs of soldiers and battlefields
    • Letters and diaries read aloud
    • From secession to Lincoln's assassination

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how the United States came apart and back together.
    • you like a haunting fiddle tune that returns through every episode.
    • you want the battles told through the people who fought them.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't give more than ten hours to one documentary.
    • you need moving footage, not slow pans over still photographs.

    About: slavery · the union · sacrifice

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  10. Over 93 days in Ukraine, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution and full-fledged civil rights movement.

    The sides of Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

    • 93 days on Kyiv's Maidan square
    • Students facing riot police in the snow
    • Footage filmed from inside the crowd

    Good for you if

    • you want to see the 2013 Maidan protests from inside the crowd.
    • you want to see ordinary people stand up to their own government in the snow.
    • you like living every night of a standoff in the freezing cold.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch protesters being beaten and shot.
    • you find real grief for the people who died on the square too much.

    About: freedom · protest · courage

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  11. Dynamic reenactments and expert commentaries bring to life the tumultuous history and power struggles of a warring 16th-century feudal Japan.

    The sides of Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan

    • Warlords fighting to unite 16th-century Japan
    • Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu
    • Reenactments mixed with historians

    Good for you if

    • you want the Sengoku period explained clearly from start to finish.
    • you like samurai armies and sieges brought back to life.
    • you like betrayals and alliances decided by who will rule Japan.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch bloody battle reenactments.
    • you can't take ritual suicide shown on screen.

    About: ambition · loyalty · unification

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  12. 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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  13. Why We Fight 2005

    Documentary

    Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.

    The sides of Why We Fight

    • Eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial complex
    • A retired New York policeman who lost his son on 9/11
    • Soldiers, officials and arms makers on the Iraq war

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand how money and politics shape war.
    • you want to trace America's wars from Eisenhower's farewell speech to Baghdad.
    • you want the Iraq war seen from Washington and the factories.

    Bad for you if

    • a father's grief and bombings on screen are too much for you.
    • you'd rather make up your own mind than follow a film that argues one side.

    About: power · war · grief

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  14. 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

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  15. Waltz with Bashir 2008

    Documentary

    A film director from Israel interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

    The sides of Waltz with Bashir

    • An Israeli director who can't remember his war
    • Interviews with fellow veterans of Lebanon, 1982
    • Animated memories that end on real footage

    Good for you if

    • you want to know what a war does to the memory of those who fought it.
    • you like a director investigating his own past.
    • you like dreamlike animated images, like soldiers rising from the sea at night.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather not see a war documentary in animation.
    • you won't read subtitles. It's in Hebrew.
    • you can't take a film about guilt and the dead of a war, seen through a soldier's nightmares.

    About: memory · guilt · war

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  16. Five Broken Cameras 2011

    Documentary

    Five broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent resistance when the Israeli army encroached upon its land to make room for Jewish colonists. Emad buys his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel. Over the course of the film, he becomes the peaceful archivist of an escalating struggle as olive trees are bulldozed, lives are lost, and a wall is built to segregate burgeoning Israeli settlements.

    The sides of Five Broken Cameras

    • A Palestinian farmer filming his village
    • Weekly protests against a separation wall
    • A son growing up in front of the camera

    Good for you if

    • you want to see Bil'in through the eyes of a man who lives there.
    • you like a father filming his youngest son as he grows up.
    • you like a story told by one man and his cameras, year after year.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch real people being hurt and killed on camera.
    • you need some hope by the end of a film.

    About: resistance · land · fatherhood · loss

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  17. The Pacific 2010

    Series

    Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

    The sides of The Pacific

    • Three real Marines in the Pacific war
    • Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa
    • Coming home after the fighting

    Good for you if

    • you want the true stories of Leckie, Basilone and Sledge.
    • you want to understand the war against Japan island by island.
    • you like battle scenes on the scale of a film.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch combat deaths filmed up close.
    • the toll of war on real men's minds is too much for you.

    About: war · brotherhood · trauma

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  18. Another Day of Life 2018

    Documentary

    In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness previously unknown to him. Angola changed him forever: it was a reporter who left Poland, but it was a writer who returned…

    The sides of Another Day of Life

    • A Polish reporter in Angola in 1975
    • A road trip to the front line of a civil war
    • Animation mixed with real interviews

    Good for you if

    • you want to see a war through the eyes of the journalist covering it.
    • you like a true story told by the people who were there.
    • you like animation that looks like a feverish dream of the front.

    Bad for you if

    • you don't watch animated films, even about real events.
    • you can't stand scenes of killing at checkpoints and in the bush.

    About: war · bearing witness · helplessness

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  19. Band of Brothers 2001

    Series

    Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.

    The sides of Band of Brothers

    • The paratroopers of Easy Company
    • A night jump over Normandy on D-Day
    • The Battle of the Bulge in winter

    Good for you if

    • you want a war story built from the real men's interviews and letters.
    • you like soldiers who become brothers, from training in Georgia to the end.
    • you want to follow one company from Normandy to Bastogne and the end of the war.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch men wounded and killed in combat.
    • you need some lightness, and the cold of Bastogne and the camps are too much for you.

    About: brotherhood · courage · war

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  20. O.J.: Made in America 2016

    Documentary

    A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.

    The sides of O.J.: Made in America

    • A football star's rise in the 1960s and 70s
    • Los Angeles, race and the LAPD
    • The 1995 murder trial and what came after

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand a trial through the city around it.
    • you like a true crime story told with care for the facts.
    • you want O.J. the running back at USC and Buffalo, long before the trial.

    Bad for you if

    • nearly eight hours is too much for you.
    • you can't look at real crime scene photos of two victims.

    About: race · fame · justice · America

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