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For Sama 2019
Documentary
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
The sides of For Sama
- A young mother filming for her baby daughter
- A hospital in Aleppo under bombing
- The choice to stay or to leave
Good for you if
- you want a war told from inside by the woman living it.
- you like a love letter from a mother to her child.
- you want to understand what years of siege did to Aleppo.
Bad for you if
- you can't bear to see wounded children and grieving families.
- you won't read subtitles for a film mostly in Arabic.
About: motherhood · freedom · loss · hope
City of Ghosts 2017
Documentary
With unprecedented access, this documentary follows the extraordinary journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a group of anonymous citizen journalists who banded together after their homeland was overtaken by ISIS—as they risk their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.
The sides of City of Ghosts
- Citizen journalists from Raqqa
- Reporting on ISIS from exile
- Activists living under threat in Turkey and Germany
Good for you if
- you want to meet the people behind Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently.
- you like real suspense, with activists checking over their shoulders even in Germany.
- you want to see the Syrian war through the eyes of its citizens.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real execution and propaganda footage.
- you can't face the grief of families who lost people to ISIS.
About: courage · exile · the truth
Armadillo 2010
Documentary
Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against the Taliban. They're stationed on Armadillo military base in Helman province. Unlike other war movies, this is the real deal – no actors.
The sides of Armadillo
- Danish soldiers in Helmand in 2009
- A camp called Armadillo
- Real firefights filmed from inside
Good for you if
- you want to see what six months in Afghanistan does to young soldiers.
- you want a war film with no actors and no script.
- you like patrols where anything can happen.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real combat and real bodies.
- you won't read subtitles for a Danish film.
About: war · comradeship · moral doubt
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
20 Days in Mariupol 2023
Documentary
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
The sides of 20 Days in Mariupol
- Ukrainian journalists trapped in a besieged city
- Hospitals filling with the wounded
- Getting the footage out
Good for you if
- you want to see what the first weeks of the invasion looked like on the ground.
- you want to understand what a siege does to a city and its people.
Bad for you if
- the grief of parents losing children is too much for you.
- you can't watch real dead and wounded people on screen.
About: war · the truth · grief · journalism

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
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
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
Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror 2021
Documentary
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

Mosul 2019
Documentary
An Iraqi journalist joins an army of uneasy allies and unforgettable characters in the epic battle to liberate the city of Mosul from the Islamic State.
The sides of Mosul
- An Iraqi journalist with the troops
- The battle to retake Mosul from ISIS
- Uneasy allies fighting street by street
Good for you if
- you want to see a modern battle from the inside.
- you like the fear of every street in a city under siege.
- you want the fight against ISIS told by someone from Iraq.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real combat and real dead.
- you can't bear the real suffering of civilians.
About: war · liberation · courage
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

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
The Last Days 1998
Documentary
This Oscar-winning documentary recounts the harrowing stories of five Hungarian Jews who endured the horrors of the Holocaust and Hitler's reign.
The sides of The Last Days
- Five Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust
- Survivors returning to their childhood homes
- Memories of the camps
Good for you if
- you want to hear survivors tell their own stories.
- you want to understand the Holocaust in Hungary through five lives.
- you're ready to be moved to tears by people going back to where it happened.
Bad for you if
- you can't bear firsthand accounts of the camps.
- you can't look at archive footage of bodies in the camps.
About: memory · survival · loss
Virunga 2014
Documentary
Virunga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Africa’s oldest national park, a UNESCO world heritage site, and a contested ground among insurgencies seeking to topple the government that see untold profits in the land. Among this ongoing power struggle, Virunga also happens to be the last natural habitat for the critically endangered mountain gorilla. The only thing standing in the way of the forces closing in around the gorillas: a handful of passionate park rangers and journalists fighting to secure the park’s borders and expose the corruption of its enemies. Filled with shocking footage, and anchored by the surprisingly deep and gentle characters of the gorillas themselves, Virunga is a galvanizing call to action around an ongoing political and environmental crisis in the Congo.
The sides of Virunga
- Rangers guarding Africa's oldest national park
- Orphaned mountain gorillas and their keeper
- Hidden camera footage of an oil company's dealings
Good for you if
- you love the mountain gorillas and the man who raises them.
- you like hidden cameras catching bribes as they happen.
- you want to see rangers risking everything for a park in Congo.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real gunfire and war footage.
- you roll your eyes at a documentary built as a call to save the park.
About: conservation · courage · greed · war
Tower 2016
Documentary
Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America's first mass school shooting, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.
The sides of Tower
- The 1966 shooting at the University of Texas
- Survivors and rescuers telling their story
- Animation drawn over real testimony
Good for you if
- you can follow one long afternoon minute by minute.
- you want the people who were there, not the gunman, at the centre.
- you like seeing 1966 Austin brought back in animation and archive.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a real mass shooting and its victims, even told with care.
- you don't watch animated films, even documentaries.
- you can't stand gunfire and wounded people on screen.
About: courage · survival · trauma
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
Society of the Snow 2023
Film
On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
The sides of Society of the Snow
- A Uruguayan rugby team's plane crashing in the Andes
- Seventy two days on a glacier
- An impossible choice to stay alive
Good for you if
- you want to be moved by young men holding each other together.
- you want to feel the cold, the hunger and the avalanche.
- you want the 1972 crash told with respect for those who died.
Bad for you if
- you can't face death and the survivors' choice on screen.
- nearly two and a half hours is too much for one evening.
About: faith · brotherhood · grief · survival

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
Night and Fog 1956
Documentary
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
The sides of Night and Fog
- The grass grown back over Auschwitz ten years after
- Archive film and photographs from the camps
- A commentary written by a deported poet
Good for you if
- you want the camps documented a decade after, while the sites were still standing.
- you want the record itself, the archives and the places as they were left.
- you can face what was done there, stated plainly.
Bad for you if
- you can't look at archive images of the dead and the survivors of the camps.
- you need a film to leave you some hope, and this one closes by asking who is still keeping watch.
About: the camps · memory · war
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom 2015
Documentary
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