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  1. Citizenfour 2014

    Documentary

    In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.

    The sides of Citizenfour

    • Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room
    • Journalists deciding what to publish
    • A fire alarm that makes everyone freeze

    Good for you if

    • you like the days before a leak, filmed as they happen in one hotel room.
    • you want to watch Snowden explain, in his own words, why he did it.
    • you like seeing how governments watch their own citizens.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum, and most of it is people talking at a desk.
    • you want scale and sound, not a laptop and a hotel bed.

    About: surveillance · privacy · courage

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  2. The Unknown Known 2013

    Documentary

    Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

    The sides of The Unknown Known

    • Donald Rumsfeld facing the camera
    • His thousands of office memos
    • The road to the Iraq war

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear a man who ran the Pentagon explain himself.
    • you like Errol Morris questioning someone who plays with words.
    • you're fine ending a film without a clear answer about the man.

    Bad for you if

    • you need more than one man talking for an hour and a half.
    • you'd rather not revisit the Iraq war through the man who planned it.

    About: power · language · responsibility

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  3. 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

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  4. Mr. Nobody Against Putin 2025

    Documentary

    As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his own school.

    The sides of Mr. Nobody Against Putin

    • A teacher filming in his own school
    • War propaganda in Russian classrooms
    • A small Russian town

    Good for you if

    • you want to see what Russian schools did after the invasion of Ukraine.
    • you want to see how propaganda reaches children.
    • you want to see a war from far behind the front.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles.
    • you need some hope by the end.

    About: propaganda · courage · childhood

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  5. Return 2023

    Documentary

    "Behind every strong man is a strong woman!", Mumine shouts as her husband is arrested. She has 4 children, she's in her mid-30s, and she's the wife of a Crimean Tatar political prisoner. Muslim Crimean Tatars have been oppressed for a long time. They were deported under Stalin, allowed to return under Gorbachev, and since the occupation of Crimea in 2014 under Putin, they are being persecuted again. "Return" is a portrait of Mumine and Maye, two strong women struggling with the consequences of oppression. Their traditional understanding of their role as women does not stand in the way of their dedication. They possess strength, beauty and dignity. Only in their most intimate moments, they are overwhelmed by desperate helplessness.

    The sides of Return

    • Wives of Crimean Tatar political prisoners
    • A mother of four after her husband's arrest
    • Life in Crimea after 2014

    Good for you if

    • you want to see a persecution the news rarely shows.
    • you like a portrait of mothers holding a family together.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles.
    • you can't stand watching arrests and the despair of the families left behind.

    About: oppression · dignity · motherhood

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  6. Zero Days 2016

    Documentary

    Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and Israeli governments, this malware was designed to specifically sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme. However, the complex computer worm ended up not only infecting its intended target but also spreading uncontrollably.

    The sides of Zero Days

    • A computer worm aimed at Iran's nuclear program
    • Officials who won't speak on record
    • Alex Gibney chasing who built Stuxnet

    Good for you if

    • you like a true story about the first cyberweapon to break real machines.
    • you want to know how governments wage secret wars with code.
    • you like an investigation that feels like a spy thriller.

    Bad for you if

    • you want things blowing up, and this is mostly interviews and lines of code.
    • you need clear answers, and many people here refuse to give them.

    About: secrecy · cyberwar · state power

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  7. The Square 2013

    Documentary

    The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Cairo’s Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarak’s fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out.

    The sides of The Square

    • Young activists in Cairo's Tahrir Square
    • The fall of Mubarak and what came after
    • Protesters facing the army

    Good for you if

    • you want to be in Tahrir Square with the people who filled it.
    • you like seeing a revolution struggle against the army and the Brotherhood.
    • you like history filmed as it happened.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles.
    • you need a revolution story that ends in victory.

    About: freedom · revolution · hope

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  8. The Gatekeepers 2012

    Documentary

    In an unprecedented and candid series of interviews, six former heads of the Shin Bet — Israel's intelligence and security agency — speak about their role in Israel's decades-long counterterrorism campaign, discussing their controversial methods and whether the ends ultimately justify the means.

    The sides of The Gatekeepers

    • Six former heads of the Shin Bet
    • Interviews about decades of counterterrorism
    • Archive footage of attacks and the occupation

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear spy chiefs speak frankly about what they did.
    • you're drawn to questions of means and ends at the top of a state.
    • you like long, candid interviews with men who rarely talk.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles.
    • you can't watch footage of attacks and their aftermath.

    About: security · conscience · conflict

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  9. 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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  10. The Propaganda Game 2015

    Documentary

    North Korea. The last communist country in the world. Unknown, hermetic and fascinating. Formerly known as “The Hermit Kingdom” for its attempts to remain isolated, North Korea is one of the largest sources of instability as regards world peace. It also has the most militarized border in the world, and the flow of impartial information, both going in and out, is practically non-existent. As the recent Sony-leaks has shown, it is the perfect setting for a propaganda war.

    The sides of The Propaganda Game

    • A guided trip inside North Korea
    • A Spanish guide loyal to the regime
    • Pyongyang as the state wants it seen

    Good for you if

    • you're curious what a visitor is allowed to see in North Korea.
    • you like seeing how a regime tells its own story.
    • you like how strange a staged Pyongyang can look.

    Bad for you if

    • you want a film that tells you clearly what is true.

    About: propaganda · truth · isolation

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  11. 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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  12. 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

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  13. 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

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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. Titicut Follies 1967

    Documentary

    Employing methods of direct cinema–observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention–this stark look into the State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts shows its denizens, who were often kept in barren cells and infrequently bathed, forced to strip naked publicly, force feeding, and the indifference and bullying by many of the hospital's staff.

    The sides of Titicut Follies

    • Bridgewater State Hospital in 1967
    • Patients and guards with no narration
    • A variety show put on by staff and inmates

    Good for you if

    • you want to see a real prison hospital with no narrator telling you what to think.
    • you like raw black and white footage from the 1960s.
    • you want to see what total power over patients looks like.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch patients stripped, mocked and force fed.
    • you need some hope by the end.

    About: confinement · dignity · cruelty

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  16. Under the Sun 2015

    Documentary

    Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.

    The sides of Under the Sun

    • A Pyongyang family filmed for a year
    • Officials directing every scene
    • What happens between the takes

    Good for you if

    • you like everyday life that feels staged and surreal.
    • you want to see how a regime scripts its own people.
    • you're curious about a real family in North Korea.

    Bad for you if

    • you need momentum and long silent shots wear you out.
    • you won't read subtitles for a film in Korean.

    About: propaganda · control · childhood

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  17. The Look of Silence 2014

    Documentary

    An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the "Communist" purge occurred in 1965. His remaining family members lived in fear and silence until the making of this documentary. Adi, a brother of his, decided to revisit the horrific incident and visited the men who were responsible for the killings and one survivor of the purge. These meetings uncovered sadistic details of the murders and exposed raw emotions and reactions of the killers' family members about what happened in the past - much to Adi's disappointment.

    The sides of The Look of Silence

    • A man facing those who killed his brother
    • Eye tests as a way into conversations
    • Indonesia's 1965 killings

    Good for you if

    • you want to see a family ask the questions it was never allowed to ask.
    • you want to understand a mass killing that is rarely talked about.
    • you like quiet, patient conversations that say a lot.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't bear to hear killers calmly describe what they did.
    • you won't read subtitles for a film in Indonesian.

    About: guilt · memory · justice · grief

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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. Santiago, Italia 2018

    Documentary

    After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the regime, and extradited many of them to Italy.

    The sides of Santiago, Italia

    • The 1973 coup against Allende in Chile
    • An embassy that took in people fleeing the regime
    • Refugees remembering their new life in Italy

    Good for you if

    • you want to understand what happened in Santiago in 1973.
    • you like hearing the people who lived it tell it themselves.
    • you're drawn to how ordinary diplomats stood up to a dictatorship.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for a film in Italian and Spanish.
    • you can't sit through testimonies of arrests and torture.

    About: exile · dictatorship · solidarity

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  20. A 1998

    Documentary

    Roughly chronological, from 3/96 to 11/96, with a coda in spring of 1997: inside compounds of Aum Shinrikyo, a Buddhist sect led by Shoko Asahara. (Members confessed to a murderous sarin attack in the Tokyo subway in 1995.) We see what they eat, where they sleep, and how they respond to media scrutiny, on-going trials, the shrinking of their fortunes, and the criticism of society. Central focus is placed on Hiroshi Araki, a young man who finds himself elevated to chief spokesman for Aum after its leaders are arrested. Araki faces extreme hostility from the Japanese public, who find it hard to believe that most followers of the cult had no idea of the attacks and even harder to understand why these followers remain devoted to the religion, if not the violence.

    The sides of A

    • Inside the Aum Shinrikyo compounds after the sarin attack
    • A young spokesman facing a hostile press
    • Followers who stayed with the faith

    Good for you if

    • you want to see the Aum sect from inside, a year after the Tokyo subway attack.
    • you like a film that refuses to tell you what to think of the people it films.
    • you can sit with long, quiet scenes of daily life in a compound.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for over two hours.
    • you find 136 minutes of quiet observation too long.

    About: faith · the media · guilt

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