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Hoop Dreams 1994
Documentary
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excellence of its basketball program. Gates and Agee dream of NBA stardom, and with the support of their close-knit families, they battle the social and physical obstacles that stand in their way. This acclaimed documentary was shot over the course of five years.
The sides of Hoop Dreams
- Two Chicago teenagers dreaming of the NBA
- A long daily commute to a suburban basketball school
- Five years of their families' lives
Good for you if
- you like basketball as the dream that holds a family together.
- you want real lives followed over five years, with no script.
- you're moved by parents who sacrifice everything for their sons.
Bad for you if
- nearly three hours is too much for you in one sitting.
- you need a story that moves faster than real life.
About: ambition · poverty · family · race
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids 2004
Documentary
Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with their children. Briski began giving photography lessons to the children and became aware that their photography might be a way for them to lead better lives.
The sides of Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
- Children of sex workers in Calcutta
- Cameras handed to kids in a red light district
- A photographer trying to get them into school
Good for you if
- you want real children from Calcutta's red light district telling their own lives.
- you can be moved by kids who still laugh where they grow up.
- you like seeing a place through the photos the children took themselves.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch children growing up around prostitution and violence.
- you need a happy ending for every child.
About: childhood · poverty · art as a way out
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey 2022
Documentary
In interviews and rare home video footage, ex-FLDS members share the truth about their isolated community — and the events that pushed them to leave.
The sides of Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
- A closed polygamist church in the American West
- Warren Jeffs, a self-declared prophet
- Former members and their home videos
Good for you if
- you want former members telling the truth about a world they escaped.
- you like seeing how one man took control of a whole community.
- you are drawn to stories of mothers and daughters breaking away.
Bad for you if
- you can't take real stories of child abuse and underage marriage.
- you need some light in a story, and this one stays dark for long stretches.
About: faith · control · escape
Grey Gardens 1976
Documentary
Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
The sides of Grey Gardens
- A mother and daughter in a decaying mansion
- Little Edie's improvised outfits and songs
- Cats and raccoons in the house
Good for you if
- you like spending time with Big Edie and Little Edie as they are.
- you like a mother and daughter who bicker and can't leave each other.
- you like a strange, closed world on a Long Island estate.
Bad for you if
- you need a story that goes somewhere.
- you find 1970s handheld footage dated.
About: mother and daughter · solitude · the past
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
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

Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult 2020
Documentary
This four-part documentary series follows the story of India Oxenberg's perilous journey through the dark and criminal world of the notorious self-help-group-turned-sex-slave-cult NXIVM.
The sides of Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult
- A young actress drawn into NXIVM
- A self-help group that became a cult
- A mother fighting to get her daughter out
Good for you if
- you want India Oxenberg telling her own story.
- you want to understand how a group took control of its members.
- you're moved by a mother who refuses to give up on her daughter.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch accounts of manipulation and sexual abuse.
- you want the whole cult told through many former members. This one stays close to India and her mother.
About: manipulation · control · recovery
Honeyland 2019
Documentary
When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland’s basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.
The sides of Honeyland
- Hatidze, a wild beekeeper in North Macedonia
- Her old, bedridden mother
- A nomadic family moving in next door
Good for you if
- you like bees, rocks and light in a remote Balkan valley.
- you like a real life filmed over three years, with no narrator.
- you're moved by Hatidze caring for her mother alone.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles.
- you need momentum. The film follows the bees season by season.
About: balance · solitude · greed
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
Four Daughters 2023
Documentary
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.
The sides of Four Daughters
- A Tunisian mother and her four daughters
- Two daughters who left home and never came back
- Actresses standing in for the missing
Good for you if
- you like a story about mothers and daughters told without hiding the hard parts.
- you want a true story told by the family who lived it.
- you want to be moved to tears by two sisters facing the actresses who play their missing sisters.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Arabic.
- you can't watch a family talk about abuse, violence and radicalisation.
About: motherhood · sisterhood · radicalisation · memory
One More Time with Feeling 2016
Documentary
Andrew Dominik's One More Time With Feeling is a remarkable black and white documentary which chronicles the creation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' album Skeleton Tree. Originally a performance based concept, the film evolved into something much more significant as Dominik delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. The result is stark, fragile and raw, and a true testament to an artist trying to find his way through the darkness. It documents the writing, recording and performing of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree.
The sides of One More Time with Feeling
- Nick Cave recording an album after losing his son
- A studio filmed in black and white
- A family living with grief
Good for you if
- you like watching songs take shape in the studio.
- you like a film that sits quietly with real grief.
- you like stark black and white images.
Bad for you if
- a parent's grief is too much for you.
- you need some hope by the end.
About: grief · creation · fatherhood

The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo 2020
Documentary
After the death of her daughter at the hand of her boyfriend, Marisela Escobedo began to fight for justice not only against the murderer but also against the corrupt Mexican judicial system.
The sides of The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo
- A mother pursuing her daughter's killer
- A Mexican justice system that lets him go
- Years of protest in Chihuahua
Good for you if
- you want the true story of Marisela Escobedo's fight for justice.
- you want to follow a femicide case through Mexico's police and courts.
Bad for you if
- you can't take a mother's grief and a murdered daughter on screen.
- you need a story where justice wins in the end.
About: justice · grief · corruption
The Central Park Five 2012
Documentary
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, this is the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.
The sides of The Central Park Five
- Five Harlem teenagers arrested in 1989
- Confessions taken after hours of questioning
- Years in prison before the real attacker confesses
Good for you if
- you want the Central Park case told carefully, with the facts.
- you want to see how police, press and public rushed to judgment.
- you want the five men to tell it in their own words.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit with a rape case and teenagers sent to prison.
- you need some hope, and stolen years are hard for you to watch.
About: injustice · racism · the press
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
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
Stories We Tell 2012
Documentary
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending on their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
The sides of Stories We Tell
- Sarah Polley questioning her own family
- A mother who died when Sarah was young
- Home movies, some of them restaged
Good for you if
- you like siblings and fathers each telling a mother's story their own way.
- you like a film that keeps changing what you thought was true.
- you can be moved by a daughter looking for her mother's secret.
Bad for you if
- you need things to happen, and this is people remembering.
- you want one clear version of the truth at the end.
About: memory · truth · family secrets
Dark Days 2000
Documentary
A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.
The sides of Dark Days
- People living in the train tunnels under New York
- Shacks built in the dark beside the tracks
- A crew made up of the tunnel residents
Good for you if
- you want to see how people really lived under Manhattan.
- you like hearing people tell their own lives with humour and honesty.
- you like a DJ Shadow score under grainy images.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch addiction and poverty up close.
- you find grainy black and white footage hard to watch.
About: homelessness · dignity · community
Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story 2020
Documentary
After 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown is sentenced to life in prison, questions about her past, physiology and the law itself call her guilt into question.
The sides of Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story
- A girl sentenced to life at 16
- Questions about her past and the law
- A long fight for clemency in Tennessee
Good for you if
- you want the real story of a 16-year-old sentenced to life in Tennessee.
- you want the questions about her past and the law behind a murder case.
- you can be moved by a long fight for a second chance.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story of abuse and exploitation of a teenager.
- you'd rather have a thriller than court records and interviews.
About: justice · second chances · abuse
Into the Abyss 2011
Documentary
We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes.
The sides of Into the Abyss
- Werner Herzog talking to a man days before his execution
- A triple murder in a small Texas town
- Families of the victims and of the killers
Good for you if
- you like Herzog's quiet questions and the long answers they get.
- you can take a film about death with no easy comfort.
- you want to hear everyone touched by one crime, on every side.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit through grieving families and a death row countdown.
- you need momentum more than long, still interviews.
About: the death penalty · loss · guilt
He Named Me Malala 2015
Documentary
A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education and the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.
The sides of He Named Me Malala
- Malala Yousafzai and her father Ziauddin
- A Taliban gunman on a school bus
- Hand-painted animated flashbacks
Good for you if
- you like a girl's speech about school at the United Nations.
- you want to know the teenager behind the Nobel Peace Prize.
- you like a father and daughter who share the same fight.
Bad for you if
- you can't take the story of a child shot for going to school.
- you don't like animated scenes in your documentaries.
About: education · courage · fatherhood