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Documentaries like Bowling for Columbine

Not everyone loves Bowling for Columbine for the same reason. Pick the one that was yours, and the picks follow.

The 3 reasons people love Bowling for Columbine

Read them all. One will sound more like you than the others.

  1. You want a road trip through America asking why it has so many shootings.

  2. You can laugh at a cartoon history of America while the subject is gun deaths.

  3. You like a sardonic narrator who questions everyone from Marilyn Manson to Charlton Heston.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

Tick them here or with “That’s me” above. The picks re-sort by how many of your reasons they share.

  • Fahrenheit 9/112004

    • a road trip through America asking why it has so many shootings
    • a cartoon history of America while the subject is gun deaths

    Good for you if you want news footage and interviews from the Bush years in one film.

  • BlacKkKlansman2018

    • a road trip through America asking why it has so many shootings

    Good for you if you like stories that really happened.

  • Chernobyl2019

    • a road trip through America asking why it has so many shootings

    Good for you if you want to understand a real disaster.

  • Inside Job2010

    • a road trip through America asking why it has so many shootings
    • a sardonic narrator who questions everyone from Marilyn Manson to Charlton Heston

    Good for you if you like a case built with real figures, real names and real interviews.

  • Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief2015

    • a road trip through America asking why it has so many shootings
    • a sardonic narrator who questions everyone from Marilyn Manson to Charlton Heston

    Good for you if you like hearing people explain how they came to believe, and how they left.

  • 13th2016

    • a road trip through America asking why it has so many shootings

    Good for you if you like an argument built from archives, laws and numbers.

  • Blackfish2013

    • a road trip through America asking why it has so many shootings

    Good for you if you like former trainers admitting what they didn't want to see.

  • Waltz with Bashir2008

    • a road trip through America asking why it has so many shootings

    Good for you if you like a director investigating his own past.

  • Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes2019

    • a road trip through America asking why it has so many shootings

    Good for you if you want to hear a real case from the recordings themselves.

  • The Big Short2015

    • a road trip through America asking why it has so many shootings
    • a sardonic narrator who questions everyone from Marilyn Manson to Charlton Heston

    Good for you if you like sharp, cynical characters.

  • Citizenfour2014

    • a road trip through America asking why it has so many shootings

    Good for you if you want to watch Snowden explain, in his own words, why he did it.

  • Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich2020

    • a road trip through America asking why it has so many shootings

    Good for you if you want to hear the survivors in their own words.

  • Tiger King2020

    • a cartoon history of America while the subject is gun deaths

    Good for you if you can laugh at how far a feud between zoo owners goes.

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