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Documentaries like Earthlings

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The 3 reasons people love Earthlings

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  1. You want to see what hidden cameras filmed inside farms and slaughterhouses.

  2. You can watch something hard and leave without comfort.

  3. You care about how people treat animals.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

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  • Blackfish2013

    • you want to see what hidden cameras filmed inside farms and slaughterhouses
    • you care about how people treat animals

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

  • Grizzly Man2005

    • you want to see what hidden cameras filmed inside farms and slaughterhouses
    • you care about how people treat animals

    Good for you if you like a portrait made from a man's own tapes.

  • Bus 1742002

    • you want to see what hidden cameras filmed inside farms and slaughterhouses
    • you can watch something hard and leave without comfort

    Good for you if you want to understand a real hostage crisis that Brazil watched live.

  • Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple2006

    • you want to see what hidden cameras filmed inside farms and slaughterhouses

    Good for you if you want to understand how ordinary people followed Jim Jones.

  • Isle of Flowers1989

    • you can watch something hard and leave without comfort

    Good for you if you can take an ending that leaves you with nothing to hold on to.

  • Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution2005

    • you want to see what hidden cameras filmed inside farms and slaughterhouses

    Good for you if you need to hear survivors and former guards tell it themselves.

  • LA 922017

    • you want to see what hidden cameras filmed inside farms and slaughterhouses

    Good for you if you want to see the 1992 Los Angeles riots as they were filmed at the time.

  • Taxi to the Dark Side2008

    • you want to see what hidden cameras filmed inside farms and slaughterhouses

    Good for you if you want the true story of one innocent man who died in US custody.

  • Virunga2014

    • you want to see what hidden cameras filmed inside farms and slaughterhouses
    • you care about how people treat animals

    Good for you if you love the mountain gorillas and the man who raises them.

  • One Child Nation2019

    • you want to see what hidden cameras filmed inside farms and slaughterhouses

    Good for you if you want to hear the people who lived the policy, in their own words.

  • 20 Days in Mariupol2023

    • you want to see what hidden cameras filmed inside farms and slaughterhouses

    Good for you if you want to see what the first weeks of the invasion looked like on the ground.

Reasons taken from Earthlings's card. Picks from the Ipsomap catalogue. This application uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.

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