 | Aileen - Life and Death of a Serial Killer
Buy used from: $0.48 Nick Broomfield's examination of America's first female serial killer.
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 | American Pimp
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.00 Fascinating documentary about people you don't want to know--pimps. They have a way of thinking that turns people into commodities with a constant spew of gutter language and a fashion sense that is Versace stoned on steroids.
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 | Bowling for Columbine
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $0.74 America's fascination with guns and shooting things and people as shown by Michael Moore.
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 | The Bridge
Buy new: $21.49 / Used from: $10.15 An investigation of the Golden Gate Bridge as a popular means of committing suicide.
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 | The Corporation
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $14.60 Corporations as bastions of crime and sociopathic behavior.
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 | The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.50 Robert McNamara discusses his significant role in the Vietnam War.
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 | Fahrenheit 9/11
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $7.00 Michael Moore's Oscar winning film on the war in Iraq as waged by President George W. Bush.
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 | Gates of Heaven
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $2.89 Errol Morris's investigation of people's feelings about their pets using the vehicle of the pet cemetery.
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 | Grizzly Man
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.74 Werner Herzog;s film about Timothy Treadwell, who spent 13 summers in Alaska's Katmai National Park, with the grizzly bears. He is a nauralist who gets too carried away with nature and forgets some of its laws. Fascinating.
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 | Guerrilla - The Taking of Patty Hearst
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $6.99 The documentary version of the Patty Hearst story of her kidnapping and subsequent role as a terrorist bank robber and then a defendant on trial.
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 | Home Movie
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $5.62 Film about the concept of home as demonstrated by individual home owners who have chosen very individual homes to fit their needs. Tree house in Hawaii, a missle silo in North Dakota, a houseboat on a bayou in Louisianna, etc.,
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 | Hoop Dreams - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $14.97 Film following high school boys who try to secure their futures by winning at high school basketball.
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 | Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $14.99 Ken Burns's fascinating film about the journey and exploration of Lewis and Clark sponsored by Thomas Jefferson.
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 | Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $5.99 Werner Herzog's film about Dieter Dengler who wanted to fly more than anything. He became a Navy pilot and was shot down in Vietnam. After getting down to 85 pounds as a POW, he escaped and made it back to his own side.
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 | Mark Twain - A Film Directed by Ken Burns
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $14.97 Mark Twain is an utterly fascinating subject for a documentary. This is one of my favorite films.
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 | Mr. Death: The Rise & Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.97 Errol Morris's film about Fred Leuchter who designs execution equipment. The son of a prison guard and an electrical engineer, he offered to help fix the electric chair in North Carolina. Other states also hired him thereafter.
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 | Paradise Lost (Collector's Edition) (Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills / Paradise Lost 2: Revelations)
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $19.58 Murders of young boys in the woods in the South and the trial and conviction of probably innocent people. Shows the low level forensics done in a backwater community leading to prosecution of the wrong people.
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 | Religulous
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.32 Bill Maher's look at the world's religions as seen from his glove trotting perspective.
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 | The Ross McElwee DVD Collection (Sherman's March / Time Indefinite / Six O'Clock News / Bright Leaves / Backyard / Charleen) (Five-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $89.99 / Used from: $46.16 I am specifically recommending Sherman's March. Amazon only lists it with this compilation edition. Ross Mcelwee makes his march across the South, just like General Sherman, to discover why he has repeately gone wrong with his love life.
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 | The Staircase
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $10.99 A trial in the South of a man accused of pushing his wife down the stairs and killing her. There is another staircase murder in germany which happened while he was there that must also be reopened too.
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 | Super Size Me
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $2.00 Film about junk food and why we eat it using MacDonald's as an example.
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 | The Thin Blue Line
Buy used from: $5.61 Overturning a conviction in Texas of a man serving a prison term for a murder he did not commit.
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 | Thomas Jefferson - A Film by Ken Burns
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $16.98 Ken Burns fits this exploration of Jefferson with his companion piece about Lewis & Clark who were commissioned by Jefferson.
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 | The Up Series (Seven Up / 7 Plus Seven / 21 Up / 28 Up / 35 Up / 42 Up / 49 Up)
Buy new: $99.95 / Used from: $68.31 Michael Apted's film which follows a group of children at age 7 and then every 7 years thereafter. "Give me the child and I'll show you the men."
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 | The Weather Underground
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.04 An examination of the radical USA group, The Weather, from the late 1960s, their acts, their going underground and resurfacing much later as individuals.
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