![]() | Sound and Fury
Buy new: $18.49 / Used from: $11.92 To hear or not to hear. That is the (other) question. Great film. Provocative. Not a subject we delve into all that often.
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![]() | Keep the River on Your Right - A Modern Cannibal Tale
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $6.10 So this guy goes into the jungle...and things get wild. It's an incredible story actually. He's a sometimes cannibal/gay/explorer/risk taker.
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![]() | The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.56 I imagine this is so popular because it seems so timely...It is indeed a quite interesting interview with someone who can now offer insight (in hindsight) to the art of going to war.
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![]() | Autism is a World - CNN
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $19.95 Short but informative. An intimate look at the life of a young autistic woman.
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![]() | NOVA: Dying to Be Thin
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $12.23 Great documentary following various people in their struggles with eating disorders. I've watched it a few times. It's relevant to all women everywhere.
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![]() | Murder on a Sunday Morning
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $9.15 Docudrama in every sense of the word. This film made me want to riot...it's an incredible look into the imperfect judicial system and human error/prejudice.
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![]() | Devil's Playground
Buy used from: $33.65 (Amish) Girls Gone Wild. Okay. I only watched this because Oprah told me to. But it was good. Damn good.
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![]() | The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison [VHS]
Buy used from: $22.99 Moving peek into the world of prisoners at Angola Prison doing the old school chain gang thang.
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![]() | Daughter From Danang
Buy used from: $8.90 Beautiful documentary about an American woman who goes back to Vietnam to reconnect with her roots...and finds that this is harder than it sounds. A heart breaking anti-Hallmark film.
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![]() | Super Size Me
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $1.99 Kids, I've got some bad news about your Happy Meals...Brace yourself.
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![]() | The Corporation
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $16.71 Honestly, I don't know if I watched this the whole way through. It's long. But the point is kind of new: if a corporation were a person, it would be put away for displaying psychopathic traits...
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![]() | Startup.com
Buy used from: $4.27 Surprisingly interesting documentary about two old high school chums who jump on the dot.com bandwagon--and are later felled by the bust.
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![]() | Dark Days
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $10.09 This film follows around the folks who live underground in an Amtrack tunnel where apparently there are whole communities taking shape...Incredible.
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![]() | Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.09 So a Robitics Scientist, a Lion Tamer, a Blind Mole Rat Expert and a Topiary Gardener walk into a bar--stop me if you've heard this one. Brilliant--four unrelated madmen/experts seamlessly linked.
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![]() | Mad Hot Ballroom
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $2.05 "You make me feel like dancing. Wanna dance the night away! Yah!"
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![]() | Spellbound
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $1.92 Mindblowingly interesting. Who woulda thunk?
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![]() | POV: Farmingville
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $12.23 Provocative docudrama that makes you question the border issues...
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![]() | Born into Brothels
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.55 This is by far the BEST documentary I have seen in a long damn while. It's visually arresting and is simultaneously heartbreaking and inspiring. If you only watch one film on the list, this is that I would suggest above all others.
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![]() | In the Realms of the Unreal - The Mystery of Henry Darger
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $11.98 Very quirky documentary about a very quirky old man who dies quietly one day and leaves behind an accidental legacy in the form of eccentric art pieces and an epic novel marking the life odyssey of a tragic man. It begs to ask the question: what will you leave behind after death? Darger lived a life of an unremarkable man and died alone with nothing to show for his trouble. Or so it seemed.
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![]() | The Up Series (Seven Up / 7 Plus Seven / 21 Up / 28 Up / 35 Up / 42 Up)
Buy used from: $35.00 Ambitious and intrinsically fascinating. Apted attempts to document the lives of a group of children as they grow up, touching base every seven years. It really is quite interesting to watch them grow up and see whether or not they make good on their ambitions. It makes one all too aware of the shortness of life. Life is now. Live it!
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![]() | Hell House
Buy used from: $9.93 This was actually very intriguing--watching the lengths that the Bright and Shiny Saved will go to bring your miserable little soul back to Jesus. In Texas this means staging a haunted house of sorts, one like youve never seen before. This documentary actually offers a very valuable peek into a mindset that most people dont get exposed to: a new wave of Christian apostleship.
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![]() | Death - A Love Story
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $4.25 An ultimately depressing story indeed. This is mostly hand held home footage which outlines the way an unexpected diagnosis of cancer changes the lives of a pair of artsy newlyweds. The fact that it is mostly home video makes it more personal and altogether urgent at times. Once again, a documentary that illustrates the importance of living your (often times fleeting) life to the fullest.
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![]() | Who Killed the Electric Car?
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $5.09 Oy. Vey. Big Oil is a bastard. Same punchline, sure, but I guess we still need to hear it. Very good documentary about taking one step forward and then three steps back. So much for giant leaps for mankind...
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![]() | Murderball
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.46 If you like feel good sports movies, this one is sure to entertain. It's about wheelchair rugby AKA "Murderball". It was produced by MTV and it shows. But for once, this is a good thing.
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![]() | The Aristocrats
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $1.16 A few of my friends thought this movie was kind of "boring" due to the fact that it's basically just a bunch of comedians telling the same (incredibly vulgar) joke. I really like comedians though so it was entertaining to me. Come on...to hear Bob Sagat curse like a filthy sailor totally made my year.
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![]() | An Inconvenient Truth
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.75 It comes in recycled packaging! Watch this film--you're morally obliged to.
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![]() | Rock School
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.94 An entertaining look into a Phily "rock school" for kids (8-17).
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![]() | Paper Clips
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $10.65 This was filmed in a kind of corny way (goofy re-enactments etc) but it's pretty heart-felt and interesting.
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![]() | Deadline
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $2.50 Documentary dealing with the death penalty--climaxes at the Illinois Governor's decision on whether or not to commute the sentences of 100+ death row inmates a few days before giving up office.
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![]() | Paragraph 175 (Documentary) [VHS]
Buy used from: $8.94 The Nazis imprisoned and then exterminated homosexuals during WWII. This film is the first documentation of their story as told by a handful of survivors (less than a dozen were known to exist). None have been compensated for the crimes committed against them.
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![]() | Twist of Faith
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $4.35 Chronicles the journey of a man who was molested by a Priest as a young boy. He takes on the Catholic Church as so many before him have done...with heartbreaking results.
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![]() | To Be and to Have
Buy used from: $8.33 Understated and touching.
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![]() | The Five Obstructions
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $4.90 I found this incredibly engaging. It's an interesting film about film.
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![]() | The Yes Men
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $2.01 Some goofballs take on the WTO with their antics.
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![]() | The Heart of the Game
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.88 Hollywood couldn't have constructed a better sports story...in fact, I'm waiting for Hollywood to attempt to turn this into a blockbuster starring Beyonce as the down-on-her-luck basketball star...hmmm. Brilliant.
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