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McLibel (1997)
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| Inspiring - two resourceful people take on a billion dollar corporation |
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Grey Gardens (Criterion Collection) (1976)
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| Beautiful, circular study of a mother and daughter caught in a timeless loop. |
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Street Fight (2005)
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| I thought I understood dirty campaigning. Then I saw this. |
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The Thin Blue Line (1988)
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| Gripping documentary with beautiful music by Philip Glass. |
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The Gleaners and I (2000)
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Not Rated
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| A new way of looking at "things" and usefulness. |
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Dark Days (2000)
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Not Rated
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| A first time director grabs a camera and looks underground. |
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Hearts and Minds (Criterion Collection) (1974)
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| Understand the Vietnam War. Listen to General Westmoreland. Then hear familiar echoes. |
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Grizzly Man (2005)
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| Werner Herzog asks, how much do we really understand nature? |
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It's All True (1993)
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| Great story of filmmaking gone wrong presented with beautiful outtakes from what was shot. |
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How to Draw A Bunny (2002)
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| Fascinating film about a man no one really knew who decided to live and end his life as art. |
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The Fog of War (2003)
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| An amazing character study of one man who saw the saving and taking of lives as engineering problems. |
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In the Realms of the Unreal (2003)
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| creepy, sad, heartbreaking, and somehow inspiring. |
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Style Wars (1983)
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| Interesting look at a time and a place. |
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Super Size Me (2003)
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| Made me think about what I eat, where it came from, and how it got there. If you like it, read Fast Food Nation and Omnivore's Dilema. |
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Jesus Camp (2006)
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| Training Jesus's little soldiers - an oxymoron? I could've done with out the spooky music, but the documentary is compelling and alarming with or without it. |
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Bowling for Columbine (2002)
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| This documentary is all over the place. Ostensibly about guns, so many connections spin out that it becomes more about fear and a strange lack of empathy in America. |
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The White Darkness/Voice of the Moon (2002/1990)
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Not Rated
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| Both of these documentaries are fascinating. The White Darkness starts as an examination of voodoo and ends up including the US invasion of Haiti. Voice of the Moon is a compelling travel video shot in Afghanistan just before the Taliban took over. |
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Black and White in Color/The Sky Above, The Mud Below (1976)
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| The Sky Above, The Mud Below is a unique, morally troubling, expedition into unexplored New Guinea. |
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Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
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| filmed at Lake Victoria in Tanzania, environmental and social catastrophe are tied together. |
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The Up Series: Seven Up & 7 Plus Seven (1964/1970)
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Not Rated
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| excellent series that follows a group of kids through adulthood and examines how they change or don't based on their experiences. |
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