20 Days in Mariupol
Dir. Mstyslav Chernov
Formally speaking, 20 Days in Mariupol is little more than a compilation of footage bravely collected by Mstyslav Chernov in…
Undefeated
Dir. Daniel Lindsay & T. J. Martin
Undefeated won an Oscar but since it’s a documentary, few sadly paid attention to it. It tells the story of…
Man on Wire
Dir. James Marsh
Man on Wire is a true technical masterpiece. You can almost feel the director telling the cameraman what angle to…
No Other Land
Dir. Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers…
One Day in September
Dir. Kevin Macdonald
The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli revenge operation ‘Wrath of God.’ The 1972 Munich…
The Fog of War
Dir. Errol Morris
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his…
Taxi to the Dark Side
Dir. Alex Gibney
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an…
Citizenfour
Dir. Laura Poitras
In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with…
An Inconvenient Truth
Dir. Davis Guggenheim
A documentary on Al Gore’s campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.
