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Ibelin

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Gaming Internet Netflix Disability

8.6 Great

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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat is a 2024 documentary by Johan Grimonprez linking jazz diplomacy to Patrice Lumumba's 1961 a...

Music History Politics 2020S

8.5 Great

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Daughters

Daughters is a 2024 U.S. documentary by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton about girls reuniting with incarcerated fathers, w...

Netflix Family Prison 2020S

8.1 Great

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Is That Black Enough for You?!?

Is That Black Enough for You?!? is a 2022 Netflix film essay by Elvis Mitchell, notable for reframing 1970s Black cinema...

History Netflix Film 2020S

8.0 Great

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Dick Johnson Is Dead

Dick Johnson Is Dead is Kirsten Johnson's 2020 documentary staging imagined deaths for her father while confronting deme...

Netflix Family Portrait 2020S

7.9 Good

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The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin is a 2024 Norwegian documentary by Benjamin Ree about gamer Mats Steen, winner of two Sund...

Gaming Netflix Disability 2020S

7.9 Good

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Will & Harper

Will & Harper is a 2024 Josh Greenbaum documentary about Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, notable for its 17-day US road...

Netflix Lgbtq+ Road Trip Friendship

7.9 Good

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Athlete A

Athlete A is Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk's 2020 Netflix documentary on the USA Gymnastics abuse scandal and the Indianapol...

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7.8 Good

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Stutz

Stutz is a 2022 Netflix documentary directed by Jonah Hill about psychiatrist Phil Stutz, notable for making practical t...

Netflix Mental Health Therapy 2020S

7.8 Good

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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger is a 2024 British documentary narrated by Martin Scorsese on the du...

History Film British 2020S

7.7 Good

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Can't Get You Out of My Head

Can't Get You Out of My Head is Adam Curtis's 2021 BBC documentary series linking modern politics, individualism, empire...

History Politics Bbc 2020S

7.6 Good

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Procession

Procession is a 2021 documentary by Robert Greene in which six men use staged scenes to confront childhood sexual abuse...

Netflix Trauma 2020S Abuse

7.6 Good

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MLK/FBI

MLK/FBI is Sam Pollard's 2020 documentary on J. Edgar Hoover's FBI surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King Jr....

History Surveillance 2020S Civil Rights

7.5 Good

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American Symphony

American Symphony is a 2023 Matthew Heineman documentary following Jon Batiste as he composes for Carnegie Hall while Su...

Health Music Netflix 2020S

7.5 Good

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Wham!

Wham! is a 2023 British Netflix documentary by Chris Smith about George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, notable for using a...

Music Pop Archive Netflix

7.5 Good

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The Janes

The Janes is a 2022 documentary about the Jane Collective, a Chicago network that helped women obtain abortions before R...

History Hbo 2020S Abortion

7.4 Good

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Victim/Suspect

Victim/Suspect is a 2023 documentary investigating cases in which women reporting sexual assault were instead accused by...

Netflix Crime Justice 2020S

7.4 Good

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Sr.

Sr. is a 2022 documentary by Chris Smith about filmmaker Robert Downey Sr., made with Robert Downey Jr. during the elder...

Netflix Family Film 2020S

7.3 Good

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The Greatest Night in Pop

The Greatest Night in Pop is a 2024 Bao Nguyen documentary on the 1985 recording of We Are the World, when dozens of sta...

Music Archive Netflix 2020S

7.3 Good

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Pamela, a Love Story

Pamela, a Love Story is a 2023 Netflix documentary by Ryan White about Pamela Anderson, notable for using her own journa...

Netflix Celebrity Media 2020S

7.2 Good