The Act of Killing
★★★★★ Director: Joshua Oppenheimer, Year: 2012 Everyone knows how much I love documentaries and well, not only is this the best documentary of the year but it's one ...
Dallas Buyers Club
★★★★ Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Year: 2013 An incredible story that's unfamiliar to most people, including myself. It was amazing to see the AIDS epidemic shown in macho Texas ...
Pruitt-Igoe Myth
★★★★ Director: Chad Freidrichs Year: 2011 Having gone to school, let alone architecture school, in St. Louis, I've always known about Pruitt-Igoe, the housing project that won a ...
12 Years a Slave
★★★★ Director: Steve McQueen Year: 2013 This is one of the most original stories I had read/scene and it's even more surprising (although not so much) that it's ...
The Impossible
★★★ Director: Juan Antonio Bayona Year: 2012 Everyone knows the story of the devastating tsunami. So when it actually hits, the way it's shot and more importantly the ...
The Game of Their Li
★★ Director: David Anspaugh Year: 2005 I actually thought this was a different film about the North Korean football team beating England. But it's actually the story of ...
The Corporation
★★★★★ Director: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott Year: 2003 I'm not sure why I waited so long to watch this documentary. I remember working on a pitch years ago ...
Lincoln
★★ Director: Steven Spielberg Year: 2012 I absolutely did NOT like this film. It felt like a missed opportunity. The storyline was boring (think more West Wing than ...
A Night to Remember
★★★★ Director: Roy Ward Baker Year: 1958 James Cameron got a ton of source material for his version of Titanic from this film. It's absolutely stunning to see ...
War Horse
★★★ Director: Steven Spielberg Year: 2011 I'm going to call this film for what it is: the Forrest Gump of horses! I'm not sure what the discussion ...
Battle of Algiers
★★★★★ Director: Gillo Pontecorvo Year: 1966 This is one of the greatest films of all time! Absolutely amazing. Granted, I think you need to be in ...
Woody Allen: A Docum
★★★★★ Director: Robert B. Weide Year: 2011 This is an unprecedented documentary. It's incredible, but only if you like Woody Allen. Robert Weide got full access to ...
Valkyrie
★★ Director: Bryan Singer Year: 2008 I can't believe this is a Bryan Singer film. He could have done so much with it. For one, it's a ...
Elizabeth The Golden
★★★ Director: Shekhar Kapur Year: 2007 So it's been awhile, since I had seen the first Elizabeth film. And this sequel was pretty good. It definitely made me ...
Die Fälscher (The C
★★★★ Creator: Stefan Ruzowitzky Year: 2007 An incredible, true-story about a counterfeiting ring of Jews in a Nazi concentration camp. The fact that they pulled aside con-men, bank ...
Zodiac
★★★ Director: David Fincher Year: 2007 This being a David Fincher film, I knew it would rock. But it's definitely more so in the true-story which is pretty ...
