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13 Hours: The secret soldiers in Benghazi
Michael Bay brings plenty of explosions and some jitter-camera effects to a documentary? It was more a more true-story version of Saving Private Ryan than anything Oliver Stone or Michael Moore have done. So a drama-mentary? It was a good motive, and mostly historically accurate based on the people that were there. So worth seeing, if you want to see an action film based on real life events.

2000 Mules
Documentary on the criminal voter fraud and ballot stuffing during the 2020 Presidential Election. TrueTheVote used Cellphone tracking data to show 2000 people visited 10 different polling places and 5 different DNC fronts, in the same night. (While not having a pattern of going to those places before or after the election). Ballot stuffing is illegal.

2016 Obama's America

Hated by reviewers, loved by viewers. It tries to give you what the Press didn't, the backstory and motivations of President Obama, from a right wing point of view. It shouldn't be taken too literally, but good background on Obama's sphere of influences: what his friends, family, mentor and Father believed. How much you think that shaped him, or how, is likely to be based on your political views. Slow, but informative, and it's up to you to decide what that all means.

America: Imagine the World Without her (2014)
Dinesh D'Souza tries to cover too much. The title is misleading: it's more about American History than alternate reality. Still, a worthy documentary: especially for those who buy Howard Zinn's revisionist American History. Nice to see there's at least a few who haven't.

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
An award winning alternate reality "Documentary" by Al Gore that offered a fictionalized pseudo-science propaganda film about how bad Climate/CO2 was... that scientists openly mocked, and the British Goverment ruled a lie. If you know anything about the Climate, it's worth watching to see how true P.T. Barnum's words were, and how gullible the left is.

The Creepy Line
It was a bit sensational in parts, but did a worthy job in letting people know who and why their data was captured, and what they did to manipulate you. Generally, it was liked by viewers -- but far lefties didn't like that it attacked leftist icons, or showed how these organizations colluded with the Hillary (and Obama) campaigns to rig elections.

Death of a Nation (2018)
Dinesh D'Souza's "Death of a Nation" perfectly exemplifies the bias in movie reviewers: Rotten Tomatoes Score: 0/88. Not a single reviewer liked it, 88% of the audience does. A bit of rehash for history buffs, but some surprising reveal for those mis-educated in public school. These are the truths that the Marxist left doesn't want to watch or consider.

Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Entertaining but not good as a documentary. The people that were there are working on their own documentary of actual events, instead of heroes and villains. But as thrilling a movie can be about a drilling ship where you already know the ending.

Dirty Money
Dirty Money is sort of a documentary, in the same way Joseph Goebbels made documentaries. As the Director/Producer Alex Gibney said, "Objectivity is dead. There's no such thing as objectivity. When you're making a film, a film can't be objective." He and Netflix didn't even try.

Fahrenheit 911 (2004)
This was a Michael Moore hit piece based loosely on some true events, taken out of context and editing that would make Joseph Goebbels proud. There are websites dedicated to debunking Moore's disinformation. This was released right before the 2004 election to sabotage GWB. It didn't work, he won by more in re-election than the first time.

Fat Head (2009)
Tom Naughton redid Morgan Spurlock's Super Size me, eating only at McD's. Only Naughton awas not an alcoholic in withdrawal. Results: he lost 12 pounds and his total cholesterol goes down.

Fauci (2021)
A fictionalized hagiography of Saint Fauci of the Lockdown/Mask/Vaccine Mandates, with all of his flaws and failures whitewashed, glossed over or ignored... and any accomplishments exaggerated. Leftis reviewers loved it, audiences hated it.

Film Critics
The left sees everything through their partisan lens, so politicizes everything. They widely dominate movie reviews/critics. I list a few dozen examples of how out of touch they are with audiences, and how extreme.

Hillary's America (2016)
The subhead, "the Secret History of the Democratic Party" is the more apt description of the film than the title. It was 75% about the History of the Democrat Party, 20% about Bill and Hillary, and about 5% just filler, Apple Pie, Patriotism, and political propaganda. But I liked it.

Jobs (2013)

Hollywood has this attitude that fiction is more interesting than real life. It is more interesting to people that don't care about the truth as much as they care about shallow entertainment and becoming more misinformed about a topic or person. I'm not their audience, and this movie wasn't made for me. Walter Isaacson's book was pretty good, but flawed. This movie omitted the former and exaggerated the latter.

Planet of the Humans (2019)
Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore do a free on YouTube documentary to debunk a lot of the Green Energy myths: showing how they aren't green at all: neither carbon neutral, renewable, nor sustainable... they're just scams to enrich big business and big government. While the rational have been saying this since the 70s, when the far left gets it, there's hope for humanity.

Roosevelt's: An Intimate History
Ken Burns disappoints with a progressive puff-piece. Teddy the Republican was almost all bad. FDR the Democrat was almost all good. And the complexities that made both 3 dimensional (instead of just caricatures), was all whitewashed off the series. I figured the format would allow PBS to do something deep and complex, it was just long and shallow.

Seattle is Dying
In March an video journalist (Eric Johnson) did an hour long Exposé on Seattle's homelessness problem, documenting facts about how Seattle's compassionate progressivism has resulted in an explosion of homelessness, squalor, disease, crime, and contempt (for government or the homeless). Naturally, to the left, he became the problem -- not what he exposed.

Steve Jobs (2015)

A fictionalized drama-mentory retelling of Steve Jobs life, by an ultra-Liberal director (Aaron Sorkin). Reviewers preferred it more than audiences +13% (86/73). While the dialog and story is the best of the rash of Steve Jobs pseudo-biographies, this one captured the spirit of many things better, while getting too many actual facts wrong. It would have been great, if only they were fictional characters.

Super Size Me (2004)
Morgan Spurlock did a documentary on going an all McDonalds diet, and gaining weight, and claiming it is becuase McDonnalds offers you larger sodas and fries. That he was a chronic alcoholic, sex offended, and others that ate at McD's didn't have the same outcome.

The Climate Hustle (2016)
CFACT's Marc Morano did his late retort to An Inconvenient Truth, in a replay of what they showed at the Paris Climate Summit. It tries to explain all the fallacies in the pro-Climate Change alarmism; forcing factors, how they rank, how does CO2 rank, the fake Climate Consensus, the global cooling scare, and all the sensational claims made -- and then debunking them.

The Final Year (2017)
HBO propaganda film on how great Obama was, called "The Final Year" and was total boring puffery. It skips the many foreign policy disasters by trying to west wing the last year, then it fails to get the most salient issue of a couple of generations: his participation in the Russiagate Hoax and spying on Trump campaign.

The Un American

Kevin Leffler did a documentary on Michael Moore. The original movie (back in 2007 or 2009) was called "Shooting Michael Moore", an edgy title that played on him video shooting others. This somehow got repackaged in 2018 as an Amazon Original, "The Un American"... I think a little moore material was added (pun intended) -- the Internet was semi-scrubbed of the original release, but the latest cut is interesting and worthy of watching.

Truth (2015)
Dan Rather tried to swiftboat George Bush right before the 2004 election with fraudulent documents about GWB's service, and got caught and fired in Rathergate. Hollywood lefties try to distort history with this 2015 propaganda film name "Truth", (ironically, I assume). Even the far left media pans it as crap.

Unplanned (2019)
Unplanned is a prophetic name, as I had no real intentions of seeing it. But after Twitter blocked them (since removed), music labels wouldn't license songs, most TV stations refused their benign advertising, and it was unfairly given an R rating. I saw it. An important and good film, because the far left and their media is trying to suppress you seeing it.

Volkswagen emissions scandal
The first episode of Dirty Money was fascinating interviews with how the government stumbled on the truth after 7 years. But it doesn't explain the important stuff: why VW did this.

Waiting for Superman (2011)
I want documentaries to have pacing, support, and point/counter-point (not a Moore/Gore propaganda film). This was 111 mins to do 11 mins of info, so I think the 89/84 Rotten Tomatoes score was a lot higher than it deserved.

White Helmets (2016)
If you want a depressing documentary on the heroes of the Syrian War (the aide workers), then this is for you. It's still interesting to watch, but I felt like the rescue workers probably look a little purer than they really are -- so it felt a tad spun and whitewashed, but still important to see some of what goes on in a war zone.