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What types of documentaries do you like?  Crime, sports, entertainment, activist, political, historical? Your preferences can help guide recommendations.

To me, a great documentary introduces you to a person or a subject and sucks you in until you can't stop thinking about it or them.  I love movies that show me something completely unfamiliar or make me look at the familiar in a different way.  When I see a good one, I want to read everything I can about the subject and talk to other people about it.

Here are few of my favorites of all time:

Hoop Dreams is one of the best ever.

Capturing the Friedmans

Brother's Keeper

Crumb

Grey Gardens

West of Memphis and the Paradise Lost movies

If you have HBO, they have many great documentaries, including At the Heart of Gold (about gymnastics and the Larry Nassar abuse scandal), Going Clear (about Scientology), Leaving Neverland (Michael Jackson), When the Levees Broke (Spike Lee film about Katrina).  More recent documentaries include I Love You Now Die (about the young woman who bullied her boyfriend by text until he committed suicide), and The Inventor (about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes).

I don't know if it is one of the best, but I'm fascinated by There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane, also on HBO.

If you have Showtime, I've recently watched Prophet's Prey (about Warren Jeffs - so creepy) and Disgraced (about the Baylor University basketball scandal). Both were good.

More Recent:

Fyre festival documentaries (one on Hulu and the other on Netflix) - I like the Netflix one better, but they are both good

Making a Murderer (Netflix)

There are so many!

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