Oscars 2014 - Best Documentary Long List

Netflix would be the best way usually - although I don't use it myself.

Some of them are shown on BBC's 'Storyville' - I know Cutie and The Boxer was on only a few weeks ago.

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I watched 'Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington' last night. I didn't think much of it.

I watched 'Stories We Tell' a few minutes ago. A very interesting documentary. The film maker and actress Sarah Polley has made a documentary about her family's hidden secret. Now that the secret is out, she interviews her own family and others involved. The documentary shows how a secret affects people both in how it is hidden and how it affects people in a different way when it is revealed. It also deals with how stories are told in documentaries and how they can be skewed if not told from all points of view.

I would definitely recommend both this and 'The Crash Reel'.

Just watched 'Pussy Riot: A Punk's Prayer'. In my opinion it was a waste of time. I learned nothing I didn't know from watching the news when they were arrested. Feminist art students and political activist form a collective and choose to protest against the government by staging performances designed to draw attention to their cause. They make the mistake of performing one of these events in a church which pi**ses off religious leaders, so the courts throw the book at them.

That's it, the documentary provided no further insight than that.

Watched 'The Act of Killing' last night and I really don't see what all the fuss is about.