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Recommended Documentaries

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1. I Like Killing Flies

2. Touching the Void

3. Life After Tomorrow

4. Children of Heaven (oops just realized not a documentary but a good movie so will leave it in)

5. 51 Birch Street

6. Crazy Love

7. Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?

8. Crumb

9. Jesus Camp

10. Spellbound

11. Fahrenheit 911

12. Supersize Me

13. Dark Days

14. American Movie

15. The Devil & Daniel Johnston

16. Mad Hot Ballroom

17. The Secret

18. Devil's Playground

19. The Bridge

More to come...still under construction!

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