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Food For Thought

Whether a documentary or a fictional tale "ripped from today's headlines," these movies offer probing insights into current events, controversial topics, or historic moments. The filmmaker's approach to the material can be either slanted -- as in an expose -- or objective -- as in a verite documentary -- but no matter what, these films all strive to get viewers to pay closer attention to a subject or topic they might have overlooked.

Major Works
Rating
Year
 Title
 
 Director
  9 Stars 1995 Dead Man Walking   Tim Robbins
  9 Stars 1961 Judgment at Nuremberg   Stanley Kramer
  9 Stars 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird   Robert Mulligan
  9 Stars 1983 The Times of Harvey Milk   Robert Epstein
  9 Stars 1988 The Thin Blue Line   Errol Morris
  9 Stars 1971 The Sorrow and the Pity   Marcel Ophüls
  9 Stars 1973 Serpico   Sidney Lumet
  9 Stars 1989 Roger & Me   Michael Moore
  9 Stars 1967 In the Heat of the Night   Norman Jewison
  9 Stars 1976 Harlan County, USA   Barbara Kopple
  9 Stars 1989 Do the Right Thing   Spike Lee
  9 Stars 1976 All the President's Men   Alan J. Pakula
  8 Stars 2000 Traffic   Steven Soderbergh
  8 Stars 2000 Scottsboro: An American Tragedy   Barak Goodman
  8 Stars 2000 Paragraph 175   Robert Epstein
    8 Stars 1967 Titicut Follies   Frederick Wiseman
  8 Stars 1994 Quiz Show   Robert Redford
  8 Stars 1957 12 Angry Men   Sidney Lumet
  8 Stars 1986 Salvador   Oliver Stone
  8 Stars 1982 Missing   Costa-Gavras
  8 Stars 1960 Inherit the Wind   Stanley Kramer
  7 Stars 2002 Bowling For Columbine   Michael Moore
  7 Stars 2002 Bloody Sunday   Paul Greengrass
  7 Stars 2001 No Man's Land   Danis Tanovic
  7 Stars 2001 The Believer   Henry Bean
  7 Stars 1999 The Insider   Michael Mann
  7 Stars 1999 Boys Don't Cry   Kimberly Peirce
  7 Stars 1997 4 Little Girls   Spike Lee
  7 Stars 1997 Welcome to Sarajevo   Michael Winterbottom
  7 Stars 1996 Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills   Joe Berlinger
  7 Stars 1995 La haine   Mathieu Kassovitz
  7 Stars 1994 Ladybird, Ladybird   Ken Loach
  7 Stars 1993 In the Name of the Father   Jim Sheridan
  7 Stars 1987 Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8   Jeremy Kagan
  7 Stars 1988 A World Apart   Chris Menges
  7 Stars 1986 Working Girls   Lizzie Borden
  7 Stars 1991 Separate But Equal   George Stevens, Jr.
  7 Stars 1959 On the Beach   Stanley Kramer
  7 Stars 1970 Joe   John G. Avildsen
  7 Stars 1991 JFK   Oliver Stone
  7 Stars 1992 Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story   Michael Apted
  7 Stars 1947 Gentleman's Agreement   Elia Kazan
    7 Stars 1992 Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster   Paul Seed
  7 Stars 1988 The Accused   Jonathan Kaplan
  7 Stars 1981 Absence of Malice   Sydney Pollack
  6 Stars 2002 10   Abbas Kiarostami
  6 Stars 2002 Changing Lanes   Roger Michell
  6 Stars 1998 American History X   Tony Kaye
  6 Stars 1993 Ballot Measure 9   Heather MacDonald
  6 Stars 1993 Philadelphia   Jonathan Demme
  6 Stars 1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner   Stanley Kramer
    6 Stars 1991 City of Hope   John Sayles
  6 Stars 1989 Born on the Fourth of July   Oliver Stone
    5 Stars 1992 Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint   Michael Moore
  5 Stars 2000 Bamboozled   Spike Lee
 
 
 
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