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Documentary Movies That Make You Feel Ambitious Alone On A Rainy Night

Documentary movies that make you feel ambitious alone on a rainy night. Includes Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, Night and Fog, One Direction: This Is Us and mor...

Watch something that makes you feel like you're not working hard enough. In a good way.

Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me movie poster
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2022 · ★★★★½ 8.5/10

After years in the limelight, Selena Gomez achieves unimaginable stardom. But just as she reaches a new peak, an unexpected turn pulls her into darkness. This uniquely raw and intimate documentary spans her six-year journey into a new light.

This one ends and you immediately think about something you've been putting off.

Night and Fog movie poster
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1956 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

This one ends and you immediately think about something you've been putting off.

One Direction: This Is Us movie poster
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2013 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

"One Direction: This Is Us" is a captivating and intimate all-access look at life on the road for the global music phenomenon. Weaved with stunning live concert footage, this inspiring feature film tells the remarkable story of Niall, Zayn, Liam, Harry and Louis' meteoric rise to fame, from their humble hometown beginnings and competing on the X-Factor, to conquering the world and performing at London's famed O2 Arena. Hear it from the boys themselves and see through their own eyes what it's really like to be One Direction.

It shows what sustained effort looks like without making it feel impossible. That sticks.

Baraka movie poster
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1992 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision - an odyssey through landscape and time - that attempts to capture the essence of life.

This one ends and you immediately think about something you've been putting off.

BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky movie poster
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2020 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

Record-shattering Korean girl band BLACKPINK tell their story - and detail the hard fought journey of the dreams and trials behind their meteoric rise.

This one ends and you immediately think about something you've been putting off.

The films that inspire action are usually not the ones trying to. They just show someone doing something hard really well.

Real people doing hard things. More motivating than any fiction.

Works particularly well alone, with nowhere else to be.

Senna movie poster
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2010 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

The remarkable story of Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since attained, is the subject of Senna, a documentary feature that spans the racing legend's years as an F1 driver, from his opening season in 1984 to his untimely death a decade later.

It shows what sustained effort looks like without making it feel impossible. That sticks.

The Salt of the Earth movie poster
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2014 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus... He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.

This one ends and you immediately think about something you've been putting off.

Samsara movie poster
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2011 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

This one ends and you immediately think about something you've been putting off.

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father movie poster
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2008 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this film, a gift to the child.

It shows what sustained effort looks like without making it feel impossible. That sticks.

Won't You Be My Neighbor? movie poster
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2018 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his puppets and his many friends, spoke directly to young children about some of life's most important issues.

It shows what sustained effort looks like without making it feel impossible. That sticks.

Some films earn their effect. These do.

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