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Diana: In Her Own Words (2017) IMDb TMDB Douban
Diana: In Her Own Words
8.3 (76 ratings) director: 汤姆·詹宁斯 actor: 戴安娜王妃 / 比尔·费洛斯 …
other title: 戴安娜：她的自述 / 戴安娜：她的自述（NGC版） …
Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.
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Lost Course (2019) IMDb TMDB Douban
迷航
8.8 (62 ratings) director: 李哲昕
other title: 迷航
Lost Course chronicles a grassroots democratic movement in the southern Chinese village of Wukan. The villagers protest against the corrupt local officials before ousting them and organising elections of their own. However, after taking control of their destiny, the villagers find themselves beset by the same corruption and cynicism endemic. Following three main characters, Li reveals the complexities of their struggles, triumphs and setbacks from the inside.
Feb. 7, 2022 watched
他没有给出问题的正确答案，但排除了一个重要的看起来很诱人的错误答案。它展现了不质疑全盘体制的专制本质，而妄图在小圈子里搞所谓自下而上的基层民主实验，结果为何。
纪录片 中国大陆 香港
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In the Same Breath (2021) WikiData IMDb TMDB Eggplant.place
In the Same Breath
8.9 (88 ratings) director: 王男袱
other title: 我与祖国共命运 / 同呼吸 …
2021 film directed by Nanfu Wang
Jan. 31, 2022 watched
这就是典型的提出问题比解决问题更重要的纪录片。而影片的史料价值在国内更加凸显。海报的总结其实还不够到位，中国是既说不出，又看不见。但最终的结果看，蒙住了眼睛的情况下，美国人说话的能力反而成了掣肘之处。作者在最后在反思民主自由的时候更加表现出了对中国体制崛起的担忧。但没办法，“给你机会，你不中用啊”。
美国 纪录片 中国大陆
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2000年冯小刚的一天 (2000) Douban
7.9 (25 ratings) actor: 冯小刚
讲述了冯小刚导演的一天，早上起床、夫妻日常、看望母亲、让姐姐进剧组的为难、工作开会、颁奖礼。期间很多现在知名演员导演都有镜头：何平、管虎、谢飞、马晓晴、葛优、夏雨等。
Jan. 5, 2022 watched
能看出来冯小刚其实是个特别鸡逼的人。在刚刚发迹的时候夹着尾巴做人只是一种自我保护方式，打心眼儿里他瞧不上所有跟他一起开会的人。后来真成了腕儿，也就脱掉了低姿态的伪装，逐渐暴露出了本性。这么说不是贬低他，以冯小刚的才情在21世纪初几年的环境，他完全有资格这么做。
中国大陆 纪录片
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Our Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell (2012) Douban
Our Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell
9.0 (27 ratings) director: Mike Davis actor: David Tennant
other title: 人体奥妙之细胞的暗战
每时每刻，你的身体中正进行着一场大战。这场起源于几十亿年前的战斗现今仍然在我们每个的体内发生。这是关于病毒入侵的故事——细胞的生死之战。
这部影片从细胞的内部世界揭示了人体细胞系统的精细机制：从狂热的、扮演着针对进出细胞的每个物体的安全防御系统的细胞膜、贯穿细胞的输送物质颗粒的细胞架、以及保持整个细胞世界运转的线粒体，到保存着DNA的细胞核和成千上万种各自拥有不同的蛋白质的合成。而病毒正是旨在劫持这套系统以为其所用：制造更多的病毒。
Nov. 17, 2021 watched 不仅是CG技术高超，运镜、剪辑和音乐都配合得很好。相比之下国内科普纪录片的表现力就太差劲了。
纪录片 科普
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Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007) IMDb Douban
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
director: Gary Leva actor: Arthur C. Clarke / John Baxter …
other title: 看见未来的视野：2001的预言
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick showed us what the future might look like. How true was his vision? This documentary employs interviews with filmmakers, screenwriters and authors - including Arthur C. Clarke - to delve deep into the heart of the film's imagined future and determine the extent to which Kubrick and Clarke's vision predicted a world of fantasy - or today's reality.
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A Young Patriot (2017) IMDb TMDB Douban
Shao nian, xiao zhao
7.8 (144 ratings) director: Haibin Du actor: Changtong Zhao
other title: 少年·小赵 / Shao nian, xiao zhao …
A documentary chronicling the coming of age of a young chinese man.
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Dead Souls (2018) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
死灵魂
9.2 (88 ratings) director: Bing Wang
other title: 死灵魂 / 死靈魂 …
2018 film directed by Wang Bing
Sept. 22, 2021 watched 未经刻意雕琢，克制的剪辑虽然拖慢了节奏，但更保留了当事人的真实状态。没有旁白，问题更是千篇一律。但每个人口中大同小异的回忆更是坐实了当年那段不堪回首的往事。
中国大陆 纪录片
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Hideaki Anno: The Final Challenge of Evangelion (2021) IMDb TMDB Douban Eggplant.place
さようなら全てのエヴァンゲリオン～庵野秀明の1214日～
9.1 (111 ratings) director: Aki Kubota actor: Hideaki Anno
other title: 再见了所有的福音战士！庵野秀明的1214日～ / さようなら全てのエヴァンゲリオン～庵野秀明の1214日～ …
EVANGELION is coming to an end. NHK spent 4 years with exclusive access to director Hideaki Anno, documenting the creative process behind the final EVANGELION: 3.0+1.0 THRICE UPON A TIME. For the first time, the camera is allowed inside Anno's studio. The documentary attempts to capture why master filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (STUDIO GHIBLI) describes him as one who sheds blood for his films.
Aug. 27, 2021 watched 最重要的信息点在于老剧场版被从时间线上直接抹杀了，这绝不可能是纪录片导演的意思。因此，庵野心中EVA的真正结局就是《终》。
日本 纪录片
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The Planets (2019) TMDB Douban
The Planets Season 1 part of TV Series: The Planets
9.4 (66 ratings) actor: 布莱恩·考克斯
Examining the rocky planets at the centre of the Solar System, Professor Cox examines new evidence about the violent creation of Mercury and the hostile atmosphere of Venus, contrasting them with the life-giving planet Earth and the barren Mars.
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Shoah (1985)
Shoah
9.1 (33 ratings) director: 克洛德·朗兹曼 actor: 克洛德·朗兹曼 / 西蒙·斯雷尼 …
other title: Shoah - Extermínio / 浩劫 …
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.
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In the Absence (2018) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
부재의 기억
7.3 (15 ratings) director: Seung-jun Yi actor: 박근혜 / Yoo An-sil …
other title: 正义仍缺席 / 부재의 기억 …
When the MV Sewol ferry sank off the coast of South Korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years later, the victims’ families and survivors are still demanding justice from national authorities.