Fat Sick & Nearly Dead (2010) - Follows and overweight Australian entrepreneur and filmmaker on his journey to lose weight by juicing only fresh fruit and vegetables and drinking only that for 60 days while inspiring others to do the same. 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
Fat Sick & Nearly Dead 2 (2014) - Revisits Joe Cross the Australian who lost over 100 lbs in 60 days by drinking only fresh juices and to see how he and others who were also featured in the first "Fat Sick & Nearly Dead (2010) were doing 4 years after the first documentary was filmed. 🌟
The Search For General Tso (2014) - Explores the origin of this Chinese dish you'll find on almost every North American Chinese restaurant (spoiler: this dish did not originate in China). Also an interesting look into the proliferation of Chinese restaurants in the small towns USA. 🌟 🌟
Little White Lie (2014) - Autobiographical documentary by filmmaker Lacey Schwartz who grew up believing she was a white Jewish girl and finding out that her biological father was a black man. Interesting conversation about race, ethnicity, and how one identifies with their own race. 🌟 🌟
The Black Kung Fu Experience (2012) - African American kung fu masters - some highly respected individuals even in the Chinese subculture of kung fu actors & stuntmen in Hong Kong. 🌟 🌟
Hoop Dreams (1994) - A documentary featuring two inner city Chicago boys with hopes of scoring a college basketball scholarship and ultimately a shot a the NBA. Not just a film about basketball but of how economics, race, social class, and education all plays a part in almost every young athelete's dream of making it into the big leagues. 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
The Mask You Live In (2015) - This film hypothesizes that in today's society the images of men thru the media, television, sports, and even at home, encourages them to be stoic, repress their feelings, dominant, and violent. One of the topics the film highlights is how sensitivity in a boys is seen as being a weakness and how as a child ages they become more aware of what society perceives what a man should be like and how a man should act and the implications of that. 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
Amy (2015) - On Amy Winehouse. Sad look at her rise to fame and how just a couple of bad people/influences in her life had such a profound effect on her life and death. 🌟 🌟
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