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ten things tagged “documentaries

Operation Odessa

A Russian mobster, a Cuban spy and a smooth operator from Miami scheme to sell a Soviet submarine to a Colombian drug cartel for $35 million. Everything leading up to this sale is crazier than the tagline above. What a ride.…

Rating: A
My Octopus Teacher

A beautiful story about my favorite alien told with phenomenally good camera work. Left me a bit misty-eyed1. Lovely stuff. Felt like kicking myself for reading a few comments about it on Hacker News later. Not sure why I did this but promised myself I’d stick to the topics that site is good for (em…

Rating: A
They Shall Not Grow Old

A masterpiece. Powerful and harrowing. Glad I stayed till the end of the credits. Still, the film doesn’t hold back in its depiction of the brutality of trench combat, and how most British soldiers started seeing the war as a pointless effort the longer it dragged on. “The strongest opinion they wo…

Rating: A+