Top 20 movies like We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice

We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice

The new film from celebrated documentarian Alanis Obomsawin chronicles the events following the filing of a human-rights complaint by a group of activists, which charged that the federal government's woefully inadequate funding of services for Indigenous children constituted a discriminatory practice.

We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice is of 2 hour(s) and 43 minute(s). It is Produced By:  ONF | NFB. It was released on 2016-09-01.

Genres: Documentary

1. À ciel ouvert (À ciel ouvert)

À ciel ouvert

On the Franco-belgian border, there's a unique place that takes in children with mental and social problems. Day after day, the adults try to understand the enigma that each one of them represents and, without ever imposing anything on them, invent the solutions that will help them to live in peace, case by case. Through their stories, 'Like an Open Sky' reveals their singular vision of the world to us.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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2. The Mask You Live In

The Mask You Live In

Compared to girls, research shows that boys in the United States are more likely to be diagnosed with a behaviour disorder, prescribed stimulant medications, fail out of school, binge drink, commit a violent crime, and/or take their own lives. The Mask You Live In asks: as a society, how are we failing our boys?

It has an average vote of 7.708 on TMDB.

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3. Folie à Deux - Madness Made of Two

Folie à Deux - Madness Made of Two

Folie a Deux is a quintessentially English tale with a universal message. Prophetic and surprisingly humorous, the narrative is driven by a tenacious single mother of seven, who risks bankruptcy and homelessness to fulfill a dream. Shot over five years and set in the oldest house in England. This film is an intimate portrayal of a large bohemian family with all the ups and downs of daily life, an intriguing insight into England's history, and future. This is a nail-biting journey through the economic crash and life's biggest gamble. This is not a story of the conspicuous consumerism of billionaires; rather this is the human cost of the banking crisis.

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4. Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey

Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey

After 30 years of the War on Drugs, illegal narcotics have gone down in price, up in purity and availability, and way way up in demand. The heroes of this film are veterans of the Drug War, and they urge us to consider ending drug prohibition both at home and around the world. They have had a complete revolution in their thinking: now they are working to end the War on Drugs. Find out what happened to change their minds and how they became truly radical cops.

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5. Soft and Hard (Soft and Hard)

Soft and Hard

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around their house.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

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6. Hill of Pleasures (Morro dos Prazeres)

Hill of Pleasures

It examines the daily life of the residents and cops at a Rio de Janeiro favela one year after the arrival of a Pacifying Police Unit.

It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.

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7. A Fuller Life

A Fuller Life

Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child, Samantha.

It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.

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8. 13th

13th

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

It has an average vote of 7.914 on TMDB.

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9. Caste criminelle (Caste criminelle)

Caste criminelle

The Indians that the British failed to subdue were called "born criminals" and were parked in camps. Yolande Zauberman's film tells the story of a family. The grandparents, Hira Bai and Serjian, grew up in the jungle. This is where their tribes lived, which the British were unable to subdue.

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10. Behind The Jugular

Behind The Jugular

Behind The Jugular is a short animated documentary, featuring an ex-abattoir worker describing his experiences within the slaughterhouse. The film gives a raw account of the restricted and often ignored industry, intended to prompt the audience to consider, and reconsider, their ethical beliefs and values, and how they implement these morals in life.

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11. A Job in a Million

A Job in a Million

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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12. Birth/Mother (垂乳女)

Birth/Mother

Tarachime is a documentary film which observes 'life' through childbirth. Kawase Naomi, a film director working under the theme of family, life and death, presents the bond of life through her own childbirth experience. "First, I was planning to film from the day I conceived a child and to the moment I gave birth. But I realized, while filming, that this is not the story of "one life." In the end, the film sublimed to a higher stage on which we can witness the knot tying one life with another."

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

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13. Podwórka (Podwórka)

Podwórka

‘Podwórka’ captures six groups of neighbourhood youth as they play in seemingly deserted yards, offering an intimate portrait of daily life in Łódź, Poland. Shot with a fixed camera, this single-channel video projection highlights American artist Sharon Lockhart’s concern for the interrelationship between the still and the moving image.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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14. Fieldwork Footage

Fieldwork Footage

Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folkloric customs, work songs, spirituals, and vernacular language of African American communities along the River Road and from New Orleans to Florida.

It has an average vote of 5.667 on TMDB.

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15. Nepal Forever (Непал Форева)

Nepal Forever

This film features two Russian communist politicians. Being committed Leninists; both of them have served several terms as city council members. Their horizons are broad, but what concerns them the most is the future of global communism. At one point, by decree of fate, their booming activities begin to expand far beyond the boundaries of their native St. Petersburg and the Russian Federation. However, the future of global communism remains unclear. What remains clear is the fact that in the modern world the tail still wags the dog. A documentary comedy.

It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.

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16. Ricardo Bär

Ricardo Bär

Ricardo Bar is a young man who lives with his family in a little farm, in the border of Brazil and Argentina. There is mainly the jungle and the settlers, descendants of German immigrants. Ricardo doesn't want to inherit his father's land; he wants to become a pastor. Problems begin when Ricardo and the community tell the directors to stop shooting and leave. From that moment on Ricardo Bar tells two stories: one about a deal, the directors' offer to Ricardo in order to be able to shoot the film, and the other about Ricardo's life at this moment, his reaction to the director's offer, reenacted for the camera.

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17. Talking to the Air: The Horses of the Last Forbidden Kingdom

Talking to the Air: The Horses of the Last Forbidden Kingdom

The world’s most magnificent horsemen face an unsure future in one of the planet’s last great equine cultures. The Tibetan Buddhist region of Mustang in the High Himalaya is the Last Forbidden Kingdom and their unique heritage and remarkable spiritual bond with the horse is under threat. In a land where a man’s wealth can still be measured in horses, death defying races are the colorful back-drop for this story of the ascent of civilization in the high Himalaya. With lush cinematography, and insightful intervieww, the film also recounts the little known story of the CIA’s covert operations in Mustang, and features rare archival footage of the Dalai Lama’s flight on horseback over the Himalaya.  The scholarly and perceptive voices of Dr. Sienna Craig - author of "Horses Like Lightning" and Mikel Dunham, author of "Buddha's Warriors" turn this lens to issues of globalization, fragile border politics and the precarious future for Mustang’s distinctive equine culture.

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

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18. Path to Glory: The Rise and Rise of the Polish Arabian Horse

Path to Glory: The Rise and Rise of the Polish Arabian Horse

It can be said that the history of man is the history of the horse. Nowhere is that more true than in Poland with their beloved Arabian horse. This is the strange, unexpected story of far-flung lands as disparate as Egypt and the long-suffering Slavic kingdom of Poland coming together in war and in peace and influencing one another through the living history written on the backs of centuries of horses. This breathtaking film documents the unlikely, triumphant story of Poland's entrance onto the world stage via their worldwide influence on the breeding of one animal; how a beleaguered nation rose up to become the pinnacle of Arabian horse breeding, coming full circle from desert sands to the hallowed halls of Europe.

It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.

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19. East of War (Jenseits des Krieges)

East of War

White-tiled rooms, neon lighting; on the walls black and white photographs documenting the atrocities committed by the german Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front in WW2. Against this background former soldiers talk about their experiences beyond the bounds of "normal" warfare. An uncompromising film on remembrance and oblivion.

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

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20. Manos a la Obra: The Story of Operation Bootstrap (Manos a la Obra: The Story of Operation Bootstrap)

Manos a la Obra: The Story of Operation Bootstrap

This documentary analyzes the origins of the Puerto Rican economic development plan of the 1960’s, better known as Manos a la Obra . The film examines this economic plan within the framework of Puerto Rican society, with special emphasis on the mass migration of Puerto Ricans to the mainland.

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