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Documentaries suffer from being the thing you mean to watch and never choose over something easier. Remove the choosing: draw one, and the fact that you did not pick it is exactly why you will finish it. Thirty films spanning natural history, true crime, music and social history. Several are more gripping than most thrillers, and at least three will send you down a reading hole for a week afterwards, which is the point.
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More from Entertainment, and a couple from elsewhere