Documentaries

I have been on kind of a documentary kick the last few weeks. Watch movies and learn new things? Sign me up for that; those are my two favorite things! Here is a list of the top 10 things I've learned from the documentaries I've been watching:

10: Sing Your Song - Harry Belafonte is the classiest dude ever.

9: Blackfish - SeaWorld is the most awful place ever.

8: The World Before Her - Follows young women in India who are on two very different paths: a beauty pageant and a Hindu extremist training camp. Basic take home message: Patriarchy is bad for everyone.

7: Blue Planet - The ocean is amazing. But I'm totally biased; whales and sharks are my special interest after all.

6: Half the Sky - Most of my problems are 1st world problems and sexism exists in violent forms all over the world.

5: Crazy Love - People are insane. They become more insane when they are in love. They are even more insane than that when they are actually crazy AND in love.

4: The Planets - We are sooooo small.

3: Absent - full disclosure: I never actually finished this one. But I learned that people can make a whole documentary out of bunk science and bizarre beliefs…so listen really carefully to what people are telling you and take it with a grain of salt.

2: No Place on Earth: Sometimes people are crazy (see #5), but they can also be amazingly resilient and strong.

1: The Loving Story: Racism is the worst, and it hasn't been that long since it was written in to our laws. I forget sometimes how close we are to it.