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Top 10 Documentaries That Will Ruin Your Day (In a Good Way)
These films will wreck you emotionally, challenge everything you thought you knew, and leave you staring at a wall for twenty minutes afterward. They're also some of the best filmmaking of the last four decades. Grab tissues. Clear your evening. You've been warned.
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