Joshua Oppenheimer's 2012 documentary about the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66 asked perpetrators to re-enact their atrocities in the genre styles of their choosing -- gangster film, musical, western. The resulting film is one of the most disturbing and formally daring documentaries ever made, winning a BAFTA for Best Documentary and prompting the Indonesian government to officially acknowledge the massacres for the first time.
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