Top 8 Must-Watch Conservative Documentaries
Engaging Documentaries That Deserve Your Attention
If you thought progressives ruled the narrative film space, wait ‘til you see what documentarians are up to these days.
Time and again nonfiction filmmakers tell stories shot through a hard-Left lens across all major platforms.
That’s changing. Slowly.
The following eight films are all less than 10-years-old. They lack the budgets of their deep-pocketed peers and a few slipped past most consumers.
They’re still powerful films that deserve your attention. Conservatives would be wise to watch them all — stat — and then tell a friend to do the same.
Can We Take A Joke? (2015)
How did director Ted Balaker see the attacks on comedy coming before the rest of us? His 2015 film lets comedians defend their craft amidst early examples of what would be later known as Cancel Culture. Adam Carolla, Jim Norton, and the late, great Gilbert Gottfried share how the best comedy comes from an uncensored mind, and why it’s critical that comics have the freedom to say what they want.
Years later, stand-ups like Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan learned the hard way what happens when you let the woke movement get a toehold in the culture.
No Safe Spaces (2019)
Carolla, again, is center stage alongside Dennis Prager in another docu-warning we failed to heed. The dissimilar talkers explore the attacks on free speech happening on college campuses nationwide.
The film introduced audiences to Bret Weinstein, the liberal professor who was all but chased off campus for having an “unapproved” opinion on race relations. Other tales are equally alarming.
Director Justin Folk took an incendiary topic and made it lively, informative, and more than a little scary. Michael Meyers has nothing on woke college students eager to snag another professorial scalp for their mantle.
What Is A Woman? (2022)
Folk’s follow-up documentary “What is a Woman?” with Matt Walsh didn’t merely rattle the zeitgeist. It shook a nation afraid of answering one of the most obvious questions ever asked, one that even stumped a Supreme Court nominee.
Walsh proves the perfect tour guide through a carnival of mistruths, evasions, and dangerous orthodoxies. Most film critics purposely ignored it, hoping their silence would help the movie drop off the pop culture radar. Nothing doing.
And when Twitter employees staged an internal rebellion restricting viewers from watching “What is a Woman?,” Elon Musk personally stepped in, pinning the documentary on his personal profile page followed by 140 million people with the simple statement: “Every parent should watch this.”
The Essential Church (2023)
The pandemic lockdowns forbid many churchgoers from entering their place of worship, forcing them to stay home rather than find comfort in their faith. Oh, but you could still protest on behalf of Black Lives Matter and celebrate the election of Joe Biden.
We need a dozen documentaries to record the injustices doled out during the pandemic. “The Essential Church” takes a laser-focused approach to how it impacted religious people and how some Christians refused to obey factually wobbly rules.
It’s a powerful documentary that captures church culture better any movie in recent memory. It also effectively mocks the political cowards who demanded we stay locked down but couldn’t defend their orders in a court of law.
Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words (2020)
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is famous for both his fierce conservative spirit and reclusive public persona. We rarely hear from the veteran justice, but he changed that with this bracing documentary.
Thomas shares his remarkable story, from his hardscrabble roots to the events that made him shift to the Right. It turns out Thomas is a natural storyteller, and his life offers profound lessons for every American.
What Killed Michael Brown? (2020)
That provocative title sets the stage for director Eli Steele’s essential documentary. Steele visits Ferguson, Missouri, the town where the hulking Brown died at the hands of a police officer. The documentary’s jazz-inflected score underlines the many lies spread about Brown’s death and how various parties used his tragic passing to benefit their agendas.
The “Hands up Don’t Shoot” narrative gets the fact-checking it richly deserves, but the film also compares the nonviolent protests of the 1960s, when racism ran unchecked in much of America, to the “mostly peaceful” version we have today.
When The Mob Came (2023)
The people who ended Caylan Ford’s political dreams made but one mistake. They didn’t realize she’s a first-rated filmmaker who could turn her injustices into a harrowing feature.
Ford tells her story in heartbreaking fashion, but she isn’t interested in martyr status. She wants everyone to witness how a mob shredded her public life and what it took to rebuild it. Why? So it never happens to anyone ever again.
Rush To Judgment (2021)
Social media and journalists tried to turn teen Nick Sandmann into the personification of MAGA Nation following a 2019 incident in D.C. Instead, both parties shamed themselves by selectively editing the kerfuffle in the worst way possible.
“Judgment” has all the receipts, from celebrities slamming Sandmann and friends without having all the details at their disposal (Bill Maher dubbed him a “little prick”) to media players eager to flex their Trump Derangement Syndrome, facts be darned.
The film has more empathy than necessary for the journalists who fell for the false narrative. Otherwise, it’s a blistering and necessary takedown.
The best part of this list? Other films, like Nick Searcy’s “Capitol Punishment” and “The Plot Against the President” could have easily made it. We’re seeing more Right-leaning documentaries than ever before, a wonderful trend that will help a country reeling from one party rule in the government … and Hollywood.
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Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of HollywoodInToto.com. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at @HollywoodInToto.
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