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The Mole: Undercover in North Korea
2020 · Film · documentary · 123 min
Directed by Mads Brügger
A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.
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IMDB best documentaries -
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,tv_series,short,tv_miniseries,tv_movie,tv_special,tv_short&genres=documentary&sort=user_rating,desc&num_votes=5000,
1. It's not the best people have ever seen, it's what average people love [1]
2. Ratings # is 5000 minimum. Rare stuff has less ratings. I doubt many in this HN thread would be less than 5000.
3. Political/emotive docos on strong lines will be overrated. It's a effect with some Indian or Turkish topics, and things like veganism or the holocaust. They are often rated higher than the quality of the documentary.
4. You can make the minimum 5000 ratings higher for more solid docos. You could try putting rating # to 1000 - 4000 to try and find some gems, but I don't think that will work. I think the gems are ones people don't get. So low numbers and middle ratings. Maybe looking at the graph of the votes might work. IMDB data is open to download FYI
5. Torrents are really bad with keeping docos alive. eDonkey fills the gap a little more. Youtube are always low quality.
[1] Mads Brügger The Ambassador (2011) is so subversive, it often makes me think. It's only 7.2 with only 4200 votes. It's hard to say is it good? His "The Mole: Undercover in North Korea" (2020) is on the list however.
The Mole: Undercover in North Korea
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mole:_Undercover_in_North_Korea
The story is absolutely crazy, the guy is a silent hero or just crazy as well. The documentary is a emotional rollercoaster with so much strange trivia.
The Mole: Undercover in North Korea
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nr85
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13243898/
Absolutely wild turns in this story.