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Nova: What Are Dreams? (2009)
Very informative, engaging
I've learned so much in such a short time by watching this documentary. It talks about the current breakthroughs in research about the different stages of sleep, some of the different hypotheses (from long ago, culturally, and scientifically), and even a database that is used to find patterns about what we dream about throughout our lives. This goes beyond Freud in that it begins to see the neuroscience of dreams. It is even now possible to see what we dream about (sort of) in non-REM and REM cycles. The two cycles actually serve very different purposes and inhibit different emotional responses for humans during waking time.
I highly recommend it. You will be inspired to start tracking and getting better at remembering your own dreams.
National Geographic: Inside North Korea (2006)
Gripping, Strange, Real
Tagging along to a humanitarian project to bring operations for cataracts to the blind, the filmmakers venture into the isolated, surreal North Korea. They talk about the history of North Korea and how the dictator makes himself to be the Great General in the minds and heart of the inhabitants. When being invited to visit the home of one of the blind women, the extent of the worship of the Great General is shown. In the backdrop of the film is the poverty that leads to even the very young having cataracts, the prison camps for families of those who have done some infraction against the general, people dying to escape.
One of the most important movies I've ever seen.