📺 Favorite Films

Last updated on December 27, 2025.

Documentaries:

Music:

  • Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988)
  • Sparklehorse documentaries:
    • Mark Linkous Is Sparklehorse (1998)
    • This Is Sparklehorse (2022)
  • Nick Drake documentaries:
    • A Stranger Among Us: Searching for Nick Drake (1999)
    • A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake (2002)
  • Dig! (2004)
  • The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005)
  • Chaos in Progress: The Making of Systematic Chaos (2007)
  • Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (2008)
  • It Might Get Loud (2008)
  • Vashti Bunyan: From Here to Before (2008)
  • Until the Light Takes Us (2008)
  • The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights (2009)
  • One of My Kind - Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band (2009)
  • Beatles documentaries:
    • George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)
    • The Beatles: Get Back (2021)
  • Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
  • Heaven Adores You (2014)
  • Grateful Dead documentaries:
    • The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir (2014)
    • Long Strange Trip (2017)
  • Hello I Am David! (2015)
  • Finding Joseph I: The HR From Bad Brains Documentary (2017)
  • The Velvet Underground (2021)
  • Energy: A Documentary About Damo Suzuki (2022)

Art, Literature, Film, & Video Games:

  • Crumb (1995)
  • Hayao Miyazaki documentaries:
    • The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013)
    • Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki (2016)
    • 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki (2020)
    • Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron (2024)
  • Sam Klemke's Time Machine (2015)
  • Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski (2018)
  • Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art (2020)
  • High Score (TV series)
  • Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021)
  • EarthBound, USA (2023)

Psychedelics:

  • DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2012)
  • Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary (2014)
  • Little Saints: Eat A Mushroom Talk To God (2014)
  • The Sunshine Makers (2015)
  • Trip of Compassion (2017)
  • Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020)
  • How to Change Your Mind (2022)

Spirituality:

  • Ram Dass, Fierce Grace (2001)
  • Ram Dass, Going Home (2017)
  • Becoming Nobody (2019)

Religion & Cults:

  • Louis Theroux:
    • The Most Hated Family in America (2007)
    • America's Most Hated Family in Crisis (2011)
    • Surviving America's Most Hated Family (2019)
  • Kumaré (2011)
  • Wild Wild Country (2018)
  • The Heretic (2018)

Nature:

  • Fantastic Fungi (2019)
  • Our Planet (2019)
  • My Octopus Teacher (2020)
  • The Secret Lives of Animals (2024)

Miscellaneous:

  • Garbage Warrior (2007)
  • Secret Billionaire: The Chuck Feeney Story (2009)
  • Babies (2010)
  • Life in a Day (2011)
  • Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
  • The Grammar of Happiness (2012)
  • Valley Uprising (2014)
  • Citizenfour (2014)
  • Cuba and the Cameraman (2017)
  • Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
  • John Was Trying to Contact Aliens (2020)
  • Life in a Day 2020 (2021)
  • Earth's Greatest Enemy (2025)

Movies:

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance (1982)
  • The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003)
  • Harry Potter movies 1-7 (2001-2011)
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  • Night at the Museum (2006)
  • Samsara (2011)
  • The Tree of Life (2011)
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
  • The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
  • Studio Ghibli movies directed by Hayao Miyazaki, especially:
    • My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
    • Princess Mononoke (1997)
    • Spirited Away (2001)
    • Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
    • Ponyo (2008)
    • The Boy and the Heron (2023)
  • Pixar movies, especially:
    • Inside Out (2015)
    • Coco (2017)
    • Toy Story 4 (2019)
    • Onward (2020)
    • Soul (2020)
    • Elemental (2023)
    • Inside Out 2 (2024)

Bonus: TV Shows

  • Old Enough! (1991-present)
  • The Office (American version) (2005-2013)
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008)
  • Over the Garden Wall (2014)
  • Hamilton's Pharmacopeia (2016-2021)
  • The Cuphead Show! (2022)
  • Severance (2022-present)