1. The Act Of Killing
This documentary achieves a rare feat, being both aesthetically impressive while retaining a captivating story line throughout. While hard to watch at times due to the subject matter and gore, this film truly tells an incredible story. The film tells the story of how Indonesian gangsters were promoted to an absolute death squad following a government overthrow in 1965. They killed thousands of government dissenters that were supposedly communists and people of other fanatical beliefs.
The film focuses on Anwar Congo, who himself said he killed over 1,000 people through strangulation. The film examines whether Anwar and his cohorts feel remorse and think over whether or not what they did was wrong, and how they cope with meeting some of the families of their victims. This story doesn’t have an especially happy conclusion, but it’s sure to bring some type of emotion out of you while providing a ton of previously unknown information. The incredible journey that this story shows along with the mesmerizing visuals, to me, makes this the best documentary on Netflix.
