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Movies that feel like Brother's Keeper (1992)
This documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky details the murder trial of Delbert Ward. Delbert was a member of a family of four elderly brothers, working as semi-literate farmers and living together in isolation from the rest of society until William's death.
If you loved Brother's Keeper, the closest films we have are Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988), Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary (1997) and Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999). All three share Brother's Keeper's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Marjoe (1972).
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If Brother's Keeper hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Brothers (2009)
Documentary with a pulse of stillness, in both cases
Contemplative documentary, and it commits to that
Both lean on stillness more than on documentary
Both working the same documentary territory
Documentary in the same key
Documentary of the same temperament
Both are documentary through and through
Documentary approached the same way
Both play documentary straight
Both know what they want from documentary
The documentary is handled with the same confidence
The scrappier of the two with critics
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The best-reviewed films that share Brother's Keeper’s defining feeling.
