Or should I say, The Docs I saw. Which were only two this year, The Island President and Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.

The Island President

I liked Jon Shenk’s The Island President for a few reasons. First of all, I know next to nothing about The Maldives, islands in the Indian Ocean (more than 1200 of them, which make up this watery nation). Or should I say I knew next to nothing, because I saw this film, and so now I know something.

And what I know is that this nation is going to sink into the ocean.

The structure of the film: we’re introduced to the charismatic young leader of The Maldives, Mohammed Nasheed, and given a little political history – he was a dissident during a long dictatorship, imprisoned with all that entails. The government is eventually liberated and he’s elected president, and not a moment too soon, because of the coming environmental calamity of rising water levels.

The rest of the film documents his efforts to broker some kind of climate change agreement at the Copenhagen Climate Summit of 2009, where he has to fight the superpowers – including the United States, China and India. So it’s your basic David vs. Goliath scenario, but the implications are really so much more for both The Maldives and for the planet. It shocked me that the theater wasn’t full for this. If we don’t have a planet that’s habitable for people, clearly we won’t be having any film festivals.

The Maldives look like a beautiful place to visit and to live. The prognosis is not good, however, so you better go while they’re still above water.

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Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (SPOILERS BELOW)

I’ve followed this story through the other two HBO docs made on the subject of the West Memphis 3 case, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations.

For anyone who loves a good crime story, this is your red meat. It becomes clear in the first documentary that the three boys convicted of these murders are most likely innocent, so the rest of the saga is about their fights to clear their names – which they never quite do, even though they do get released (at the end of 2011, and it’s an epilogue in the film).

It’s a documentary made for the small screen, but still, for docs (at least for me) it’s all about access and subject. And both are compelling here – the filmmakers, the same directors who made the other two films (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky) are back again, and they have a history and rapport with the accused/convicted (Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley).

But if advances in science (like lack of any DNA evidence) exonerates these three, then who, indeed, killed these boys? In the last episode, the possibility fell on one of the murdered boys’ fathers, the one you love to hate – who is also, conveniently, a camera hog.

This time around, that guy is eliminated as a possibility, and another of the fathers is suspected. Not that it goes anywhere definitive – nor could it, really, in this kind of presentation (i.e., it’s not a trial).

But worth watching – in fact, all three episodes are well worth watching. The only thing that bothers me – after all this time – is that it’s presented as a great crime yarn, an unsolved murder – but at its center are the three little boys who lost their lives, and we tend to forget about them to focus on the accused and their families.