Documentaries and TV series are noted in parentheses. Any entry lacking parentheses is a fictional film.
Adams, Scott: Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (doc)
Altucher, James: High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (doc), Hoop Dreams (doc), Comedian (doc)
Amoruso, Sophia: The Color of Pomegranates, Girl Boss Guerilla
Andreessen, Marc: Mr. Robot (TV), Halt and Catch Fire (TV), Silicon Valley (TV)
Attia, Peter: Pumping Iron (doc), The Bridge (doc), Bigger, Stronger, Faster (doc)
Beck, Glenn: Citizen Kane
Betts, Richard: The Breakfast Club, Baraka (doc)
Birbiglia, Mike: Tickled (doc), Captain Fantastic, Other People, Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, Stop Making Sense, No Refunds (Doug Stanhope comedy special)
Blumberg, Alex: Man on Wire (doc), Hoop Dreams (doc), Magic and Bird: A Courtship of Rivals (doc)
Boone, Amelia: The Goonies
Boreta, Justin: Meru (doc), Grizzly Man (doc), Daft Punk Unchained (doc)
Brach, Tara: Race: The Power of an Illusion (doc), Breaking Bad (TV)
Callen, Bryan: Fed Up (doc), Ken Burns’s Baseball (doc), Ken Burns’s Jazz (doc)
Carl, Shay: Captain Fantastic, Transcendent Man (doc), Forks over Knives (doc), big fan of the documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock
Cooke, Ed: Withnail and I, The Armando Iannucci Shows (TV), Monty Python’s Flying Circus (TV), Alan Partridge (fictional personality)
Costner, Kevin: Coney Island (doc), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Sugarland Express, Minority Report
Cummings, Whitney: Buck (doc), Comedian (doc)
D’Agostino, Dominic: “An Advantaged Metabolic State: Human Performance, Resilience and Health” (talk by Peter Attia at IHMC)
de Botton, Alain: Seven Up! From the Up series (doc)
De Sena, Joe: Sugar Coated (doc), Food Inc. (doc), Finding Vivian Maier (doc)
Diamandis, Peter: Transcendent Man (doc), Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (doc), An Inconvenient Truth (doc)
DiNunzio, Tracy: The Overnighters (doc), The True Cost (doc), The Fog of War (doc)
Dubner, Stephen: Seven Up! From the Up series (doc)
Eisen, Jonathan: Shackleton (TV miniseries)
Engle, Dan: Racing Extinction (doc), Neurons to Nirvana (doc), Searching for Sugar Man (doc)
Fussell, Chris: Restrepo (doc)—should be required viewing for every U.S. citizen. The Commanding Heights (doc)—based on Dan Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw’s book of the same name. Bush’s War (doc)—Frontline
Fussman, Cal: The Walk, Cinema Paradiso, Man on Wire (doc)
Foxx, Jamie: The Pianist
Ganju, Nick: Forrest Gump
Gazzaley, Adam: Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (doc)
Godin, Seth: Man on Wire (doc), Exit Through the Gift Shop (doc), The Matrix
Goldberg, Evan: Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Adaptation, The Princess Bride, The Fast and the Furious, Rejected (short film), Kids in the Hall (TV), Absolutely Fabulous (TV), Second City Television (TV)
Goodman, Marc: Ghostbusters (1984), WarGames, Sneakers, The Net, any movie with Bill Murray or Dan Aykroyd in it
Hamilton, Laird: Blackfish (doc), Senna (doc), On Any Sunday (doc)
Harris, Sam: Recommendation to watch Christopher Hitchens, a brilliant speaker
Holiday, Ryan: Gladiator, This Is Spinal Tap
Honnold, Alex: Star Wars, Gladiator
John, Daymond: BBC’s Planet Earth
Johnson, Bryan: Man on Wire (doc), Exit Through the Gift Shop (doc), Cosmos (doc)
Kagan, Noah: Commando, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Jinx (doc)
Kamkar, Samy: Into Eternity (doc), We Live in Public (doc), Revenge of the Electric Car (doc)
Kass, Sam: Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story (doc)
Kelly, Kevin: Man on Wire (doc), The King of Kong (doc), A State of Mind (doc)
Koppelman, Brian: Fight Club, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (doc), Don’t Look Back (doc), Roger and Me (doc)
Libin, Phil: Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, House of Cards (TV), Game of Thrones (TV), Top Gear (TV)
MacAskill, Will: Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends (documentary series)
MacKenzie, Brian: Spinning Plates (doc)
McChrystal, Gen. Stanley A.: The Battle of Algiers
McGonigal, Jane: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), G4M3RS (doc), The King of Kong (doc)
Miller, BJ: Waiting for Guffman, The Kentucky Fried Movie, The Groove Tube, Grizzly Man (doc)
Mullenweg, Matt: Citizenfour (doc), Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (doc), Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (doc)
Neistat, Casey: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Little Dieter Needs to Fly (doc)
Nemer, Jason: Marley (doc), I Know I’m Not Alone by Michael Franti (doc), Happy (doc)
Norton, Edward: The Revenant, Rust and Bone, The Godfather, Good-fellas, A Prophet, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Birdman, Biutiful, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Shōgun (miniseries), The Century of the Self (doc), The Power of Nightmares (doc), The Cruise (doc)
Novak, B.J.: Adaptation, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, The Naked Gun, Catfish (doc), To Be and to Have (doc), The Overnighters (doc)
Ohanian, Alexis: Food Inc. (doc), Planet Earth (doc), Jiro Dreams of Sushi (doc)
Palmer, Amanda: Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory (doc), Happy (doc), One More Time with Feeling (doc)
Patrick, Rhonda: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (doc), Planet Earth (doc)
Paul, Caroline: Maidentrip (doc)
Polanco, Martin: The Crash Reel (doc), Waste Land (doc), Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (doc)
Poliquin, Charles: The Last Samurai, Gladiator, The Imitation Game, 22 Bullets. Also: The History Channel and documentaries from National Geographic, and Tarantino movies
Potts, Rolf: Grizzly Man (doc)
Reece, Gabby: Food Inc. (doc), Roger and Me (doc), Bowling for Columbine (doc), Crumb (doc)
Richman, Jessica: The Edge
Robbins, Tony: Inside Job (doc)
Rogen, Seth: Pulp Fiction, Clerks, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Adaptation, The Princess Bride, Fawlty Towers (TV), Kids In The Hall (TV), Monty Python’s Flying Circus (TV), Second City Television (TV)
Rose, Kevin: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Inglourious Basterds, Food Inc. (doc)
Rubin, Rick: 20,000 Days on Earth (doc)
Sacca, Chris: The Big Lebowski
Schwarzenegger, Arnold: Brooklyn Castle (doc)
Sethi, Ramit: Jiro Dreams of Sushi (doc)
Shinoda, Mike: House of Cards (TV), The Godfather, The Usual Suspects, Fight Club, Seven, Ninja Scroll, WALL-E, Princess Mononoke
Silva, Jason: Inception, The Matrix, The Truman Show, Vanilla Sky, eXistenZ, The Beach, Maidentrip (doc)
Sivers, Derek: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Skenes, Joshua: Chef’s Table (TV)
Sommer, Christopher: The Legend of Tarzan
Spurlock, Morgan: Scanners, An American Werewolf in London, Making a Murderer (TV), Mr. Robot (TV), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (doc), The Jinx (doc), Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (doc), Brother’s Keeper (doc), The Thin Blue Line (doc), The Fog of War (doc), Hoop Dreams (doc), Stevie (doc), Life Itself (doc)
Starrett, Kelly: On the Way to School (doc), Trophy Kids (doc), Amy (doc), Super Size Me (doc), Restrepo (doc)
Strauss, Neil: The Act of Killing (doc), Gimme Shelter (doc), The Fog of War (doc)
Teller, Astro: Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (doc)
Thiel, Peter: No Country for Old Men
Tsatsouline, Pavel: The Magnificent Seven (1960)
von Ahn, Luis: The Matrix, Jiro Dreams of Sushi (doc)
Waitzkin, Joshua: Searching for Sugar Man (doc), Riding Giants (doc), The Last Patrol (doc)
Weinstein, Eric: Kung Fu Panda, Rate It X (doc)
Willink, Jocko: Against the Odds—“A Chance in Hell: The Battle for Ramadi” (doc), Restrepo (doc), The Pacific (TV), Band of Brothers (TV)
Wilson, Rainn: Apocalypse Now, The Act of Killing (doc)
White, Shaun: 7 Days in Hell
Young, Chris: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pulp Fiction, The Right Stuff
Zimmern, Andrew: Great Chefs (TV)