McLibel
Great David & Goliath story about two activists taking on Ronald McDonald when they find themselves in court over anti-McDonalds pamphlets they have been distributing. Great story – not really a great doco.
You can tell the filmmaker didn't have a whole lot of footage, because it's pretty much just talking heads recounting the tale, something they must have been painfully aware of leading them to include the shonkiest court room re-enactments I have ever seen. They get actors in to play the witnesses but have the two activists playing themselves acting out some of the more entertaining legal skirmishes – it's unintentionally hilarious stuff.
Otherwise this kind of feels like something you'd be made to watch in school – and then have to answer a list of questions about for that week's assignment. Maybe it's that the original edit of this was made well before the doco boom led by Moore, Spurlock and others that this seems so drab by comparison, but it does feel more like something that would make a good current affairs segment stretched out to an hour instead.