Here are a couple documentary recommendations which we have recently watched. Both featuring filmmakers essentially documenting their own stories of going through struggle and hardship.
The first is “The Biggest Little Farm”. It’s official website is HERE and the trailer is here:
It’s about a Hollywood cameraman who, along with his wife, decide to leave Los Angeles and re-boot a farm about an hour north of LA in a more rural area. They do it right, working over the seasons to re-generate and create biodiversity of the land, as all real farms should do over stupid monoculture, and eventually come to learn each problem they encounter is fixed by adding more diversity. Go nature!
The second film is called "Wildcat" and is also a good one. It follows the inspiring story of a young British veteran suffering from depression and a mental health crisis after being in a stupid war and his later journey into the Peruvian Amazon. Not to drink ayahuasca, although that probably would greatly help him as well, but to connect up with animals. Specifically an ocelot - a species of wild cat larger than the domestic house cat but smaller than a cheeta or panther. Trailer:
Once down in the jungle, he meets a young woman (who becomes his new goose) who runs a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center, and his life finds new meaning as he is entrusted with the life of an orphaned baby ocelot. What was meant to be an attempt to escape from life, turns out to be an unexpected journey of love, discovery, and healing.
Do please consider paying to rent these to support the filmmakers but naughty watch links also exist HERE and HERE.