Former President of the United States Barack Obama has unveiled his pick of favourite films and television shows from 2019 on his social media handles. It has come a day after he had posted his list of favourite books from the year.
The list includes the Netflix documentary film American Factory, which is co-produced by Barack and his wife Michelle under their production company, Higher Ground Productions. He also mentioned that his production’s maiden docu was shortlisted by the Academy Award for Best Documentary.
The former president also mentioned other documentaries as his favourite like Amazing Grace and Apollo 11. Among his picks from fiction category, Obama chose the Chinese film Ash Is Purest White, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari, Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart, Joe Talbat’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story and Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite.
His television list was short compared to the films, with only three names, Netflix’s Unbelievable, Amazon’s Fleabag Season 2 and HBO’s Watchmen. Obama wrote that these shows were as powerful as films.
All the films and television shows mentioned by him have been well received by critics and audiences.Obama had mentioned his favorite books from the year in an earlier post which included Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer among others.