You'll probably love or hate Ross McElwee's documentaries. Personal, plotless, and invariably first-person, these films meditate on relationships, history, and time in utterly unique ways. McElwee's films also achieve the tricky feat of calling attention to the camera's artifice and making the camera disappear. You can watch many of McElwee's films on Netflix; here are four to see:

• Time Indefinite. Marking a marriage, a funeral, and a birth, Time Indefinite attempts to use filmmaking as a means to comprehend the many important events that punctuate human lives and make them meaningful.
• Sherman's March. Beginining the film as a journery to trace the path of General Sherman's march through the south, Sherman's March gets derailed early and often by events in McElwee's personal life. In the process, the movie explores how human beings' plans are almost always interrupted.
• Six O'Clock News. Six O'Clock News meditates on how the camera can present us with strange and unique visions of the world. The film often feels like an experiment in reality TV before reality TV existed.
• Bright Leaves. Another meditation on the artificiality of film, Bright Leaves explores McElwee's family history of tobacco farming, a neglected Hollywood drama, and the state of North Carolina.