There’s a lot of streaming services out there. But what makes Tenk stand out is its selection of documentaries depicting issues within the Americas. The first of the documentaries I’m writing about is The Coca-Cola Case, which tests viewers as consumers. We can consume, blindly or otherwise, or we can listen to this documentary’s main interviewees, the first being Ray Rogers. Every time Coca-Cola holds a major press conference at a major hotel, he’s there to protest with others. With them, he spreads awareness about the titular company’s complicity in Colombian paramilitaries killing union leaders and members. The other two main interviewee are Dan Kowalik and Terry Collingsworth, American lawyers who found a legal loophole. That loophole can possibly get the Colombian unions to sue an American company under an old American business law.

The Coca-Cola Case came out originally in 2009, and for those of us doing different kinds of math, that’s fourteen years, one prime minister, or three presidents ago. It thus takes us back to a time of arbitrary respectability politics. Kowalik appears in The Coca-Cola Case‘s key moments, one of them being him walking out of a congressional hearing after a House Representatives going after him. Apparently, in this congressman’s logic, believing in Che Guevara is worse than a company using paramilitaries for assassinations. The doc, then, follows Kowalik and company doing their best to have a victory, or to see any outcome as a victory. After all, what is a victory in these kind of cases? Will Coca-Cola’s complicity in these atrocities enough to shut them down, or to make them accountable?

I only have two gripes with The Coca-Cola Case. The first is that yes, Kowalik makes for a compelling subject, but there’s more of him and less of Collingsworth. I forgot that he was in the documentary. The imbalance between the three main interviewees and the Colombians ones are understandable even in a documentary with Hispanic directors, but it’s an imbalance nonetheless. My second gripe pertains to it being a doc that preaches to the choir, and its focus of social justice over making title cards that won’t look dated after 2009. Otherwise, the doc handles its subject matter with sensitivity. It’s a doc about murder and yet the most triggering thing about this are the libertarian college students simping for Coke and trolling Rogers about it. It’s a doc about a hopeless situation and yet it finds its silver linings.

Watch The Coca-Cola Case on Tenk before it leaves that platform on October 23rd.