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Old 08-14-2009, 06:18 PM     Post subject: Documentaries worth watching #1 (permalink)  
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 I'm posting this purely for selfish reasons, I need pointers to good docus I've missed.

Here's some that I consider must sees or at least worth watching, in no particular order:

anything with David Attenborough

BBC The Jet Stream and Us
Documentary tracing how human understanding of the jet stream - a ribbon of fast moving air high in the atmosphere - has grown.

BBC The Power of Nightmares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares

Capturing the Friedmans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capturing_the_Friedmans

Children underground: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Underground

Grizzly Man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Man

Guns Germs and Steel: http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/

White Light/Black Rain: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0911010/

Home: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014762/

Ilha das Flores: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097564/

Jesus camp: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486358/

Year Zero - The Silent Death of Cambodia: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275085/

Nazi Pop Twins: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1073131/

No End In Sight: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0912593/

Occupation 101: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807956/

Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418038/

The Human Behavior Experiments: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822813/

PBS Frontline - Sick Around America: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...aroundamerica/

PBS Dispatches - Iraq's Missing Billions: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=56149

The Trials of Ted Haggard: http://www.hbo.com/events/trialsoftedhaggard/index.html

We Feed The World: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478324/
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Old 08-14-2009, 06:24 PM #2 (permalink)  
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 Devil's Playground: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293088/

It's about Amish kids during Rumspringa.
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Old 08-14-2009, 08:15 PM #4 (permalink)  
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Louis Theroux is pretty good. The one about Vegas or where he tries to be an adult video star. I have all 3 seasons on my HD
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Devil's Playground: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293088/

It's about Amish kids during Rumspringa.
Just finished watching this, very interesting.

King of kong is awesome and I've seen about a dozen Louis Theroux docus. Keep them suggestions coming.
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Old 08-14-2009, 09:59 PM #8 (permalink)  
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 I'm a doc fiend. However, I haven't watched any for quite some time so I don't remember nearly as many as I should

I recommend adding

Fog of War http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/ McNamara discusses his experience as Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson

Night and Fog http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/ French film. Very short, made in 50s. Probably the most raw documentary on Nazi concentration camps

The Times of Harvey Milk http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088275/


And a pseudo doc Generation Kill http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995832/ HBO miniseries. This isn't a documentary, but it's just about as true a story as you're going to get in fiction. It's about a journalist's experience with a convoy during the invasion of Iraq, and according to the actual marines he wrote about, the story is so close to what actually happened that they had trouble telling who's version of the story was more accurate: theirs or the journalist's.

Also, one of the marines plays himself, and another marine plays somebody else. I love this miniseries. May even like it more than Band of Brothers, but that's probably blasphemy...

Also, I remember really liking Why We Fight http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436971/ but that was before I began researching political issues, and have since discovered that Robert Greenwald kinda likes to get some stuff wrong, and is 'sensational'. I'll say that the documentary is likely really good, but I'm not positive since I would have to watch it again. I just don't really remember anything other than it covering the military industrial complex, which is legit.
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 I wouldn't call Ken Burns' stuff terribly original but I could still watch it all day, Jazz and The War in particular. If you like history, his docs are well put together with interesting and very specific stories about individuals who played a part of the larger narrative.
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 Downloading fog of war now, looks good. Too bad I'm also a docuholic and seen all the other suggestions. Keep em coming!
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 I just watched the Louis Theroux Ice addicts documentary, you can d/l it from BBC I-player, that was pretty good.
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 Louis Theroux's extreme body builders and thai brides are epic.
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 You might like Control Room http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0391024/ It's about Al Jazeera.

Taxi to the Dark Side is probably really good http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0854678/ I didn't watch it even though I really wanted to

Several others I planned on watching, but didn't, and now I'm on hiatus from films. Most of them are in the IMDB top 50 http://www.imdb.com/chart/documentary
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 Oh now I just remembered a couple baller ones

From the Earth to the Moon http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120570/ HBO miniseries. Chronicles Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions. I adore outer space stuff so I love this miniseries

In the Shadow of the Moon http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925248/ Raw footage and raw interviews from Apollo missions and astronauts.
 
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 On the topic of space and inspired by the top gear thread, check out James May On The Moon: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lfdbv
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 Sweet. Found a youtube of it so I'll watch it
 
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 At least I think I'll watch it. I went through a phase where I watched nothing but documentaries and lectures, but now I'm doing virtually none of that. Only docs it seems I can watch now are ones where tigers, lions, or leopards kill shit
 
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 Man on Wire
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Anything by Michael Moore or Al Gore


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 Man on Wire pissed me the hell off. I had that shits on queue like a month before it even came to DVD, but since it had no closed captions I couldn't understand a single thing the French dude said

That's actually a very frustrating thing about documentaries for me. Since I'm retarded I have trouble hearing stuff, so I watch most everything with subtitles or closed captions, but only rarely do docs have them

And just remembered another awesome doc. Street Fight http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457496/ Inside look at Corey Booker's 2002 mayoral campaign in Newark, NJ. Extremely good
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spoons mention of american pimp got no love. This is a pretty awesome documentary. I first saw it when I was young and was just like "wow thats cool." Then I grew up a bit and watched it some more and was like "wow thats cool, but really really really fucked up."

Also children underground is a really moving piece of work. Id def reccomend anyone who hasnt seen it to check it out.

And lastly Im really glad that I havent seen any mention of michael moore in this thread. I have to be honest and say that his docs are pretty entertaining, however hes the biggest sensationalist egotistical doucheclown to ever make a documentary.
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 Quick Drew edit post so boostnfail doesn't see that you like Moore!

Personally, I have never seen a Moore film. I would like to, but due to his reputation as a sensationalist, I haven't ever really felt like it.
 
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doh! Like I said, the films are quite entertaining. They make you laugh and the general gyst of them is good. We need better and universal health care, 9/11 has a ton of unanswered questions surrounding it and all that. However he dramatizes everything and fucks with peoples lives who he probably doesnt give a shit about once filming has wrapped, and he seems to be too much of a believer in the phrase "the ends justify the means." Or maybe he doesnt even care about the cause but just likes the spotlight... idk..
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 i was jk about moore and al gore

yeah moore's stuff is very entertaining but it's true that it's too one sided of information to be called a true documentary.

as far as al gore goes... MANBEARPIG !!!


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If you're a fan of the show 'Intervention,' you'll love watching these 16 year old Amish kids in Devils Playground.


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started watching "the four horsemen" on youtube last night. Its 4 atheist philosophers sitting down having a sort of round table discussion. Pretty cool stuff imo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuyUz2XLp1E&NR=1
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yah that video turned me on to a lot of richard dawkins stuff.

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Thank you a lot Cocco.

Even though you say it is for selfish reasons, this thread surely make me happy.

Look forward to watching the documentaries.
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Old 08-20-2009, 07:00 AM     Post subject: Re: Documentaries worth watching #33 (permalink)  
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 How could I have forgotten about Touching the Void http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379557/ Probably because after watching it I retired it from my ranking system. It's just that good. Not only is Touching the Void the most insane story anybody has ever heard, but it's non-fiction

Seriously, my skin shivers and crawls whenever I think of this film. Words cannot describe how amazing the story is.

And Murderball http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436613/ Gotta love the title l.do
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Ok if you wanna go there:

BBC Horizon - Is alcohol worse than ecstasy? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/prog...band/tx/drugs/
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Hot Politics goes behind the scenes to examine the forces behind the inaction, including a well-financed energy industry campaign that challenged the broad scientific consensus on the human causes of climate change in an effort to stall federal regulation. Fossil fuel companies funneled millions of dollars to the institutes of global warming skeptics, including former President of the National Academy of Sciences Frederick Seitz, who cast doubt about the science in media reports on climate change.
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After watching James May on the moon I stumbled across James May´s Big Ideas and I liked it

http://www.open2.net/jamesmay/index.html

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Just watched "Home" by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and it´s amazing. Even if you don´t agree with the Al Gore-ish environmental stuff, camera and shots are beatiful.
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 A couple recent ones I've enjoyed:

How Earth Made Us: BBC - BBC Two Programmes - How Earth Made Us
The Cove: The Cove (2009)
BBC Horizon has also had some very nice stuff lately: BBC iPlayer - Horizon: 2009-2010: To Infinity and Beyond
And obviously BBC Life, David ftw: BBC - BBC One Programmes - Life
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 I generally like nature documentaries best and I'm surprised its not mentioned yet, but the Planet Earth series from BBC is great. I just bought this on Bluray (had only seen it in standard def before) and I'm just blown away by the view almost every scene. I just wish it was narrated by Sigourney Weaver on the disk like it is in the US broadcasts.

I'm looking forward to watching the Life series from them as well. It stars airing here in March. This one is narrated by Oprah for us Americans (oooh lucky us!!!)
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I just wish it was narrated by Sigourney Weaver on the disk like it is in the US broadcasts.
Dude, seriously. You have no idea how blasphemous that is, David is the only one allowed to narrate nature docus.
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The Century of The Self is by far the best documentary i have ever seen. For all those who are interested in how society has been developed its a must see.

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Its a bit of beast, and comes in 4 one hour long parts. Heres the descriptoin of first and last parts

1) The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn't need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.

Bernays was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book, from celebrity endorsement and outrageous PR stunts, to eroticising the motorcar.

His most notorious coup was breaking the taboo on women smoking by persuading them that cigarettes were a symbol of independence and freedom. But Bernays was convinced that this was more than just a way of selling consumer goods. It was a new political idea of how to control the masses. By satisfying the inner irrational desires that his uncle had identified, people could be made happy and thus docile.

It was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate today's world.

4) This episode explains how politicians on the left, in both Britain and America, turned to the techniques developed by business to read and fulfil the inner desires of the self.

Both New Labour, under Tony Blair, and the Democrats, led by Bill Clinton, used the focus group, which had been invented by psychoanalysts, in order to regain power. They set out to mould their policies to people's inner desires and feelings, just as capitalism had learnt to do with products.

Out of this grew a new culture of public relations and marketing in politics, business and journalism. One of its stars in Britain was Matthew Freud who followed in the footsteps of his relation, Edward Bernays, the inventor of public relations in the 1920s.

The politicians believed they were creating a new and better form of democracy, one that truly responded to the inner feelings of individual. But what they didn't realise was that the aim of those who had originally created these techniques had not been to liberate the people but to develop a new way of controlling them.
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Dude, seriously. You have no idea how blasphemous that is, David is the only one allowed to narrate nature docus.
I know he's good and "the man" in nature docs and all, but I preferred her narration. It probably has to do with being american and his accent standing out a bit for me and her voice sounding more natural.

It's an excellent series with either narrator.
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