Into the Abyss Werner Herzog interviews Death Row inmates and those involved. Beautifully done. Herzog has an uncanny way of finding the right questions.

This is pretty much an extended episode of On Death Row - you can catch all the episodes of that on Youtube.


The early VICE docu's by the heroically stupid Shane Smith are all worth your time.

Inside North Korea
The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia
Front Lines of the Lybian Revolution

The later VICE stuff... not so much