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Would recommend this as well for sure. Demonstrates the dark side of Indonesian society, which endures even after the country was transformed from the brutal New Order dictatorship that led the 1965 killings to democracy (since 1998). Not just in terms of how the killers of back then are free men and can openly go around speaking about their deeds, but also in demonstrating how seemingly significant political change may only scratch the surface of a deeply corrupt society.
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At the risk of sounding like  , anyone know where I can watch this? Google isn't helping much.
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It's probably as much an experimental film as it is a documentary, but Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi is the best movie I've ever seen, and perhaps the only one that has truly changed my life. I was not the same person when I got done watching it for the first time, and I revisit it at least once a year. There is no voiceover or interview clips, just images and sound. It's a meditation on man's relationship to technology and nature set to a hypnotic score by Philip Glass. The first 20 minutes or so are pretty slow, but stick with it. Can't recommend it enough.
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The Ambassador is a must watch for anyone that wants to understand post-colonial Africa. It follows Mads Brugger as he (under an alias) buys an ambassadorship off the black market, becoming Liberia's ambassador to the Central African Republic (CAR), and examines how the position allows the continuation various illicit activities (primarily the conflict diamond trade). It's very controversial since Mads put himself in a position where he enables the activities he's trying to expose, but it's nonetheless illuminating and fascinating.
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Confessions of a Superhero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPceD3CrQeg It's about the people who dress up like superheroes on the hollywood strip and take pictures with tourists. Not the most exciting premise, but it's really well made and the people lead interesting and unique lives. Features batman getting arrested for attacking a tourist. It's on netflix i think. I Am Not A Freak: An old documentary about people with severe deformities, it's really tastefully done though. The best part is the kid with progeria at the end, who is cool as heck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnqihE_nOxw Just the progeria kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llHgPR2wie8
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Violet_Sky posted:At the risk of sounding like All I know of is Canadian Netflix. Might be on American as well?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f51Jzm7M4w Failure is not an option Is an incredibly well done documentary on the history of space flight, told from the perspective of mission control. It has some really neat tidbits of info you won't get other places, and gives credit to a lot of people who are just called "A mission contorl officer" in other documentaries. Also very very interesting, I highly recommend it.
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ElGroucho posted:My wife saw this with me, and was basically like "gently caress this guy, I don't feel bad for him at all" Watching him suffer was painful, but yeah, ultimately I was like "He deserves it for all the pain he has caused"
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Hollywood- A Celebration Of The American Silent Film Narrated by James Mason. Likely the single best documentary that will ever be made on the pioneer days of cinema. Has numerous interviews with many that are now gone, and is just really a great documentary. Was released on VHS and laser-disk and is not likely to ever see commercial release again as rights are apparently a bitch. Luckily, it is currently on Youtube. 13 parts. Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS37kyfnGy4 The Nazis, A Warning From History A great 6 part documentary on Germany and the Nazi party that focuses not on the war, but on the country, people, and ideology. Really great. Part 1: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xq1ym0_the-nazis-a-warning-from-history-1-helped-into-power_lifestyle remusclaw has a new favorite as of 20:26 on Feb 6, 2015 |
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In the Hollywood vein, Visions of Light is an excellent documentary (dating from the 90s, I think) about the history of cinematography. It doesn't look like it's up on YouTube, and I don't have a Netflix Instant account to check there, but it is available on DVD from Netflix. (I love these behind-the-scenes film/TV documentaries - any other recs there?)
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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple  For actual recordings of children and adults dying at the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9o1vUSLhOs An interesting look on Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. Includes interviews with survivors about the whole thing. You get to see what a madman Jim Jones was and how he convinced people to come to power. The ending's very hard to watch, especially when you hear about family members dying in people's arms. 
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Das Butterbrot posted:Workingman's Death is an excellent series on physical labor in the 21st century by Austrian filmmaker Michael Glawogger and you should watch it. Good christ. If you have an hour and a half to kill and want to absolutely forget that amount of time has passed, these will do it for you. Just drop in and 20 minutes later... what the hell just happened? Just absolutely engrossing.
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acejackson42 posted:Good christ. If you have an hour and a half to kill and want to absolutely forget that amount of time has passed, these will do it for you. Just drop in and 20 minutes later... what the hell just happened? Just absolutely engrossing. how the gently caress do you watch these videos, youtube tells me they are "private", on my PS3, it shows me a video of "click the link below" for an hour and a half? Guess it's because I'm in the good ol USA
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Echoing that Jonestown, Jodorowsky's Dune, American Scream, and Touching the Void are all great. Fog of War with Robert McNamara should almost be required viewing. It is thoroughly excellent. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VgA98V1Ubk8 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War Vernon, Florida (also by Errol Morris) is basically a real-life Christopher Guest film. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2adr2XgQJKQ http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon,_Florida_%28film%29 cthulusnewzulubbq has a new favorite as of 07:40 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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If you have any interest in electronic / 80's / new wave / techno music, or even 70's soul / disco, I recommend The Sound of Belgium. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaBDLS6sYPs If you have more interest in 80's / new wave then Synth Britannia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1P93r9xes Of course there's also 24 Hour Party People, which is only partly documentary. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2PYyvGFHD8
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Cleanflix Really really fascinating movie about businesses out in Utah that use various legal loopholes to edit feature films and rent them to traditionalist Mormons who refuse to watch R-rated movies. I would recommend it as a kind of spiritual counterpart to Jesus Camp because they're both movies that explore pretty extreme American Christianities without ever reducing their subjects to two-dimensional caricatures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVwCa87qrC0 Last time I checked it's on American Netflix, but I'm not positive if it still is, because I've spent the last year being all 
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There are two documentaries by Adam Curtis that are my my go-tos when I just want to throw something on for background noise, but for when I want to learn something as well: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace A three-part documentary about our reliance on computers, with a pretty grim overtone. The first part focuses on Silicon Valley's raging hard-on for Ayn Rand. The Century of the Self Again, a multi-part documentary exploring humans' reliance on being told what to like. It taught me who Edward Bernays is, and how he used his uncle, Sigmund Freud's, ideas on the human mind to pigeonhole the consumer into a vicious cycle of buying.
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I recently watched "The Dog" (on Amazon Prime) and I can't recommend it enough. Basically, in 1972 a man named John Wojtowicz decided he was gonna rob a bank in Brooklyn in order to pay for his boyfriend's sex change operation. Of course he and his accomplices botched the whole thing and ended up in a drawn out 14 hour hostage situation while everything else in the city pretty much ground to a halt as people stopped what they were doing to watch the whole thing go down live on television. If all of that sounds familiar it's because this is the story that "Dog Day Afternoon" was based on. It's a really good look at the life of Wojtowicz as well as the circumstances that led up to (and motivations for) robbing the bank. There's also a lot of rare footage from the early days of the gay rights movement, which Wojtowicz was heavily involved with. He was a pretty funny guy, and despite being completely unrepentant (as well as coming off a bit like your slightly creepy uncle who's obsessed with sex and is always saying something inappropriate) he still manages to come across in a somewhat sympathetic manner. Anyway, it's a good movie and you should watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npe6yTYmTiM the future is WOW has a new favorite as of 09:52 on Jun 14, 2015 |
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Capturing The Friedmans is a great feel-good documentary. A family that practically films everything in their lives happens to film themselves during a scandal involving the patriarch and the oldest son, who are both accused of molesting children. It's made by the director of The Jinx, and is a harrowing look into a family that comes apart at the seams, especially as they're heavily scrutinized by the media and their community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVY4ehqJjAA
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That doesn't sound very feel good at all!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58 The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz is an interesting documentary that follows the life of Aaron Swartz, contributor to such developments as the markup language, creative commons, RSS, reddit and getting SOPA repealed, his early life and rise through his formative years, up until his early death at the age of 26. Its a very interesting tidbit of history on the internet and its surrounding players and technology, and how both the userbase and government threw their power around in various forms in order to help shape the internet as it stands today.
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Undefeated is one of my fave docs ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckku5qEt-vA It's about a floundering high school football team and the lengths they go to just to get to a playoff game at the end of the season. The team used to be so terrible that they would be paid to play better teams and get destroyed just to add to the stats of whoever they played. The doc itself follows the coach's efforts to build the team up and the sheer will it takes to get the guys in line. It also covers the economic, racial, and academic issues the players have to face, as well as expectations of masculinity in a football culture. It won the Oscar for best documentary if that sells anyone on it.  Also Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World, which is kind of standard as far as career retrospective's go, but is still really interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAs2FKH3DGc
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Best drug documentary I've ever watched. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XfP58clo1I
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Violet_Sky posted:At the risk of sounding like I use netflix mainly for all the documentary stuff. They have a LOT! I also highly recommend http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/ they tend to show a whole lot of links and what not for documentaries you might be looking for. My recommendations are (european) football related 1st - A Tale of Two Escobars http://documentaryheaven.com/the-two-escobars/ It's in spanish but it has subtitles. It follows the drug lord Pablo Escobar and Columbian player Andres Escobar. The name they had wasn't the only thing they shared, though it wasn't exactly a mutual agreement. Columbian team Millionarios receive a massive injection of cash from the drug cartel, and Andres is stuck in the middle of it. 2nd - Florence Fight Club https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XctCNiDICXo I am a massive Fiorentina fan, and Florence is one of if not the top city I've ever been to. This makes me love it more. It's not a fight club like you think, some underground bullshit where people let out aggression and hide from the authorities. This is a game that has been played for hundreds of years. Each team has to get the ball past their opponents, you can carry the ball anyway you want to, tackle them any way you want to. No rules, no substitutions. It goes into the history of the game, and more importantly the controversy the game causes despite being sanctioned by the city of Firenze.
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Bowlcutbarricade posted:Best drug documentary I've ever watched. Holy shitfuck. That one kid who was born to a lesbian mother who was raped while high at a party, never knew his dad and said that he just wanted to go to sleep forever... I'm not going to finish watching this one.
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Your Sledgehammer posted:It's probably as much an experimental film as it is a documentary, but Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi is the best movie I've ever seen, and perhaps the only one that has truly changed my life. I was not the same person when I got done watching it for the first time, and I revisit it at least once a year. There is no voiceover or interview clips, just images and sound. It's a meditation on man's relationship to technology and nature set to a hypnotic score by Philip Glass. The first 20 minutes or so are pretty slow, but stick with it. Can't recommend it enough. I can't say it changed my life but it was really good. Would you recommend the sequels too?
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Doctor Malaver posted:I can't say it changed my life but it was really good. Would you recommend the sequels too? They're terrible.
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Grilox posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f51Jzm7M4w Someone I work with is related to Sid Gutierrez, first US born Hispanic astronaut. He tells a story about how he spoke at Gene Kranz' induction into the International Space Hall of Fame. While on the podium, with Gene next to him nodding in agreement, Sid says "Gene never said the words 'failure is not an option' in the control room like they depict in the Apollo 13 movie. Gene never had to say it, because everyone led by Gene already knew it." 
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Bip Roberts posted:They're terrible. Powaqqatsi doesn't live up to the first but its still an interesting watch. Naqoyqatsi was pretty dull though.
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Wrestling with Shadows. Seriosuly, even if you aren't a wrasslin fan, you will probably find enjoyment in this saga of Bret Hart's final year in the WWF.
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Hobbes posted:Powaqqatsi doesn't live up to the first but its still an interesting watch.
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Doctor Malaver posted:I can't say it changed my life but it was really good. Would you recommend the sequels too? Bip Roberts posted:They're terrible. Hobbes posted:Powaqqatsi doesn't live up to the first but its still an interesting watch. I haven't seen the sequels because of what the folks above are expressing. I've heard they are not as good and I don't really want to color the experience of Koyaanisqatsi with disappointing sequels. I think it's no coincidence that Koyaanisqatsi was made at the dawn of the Information Age, as it perfectly encapsulates what that moment in history means to humanity. It's a singular film for me and probably always will be, although I've heard some of its imitators are pretty good (Baraka is a film in the same mold that was directed by Koyaanisqatsi's cinematographer, Ron Fricke).
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Bowlcutbarricade posted:Best drug documentary I've ever watched. Checking this out today. Any more recent, similar docs? I don't discount this one but sometimes I find it's hard to get into older films like this.
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King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters 10/10 http://www.hulu.com/watch/766638
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One of my favorite movies and definitely documentaries.fA beautiful country, beautiful people, and beautiful music: Heima https://vimeo.com/24369724 about Sigur Ros' tour through their home country of Iceland offering free and unannounced shows in some of the most spectacular locations. Very relaxing and happy.
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Fusilli Jerry posted:King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters lol https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iteB7wQckh4
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Let the Fire Burn http://youtu.be/-v5ZXAxTGHg A documentary that looks back to May 13, 1985 - the day Philadelphia police exploded the home occupied by the radical group MOVE, and the resulting fire that killed five children and six adults, while destroying sixty-one homes in its wake.
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The World at War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yI9D9oZgQ Narrated by Sir Lawrence Olivier, this is the best WW2 Documentary series ever made. It covers every aspect and arena of the war that wasn't still a state secret (such as the work done at Bletchley Park) and included interviews with such people as: Karl Donitz (Commander of German Navy and President of Germany from Hitler's death until the end of the war); actor and veteran Jimmy Stewart (US Airforce in the war, became a Brigadier General in 1959l); Lord Mountbatten (Viceroy of India, First Sea Lord); Mitsuo Fuchida, who led the attack on Pearl Harbour; Playwright J.B. Priestly; Sir Arthur "Butcher" Harris of RAF Bomber Command, responsible for the Bombing of Dresden; Charles Sweeney and Paul Tibbets, pilots of the Bockscar and Enola Gay respectively, the planes that nuked Nagasaki and Hiroshima; Prime Minister Anthony Eden (Secretary of State for War 1940); and Traudl Junge, Hitler's personal secretary who typed his will and was in the Führerbunker with him until his death. bitterandtwisted has a new favorite as of 11:04 on Jul 12, 2015 |
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Armadillo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIun9XvcC_c (Trailer) imdb posted:In February of 2009, a group of Danish soldiers accompanied by documentarian Janus Metz arrived at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cinematographer Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometre from Taliban positions. The result of their work is a gripping and highly authentic war drama that was justly awarded the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at the 2010 Cannes film festival. But it also provoked furious debate in Denmark concerning the controversial behavior of certain Danish soldiers during a shoot-out with Taliban fighters. The film-makers repeatedly risked their lives shooting this tense, brilliantly edited, and visually sophisticated probe into the psychology of young men in the midst of a senseless war whose victims are primarily local villagers. Yet more disturbing than scenes in which Taliban bullets whiz past their cameras is the footage of the young soldiers as each tries, in his own way, to come to terms with putting his life constantly on the line. If Restrepo was Danish and uncensored it'd be Armadillo. Also there's strippers. Come for the brief glimpses of tits and firefight footage, stay for the compelling and emotional journey of a group of modern-day warriors eager to do their viking ancestors proud. Your Sledgehammer posted:I haven't seen the sequels because of what the folks above are expressing. I've heard they are not as good and I don't really want to color the experience of Koyaanisqatsi with disappointing sequels. I think it's no coincidence that Koyaanisqatsi was made at the dawn of the Information Age, as it perfectly encapsulates what that moment in history means to humanity. It's a singular film for me and probably always will be, although I've heard some of its imitators are pretty good (Baraka is a film in the same mold that was directed by Koyaanisqatsi's cinematographer, Ron Fricke). Baraka and Samsara aren't imitators, they're their own thing, and I'll happily recommend them. They use similar techniques as does Powaqqatsi but Koyaanisqatsi is quite simply inimitable.
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bitterandtwisted posted:The World at War All 26 eps are there. These were shown during history classes in my high school. It is indeed the best ever made, with all those interviews.
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