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Streets of Plenty: A suburban white kid goes undercover with a hidden camera into Vancouver's homeless population, and spends a month living the life. It starts out pretty lighthearted but gets pretty dark when he realizes how serious the life is.
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^^^ Reminds me of a documentary I watched a while back about kids living on the street in a foreign country, for some reason. Wish I could remember the name, but it's pretty tragic how in most foreign countries it seems homeless children are referred to as either specific brands of paint, or something related to paint as a noun because of that addiction rampant among homeless children.  I looked back and didn't see any discussion, so what does everyone think of Freakonomics coming out as a documentary to theaters? Here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56k1xVAq290 I think I'd go to see it because it looks visually really good, but I admit I haven't gotten around to reading the book yet.
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If any of you have netflix, they just added a bunch of nat geo shows. They have also added the first two seasons of Lock Up. Highly recommend it if you haven't seen it yet.
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Harminoff posted:If any of you have netflix, they just added a bunch of nat geo shows. They have also added the first two seasons of Lock Up. Highly recommend it if you haven't seen it yet. Oh man yes. Lock Up is awesome.
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Sep 23, 2010 09:32
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octothorpopus posted:^^^ Reminds me of a documentary I watched a while back about kids living on the street in a foreign country, for some reason. Wish I could remember the name, but it's pretty tragic how in most foreign countries it seems homeless children are referred to as either specific brands of paint, or something related to paint as a noun because of that addiction rampant among homeless children. Like everyone who read it I thought it was a really really neat book and cant wait to see it
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Harminoff posted:If any of you have netflix, they just added a bunch of nat geo shows. They have also added the first two seasons of Lock Up. Highly recommend it if you haven't seen it yet. Not trying to be an rear end, but did you mean Lockdown?
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peanutbutterunicorn posted:Not trying to be an rear end, but did you mean Lockdown? Yeah, sorry I noticed that after I posted. Lockdown is stateside prisons, Locked up abroad is out of the states. I thought the shows were locked up/locked up abroad. My bad.
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gabrielx posted:Streets of Plenty: A suburban white kid goes undercover with a hidden camera into Vancouver's homeless population, and spends a month living the life. It starts out pretty lighthearted but gets pretty dark when he realizes how serious the life is. Interesting doc, but something about this kid's attitude really bugged me... The jokes, touristy and naive attitude, etc. I also found the end, where he decides to try crack and heroin to get the "real" experience, really loving stupid. Watching this did remind me about another decent doc about the DTES from 1999. Through a Blue Lens: http://www.nfb.ca/playlists/manifesto-interventionist-media-bec/viewing/through_a_blue_lens/ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-113255592626130769 <- Google vid link if the National Film Board doesn't work outside of Canada (crappier quality) A pretty grimey look at Vancouver's drug problem as told through the perspective of some beat cops.
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Dopilsya posted:I haven't read the entire thread, and haven't seen it posted but I can't recommend Mugabe and the White African more highly. It's a documentary on the illegal seizures of white-owned farms in Zimbabwe in accordance with Mugabe's so-called land redistribution scheme and the brutal tactics used by him. It's currently been uploaded on youtube. Thank you for this!
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I'm watching Turner Classic Movies at 4 in the morning, and here is one of the goodies I got: Perversion for Profit! Part one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl2VrPhQBfE Part two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GMMOBRqtLk Part three: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GaGcZZPizw Part four: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x757cUHtUac Its page at TCM.com: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=732161 I'd buy this in a heartbeat, as well as any other lovely documentaries from the early 1900s, but it doesn't have enough votes for it to come out on video yet.  Edit: welp, I missed a few parts. There might be some overlap in these videos. octothorpopus fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Sep 25, 2010 |
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Sep 25, 2010 17:16
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octothorpopus posted:^^^ Reminds me of a documentary I watched a while back about kids living on the street in a foreign country, for some reason. Wish I could remember the name, but it's pretty tragic how in most foreign countries it seems homeless children are referred to as either specific brands of paint, or something related to paint as a noun because of that addiction rampant among homeless children. You could be thinking of Children Underground, its been mentioned in this thread i think or the last one, about homeless kids in Romania. It features paint huffing quite a bit. Heres part 1 if its the one you're thinking of. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7FQCKJzldI
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Sep 26, 2010 06:40
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Here is a Jon Ronson documentary about George Exoo. Debate as whether you would call him a serial killer. He's a guy who helps people end their lives like Kavorkian did. However this guy is/was a unitarian preacher and agrees to help the mentally ill end their lives. The thing is they are probably just depressed or are psychosomatic in their illnes. This has disturbing twists to it. Reverend Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG5iCpmDJoc
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Sep 27, 2010 20:53
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octothorpopus posted:I'm watching Turner Classic Movies at 4 in the morning, and here is one of the goodies I got: It's a cheap trick, but playing all of these at the same time is like being harangued by the entire decade of the 1950's.
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Sep 28, 2010 17:39
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JibbaJabberwocky posted:I don't usually cry when watching documentaries, but this is terrible. I honestly never knew the extent of the enforcement of the "one child policy", other than the fact that families would commonly abandon or kill baby girls. I never heard anything about forced abortions, or babies being euthanasized at birth, or dying rooms. It's just tragic. We should nuke china if that shat is still happening..
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Rocketfish posted:I really think it's serendipitous that I stumbled across the existence of a documentary about Banksy and street art in general. Even more so that it's coming to my town in just a few weeks. Came here to post this as I'm a fan of Banksy's art. Watched this last night with a couple of my friends who used to tag and we were blown away. Really, really great documentary.
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Sep 29, 2010 23:05
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Not to be a dick and derail this thread once again but Exit Through Gift Shop is a giant piss take, sorry. I don't think this was posted yet but http://documentaryheaven.com/inside-north-korea/ is another look at those crazy folks over in North Korea, again. If you liked the Vice Travel Guide one you'll probably want to see this too.
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gabrielx posted:Streets of Plenty: A suburban white kid goes undercover with a hidden camera into Vancouver's homeless population, and spends a month living the life. It starts out pretty lighthearted but gets pretty dark when he realizes how serious the life is. not bad for a low-budget film! Thanks for the link. btw he does crack and heroin. gently caress that poo poo.
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Can anyone recommend me some good documentaries about archaeology or things related to archaeology?
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cloudchamber posted:It's more due to the fact that documentaries like Dawkins' are cheap and easy to produce and channels here don't have the cash to fill schedules with 20+ episode dramas or sitcoms. In honesty, you cannot attract a broad market with elitist sounding accents.
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Kuule hain nussivan posted:Can anyone recommend me some good documentaries about archaeology or things related to archaeology? Time Team - 15 seasons and more than 200 episodes of excellent UK archaelogy goodness.
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Sebastian Flyte posted:Time Team - 15 seasons and more than 200 episodes of excellent UK archaelogy goodness. Along with the best West Country accents and a lot of brightly knitted jumpers  I've been steam rolling through a ton of links from this thread, some brilliant stuff! Does anyone know of any good Doc.'s on Alexander The Great? I'm on a bit of a Greek/Classics run atm. *edit* Something I just got done watching. The Pixar Story [2007] A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company's relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits. http://www.alluc.org/documentaries/watch-pixar-story-2007-the-online/197173.html?maincatid=197173| Germ Incubator fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Oct 1, 2010 |
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Can someone help me figure out the name of a documentary I watched a few years ago? It was about the UK ID card scheme. A lot of monty-python-esque animations, with a female narrator. Talked about how the Dutch issued ID cards that helped spur the Rwandan genocide, amongst other things. I saw it on a Virgin Atlantic flight, of all places.
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gabrielx posted:Streets of Plenty: A suburban white kid goes undercover with a hidden camera into Vancouver's homeless population, and spends a month living the life. It starts out pretty lighthearted but gets pretty dark when he realizes how serious the life is. I really didn't like this documentary. I think there's something very arrogant about documentary film makers who make themselves the story and deicde the only way they can relate to someone is to live like them. Also taking hard drugs was unjustifiably stupid.
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They just had this on BBC 2 tonight,a repeat, I remember seeing this before sometime, but great Doc. Sorry non-UK goons, it's on IPlayer, I can't find it on Youtube or anywhere else. Blitz: The Bombing of Coventry Documentary looking at the most devastating raid so far on Britain, launched in November 1940 by the Luftwaffe. In a 12-hour blitz, thousands of bombs were dropped on Coventry. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/gd/episode/b00n7xky/Blitz_The_Bombing_of_Coventry/ For some reason only plays on the Gaelic page? xD There's some great aerial footage of the bombing taken by the Luftwaffe pilots, and some really heartbreaking stories by eyewitnesses.
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reality_groove posted:I really didn't like this documentary. I think there's something very arrogant about documentary film makers who make themselves the story and deicde the only way they can relate to someone is to live like them. Also taking hard drugs was unjustifiably stupid. On one hand I agree, but on the other hand who can a suburban college kid with a good family relate to more, some homeless guy or another suburban college kid? It might be arrogant but I think it ultimately helps his purpose more by making someone who his viewers can more easily relate go through the homeless lifestyle.
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I found this documentary very interesting. I'm not sure if it's just titled "Aghori", but that's what I've got. It's a documentary on an Aghori sadhu in training. A sadhu is like a Hindu holy man; the Aghoris are a sect which are (in?)famous for their taboo practises which include living in extreme asceticism, living in funeral pyres, and also cannibalism (although it's not shown in this doc), practises which are believed to grant them magical powers. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6
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Ropes4u posted:We should nuke china if that shat is still happening.. No, no we shouldn't. Nothing would justify that ever. How does that solve anything?
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Kraustofski posted:How does that solve anything? Destroying a country that stole jobs sounds like fun, especially since I heard China is a big sausage fest of men. I would feel a little more sympathetic if they didn't put babies in dumpsters. At least restoring the gender balance would be cool. edit: I'm joking, China is a great country of utmost morality. spirited fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Oct 5, 2010 |
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octothorpopus posted:I looked back and didn't see any discussion, so what does everyone think of Freakonomics coming out as a documentary to theaters? Here's the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56k1xVAq290 I think I'd go to see it because it looks visually really good, but I admit I haven't gotten around to reading the book yet. Though the book was great, although I'm still unhappy that they left out some of Levitt's most interesting and consequential work, and I doubt that'll figure into the movie. That said, given who's making the film I expect it'll be fantastic, if a bit tilted towards mass appeal (that is, if you're already interested in the subject, you probably won't get much of anything new out of it).
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FelchTragedy posted:Here is a Jon Ronson documentary about George Exoo. Ronson keeps delivering as always, here's the link for that documentary with all the parts intact: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VR7mK5hZwU
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I'm looking for recommendations about the financial crisis, lehman brothers, goldman sachs and anything related. I've seen the lates couple of PBS Frontline specials and BBCs The love of money which was very good.
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Pretty great episode of Horizon on BBC iPlayer right now. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00v7tmd/Horizon_20102011_The_Death_of_the_Oceans/ Sir David Attenborough reveals the findings of an investigation into what is happening to our oceans, and looks at whether it is it too late to save their remarkable biodiversity.
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evobatman posted:I'm looking for recommendations about the financial crisis, lehman brothers, goldman sachs and anything related. I've seen the lates couple of PBS Frontline specials and BBCs The love of money which was very good. This is a good mini-series done by the CBC, it might only be available in Canada though http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/Doc_Zone/Meltdown e: i suppose i should include the link -tool- fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Oct 5, 2010 |
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evobatman posted:I'm looking for recommendations about the financial crisis, lehman brothers, goldman sachs and anything related. I've seen the lates couple of PBS Frontline specials and BBCs The love of money which was very good. "Let's Make Money" is an Austrian documentary that gives a good insight in global machinations and some of the most baffling and greedy financial transactions. A quick search only turned up the movie on Veoh (requires a download) and a French version somewhere else. You should be able to find something you can watch, though. Curiously, what stuck in my mind the most from it is a typical (and, in this case, very embarassing) English-German translation error in the subtitles near the end, where they translated "trillion" as "Trillion" - which, due to the German long number scale, means "quintillion". Still definitely worth a watch. I can imagine that as a non-British or American film, this might be interesting to watch for some goons.
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Apologies if this has already been posted, but one of Channel 4's documentaries, "Katie: My Beautiful Face" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3qkfuAIkvI&list=SL is something quite special. The documentary is about Katie Piper, a former beauty queen, model and TV presenter, who was the victim of an acid attack back in 2008. After the attack, she needed complete facial reconstruction, and this documentary follows some of her progress in the year following the attack. Don't miss it, the documentary is probably the most sensitive handling of traumatic injury I've ever seen, and Ms. Piper proves that cowardly violence can't dim the beauty she possesses.
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There's a new series called "Katie: My Beautiful Friends" planned for Channel 4 next year which follows up on Katie and introduces other young people who suffer through facial or aesthetic disfigurement, one of whom I know. It should hopefully live up to the quality of "My Beautiful Face".
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LawrenceOfHerLabia posted:Apologies if this has already been posted, but one of Channel 4's documentaries, "Katie: My Beautiful Face" For some reason the first part of this is blocked in my country [  ] due to copyright reasons or some other stupid crap, but only the first part. If anyone else is having the same problem, you can see the first part here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzAPs3Z_X7k] and then view the other parts starting here [http://www.youtube.com/user/wynterharlow#p/u/23/0FWAibhxxj4]. If you skip to exactly 3:00 in part 2 it'll be right where the first part I linked had stopped.
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Kraustofski posted:No, no we shouldn't. Nothing would justify that ever. I totally support the use of tactical nukes, but In the case I was just expressing my outrage. (sent from my iPad, which might have been assembled by some douche who let their kid starve to death because it was a girl)
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reality_groove posted:There's a new series called "Katie: My Beautiful Friends" planned for Channel 4 next year which follows up on Katie and introduces other young people who suffer through facial or aesthetic disfigurement, one of whom I know. It should hopefully live up to the quality of "My Beautiful Face". It's channel 4 so there's a good chance they will treat the people involved sensitively and with respect. All credit to your friend, they must be a very brave person to appear so prominently in the public eye. I'm really glad that Katie has the opportunity to continue in TV media. It clearly meant a great deal to her.
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