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Coconut Revolution This is the modern-day story of a native peoples remarkable victory over Western Colonial power. A Pacific island rose up in arms against giant mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) – and won despite a military occupation and blockade. When RTZ decided to step up production at the Panguna Mine on the island of Bougainville, they got more than they bargained for. The islands people had enough of seeing their environment ruined and being treated as pawns by RTZ. RTZ refused to compensate them, so the people decided it was time to put an end to outside interference in the islands affairs. To do this they forcibly closed down the mine. The Papua New Guinea Army (PNGDF) were mobilised in an attempt to put down the rebellion. The newly formed Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) began the fight with bows & arrows and sticks & stones. Against a heavily armed adversary they still managed to retain control of most of their island. Realising they were beaten on the ground, the PNGDF imposed a gunboat blockade around Bougainville, in an attempt to strangle the BRA into submission. But the blockade seemed to have little or no effect. With no shipments getting in or out of the island, how did new electricity networks spring up in BRA held territory? How were BRA troops able to drive around the island without any source of petrol or diesel? 50 minutes of ecowarrior   .
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Hellwuzzat posted:Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide Well, I guess I can cross Canada off my list of countries who aren't openly and unashamedly evil. Great documentary but jeez.
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Dead Cow posted:It's streaming on netflix if you're interested Great, Thanks! Just watched it.
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Hellwuzzat posted:Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide Holy poo poo. I'm Canadian and we all know that the Residential schools were horrible, and that native people have been treated like poo poo in the past, but...I never realized how horrible, how many people have died, and how recently some of these events took place. This was a really good watch, even though it broke my heart. So...thanks? 
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Imapanda posted:Could anyone recommend some good pseudo-philosophical COSMOS-like Astronomy documentaries? I need a new thing to watch that makes me feel the warmth and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonders_of_the_Solar_System I'm pretty sure it has already been mentioned in this thread, anyway. It's a good one, and one of the few documentary series left (about space) that doesn't have any stupid wooshing, banging effects added in to seemingly hold the attention of kids or people with ADD.
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Wow Hulu just added Exit Through The Gift Shop, the documentary by graffiti artist Banksy. I'm surprised to see such a recent movie on Hulu, it's one that will probably be a nominee for best documentary at the academy awards this year.
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I'm not sure if anyone has posted this yet, but here's a great site for streaming documentaries: Documentary Heaven. Some of the streams are down, but there's still a number of great documentaries.
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This is a great thread. I don't know if it's ok to post requests in here, but I'm looking for a good documentary about the music of sixties in America. I'm talking crosby, stills nash and young, bob dylan, woodstock and how it all came to be. It doesn't have to be to heavy on the music, but i somehowe just love the whole atmosphere of that decade, the history of it and some of the music it brought fort.
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Didn't see it listed on the first page after a search, but American Experience: Vietnam War was a very fine documentary. Interviews with most of the major (living) players about a decade after the conflict, vivid footage, and just a fantastic summarization and pacing. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/
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Rojkir posted:This is a great thread. I don't know if it's ok to post requests in here, but I'm looking for a good documentary about the music of sixties in America. I'm talking crosby, stills nash and young, bob dylan, woodstock and how it all came to be. It doesn't have to be to heavy on the music, but i somehowe just love the whole atmosphere of that decade, the history of it and some of the music it brought fort. It's a little light on the behind-the-scenes subject matter, but "Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music" is one of my favorite docs on that festival, that era, and those musicians. Great, great, GREAT performances captured (and mixed) on this film. Santana's performance of "Soul Sacrifice" (title?) really encapsulates what I believe to be the mood/atmosphere during this time. EDIT: Whelp, I found the second half of the film on Google video here. First part doesn't seem to be on the playlist/related videos in the sidebar. Watch it through; the Santana performance begins around 54:04 and is, truly, a masterpiece. C2C - 2.0 fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Jan 22, 2011 |
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Rojkir posted:This is a great thread. I don't know if it's ok to post requests in here, but I'm looking for a good documentary about the music of sixties in America. I'm talking crosby, stills nash and young, bob dylan, woodstock and how it all came to be. It doesn't have to be to heavy on the music, but i somehowe just love the whole atmosphere of that decade, the history of it and some of the music it brought fort. This is a good one, Hotel California: LA From The Byrds To The Eagles. It covers the California music scene in the 60's and 70's with a focus on all the major players like David Crosby, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, etc.
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Another Evil Genius posted:Didn't see it listed on the first page after a search, but American Experience: Vietnam War was a very fine documentary. Interviews with most of the major (living) players about a decade after the conflict, vivid footage, and just a fantastic summarization and pacing. Is this not streamable?
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C2C - 2.0 posted:It's a little light on the behind-the-scenes subject matter, but "Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music" is one of my favorite docs on that festival, that era, and those musicians. mod sassinator posted:This is a good one, Hotel California: LA From The Byrds To The Eagles. It covers the California music scene in the 60's and 70's with a focus on all the major players like David Crosby, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, etc. Both are excellent! Thanks! This pretty good documentary provides some interesting insights in the world of quantative financial analysis at wallstreet: Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street
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mod sassinator posted:This is a good one, Hotel California: LA From The Byrds To The Eagles. It covers the California music scene in the 60's and 70's with a focus on all the major players like David Crosby, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, etc. Enjoyed that one, thanks.
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Tennypumps posted:I.O.U.S.A. Just wanted to speak for this. IOUSA needs to be seen by every American citizen. I think it does a good job of approaching the problem without being biased by a party affiliation. Its streaming on netflix if you don't want to hunt for it on youtube.
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Does anyone know if the new zeitgeist movie "Moving Forward" is available to watch anywhere on the web yet? http://www.zeitgeistmovingforward.com/
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Alligator Pie posted:Holy poo poo. I'm Canadian and we all know that the Residential schools were horrible, and that native people have been treated like poo poo in the past, but...I never realized how horrible, how many people have died, and how recently some of these events took place. I'm really glad to have this documentary to point people to. I come from a predominantly Native family, and it's frustrating how little knowledge is out there about the extent of the residential school system. I know a lot of white Canadians who are of the mind that yes, colonialism sucked, but it happened x number of years ago, so get over it already. I think this doc really helps to explain why so many Native communities and families are broken, and why it's still going to take some time to heal.
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Grand Fromage posted:I just finished watching Brick City, about Cory Booker and others attempting to clean up Newark, and loved it. I'm looking for similar ones about other cities and I hope you guys are going to bury me in titles. Thanks for this, it's pretty awesome so far.
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Giant Goats posted:I know a lot of white Canadians who are of the mind that yes, colonialism sucked, but it happened x number of years ago, so get over it already. I think this doc really helps to explain why so many Native communities and families are broken, and why it's still going to take some time to heal. I'm a white boy, and this was my attitude before watching this documentary and doing a little research. Here's a creepy CBC segment for your viewing pleasure.
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BBC: The Love of Money 2009 three part documentary on the fall of Lehman Brothers triggering the global crisis surrounding the credit default swap market. It's an amazing inside documentary with inside interviews and you get a real insight on how close a few other large financial institutions were close to folding. part 1 BBC: World War II: Behind closed Doors 2008 three part re-enactment documentary on the deals and relationships of the allies of WW2. It covers in great detail the Polish invasion by Stalin's, the pact with the Nazi's even the details of Katyn massacre and the cover-up and hiding of details to the world. part 1
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Just made it halfway through this one, quite good so far. For fans of Cosmos etc. Hunting the Edge of Space: Part 1 http://video.pbs.org/video/1456686369/ Hunting the Edge of Space: Part 2 http://video.pbs.org/video/1463392610/
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Not sure if this has been mentioned but I'd recommend Independent Lens: The Atom Smashers if you're interested in the the LHC or finding the Higgs Boson. Its a documentary about Fermilab's Tevitron and the science behind high energy particle accelerators. Surprisingly interesting for such a sciency topic. It's instant streaming on Netflix.
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Also on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/74782/pbs-indies-the-atom-smashers Though I hate that website. Who takes a free public broadcasting program, capitalizes off of it as content AND puts commercials in it? Unforgivable.
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After 27 pages I know this has been mentioned before but last night I watched Restrepo and Armadillo and immediately went to the bookstore when I woke up this morning to get WAR, Sebastian Jungers book that goes into intense detail about the scenes (+more) in Restrepo. Armadillo was a lot more visually appealing than Restrepo but as far as the events that happen and the reactions the soldiers exude in each of the movies Restrepo is superior. If you've been sleeping on both these docs I recommend watching them together because it's really interesting to see the different mentalities Danish and American troops have when it comes to the spectrum of war. Though if you have to pick one make it Restrepo. Just in case the reason you are sleeping on these docs is because you don't want to see another silly take on the Afghanistan war, know that both of these movies take no political stand of any kind and just straight up film the lifestyles, behavior, and personalities of young soldiers in intense combat situations.
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Versus Boredom posted:If you've been sleeping on both these docs I recommend watching them together because it's really interesting to see the different mentalities Danish and American troops have when it comes to the spectrum of war. Though if you have to pick one make it Restrepo. Just in case the reason you are sleeping on these docs is because you don't want to see another silly take on the Afghanistan war, know that both of these movies take no political stand of any kind and just straight up film the lifestyles, behavior, and personalities of young soldiers in intense combat situations. To be honest, my reason for not wanting to see it is because I've known too many soldiers so I don't know why I'd want to see them in their everyday lives. It would be like watching a documentary about journalism students or wrestling fans who volunteer for free to help out local indies. I might still end up seeing Restrepo. Buzz usually does that to me.
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Rojkir posted:This is a great thread. I don't know if it's ok to post requests in here, but I'm looking for a good documentary about the music of sixties in America. I'm talking crosby, stills nash and young, bob dylan, woodstock and how it all came to be. It doesn't have to be to heavy on the music, but i somehowe just love the whole atmosphere of that decade, the history of it and some of the music it brought fort. No Direction Home is just about Bob Dylan, but it's worth watching because he takes about why he made the kind of music he did and how people reacted when his music changed. There are interviews with other musicians from the 60s but it's really good for giving you an idea of what things were like at the time.
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Dispatches: Beneath The Veil[/] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4201322772364661561&hl=sv A truly disgusting look into the living conditions of women under the Taliban regime quote:An anonymous woman, covered from head to toe in a blue burka, is dragged across a football pitch and shot in front of 30,000 spectators. This haunting image of Taliban justice was filmed secretly in Channel 4′s award-winning documentary Beneath the Veil broadcast in June 2001. The woman was Zarmina, 35-year-old mother of seven. In a new Dispatches film, Lifting the Veil, Carla Garapedian went to Afghanistan to discover her story and see whether women’s lives have improved since the fall of the Taliban. The Final Insult http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6621908278614449486 Channel 4's documentary about how the World Jewish Congress, in the words of Norman Finkelstein, blackmailed the Swiss Banks for reparations, and then kept the money from the survivors.
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron:_The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room I think Netflix has it on their instant watch. Details the Enron scandal in great detail. Infuriating and informative! Gives you an idea just how deep that fraud really went. Also, for some reason, random stripper titties at one point in the movie. Comedy Option: The Great Global Warming Swindle, where some British fucker gives you the most horrible lies to try to prove his scientifically unsound point. And when I say lies, I don't mean like he spins things and selectively interprets things and cherry picks. (well, he does that too) What I mean is the straight-up fabrication of data type of lies.
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I use this link at least a few times a week: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html This takes you to a video viewer for a good chunk of PBS content (ignore the error message and click the upper row). Not only do you have access to all Frontline short docu content, but every ep of News Hour, Tavis Smiley, and more. No/few ads, and no rigamarole. You can get all of this and more from just visiting PBS.org, but I find this a bit more handy for quick access to Frontline and News Hour.
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HedgeHodge posted:I'm not sure if anyone has posted this yet, but here's a great site for streaming documentaries: Documentary Heaven. Some of the streams are down, but there's still a number of great documentaries. There seems to be an awful amount of crap on there though, nutty conspiracy stuff and the like.
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Mardi Gras: Made in China This examination of cultural and economic globalization follows the life-cycle of Mardi Gras beads from a small factory in Fuzhou, China, to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and to art galleries in New York City. (from imdb) I watched this last year and it is a really interesting documentary that tries to create a relationship between the producer (China) and the consumer (America). If you are interested in globalization, sociology, economics etc you'll probably like this  I used this as a citation in a paper I wrote last semester, and now that teacher shows this documentary in his class  So it may be useful in that respect too!Did a search on google and found this (it has Japanese subtitles), but if you poke around more there are many other links to this.
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I wanted to say thank you to everyone that posted, this thread has been an amazing resource. It just so happens that I've been in a documentary frame of mind lately, and about a week after that sea change occured, I found this thread. Awesome timing on my part, I guess. I saw Dear Zachary as well, and I nodded knowingly when people have posted about it. I had a few misgivings about the fact that it wasn't exactly objective, and some of the presentation was quite overdramatic, but I understand what they needed to do and it never claimed to be an objective look at the justice system, so I appreciated it for what it was. It made me cry for the first time in, well a long time. I highly suggest it, but do it on a day where if you get sad or mad it won't mess anything up, I wouldn't watch it as I'm getting ready for a date for example. I don't have any to suggest because the ones I've seen have been suggested and vetted throughout the thread, but I felt a thank you was appropriate because these recommendations have been so valuable to me. I've enjoyed the Madness on the Motorway doc as well, wow what a story. I usually busy myself with other things while I watch, this one had me riveted and I kept my eyes on it. I actually have a request, come to think of it. Does anyone know of any documentaries about the Innocence Project, or other court cases that were overturned because of new evidence/better lawyering/public outcry? Or, what life is like once your conviction is overturned, and you're released from jail, I'm interested in that as well. There has to be something on David Milgaard, I'd think? I haven't found anything. If there was one posted already, my apologies, I don't recall seeing any. And on second thought, any other ones along the lines of Madness on the Motorway, where people come out of nowhere and do absolutely bizarre stuff. I would love to see more of that, I can't believe how that one held my interest. *edit OH OH OH almost forgot- shipwrecks! especially if there's lots of underwater footage. I'm reading this book right now, 'Shadow Divers', and it's fascinated me. I've always been interested in shipwrecks and the Titanic and what not, but now I have to sperg out on this poo poo thanks to this book.
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when worlds collide posted:I actually have a request, come to think of it. Does anyone know of any documentaries about the Innocence Project, or other court cases that were overturned because of new evidence/better lawyering/public outcry? Or, what life is like once your conviction is overturned, and you're released from jail, I'm interested in that as well. There has to be something on David Milgaard, I'd think? I haven't found anything. If there was one posted already, my apologies, I don't recall seeing any. After Innocence is right up your alley, it's even on Netflix streaming now: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/3739 It's not easy to watch these guys have to deal with so much bureaucracy to prove their innocence.
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mod sassinator posted:After Innocence is right up your alley, it's even on Netflix streaming now: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/3739 It's not easy to watch these guys have to deal with so much bureaucracy to prove their innocence. Thank you! That's exactly the sort of thing I was after. I've always been into critiques of due process and the justice system, but I know of very little that shows what these people go through once they're out. It looks heartbreaking, better batten down with some kleenex.
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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward Was just released on the web a few days ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w I just finished watching it, All I have to say is that it further reinstates my feelings for how much of a -like world we live in today. Honestly, this movie has me blown away, the way things work, in a world, where money and temporary consumerist novelties are more valuable than the human well-being.I'd recommend everyone, ever, to watch this and think deep after viewing it.
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Great thread! I've spent countless hours watching stuff that has been posted here, and I'm glad that I'm finally able to contribute something. Afghantsi (1988) Wikipedia posted:"Afghantsi is a 1988 documentary film directed by Peter Kosminsky for Yorkshire Television. It really does stand on its' own as a great documentary, but I think it's an especially interesting watch for those who've seen the Restrepo and/or Armadillo-documentaries of 2010. Watch it here. (Megavideo) I hope it hasn't been posted before!
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El Gallinero Gros posted:That isn't a sequel to that horrible Zetigeist film that came out a few years ago, is it? I haven't seen the first two films, but judging from the trailers and articles, this one is literally nothing like the previous films. This one seems to have a centered focus on media, culture, human rationality, the future, and technology. e: Someone posted the website for it above, the trailer can be seen here if you're interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGm5r-q2TLY Imapanda fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Jan 28, 2011 |
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