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cloudchamber
Aug 6, 2010

You know what the Ukraine is? It's a sitting duck. A road apple, Newman. The Ukraine is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine

simplefish posted:

I haven't seen anything in a long, long time that makes me so incredibly angry. There are clearly laws being broken, both national and European, the Irish government ignoring its people, and a community which ends up being forced against each other. Available on 4oD, and it has an IMDB entry.

This is well woth watching. It's a completely shocking look at a community and way of life being torn apart by a corporation.

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BobFossil
Jun 17, 2005

Note to self: I hate whites.

ravenkult posted:

Any recommendations for documentaries about art or street art? Not too dry though.

I watched ''Exit through the gift shop'' and found that interesting.

Not too dry?

You could always kick it old school and watch Style Wars

It's about the origins of graffiti in New York city, filmed in 1983.

http://www.coffeedocs.tv/2011/05/style-wars-a-history-of-graffiti/

Airrik
Mar 9, 2008
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simplefish posted:

The Pipe

Think that oil companies can only bend and break laws, and buy out members of communities splitting them up, in third world countries? Think again.


I haven't seen anything in a long, long time that makes me so incredibly angry. There are clearly laws being broken, both national and European, the Irish government ignoring its people, and a community which ends up being forced against each other. Available on 4oD, and it has an IMDB entry.

Anybody else having trouble watching this? "An error occured while trying..." blah blah message.

I am going through a proxy, but I never have trouble with the iPlayer - so just wondering if anybody else out there (maybe physically in the UK) is having the same issue.

Chernabog
Apr 16, 2007



I started watching the "Nova: Science now" documentaries with Neil deGrasse on Netflix. They are a little cheesy but there's some cool stuff in them, and they are pretty recent. So far I have seen the one about the future and the one about extending human life.

Chernabog fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Jun 17, 2011

doctorfrog
Mar 14, 2007

Great.

Just found Playing Columbine on Netflix streaming. The subject feels (perhaps unfairly) a bit dated, and I never played the game very far, but it certainly made a splash at the time. I'm five minutes into it. It's about this guy who made a game that people really didn't like, and there's this creep who tracked down who he was IRL and put his info online for others to harass him. It's a bit low-budget, but not bad so far. Is it right to have games that upset people? Is it right to kill people in video games at all? Are some subjects so sacred that they are exempt from certain forms of interpretation?

Some things always bug me about the video games I play with my friends. I always feel a bit iffy playing military-based games. Is it right to glamorize or gameify the experiences of real-life soldiers, terrorists, and civilians, so that they become entertainment, toned down so we don't feel any of their pain? Does this make us less sympathetic with people on the other side of the planet, or the warriors we send out there to kill and die for us?

(That second bit may or may not be covered in the docu, just something that I kind of force myself to consider now and then.)

I also saw Special When Lit on Hulu, it's a pretty good documentary about pinball machines, and it stars some pretty interesting [s]autistic[\s] characters.

doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jun 17, 2011

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


Airrik posted:

Anybody else having trouble watching this? "An error occured while trying..." blah blah message.

I am going through a proxy, but I never have trouble with the iPlayer - so just wondering if anybody else out there (maybe physically in the UK) is having the same issue.

I know that, at least at first, iPlayer was based on the 4oD platform.
But have a fresh youtube link, no proxy needed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QKQf8hVNnA

In fact, there is a whole youtube channel devoted to 4oD Documentaries, which is highly relevant to this thread.

Mo_Steel
Mar 7, 2008

Let's Clock Into The Sunset Together

Fun Shoe

Chernabog posted:

I started watching the "Nova: Science now" documentaries with Neil deGrasse on Netflix. They are a little cheesy but there's some cool stuff in them, and they are pretty recent. So far I have seen the one about the future and the one about extending human life.

Big fan of Neil myself. He did a pretty good job with The Pluto Files which explores a bit of the discussion around whether or not Pluto ought to be considered a planet within our solar system.

notwithoutmyanus
Mar 17, 2009

simplefish posted:

I know that, at least at first, iPlayer was based on the 4oD platform.
But have a fresh youtube link, no proxy needed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QKQf8hVNnA

In fact, there is a whole youtube channel devoted to 4oD Documentaries, which is highly relevant to this thread.


I get "not available" on that link for whatever reason. They actually region locked the youtube video. what the gently caress. "The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

cloudchamber
Aug 6, 2010

You know what the Ukraine is? It's a sitting duck. A road apple, Newman. The Ukraine is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine

notwithoutmyanus posted:

I get "not available" on that link for whatever reason. They actually region locked the youtube video. what the gently caress. "The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

It's hosted on 4OD's youtube page, they only have UK broadcast rights for the film.

Underflow
Apr 4, 2008

EGOMET MIHI IGNOSCO
This person has 4 pages of playlists for predominantly British docs, several of them presented by Tony Robinson. They're pretty lightweight (except for Bragg's Adventure Of English), but it's always nice to hear Baldrick's voice: http://www.dailymotion.com/playlists/user/xSilverPhinx/1

BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

E:\FILES>quickfli clown.fli
For people wanting to see UK YouTube.

1. Go here: http://www.docoja.com/blue/

2. Paste in this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QKQf8hVNnA&has_verified=1

3. Untick Encode URL, it seems to break things.

Note anything that has any content verification warnings needs the &has_verified=1 tag at the end.

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


Underflow posted:

This person has 4 pages of playlists for predominantly British docs, several of them presented by Tony Robinson. They're pretty lightweight (except for Bragg's Adventure Of English), but it's always nice to hear Baldrick's voice: http://www.dailymotion.com/playlists/user/xSilverPhinx/1

xSilverPhinx? I have him open on another tab, watching Blackadder - which inexplicably has under 1000 views.


Content: Sorry about getting your hopes up with the youtube channel. I didn't know that they'd done that to it.

Underflow
Apr 4, 2008

EGOMET MIHI IGNOSCO

simplefish posted:

xSilverPhinx? I have him open on another tab, watching Blackadder - which inexplicably has under 1000 views.

I liked The Rise And Fall Of Blackadder too. Finally explained the change in tone between the first and later seasons.

Alastor_the_Stylish
Jul 25, 2006

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

12th and Delaware is an HBO doc about a streetcorner with an abortion clinic on one side and a "Don't have an abortion" clinic on the other. A staff member from one falls in love with a staff member from the other, and then they get pregnant and have to decide if okay that's not true but it's still very interesting.

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=LYZ80I2J

Underflow
Apr 4, 2008

EGOMET MIHI IGNOSCO

Alastor_the_Stylish posted:

a streetcorner with an abortion clinic on one side and a "Don't have an abortion" clinic on the other. A staff member from one falls in love with a staff member from the other, and then they get pregnant and have to decide if

Bob Coathanger & Isolde. Romeo & Backalley Nell.

BobFossil
Jun 17, 2005

Note to self: I hate whites.
http://www.coffeedocs.tv/2011/06/saddam-husseins-family/

Saddam Husseins Family

A ‘History Majors’ documentary by the Biography Channel about the former Iraq president, Saddam Hussein’s family and the turbulent relations therein.

Warning: This film contains some (relatively) brutal footage from the Saddam regime, but it probably won't affect you tubgirl goatse-jaded goons.

BobFossil
Jun 17, 2005

Note to self: I hate whites.
Enter the Dragon

Just found this goony gem, although very short, its a very well made look at the people who like Dungeons and Dragons!

http://www.coffeedocs.tv/2011/06/enter-the-dragon/

heart warming!

BobFossil fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Jun 19, 2011

Juaguocio
Jun 5, 2005

Oh, David...
I've been into sports documentaries lately. ESPN's 30 for 30 has been mentioned a few times, but I haven't see anyone talk about the Chicago Bulls championship videos, which I just discovered recently on Youtube. I'll link the first parts of each, since it's easy to follow the successive parts in the sidebar.

1991 season (11 parts, link is to a playlist): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL9567BA9EA1AB5FD5&feature=playlist-comment
1992 season (9 parts, link is to part one): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL9567BA9EA1AB5FD5&feature=playlist-comment
1993 season (9 parts): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akAhze4rg8o
1996 season (11 parts): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5dQLZmxuCY
1997 season (9 parts): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOGRE_5SimY
1998 season (10 parts): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlXKnpUIpnU

edit: I should note that I haven't gotten to the second three-peat seasons yet so I can't attest to the quality of those videos.

Juaguocio fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Jun 20, 2011

Hellwuzzat
Nov 28, 2008

S Danger K posted:

Microcosmos

Yes, sir. Posted it a few pages ago, when someone requested documentaries that aren't depressing and such. Anthropomorphic buggies for the win. :3:
e: Seems the title of the doc wasn't in my post. So, you wouldn't have known it was already posted.

Hellwuzzat fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Jun 20, 2011

Budget Bears
Feb 7, 2011

I had never seen anyone make sweet love to a banjo like this before.

ravenkult posted:

Any recommendations for documentaries about art or street art? Not too dry though.

I watched ''Exit through the gift shop'' and found that interesting.

You might enjoy Beautiful Losers.

"Beautiful Losers celebrates the creative spirit behind one of the most influential cultural movements of a generation.

In the early 1990's a loose-knit group of likeminded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their craft with almost no influence from the "establishment" art world, this group, and the subcultures they sprang from, have now become a movement that has been transforming pop culture.

Starring a selection of artists who are considered leaders within this culture, Beautiful Losers focuses on the telling of personal stories...speaking to themes of what happens when the outside becomes "in" as it explores the creative ethos connecting these artists and today's youth."

Last I checked, it was on Netflix instant. You can see the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyRAHKTy6hI

It's pretty interesting and similar to Exit Through the Gift Shop. I actually saw it at a street art exhibit in San Diego that was displaying stuff from a lot of the people featured in Gift Shop (Banksy, Space Invader, Shepard Fairey, etc.)

Echo Chamber
Oct 16, 2008

best username/post combo
I just watched 8: The Mormon Proposition on Netflix. It talks about the church's role (particularly in funneling money) in getting Prop 8 passed in California, and also covers the church's bigotry and hypocrisy in general on the issue of marriage. There's a good amount of interviews with activists, former Mormons, lobbyists, and politicians, as well as excerpts from internal memos of the church on its political strategy, which involved astroturfing, a media blitz, and coaching supporters how to ease into the subject of banning same-sex marriage in casual conversations.

I'll just tell you right now it's an infuriating and depressing documentary.

Echo Chamber fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Jun 22, 2011

reality_groove
Dec 27, 2007

I'd just like to second the recommendations of The Pipe, 12th and Delaware and 8:The Mormon Proposition, all excellent and deeply troubling documentaries in their own ways.

zerodiv
Mar 16, 2010

Juaguocio posted:

I've been into sports documentaries lately. ESPN's 30 for 30 has been mentioned a few times, but I haven't see anyone talk about the Chicago Bulls championship videos, which I just discovered recently on Youtube. I'll link the first parts of each, since it's easy to follow the successive parts in the sidebar.

1991 season (11 parts, link is to a playlist): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL9567BA9EA1AB5FD5&feature=playlist-comment
1992 season (9 parts, link is to part one): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL9567BA9EA1AB5FD5&feature=playlist-comment
1993 season (9 parts): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akAhze4rg8o
1996 season (11 parts): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5dQLZmxuCY
1997 season (9 parts): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOGRE_5SimY
1998 season (10 parts): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlXKnpUIpnU

edit: I should note that I haven't gotten to the second three-peat seasons yet so I can't attest to the quality of those videos.

These are awesome, I started with these and ended up checking out all the other ones as well. The earlier ones with the 80's Celtics/Lakers I really liked. Infact they are all good, I found the Rockets - Clutch City really cool also.

Also check out Awesome Endings: Greatest Moments of the NBA

PART 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZy_22wrWjQ
PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WL5tx8G1ag

WouldDesk
Dec 26, 2009
Daredevils: The Human Spider Returns


http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/daredevils-the-human-spider-returns/

Description: :aaa::stare::aaa:

BobFossil
Jun 17, 2005

Note to self: I hate whites.
Once Upon a Time in New York

http://www.coffeedocs.tv/2011/06/once-upon-a-time-in-new-york/

A BBC Documentary on how the squalid streets of ’70s New York became the breeding ground to music that would go on to conquer the world – punk, disco and hip hop

BobFossil
Jun 17, 2005

Note to self: I hate whites.
War - Anybody's Son will Do

This is the war documentary that Stanley Kubrick would see and go on to make a certain film called Full Metal Jacket.

http://www.coffeedocs.tv/2011/06/war-anybody%E2%80%99s-son-will-do/

That Damn Satyr
Nov 4, 2008

A connoisseur of fine junk
I know that "Kill me if you Can" was posted a few pages back - but I was wondering if anyone could find the other shows from BBC4's "Psycho" series?

http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/P/psycho/index.html

Hiltini
Nov 5, 2009
I was looking for a documentary that showed that people are just savage apes and somebody recommended 'The Demonic Ape' which was a BBC Horizon documentary on Chimps. I haven't been able to find this anywhere, anyone know where to find this out there?

BobFossil
Jun 17, 2005

Note to self: I hate whites.
Salvador Dali - Biography

a 1986 Dali Documentary.

http://www.coffeedocs.tv/2011/06/salvador-dali-biography/

BobFossil
Jun 17, 2005

Note to self: I hate whites.
Aylesbury Hells Angels

A 1972 documentary following some characters from an English Hells Angels chapter. (quite short)

http://www.coffeedocs.tv/2011/07/aylesburys-hells-angels/

Retarted Pimple
Jun 2, 2002

Hiltini posted:

I was looking for a documentary that showed that people are just savage apes and somebody recommended 'The Demonic Ape' which was a BBC Horizon documentary on Chimps. I haven't been able to find this anywhere, anyone know where to find this out there?

The transcript is as close as I could find.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2004/demonicapetrans.shtml

BobFossil
Jun 17, 2005

Note to self: I hate whites.
The Sakawa Boys

A vbs.tv documentary about nigerian scammers who call themselves the 'Sakawa'

While Nigeria’s 401 scammers may have written the book on West African internet fraud, their shtick looks like Compuserve compared to what’s going on in Ghana.

Unsatisfied with the meager winnings from emailing thousands of random Westerners in hopes of convincing one poor sap they’re the treasurer of the Ivory Coast, Ghana’s scammers decided to stack the odds in their favor the old-fashioned way—witchcraft.


http://www.coffeedocs.tv/2011/07/the-sakawa-boys/

Tovarisch Rafa
Nov 4, 2009

by Debbie Metallica
The Mark of Cain


A documentary about Russian prisons and the culture surrounding them.

Very emotional stuff and shows just how brutal penal colonies in Russia really are.

Its on Netflix.

whose tuggin
Nov 6, 2009

by Hand Knit
BobFossil is fighting valiantly to keep this thread alive. And it ought not die, nay, not at this point in the evolution of humans. We need to not be dumb now more than ever. Let me see if I can think of something good I've seen recently...
poo poo, I am at a loss....


here's Mike Rowe's excellent, wonderful 20 minute talk at TED. Its great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVdiHu1VCc



edit: It has come to my attention that the teaser image of that video juxtaposed against my avatar is awesome.

thehustler
Apr 17, 2004

I am very curious about this little crescendo
UK readers of this thread may like to know that BBC4 is under threat right now (as is BBC3, but gently caress that) due to the Coalition government's budget cuts and the general "Anti-BBC" feeling that seems to be around at the moment.

Don't let them get away with this. Contact the BBC, contact OFCOM, contact your MP if you have to, and let them know that you want the BBC to continue making quality programmes of the type a public service broadcaster should be making. Don't let them dumb it down.

BattyKiara
Mar 17, 2009
Not really a documentary, but a fun little talk by Michael Shermer.

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/filmedia/play/2592/Michael-Shermer-on-Strange-Beliefs

Edgar Quintero
Oct 5, 2004

POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS
DO NOT GIVE HEROIN
This may be tricky to find a copy of at the moment since it just came out at Toronto International Film Festival a few months back. However, Bury The Hatchet http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0875702/

Follows several of the New Orleans "Indian Chiefs". These are the guys who wear those crazy huge sparkly head-dresses and costumes on Mardi Gras and a few other holidays. They act as community leaders, party planners and basically function as one of the glues holding the city's culture together. The film starts following them right before Hurricane Katrina so without spoiling anything I'll say that they show their struggle to keep the tradition going afterwards. It also analyzes the devastating effect that a highway overpass built in the Treme neighborhood had on the community.

The tradition of the Indian Chiefs themselves hearkens back to a time when black slaves who had escaped from the French fled into the swampy wilderness and were then sheltered by Native American tribes.

It really is a great film, making great use of personal interviews and also hard-to-find archive footage of Mardi Gras past and present. Recommended to anyone with an interest in New Orleans and it's culture.

Edgar Quintero fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Jul 6, 2011

Defnoops
Aug 25, 2006
Cheese is a kind of meat
Strangeways

quote:

The shocking series gains access into Strangeways, a maximum security prison in Manchester with a history as rough as the inmates it houses. Three fascinating episodes unearth the idiosyncrasies and complex relationships between the most violent and dangerous men in the prison and the staff who work with them. Unique twists, like following a couple as they prepare for a wedding behind bars, and graphic footage of arguments and emotional breakdowns make for unmissable viewing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LUMv-sBxvk

There are three episodes in this documentary and I have to say that I found it very well balanced in the approaches it made towards both prisoner and staff worker alike. It has its moments of laughter and its moments of "-ing hell..." and everything inbetween. Rather than simply having the prisoners as an ominous but ultimately faceless front for the basic prisoner psycho stereotype, it goes into some detail on various inmates that they follow around and/or interview, ranging from high-profile murderers to the homeless, and presents them as the people they are as they go through the stages of their incarceration. However, it doesn't get all lovey-dovey with the inmates. There's a definite balanced view from both sides of the fence and each of them are equally fascinating, prisoner and prison staff.

kolby
Oct 29, 2004

Defnoops posted:

Strangeways


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LUMv-sBxvk

There are three episodes in this documentary and I have to say that I found it very well balanced in the approaches it made towards both prisoner and staff worker alike.

Very interesting! You've knocked off a couple hours of my night as I now start on episode 3. As an aside: It seems British prisons give their prisoners a lot more freedom. The prison system in the U.S. would not allow 95% of the stuff that goes down in the first 2 episodes I've watched.

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Capt. Morgan
Feb 23, 2006

Private investigator William Dear makes a compelling case for who the real killer of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7905933759946122795

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