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The Scientist posted:Every word of this is also true of me. I also remember going to school and telling people about this show and no-one ever having any idea what I was talking about (I was ahead of my time [third grade]) There was another show with Clarke too, it was newer though. Hopefully I can find that one. It had an episode about British Big Cats.
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SamLikesCake posted:There was another show with Clarke too, it was newer though. Hopefully I can find that one. It had an episode about British Big Cats. Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke%27s_Mysterious_Universe http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Arthur+C.+Clarke%27s+Mysterious+Universe&aq=f
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I really don't like thinking about why he may be "now on retreat in Sri Lanka" (although he's dead now, right?)
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The Scientist posted:I really don't like thinking about why he may be "now on retreat in Sri Lanka" (although he's dead now, right?) 16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008
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I love documentaries, but I don't post enough of 'em in this thread because I have this misconception that they have to be epic, noteworthy ones; like, say, Working Man's Death, an epic film-festival worthy observational doc of what people across the world have to go through to engage in what is considered "work". But here's one that I simply enjoyed. Battle for Midway http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/battle_for_midway/ Veterans from both the US Navy and the Japanese Navy reunite on Midway, and relate their experiences of the battle together. This one struck an E Diminished with me because in my town, Charleston, SC, the successor to the original USS Yorktown (whose resting place is sought out and documented in the documentary) is now a musueam in its permanent resting place in the harbor. (edit: it appears that Dr. Robert Ballard, one of the leaders of the expedition that discovered the wreck of the Titanic, is the one who is looking for the Yorktown in this doc) http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...021136&t=h&z=16 The Battle of Midway was also noteworthy for being the beginning of the end of the giant Battleships as they were known up until that point. The battle took place between several naval task-forces, each several carriers strong, that were never actually within sight of each other; in fact, they were hundreds of miles apart. It was largely a battle of air power. --------- Anyway, speaking of the USS Yorktown, here's a WWII-era American propaganda/documentary that features (actually, I think takes place entirely on) the later USS Yorktown. By the way, If you're British and you don't recognize the Yorktown's namesake, its the site of one of the earliest battles of the American Revolution in which we beat you guys (yes, even without the help of the French just yet). This won an Oscar for "Best Documentary" in 1945. Anyway, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WixCu061ZEM whose tuggin fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Sep 15, 2011 |
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This is a series of BBC documentaries looking into the culture and lifestyle of members of the British Army some of which dating back to the sixties all the way to the nineties. Non British Isles goons may have due the usual region lock dodging but these are excellent to see.
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SeanBeansShako posted:This is a series of BBC documentaries looking into the culture and lifestyle of members of the British Army some of which dating back to the sixties all the way to the nineties. Wow, what an amazing set of docs. Thanks.
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The Scientist posted:I really don't like thinking about why he may be "now on retreat in Sri Lanka" (although he's dead now, right?) I like to think the allegations made against him were groundless. Anyway, slightly more relevant, seeing these posts has reminded me that I used to have a copy of the hardback from the original series. It had a big picture of a crystal skull on the cover. With a bit of luck it will be in my parents attic.
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Does anyone know the name of that documentary about Quentin Tarantino? I saw it on tele maybe 2 years ago down here in Australia, but google turns up nothing helpful.
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Nierbo posted:Does anyone know the name of that documentary about Quentin Tarantino? I saw it on tele maybe 2 years ago down here in Australia, but google turns up nothing helpful. I'd like to see this one too, hope someone can find a link. PS. Thank ya's for all the contributions to the thread, Scientist. Also I got a date with a chunky monkey (don't tease I like 'em) who is also absolutely crazy for documentaries. We plan on watching Dear Zachary together next weekend, but I was wondering if anyone perhaps had a good "date documentary"? Maybe even something just light hearted. She's into literature, music, and certain aspects of true crime (The West Memphis 3 is how we started talking!). It doesn't have to fit into any of those interests at all though, as long as it would work well for a date.
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The Valuum posted:We plan on watching Dear Zachary together next weekend... as long as it would work well for a date.  I would find this incredibly awkward on a first date. After that you can watch The Bridge and see people kill themselves. Round out the night with Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, good conversation starter. I am sure some others will post some more suitable for dates but I can't think of any right now.
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The Valuum posted:I'd like to see this one too, hope someone can find a link. Haha yeah, stay away from Dear Zachary for a first date--it's super depressing and will just put you in a bad mood. I'd go with something a little more fun and quirky like The Parking Lot Movie, Man on Wire, etc. A good one for a later date would be Inside Deep Throat--it will set the mood and is pretty interesting (be aware it's x-rated, there's definitely some porno scenes in it).
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10 minute brief on Gadaffi (BBC 1976) http://www.coffeedocs.tv/2011/09/10-minute-brief-on-gadaffi-bbc-1976/ BobFossil fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Sep 18, 2011 |
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mod sassinator posted:Haha yeah, stay away from Dear Zachary for a first date--it's super depressing and will just put you in a bad mood. I'd go with something a little more fun and quirky like The Parking Lot Movie, Man on Wire, etc. A good one for a later date would be Inside Deep Throat--it will set the mood and is pretty interesting (be aware it's x-rated, there's definitely some porno scenes in it). Heh, it wouldn't be our first date, but I see where you guys are getting at. I definitely won't use it as a "mood setting" movie, perhaps our first movie if we watch multiples (end on a nice one), or I'll just save it. I did talk to her about how powerful it was and she mentioned her interest in it. Thank you for the suggestions, I think the Parking Lot Movie will be my pick although I won't cut Man on Wire out. Very much appreciated, I will take this advice. I didn't take 500 Days Of Summer's advice when it told me it was not a love story, and I didn't get laid that night! I don' think Inside Deepthroat would fly...and I've already seen it. Much appreciated, I'm seeing her for dinner tonight and watching the documentaries this week, I'll tell you how for each one gets me. Nice to find a girl who loves documentaries. Anyone that likes music documentaries better check out "DiG!" and "The Devil and Daniel Johnston"
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Holy poo poo, I just got around to watching Dear Zachary. Thanks for the recommendation, regardless of my former sobbing self. What a loving roller coaster. I loved it, even though I hated it. gently caress.
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"My Car is My Lover", a Channel Four/Five documentary about a man who fucks cars. Also I'm guessing he's a furry what with his choice of headgear and home suspiciously full of animal stuff. http://vimeo.com/19783963 (edit : probably  due to the brief covert shot of his dick near the end when he's loving his car.)"Behind Bars", a BBC2 documentary about the brutal prison riot that broke out in 1982 at the the New Mexico Penitentiary : http://youtu.be/3M-hPpuAqwQ El Goatherd fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Sep 19, 2011 |
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Somone posted a two part documentary from BBC called everything and nothing a few pages back. They were posted on youtube and the first part, "Everything", worked, but no links to the second part, "Nothing", seemed to work due to copyright claims from the BBC. They seemed to be really well made, and I'd really like to see the whole thing, since space stuff really fascinates me. Any chance anyone has a working link to the second part, "Nothing"?
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Theres a new documentary following bomb disposal teams out in Afghanistan on the BBC called The Bomb Squad Here are the links to the three parts on youtube. Had me glued to my screen for the hour it was on and am looking forward to the next episodes. Hopefully someone will find it interesting like me Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g109oAEAoqY&feature=related Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNPeMpbKXIo&feature=related Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J1nOpJ_7yw&feature=related
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El Goatherd posted:"My Car is My Lover", a Channel Four/Five documentary about a man who fucks cars. Also I'm guessing he's a furry what with his choice of headgear and home suspiciously full of animal stuff. Good first date documentary.
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What is the best OJ Simpson murder trial documentary around? I'm interested in re-living it but I can't seem find to any.
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grandma why posted:Any chance anyone has a working link to the second part, "Nothing"? It's on iPlayer if you can access it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00zwndy/Everything_and_Nothing_Nothing/ It's awesome too, Jim Al-Khalili presents it brilliantly.
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El Goatherd posted:"My Car is My Lover", a Channel Four/Five documentary about a man who fucks cars. Also I'm guessing he's a furry what with his choice of headgear and home suspiciously full of animal stuff. I watched this a few months back, when the weird guy (well, the REAAAALY fuckin weird guy) sneaks out of his hotel room and rapes his friends car in the parking lot I have no doubt my face went like this:  ... ... ... These guys are just beyond repair mentally. I can only think what the camera men were thinking throughout this shitstorm of a film. Especially when the guys puled out their dorks to masturbate to a piece of poo poo car. I just.. how does this happen?
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I tend to take a "compassionate" stance when watching documentaries about people with odd behavior and all that, and I try to go beyond the whole "ew get help lol" response. If there's weirdness or evil in the hearts of some folks, it got there somehow, and it's worth it to take a step back and ask what circumstances may have put this person in the situation they're in now, instead of just writing them off as gross weirdos. I mean, with these two car fuckers, what was their childhood like? Do kids just grow up and one day get a boner for a car, or did something happen? Could it have been helped in the past, can they be helped now? Sometimes, I just can't get to that even-handed stance, like with Louis Theroux's tour of a post-prison facility exclusively for pedophiles. Those guys are sick and I hope they never make it outside those walls, and I honestly don't think they can ever be helped. But that's a pretty extreme set of people. The old dude in the car loving documentary really made me queasy. Not as much as the pedos. But not far from them either. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Sep 19, 2011 |
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I love this thread! Any suggestions for documentaries on mathematics? Since I am in the social sciences, I get so jealous of mathematicians and those in the hard sciences and, this is probably weird and nerdy, but I like math(s) documentaries to relax. I watched that Horizon episode on Fermat's last theorem last night after my comprehensive exams.
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doctorfrog posted:I tend to take a "compassionate" stance when watching documentaries about people with odd behavior and all that, and I try to go beyond the whole "ew get help lol" response. If there's weirdness or evil in the hearts of some folks, it got there somehow, and it's worth it to take a step back and ask what circumstances may have put this person in the situation they're in now, instead of just writing them off as gross weirdos. I mean, with these two car fuckers, what was their childhood like? Do kids just grow up and one day get a boner for a car, or did something happen? Could it have been helped in the past, can they be helped now? We don't get to choose what they're attracted to. This is kind of a hard belief to follow when it comes to pedophiles though. I don't think they can help what they are attracted to. In that Louis Theroux doc I thought it was incredibly dumb the "treatment" focused on changing what they are attracted to. How could you do that? It might just teach them to be deceitful enough to pass. I would have thought they would teach them how to not act on their urges, and understand the moral wrongness. Hey man, I asked this before maybe you'll know though. How do the pedo's go to that center? Like they say they've served their prison sentences, so why don't they go free? Did they just build that center and say "oh yeah, by the way after your sentence you go here?", doesn't seem like they could get away with that. I thought it was an alternative to prison but the people there had already been locked up. That said I think a few of the people were suitable for release.
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WouldDesk posted:I watched this a few months back, when the weird guy (well, the REAAAALY fuckin weird guy) sneaks out of his hotel room and rapes his friends car in the parking lot I have no doubt my face went like this: That guy was absolutely terrifying, and I felt so bad for Jordan (the younger guy), because I figured he'd be really upset when he found out. But holy crap, that ending - "So, did you actually jizz on my car?"
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May be hope still for the young guy, but the creepy old dude is clearly too far gone.
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CortezFantastic posted:What is the best OJ Simpson murder trial documentary around? I'm interested in re-living it but I can't seem find to any. July 17, 1994 is unconventional but great
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Hey I've been looking for this documentary. It's about this train in California only it becomes about this guy who works on it because he's just so drat cool. Anybody know what I'm talking about? Saw some of it a few years ago and it was awesome. My internet search attempts have been fruitless...
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The Valuum posted:We don't get to choose what they're attracted to. This is kind of a hard belief to follow when it comes to pedophiles though. I don't think they can help what they are attracted to. In that Louis Theroux doc I thought it was incredibly dumb the "treatment" focused on changing what they are attracted to. How could you do that? It might just teach them to be deceitful enough to pass. I would have thought they would teach them how to not act on their urges, and understand the moral wrongness. I'd liken the old guy to the homeless people who sometimes expose themselves in trains and such. Less of a monster, more of a dirty old man. So, my initial reaction to him is basically one of disgust, followed by a more clinical curiosity of how such behavior develops (which the docu doesn't even try to explore). But when it became clear that he was enjoying the idea of being filmed and became increasingly bold in his exposition, I think that's when the warning bells became too loud to ignore. If I were a brain doctor or therapist in charge of this man's treatment, I'd put forth a little more effort to maintain even-handedness, but in the end it was just too much for me. I'm not entirely sure he sticks to his rural shack or if he leaves little deposits near SUV's every time he mails a letter. So, not as bad as the pedos, but some of the same skin-crawling reaction. As for the pedos, I don't recall that the show went in-depth as to what legal patchwork was in place to keep these men imprisoned after their sentences. So I don't know. And I might be a hypocritical in saying this, but I don't really need to know in their cases, even if a few of the guys there appear to be reformed.
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PBS Secrets of the Dead Probably already mentioned, but it's a badass documentary series and pbs has a bunch of eps up for free: http://video.pbs.org/program/1185782726/ bunky posted:Holy poo poo, I just got around to watching Dear Zachary. Thanks for the recommendation, regardless of my former sobbing self. What a loving roller coaster. I loved it, even though I hated it. gently caress. Should be required viewing for all males.
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indoflaven posted:PBS Secrets of the Dead I'm about to go to bed but Secrets of The Dead intrigued me. I glanced over it and the website description made it sound like mysterious deaths, but I watched something on youtube about steroid abuse? Eh gently caress it you got me interested gonna go watch one now. I hate to be that guy but man am I happy that I met that documentary loving girl! edit: I get what the shows about now, title makes it sound like something more morbid. The Valuum fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Sep 20, 2011 |
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These arent traditional documentaries but arent exactly movies either. Turn It Loose http://www.turnitloosemovie.com http://www.isky.co.nz/product/220429.aspx - if you are in NZ and have SKY. Focuses on 6 professional break dancers and their experience at the world championships in 2007. I'm not even into break dancing and I couldnt turn away. The cinematography is loving amazing in some parts. Edit: I see Exit Through The Gift Shop has already been discussed. Jedimastafez fucked around with this message at 08:41 on Sep 20, 2011 |
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I'm not sure if requests are kosher in this thread but I would dearly appreciate anyone who knows how I could stream or otherwise watch CBC'S 1 Day project. http://1day.cbc.ca/ It's the same idea as that youtube sponsored documentary called One Day on Earth which incidentally I also thought was quite compelling, I managed to dig up a place to find it streaming a few weeks ago but it was with the aid of a friend who is not here at the moment so here's the trailer incase people don't know what I'm talking about : http://vimeo.com/26378195 Anyway, I've heard 1 Day was great from people who watched it and I am especially interested because I heard some footage shot of a friend of mine's band playing in the street made the cut. It was made by CBC which is our public broadcaster, so it must be legit to host their content right? My taxes pay for them documentaries consarnit!
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usbombshell posted:I love this thread! BBC iPlayer has The Code which is about numbers in the natural world. It's quite interesting. Also, I think this was recommended in this thread earlier but there's Dangerous Knowledge. Which describes the mental decline of four mathematicians who worked on complex and fundamental mathematics. "Dangerous Knowledge tackles some of the profound questions about the true nature of reality that mathematical thinkers are still trying to answer today." I really enjoyed this one, definitely recommended.
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I watched almost every North Korea documentary listed here and some that weren't. I just love documentaries about it. Not sure why. I'd like some more suggestions as well as some documentaries about China. I've already seen blue jeans, Up the Yangtze, Please Vote for me and Last Train Home. I'd be more interested in daily city life. Someone else mentioned a doco about Daily Life around the world. Is there a link anywhere?
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I really enjoyed some of Al-Jazeera's docs so I thought I'd post this one that just popped up: Meltdown: The Men Who Crashed the World This is part one of a four-part series: Meltdown posted:In the first episode of Meltdown, we hear about four men who brought down the global economy: a billionaire mortgage-seller who fooled millions; a high-rolling banker with a fatal weakness; a ferocious Wall Street predator; and the power behind the throne. It's a good watch, but to some it might just be more of the same information you've seen in many other documentaries. I simply enjoy the way Al-Jazeera does documentaries.
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I watch a lot of documentary's, mostly about weird people like Monster Camp, I Think We're Alone Now and Party Monster: The Shockumentary. I'm always looking for more if anyone knows any. But I couldn't watch Dear Zachary. Not because it's sad, but because it's just loving awful. I got 15 minutes in and was just bored out of my skull.
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DownTownBrown posted:I really enjoyed some of Al-Jazeera's docs so I thought I'd post this one that just popped up: Meltdown: The Men Who Crashed the World This looks pretty good too, and it's short: Free Running Gaza
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The Worst Muslim posted:I watched almost every North Korea documentary listed here and some that weren't. I just love documentaries about it. Not sure why. I'd like some more suggestions as well as some documentaries about China. I recently caught the Chinese School series (a joint BBC/Open University production) on TV and really enjoyed it. It follows the students and staff of a Chinese school system over the course of one year.
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