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Does anyone have recommendations for good docs on Netflix? I haven't watched any in a while, but I've loved the ones I've seen. Namely Resurrect Dead, Cropsey, The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, Hell House, Knuckle, and Restrepo. I've seen the Herzog docs on there as well. Have I exhausted Netflix's supply, or are there hidden gems?
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:Does anyone have recommendations for good docs on Netflix? I haven't watched any in a while, but I've loved the ones I've seen. Namely Resurrect Dead, Cropsey, The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, Hell House, Knuckle, and Restrepo. I've seen the Herzog docs on there as well. Have I exhausted Netflix's supply, or are there hidden gems? Here are a few I really liked: The Queen of Versailles: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/188781 Dark Days: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/173006 Man on Wire: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/176304 I Think We're Alone Now: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/139841 Dear Zachary (warning, super sad): http://instantwatcher.com/titles/165796 The Parking Lot Movie: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/175799 The Great Happiness Space: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/5370 Marwencol: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/179476 Jiro Dreams of Sushi: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/181826 edit: Oh yeah, if you have a few days to kill check out any of Ken Burns' documentaries like The Civil War, National Parks, Jazz, Baseball, etc. These are epic documentaries that are well worth the time to watch. mod sassinator fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Feb 21, 2013 |
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Dear Zachary is indeed very sad but I hated how it's made. It's full of things where the guy narrating goes "Then he got into a car" (cut to a shot of a person getting into a car followed by the noise of an engine starting) and "He wrote them a letter" (shot of a letter being written with the noise of a pen scraping paper) and it's annoying as hell. But it's worth a watch if you can't find any other way of being emotionally punched in the stomach.
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:Does anyone have recommendations for good docs on Netflix? I haven't watched any in a while, but I've loved the ones I've seen. Namely Resurrect Dead, Cropsey, The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, Hell House, Knuckle, and Restrepo. I've seen the Herzog docs on there as well. Have I exhausted Netflix's supply, or are there hidden gems? Hoop Dreams is one of the best documentaries ever made. http://instantwatcher.com/titles/182437 The Harvest: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/189216 Word Wars: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/172650 Children Underground: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/181676 Reel Injun: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/174239 Copyright Criminals: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/172621 Please Vote for Me: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/5727 Crossing the Line: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/77840 Unmistaken Child: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/165787 Which Way Home: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/163887
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:Does anyone have recommendations for good docs on Netflix? I haven't watched any in a while, but I've loved the ones I've seen. Namely Resurrect Dead, Cropsey, The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, Hell House, Knuckle, and Restrepo. I've seen the Herzog docs on there as well. Have I exhausted Netflix's supply, or are there hidden gems? Michael Apted's "Up" series, interviewing a diverse group of British children from age 7 on up at 7 year intervals. I believe "56 Up" is about to be released. The whole series as it stands is on Netflix streaming right now. Be warned that you shouldn't marathon these all in a row though, because by the time you get to the third or fourth one they recap a LOT of the earlier footage at the beginning, but very worth watching.
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Stare-Out posted:Dear Zachary is indeed very sad but I hated how it's made. It's full of things where the guy narrating goes "Then he got into a car" (cut to a shot of a person getting into a car followed by the noise of an engine starting) and "He wrote them a letter" (shot of a letter being written with the noise of a pen scraping paper) and it's annoying as hell. But it's worth a watch if you can't find any other way of being emotionally punched in the stomach. I didn't read anything going into Dear Zachary and found it very compelling. I'm sure if I read all the goon problems with the way the story was told and watched it again, I would have a different experience.
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JimBobDole posted:Atomic Cafe is one of my favorites as well as Trinity and Beyond. mod sassinator posted:The Great Happiness Space: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/5370 I would also second these two as ones I've seen recently, really well done. Gonna look into Atomic Cafe next, I guess.
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The American Experience on Oppenheimer is pretty good and available on Hulu. Trinity and Beyond wore on me a bit after the 15th or so EXPLOSION AND DRAMATIC MUSIC bit.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I would also second these two as ones I've seen recently, really well done. Atomic Cafe is fantastic. There's one on YouTube called 1983: the Brink of Apocalypse about an incident that almost resulted in a full-scale nuclear war.
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Peas and Rice posted:Atomic Cafe is fantastic. This is really good stuff.
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fivre posted:The American Experience on Oppenheimer is pretty good and available on Hulu. The American Experience stuff is really good. I just watched Death and the Civil War and it was excellent.
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Stare-Out posted:Dear Zachary is indeed very sad but I hated how it's made. It's full of things where the guy narrating goes "Then he got into a car" (cut to a shot of a person getting into a car followed by the noise of an engine starting) and "He wrote them a letter" (shot of a letter being written with the noise of a pen scraping paper) and it's annoying as hell. But it's worth a watch if you can't find any other way of being emotionally punched in the stomach. It can be a bit amateurish, but it's also important to remember that it was never intended to be a real documentary. It was just a video letter the guy was making for the guy about his dad. A personal project. When things started unwinding it became something different.
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Poison Jam posted:After watching the Chernobyl doc posted earlier I've go a hankering for some cold war documentaries, any suggestions? The War Game. It's clearly a product of its time, but still unnerving, and it's fairly obvious why the British government kept it off TV for decades.
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I picked up Grey Gardens on a whim from the library, and I highly recommend it if you're in the mood for watching some very https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrnrafC1fHI
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WouldDesk posted:Last night I decided to watch The House I Live In which seemed to get great reviews from most. I have to say, I just wasn't that into it. I understand that the war on drugs is lovely and some of the stories were upsetting but I expected more than the message of "whitey is trying to suppress minorities". Does anyone else fell similar? You're dumb as hell
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Just watched Queen of Versailles - equal parts hilarious and pathetic. And of course the subject of the doc tried and failed to sue the filmmaker for defamation... http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/queen-versailles-lawsuit-filmmaker-wins-415325
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Just finished three excellent documentaries on the finance industry by a Dutch filmmaker, Marije Meerman. While they're tangentially related to the 2009 crash, they're ultimately more about the inner operations and philosophical implications of modern finance. I found them refreshingly non-dogmatic and incredibly well-made from an artistic standpoint. Are any of you Dutch goons familiar with the series this is from (Tegeslicht)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq1Ln1UCoEU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2FWNWwE3I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWI-aQRL_ko
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Yes, Tegenlicht is awesome. It has a lot of really insightful discussion about the role of economy, technology and work in our near feature. A good overview of what they're doing this year can be found here. There's quite a bit of English in here, so you should be able to follow along. They also have an English minisite.
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Queen of Versailles is loving ludicrous. These people have the hugest blinders, it's almost pitiable. It's sort of a cautionary tale about how loving damaging and gross capitalist excess can be. The only person whom I actually like and care for is the Filipino housekeeper. Her talked about repurposing the kids' huge playhouse into a quiet space for herself is like a glimmering diamond of sanity.
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:Queen of Versailles is loving ludicrous. These people have the hugest blinders, it's almost pitiable. It's sort of a cautionary tale about how loving damaging and gross capitalist excess can be. The only person whom I actually like and care for is the Filipino housekeeper. Her talked about repurposing the kids' huge playhouse into a quiet space for herself is like a glimmering diamond of sanity.
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McLibelquote:McDonald’s loved using the UK libel laws to suppress criticism. Major media organisations like the BBC and The Guardian crumbled and apologised. But then they sued gardener Helen Steel and postman Dave Morris.
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:The only person whom I actually like and care for is the Filipino housekeeper. Her talked about repurposing the kids' huge playhouse into a quiet space for herself is like a glimmering diamond of sanity. I like that you see that as a "a glimmering diamond of sanity", because that poo poo depressed me to no end. The housekeepers were the only bridge to humanity that I found in that doc. She found sanity in a shack that was once a playhouse for the children. I can't remember the quote, but I think I remember her saying that the playhouse was larger than the home she grew up in.
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On the plus side, that awful man is now so broke he can't influence politics the way he suggested he used to! It'll all come out in the wash in this
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WouldDesk posted:Last night I decided to watch The House I Live In which seemed to get great reviews from most. I have to say, I just wasn't that into it. I understand that the war on drugs is lovely and some of the stories were upsetting but I expected more than the message of "whitey is trying to suppress minorities". Does anyone else fell similar? Minorities being suppressed shouldn't be discussed in a documentary about the policies oppressing them because...
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Thanks to whoever recommended War Photographer, that was some extremely powerful and moving imagery. Also checked out Streetwise, but it didn't get to me like James Nachtwey's work did. They are both on youtube, and I am forwarding the recommendation in case you guys haven't seen 'em. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eescl-Sa5wU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj7UM-KWJS8
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Great Horny Toads! posted:Hyper Parents and Coddled Kids acephalousuniverse posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfDbTgb6uyc
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Browsed back a couple of pages, but didn't find anything going back till early 2012. Would anybody know of any particularly good documentaries both about the Tsunami in Japan or the meltdown in Fukushima? I'd be interested both in good coverage from back in 2011, as well as documentaries revisiting the whole thing now that we're two (?) years past the disaster.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Browsed back a couple of pages, but didn't find anything going back till early 2012. Would anybody know of any particularly good documentaries both about the Tsunami in Japan or the meltdown in Fukushima? I'd be interested both in good coverage from back in 2011, as well as documentaries revisiting the whole thing now that we're two (?) years past the disaster. Frontline has a great show on it you can watch online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/japans-nuclear-meltdown/ They also did another one on nuclear power: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/nuclear-aftershocks/ And this IEEE article is a great minute by minute account of what happened at Fukushima: http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/24-hours-at-fukushima
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Hey, do you like the Cold War? Are you a fan of light, easily accessible historical information in your documentaries? Interviews with people who were actually there? Allow me to recommend CNN's Perspectives: The Cold War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War_%28TV_series%29 The entire series is absolutely wonderful, and amazingly informative. If you're going to start somewhere, allow me to recommend "Soldiers of God". The episode about the Red Scare is frightening. Every episode is an absolute masterpiece though. They are all free on Youtube, so just copy/paste the name and enjoy.
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Waroduce posted:The Cold War Thanks for posting this. I had no idea it existed and I've been on a morbid Cold War kick lately. I've already watched the first few episodes.
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SamLikesCake posted:Thanks for posting this. I had no idea it existed and I've been on a morbid Cold War kick lately. I've already watched the first few episodes. Hah! Me too. I think it was started by The Americans and I just read David Hoffman's book The Dead Hand. This is just what I need right now!
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Narrated by Kenneth Branagh. gently caress yes!
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Big props to Waroduce, this is going to keep me busy for a week.
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I just noticed that the Cold War documentary actually works rather well as a podcast. I listened to a whole episode while making dinner and I don't think I missed anything.
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Yeah the Cold War series is great--I watched the episode on mutually assured destruction and found it really interesting. I love that they interview all the Soviet commanders, leaders, etc. to get both sides of each incident.
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french lies posted:Just finished three excellent documentaries on the finance industry by a Dutch filmmaker, Marije Meerman. While they're tangentially related to the 2009 crash, they're ultimately more about the inner operations and philosophical implications of modern finance. I found them refreshingly non-dogmatic and incredibly well-made from an artistic standpoint. I'm Dutch and Tegenlicht, translated counter light, or something like "alternate viewpoint" is one of our best programs (though you have to stay critical, sometimes they screw up and are too one-sided). However, I didn't know this series, thanks!
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Browsed back a couple of pages, but didn't find anything going back till early 2012. Would anybody know of any particularly good documentaries both about the Tsunami in Japan or the meltdown in Fukushima? I'd be interested both in good coverage from back in 2011, as well as documentaries revisiting the whole thing now that we're two (?) years past the disaster. Just last week the BBC showed an fascinating doc My Atomic Aunt on the experiences of a local family who are now living on the edge of the exclusion zone. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r7bpt
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