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Vincent posted:Any feel good docs you peeps recommend? This year has been a shitshow so far and most the documentaries named here are incredibly depressing. Life Itself, the Roger Ebert doc.
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Phi230 posted:I just finished the Case Against Adnan Syed  I'm 4 episodes into the Staircase doc, it's baffling how these crooked assholes get away with half the poo poo they do. Same with West of Memphis and other docs where someone is accused, the DA/judge refuses outright to look at any new evidence or admit wrongdoing, yet nobody ever gets punished or disbarred from working in law. My first thought after seeing all those docs was "if Trump's gonna build a loving wall, start with the entire border of Texas, then across to Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina instead"
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Apr 4, 2019 04:20
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On Prime I found China Circus: Elites by Chinese Acrobats https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GUP1C9G/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_a2yPCb33A7C10 It's very interesting to see the acrobatics performed but my heart breaks watching these kids being worked so hard.
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Apr 4, 2019 05:53
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Syed is probably guilty. But there's a boatload of weird further and unexpected things going on in that case. Which makes you wonder how safe most prosecutions are.
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Apr 5, 2019 05:00
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Our Planet, the new Attenborough doc, is great as usual but man, every episode ends on a huge bummer. It's important to show but I can't binge-watch them like I usually do because I get depressed. Episode 2 spoiler Those loving walruses tumbling over the cliffs, oh god im so sorry we destroyed your ice 
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Apr 5, 2019 18:14
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I was flicking through the HD cable channels the other day and found this cool nature doc on the Smithsonian Channel called My Journey with a Polar Bear that was really loving good. https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/my-journey-with-a-polar-bear/0/3468389 quote:For four years, Asgeir Helgestad, a Norwegian wildlife filmmaker, has followed a beautiful polar bear mother named Frost in her home on Svalbard, a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean. Rising temperatures are causing dramatic changes in her ecosystem, leading to desperate struggles to find food for herself and her young cubs. Follow this tale of man and beast, hope and despair, and life and death in a land disappearing before their eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjPUeAVNB1I
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Apr 5, 2019 18:53
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Apollo 11 is amazing, see it in theaters if you still can. That launch sequence!
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Apr 6, 2019 17:51
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I can’t believe it never came to my local imax. It would’ve been amazing watching it on their ridiculous screen.
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Apr 6, 2019 23:06
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BOOTY-ADE posted:
I watched a doc recently about a wrongfully convicted man called Time Simply Passes. The man, James Richardson was railroaded for allegedly poisoning his children's grits with pesticide. Even though a babysitter made their lunch, she was never investigated. The pesticide was 'found' in his shed by a local drunk though the police had searched it several times with no success. He was in prison for 21 years, and the DA refused to grant him a new trial even after the babysitter was in a nursing home with Alzheimer's and kept repeating 'I killed those kids'. It was infuriating; but of course the prosecutor maintained 'Nope, I did a bang up job!'
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Apr 6, 2019 23:14
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Phi230 posted:I just finished the Case Against Adnan Syed Don't forget the cops! Ritz, one of the lead detectives in the case actually railroaded a guy named Ezra Mables into a conviction so ludicrously corrupt that the. DA actually agreed to ask it be overturned when the whole thing was laid out for them. Wrongful convictions are somewhere around 1/20. Which is loving horrific.
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Apr 7, 2019 04:15
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Winklebottom posted:Our Planet, the new Attenborough doc, is great as usual but man, every episode ends on a huge bummer. It's important to show but I can't binge-watch them like I usually do because I get depressed. Cheer up. It will be our turn soon enough.
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Apr 7, 2019 06:03
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Dr.Caligari posted:There's something I don't like about how Dawson City: Frozen Time is structured, but it's very interesting . This had been on my list to watch and I finally got to it. Even though the town was interesting, I feel like if you got hooked on "amazing lost film discovery", you don't want to watch a movie that's 80% about the history of the town itself, then finally gets to the discovery at the very end. The "how" story where all these films end up in that spot is really interesting, but I would have preferred to hear more about the discovered films themselves if the filmmakers didn't feel that the discovery story itself filled enough length of the movie.
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Apr 8, 2019 01:09
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Vincent posted:Any feel good docs you peeps recommend? This year has been a shitshow so far and most the documentaries named here are incredibly depressing. Jiro Dreams of Sushi comes to mind. I also love rewatching When We Were Kings for inspirational purposes.
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InfiniteZero posted:I also love rewatching When We Were Kings for inspirational purposes. Ali Bomaye!
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Apr 8, 2019 18:24
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Alhazred posted:Ali Bomaye! Seriously! I love watching boxing movies but the best boxing movie (sorry Sly, but I think you'd be OK with this) is a documentary. You couldn't script a better story.
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Apr 8, 2019 20:14
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Vincent posted:Any feel good docs you peeps recommend? This year has been a shitshow so far and most the documentaries named here are incredibly depressing. Battered Bastards of Baseball always makes me smile.
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Apr 8, 2019 23:15
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Vincent posted:Any feel good docs you peeps recommend? This year has been a shitshow so far and most the documentaries named here are incredibly depressing. Never Get Tired, the story of how Jeff Rosenstock and Bomb the Music Industry carved out their place in DIY history
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Apr 9, 2019 04:25
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I'm watching Paradise Lost for tge first time and holy poo poo these trials are a farce Satanism? One thing that stood out is a reporter asked if a mom of one the victims considered suicide
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Apr 9, 2019 15:25
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Phi230 posted:I'm watching Paradise Lost for tge first time and holy poo poo these trials are a farce To whoever asked a page or two ago about feel good documentaries.......this ain't one of em. I thought Paradise Lost was some of the best true crime docs I've ever watched, but holy hell I don't think I could do it ever again.
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Apr 9, 2019 15:30
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I love 90's, earl 2000's Discovery-channel-esque documentaries from the time before Reality TV permeated even documentaries, and even milquetoast ones suddenly had to have melodramatic editing and narration (see anything that comes on the History Channel these days). Documentary about Zombies in Haiti. Not exactly Pulitzer-prize-winning in terms of factuality, but still an interesting doc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4T51WXSMpQ An absolute classic documentary about China's 3 Gorges Dam. A very good product of what is clearly a ton of great production work. I can kinda see the influence of this huge-scale doc on future classics like Planet Earth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeUAy1VPav4 A great documentary about gnarly ants around the world. They built a special robot (in the days before this was trivial) to get video and even audio close-ups of the ants doing their thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHByp2K4OWg Note: there are likely much better versions of the doc's out there somewhere.
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Apr 12, 2019 22:09
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I don't know if it's been mentioned in this thread already, but the most depressing documentary I've ever seen is Body Without Soul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BctXRPtrc-I
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Apr 15, 2019 21:39
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That preview image looks... suspect. Maybe best to hxxp link it!
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Apr 15, 2019 23:29
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All About Trout posted:I don't know if it's been mentioned in this thread already, but the most depressing documentary I've ever seen is Body Without Soul: Yeah this is absolutely crushing. I forget how I first saw this but I never forgot it.
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Apr 16, 2019 00:09
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This looks fun https://www.imdb.com/title/tt935804...&ref_=hm_otw_t5
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All About Trout posted:I don't know if it's been mentioned in this thread already, but the most depressing documentary I've ever seen is Body Without Soul: Well that sure was something, drat. That guy has to have killed people right? What a monster
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Apr 18, 2019 07:31
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Harton posted:Yeah I don’t get why they didn’t just use the babysitters and just day drink, that’s the only real strange part of their behavior. swingers
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Apr 18, 2019 08:49
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It might be out of theaters already but I would recommend Amazing Grace for anyone who likes Aretha Franklin, gospel music, or maybe music generally? The very weird production process shows a little but the music is incredible and it's made way better by being able to see the reactions of the other people in the church.
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Apr 28, 2019 02:11
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White Boy is really interesting. On Starz right now. I wasn't familiar with the case at all so everything came as a surprise to me
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Apr 28, 2019 05:38
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Perhaps from this thread, I heard out Looking For Mike which is on youtube: In short, in 2002 the film-maker was working with a guy "Mike" who turned out to have grown up near the same small town. They become friends and then Mike suddenly dies of apparently natural causes. The mystery then starts: * Mike was making preparations for his death beforehand * And every bit of ID he had was fake On one hand, it's polluted by a lot of the true crime cliches and styling. The length could have been halved had they cut out the fake drama and the film-maker getting emotional about the case. On the other hand, it's not very long anyway. Not a must-see but interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLQp1c4Ql00
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Apr 29, 2019 10:49
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That was kinda interesting yeah But watching it got me recommended "I Think I'm An Animal (Species Dysphoria Documentary) and lmao my god these people are loving loony toons. It's funny if you like, as the Germans say, chucklingbeimuberdorks
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Apr 30, 2019 19:51
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Just saw this trailer about convicts in San Quentin trying to find salvation through basketball and it looked pretty interesting so wanted to share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5DDnncoP6M
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May 15, 2019 17:50
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Anthropocene: The Human Epochquote:Anthropocene - The proposed current geological epoch in which human are the primary cause of permanent planetary change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikMlCxzO-94 I have a feeling I'm going to get very angry while watching this.
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May 17, 2019 01:17
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Saw this in the standup comedy thread and thought it need to be x-posted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpXC91oE2X8 Love this dude.
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May 23, 2019 04:16
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I always wondered what happened to Amazing Johnathan, I loved his acts. Sucks about his health though, glad he's still around & can't wait to see this doc 
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May 23, 2019 04:43
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I saw him in Vegas like 15 or so years ago. He was awesome.
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May 23, 2019 05:47
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That's a name I have not heard in a long, long time. I think he had a comedy central presents special that I loved as a kid.
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May 23, 2019 08:19
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I absolutely could have sworn that he died.
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May 23, 2019 18:35
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I absolutely could have sworn that he died. Sadly he's terminally ill so maybe your brain just kinda processed it as such
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King of Beasts is a strange watch. It follows a trophy hunter on a lion hunt. It seems like it was made to put hunting in a positive light, but the film is very ambivalent. There is killing and butchering of animals, so it could be very triggering. I found it interesting to see the process unfold, the cultures of wealthy US hunters juxtaposed with Tanzanian culture and the ethical back and forth. It's stuck with me.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Saw this in the standup comedy thread and thought it need to be x-posted His stand up comedy magic show is great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG6EbR-LRfw Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 13:39 on May 26, 2019 |
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