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magnificent7 posted:Fifteenthing Terror At The Mall. Jesus I'm going to go adopt a kitten now. The official Kenyan response was total Yakety Sax.
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That was a great documentary, there were 3 scenes that were unbelievable: 1. When the "elephant" guy got shot. 2. The children holding candy bars and crying next to the dead bodies 3. People taking out dead bodies of the mall via shopping carts. 
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Sep 21, 2014 21:48
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What I don't quite understand is the change of heart the terrorists got after a while. Like they say in the doc, how do you go from murdering children to making "baby faces" at them? Or giving them candy? Was it some kind of guilt after the adrenaline started to wear off, or what?
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Sep 21, 2014 22:25
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Sorry if this is a re-post since this thread is so old, but... I thought this BBC documentary on US rock music was pretty well done, even if they missed a bunch of things. Part1 - 1960s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkoXqXAGvkE Part2 - 1970s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh7DVY48xxQ Part3 - 1980s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IoPzcybmGg
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Herv posted:Sorry if this is a re-post since this thread is so old, but... I thought this BBC documentary on US rock music was pretty well done, even if they missed a bunch of things. Loving these so far. They've got nothing on Spinal Tap, though.
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Sep 22, 2014 14:03
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Watching The Roosevelts. Ken Burns style is formulaic at this point. But drat if it doesn't work.
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MRC48B posted:Watching The Roosevelts. Ken Burns style is formulaic at this point. But drat if it doesn't work. It is formulaic, but it works because what makes Ken Burns so good is the writing and the research that goes into each of his documentaries. He always finds little personal things about his subjects that really endear you to them, and anecdotes that reveal the mood of a famous person, or the average joe, or the nation. The way he tells a story through photos, letters, news articles, and first hand accounts is so simple and obvious, yet he's really the only one to do it (successfully and repeatedly). After finishing the Roosevelts, I'm really tempted to make a Ken Burns megathread to discuss his general body of work. I don't know if it would get many people posting in it but I may try anyways. Gonna finish The Dust Bowl first.
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Mahoning posted:
I would read this. I've only ever seen the Civil War but I found out most of his stuff is on Netflix so I'll try to catch up on it when I have free time.
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Sep 24, 2014 18:03
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I've always loved Adam Curtis documentaries but haven't really dug back past stuff in recent years. However I just watched 'It Felt Like A Kiss' and holy poo poo this is fantastic! Can watch it here on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/22589118 There's no naration, just a constant stream of music and images with some text overlayed to describe what's happening. It works really well in my opinion. The story is the rise of America during the cold war and shows stuff like how Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden grew up and came to power. The 60's and 70's were an insane time.
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Sep 26, 2014 18:57
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It Felt Like A Kiss is my favorite of his post 2000 work.
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Fruit Smoothies posted:Loving these so far. They've got nothing on Spinal Tap, though. -- Corporate Rock was the devil, but Tom Scholz invented Boston and a label built a band to support him and it was magic! -- The early 80s were void of any good music except for Punk and Tom Petty. Shittiest argument in the world. -- Mid-late 80s were nothing but hair metal bands, and Van Halen changed all that with Jump. Kill yourself. It was fun, but about as informative as watching a VH1 30-minute summary of a decade of music.
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Sep 26, 2014 22:08
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Any chance there's a decent documentary on Kim Jong-il, or any of the rulers of North Korea? Documentaries showing the life of an average schlub are getting more and more common, but I don't know much about the leaders aside from what Wiki says. I'll take anything, really. Something about a preference of art, a weird psychological profile from a German professor who read between the lines on propaganda videos, anything at all besides the typical North propaganda would be really interesting. e:v Sweet, I'll check that out. Thanks. Robo Reagan fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Sep 27, 2014 |
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Robo Reagan posted:Any chance there's a decent documentary on Kim Jong-il, or any of the rulers of North Korea? Documentaries showing the life of an average schlub are getting more and more common, but I don't know much about the leaders aside from what Wiki says. I'll take anything, really. Something about a preference of art, a weird psychological profile from a German professor who read between the lines on propaganda videos, anything at all besides the typical North propaganda would be really interesting. While not a documentary, I certainly feel like this is a good primer on North Korean state ideology. Departs quite radically from the standard idiot Western narratives. http://www.c-span.org/video/?292562-1/book-discussion-cleanest-race
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Edit: Found the video I was looking for. Thanks!
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Sep 28, 2014 08:50
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Terror At The Mall is up on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL7epiOrBRk
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Sep 28, 2014 14:56
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mod sassinator posted:I've always loved Adam Curtis documentaries but haven't really dug back past stuff in recent years. However I just watched 'It Felt Like A Kiss' and holy poo poo this is fantastic! Riveting.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Terror At The Mall is up on YT: That was pretty brutal, hard to imagine what those douche bags were thinking.
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Sep 29, 2014 04:56
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The fact the Kenyan Army pretty much said gently caress it and just shelled the goddamn mall to end the stand off after losing live five guys several days later, jesus. The actions of the normal people, hostages, plain clothes cops and volunteers that worked with them saved this documentary for being depressing as hell. Some really strong moments (why the elephant dude why!) in this one.
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Sep 29, 2014 17:26
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I watched the Central Park Five on Netflix yesterday. How is it that none of the people involved in sending these kids to prison got sent to jaiL!?
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Sep 29, 2014 17:39
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SeanBeansShako posted:The fact the Kenyan Army pretty much said gently caress it and just shelled the goddamn mall to end the stand off after losing live five guys several days later, jesus. The elephant man part was pretty tough, I have to assume he was just scared to death and not thinking things through. But I would agree that the cops / civilians rushing in was the high point of the movie.
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Sep 29, 2014 20:56
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Does anyone know of any good documentaries about Unit 731? I've been watching a couple of NHK documentaries about the Fukushima aftermath 3 years later and kinda criss-crossed into ones about both North Korea, the Korean War, Japanese refugees in North Korea and between all the atrocities, I noticed I never really saw Unit 731 or its experiments covered on TV.
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Sep 30, 2014 18:21
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Any good docus about Alaska or the Canadian wilderness and stuff like that?
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Sep 30, 2014 23:23
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ravenkult posted:Any good docus about Alaska or the Canadian wilderness and stuff like that? Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d6GNZlwcj8 Alone in the Wilderness, basically one man's journey into Alaska in the 50's where he builds an entire log cabin by himself. With hand tools. And he films it.
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Sep 30, 2014 23:39
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Proenneke is the loving man and that documentary is ridiculously fascinating. He makes it looks so easy.
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Stare-Out posted:Proenneke is the loving man and that documentary is ridiculously fascinating. He makes it looks so easy. Yeah, he built it in his 50's and lived out in the cabin until his 80's--just amazing!
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Oct 1, 2014 01:15
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ravenkult posted:Any good docus about Alaska or the Canadian wilderness and stuff like that? One day I stumbled upon Waterwalker. Is Bill Mason a well-known guy in Canada?
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Oct 1, 2014 02:37
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ravenkult posted:Any good docus about Alaska or the Canadian wilderness and stuff like that? Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man isn't about that, but does discuss and show it extensively. Might be of interest (also it's excellent)
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Allyn posted:Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man isn't about that, but does discuss and show it extensively. Might be of interest (also it's excellent) Similarly, Happy People, by the same. Anyone know if Adam Curtis' Everything Is Going According to Plan is ever going to be released in any sort of non-live fashion? I would love to see it, but the chances of it ever being performed anywhere near Minneapolis are fairly low, I'd imagine.
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IPvSH6T posted:Anyone know if Adam Curtis' Everything Is Going According to Plan is ever going to be released in any sort of non-live fashion? I would love to see it, but the chances of it ever being performed anywhere near Minneapolis are fairly low, I'd imagine. Towards the start of the year the BBC announced that they were going to produce more original content for their iPlayer streaming service rather than just streaming shows first broadcast on their television channels. Among the new content they announced were three new Curtis documentaries one of which was supposed to be a filmed version of the stage show he made with Massive Attack. The announcement said the new documentaries would come out in June, though they've obviously failed to appear on the iPlayer and no word has come out from either Curtis or the BBC about what the current status of the announced films is.
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mod sassinator posted:Enjoy: There's a Vice documentary on the same subject, about a dude and his wife who live out in the Alaskan wilderness and have for the last 30 years. What struck me is how...down to earth the guy seems, like totally not the impression of a crazy isolationist mountain man you expect from people who break away from all civilization. His point of view was completely understandable, even convincing. I find some Vice stuff to be annoying because the reporter often gets in the way but this one was pretty good.
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exquisite tea posted:There's a Vice documentary on the same subject, about a dude and his wife who live out in the Alaskan wilderness and have for the last 30 years. What struck me is how...down to earth the guy seems, like totally not the impression of a crazy isolationist mountain man you expect from people who break away from all civilization. His point of view was completely understandable, even convincing. I find some Vice stuff to be annoying because the reporter often gets in the way but this one was pretty good. Yeah Louie Theroux did a good show on mountain people that live off the grid, and on the whole they were incredibly nice and welcoming people. Most of them did it because they didn't believe in the government, taxes, etc. but none were crazy rear end in a top hat Libertarians that you would expect. It was kind of heartwarming to see people that you expect to be nuts are actually just normal people that like living outside normal society.
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Are there good documentaries about Pennhurst Asylum? Youtube has jack poo poo.
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Happy People was really interesting because the subjects focused on pretty much are alone, and when you learn it's because the Soviet government (kinda fun to not know this going in) basically dropped them in the middle of Siberia long ago and never returned to check on them, and they refused to just die, it becomes insane. I can't imagine having a family, community, etc. but living alone for 10 months of the year.
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Zesty Mordant posted:Happy People was really interesting because the subjects focused on pretty much are alone, and when you learn it's because the Soviet government (kinda fun to not know this going in) basically dropped them in the middle of Siberia long ago and never returned to check on them, and they refused to just die, it becomes insane. I can't imagine having a family, community, etc. but living alone for 10 months of the year. Happy People is amazing. That story he tells about his dog made me tear up.
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Yeah Happy People almost made me cry. In addition to the dog story, the whole moment of the dog running alongside the jetski the whole way home hit me hard.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Yeah Happy People almost made me cry. In addition to the dog story, the whole moment of the dog running alongside the jetski the whole way home hit me hard. Iirc that dog ran for 24 hours, those people could be the real survivors of an apocalypse.
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Oct 2, 2014 03:56
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Is Citizen Koch worth checking out?
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Oct 2, 2014 21:32
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On the theme of canadian wilderness and Happy People, I would recommend The Cree hunters of Mistassini. Not as good as Happy People, but still fascinating. https://www.nfb.ca/film/cree_hunters
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Watching Dreams With Sharp Teeth which is a 2008 doc about Harlan Ellison and while its basically a 90 minute fluff piece I did learn so things about Harlan and I think one of the things on my bucket list is to go into the "The Lost Aztec Temple of Mars".
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This sounds terrible, but for some reason I like depressing as hell documentaries about homeless/orphan children. The best one I've seen in awhile is Children Underground. The synopsis is, "This documentary explores Romanian dictator Nicolei Ceaucescu's decision to outlaw contraceptives and encourage the populace to have more children." But it's way more than that. There's minimal narration but you come to know and care for the children it follows. And of course you get angry as hell at a broken system that you'll probably never do anything about. Are there any other good documentaries about street kids? Roving bands of homeless kids is the loving craziest thing.
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