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CeeJee
Dec 4, 2001
Oven Wrangler

Rapacity posted:

Could anyone please recommend a good sailing documentary? I've always had a thing for the idea of taking a tiny boat out against all the elements and I recently watched http://www.channel4.com/programmes/schoolboy-who-sailed-the-world/4od (may not work for those outside the UK) and it was awesome.


Deep Water is a great documentary about the first solo sailing race around the world, one of the best documentaries I've ever seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs3Be0klAvA

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CeeJee
Dec 4, 2001
Oven Wrangler
Closer To The Edge trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QldZiR9eQ_0

The trailer opens with a church and racing bikes going past and that's the thing in a nutshell. It's about the Isle on Man TT race and the people who have a passion for that race that would make the Taliban think these people are a bit obsessed.

The Manx TT is a bit different from your average biking race that it takes place over a massive 37 mile track that's just roads through hills, forests and villages. Instead of a stretch of sand and soft barrier around it there are trees, walls, hillsides and barbed wire fences. If you crash you'll probably die and 237 racers have done so since the first race 100 years ago. That's more then died climbing Mount Everest.

The main star of the movie is Guy Martin who looks like a young Mel Gibson playing Wolverine. He's incredibly likable and just a little insane at the same time like most of the people who are interviewed. Like a Werner Herzog movie you shake your head at how crazy these people are yet at the same time there is a tiny bit that's convinced it's in fact you who are mad for not doing what they do.

And of course there is some breathtaking footage of the races.

CeeJee
Dec 4, 2001
Oven Wrangler
Wild Wild Country on Netflix on the Bhagwan cult is mindblowing and every time you think it can't get crazier it does. At one point a former State Attorney mentions bioterrorism using blended beavers in the water supply and you can see he thinks it's probably nonsense but can't 100% be sure.

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