Petah posted:

Real story about an off duty pilot who attempts to land a passenger jet in an impossible scenario. Quite possibly the most gripping story I've ever witnessed in my entire life.

One Hell of a Tale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPu0chBQeUk

onemanlan posted:

Whoa I wanna watch that! IMDB Says Release date is "5 May 2010" however there are already ratings up for it. Go figure!

onemanlan posted:

Cause Im a retarded stoner. Oops. Was thinking 2009, doh. Well I cant seem to find it other than on Amazon and thats $5.99 for a rental. I don't want to pay for it!

Lackadaisical posted:

This thread couldn't have come at a better time - for class I'm supposed to write a paper on a documentary relating to anything in the field of human sexuality. Can someone recommend me a good one for that topic?

Untrustable posted:

I Ctrl+f'd all over this thread and saw no mention of Not Quite Hollywood. its a brilliant film about ozsploitation. I'll just let Netflix explain.

"Explore the unofficial history of Australian cult film with this provocative documentary on the "Ozploitation" flicks of the 1970s and '80s. Filmmaker Mark Hartley explores the violence, sex and nudity rampant during this period of lax restrictions. Jam-packed with film clips, poster art and international advertisements, the film also features anecdotes from numerous celebrities about this dynamic period in Australian cinema."

Its awesome even if you're not Australian, and it has a good bit about the late Dennis Hopper being a zany coke fiend.

Netflix IW link

Kitsch! posted:

Any more documentaries about the way we currently eat? I've already seen Food Inc., King Corn, Supersize Me, Fat Head, Fast Food Nation (not actually a documentary), and Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, Killer at Large.

Amazon is recommending me The Future of Food, Bad Seed: The Truth About Our Food and Foodmatters.

Dudebro posted:

Anyone know of:

A documentary about scammers in Nigeria, either supporting or exposing them or anything about them at all

and

Harminoff posted:

If any of you have netflix, they just added a bunch of nat geo shows. They have also added the first two seasons of Lock Up. Highly recommend it if you haven't seen it yet.

JibbaJabberwocky posted:

Again, 'cause this thread is too long, if this is a repeat I am sorry.

I was surfing around on netflix and this documentary popped up called The Cove, I wasn't interested in it from the title, but it really was a fantastic documentary.

You can also watch it here:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/cove/

It follows an undercover team of vigilante Dolphin lovers who were out to film Japan's annual slaughter of thousands of Dolphins at a secret cove in Taiji, Japan.

If this makes you think of WHALE WARS, please stash that bullshit at the back of your mind. It's nothing like Whale Wars (beyond the fact that it's white people fighting with the Japanese for most of the film).

If you want to know more about the slaughter of Cetaceans worldwide (you know, our aquatic mammal bros who can recognize themselves, and are extremely intelligent), you will enjoy this film.

So maybe enjoy is not the right word. You'll probably be disgusted, it's really sad, since (apart from all of the blowhole rape) they're pretty nice creatures who save our asses sometimes.

Here's the WIKI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cove_(film)

Seriously, this is one of the most interesting documentaries I've ever watched. It's striking and startling, and even most of the Japanese population doesn't realize they are being duped. All that delicious whale you buy? Yeah, it's probably Dolphin. And laced with mercury you say, at toxic levels? Lovely Japan.

Imapanda posted:

Could anyone recommend some good pseudo-philosophical COSMOS-like Astronomy documentaries? I need a new thing to watch that makes me feel the warmth and ness for how beautiful the universe is.

Imapanda posted:

There's actually a segment in the movie specifically directed towards people who point fingers at it with the assumption that it promotes some sort of agenda.

Cyril Sneer posted:

How exactly is some guy who paints graffiti that is perhaps a notch above swear words grounds for such a great documentary? All seems very self-congratulatory to me.

Cyril Sneer posted:

I know exactly who Banksy is. He's a graffiti artist.

Whats the movie about? His life? Why is that interesting?
His political motivations?
Why is there a an apparently-award-winning documentary about this guy?

What about this film isn't just a giant ad for the guy?

Splits posted:

I just finished Herb & Dorothy on Netflix, and it's a feel-good documentary about a couple who genuinely love art. It was a nice follow up to Exit Through the Gift Shop.

Anyone able to point me towards more artist-based documentary about modern/current artists? I'm finding that they tend to be really hit or miss, I'm looking for less Art House type stuff and more informative, tell a story type stuff. I tried watching one of the Cremaster series thinking it would be another interesting look into art, I forget which one, but holy poo poo I couldn't handle that.

Non Serviam posted:

OMG, really? The dude from https://www.godhatesfags.com is anti-gay? This is an unexpected turn of events.
It was still awesome (EDIT: by that I mean hilarious)

To contribute:

A video covering the TOTALLY SPONTANEOUS reactions after Kim Il Sung's death (the father of the current insane North Korean tyrant, Kim Jong Il). I just finished a book about North Korea, so the whole phenomenon surprises me. Though a lot of it is clearly staged, there are actually a lot of people who cried like that, and who even committed suicide after Kim Il Sung's death. It's like North Korea is one big experiment on cult mentality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrvIM1ENcbA

NOTE: The video is hosted by an insane pro-north korea retard, so don't pay attention to the propagandistic title.

a 16 year old girl posted:

Dropbear posted:

I know there are impressive pieces of modern art out there; hell, my government tries to pass a bill to only fund "traditional" art and not postmodern art, and I've often ranted about how goddamned insane that is.

That said, some of the modern pieces he showed are, at least to me, absolutely terrible and I can't fathom what they have to do in an art museum. The blue canvas, for example. The ridiculous rant about how it's actually a great piece of work just made it worse - it's still a blue canvas. Is there some deeper meaning here I'm missing? The praise for it made me think of someone trying really, really hard to figure out a valid reason to put that thing on the wall and coming up with utterly random nonsense.

ETA 53 seconds to the "well you JUST DON'T GET THE GENIUS OF THE BLUE CANVAS "-response..

Ekplixi posted:

I apologize if this has been posted already, but I didn't see it.

Jesus Camp

http://www.atheistnation.net/video/?video/00118/atheist/jesus-camp/

At first I worried this was going to be an athiest circlejerk-type movie, but it's quite compassionate in how it portrays evangelical kids. I liked that it was countered with talks from a more liberal Christian perspective, so it's not some big Christian-bashing movie (I'm not a Christian but I am religious so I hate that poo poo). It's very sad though, these kids are basically being brainwashed pro-war, anti-abortion, YE creationist, anti-Muslim young adults and it's sad and scary.

Seeing a bunch of nine-year-olds pray over a cutout of George W. Bush gave me chills.

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.

I've searched for them but they're really hokey "my local river" type poo poo. Something as awesome as sailing around the world must have some good docs attached but I can't find them.

ps, watch that above mentioned doc. That kid is great and should probably kill his father because he's a projecting worthless rear end in a top hat who inadvertently gave his son the most exhilarating and DANGEROUS rite-of-passage any kid should get to satisfy himself.

doctor 7 posted:

Dear Zachary is a really, really amateurish documentary so missing it isn't a big deal, honestly.

truther posted:

Hi, can anyone tell me the name of that British post-Nuclear documentary please? I'm sure I saw it in this thread but can't find it. I remember it being recommended for being absolutely depressing and very realistic.

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.

exquisite tea posted:

Some time ago I watched a PSA from AT&T about the dangers of texting and driving with the usual sob stories of prom queens and team captains cut down in their prime by a highway median because they were messaging their friends. It was depressing, of course, but they also showed their last messages before they died, which made it...kind of darkly funny? I'm probably a bad person for laughing a little at people whose lasts texts before rolling off a hill were "lol" and "where u at." The whole movie did inspire me to always say something profound and meaningful before going on long car rides.

NmareBfly posted:

Free to Play, an E-sports documentary by Valve, came out today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZYMI1zB9s

I'm curious what non-video game people think about it as an actual documentary.

NmareBfly posted:

I've seen a few people say this, and I'm curious: can you put a finger on what was so advertising-y about it? Aside from a very brief introduction to the game early on, they barely mention anything to do with Dota itself. There's never any sort of in your face pushing of the product besides that the entire thing is about a Dota tournament so it features a lot of people having fun playing the game. I'm not sure if there would be a way to prevent that, though? I mean, they could have made it a documentary about e-sports in general but the original motivation was apparently just 'hey, let's film this tournament we're putting on!' and the fact that it became a feature-length movie just grew out of the process. If you're following three people to a place to play a particular game, I'm not sure how you can avoid mentioning the game they're playing.

The fact that they dramatize portions of the tournament games with the cutscene type moments might have been a bad move that comes across pretty false. I can see why they did it, but whether or not it made things worse is open to debate. It's hard as hell to understand what's going on in a big Dota fight even for an experienced player sometimes, so if they just included shots of it entirely in-game I'm not sure if the 'action' moments would have any sort of dramatic impact to a layman. Are those the parts that made it feel like an advertising, and were they effective at all?

I dunno. I just came away from watching it really surprised at how LITTLE it felt like an advertisement, but I already play the game in question so I can't watch it with a clear head. There's a metric poo poo ton of marketing stuff they could have gone into, but even the simple fact that it's a free game is only mentioned obliquely in the title of the movie -- I don't think they ever point it out as a 'selling' point. It didn't work for me as an advertisement for e-sports, either. I got from it was that professional e-sports involves a ton of sacrifices and can turn your home life to poo poo, which probably isn't worth it until society starts providing ways to pull some sort of steady paycheck not based entirely on tournament winnings.

Cocoa Ninja posted:

For me the movie holds up even if you didn't know the "twist." Maybe that's personal preference. Just a really sharp take on the idea of the American dream and the contrast between the ideals we aspire to and what we're willing to do in practice.

It's more about adding a shade to his character motivation as opposed to being truly integral to the plot.

El Gallinero Gros posted:

I just watched Call me Lucky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRkYG_AeRfU


That's the trailer. Watch it, please. It's very, very, very good. This is an achievement for Bobcat.

djwetmouse posted:

djwetmouse posted:

two different men, the priest talk was just to set up his, rightful, antagonism with the Catholic church. As he said the man who raped him eventually went to prison, a Catholic priest would get off Scott free.