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Almost anything frontline posts is really really good, and for similar types of stuff I've been watching this program Vanguard which is available on hulu. They do most of their interviews on the street or on location, so its not as well set up or produced as Frontline, but the topics are interesting. Not sure if it's been mentioned, but the Canadian Film Board has a lot of documentaries available online. Another source I also use is vbs.tv which is Vice Magazine's website where you can view their TV stuff, which is also excellent. VBS and Vanguard tend to do some of the crazier stuff I've seen (like going to an open air gun market in Pakistan, or Going to Liberia). That snagfilms.com website mentioned earlier is loving dope, too! This film "Young Yakuza" on there is pretty excellent. national film board of canada: http://www.nfb.ca/ vice's tv 'network' VBS: http://www.vbs.tv Vanguard on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/vanguard
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BDPFlow posted:I need your help, filmgoons. I've been charged with the task to create a documentary film series for students at a large (southern) public university. They want to me to select some films that are new-ish (licensing fees will be paid by the university), and occasionally I'll be putting together a panel of faculty to discuss the films. There have been a lot of great documentaries coming out over the past couple years, so I'll give you a quick list with small descriptors. Forks Over Knives - Deals with health and nutrition. http://forksoverknives.com The Botany of Desire - Chronicles human relationships with apples, potatoes, marijuana and tulips. Based on the Michael Pollan book. Beats Rhymes and Life: The Story of a Tribe Called Quest - This one isn't publicly available yet, but will be soon. Very good doc on the group, as well as discussing the contributions of Native Tongues. The Parking Lot Movie - Basically what the title says, stories of human relationships, working a lovely job, and all of it centered on a pay parking lot in Charlottesville, VA next to UVA. Life in a Day - Documentary that shows a single day on earth from a number of different perspectives all around the world. Prom Night in Mississippi - Details the first inter-racial prom at a Mississippi High School, so naturally this documentary takes place during the 2000s. The Art of the Steal - Documentary about how private corporations managed to essentially steal the world's largest private collection of modern and post-impressionistic art, the Barnes collection. Freakonomics - Based upon the best-selling book, features a bunch of shorts directed by different people like Morgan Spurlock, the guy who did Super Size Me. We Live in Public - Really difficult documentary to explain, so I'll let the link do it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498329/ This movie is crazier than you could possibly imagine. I can keep listing out more, but I don't know if these are recent enough for you. The oldest is from 2009, AFAIK.
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Alastor_the_Stylish posted:I'd recommend against Forks Over Knives, seeing as it's vegan propaganda. I don't know if I'd necessarily agree with you. Although I have not finished the film, I am familiar with it, and the producers. One of the men behind it is the Professor Emeritus of Nutrition at Harvard, and recently he was on Real Time with Bill Maher where he spoke of the movie and he definitely didn't give off a vegan propaganda vibe. Instead he spoke very plainly that "real" nutrition is not being taught in most schools and colleges because eating animal products comes with a host of health problems that are becoming more well documented. I'll have to finish the movie and read up more on it if it is provoking enough to draw the term propaganda.
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Egg in soup posted:Apparently, Unreported World is now available internationally. It's pretty good and there's some good documentaries from largely ignored issues and places. I don't like how they translate and repeat what people say rather than just show subtitles though, it seems a bit odd. Thank you so much for this. I've been trying to find episodes of Unreported World here in the US and it is incredibly difficult. I would really recommend people check out MTV True Life's "I'm Addicted to Porn", http://www.mtv.com/videos/true-life-im-addicted-to-porn/1637607/playlist.jhtml, which is absolutely hilarious. Also, not sure if this was posted, but it's a Day With 9th Wonder, who is one of the top producers in hip-hop: http://vimeo.com/30032039
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Lady Demelza posted:On a different tack, does anyone have any good museum/archives/library documentaries? I enjoyed a documentary about the Greenhalgh family that defrauded museums with fake artefacts and a podcast about forgeries in archives, and was wondering if anyone knew of anything similar. It doesn't need to be about fakes and frauds, anything related to that sort of area would be of interest. Thanks! This is only tangentially related, but The Art of the Steal is about the largest private collection of post-impressionist art and how the city of Philadelphia essentially stole it despite Albert C. Barnes' will.
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Ropes4u posted:Dancing boys of Afghanistan Just an FYI, but if you're in the US, there's absolutely no reason to be using websites like topdocumentaryfilms.com to watch this. This is produced by PBS's Frontline and almost all of their reports from the past 10 years are available on https://www.pbs.org/frontline
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zenintrude posted:Finally got around to watching Undefeated and goddamn, why did it take me so long to watch this thing?! If you liked Undefeated or generally enjoy High School football movies, then check out The Hopeful which is about high school QB Cody Keith. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7gz3CW-75o
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Peyote posted:The only good comparison with The Undefeated is between the have and have-nots in high school football, and between good and poo poo documentaries. ...or that it's a documentary about high school football where it seems like the film-makers have an incredibly high level of access. Let people judge for themselves
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Documentarians should take the approach that many social scientists are taking: don't try to go through all of the fuss of pretending to be neutral or trying to attempt to correct for your bias; be upfront about your views and try to produce work that stands on its own merit and is not unnecessarily distracted by efforts to present objectivity. As consumers we have to accept and digests what we're presented with and then we create our own understanding of the subject material and decide from there. The bias will always be there, regardless of how the film-maker presents the material, so all we can do is hope that the quality of the factual contents outweighs whatever elements of bias are purposely included/excluded. In the case of someone like Theroux, its interesting to watch him struggle with his own thoughts and emotions and to see him try to naively bait his subjects into revealing more, and I have to think that his inability to hide his bias or to try to be objective is what gives color to his interviews
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Apr 30, 2013 06:13
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There was a good HBO doc that's not necessarily about homelessness but is in the same vein called The Motel Kids of Orange County. Vice or one of the other investigative docustyle shows did one for an American city where people are living underground, can't remember the name of it though. Have you seen an older doc called Children Underground
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May 31, 2013 11:27
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Ropes4u posted:Are there any similar documentaries on the whacko left? Not sure whether or not these fall under that umbrella, but "If A Tree Falls" about the ELF is somewhat in that vein, as is "Better This World", which vaguely touches on a domestic terror plot related to the 2008 RNC in Minneapolis. I'm probably doing a bad job explaining, but check them out.
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Based on your description, this is what immediately comes to mind
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