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There was an old thread about this but now it's gone. I figured that we should have one. Jesus Camp A bunch of kids go a Christian summer camp where they learn about why abortions and Harry Potter are evil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiYFRmNuz9k Dear Zachary Andrew Bagby is found dead in a park. His ex-girlfriend is believed to have killed him This is about Andrew Bagby's life and how much he meant to people. They hope that his son, Zachary will follow in his father's footsteps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtyY0CXdiNo e: Fixed first link, sorry folks. Violet_Sky has a new favorite as of 07:06 on Jan 27, 2015 |
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Love me some historical documentaries. Battle of Chernobyl My favorite documentary on Chernobyl, and a good watch in general. The narrative is well done, great use of interviews and stock footage, and enough dramatization to keep you engaged. Also debris clearing robots, crazy with raidation sickness, malfunction and hurl themselves off the rooftop. Soviet Aviation from beginning to current There's 18 of these fuckers (50 min each) and they detail Soviet aviation from before/after the fall of the Soviet Union. It's Russian produced (narrated in English) and carries that slant, but I wouldn't call it propaganda. Lot of good stuff in these that you won't find anywhere else. Cold War 24-part series: 1917 - 1945 The complete Cold War story. Everyone knows the broad strokes, but this really goes in depth.
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Crosspost from CD: gotten some good feedback on a documentary web series I've been working on called No Small Parts, which focuses on the lives and careers of character actors in Hollywood. I've done episodes on four so far: Anne Ramsey, Vincent Schiavelli, Scatman Crothers, and Warwick Davis. Original thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3674325 As for some of my favorites, I've been obsessed with death recently. Here's a few documentaries that'll make you think about your mortality: How to Die in Oregon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F-525sCzhE "In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. As a result, any individual whom two physicians diagnose as having less than six months to live can lawfully request a fatal dose of barbiturate to end his or her life. Since 1994, more than 500 Oregonians have taken their mortality into their own hands. In HOW TO DIE IN OREGON, filmmaker Peter Richardson gently enters the lives of the terminally ill as they consider whether—and when—to end their lives by lethal overdose. At the heart of the film are the patients themselves, their families and friends, as they grapple with the legal option they are allowed in Oregon. Through their stories, Richardson examines both sides of this complex, emotionally charged issue. What emerges is a life-affirming, staggeringly powerful portrait of what it means to die with dignity." Also, Serving Life is phenomenal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzPzmeieXPE "Serving Life documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fellow inmates. Narrated and executive produced by Academy Award®-winner Forest Whitaker, the film takes viewers inside Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years."
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Realm of the Russian Bear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqUbVrUZPA8 This six part series showing nature documentaries made in the former Soviet Union was the first documentary I ever saw. Very nice camera work, though it's been forever since I watched it and so I don't know how it holds up.
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The Greatest Raid of All Jeremy Clarkson (don't worry, he's not a bellend here) tells the story of the Allied attack on St Nazaire in World War II. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXusKM5uX0s
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Blue Planet. Its on the Netflix. I like the ocean. Real soothing.
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Jodorowsky's Dune
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Werner Herzog has done a ton of documentaries, theoretically about certain topics but actually about the people and questions around them. The White Diamond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIinkM8B4VU A small airship developed to travel above and record the canopy of the South American rainforest. Cave of Forgotten Dreams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y0guHHDN5Q Chauvet Cave, home of the earliest known prehistoric art in Europe. Was also shown in 3-D. Wheel of Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJZAb830qEc A major Buddhist holiday/celebration. Made at the request of the Dalai Lama. Encounters at the End of the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKDykevfLI The people and research at the South Pole. Suicidal penguins. I couldn't find Grizzly Man on Youtube but that's also an excellent movie.
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Anything directed by Frederick Wiseman. Paris is Burning (on Netflix) Tarnation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3GlrMi40v8) American Movie
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Just watched The American Scream and really enjoyed it. It's on Netflix. It's about three families that live in MA who go extra hard on Halloween and spend all year setting up elaborate haunted houses. I liked it even more because I'm also a Masshole idiot. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYXNXvX6qoI The ending is feel good, but extra feel good if you Google a name you see at the end. His haunted house established business is still doing extremely well with great reviews.
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No Place on Earth is a story I consider interesting and is told pretty well http://youtu.be/lG743iQYJho
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Somm Never thought I would find sommeliers or wine in general interesting, but this was great. The Act of Killing Pretty heavy documentary about Indonesia gangsters that ran death squads during their revolution. It's framed around them making movies about their exploits in the styles of their favorite old movies and just kinda goes from there.
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Also all things Ken Burns. Civil War and The West are my favorite, but even things I hate like baseball he makes compelling. somehow. and really I only love his civil war series because of shelby foote and his magnificent southern gentleman accent. gratouitous shelby foote collection and also because this song is perfect. click here for awesome civil war theme and finally because soldiers back then wrote letters like poets. and when my last breath escapes me on the battlefield, it will whisper your name. forgive my many faults, and the many pains i have caused you, and how thoughtless, how foolish i have sometimes been
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Solice Kirsk posted:The Act of Killing Demon Lover Diary Guerrilla-style doc shot by a no-budget cinematographer's girlfriend in the 70's. The guy agrees to shoot a horror movie for a friend of his, and the experience is utterly sketchy and hilarious. Often called the proto-American Movie, but this one has twists of its own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYhD5mrz8ho
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Followup Ken Burns post Horatio's Drive Bar room bet ($50 in 1903) leads to a cross country drive back when roads and cars were poo poo.
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I agree with the ken burns. Everything he does is great. I watched the whole series on jazz. I don't like jazz or have any interest in jazz history but I enjoyed 10 part series.
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trickybiscuits posted:Werner Herzog has done a ton of documentaries, theoretically about certain topics but actually about the people and questions around them. To add to them some of my favorites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45cAaIHdozI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkcsz9QujmU
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Jan 28, 2015 07:30
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Ghost Bird, about the hunt for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. It has one of the most haunting soundtracks I've ever heard. http://www.ghostbirdmovie.com/
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The best documentary I've seen is Inequality for All. It's on Netflix and it's narrated by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. The problem with a lot of political and economic documentaries is how pessimistic they can get. "Here's the problem. Here's who's doing it. Here's how it screws you. You can't do anything about it. Good night." At least with Inequality for All, you get a sense of optimism like we know the solution, we've done it before, we should be able to do it again! Robert's great at narrating. Has some humor in it. I can't recommend it enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCbAyk8aRxI
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Adam Curtis, The Power of Nightmares Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaLPFayD8FA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlA8KutU2to By the way, the opening track (Brian Eno - The Big Ship) is excellent.
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Touching The Void is about two climbers attempting to summit an as-yet unclimbed approach to the monstrous Suila Grande in the Andes. Things go wrong on the way down, the climbers get separated, and one of the pair sustains grievous injuries and ends up making it down the mountain alone. Stranger than fiction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t65VrYZ2U9s Werner Herzog's Into The Abyss, about two convicted murderers, one of whom is facing execution. I walked away from it with a new perspective and changed feelings about the death penalty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-pnZUQdkKI Restrepo, follows a group of soldiers in the picturesque Korengal Valley in the mountains of Afghanistan. The film contains unnerving first person footage of combat in an area where the US Army didn't really hold many advantages over the Taliban fighters. It's maybe as close to a fair fight as the Taliban ever got. War is terrifying and pointless. One of the filmmakers was later killed in Libya while filming combat footage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DjqR6OucBc Blackfish has some problems in the whole "telling the truth and not being misleading" categories, but the message I took away from it is that Sea World is totally careless with the lives of their employees, and people have no business swimming with orcas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G93beiYiE74 Watch the two Donnie Brasco episodes of the "Inside the American Mafia" series on Netflix too.
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Workingman's Death is an excellent series on physical labor in the 21st century by Austrian filmmaker Michael Glawogger and you should watch it. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workingman%27s_Death http://youtu.be/vWgEzYefFYI Heroes - Miners in Ukraine http://youtu.be/e4H4W0jiP2w Ghosts - Sulfur carriers in Indonesia http://youtu.be/4Ch8zL2_oWk Lions - Butchers in Nigeria http://youtu.be/nlKrhndjF6k Brothers - Welders in Pakistan Unfortunately, the last 2 parts "The Future" and "Epilogue" don't seem to be on youtube. Das Butterbrot has a new favorite as of 01:42 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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Erasing Hate - Guy grows up in the neo-nazi movement and becomes a high ranking, violent member. Tattoos his neck and face with racist tattoos. Years later, he turns his life around and gets out of it (even under massive threats to his life). He begins the long and PAINFUL process of removing the tattoos. This is the gist of the documentary. It's on Netflix last I checked. Battered Bastards of Baseball - If you like baseball, you'll love this, if you don't you'll love it still. Kurt Russell's dad (a baseball GENIUS) ran a AAA team in Oregon and kicks the collection butts of the major league teams with a ragtag collection of ex players and wannabes. They were not happy about it. On Netflix. ZenMaster has a new favorite as of 01:52 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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Oh also, The Ambassador: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLQNYsxP9T0
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30 for 30 is a series of sports documentaries by ESPN. A lot of them are hit or miss, but there's a bunch that are fantastic watches (Netflix has most of 30 for 30 now) The U is about the University of Miami football program in the 80's. Even if you don't care at all about college football, its fascinating, Into The Wind is a documentary on Canadian icon Terry Fox, a early 20 year old guy who after having a leg amputated due to cancer decided to try to run across Canada in a "Marathon of Hope" to raise money for cancer research June 17, 1994 is about a variety of major sports stories in the US in June 1994 (New York Rangers winning the Stanley Cup, New York Knicks in Game 5 of the NBA Finals also trying to win, World Cup action kicking off across the US, Arnold Palmers last golf pro tour game, and so on) and how coverage of them was changed with OJ Simpson on the run from police.
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The Parking Lot Movie is a film about a parking lot that hires a bunch of people with fancy degrees in philosophy and other generally interesting-but-generally-real-world-inapplicable degrees, and it's just a view at the lives of these people who have a sort of modern salon in the form of their mediocre workplace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENQtIzgAVxY Exit Through the Gift Shop is now generally considered a Banksy performance piece rather than an actual documentary, but it's still a neat look at the world of street art that happened to take place just as Banksy's popularity was starting to explode. Also, the film looks at the rise of another street artist, Mr. Brain Wash, whose story is unreal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHJBdDSTbLw I Know That Voice is a really cool documentary about the voice acting industry that answers a lot of questions fans might have and features a huge range of actors with very notable roles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xivQ6_gu3W8 I know documentaries tend to be political, but I really love slice-of-life or character study documentaries, and I would love any suggestions on those fronts. TheRecogScene has a new favorite as of 03:37 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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Sunset Strip is a pretty good one covering the history of Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and all the wacky poo poo that happened there.
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 Holy poo poo this one's interesting. If you're unaware of the Toynbee Tiles, they're a series of tiles that have mysteriously shown up all over the world, all with the same message about resurrecting the dead on Jupiter. They pretty decidedly find out who was behind it and how he did it. Really neat stuff.
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fits posted:June 17, 1994 is about a variety of major sports stories in the US in June 1994 (New York Rangers winning the Stanley Cup, New York Knicks in Game 5 of the NBA Finals also trying to win, World Cup action kicking off across the US, Arnold Palmers last golf pro tour game, and so on) and how coverage of them was changed with OJ Simpson on the run from police. Can't recommend this one enough. It's constructed 100% from news clips from that day and there's zero narration. They managed to dig up a lot of really interesting footage, like Bob Costas about ten seconds before he goes live, wondering how the hell he's going to cover the NBA Finals while simultaneously covering a car chase that, for all he knows, is going to end with the most beloved sports star of the day blowing his own head off.
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ninjahedgehog posted:Can't recommend this one enough. It's constructed 100% from news clips from that day and there's zero narration. They managed to dig up a lot of really interesting footage, like Bob Costas about ten seconds before he goes live, wondering how the hell he's going to cover the NBA Finals while simultaneously covering a car chase that, for all he knows, is going to end with the most beloved sports star of the day blowing his own head off. It includes a ton of pre-brodcast recordings like: "Hey, did you hear OJ is on the Pro Tour this year?" "Yeah, but hes only shooting two under" 
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I am a total sucker for crime, so here are a few: Forensic Files: it's on Canadian Netflix, the first episode had me totally gripped. Man goes missing, yet cheques and cards still arriving from him, as well as all his bills being paid. One Minute to Nine this one is on YouTube, but it's not for the faint of heart. Wendy Mondalado and her son were indicted for killing her husband/his father. The doc follows Wendy the weeks leading up to her going to the prison, and the horrific abuse she and her children faced at the hands of her husband. It will upset you, and it will most definitely piss you off. Nova: Mind of a Rampage Killer explores the history of mass shooters. Very dark but really interesting. Playground, a really shocking look at child sex trafficking within the U.S. Difficult to watch but certainly eye-opening. Okay some not crime ones as well.. The Most Hated Family in America follows Louis Theroux as he spends time with the members of the Westboro Baptist Church, the follow up documentary is also really good. Lots of Theroux's stuff is interesting, such as the one where he lives with skinhead neo-nazis. Sex: My British Job is a BBC documentary where a woman goes undercover to work in a brothel to expose the treatment of immigrant Chinese women. Jiro Dreams of Sushi profiles one of Japan's most renowned sushi chefs. The dedication to his craft is inspiring, and plenty of food porn going on. I'm really torn on watching the recent Hayao Miyazaki documentary. I am a huge fan of his work, but the stills I've seen are so depressing, I'm not sure I want to. 54 40 or fuck has a new favorite as of 05:48 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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Dunno if my tastes in docs is really the same as everyone else's here TV Junkie Don't really know how to describe this one. This guy has been obsessed with TV and News since he was a kid and as a consequence has been constantly filming his life as a sort of video diary even as he becomes a local TV reporter and married. He then becomes a crack addict and continues documenting his life on camera. Its a great look into the mind of an addict and what that entails. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK-8tR8FKog Darkon Quite possibly the best showcase of Sayre's Law I've ever seen. Its supposed to be a doc on LARPing but the real story behind it is the escape these people are seeking from their lovely lives. There are quite a few cringe moments so its not for everyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvoTE00AdRA Other notable mentions: Louis, Martin and Michael Shows Louie Theroux trying to contact Michael Jackson to make a documentary at the same time Martin Basheer was making his infamous Jackson documentary. Chasing Ghosts Beyond The Arcade Basically shows the darker side of King of Kong Trekkies See inside the world of star trek conventions. The Elephant In The Living Room Exposes the exotic pet problem in America Tony quidprano has a new favorite as of 05:50 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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fits posted:It includes a ton of pre-brodcast recordings like: The same director should do a sequel in the same style that covers the trial itself. I was only in kindergarten at the time, so I don't remember any of it.
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ZenMaster posted:Erasing Hate - Guy grows up in the neo-nazi movement and becomes a high ranking, violent member. Tattoos his neck and face with racist tattoos. Years later, he turns his life around and gets out of it (even under massive threats to his life). He begins the long and PAINFUL process of removing the tattoos. This is the gist of the documentary. It's on Netflix last I checked. My wife saw this with me, and was basically like "gently caress this guy, I don't feel bad for him at all" Especially once he got to the part about beating the poo poo out of some random old Mexican dude, just because
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ZenMaster posted:Battered Bastards of Baseball - If you like baseball, you'll love this, if you don't you'll love it still. Kurt Russell's dad (a baseball GENIUS) ran a AAA team in Oregon and kicks the collection butts of the major league teams with a ragtag collection of ex players and wannabes. They were not happy about it. On Netflix. This was absolutely amazing.
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volts5000 posted:The best documentary I've seen is Inequality for All. It's on Netflix and it's narrated by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. The problem with a lot of political and economic documentaries is how pessimistic they can get. "Here's the problem. Here's who's doing it. Here's how it screws you. You can't do anything about it. Good night." At least with Inequality for All, you get a sense of optimism like we know the solution, we've done it before, we should be able to do it again! Robert's great at narrating. Has some humor in it. I can't recommend it enough. This was really, really good. Thank you.
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Semprini posted:The Greatest Raid of All This was really worth watching. It's really odd to see Clarkson not being a huge rear end in a top hat, but he did a really good job on this. One I watched a while back that was much better than I expected was Degenerate Art. It's on Netflix, and it's a story about the history, techniques, and legality of glassblowers and their influence on the American glass art scene while making bongs and pipes for smoking  This is a pretty good documentary too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK99dvJO5PY My favorite parts are definitely the parts with wolf puppies I don't think we have a thread for it, but this one is really really close, so I'm gonna post this too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjaGktVQdNg
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Violet_Sky posted:Jesus Camp drat, the one contribution I had, and it'd first in the OP! Well, consider this an endorsement of your pick.
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