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Rahonavis: Jan 11, 2012; "Clevuh gurrrl..."

Pick posted:

Toys doesn't deserve to be in that list, Toys is weird but it's a really really really really good movie and i will fight god drat any body who

I love Toys too.

# ? Jul 8, 2020 03:23

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 16:39

Les Os: Mar 29, 2010

I�d like to see a documentary about what dogs around the world like to eat and also a slower one about how plants listen to music, people who make music for plants etc.

# ? Jul 8, 2020 03:37

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD: Jan 21, 2007

I want a documentary that focuses on the production history of king of the hill

Or a documentary about the sex-positive swingers retreat. You know the one

# ? Jul 8, 2020 06:57

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD: Jan 21, 2007

a 10 minute or longer smashcut of dudes getting walked in on while jerking it.

# ? Jul 8, 2020 06:59

Nice Guy Patron: Jun 29, 2015

A documentary about those 360ish elephants not being dead. It was all just a big misunderstanding. 🐘

# ? Jul 8, 2020 07:07

therobit: Aug 19, 2008; I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

Milo and POTUS posted:

The orgy scene in a mid sized american city

Jastiger parachute account spotted.

# ? Jul 8, 2020 07:13

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

N-n-no! No!

I don't like Lena Dunham

# ? Jul 8, 2020 09:15

Woden: May 6, 2006

Professor Shark posted:

Flannel

Modern textiles like rayon, bamboo and gor-tex would also be cool.

# ? Jul 8, 2020 12:20

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD: Jan 21, 2007

Seriously. Imagine it. A webcam of a dude jerking it when someone he cares about walks in. The face of a man who's fantasy world is collapsing around him. Enya plays. Fade to black.

Speed up the film, 2x. Smash cut to another guy. Yakkety sax plays on loop. Smash cut to another guy. rinse, repeat.

Big guys, small guys, white guys, black guys. Goes on for 90 minutes. Then ~~Werner Herzog says something existential~~ David Attenborough pipes up about earth's majesty or some poo poo.

The feel good oscar documentary of the century.

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Jul 8, 2020

# ? Jul 8, 2020 17:50

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD: Jan 21, 2007

I'm crowd sourcing a title for my untitled scroto 'uh-oh' jack off doc. feel free to contribute

# ? Jul 8, 2020 17:53

General Dog: Apr 26, 2008; Everybody's working for the weekend

Something about Johnny Cash's collaboration with Rick Rubin on the American albums would be interesting.

# ? Jul 8, 2020 18:14

PIZZA.BAT: Nov 12, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvh6NLqKRfs

# ? Jul 8, 2020 18:19

trickybiscuits: Jan 13, 2008; yospos

Zybourne Clock posted:

Life on Doggerland (the land bridge at the bottom of the north sea which once connected the UK to mainland Europe) circa the mesolithic era. Specifically focused on the people who lived there.

I have a book on the subject, titled 'Time Song.' It has a few imaginative sections but not nearly as many as I had hoped for. Probably because the author is an actual scientist and it'd be inappropriate for her to speculate.

Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P9wQj6qX2I

Time Team specials are so awesome. I love the ones about prehistoric Britain.

Mesolithic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EPNZWBk7i8

Stonehenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEX1u3W2oeA (2005) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2GVfGUk48I (2009)

Bronze Age weirdness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU37d8kUebk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB8Z2bW1r88

There are also a lot of videos online about the amazing archaeology of Orkney, but not enough. I demand more of them.

Vakal posted:

I've actually seen something like that before. Researchers taped one of those thin wire cameras to a dude's dick to see whats going on inside of the women as he goes to town.

Spoiler - weird.

I once saw the other way around- a camera in the woman's vagina pointing . . . out? The result was like watching a film about being poked in the eye by a dick.

# ? Jul 9, 2020 02:44

Valko: Sep 18, 2015

Das Boo posted:

Scientifically proving that yes, your pet does love you.

The Pig War.

There was a weirdly uplifting documentary about a POW camp in Arizona(?) for German soldiers during WW2. The intent was to get them to immigrate to the US, so they were given 8 hour work days, well-fed and treated like human beings. If someone escaped, no one cared because it was in the middle of a goddamn desert and the escapee would usually just come back. All the pictures and video were prisoners and guards mugging for the camera and it was just really nice.

e: It was Camp Papago Park! They also had movie nights!

Oh that reminds me of something. I'd love to see a documentary about the Christmas day soccer match between allied and German forces that happened during a ceasefire.

Unfortunately anyone who participated in that is likely long dead.

# ? Jul 9, 2020 03:20

GeneticWeapon: May 13, 2007

Valko posted:

Oh that reminds me of something. I'd love to see a documentary about the Christmas day soccer match between allied and German forces that happened during a ceasefire.

Unfortunately anyone who participated in that is likely long dead.

I wonder why more people don't know about this?

# ? Jul 9, 2020 03:25

Sleeveless: Dec 25, 2014; by Pragmatica

I'd love it if The S From Hell got a full series of mini-docs about all the other different weird TV bumpers and studio logos that frightened children throughout the ages.

# ? Jul 9, 2020 03:49

Edward Mass: Sep 14, 2011; 𝅘𝅥𝅮 I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
Friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen𝅘𝅥𝅮

Valko posted:

Oh that reminds me of something. I'd love to see a documentary about the Christmas day soccer match between allied and German forces that happened during a ceasefire.

Unfortunately anyone who participated in that is likely long dead.

They did, it was called "Twice Upon a Time" and it was an episode of Doctor Who.

# ? Jul 9, 2020 06:54

flubber nuts: Oct 5, 2005

what about planet earth but instead of earth its beetles.

# ? Jul 9, 2020 07:21

OMFG FURRY: Jul 10, 2006; [snarky comment]

trickybiscuits posted:

I once saw the other way around- a camera in the woman's vagina pointing . . . out? The result was like watching a film about being poked in the eye by a dick.

out of all the scenes in Enter The Void, that one made me the most uncomfortable simply because i was seeing it with other people.

# ? Jul 9, 2020 08:54

Ralph Crammed In: May 11, 2007; Let's get clean and smart

I'd like to see a doc on Jam Handy, Olympic medalist and producer of many of the shorts from MST3K. And more about the shorts they produced in the 40s and 50s explaining general concepts like marriage and education and grooming.

# ? Jul 9, 2020 09:06

Deep Glove Bruno: Sep 4, 2015; yung swamp thang

935 posted:

A documentary about seltzer water enthusiasts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66OQ-GPYfCE

# ? Jul 9, 2020 22:44

Deep Glove Bruno: Sep 4, 2015; yung swamp thang

NC Wyeth Death Cult posted:

The anti-Africa Addio: check out this good poo poo happening to people in the Congo region of Africa!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJFpYV-Aw9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFaKNhY3mhA (this video will make you change religion to worship guitarist bongo wende)

Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Jul 9, 2020

# ? Jul 9, 2020 22:47

Deep Glove Bruno: Sep 4, 2015; yung swamp thang

DebonaireD posted:

The ASCII art scene of the 80s and 90s, maybe warez and bbs in general, just not Napster or anything moralizing.

https://archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary
might do the trick?

# ? Jul 9, 2020 22:52

Deep Glove Bruno: Sep 4, 2015; yung swamp thang

BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:

what about planet earth but instead of earth its beetles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjl5qyAWw8o

# ? Jul 9, 2020 22:54

Shibawanko: Feb 13, 2013

id like a space documentary without michio kaku in it

# ? Jul 9, 2020 22:55

A CRAB IRL: May 6, 2009; If you're looking for me, you better check under the sea

Who What Now posted:

Crustaceans only ever get a few minutes in nature docs about the ocean, I'd like to see more in depth looks at crabs.

HERE HERE

# ? Jul 9, 2020 23:59

Sleeveless: Dec 25, 2014; by Pragmatica

What all the flash animators and web cartoonists of the 00s are doing now over a decade later. With the caveat that none of the actual webcomic mock thread psychos are allowed anywhere near it.

# ? Jul 10, 2020 00:17

yeah I eat ass: Mar 14, 2005; only people who enjoy my posting can replace this avatar

documentary about why birds don't have teeth and waht would happen if they did

ending with a petition to bring bird teeth back

# ? Jul 10, 2020 00:56

flubber nuts: Oct 5, 2005

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjl5qyAWw8o

gently caress yes ty deep glove. dung beetles own, perfect soundtrack

yeah I eat rear end posted:

documentary about why birds don't have teeth and waht would happen if they did

ending with a petition to bring bird teeth back

look around you reeboot?

# ? Jul 10, 2020 01:06

yeah I eat ass: Mar 14, 2005; only people who enjoy my posting can replace this avatar

BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:

look around you reeboot?

i do not understand this big tit lil nip

# ? Jul 10, 2020 01:43

flubber nuts: Oct 5, 2005

yeah I eat rear end posted:

i do not understand this big tit lil nip

its a funny bbc show that lampoons old british edutainement programs

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

I foundit when goons were very scared about HELVETICA EFFECT one hundred years ago

# ? Jul 10, 2020 01:56

Miserable Maid: Apr 22, 2010; Cat Army

Fudge Handsome posted:

I wanna see a documentary about swords throughout history. Not weapons, not wars, not spears and axes, but swords specifically. Start out at proto-swords like the beautiful macuahuitl and move on to the early copper and bronze short swords, then the longer ones when iron was getting used more often, talk about the shapes and styles and what they were good at, cultural significance, all that good poo poo.

I just really like swords, swords are so fuckin rad you guys

I second this, would be great to see!!!

# ? Jul 10, 2020 13:38

Jeffrey Dahmer: May 21, 2017; by Pragmatica; Muldoon

A documentary about everyone staying home from work one day and their pets going in their place.

# ? Jul 10, 2020 13:44

Another Bill: Sep 27, 2018; Born on the bayou
died in a cave
bbq and posting
is all I crave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BADk7n0x6A

This documentary was cool as hell, not too depressing just regular old racism depressing but with a great soundtrack.

# ? Jul 11, 2020 00:55

Das Boo: Jun 9, 2011; There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.

Valko posted:

Oh that reminds me of something. I'd love to see a documentary about the Christmas day soccer match between allied and German forces that happened during a ceasefire.

Unfortunately anyone who participated in that is likely long dead.

I really love this story. :3: