Favourite Documentary/Documentaries??

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I like anything by ken burns.

Leezestarr313

We watched a documentary from the series American Experience last night. It was called The Donner Party. It might be a bit older, but I've never seen it before. It was about a group of immigrants who went on a treck to California in 1845. Their journey in the end took them almost a year and all kinds of terrible things happened to them. They had to wander through a salt desert and then cross the mountains in winter. There, they got stuck. Without enough food or any outlook to get out there, they started eating the people who died :? It was very interesting, but also very disturbing. I am always so amazed at what people managed to do in those days without the amenities we have today, just by determination and the wish to fulfill their dream.

Who Princess

Leezestarr313 wrote:

We watched a documentary from the series American Experience last night. It was called The Donner Party. It might be a bit older, but I've never seen it before. It was about a group of immigrants who went on a treck to California in 1845. Their journey in the end took them almost a year and all kinds of terrible things happened to them. They had to wander through a salt desert and then cross the mountains in winter. There, they got stuck. Without enough food or any outlook to get out there, they started eating the people who died :? It was very interesting, but also very disturbing. I am always so amazed at what people managed to do in those days without the amenities we have today, just by determination and the wish to fulfill their dream.

I've seen that one a couple of times. Fascinating story, especially the reasons why they took an alternate route from most pioneers.

Who Princess

smarchee wrote:

just watched the first part of Ken Burn's The Dust Bowl last night

fascinating stuff

That one's very good. If you get interested in the subject, you might want to read The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan.

adropinthepark

Netflix must have known I was wondering why the hell kids would join the military these days and offered up Where Soldiers Come From for viewing.

We seriously need to give kids better options.

Kel Varnsen

Leezestarr313 wrote:

We watched a documentary from the series American Experience last night. It was called The Donner Party. It might be a bit older, but I've never seen it before. It was about a group of immigrants who went on a treck to California in 1845. Their journey in the end took them almost a year and all kinds of terrible things happened to them. They had to wander through a salt desert and then cross the mountains in winter. There, they got stuck. Without enough food or any outlook to get out there, they started eating the people who died :? It was very interesting, but also very disturbing. I am always so amazed at what people managed to do in those days without the amenities we have today, just by determination and the wish to fulfill their dream.

I have seen that one and it is super interesting. It is one of those things where it seems like a ton of things went wrong, and if you take any one of those things out of the chain of events they probably would have been ok. If you have a kindle there is a free book about the donner party, that was published in the 1880's and actually interviews a bunch of the survivors.

http://www.amazon.com/History-Donner-Pa ... the+Sierra

As far as the American Experience goes, there are a ton of interesting episodes. Some of the other ones I liked were the one about the 1919 Influenza outbreak, the 1929 stock market crash, the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, Dinosaur Wars, the on on Whaling and the one about the Amish.

You can watch a lot of them here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/

Heisenberg

Can't wait to see this craziness

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-19789783

Leezestarr313

Kel Varnsen wrote:

I have seen that one and it is super interesting. It is one of those things where it seems like a ton of things went wrong, and if you take any one of those things out of the chain of events they probably would have been ok. If you have a kindle there is a free book about the donner party, that was published in the 1880's and actually interviews a bunch of the survivors.

http://www.amazon.com/History-Donner-Pa ... the+Sierra

As far as the American Experience goes, there are a ton of interesting episodes. Some of the other ones I liked were the one about the 1919 Influenza outbreak, the 1929 stock market crash, the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, Dinosaur Wars, the on on Whaling and the one about the Amish.

You can watch a lot of them here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/

Oh, thanks for the link, I will definitely check it out! I enjoy this series a lot, I'm new to America, and it tells some stories that I never heard of before of events that shaped the country in one or the other way :thumbup:

Heisenberg

Just saw "Sound City". Absolutely fantastic. There are more insightful documentaries out there, but I haven't had this much fun watching one since PJ20 came out.

dimitrispearljam

24 hours party people

Heisenberg

Just watched "The Imposter". Outstanding. I highly recommend checking it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67cMet52mL4

drinkbigredinstead

La danse Paris opera ballet

musicismylife78

Heisenberg wrote:

Just watched "The Imposter". Outstanding. I highly recommend checking it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67cMet52mL4

among the top documentaries ive ever seen. compelling from start to finish. I have been meaning to figure out what they've learned since the release of it, about whether the family really did do that to their son.

Whats crazy is I learned about it from lance armstrong. he tweeted about the movie maybe 3 months ago, pre-admitting on Oprah, and he called it "scary". Kind of interesting since he was an Imposter too.

What was so insane about the story was just how things racheted up and up. The guy simply placed a call to police from a phone booth and it ended up in questions of what a family possibly did to their son.

BinauralJam

Zeitgeist 1 & 2

Byrnzie

Watched 'West of Memphis' last night. about the WM3. Sheds some interesting new angles on the clusterfuck that was this case. Judge John Fogleman stands out as a real prize cock.It's shown how he deliberately lied in court - over the issue of the knife - in order to try and win a conviction, even if that meant sending three innocent boys to death row. He also refuses to accept the facts when they're staring him straight in the face. I suppose self-preservation and career progression were always more important to him than finding the real killer/s of three murdered children.
Just another slippery lying lawyer-cum politician.

STAYSEA

Byrnzie wrote:

Watched 'West of Memphis' last night. about the WM3. Sheds some interesting new angles on the clusterfuck that was this case. Judge John Fogleman stands out as a real prize cock.It's shown how he deliberately lied in court - over the issue of the knife - in order to try and win a conviction, even if that meant sending three innocent boys to death row. He also refuses to accept the facts when they're staring him straight in the face. I suppose self-preservation and career progression were always more important to him than finding the real killer/s of three murdered children.
Just another slippery lying lawyer-cum politician.

The guilty were tried and sentenced. It's a trippy feeling that any walk free.
3 raped, sodomized little boys. One accused pleads guilty. It's forgotten because one has a low IQ.

What happened to the Miranda Laws?

Why won't the Supreme Court Look at this? It's too stupid.

I still want a restraining order against them all.

Why would a person say they were too ignorant to say a lie, because they told the truth.

I'm probably going to be kicked off and banned for this. But IT will never cease to make me nuts.

Those frucking .... Trucks. Where is Johnny Depp? I need Help.



I have a low IQ and I have been misjudged? Do I get any money or movie royalties ? I'm innocent. Do I have to kill Boy scouts to meet celebrities ? When is the film crew coming?

(My opinion)

Green Circle

STAYSEA wrote:

Byrnzie wrote:

Watched 'West of Memphis' last night. about the WM3. Sheds some interesting new angles on the clusterfuck that was this case. Judge John Fogleman stands out as a real prize cock.It's shown how he deliberately lied in court - over the issue of the knife - in order to try and win a conviction, even if that meant sending three innocent boys to death row. He also refuses to accept the facts when they're staring him straight in the face. I suppose self-preservation and career progression were always more important to him than finding the real killer/s of three murdered children.
Just another slippery lying lawyer-cum politician.

The guilty were tried and sentenced. It's a trippy feeling that any walk free.
3 raped, sodomized little boys. One accused pleads guilty. It's forgotten because one has a low IQ.

What happened to the Miranda Laws?

Why won't the Supreme Court Look at this? It's too stupid.

I still want a restraining order against them all.

Why would a person say they were too ignorant to say a lie, because they told the truth.

I'm probably going to be kicked off and banned for this. But IT will never cease to make me nuts.

Those frucking .... Trucks. Where is Johnny Depp? I need Help.



I have a low IQ and I have been misjudged? Do I get any money or movie royalties ? I'm innocent. Do I have to kill Boy scouts to meet celebrities ? When is the film crew coming?

(My opinion)

:shock:

Byrnzie

STAYSEA wrote:

The guilty were tried and sentenced. It's a trippy feeling that any walk free.
3 raped, sodomized little boys. One accused pleads guilty. It's forgotten because one has a low IQ.

What happened to the Miranda Laws?

Why won't the Supreme Court Look at this? It's too stupid.

I still want a restraining order against them all.

Why would a person say they were too ignorant to say a lie, because they told the truth.

You don't know what you're talking about.

STAYSEA

The Life of Birds ~ David Attenborough

This is the type of documentaries I enjoy



This is one of my favorites.

Byrnzie

London: The Modern Babylon



Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjHnWyJhkzo

Watched this today. It's very good. Not as back-slapping as the Olympics opening ceremony, and has some very cool footage and interviews with Londoners old and new.


From Peter Bradshaw's review in the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/aug ... lon-review
'Julien Temple has created a brilliant, exhaustive and exhausting clip-collage, a visually throbbing cine-quilt that basically proves the Sex Pistols got their most famous title wrong. It's Anarchy in London, not Anarchy in the UK. London is where the dense swirl of creativity, energy and violence is to be found. In comparison, the rest of the country is placid and dull. It's arguably a bit more subversive than Danny Boyle's masterly Olympic opener – though perhaps no less heartfelt.

The material is well-chosen; the juxtapositions are witty and bold, collapsing the distinction between the modern world and ye olden dayes. After a while, I went into a trance, immersing myself in this Lucy-in-the-Sky trip into the heart of London...

..Not surprisingly, though perhaps without consciously wanting to, Temple puts the spirit of punk at the centre of everything: pugnacious, bloody-minded, revolutionary and reactionary at the same time – and as English as a cup of Indian tea. The point seems to be that London was once the epicentre of empire, a trading nation whose instinct is to absorb influences while periodically, peevishly, attempting to prove national superiority. After the war, migrant incomers and former subject peoples came to London: Jews, Poles, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Russians. Tony Benn and Suggs from Madness are interviewed about their childhood experiences growing up in London and, interestingly, both tell us there is no point in sentimentality and nostalgia about a supposed golden age. "It's about whatever's on the go at any given moment," says Suggs.'