An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
I have seen a good few docs on this subject and i found this one fascinating...
Good few torrents out there that can be downloaded...
Saw quiet a few global warming ones also lately which were very informative.
The name of them escape me but one on greenland glacier was excellent.
Just caught this movie. Wow. Pretty powerful. Definately as good as the hype. Pretty disturbing.
Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers and Tides
Maya Lin a Strong Clear Vision
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
I watched this about a month ago on your recommendation. It's very good. And I really didn't envisage the kid being killed by that woman. It's definitely a pretty intense doc. You have to give 100% respect to the parents for coping so well with it all.
The Ken Burns documentary "National Parks: America's Best Idea" starts tonight on PBS and all six parts air throughout the week. I could watch a documentary about the evolution of mushrooms if Ken Burns directed it. I really look forward to this one.
"Another State of Mind" is definately worth checking out. It's a tour documentary on Social Distortion when they were first starting out, they were all around 18 years old and basically just starting out. Seeing them get paid in rolls of pennies, hanging in a crappy bus, just basically dealing with an awful tour, etc. Really good tour documentary when a band starts out and aren't exactly "rock stars".
"The decline of the western civilization part 2" someone mentioned this too, and I completely agree. Hilarious movie. It's basically on the 80s Metal scene. Hard to describe but a great documentary. I don't think this ever made it to DVD but it should. I think there were 3 of them, part 1 hardcore punk, part 2 metal and part 3 gutter punk. That's off the top of my head though. The metal was the funniest. Directed by Penelope Spheeris who directed Wayne's World, Suburbia (the punk one, not the crappy one with the convenience store), Black Sheep, etc.
Hearts of Darkness - I've always thought it was better than the movie itself; 'Apocalypse Now'.
I don't know if I necessarily like it better since the films are 2 different genres but seeing Hearts of Darkness really added some texture to Apocalypse Now.
I'll be honest I didn't like Apocalypse Now (I'm not into war movies)... would Hearts of Darkness still have appeal in your opinion to someone who didn't like Apocalypse Now?
Hearts of Darkness - I've always thought it was better than the movie itself; 'Apocalypse Now'.
I don't know if I necessarily like it better since the films are 2 different genres but seeing Hearts of Darkness really added some texture to Apocalypse Now.
I'll be honest I didn't like Apocalypse Now (I'm not into war movies)... would Hearts of Darkness still have appeal in your opinion to someone who didn't like Apocalypse Now?
Yeah, I think so. It's more about the movie making process and the eccentrics behind the camera. I recommend it.
Hearts of Darkness
I don't know if I necessarily like it better since the films are 2 different genres but seeing Hearts of Darkness really added some texture to Apocalypse Now.
I'll be honest I didn't like Apocalypse Now (I'm not into war movies)... would Hearts of Darkness still have appeal in your opinion to someone who didn't like Apocalypse Now?
Yeah, I think so. It's more about the movie making process and the eccentrics behind the camera. I recommend it.
Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World. Absolutely beautiful - way moreso than March of the Penguins. And there's the usual Herzog-ian oddness/perspective.
Has anyone seen "New World Order"? I just logged into Netflix and it was my first recommendation. Looks like it would be an interesting pick. Here's the blurb:
Follow the exploits of passionate conspiracy theorists as they attempt to draw the public's attention to the New World Order, a powerful but extremely secretive group the theorists believe rules the world and staged the 9/11 attacks. Co-directed by Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel, this documentary focuses special attention on celebrity radio host Alex Jones and his tireless efforts to expose the truth.
Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World. Absolutely beautiful - way moreso than March of the Penguins. And there's the usual Herzog-ian oddness/perspective.
I saw this recently. It's pretty good. Not as good as 'Grizzly Man', or 'My Best Fiend' though.
'The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers is a 2009 documentary film directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith. The film follows Daniel Ellsberg and explores the events leading up to the publication of the Pentagon Papers, which exposed the top-secret military history of the United States involvement in Vietnam.'
'The Buddhist concept of reincarnation, while both mysterious and enchanting, is hard for most westerners to grasp. UNMISTAKEN CHILD follows the four-year search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchog, a world-renowned Tibetan master who passed away in 2001 at age 84. The Dalai Lama charges the deceased monk’s devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa (who had been in his service since the age of seven), to search for his master’s reincarnation.
Tenzin sets off on this unforgettable quest on foot, mule and even helicopter, through breathtaking landscapes and remote traditional Tibetan villages. Along the way, Tenzin listens to stories about young children with special characteristics, and performs rarely seen ritualistic tests designed to determine the likelihood of reincarnation. He eventually presents the child he believes to be his reincarnated master to the Dalai Lama so that he can make the final decision.
Stunningly shot, UNMISTAKEN CHILD is a beguiling, surprising, touching, even humorous experience.'
“Filmmaker Lixin Fan may very well be one of modern-day China’s great non-fiction storytellers…. LAST TRAIN HOME is a documentary masterpiece!” —Brian Brooks, INDIEWIRE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Train_Home_%28film%29
'Last Train Home is a 2009 documentary film directed by Lixin Fan and produced by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin of EyeSteelFilm. Last Train Home won the Best Documentary Feature at 2009 IDFA and will be distributed by Zeitgeist Films in the US territory.
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers travel back to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration, an epic spectacle that exposes a nation tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future.
Working over several years in classic cinéma vérité style, director Lixin Fan travelled with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades. Like many of China's rural poor, the Zhangs have left their Chinese village and their newborn daughter to find work in Guangzhou in a garment factory for 16 years and see her only once a year during the Spring Festival. Their daughter Qin, now a restless and rebellious teenager- bitterly resents her parents' absence and longs for her own freedom away from school and her rural hometown, much to the dismay of her parents. Emotionally charged and starkly beautiful, Last Train Home examines one fractured family to shed light on the human cost of China's ascendence as an economic superpower.'
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Who Killed the Electric Car?
The Corporation
The Future of Food
Iron Jawed Angels - it's a movie but it's based on historical accounts of the Suffragette Movement. It's excellent!
180° South
Born Into Brothels
I can never remember the names of the documentaries I've watched. So some help is needed.
1. Inside North Korea
It was a doc showing the work of an eye surgeon removing cataracts from elderly North Koreans. It was horrifying how they had been brain washed. Their recovered sight wasn't due to the surgeon but their fuckwit leader the Great General Kim Jong Il.
2. Doc about Bejing Olympics
This was about the construction for the Olympics. It showed how numerous Chines people were just kicked out of their homes so new roads/stadia could be built. The compensation they received wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. The TV crew received a bit of rough treatment as well.
An un-missable look at one of the art world’s most fascinating controversies and a celebrated selection of the Toronto, New York and AFI Film Festivals, Don Argott’s gripping documentary THE ART OF THE STEAL chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, a private collection of art valued at more than $25 billion.
In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes formed a remarkable educational institution around his priceless collection of art, located just five miles outside of Philadelphia. Now, more than 50 years after Barnes’ death, a powerful group of moneyed interests have gone to court for control of the art, and intend to bring it to a new museum in Philadelphia. Standing in their way is a group of Barnes’ former students and his will, which contains strict instructions stating the Foundation should always be an educational institution, and that the paintings may never be removed. Will they succeed, or will a man’s will be broken and one of America’s greatest cultural monuments be destroyed?
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
An un-missable look at one of the art world’s most fascinating controversies and a celebrated selection of the Toronto, New York and AFI Film Festivals, Don Argott’s gripping documentary THE ART OF THE STEAL chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, a private collection of art valued at more than $25 billion.
In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes formed a remarkable educational institution around his priceless collection of art, located just five miles outside of Philadelphia. Now, more than 50 years after Barnes’ death, a powerful group of moneyed interests have gone to court for control of the art, and intend to bring it to a new museum in Philadelphia. Standing in their way is a group of Barnes’ former students and his will, which contains strict instructions stating the Foundation should always be an educational institution, and that the paintings may never be removed. Will they succeed, or will a man’s will be broken and one of America’s greatest cultural monuments be destroyed?
Capitalism: A love story - Moore's latest...quite disturbing in parts
Wonders of the Solar System - 6 part series on the planets and the similarities to parts of the earth
Rip! A Remix Manifesto - great doco on copyright law in the music industry
Apocalypse - 6 part BBC doco on WWII
The Genius of Charles Darwin - series on the theory of evolution presented by richard dawkins
Who Killed The Electric Car
Sicko
A Year and Half in the Life of Metallica
i know i was born and i know that i'll die
the inbetween is mine
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this has to be one of the most harrowing documentaries i have ever seen. i'd seen something similar when i was in high school, but this is just...just...
i know i was born and i know that i'll die
the inbetween is mine
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FEB 11, 13, 14 Sydney 2003
NOV 7, 8, 18, 2006 Sydney
NOV 20, 2009 Melbourne
NOV 22, 2009 Sydney
NOV 25, 2009 Brisbane
MAR 18 & 19 2012 Sydney EV Solo
JAN 26, 2014 Sydney
FEB 12 & 14 2014 Sydney EV Solo
this has to be one of the most harrowing documentaries i have ever seen. i'd seen something similar when i was in high school, but this is just...just...
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Cool. I'll give it a go.
Here's another good one I saw recently:
Tank Man
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4917691 ... _Man_(2006)
Just caught this movie. Wow. Pretty powerful. Definately as good as the hype. Pretty disturbing.
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Maya Lin a Strong Clear Vision
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Yes!
Don't know if anyone has mentioned them but;
Spellbound http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0334405/
Capturing the Freidmans http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342172/
Grizzly Man is a good one too.
http://www.strummersphotography.com
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I watched this about a month ago on your recommendation. It's very good. And I really didn't envisage the kid being killed by that woman. It's definitely a pretty intense doc. You have to give 100% respect to the parents for coping so well with it all.
"The decline of the western civilization part 2" someone mentioned this too, and I completely agree. Hilarious movie. It's basically on the 80s Metal scene. Hard to describe but a great documentary. I don't think this ever made it to DVD but it should. I think there were 3 of them, part 1 hardcore punk, part 2 metal and part 3 gutter punk. That's off the top of my head though. The metal was the funniest. Directed by Penelope Spheeris who directed Wayne's World, Suburbia (the punk one, not the crappy one with the convenience store), Black Sheep, etc.
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I'll be honest I didn't like Apocalypse Now (I'm not into war movies)... would Hearts of Darkness still have appeal in your opinion to someone who didn't like Apocalypse Now?
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Yeah, I think so. It's more about the movie making process and the eccentrics behind the camera. I recommend it.
Cool. I'll have to add it on netflix then.
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Follow the exploits of passionate conspiracy theorists as they attempt to draw the public's attention to the New World Order, a powerful but extremely secretive group the theorists believe rules the world and staged the 9/11 attacks. Co-directed by Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel, this documentary focuses special attention on celebrity radio host Alex Jones and his tireless efforts to expose the truth.
I saw this recently. It's pretty good. Not as good as 'Grizzly Man', or 'My Best Fiend' though.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2003/nov/21/history
1. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
http://www.mostdangerousman.org/
'The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers is a 2009 documentary film directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith. The film follows Daniel Ellsberg and explores the events leading up to the publication of the Pentagon Papers, which exposed the top-secret military history of the United States involvement in Vietnam.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0bIOMQIAKs
2. Unmistaken Child
http://www.unmistakenchild.com/
'The Buddhist concept of reincarnation, while both mysterious and enchanting, is hard for most westerners to grasp. UNMISTAKEN CHILD follows the four-year search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchog, a world-renowned Tibetan master who passed away in 2001 at age 84. The Dalai Lama charges the deceased monk’s devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa (who had been in his service since the age of seven), to search for his master’s reincarnation.
Tenzin sets off on this unforgettable quest on foot, mule and even helicopter, through breathtaking landscapes and remote traditional Tibetan villages. Along the way, Tenzin listens to stories about young children with special characteristics, and performs rarely seen ritualistic tests designed to determine the likelihood of reincarnation. He eventually presents the child he believes to be his reincarnated master to the Dalai Lama so that he can make the final decision.
Stunningly shot, UNMISTAKEN CHILD is a beguiling, surprising, touching, even humorous experience.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiBe1h2Qleg
Last Train Home
“Filmmaker Lixin Fan may very well be one of modern-day China’s great non-fiction storytellers…. LAST TRAIN HOME is a documentary masterpiece!” —Brian Brooks, INDIEWIRE
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STPJiR1eu_I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Train_Home_%28film%29
'Last Train Home is a 2009 documentary film directed by Lixin Fan and produced by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin of EyeSteelFilm. Last Train Home won the Best Documentary Feature at 2009 IDFA and will be distributed by Zeitgeist Films in the US territory.
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers travel back to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration, an epic spectacle that exposes a nation tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future.
Working over several years in classic cinéma vérité style, director Lixin Fan travelled with one couple who have embarked on this annual trek for almost two decades. Like many of China's rural poor, the Zhangs have left their Chinese village and their newborn daughter to find work in Guangzhou in a garment factory for 16 years and see her only once a year during the Spring Festival. Their daughter Qin, now a restless and rebellious teenager- bitterly resents her parents' absence and longs for her own freedom away from school and her rural hometown, much to the dismay of her parents. Emotionally charged and starkly beautiful, Last Train Home examines one fractured family to shed light on the human cost of China's ascendence as an economic superpower.'
Who Killed the Electric Car?
The Corporation
The Future of Food
Iron Jawed Angels - it's a movie but it's based on historical accounts of the Suffragette Movement. It's excellent!
180° South
Born Into Brothels
American Hollow
1. Inside North Korea
It was a doc showing the work of an eye surgeon removing cataracts from elderly North Koreans. It was horrifying how they had been brain washed. Their recovered sight wasn't due to the surgeon but their fuckwit leader the Great General Kim Jong Il.
2. Doc about Bejing Olympics
This was about the construction for the Olympics. It showed how numerous Chines people were just kicked out of their homes so new roads/stadia could be built. The compensation they received wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. The TV crew received a bit of rough treatment as well.
A good one to check out about reducing your carbon footprint
An un-missable look at one of the art world’s most fascinating controversies and a celebrated selection of the Toronto, New York and AFI Film Festivals, Don Argott’s gripping documentary THE ART OF THE STEAL chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, a private collection of art valued at more than $25 billion.
In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes formed a remarkable educational institution around his priceless collection of art, located just five miles outside of Philadelphia. Now, more than 50 years after Barnes’ death, a powerful group of moneyed interests have gone to court for control of the art, and intend to bring it to a new museum in Philadelphia. Standing in their way is a group of Barnes’ former students and his will, which contains strict instructions stating the Foundation should always be an educational institution, and that the paintings may never be removed. Will they succeed, or will a man’s will be broken and one of America’s greatest cultural monuments be destroyed?
This was Good, more proof, Rich people SUCK!!!
Food Inc....trailer.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eKYyD14d_0
Earthlings...trailer...http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=55942446934
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Song Sung Blue http://www.songsungblue.com/index.php
Crazy Love http://www.crazylovefilm.com/
Dig! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84oiQJ1N9To
Man On A Wire
Born Into Brothals
Anything Errol Morris does.
Agreed
Wonders of the Solar System - 6 part series on the planets and the similarities to parts of the earth
Rip! A Remix Manifesto - great doco on copyright law in the music industry
Apocalypse - 6 part BBC doco on WWII
The Genius of Charles Darwin - series on the theory of evolution presented by richard dawkins
Who Killed The Electric Car
Sicko
A Year and Half in the Life of Metallica
this has to be one of the most harrowing documentaries i have ever seen. i'd seen something similar when i was in high school, but this is just...just...
Good God , i could not watch this.