Favourite Documentary/Documentaries??

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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    DonJon wrote:
    Great thread!! Love my doco's

    Top link too Byrnzie - excellent site

    My vote goes for this....about selection and training for the New Zealand SAS
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufgkeYe8 ... re=related

    Cool. I'll give it a go.

    Here's another good one I saw recently:

    Tank Man
    http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4917691 ... _Man_(2006)

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  • NickyNooch
    NickyNooch Posts: 629
    IrishJam wrote:
    taxi to the dark side

    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.

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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers and Tides
    Maya Lin a Strong Clear Vision
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  • strummers
    strummers Posts: 2,611
    jimed14 wrote:
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    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.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    QuarterToTen wrote:
    Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

    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.
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    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.
  • NickyNooch
    NickyNooch Posts: 629
    edited October 2009
    "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.
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  • NickyNooch
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    whoprincess wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    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?

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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    NickyNooch wrote:
    whoprincess wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    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.
  • NickyNooch
    NickyNooch Posts: 629
    Byrnzie wrote:
    NickyNooch wrote:
    whoprincess wrote:
    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.

    Cool. I'll have to add it on netflix then.

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  • pretext
    pretext Posts: 1,294
    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.
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    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.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    The Life Aquatic.
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    Another great one I just thought of was "The Endurance", a doc about the 1914 expedition of the Antarctic by Sir Ernest Shackelton.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    pretext wrote:
    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.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I saw a good, quirky old documentary recently called 'The London Nobody Knows' presented by James Mason, showing the London underbelly of the 1960's.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2003/nov/21/history
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    I watched two of the best documentaries I've ever seen recently. I give them both 5 out of 5.

    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
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    This is a good one:

    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


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    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.'
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    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
  • QuarterToTen
    QuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,651
    American Movie
    American Hollow
    Nice shirt.

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