Favourite Documentary/Documentaries??

Heisenberg

Watched this the other night. Really interesting if you are a film dork like me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iwG76tnWgg

SatansFuton

Gimme Shelter

ShimmyMommy

Wasteland: Awesome...just awesome...
Darwin's Nightmare: not my favourite...poor filming...but covers the most important things...
Tapped: Water bottles and ground water issue in the states...very informative...
Ingredients: Wanted me to get out and make my own garden!! AWESOME...although there are some who are snarky in it....

RKCNDY

Anybody see this?

http://current.com/shows/fifty-documentaries/

I'm watching it, but Mr RK isn't really into docs, so I watch them when he's not home.

BinauralJam

Byrnzie wrote:

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




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.'

This was Depressing, Good but depressing, felt bad for the girl.

faceintheclouds

the wonderfull whites. is a done by johnny knoxville and dickhouse productions. its about americas last outlaw family. pill popping drug deaaling alcholic murders. it was fantastic.

Byrnzie

ShimmyMommy wrote:

Wasteland: Awesome...just awesome...

Thanks for the recommendation. I've down^&#*%ed it and will watch it tonight.

Byrnzie

BinauralJam wrote:

Byrnzie wrote:

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




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.'

This was Depressing, Good but depressing, felt bad for the girl.

Also, there's a lot more to China than this doc may lead people to believe. Too many docs about China focus on the negative.

Byrnzie

RKCNDY wrote:

Anybody see this?

http://current.com/shows/fifty-documentaries/

I'm watching it, but Mr RK isn't really into docs, so I watch them when he's not home.

Cheers. A few there that I'm gonna check out.

Heisenberg

Watched This last night. Outstanding look at perhaps the best hip hop group of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0im47C0r_E

ShimmyMommy

Heisenberg wrote:

Watched This last night. Outstanding look at perhaps the best hip hop group of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0im47C0r_E

I want to see this!!!!!! Did you rent it or is it in theatres? I haven't yet seen a trailer that says when it came out. :?

Heisenberg

ShimmyMommy wrote:

Heisenberg wrote:

Watched This last night. Outstanding look at perhaps the best hip hop group of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0im47C0r_E

I want to see this!!!!!! Did you rent it or is it in theatres? I haven't yet seen a trailer that says when it came out. :?

It just came out on DVD. Of all the music documentaries that have come out in the last couple of years, I would put this one as my 2nd favorite behind a film Cameron Crowe did about some band I had previously never heard of

ShimmyMommy

ShimmyMommy wrote:

Heisenberg wrote:

Watched This last night. Outstanding look at perhaps the best hip hop group of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0im47C0r_E

I want to see this!!!!!! Did you rent it or is it in theatres? I haven't yet seen a trailer that says when it came out. :?

Heisenberg wrote:

It just came out on DVD. Of all the music documentaries that have come out in the last couple of years, I would put this one as my 2nd favorite behind a film Cameron Crowe did about some band I had previously never heard of

Thank you! I will be renting it tonight!

Dru_Cortez

The Cove;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KRD8e20fBo&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
Cheers.

Byrnzie

Watched Warner Herzog's 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' last week. Highly recommended.

Byrnzie

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Byrnzie

I watched 'The Interrupters' on a plane yesterday. A bit of a grim documentary about people who try to prevent gang shootings in the Inglewood area of Chicago, but worth a watch. Some of those areas look like they're just overwhelmed by violence. There are some seriously fucked-up places in America.

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Byrnzie wrote:

I watched 'The Interrupters' on a plane yesterday. A bit of a grim documentary about people who try to prevent gang shootings in the Inglewood area of Chicago, but worth a watch. Some of those areas look like they're just overwhelmed by violence. There are some seriously fucked-up places in America.

I really want to see this! The previews look great. I didn't know it was already showing on planes.

Another good doc is one I saw on PBS a few years ago: Life Matters. It's the story of a minister-turned-abortion-provider in rural Texas before Roe v Wade.

ComeToTX

ItIsEvolutionBaby wrote:

The King of Kong

so good.

american movie is one of my faves as well. food inc. too.

acoustic guy

ComeToTX wrote:

ItIsEvolutionBaby wrote:

The King of Kong

so good.

american movie is one of my faves as well. food inc. too.

If ya like this you need to see Chasing Ghosts. Its the one before Kong. Very hard to find but if u see it watch it. I like it better.