The Documentary Lovers Thread! <3

[LisbethNova]

I have always been a big fan of documentaries. Just recently I watched one called Black Fish, which was about the whales used in Marine land and Sea world. It was actually quite shocking. I had no idea how many whale trainers have been attacked in such performances... and it shows how inconsiderate the parks were about whale behavior.
I also have watched a number of documentaries on sex work and trafficking. Most are so cliché and do not give a well rounded view of the hobby. Very over generalized. The best one I have seen was produced by a former sex worker. It's called - American Courtesan.
Both of these documentaries can be found on Netflicks. Anyone else have any good recommendations???

 

[Conway_Stewart]

Thin Blue Line- Tells the story of a man wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in Texas. The film itself actually led to the man's conviction being overturned.

 

[Buick Mackane]

Just saw "The Wrecking Crew", highly recommended if you enjoy music of the early sixties.

 

[frankcastle]

Life itself. ......great doc about roger eibert he had an interesting lifr.

Burts buzz....... the Burt of burts bees is an eccentric man who became the face of those products.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

A must see doc on the Vatican

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/secrets-of-the-vatican/

 

[escapefromstress]

Anything narrated by David Attenborough, and Dick Proenneke's Alone in the Wilderness.

 

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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

This is the best documentary I have ever seen. Very inspirational, mind opening and leads towards the truth.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Spacetime_Odyssey

 

[anon1]

Dick Proenneke's Alone in the Wilderness.

+1, saw that about 5 times.

 

[Yoga Face]

Netflix has great science docs

Anything with Professor Tyson (Cosmos)

Google BING then type in docs

 

[Buick Mackane]

"King Corn" really made me think of how well fed people are now starved for nutrition.

A well intentioned US policy was enacted in the '70s to create more and cheaper food by heavily subsidizing farmers to grow corn, not your everyday corn but a mutated inedible corn.
It's now in everything from steaks to chicken breasts to condiments to desserts to tomato sauce to pop to frozen entrees - basically everything. Almost everything is ultimately derived from corn, either in the form of high fructose corn syrup or from corn-based animal feed.

Both corn-fed beef and high-fructose corn syrup are the main reasons for the obesity and diabetes epidemic, it's difficult to avoid unless you get off the grocery store grid.

 

[maniac1911]

I also enjoy documentaries a few that I liked off Netflix

Inequality for All: Dichotomy of Rich and Poor in America
Inside Job: Financial Crisis
Secret State of North Korea: Inside look into North Korea
Dirty Wars: US Clandestine Wars
Buying Sex: A look into sex work in the world

 

[DELETDrileydaniels]

Catifsh documentary and Tv series.

Orgasm inc

Cam Girlz

UnHung Hero

I am stripper documentary series - Their next one on webcam models I am interviewed in it

Born into Brothels - made me cry

Whores Glory

*Buying sex filmed a lot of people without their consent.

CBC Doc Zone has a lot of documentaries almost every week

PAssionate Eye and Nature of Things.

I am kinda of a Documentary Junkie.

 

[SkyRider]

India's Daughter (on CBC)- This one actually brought a tear to my eyes

Rock Hudson (on TVO)- before being gay was fashionable

 

[D-Fens]

Here are some of my favorite documentaries:

-Overnight: Tells the story of Troy Duffy a bar tender turned movie director he is the director of Boondock Saints. It's basically tells the making of the movie and the problems that Troy Duffy ran into, pretty much all of which were his own doing because he was so arrogant and had an inability to work with people. It gives a good insight of how the movie business works.

-Heart of Darkness a Film Maker's apocalypse: Similar to Overnight but much darker talks about the hell that Francais Ford Coppola went through when making Apocalypse Now and how it nearly destroyed his life and career.

-Black Power Mixtape: a great documentary which examines the black power movement in America during the 1960s and 1970s

-Welcome to Death Row: Probably my favorite documentary, it explores the rise and fall of the rap record label Death row records. It talks about the various rap artists, snopp dogg, dr dre, tupac etc. it talks about the corruption within the record company, the politics of the music industry, and death row's links to the drug trade, and the criminal underworld. It gives great insight on the hip hop industry as a whole including the and the very dark ugly side of it. I'm not even a big rap or hip hop fan and I absolutely loved this documentary and have watched it over and over again.

 

[GPIDEAL]

I've attended the Hot Doc festival and always choose one documentary film at the TIFF.

Some of my favourite ones were:

Virtual JFK (www.virtualjfk.com)

The Fog of War

JFKII (at the Bloor Street Cinema; many tin foil hats there ha ha)

Two about pedophile Catholic priests (one was by that director, what's his name - Alex Gibney, shoot, he made the doc about that N.Y. AG who got caught with that high-priced escort - ok, about Eliot Spitzer).

Also, many good ones mentioned above as well as some that I'm curious to see now.

 

[GPIDEAL]

+1, saw that about 5 times.

What's it about? (I guess I should check the link).

 

[GPIDEAL]

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

This is the best documentary I have ever seen. Very inspirational, mind opening and leads towards the truth.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Spacetime_Odyssey

They interviewed him on 60 Minutes recently. Did you see that?

 

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They interviewed him on 60 Minutes recently. Did you see that?

What an inspirational individual..."Science is true whether or not you beleive in it..."

This is my fave part of the Cosmos, he presents the becon to the truth.

"According to Tyson, is how science operates. He said:

Only a few centuries ago, a mere second in cosmic time, we knew nothing of where or when we were. Oblivious to the rest of the cosmos, we inhabited a kind of prison, a tiny universe bounded by a nutshell.**

How did we escape from the prison? It was the work of generations of searchers who took five simple rules to heart.

(1) Question authority. No idea is true just because someone says so, including me.**

(2) Think for yourself. Question yourself. Don't believe anything just because you want to. Believing something doesn't make it so.**

(3) Test ideas by the evidence gained from observation and experiment. If a favorite idea fails a well-designed test, it's wrong. Get over it.**

(4) Follow the evidence wherever it leads. If you have no evidence, reserve judgment.**

And perhaps the most important rule of all...

(5) Remember: you could be wrong. Even the best scientists have been wrong about some things. Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history -- they all made mistakes. Of course they did. They were human.**

Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves, and each other.

"

 

[Maika Wren]

I loved American Courtesan! It was great that it was formatted as discussions between SP's - it felt like they shared more than they would have otherwise, with someone who wouldn't really know how to relate to them.

I liked Modify, it was a quick and interesting look into some of the more extreme forms of body modifications.

As for Netflix recs - you really can't go wrong with Ted Talks. They're always pretty interesting, and they've narrowed them down a bit more by subject now.

 

[shepP]

Exit through the gift shop
Grizzly Man
Man on a Wire
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Room 237
Cocaine Cowboys
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Dogtown and Z-Boys