[pathoma]

The Power of Nightmares is a must see.

The Century of the Self is another good one. Link has already been posted.

How TV Ruined Your life is a good series by Charlie Brooker.

And probably the craziest doc I've ever seen is The Act of Killing.

If you're in the mood for a documentary that is less on information and more of an entertaining story:

The King of Kong
Bobby Fischer Against the World
ESPN 30 for 30: Once Brothers

[LeBeau]

Fires of Kuwait (1992 - IMAX)

[Sourcecode]

Watched this documentary cause it was short end and visual.

Damn those are some brave dudes doing that work. I wonder what the pay was like.

[gza89]

Bus 174,

About a bus hyjacking in Rio de janerio. thats the best documentary film I have ever seen


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mQ2b-PE7Iw

Bus 174 (Portuguese: Ônibus 174) is a Brazilian documentary film released on October 22, 2002. It is the debut film of director José Padilha and co-director Felipe Lacerda. Sandro do Nascimento, a young man from a poor background, bungled a robbery and ended up holding the passengers on a bus hostage for four hours. The event was caught live on television. The movie examines the incident and what life is like in the slums and favelas of Rio de Janeiro and how the criminal justice system in Brazil treats the lower classes. Within the film, Padilha interviews former and current street children, members of the Rio police force, the highly regarded Rio BOPE police team, family members, and sociologists in order to gain insight into what led Nascimento to carry out the hijacking.

[Monty_Brogan]

Surprised I haven't seen Fog of War mentioned yet.

Quote:

Robert S. McNamara was both witness to and participant in many of the crucial events of the 20th century: the crippling Depression of the 1930s; the industrialization of the war years; the development of a different kind of warfare based on air power and the creation of a new American meritocracy. He was also an idealist who saw his dreams and ideals challenged by the role he played in history

It's basically a bean counters version of war and McNamara's lessons he learned during his time as Sec Def. Like him or hate him, it's truly the most interesting documentary I have ever seen.

The entire documentary used to be on Youtube, but I'm sure it's easy to find. Here's a short clip:

[Daesh Global]

Documentary on Netflix "DMT"

[Entity]

The Soviet Story

[Rossi]

(12-08-2015 04:35 PM)UlteriorMotive Wrote:  

I spend a bit of time watching documentaries.

As of lately the one to stand out was;

"Winter on Fire"

Biased but incredibly eye-opening and emotional documentary on the recent Ukrainian revolution.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4908644/

Amazing documentary. Just watched it on Netflix.

[911]

(03-26-2017 07:48 PM)Rossi Wrote:  

(12-08-2015 04:35 PM)UlteriorMotive Wrote:  

I spend a bit of time watching documentaries.

As of lately the one to stand out was;

"Winter on Fire"

Biased but incredibly eye-opening and emotional documentary on the recent Ukrainian revolution.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4908644/

Amazing documentary. Just watched it on Netflix.

One of Soros' best works!

The revolution will not be televised, but the color revolution will be packaged in a nice eyewatering documentary...

[TooFineAPoint]

Salesman by the Maysles Brothers
- about door to door bible salesmen, and one man going through a cold streak in particular

[Vill@in]

Fed Up.

Good explanation on how the American food industry is making people sick and fat.

Sugar is poison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fed_Up_(film)

[TigerMandingo]

The War You Don't See - John Pilger's documentary about how the MSM operates and serves as a mouthpiece for govt/corporate propaganda.

[Kid Twist]

(04-04-2017 11:54 PM)TigerMandingo Wrote:  

The War You Don't See - John Pilger's documentary about how the MSM operates and serves as a mouthpiece for govt/corporate propaganda.

This sounds interesting

[fokker]

Genghis Blues (1999), a documentary about a blind blues singer from Boston, Paul Pena, who became interested in Tuvan throat singing in the 1980s and taught himself Tuvan and Russian, eventually going to Tuva himself in 1995 to participate in a throat singing contest. He was the first westerner to participate in the contest.

[Killarmy]

From my IMDB list, the 5 documentaries I have noted with a 10/10 :

Inside Job (2010 Documentary)
Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown. (105 mins.)

Sugar Man (2012 Documentary)
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez. (86 mins.)

Next Goal Wins (2014 Documentary)
The power of hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, and an object lesson in what it really means to be a winner in life. (97 mins.)

The Game of Their Lives (2002 Documentary)
A BBC documentary producer is given unprecedented access in North Korea to chronicle the story of the... (80 mins.)

The Bridge (2006 Documentary)
People suffer largely unnoticed while the rest of the world goes about its business. This is a documentary... (94 mins.)

[Chris Brown]

Anything by Ross Kemp.

[Kurgan]

Both Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead documentaries. It does mention the benefits of fasting.

I've been thinking about doing water fasting for a week for some time. I've done it a few times before and it's helped my body and refreshes it from not eating.

[Naughty By Nature]

Tickled

Absolutely phenomenal.

[MX90]

Most of the good ones have already been mentioned, ones that stick out:

Dear Zachary
Smartest Guys in the Room

I'll add a few more:

Brother's Keeper
The Fear of 13
Blackfish
Undefeated

[QuietDog]

[Sherman]

Ken Burns 10 part documentary on the Vietnam War.

http://www.pbs.org/show/vietnam-war/

[911]

Burns is a blue pill propagandist. How bad is his propaganda? his 20 hour documentary on Vietnam doesn't even acknowledge that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a false flag event.

John Pilger on Burns' Vietnam:

Quote:

I watched the first episode in New York. It leaves you in no doubt of its intentions right from the start. The narrator says the war “was begun in good faith by decent people out of fateful misunderstandings, American overconfidence and Cold War misunderstandings”.

The dishonesty of this statement is not surprising. The cynical fabrication of “false flags” that led to the invasion of Vietnam is a matter of record – the Gulf of Tonkin “incident” in 1964, which Burns promotes as true, was just one. The lies litter a multitude of official documents, notably the Pentagon Papers, which the great whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg released in 1971.

There was no good faith. The faith was rotten and cancerous. For me – as it must be for many Americans — it is difficult to watch the film’s jumble of “red peril” maps, unexplained interviewees, ineptly cut archive and
maudlin American battlefield sequences.

Quote:

I thought about the “decency” and “good faith” when recalling my own first experiences as a young reporter in Vietnam: watching hypnotically as the skin fell off Napalmed peasant children like old parchment, and the ladders of bombs that left trees petrified and festooned with human flesh. General William Westmoreland, the American commander, referred to people as “termites”.

In the early 1970s, I went to Quang Ngai province, where in the village of My Lai, between 347 and 500 men, women and infants were murdered by American troops (Burns prefers “killings”). At the time, this was presented as an aberration: an “American tragedy” (Newsweek ). In this one province, it was estimated that 50,000 people had been slaughtered during the era of American “free fire zones”. Mass homicide. This was not news.

To the north, in Quang Tri province, more bombs were dropped than in all of Germany during the Second World War. Since 1975, unexploded ordnance has caused more than 40,000 deaths in mostly “South Vietnam”, the country America claimed to “save” and, with France, conceived as a singularly imperial ruse.

http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/09/22/ki...hn-pilger/

[nomadbrah]

(04-16-2017 12:44 PM)Chris Brown Wrote:  

Anything by Ross Kemp.

Theroux > Kemp.

Kemp always ends his shows with a socialist lecture on "more money pls".

[PuppetMaster]

(09-23-2017 02:19 AM)Sherman Wrote:  

Ken Burns 10 part documentary on the Vietnam War.

http://www.pbs.org/show/vietnam-war/

I can co sign this. All of Ken Burns is worth watching.

[rotekz]

Civilisation - A Personal View by Lord Clark

The original mega budget BBC documentary from 1966 is by far the greatest I have seen. It will probably never be bettered.

Quote:

In 1966 BBC Television embarked on its most ambitious documentary series to date. The eminent art historian Lord Clark was commissioned to write and present an epic examination of Western European culture, defining what he considered to be the crucial phases of its development. Civilisation: A Personal View by Lord Clark would be more than two years in the making, with filming in over 100 locations across 13 countries. The lavish series was hailed as a masterpiece when it was first transmitted in 1969. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the Industrial Revolution and beyond, Clark’s compelling narrative is accompanied by breathtaking colour photography of Europe’s greatest landmarks. This ‘history of ideas as illustrated by art and music’ remains the benchmark for the numerous programmes it inspired.