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15 Jul 12
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Having watched quite a few of these in the past month or so I was wondering if the folks on here had any recommendations.
Grizzly Man - is a great look into the life of Timothy Treadwell as he lives with, and films, Grizzly bears in Alaska, eventually being killed by one.
Grizzly Man - is a great look into the life of Timothy Treadwell as he lives with, and films, Grizzly bears in Alaska, eventually being killed by one.
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'Man on Wire'
'Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room' 'Taxi to the Dark Side' |
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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runnin%27_Down_a_Dream_%28film%29 |
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yellowstone , if you like your wildlife, series of 3 were shown on bbc couple of years ago.
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Rory Stewart - Afghanistan:The Great Game.Best thing I've seen on tv for a long while.
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yellowstone , if you like your wildlife, series of 3 were shown on bbc couple of years ago.
Saw that one mm.Great shows and well worth viewing for anyone who has not seen them. |
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I'm worried that CC has had too much influence on me. Got in last night, switched the TV on and it was Tom Petty on TOTP2. I thought to myself - I wonder if Nilsson Schmilsson is watching this?
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You should try and see Restrepo which is also about the Afghanistan War as well. Very revealing indeed. |
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That one with that Geordie bloke with the debilitating skin disease, he died at the end of it, was heartbreaking to see the struggles he and his mother put up with.
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It possibly had some trashy attention seeking title like the boy who had no skin.
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"All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace." Epic, strange, compelling, full of insight.
The BBC4 doc. about the decline of Detroit and its car industry. The Olympic docs. on BBC2 last week, especially the progs. about the milers and gymnasts - Herb Elliott, Kip Keino, Peter Snell, Seb Coe, El Guerrouj...Vera Caslavska, Olga Korbut, Nadia Comaneci...the Japanese lad who vaulted with the busted knee to get a 9.5 and a medal for the team...Comaneci describing her slow motion experience and the gyroscope inside her head...she was able to made tiny adjustments in the middle of acrobatics, at great speed... |
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Those olympic ones were great Velasquez.
Channel 4 did one a few years ago on Ali and Joe Frazier that was very good. |
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The olympic ones were excellent indeed but I do prefer sporting documentaries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGKJfst9kL8&feature=relmfu The Fabulous 4. For anyone who loves their boxing. Oh to see their like again. |
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I've watched that four times, Mr. E - brilliant. It's even better than "When We Were Kings" which won an Oscar...there is another brilliant Ali doc. by a guy called William Klein - it lasts for about two hours and was made at the time of the Liston fights.
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Cosmos - Carl Sagan.
Every school child should be forced to watch this, 30 years old and still relevant. |
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I used to love the ones in the Storyville series.
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The Secret History of Our Streets has been fascinating.
I loved the last one in the series about Arnold Circus. I missed the first one, I must see if it's still on iplayer. |
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I used to love the ones in the Storyville series.
Best ongoing documentary strand on TV in a canter. The aforementioned When We Were Kings was very good. I'll add two more... Etre et Avoir - a year in the life of a single class primary school in a tiny village in the Massif Central in France. The Power of Nightmares - Documentary by Adam Curtis about the way in which governments use propaganda. The links below are two of his shorts (about 4 and 7 mins respectively) from Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9FaIyc4vpU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW3XeT7qavo |
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The Storyville one with the Gippo fighters is very good.
I've not seen it, but The King of Kong is meant to be very good. About someone trying to break a video games high score in the 80's. |
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Sex: The Annabel Chong Story. It's actually a very interesting documentary despite the obvious subject matter.
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I'd second that Slippy. Makes for quite uncomfortable viewing.
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Keep them coming folks.
Here's a link to a site which shows them online. http://topdocumentaryfilms.com Must track down the ones mentioned to date. |
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Is that the bird who got gang raped in a London tower block?
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QED: Foolish Wise Ones (1987). I have it one VHS somewhere. Astonishing. I could never watch it without tears. Documented the talents of three young idiot savants.
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The man who cycled the Americas
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BBC 4 now.
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Watch this ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkY6pgrOOOg&feature=related
Salesman It's stunning. Death of a Salesman and Glengarry Glen Ross made real. |
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gippo fighters on bbc4 now
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Dear Zachary: A letter to a son about his father. - Heartbreaking story, and a very well made documentary.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/dear-zachary-a-letter-to-a-son-about-his-father/ Solo: Lost at Sea - Story of Andrew McAuley who tried to Kayak from Australia to New Zealand. http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/solo-lost-at-sea/ |
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And for the grief mongers among you, a fascinating Japanese documentary about the Aokigahara Forest, one of the most popular suicide sites in Japan.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/suicide-forest-in-japan/ |
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I think I'll give that one a swerve Dan.
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Forgot this gem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_AZZGqNN6Y The Death of Yugoslavia. I visited the country close to the war and just after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Makes for chilling viewing. It's one of the only full length Youtube films I've even watched. Youtube video's are for short attention spans but I watched this in full twice, really great info on the region. |
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Think it was The Boy Who's Skin Fell Off. Nice.
Trouble The Water about hurricane Katrina is excellent. |
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I would recommend anything made by adam curtis, intelligent, articulate documentaries dealing with complex ideas but still totally accessible
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one from the 80s about a load of city traders who go off for a fishing trip off the scottish coast, their excesses seemed shocking at the time, by today's standards they seem quaint - can't remember what series it was in, but they revisted it several years later and all the participants seemed quite embarrassed by it
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The one where they start shooting seagulls?
'Forty Minutes' The Fishing Party |
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One that fascinated me recently was about the history of Bridges spanning the Thames.Yes I know...I'm easily pleased.
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I stumbled across this Russian prison system documentary on youtube a few weeks ago and it's well worth a watch imo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9JDJdaMs-Y |