Good Documentaries

Evil_Bilbo

Anyone know any good documentaries?

I know they're few and far between, but its a good buzz watching something thats actually real sometimes.

Saw dogtown and z boys the other day - totally blew me away. Amazing it is.

Then of course, there's bowling for columbine.

Any others worth watching?

ixoy

Spellbound is highly recommended by moi. I'd also say The Fog of War, although it can be quite heavy.

remoteboy

Capturing The Friedmans - blew me away!
Bus 174 - haven't seen it but hear good things.

Loved The Fog Of War, also.

I know there's a couple more - it's a really good time for documentaries right now.:D

smiaras

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echomadman

Lost in La Mancha is good
Its a documentary about the aborted making of Terry Gillam's Don Quixote

herobear

big fan of documentaries here, but yeah im sad they dont get much publicity.
as well as the titles above, all very good!
also check out,
basque ball - eagerly awaiting seeing this, documentary by julio medem about the basque conflict in spain. came out today in the ifi, in fact.

films of ron mann - all excellent documentaries such as grass, comic book confidential, go further etc.....

CyberGhost

The First Kill is pretty good

The Real B-man

bowling for columbine about amercian gun nuts brill

nadir

yes, but not very accurate apparently. Moore is taking some stick over it I believe. Lost in La Mancha is excellent alright, ive heard rumours that the film may actually be made, but Im not sure about that. Z Boys - yea great, also if you like that check out DJ quiberts wave twisters.

Personally I loved "anthem to beauty" , history of the greatful dead, damn, Im sure there are loads others, they just slip by me at the moment, but its true, documentaries are excellent, and deserve more publicity.

I must say some DVD's have excelent extras, if you are lucky to pick up like, a special ediation or such, for example one of my fav. movies is Conan the Barbarian, I got a collectors dvd here, it has loads of unseen scenes, interviews, scripts, and a full talk over by John Millius and Arnie, great stuff. Unfortunately most DVD's exras is just thrash, but read up on the reviews online, you may be surprised on finding some excellent documentaries on your fav films, - bands.

IDM

Big fan of Spellbound & Capturing The Friendmans, here !

But I saw "Death In Gaza" about a month back. It blew me away. One of the most shocking documentaries. Really hope it changes the way the average American treats Israel !

mycroft

No one is sticking up for the home team.

Ireland makes awful films but great documentaries.

The state we're in Alan Gilesnan's essay on ireland in the 80s was accurate profound and very funny.

The amazing and brilliant "the revoultion will be televised" were two Irish filmakers were in the presidental compound in Venzuela when the coup to overthrough Chavez took place.

Theres a feature length doc on Ulysses tonight on RTE1. 6 Irish filmakers directing 3 short films each a mediation on the theme of the 18 episodes of Ulysses.....

Finally not Irish but amazing, One day in Sept about the Munich Olympics terrorist attack, and "Hoop dreams" one of the most effective and moving films ever made.

whosurpaddy

dunno whether it would qualify as a documentary but band of brothers is well worth a look.

kano476

the series on man made wonders of the world was pretty amazing.

the one they had a while ago about d - day on net2 excellent.

i saw one once about how to have sex with a pregnant woman, it was like preganant woman porn. wierd but strangely enthralling

blobert

Thanks for the suggestions, I must give the ones I have yet too see a look.

BlitzKrieg

if you want a documantry on film itself i cant go any further then EASY RIDER RAGING BULLS an amazing documantry on the rise of todays great directors and the fall of the studio system...very good and adds a much more personal element to those classic films...

sweet-sue

I would reccommend Spellbound and Etre et Avoir (esp, it's pretty amazing if a bit on the heartfelt side).