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docu recommendations?

  • 19-11-2007 11:52pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,153 ✭✭✭


    Name a few of your fav documentaries!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,592 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    Fearless Freaks, about the band The Flaming Lips is excellent. It doesn't pull any punches either, as even though it's approved by the band, it has a scene of one of the members shooting heroin whilst lamenting his addiction.

    Also, Spinal Tap. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭Petey2006


    No Direction Home
    One Day In September
    The Fog of War
    The World At War (TV series)
    When We Were Kings
    Jesus Camp


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    alot of the Louis Theroux docs
    Panorama Scientology (for the humor and irony of it all)
    Dragons (a fantasy made real? cant fully recall the tagline)
    The History Channels series on Japan, primarily the Tokugawa Shoganate
    A Chink in The Armour (very good for a student)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭doonothing


    spellbound! and bloody sunday... more of a docudrama, but still.

    oh, and drop dead gorgeous :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 329 ✭✭Leaderbored


    Control Room
    Winsconsin Death trip
    The Ramones - End of the Century
    Seven Ages
    The Hamster Factor
    Lost in La Mancha

    And The Confederate States of America - a Mock, not a Doc, but Brilliant, clever, funny and at times, scarily close to truth.

    (Oh and I agree with the Panorama Scientology chioce. Brilliant TV :D )


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭spacecoyote


    Riding Giants is totally bodacious


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭madrab


    Jesus Camp - bible belters
    Outfoxed - Fox tv network & how corrupt it is
    The revolution will not be televised - about hugo chavez
    30 days -tv show by the morgen Spulock (guy that did supersize me)
    louis theroux's wierd weekends


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭Wacker


    Murderball is pretty good - it is about quadripalegic rugby. Those guys are hardcore.

    When We Were Kings (about the Rumble in the Jungle between Ali and Foreman) is excellent, even if you have no interest in boxing. If you are interested, the DVD has both the Rumble in the Jungle and the Thrilla in Manilla.

    Beyond the Mat, which is about the WWE, and three guys in particular (Mick Foley, Terry Funk and Jake the Snake Roberts) is very good, and very harrowing. Jake Roberts comes across as a disaster of a human being, and he has only gotten worse since.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    Aren't these list threads against the charter?

    Oh, and check out The Aristocrats. And "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" is a fantastic film about how a group of prìcks decide what you are allowed to watch. It angers the blood, I tell ya!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭aurel


    I concur with When we were kings and This film is not yet rated and would like to add Capturing the Friedmans. Intensely powerful doc about a family dealing with paedophilia allegations. Cannot recommend it enough.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,987 ✭✭✭Auvers


    Cant recommend highly enough In the Shadow of the Moon it tells the story of NASA's Apollo missions with the surviving crew members telling the story in their own words.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Fourteen Days in May - the build-up to the execution date of a guy on Death Row who's young, black and innocent. It follows his lawyer (Clive Stafford-Smith - currently campaigning against Guantanamo Bay) as he appeals for a stay of execution. It also examines what life is like inside a Death Row prison - a lot you would not expect. It's a damning indictment of capital punishment, but extremely balanced.
    A profoundly powerful film.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭ThOnda


    War Photographer - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309061/

    This film is not yet rated - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭irishthump


    When We Were Kings
    The Aristocrats

    Also, Martin Scorcese did a docu a few years ago called "A Century of Cinema", t'was really excellent. Being trying to find it on DVD, but no joy.

    Nearly forgot, "Stanley Kubrick, the Invisible Man". Wonderful television documentary from a few years back. Somebody uploaded it to Youtube if anybody is interested.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    My recommendations are:

    Grizzly Man
    Blue Planet (in fact most things by Attenborough)
    Walking With Dinosaurs (Beasts, Monsters etc.)
    Pretty much anything by Lois Theroux (he has a DVD boxed set out now)
    Animal Face Off (cause its silly)
    Anything by Michael Moore (shameless propaganda I know, but fun nonetheless!)


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