Investigative documentaries

Gryzor

Been ODing on these for the last week....ones i've seen...

Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business
Gasland
Too Big to Fail Dramatised version
Capitalism: A Love Story
Food Inc
Who Killed the Electric Car?
The Cove

Gotta take some of the stuff with a pinch of salt, but if half of whats in these is true....some scary stuff going on....

Anyone recommend any others??

e_e

Capturing the Friedmans
The Thin Blue Line

foxyboxer

Inside Job. Narrated by Matt Damon and chronicles the financial crisis of 2008.

Gryzor

foxyboxer wrote: »

Inside Job. Narrated by Matt Damon and chronicles the financial crisis of 2008.

found that one this morning alright....more financial crisis..mmmm

duckworth

Inside job is a much better film than the Michael Moore one you listed above - definitely check it out.

The Thin Blue Line listed above is really great - as are most of Errol Morris's films. The Fog of War is one the best documentaries I've ever seen. They're not really 'investigative', but they are along the lines of what you listed in your first post.

Enron : The Smartest guys in the room is very good.

some of my favourite other documentaries are:

The Great Happiness Space
Grizzly Man
Winnebago Man
Unmistaken Child
Men Who Swim
American Movie

Phony Scott

Paradise Lost – it’s a must. A story about three teenagers accused of a satanic murder ritual in a religiously fundamental town. It’s a simple question of whether or not they did it. There are huge twists and turns particularly the ending. The follow-up, Paradise Lost 2 – Revelations, isn’t as compelling, but is worthwhile seeing as the whole thing is an ongoing investigation – a third part is expected in the next few years.

Waco The Rules of Engagement – Oscar nominated film that is like the polar opposite of the above. It’s about the 1993 siege in Waco Texas, which saw the religious group The Branch Dividian’s essentially massacred by government forces. It’s three hours long, but I think it’s worth every moment and sheds a ton of new light on the matter.

Those are two of my favourites, I can't think of any other ones at the moment that are investigative, but those two are excellent.

mikemac

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Deals with Chavez and political turmoil in Venezula.
Also shows the power of the media. You see troops on the street and the report is they are firing at a crowd.
But you zoom out and they are simply standing on patrol and there is no crowd there. Clever editing can disguise a situation. With a good editor you can make the viewer see what you want them to see

This has an Irish connection and was put together by an Irish team, they were in the right place just as it all kicked off

Gryzor

mikemac wrote: »

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Deals with Chavez and political turmoil in Venezula.
Also shows the power of the media. You see troops on the street and the report is they are firing at a crowd.
But you zoom out and they are simply standing on patrol and there is no crowd there. Clever editing can disguise a situation. With a good editor you can make the viewer see what you want them to see

This has an Irish connection and was put together by an Irish team, they were in the right place just as it all kicked off

think i saw that one on tv a couple of years ago...some bells are ringing...

mikemac

Yep, it was RTÉ about four years ago.

It's all on google videos if you want to rewatch

ImpossibleDuck

Gryzor wrote: »

Been ODing on these for the last week....ones i've seen...

The Cove

I remember seeing an ad for this about a year ago...it looked amazing. Might watch it. Worth watching?

I love investigative documentaries but never get around to watching any :pac:
Any that I do see though, I usually love.

Sanjuro

Anything, and everything by Adam Curtis. Not so much movies as 3 (and sometimes more) part documentary serials. He's the best documentary filmmaker working. His films are incredibly insightful, thoroughly researched and quite humorous.

Pandora's Box
The Living Dead
The Mayfair Set
The Century of The Self
The Power of Nightmares
The Trap
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace

Gryzor

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

I remember seeing an ad for this about a year ago...it looked amazing. Might watch it. Worth watching?

i thought it was a bit of an eye opener, when you go to see dolphins in captivity, no-one really thinks about how they got there, this film shows you in pretty vivid detail, and other areas of Japanese culture.

krudler

Wal-Mart: the high cost of low prices (I think thats the correct title) basically shows how Wal-Mart decimiates small towns in America once they move in and the customer base for mom and pop stores is gone, thriving little towns become ghost towns after a few months and the employees wind up spending their wages back in Wal Mart, also shows how ruthless they are towards employee rights and unions, even bugging peoples phones and taking out surveillance on people talking about forming a workers union.

MiloYossarian

This is a really good thread. Thanks for starting it.

Professional Griefer

Someone started one in AH a good while ago.
I remember one week just looking through all the posts and watching a fair amount of the suggested ones.

Anyways, heres the link to the thread.

clusk007

watched the cancer documentary highlighted by the OP. Fascinating stuff and very insightful. we all know someone with cancer and if this documentary has even half the truth in it then the movie has the potential to actually save lives! the power of film

Gryzor

Ix Deadmau5 wrote: »

Someone started one in AH a good while ago.
I remember one week just looking through all the posts and watching a fair amount of the suggested ones.

Anyways, heres the link to the thread.

hadn't seen that thread, thanks..

fillefatale

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

I remember seeing an ad for this about a year ago...it looked amazing. Might watch it. Worth watching?

I love investigative documentaries but never get around to watching any :pac:
Any that I do see though, I usually love.

The Cove is definitely worth a watch, really well filmed, it follows the lead guy from Flipper which inadvertently created this craze around trained dolphins and its been his repentance ever since trying to get the authorities to wake up to what is happening in parts of Japan.

duckworth

The new Bobby Fischer film coming to the IFI next week is marvellous - definitely check it out if you like documentaries. Much better than Senna in my opinion.

Gryzor

watched a few of these..

Inside Job....really enjoyed this....my head hurt at how corrupt these f***kers are.....we are cattle for the super rich....

Enron, smartest guys in the room....same as above

Thin blue line....very well made....

talk about bad luck

The Smashing Machine.... fascinating story, brutal sport

Turkana

Gryzor wrote: »

Been ODing on these for the last week....ones i've seen...

Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business
Gotta take some of the stuff with a pinch of salt...

Anyone who watches this Cancer documentary should research it yourself afterwards. The doctor who was praising Burzynski throughout the film is infact a quack doctor. And Burzynskis experiments cannot be replicated by anyone in the world except for himself, which is a massive alarm bell.

bnt

On a lighter note ... Tabloid might be coming here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWeQce0cZsE

Kidnapping ... Sex ... Mormonism ... Police ... Newspapers ... Yee-haa!

LittleBook

duckworth wrote: »

The Thin Blue Line listed above is really great - as are most of Errol Morris's films. The Fog of War is one the best documentaries I've ever seen. They're not really 'investigative', but they are along the lines of what you listed in your first post.

I love Errol Morris' work. He was the subject of my entry in the FF writing competition last year

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=66877944

I agree, he's not what I would call "investigative", it feels like too aggressive a term to describe how he works, if that makes any sense.

bnt

If you get BBC4, Tabloid is being shown three times over the next week, firstly at 9PM tonight.

The Black Oil

Murder on a Sunday Morning is one I'd recommend for anyone, but almost certainly if you've any interest in the law or justice. Long story short, black teenager accused of killing a white woman in the US. Pat McGuinness is the real star here 'I didn't call him Detective ______ because he didn't do any detective work'. Indeed.