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Documentary recommendation thread

  • 10-03-2020 10:24pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,256 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    The Documentary forum has been blended into the TV forum and lost down the pages so I though a thread to recommend documentaries might be a good idea.

    All the streaming sites are making some great documentaries right now.

    I'll start with McMillions from HBO.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭Martin Tyler AgueroooOO


    Watched Hilary today and found it really interesting if she had shown this side of herself before the last election I think she might be in power today and by god do we need a real politician as the leader of the world right now not a reality tv host.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Dots1982


    Capturing the Friedman’s is a classic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,282 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Last 3 I watched on Netflix and all very good.

    Don't f*** with cats,
    abducted in plain sight,
    wild wild Country.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,953 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    The Dirty Money series on Netflix is great, looking forward to getting into the second series.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    The Ascent of Man. It might be nearly 50 years old but it is a classic from what’s been called the “golden age” of (BBC) tv documentaries. I watched it in my late teens when it was first shown and am now rewatching it on DVD. Dr Jacob Bronowski wrote and presented it. As relevant now as it was then.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Muppet Man


    Still reckon “Senna” was one of the very best documentaries ever. It doesn’t matter if you know nothing about his sport, it’s far more about the man. My wife watched it with me and even she was weeping at the end.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,153 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)

    Must have watched this about 3 or 4 times and it doesn't get any easier to watch.

    A series of gut punches punctuate this enthralling watch.

    Though go in blind.. that's all I say. The less you know, the better!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,070 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    Basq wrote: »
    Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)

    Must have watched this about 3 or 4 times and it doesn't get any easier to watch.

    A series of gut punches punctuate this enthralling watch.

    Though go in blind.. that's all I say. The less you know, the better!

    One of the most overrated documentaries of all time. Interesting story but I just couldn’t get past how badly made/edited it is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭Martin Tyler AgueroooOO


    Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez on Netflix was really interesting.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane. I think the full doc is on Netflix

    For the Bible Tells Me So and Blackfish, both on Netflix


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,340 ✭✭✭Hodors Appletart


    Paradise Lost Trilogy, and the other doc about the same case West of Memphis are brilliant docs, watch the 3 parter first

    About the murder of a child in america and the way the system fúcked up


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,156 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    Anything by Ken Burns.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,282 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Apollo 11 on Netflix is fantastic.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭Martin Tyler AgueroooOO


    Pandemic on Netflix.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    I'm thinking of launching a campaign to get RTÉ to dedicate one of their channels to 24-hour rolling repeats of Hands*. It's just the kind of comfort TV we need right now.




    (*Correctly washed, of course)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 333 ✭✭Martin Tyler AgueroooOO


    maudgonner wrote: »
    I'm thinking of launching a campaign to get RTÉ to dedicate one of their channels to 24-hour rolling repeats of Hands*. It's just the kind of comfort TV we need right now.




    (*Correctly washed, of course)




    That would be reality tv would it not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    Last 3 I watched on Netflix and all very good.

    Don't f*** with cats,
    abducted in plain sight,
    wild wild Country.


    I haven't seen the first two but Wild Wild Country is an amazing and riveting watch in a how the hell could something like that happen in real life :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,524 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Venom wrote: »
    I haven't seen the first two but Wild Wild Country is an amazing and riveting watch in a how the hell could something like that happen in real life :eek:

    It's so crazy it's nearly unbelievable isn't it? !

    Give Abducted In Plain Sight a watch , and let us know what you think :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,282 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Venom wrote: »
    I haven't seen the first two but Wild Wild Country is an amazing and riveting watch in a how the hell could something like that happen in real life :eek:

    If you think the last one is wacko watch the first two.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,986 ✭✭✭Andrea B.


    maudgonner wrote: »
    I'm thinking of launching a campaign to get RTÉ to dedicate one of their channels to 24-hour rolling repeats of Hands*. It's just the kind of comfort TV we need right now.




    (*Correctly washed, of course)

    Watched them on youtube. Real trip down memory lane. Excellent archive. Loved "power of the metal'. Mother and all doing manhole covers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    Mam of 4 wrote: »
    It's so crazy it's nearly unbelievable isn't it? !

    Give Abducted In Plain Sight a watch , and let us know what you think :pac:


    Added to my must see list :)

    If you think the last one is wacko watch the first two.


    I find shows/docs about cruelty to animals very hard to watch :mad::(


    As for my recommendations....


    Super Size Me - fast food
    Holy Chicken - more fast food
    Food Inc - even more food
    Icarus - Russian doping scandal
    Roger and Me - Death of the American car industry


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    I agree with many of the above.

    From those mentioned above, particularly good
    Icarus - What a trip, starts off as one movie and ends up being another.
    Killer Inside (Aaron Hernandez) - This is the most recent one, really enjoyed it, although ep 2 went off on a bit of a tangent.
    There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane - This is a fascinating wtf happened, as the family try to prove that she was not drink driving.

    The OJ : Made In America is brilliant as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,058 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Last 3 I watched on Netflix and all very good.

    Don't f*** with cats,
    abducted in plain sight,
    wild wild Country.

    Didn't like abducted in Plain sight.

    Wild wild country was brilliant. I've watched it twice now and would watch it again. The Bagwan had me actually laughing out loud at his antics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,058 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    LA 92 is a very tough watch. My heart was in my mouth watching it.

    I had to turn off The Trials of Gaebriel Fernandez.

    Auschwitz, The Nazis and the Final Solution is a BBC 2 documentary series from 2005. I was engrossed in it in 2005 and watched it again on Netflix.

    The Devil Next Door is also really good.

    Blackfish very sad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,058 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Venom wrote: »
    Added to my must see list :)





    I find shows/docs about cruelty to animals very hard to watch :mad::(


    As for my recommendations....


    Super Size Me - fast food
    Holy Chicken - more fast food
    Food Inc - even more food
    Icarus - Russian doping scandal
    Roger and Me - Death of the American car industry

    If you like dogs, watch dogs on Netflix.

    Two of the series are really good.

    Bravo Zeus tells the story of a Refugee who had to leave his dog in Syria. Get your hankies out.

    Ice on the water is about a 10 year old labrador in Lake Como. Beautifully shot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,282 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Seen it already but there's a very good documentary coming to Netflix on the 30th.
    Three identical strangers, about 3 teenagers who meet by chance and discover they're identical twins, well worth a watch.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    This is an absolute masterpiece

    The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Muppet Man


    12 sports documentaries listed here on RTEs website

    Some of which are already mentioned above by other folks


  • Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Amy is excellent. Really changed my opinion on Amy Winehouse.

    Short Game was or is on Netflix about child pro golfers, very entertaining


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Someone on boards pointed me to this website but I forget who so can't credit them!

    Anyway, this has loads of good docs to stream: https://www.documentarymania.com/home.php


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,256 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Channel 4 tonight Saturday the 21st of March at 9pm.

    Diego Maradona.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,058 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Channel 4 tonight Saturday the 21st of March at 9pm.

    Diego Maradona.


    I'm not into football but I love personal stories so will watch this. It's got great reviews.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭flower tattoo


    Just started The Tiger King on Netflix
    I'm engrossed after one episode


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,058 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Just started The Tiger King on Netflix
    I'm engrossed after one episode

    Friend just text me about that. Said theres not one sane person in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Both trailers might give away a bit too much. Honest liar is about James Randi (famous magician and skeptic) 2nd about national enquirer in the US




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,074 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Tt3d - a documentary following guy Martin and a few other road racers competing at the isle of man. It's on YouTube , not sure bout Netflix.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭Blondie919


    enricoh wrote: »
    Tt3d - a documentary following guy Martin and a few other road racers competing at the isle of man. It's on YouTube , not sure bout Netflix.

    You should check out Speed is my Need on Netflix


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭bcklschaps


    The Staircase ...its about true crime and is available on YouTube, very good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭MrSquishSquash


    A few of those I enjoyed I can remember:

    The Fog of War - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hcAyzbMvF7k

    The World at War (1973) - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4g4ZZNC1E Approx 20+ hours

    There was a great one on Napoleon & another on the formation of Russia I've forgotten but if it comes to mind I will post them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Blondie919 wrote: »
    You should check out Speed is my Need on Netflix


    Road, about the Dunlop brothers, is amazing, even if you have no interest in bikes or motorsport.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,527 ✭✭✭RichT


    Two not mentioned yet, but very good IMO......

    The Keepers
    The Keepers is a seven-episode American documentary web series that explores the unsolved murder of nun Sister Cathy Cesnik, who taught English and drama at Baltimore's Archbishop Keough High School, and her former students' belief that there was a cover-up by authorities after Cesnik suspected that a priest at the school, A. Joseph Maskell, was guilty of sexual abuse of students

    Had to resist the urge to throw something at the TV screen when I watched The Keepers. Very very frustrating watch!


    The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
    From Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling (the Oscar nominees behind Capturing the Friedmans), comes The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, a six-part examination of the reclusive millionaire at the heart of three killings spanning four decades.

    Robert Durst, the scion of a New York real estate empire, has long been a suspect in the notorious 1982 disappearance of his wife, Kathie. Further suspicion was raised with the unsolved killing of his confidante, Susan Berman, thought to be a key witness in the investigation into Kathie's disappearance in 2000, as well as the subsequent killing and dismemberment of a neighbor in Galveston, Texas. Durst has consistently maintained his innocence.]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,529 ✭✭✭Mike Guide 69


    Watching the Diego Maradona documentary on channel 4 ,made by the same crowd who did the brilliant documentary on Senna.

    Like Senna ,Maradona documentary has loads of personal footage which gives a unique insight into his flawed genius.Some of the stuff he was doing off the pitch when he was playing for Napoli was unreal

    There’s even commentary from the late great Jimmy Magee on a World Cup Match at Italia 90 in the documentary........


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    No Stone Unturned 2017
    1994 Loughinisland massacre.

    Dir; Alex Gibney


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,685 ✭✭✭zweton


    Watching the Diego Maradona documentary on channel 4 ,made by the same crowd who did the brilliant documentary on Senna.

    Like Senna ,Maradona documentary has loads of personal footage which gives a unique insight into his flawed genius.Some if the stuff he was doing off the pitch when he was playing for Napoli was unreal

    There’s even commentary from the late great Jimmy Magee on a World Cup Match at Italia 90 in the documentary........

    Just finished watching this...wow so good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    Watching the Diego Maradona documentary on channel 4 ,made by the same crowd who did the brilliant documentary on Senna.

    Like Senna ,Maradona documentary has loads of personal footage which gives a unique insight into his flawed genius.Some of the stuff he was doing off the pitch when he was playing for Napoli was unreal

    There’s even commentary from the late great Jimmy Magee on a World Cup Match at Italia 90 in the documentary........


    Maradona is one of the best documentaries i watched last year, i loved everything about it, from the money/drugs/corruption/self-destruction to the 80s real footage giving a sense of that that incredible decade really was about


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    RichT wrote: »
    Two not mentioned yet, but very good IMO......

    The Keepers

    The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst


    I started The Jinx last night and I'm totally hooked already


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭QueenRizla


    Just started The Tiger King on Netflix
    I'm engrossed after one episode

    I’ve watched so many documentary series and loved them like The Jinx, the Stair Case, making a murderer etc.
    Tiger King is far and away the most crazy, nut job Filled roller coaster of a ride. Maybe it’s quarantine but Jesus Netflix have pulled it out of the bag. Have to pause and process it all. I thought they were actors at first.its absolutely mental.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    Mic 1972 wrote: »
    I started The Jinx last night and I'm totally hooked already

    I’ve watched all the episodes at least 4 times over the years and my heart still races in the last episode, you’re in for a treat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    I’ve watched all the episodes at least 4 times over the years and my heart still races in the last episode, you’re in for a treat.


    that's what i heard, no spoiler please!!!! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Roanmore


    Watched a few over the last week

    The Jinx - superb
    Tell me who I am - tough watch, pretty messed up. About identical twins, one has an accident and loses his memory, the other twin fills him in on their life but all is not as it seems
    The Pharmacist - Again tough watch, starts off with a guy trying to find his sons killer and leads in to the whole opioid crisis. The main guy is a hero but at times he'd annoy the hell out of you. It's shocking how Oxycontin really took the US by storm
    Andy Murray - Resurfacing: He's not everyones cup of tea but this is excellent about the hip operations he has and his rehabilitation. Was close to home for us as my wife had similar operations although she didn't try to play professional tennis afterwards :D

    Kidnapped in plain sight - wow, that it was a parody first, shocking when you discover how it is real


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