Documentary recommendation thread

rob316

Worst Ex on Netflix is brilliant. 4 absolutely mental cases, 1 hour each, not the arse dragged out of it over 4 hours like most of the true crime stuff.

odyssey06

On National Geographic recently.

Cursed Gold: A Shipwreck Scandal was good, about an attempt to salvage gold from a sunken ship in the 1980s… that was still in the courts decades later. 3 episodes.

Killer Lies: Chasing a True Crime Con Man. This is about an online group who started scrutinising the claims of a French serial killer expert. It started well, but there was only really enough content for 90 minutes, and it was stretched out into 3 episodes. You could probably watch the first 2 episodes and you'd have the essentials.

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122609110#Comment_122609110

Watched Cursed Gold, enjoyed it, was a big accomplishment to make the discovery with such a limited budget in the late 80's when commercial GPS was at its infancy and probably looking at an accuracy of 30-50 metres. You have to wonder if the legal actions about the discovery didn't happen what other valuable shipwrecks could have been discovered by him.

While looking for the documentary I found another called Gold, Lies & Videotape on Discovery+, it's about the search for a massive amount of gold bars within a mountain thought to have been hidden there by Native Indians in the 1800's. It's 6 episodes, rather drawn out but an interesting watch.

adaminho

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/112786-000-A/the-shannon-ireland-s-great-river/

A German documentary on the Shannon river was released Wednesday.

gmisk

Into the fire : The Lost Daughter excellent two part doc on Netflix.

maebee

I just finished this last night. Excellent documentary. The birth mother was some woman 👏

The Black Oil

New doc about the Zodiac killer lands on Oct 23.

This is the Zodiac Speaking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wXBDnAGTjk

50HX

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121908198#Comment_121908198

Watched this last night

Tough watch but also necessary, I think everyone should watch it as we getting saturated & desensitised to war with the past few years

NIMAN

AMazing documentary. Must rewatch it.

odyssey06

Starting on Sky History Sunday 6th October.. documentary The Five Families about the New York mafia.

NIMAN

Just finished watching Surviving 8th October, about the Hamas attack on the Nova music festival, on BBC.

A tough watch.

enricoh

Stumbled across a klf documentary on the dodgy box the other night- highly recommended for something offbeat.

crushproof

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122660938#Comment_122660938

Yeah that's a great one, won a few awards I think. Certainly propelled the KLF back in the mainstream. Have heard some of their tunes around the place which definitely wouldn't have been a thing a few years ago. Had totally vanished.

The Black Oil

The Manhattan Alien Abduction from Netflix. October 30. Hmm, is this a genre? Maybe so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJITrkLe0IA

Breaking the Silence: The Maria Soledad Case also from Netflix. October 10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4y0Q-iaEoY

gmisk

Parole series 2 is available on iPlayer, really excellent doc looking at cases before parole boards.

odyssey06

Brian Cox has a new astronomy documentary series "Solar System", starts on BBC2 on Monday 7th October.

Blurb is: Professor Brian Cox explores the new discoveries, natural wonders and strange mysteries of the Sun and the objects that orbit it.

The Black Oil

Trailer for a new doc looking back at Lost, featuring some of the cast and writers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM7Lv_uV7mM

Sugarlumps

Chimp Crazy - four episodes…freaking wild.

odyssey06

A new documentary from Sky Arts, a bio on actor Christopher Lee airs Thursday 24th October.

A look at the life and career of the English actor, featuring interviews with friends, family members and film-makers including Peter Jackson, John Landis and Joe Dante.

Nigzcurran

Think it was mentioned here already but the doc on the iPlayer about the nova music festival last year in Israel is superb

robwen

The excellent Navalny - Storyville documentary is showing again on BBC 4 tonight at 10.30pm.

Cork Streamer

Mr McMahon. Bloke is mad and serious dysfunctional family. Driven my the Dollar !

gmisk

New series on channel 4 called Love Cheats only watched episode 1.…pretty bonkers stuff.

NIMAN

Considering the ongoing war in the ME, I decided to watch Storyville : The Gatekeepers on BBC iplayer.

Interviews with 6 ex-heads of the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet.

Excellent insight into how they operated and their thoughts now on the entire mess that is the relationship between the protagonists.

Couple of very interesting things stood out for me. One was a method they used to kill one of their most wanted, and the second is the opinion of a few of these men, considering what they probably done in their roles.

The Black Oil

New 4-part docuseries, Churchill at War. Available December 4. Surely it can work without a need for actors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Ot8acAbsg

The Nal

This is on tonight

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/documentaries/hammer-films-sky-documentary-interview/

bodhrandude

There's an excellent doc on Blur: To the End which has just been released culminating in their gig at Wembley Stadium in 2023, an interesting insight into the band.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31218239/

Agent Coulson

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Watch with a big box of tissues!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGFq-M6ErgQ&ab_channel=WarnerBros.UK%26Ireland

The Nal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122825067#Comment_122825067

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Mantis Toboggan

Who killed Jon Benet Ramsey on Netflix is very good. Well put together. I've seen a few docs on this case but this is probably the best.