Best documentaries you have seen

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 15-02-2017 12:52PM

I watched Precinct Seven Five over the weekend, excellent documentary. It's on Netflix at the moment

jooksavage · 15-02-2017 01:00PM

The World at War series from 1970s - I don't think it has ever been bested as far as WW2 docs go. Watched it again recently. Laurence Oliviers narration is something else.

Chancer3001 · 15-02-2017 01:38PM

I'm still looking to find the Zidane documentary where his brother is the camera man following him in his last week's before retirement.

It's somewhere with Norwegian subtitles which is no good to me. Anybody have any idea where I'd get it?

jiltloop · 15-02-2017 01:42PM

Chasing ice is a fantastic documentary. Visually stunning and the sheer scale of the calving event (the face of a glacier breaking off in to the sea, basically the birth of new icebergs) they caught on film is awesome! It also really shows the worrying effects of manmade climate change.

jimmy blevins · 15-02-2017 01:48PM

On an Adam Curtis binge at the moment, undoubtedly a great filmmaker and explains how the west has ended up in the current state like nobody else, but his documentaries can leave you feeling totally pessimistic about the future.

SpaceCowb0y · 15-02-2017 01:53PM

WHIP IT! wrote: »

A longshot as it's an old post... but by any chance does someone know which Doc this was before it got removed from the Toob? thanks

Hands down, best thread on AH by the way...

Here you go, i posted that a few years ago ha

Possibly the only documentary i've gotten a little choked up at :rolleyes:

OldGoat · 15-02-2017 01:54PM

Hands.
By far the best thing RTE have ever managed to produce. A wonderful look at a life that is just hovering on the edge of memory and a fair look at how things were back in the day.

http://hands.ie/

15-02-2017 02:00PM

OldGoat wrote: »

Hands.
By far the best thing RTE have ever managed to produce. A wonderful look at a life that is just hovering on the edge of memory and a fair look at how things were back in the day.

http://hands.ie/

I was really excited about that link but then I saw the prices.

gerrybbadd · 15-02-2017 02:13PM

Maybe one for the Conspiracy Theorists, but Soaked in Bleach is brilliant.

Tells the story of Tom Grant, a Private Investigator hired by Courtney Love when Curt Cobain went missing (later turning up dead). Tom eventually believes that Courtney is behind Curt's death, and this documentary / movies splices real recordings that Tom took of Courtney & his conversations into scenes played out by actors.

It's very well done

Stab*City · 15-02-2017 02:13PM

beano345 wrote: »

Hashish documentary 2002- about the cannabis farmers in the rif mountains in morrocco

You actually thought that was the best doc you ever seen!! lol How stoned were you at the time?!?!

captbarnacles · 15-02-2017 02:15PM

The Monarchy with David Starkey is brilliant

goodluckduck · 15-02-2017 02:17PM

There's a fantastic series on YouTube from an Irish lad called Oisin Hughes documenting his journey round the world on a motorbike. In the style of 'Long Way Round' by Ewan McGregor but actually better IMO. Can't post the link I don't think but YouTube search 'Not Dead Yet - Oisin Hughes' to find it.

OldGoat · 15-02-2017 02:30PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I was really excited about that link but then I saw the prices.

Yeah I know. My missus was going to buy me the set for Christmas till she saw the charges. Ahhh well, perhaps I'll win the lottery someday.

Gwynplaine · 15-02-2017 02:36PM

Black Fish. Brilliant

con___manx1 · 15-02-2017 02:38PM

Planeth earth 1&2
frozen planet

Yamanoto · 15-02-2017 02:47PM

Posted this previously - all eight 45min episodes are up on Youtube.

The editing and pacing of it are as accomplished as you're likely to see & it's an utterly compelling piece of documentary film making from start to finish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9m-h16WXkE

maudgonner · 15-02-2017 03:06PM

jooksavage wrote: »

The World at War series from 1970s - I don't think it has ever been bested as far as WW2 docs go. Watched it again recently. Laurence Oliviers narration is something else.

I'm rewatching that at the moment, it's excellent.

In the same vein (big, in-depth multi-episode history series) Robert Kee's series on the history of Ireland is very good.

Lorelli! · 15-02-2017 03:13PM

I havent watched it yet but I heard that World War Weird is meant to be good.

buried · 15-02-2017 03:23PM

Also "Bitter Lake" from same film-maker

cursai · 15-02-2017 04:02PM

Lorelli! wrote: »

I havent watched it yet but I heard that World War Weird is meant to be good.

Do you mean Nazi World war wierd. The 6 part series?

Lorelli! · 15-02-2017 04:39PM

cursai wrote: »

Do you mean Nazi World war wierd. The 6 part series?

It could be. My OH just mentioned it to me this morning cause he thought I might like it and he watched an episode or either saw a clip last night. He mentioned Stalin's human/Ape hybrid. When I googled it today, Nazi World War Weird came up and this is all I can find about World War Weird. I'll have to ask him tbh

http://yesterday.uktv.co.uk/shows/world-war-weird/

Tayschren · 15-02-2017 04:43PM

The Barkely Marathons was quite enjoyable, not sure why just easy watching

losthorizon · 15-02-2017 04:48PM

Senna, Project Nim and Blackfish. Also a Captains Sword is very interesting.

BTW RTE1 is showing Tommy Byrne Crashed and Burned tomorrow. Ive read the book - its really good. And the film got great reviews. It only got a very limited run in cinemas.

I can just about remember him in Formula 1

Noveight · 15-02-2017 04:50PM

+1 for Blackfish, that was excellent.

CantonasCollar · 15-02-2017 05:20PM

How to die in Oregon.

Have the tissues at the ready right from the beginning for the watery eyes

Parchment · 15-02-2017 05:31PM

The True Cost - not excellently made but effective. We need to cop on.

Dravokivich · 15-02-2017 06:05PM

BDJW wrote: »

I watched Precinct Seven Five over the weekend, excellent documentary. It's on Netflix at the moment

I wouldn't be finding myself in a rush to praise it myself. It was mainly about Michael Dowd, he was going on about himself and then they presented recordings that set the audience straight about who he was. I don't think there was much in it other than, this is how some people think they can get away with something and at the end of the day, they still think they were being hard done by.

It was just showing him up for who he was.

MonkieSocks · 15-02-2017 06:27PM

Tayschren wrote: »

The Barkely Marathons was quite enjoyable, not sure why just easy watching

Yep Brilliant, Tried to get into it many years ago....no luck.

Even their Fun Run is one of hardest things to do

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Maggies War is a documentary I have watched in Awe a few times.

PBS show it every now and then,

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

James "Maggie" Megellas: The Battle of the Bulge

He should have got the Congressional Medal of Honour for his actions at Herresbach.

He's just turned 100

Yourself isit · 15-02-2017 06:34PM

Dravokivich wrote: »

I wouldn't be finding myself in a rush to praise it myself. It was mainly about Michael Dowd, he was going on about himself and then they presented recordings that set the audience straight about who he was. I don't think there was much in it other than, this is how some people think they can get away with something and at the end of the day, they still think they were being hard done by.

It was just showing him up for who he was.

Interesting story all the same. Even though "sympathetic" to dowd it did show him up. The crocodile tears at the end were a bit much to take.

Yourself isit · 15-02-2017 06:39PM

Vincent Vega wrote: »

I recently finished a 10 part series called 'Connections: an alternative view of change' by James Burke.
Amazing stuff.

Here's a clip from the first ep where he shows how reliant we are on technology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKELMR6wACw

Really one to make you think about the things you'd take for granted in everyday life.
Although it's from 1978, I found the content to be just as relevant now as it was then, if not even moreso.

Am looking forward to watching more from this guy.:)

Connections is great. Even better is the ascent of man narrated by Bronowski

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