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Best documentaries you have seen

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What are the best documentaries you have seen?

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omb0wyn5ehpij9

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

jooksavage

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

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

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

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

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

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/

[Deleted User]

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

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

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

The Monarchy with David Starkey is brilliant

goodluckduck

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

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

Black Fish. Brilliant

con___manx1

Planeth earth 1&2
frozen planet

Yamanoto

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

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!

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

buried

Also "Bitter Lake" from same film-maker

cursai

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!

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

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

losthorizon

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

+1 for Blackfish, that was excellent.

CantonasCollar

How to die in Oregon.

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

Parchment

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

Dravokivich

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

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

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

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