Best documentaries you have seen

Yourself isit · 15-02-2017 06:53PM

Adam curtis is a spoofer.

Vex Willems · 15-02-2017 06:54PM

Deleted User wrote: »

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

OldGoat wrote: »

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.

Unless I'm reading it wrong, all 37 films can be got for €150 plus p&p, much better value than the €25 each!

archer22 · 15-02-2017 07:00PM

HellStorm the death of Nazi Germany....really horrific and hard to keep watching.

Atlantic Dawn · 15-02-2017 07:06PM

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/

Most of the Dublin City Council libraries have the full collection on DVD to lend, well worth a watch.

fiachr_a · 15-02-2017 08:55PM

Gray gardens.

Yamanoto · 06-03-2017 01:55PM

I'm 6 hours into the 9 hour Academy Award winning documentary, OJ Simpson: Made in America.

It's part of the ESPN 30 for 30 stream of docs & offers a brilliant insight into the character of the man, historical & contemporary race relations, the LAPD, the judicial system and the circus that the trial was allowed to become.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/mar/04/oj-made-in-america-ezra-edelman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrB3rOcrJxg

inforfun · 06-03-2017 03:39PM

The man who ultimately gave us The kardeshians.
Still should end up on the chair for that

Boom_Bap · 06-03-2017 03:43PM

Yamanoto wrote: »

I'm 6 hours into the 9 hour Academy Award winning documentary, OJ Simpson: Made in America.

It's part of the ESPN 30 for 30 stream of docs & offers a brilliant insight into the character of the man, historical & contemporary race relations, the LAPD, the judicial system and the circus that the trial was allowed to become.

I've recently watched The People Vs OJ in a warm up to this. Looking forward to it.

I watched Shadow of Doubt over the weekend, really enjoyed it. It's a 4 part doc series on a murder investigation of a 13 year old girl. Be warned, it's all subtitles.

nozzferrahhtoo · 06-03-2017 03:50PM

Not sure I would say "best" but one that moved me more than any other is "deborah 13".

To see a girl who you would consider wonderful and beautiful in every sense of the word come to a point of absolute self hatred and gratitude to an invisible god for loving her despite how awful and disgusting a person she thought herself to be.......... or more accurately she was taught to think herself to be........... was religious abuse at an awful level.

SpaceCowb0y · 06-03-2017 05:46PM

I have started OJ: Made in America and similar to the previous poster it think it's a brilliant watch.

Something else i've watched recently is the Abstract series on Netflix

if you are in the design industry or any creative field or just have a general interest in the subject you should definitely check it out. My favourite episodes were the Illustrator, the shoe designer and the graphic designer but the whole series was great.

06-03-2017 09:55PM

Tayschren wrote: »

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

And the Belgian guy in the Art O'Neill teeshirt...

Enjoyable film alright.

The Civil War by Ken Burns on Netflix.

Boom_Bap · 06-03-2017 09:57PM

Deleted User wrote: »

And the Belgian guy in the Art O'Neill teeshirt...

And also how the Belgian lad rocked up to the event :pac:

Berserker · 06-03-2017 10:04PM

Been watching a few about the Mafia lately and this one stood out.

tinpib · 06-03-2017 10:18PM

Berserker wrote: »

Been watching a few about the Mafia lately and this one stood out.

I haven't watched that one, but have watched this one, it is 2hrs 20 mins and I think it contains the interview you posted and more. Thought it was excellent.

06-03-2017 10:21PM

The world at war without doubt, its often repeated on stations like the history channel. Its chilling when they interview some former Nazi who when the documentary was made were middle aged men and one comes across as unrepentant.

Steve · 06-03-2017 10:24PM

Rise of the warrior Apes.. (At least I think that's what it was called).

Watched it last night, wow.

The_Kew_Tour · 07-03-2017 09:52AM

archer22 wrote: »

HellStorm the death of Nazi Germany....really horrific and hard to keep watching.

Thank you for sharing

Its gruesome, and hard to watch, but its a must watch.

Those who thibk that Churchill, The Allies and Jews were the "Good Guys" is just a myth.

Citroen2cv · 07-03-2017 10:06AM

Cosmos.
The original was narrated by Carl Sagan and the remake by Neil degrasse Tyson. This should be compulsory watching in school.

laoch na mona · 07-03-2017 10:53AM

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Thank you for sharing

Its gruesome, and hard to watch, but its a must watch.

Those who thibk that Churchill, The Allies and Jews were the "Good Guys" is just a myth.

The allies were a lot better than the nazi's, I mean at the very least they stopped the nazi's. Jews were innocent victims, I wouldn't be surprissed if a few wanted to get even.

On WW2 soviet storm is good for an overview of the war in Eastern Europe
Horror in the East is also good. It covers the war in Asia

Wibbs · 07-03-2017 11:09AM

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Thank you for sharing

Its gruesome, and hard to watch, but its a must watch.

Those who thibk that Churchill, The Allies and Jews were the "Good Guys" is just a myth.

War rarely has "good guys" but the story of what happened to the German people(and others seen as sympathetic) in the immediate aftermath of the war is something that should be far more widely known and IMH taught in schools. Most folks have the general impression is that the war was over and that was that and the list of victims of that awful madness was set. I grew up with relatives that had been "on the ground" and had told me stories of some of the horrors visited on Germany at the time, but I didn't understand the true scale of it. It's been pretty much airbrushed from popular history. Victors write the history and all that.

laoch na mona wrote: »

Jews were innocent victims, I wouldn't be surprissed if a few wanted to get even.

Jews as you say were innocent victims and would have had damned good reasons to go on a rampage, but the overwhelming majority didn't and were actually a minuscule part of the reprisals involved. Official allied forces were the bulk of it. The Soviets being the obvious example, but there's some airbrushing there too as they were the post war boogyman. French forces were particularly feared.

The_Kew_Tour · 07-03-2017 11:09AM

laoch na mona wrote: »

The allies were a lot better than the nazi's, I mean at the very least they stopped the nazi's. Jews were innocent victims, I wouldn't be surprissed if a few wanted to get even.

On WW2 soviet storm is good for an overview of the war in Eastern Europe
Horror in the East is also good. It covers the war in Asia

More Germans were killed the 2 years after the War then during the whole WWII.

Nazi had to be defeated no argument there, but the slaughter of innocent Germans after the war has never been highlighted enough. The Allies raped too

jooksavage · 07-03-2017 11:26AM

mariaalice wrote: »

The world at war without doubt, its often repeated on stations like the history channel. Its chilling when they interview some former Nazi who when the documentary was made were middle aged men and one comes across as unrepentant.

That's one of the thing that struck me. I was used to seeing infirm, elderly men giving their accounts in docs like Ken Burns' The War. It was odd seeing relatively young men and women talk about their war - brings it home in an uncomfortable way just how recent it was.

Keyzer · 07-03-2017 11:27AM

Going clear...

Terrifying...

cursai · 07-03-2017 12:32PM

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

More Germans were killed the 2 years after the War then during the whole WWII.

Nazi had to be defeated no argument there, but the slaughter of innocent Germans after the war has never been highlighted enough. The Allies raped too

Is this one of those anti holocaust films. I mean i'm as critical as i can be e.g. Jews being classed as their own race. But I dont want to be watching farcical denial stuff.

The_Kew_Tour · 07-03-2017 12:53PM

cursai wrote: »

Is this one of those anti holocaust films. I mean i'm as critical as i can be e.g. Jews being classed as their own race. But I dont want to be watching farcical denial stuff.

No its not, no. Its just saying they're no good in war and showing the side of Innocent people being murdered, just cause they were German

Of course the Holocaust took place. You want be fair **** to think otherwise

cursai · 07-03-2017 12:54PM

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

No its not, no. Its just saying they're no good in war and showing the side of Innocent people being murdered, just cause they were German

Of course the Holocaust took place. You want be fair **** to think otherwise

Cheers. Will watch so. The pure as gold Allied thing never washed. BTW what was censored in your post???

The_Kew_Tour · 07-03-2017 01:00PM

cursai wrote: »

Cheers. Will watch so. The pure as gold Allied thing never washed. BTW what was censored in your post???

It is gruesome so be warned and thats right throughout the film. Its hard watching so be aware.(im saying it twice cause it really is)

Starts with C ends in T.

Would never lower myself to watch something that would have so much hate as to say The Holocaust did not happen.

OleRodrigo · 07-03-2017 01:12PM

13th on Netflix. Its refers to the 13th amendment to the US constitution after slavery was abolished ( unless a crime has been committed ) that has allowed African Americans to be discriminated against through various mechanisms over the past 150 years, with the its modern apparatus being mass incarceration (currently there are over 2.5 million people incarcerated in the US..most of whom are people of color and 95% of those were imprisoned without a trial through plea bargaining ).

Its very sad to watch and quite incredible to see what seems like disparate pieces of history woven into a pattern of systematic oppression, culminating in what is now called the Prison Industrial Complex.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741