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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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jooksavage

Watched the Frank Zappa doc "Eat That Question" last night. I'm a fan anyway so I loved it. My wife isn't too gone on the music and wasn't that familiar with Zappa himself but really enjoyed it too.

The_Kew_Tour

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2lnWWQaHeeg

About the Loughinisland Massacre of 1994. On Ireland Football biggest win in a World Cup, that same night, two men, went into a Rural Pub in Co Down and shot people, as they watched a match. It's a short doc, but it shows the tension still in The North in Mid 90s.

kildare lad

Anything presented by David Attenborough...

Outlaw Pete

For anyone that liked Dog Day Afternoon, the 1975 Pacino film about a guy that robs a bank to raise cash for his boyfriend's sex change operation.... the documentary The Dog is a must see. I hadn't realized it even existed and just happened upon it one night.

I knew the film was based on a true story of course but hearing about what happened these people after the bank robbery (the film only really deals with the events up to their capture) was almost as entertaining as the film itself. Easily one of the best documentaries I've ever seen.

I'd advise not reading up about the protagonists too much before seeing it as it would spoil it to know how it all plays out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npe6yTYmTiM

CaptainR

I must recommend Putin's Way by PBS America, it is an amazing documentary of Putin's climb to the top and his vast amount of money and power he has gathered during that time.

Raven Runner

Hitman Hart:Wrestling with Shadows

ArchXStanton

Hobo by John T Davis,following the life of a hobo and his travels throughout the United states

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SzePWC4QgQ

claresmurf

Louis Theroux: A place for Paedophiles

Wompa1

I've watched a sh1t load and it's easily Dear Zachary. It's slow to start. You have to stick with it. I saw it a few years ago for the first time and I still think about it quite a bit. It's that powerful.

tinpib

Two slightly under the radar ones I recommend to people that end up never watching them are:

"Bully", it's on Netflix. Kinda heartbreaking, I'm not sure whether the kids in it did the right thing by agreeing to it.

"Lost for Life" about juveniles doing life without parole in the states. It's particularly shocking as the kids featured recorded a lot fo their crimes on their phones. Obviously they program makers don't show anything too grisly but it really hits you.

Both docs stayed with me long after viewing.

Watched the "Zero Hour Columbine" on YouTube by fluke and it was EXACTLY what I was looking for. The gist of these Zero Hour docs is that they recreate the final hour of certain events as realistically as possible.

I finally was able to make sense of the timeline and what actually happened adn when in Columbine.

Doctor Nick

Ice Age. Not the cartoon. It's about the horror that is crystal meth addiction in Australia.

One not for the faint hearted is called "Chickenhawks - Men who love boys".
Basically the documentary film maker interviewed members of Nambla (North American Man Boy Love Association) and gives them just enough rope to hang themselves. Truly horrific look at paedophilia and the warped thinking people who find kids attractive have. It's filmed from both victim and perpetrators POV. Very very disturbing.

The Dark Side of Porn series were brilliant also. Does Snuff Exist was good but the story of the Danish porn actress who starred in the "Animal Farm" films was particularly harrowing. Think they're on YouTube.

gizmo81

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXsP-AAL-7M

This looks good, the dancer from the Hozier Video Take me to Church.

Documentary Dancer 2016

guile4582

The Story of The Weeping Camel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MrHudsp_aA

spurious

Doctor Nick wrote: »

One not for the faint hearted is called "Chickenhawks - Men who love boys".
Basically the documentary film maker interviewed members of Nambla (North American Man Boy Love Association) and gives them just enough rope to hang themselves. Truly horrific look at paedophilia and the warped thinking people who find kids attractive have. It's filmed from both victim and perpetrators POV. Very very disturbing.

One of those you can't stop yourself remembering. Very creepy.

dar100

spurious wrote: »

One of those you can't stop yourself remembering. Very creepy.

Just watched it... Also just watched one called tickled, brilliant doc

SEPT 23 1989

The Seven Five

It could never happen over here...

DEFTLEFTHAND

I watched a good 8 part reality series on Netflix recently called 'Badlands, Texas'

It's about the small town of Terlingua, Texas which is right on the Mexican border. The focus is on a man named Glen Felts. He ran a bar called La Kiva, a world famous bar, it ranked no 10 best pub in America in a Time magazine survey shortly before his death. He was murdered on the property in 2014 and the series focuses around the trial of the accused and the local area.

It's very good, kept me gripped to the end.

marklazarcovic

dar100 wrote: »

Just watched it... Also just watched one called tickled, brilliant doc

Where did u watch tickled?

evolving_doors

Anything made by Vice is good.

dar100

marklazarcovic wrote: »

Where did u watch tickled?

YouTube

Actually it may have been another site I put it in google and searched around the kinks that came up!! I think it may have been Reddit

SpaceCowb0y

Gebgbegb wrote: »

Anything made by Vice is good.

That used to be true, they put out a lot of garbage now too though since the media company went global.

Doctor Nick

dar100 wrote: »

Just watched it... Also just watched one called tickled, brilliant doc

Is tickled same subject matter as Chickenhawks? Would be reluctant to watch if so, felt like I needed a week long shower after watching. Honestly don't even want to Google.

Ulysses Gaze

spurious wrote: »

One of those you can't stop yourself remembering. Very creepy.

Just watched it. One of the guys, in the yellow jumper, was a seriously creepy individual. According to him, every boy he met was flirting with him.

Also, could not believe that Allen Ginsberg joined NAMBLA.

In terms of best documentaries I have seen? The Nazi's: A Warning from History. Or The World at War.

OleRodrigo

The Fog of War is a classic. Not just the subject matter - Robert McNamara, Sec of Defence during Vietnam War and WW2 ( although just an analyst during WW2 ) - but for the interview technique it pioneered. Fascinating character.

https://freedocumentaries.org/documentary/the-fog-of-war

Melisandre121

The Fear of 13 is really good.

bodhrandude

Interesting investigative documentary about the Sinking of the Sewol Ferry in South Korea in 2014 and the cover up by the government. In Korean with English subtitles.

dar100

Doctor Nick wrote: »

Is tickled same subject matter as Chickenhawks? Would be reluctant to watch if so, felt like I needed a week long shower after watching. Honestly don't even want to Google.

No all adults, and the abuse is tickling

glaswegian

any of colin stafford johnson's,i find his laid back educational style very watchable,two parter on bbc2 a couple of weeks ago about the west coast was absolutely stunning.

blade1

The Jinx.
Still skitting at the ending!!

Ghost Train

Werner Herzog has some interesting ones

http://www.nerve.com/movies/ranked-werner-herzogs-documentaries-from-worst-to-best

Also liked BBCs 3 part documentry about New York, Americas Busiest City