Best documentaries you have seen

gerrybbadd · 08-03-2018 08:20PM

Lads, not back seat modding but there's a conspiracy forum for this kinda discussion.

Just wanted to say, for anyone that hasn't seen it, the OJ Documentary series OJ: Made in America is worth going out of your way to watch

Ipso · 08-03-2018 08:26PM

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

Bush attacked Iraq a country that was not involved in 9/11, are you denying that fact? A country that was enemy of Saudi Arabia and Isreal ( nothing strange about this at all?)15/19 Hijackers are Saudi not one of them was born in Iraq. So who was behind and funding terror attacks inside America. People are so dumb they can not see the wrongs in this and lets us not forget the Fake American and UK intelligence General Colin Powell brought before the UN to justify a war. Some of the Bush family closest friends are in the bin Laden family ( nothing strange about one of their family members was involved in the planning the largest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor.

If I disagree with you on what constitutes a documentary, then I automatically know nothing about the Iraq war?
Great reasoning, Socrates.

Cheerful Spring · 08-03-2018 08:40PM

Ipso wrote: »

If I disagree with you on what constitutes a documentary, then I automatically know nothing about the Iraq war?
Great reasoning, Socrates.

It is a documentary. To have personal grudge as you say don't you have to know Bush the man? His documentary is commentary about his handling of the war on terror, the mess that was the Iraq war and Corporate media handling of the Iraq war, that's it.

bear1 · 09-03-2018 12:57AM

LA92.
The los Angeles riots of 1992, all original footage without the narrator but done fantastically well and a serious eye opener if I were an American.

BobbyT28 · 09-03-2018 07:40AM

Probaby one of the best doc's i've watched.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152758/

Stab*City · 09-03-2018 10:46AM

bear1 wrote: »

LA92.
The los Angeles riots of 1992, all original footage without the narrator but done fantastically well and a serious eye opener if I were an American.

I watched this last night.. Still have to finish the last ten minutes or so. Was pretty well done i thought.. Man the 90's look so old now..

What did it open your eyes to?

jooksavage · 09-03-2018 11:07AM

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

It is a documentary. To have personal grudge as you say don't you have to know Bush the man? His documentary is commentary about his handling of the war on terror, the mess that was the Iraq war and Corporate media handling of the Iraq war, that's it.

Adam Curtis' Power of Nightmares is a more compelling, better researched account of the Neo-cons, al qaeda, 9/11, Iraq and the War on Terror. Though Curtis narrates the series, we never see him, he never draws attention to himself (I didn't know at the time that the narrator was also the filmmaker).

bear1 · 09-03-2018 11:41AM

Stab*City wrote: »

I watched this last night.. Still have to finish the last ten minutes or so. Was pretty well done i thought.. Man the 90's look so old now..

What did it open your eyes to?

That how from the mid 60s till the present time the states still haven't gotten to the point where the racial difference stops being a problem.
The 65 riot which seemed identical to the 92.
Then you have what happened in Charlotte I think it was.
That 15 year old girl who got shot in the head prior to the riots, I did have to wonder if she was white and the shooter black would the outcome have been different?
But Christ when they showed the start of the riots where the innocents were being beaten to death just for driving by was a disgrace

Stab*City · 09-03-2018 11:54AM

bear1 wrote: »

That how from the mid 60s till the present time the states still haven't gotten to the point where the racial difference stops being a problem.
The 65 riot which seemed identical to the 92.
Then you have what happened in Charlotte I think it was.
That 15 year old girl who got shot in the head prior to the riots, I did have to wonder if she was white and the shooter black would the outcome have been different?
But Christ when they showed the start of the riots where the innocents were being beaten to death just for driving by was a disgrace

The racial divide will never be sorted in America. There still lays way too much hatred on all sides and way to much inequality in general.

bear1 · 09-03-2018 12:00PM

Land of the free huh..

BelovedAunt · 09-03-2018 12:44PM

Crumb and An American Movie are the best documentaries ever made, IMO. Honourable mention for Hoop Dreams, Paradise Lost and The King of Kong.

Ilovethe bonesofyou · 09-03-2018 03:06PM

BelovedAunt wrote:

Crumb and An American Movie are the best documentaries ever made, IMO. Honourable mention for Hoop Dreams, Paradise Lost and The King of Kong.

American movie is hilarious. Mike is unreal in it.

BelovedAunt · 09-03-2018 03:17PM

Ilovethe bonesofyou wrote: »

American movie is hilarious. Mike is unreal in it.

I was thinking “this has to be a mockumentary” whenever he’s on camera!

wingsof daun · 09-03-2018 03:23PM

"Europa: The Last Battle" - An indepth look at modern european history.

WinnyThePoo · 09-03-2018 03:47PM

wingsof daun wrote: »

"Europa: The Last Battle" - An indepth look at modern european history.

Looked up that.
Only reviews are from redpill and stormfront. Good luck with that.

MagicIRL · 09-03-2018 03:48PM

Off the top of my head and in no particular order...

Icarus - Just won 2018 Oscar for Best Documentary
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
The Jinx
Dear Zachary
How to Survive the Plague
Blackfish
West of Memphis
Paradise Lost 1/2/3
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
The Seven Five
Citizenfour
Zeitgeist: The Movie
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Exit Through the Gift Shop

Capt'n Midnight · 11-03-2018 12:15AM

jmayo wrote: »

One of the great myths propagated by the Germans, particularly after the war was that it was only select groups i.e. SS, Gestapo, especially the Einsatzgruppen in the East that carried out the atrocities.
The Wehrmacht especially the Heer were more than aware and even cooperated with the Einsatzgruppen in their slaughters and roundups.

About 2.8 million Russian POWs died in the first six months of the war. In camps with no facilities, like shelter from the elements, death rates were about 1% per day. Most died of starvation and disease.

You just have to look what they did in Namibia at the start of the 20th century to see that the killing wasn't just by select groups.

greencap · 11-03-2018 01:24AM

Half watching this one below right now.

For the lulz.

Cant say its good or bad yet. But the lols come quick and plenty at the beginning.

Us men can be truly ridiculous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQsP0UUAKNo

Edit; after watching, a fun little light hearted documentary. nothing for the record books, but will give you a giggle. 7/10.

jooksavage · 11-03-2018 11:59AM

wingsof daun wrote: »

"Europa: The Last Battle" - An indepth look at modern european history.

Some problematic stuff in that "documentary", if you call I that. Which I wouldn't.

laoch na mona · 16-03-2018 03:46PM

wingsof daun wrote: »

"Europa: The Last Battle" - An indepth look at modern european history.

a neo Nazi propaganda piece, I recommend you read any basic book on the holocaust before watching docs which claim hitler wasn't that bad

valoren · 16-03-2018 04:04PM

OJ Made in America. Already mentioned but for the length of it the quality maintains throughout.
Also Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room for short form i.e. 90 minutes.

Chrongen · 16-03-2018 04:15PM

I would recommend this one, Authority and Expectations Pretty powerful:

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

Ajsoprano · 16-03-2018 04:16PM

The act of killing.

Nothing has a patch on it.

Ipso · 16-03-2018 04:51PM

wingsof daun wrote: »

"Europa: The Last Battle" - An indepth look at modern european history.

And after this glorious last battle, what will Europe revert back to?
People slaughtering each other in their hundreds of thousands because they aren't true Europeans.

bear1 · 17-03-2018 10:38PM

Got to hand it to Netflix, another cracker of a documentary.
Wild wild country.

anewme · 17-03-2018 11:28PM

bear1 wrote: »

Got to hand it to Netflix, another cracker of a documentary.
Wild wild country.

Going to watch it now.

Mrs cockett · 17-03-2018 11:42PM

The Shadow of Beal Na Blath

LETHAL LADY · 18-03-2018 12:12AM

Golden State Killer: It's Not Over
If you're interested in serial killer docs this new documentary is worth a watch. It's the story of the original night stalker which remains unsolved.
I'd heard of him but never really knew that much about his crimes.
Binge watched the four episodes late at night during the week and certainly gave me the heebie-jeebies anyway.
An all round horrible character so he was.

stevveyg · 18-03-2018 08:52AM

LETHAL LADY wrote:

Golden State Killer: It's Not Over If you're interested in serial killer docs this new documentary is worth a watch. It's the story of the original night stalker which remains unsolved. I'd heard of him but never really knew that much about his crimes. Binge watched the four episodes late at night during the week and certainly gave me the heebie-jeebies anyway. An all round horrible character so he was.

Oh that's funny I started this last night also. Fascinating stuff!!!
I only found out about this guy last week when i stumbled across the east area rapist casefile podcast. How he was never caught!!!

18-03-2018 08:58AM

valoren wrote: »

OJ Made in America. Already mentioned but for the length of it the quality maintains throughout.
Also Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room for short form i.e. 90 minutes.

Where can I view this? Not on Netflix

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