Best documentaries you have seen

dasdog · 27-07-2021 02:33AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9efHwnFAkuA

Physeter · 27-07-2021 04:19AM

Irish: Making the Grade, Fortune's Wheel

Netflix: Murder Mountain, Ken Burn's series on Vietnam, Cuba and the Cameraman, Searching for Sugarman, Beware of Mr. Baker, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Wild Wild Country

YouTube: Rainy in Glenageary, Dear Zachary (Don't google the ending, just watch it.. incredible).

Nature: The Private Life of Plants, Life of Insects (Social Insects episode particularly), Blackfish, My Octopus Teacher, Grizzly Man, The Cove, Earthlings, The Last Ocean, Who Killed the Honey Bee

Misc: Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Happy People, Sicko, Bowling for Columbine, Some Kind of Monster, Anvil - The Story of Anvil

poisonated · 27-07-2021 05:41AM

I saw an interesting one called “why we hate”. I though that was interesting. Another one that is not easy viewing but very good all the same called “active shooter:America under fire”.

kefflin · 27-07-2021 06:13AM

1997 living with the lions is excellent and very topical. One of the best sports documentaries I've seen.

silliussoddius · 27-07-2021 01:50PM

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Given that post, I recommend Touching the Void. You won’t go near a steep incline after watching it.

Suckler · 27-07-2021 02:04PM

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If there was a film plot like Touching the Void you'd say it was completely unrealistic. Unbelievable escape.

olestoepoke · 27-07-2021 02:08PM

I think one of the best docs I've seen in the last couple of years was the BBC one on the Iraqi war "Once upon a time in Iraq"

stanley1 · 31-12-2022 01:57PM

Moonage Daydream, Brett Morgan's far out Bowie bio.

cj maxx · 31-12-2022 02:05PM

The Summit. K2 the killer mountain. About the 2008 disaster. Also Fee Solo.

A few good docs on Storyville

Yurt2 · 01-01-2023 03:34PM

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The Summit is a great if heartbreaking watch. The Irish climber showed amazing guts and selflessness trying to save people. What a tragedy he lost his life. He could have saved his own skin but showed his character and went back to help climbers not even on his team.

cj maxx · 01-01-2023 03:40PM

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Rip Ger McDonnell ( I think) The climbers he untangled from ropes made it down iirc.

Yurt2 · 01-01-2023 03:44PM

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That's the name. Saw another doc where he summited Everest with an Irish team. A man who respected the mountains and the Sherpas who make high-altitude mountaineering possible (not always the case with foreign climbers).

An all too short life well-lived.

Suckler · 10-03-2023 02:18PM

I watched 'Grizzly Man' again; It's a strange one, I remember I enjoyed it the first time but now it's more and more obvious the guy had a lot of issues. How his partner Amie went up there with him is beyond me. His ranting and raving, distorted views on life/nature/civilisation are pitiful.

Ger Roe · 11-03-2023 12:17PM

I am watching 'Murder in The Pacific' at the moment ... about the bombing of the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, in Aukland harbour in 1985.

The first episode tells of the early nuclear bomb tests in the region and explains how The Rainbow Warrior was used by Greenpeace to re-locate an entire community (300 people) off an an atoll that had been heavily contaminated by an American test blast. The Americans didn't relocate the community (nor compensate them) and instead used to visit the atoll regularly to monitor the health conditions of the population, for their own research purposes.

The documentary then explains the background as to why the French secret service bombed the boat and how the NZ police force managed to catch the people concerned.

Worth a look.

Potential-Monke · 12-03-2023 01:35AM

The Murdaugh Murders was quite good imo. I was only aware of the shooting in 2021. Didn't know about the rest. Epitome of humanity right there!

hoodie6029 · 12-03-2023 06:10PM

Four Hours at the Capitol.

Particularly harrowing as a Police Officer pleads for his life as he is set on by the mob. Anyone who wishes to express a political opinion or start a movement should have to watch this documentary to see the possible consequences of their words.

The Social Dilemma by the Centre for Humane Technology.

silliussoddius · 12-03-2023 07:11PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120350120#Comment_120350120

Calling those okygen deprived simpletons a movement is giving them too much credit. Really shows that the internet is more harmul to grown ups than children.

Brid Hegarty · 27-03-2023 07:57PM

Watched 'Fat Fiction' the other day. This documentary claims that the calories in / out model doesn't work, but fails to explain why. All I heard was "oh it's not a physics problem... it's a biology problem". It instead proposes the carbohydrate insulin hypothesis of weight gain.

RayCon · 28-03-2023 01:18PM

Netflix : Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure: Otway the Movie - This documentary chronicles the colorful life of singer-songwriter John Otway, his relentless optimism and his hairbrained schemes to mount a comeback.

Really enjoyed it. Funny and eccentric.

Piper101 · 30-03-2023 01:59PM

daughters of destiny...it's about a school in India. Fascinating story. Makes me sob.

DownByTheGarden · 30-03-2023 02:21PM

Dear Zachary (Do not google this one before watching)

I'll be gone in the night

Paradise lost (3 of them) Probably dont google this either

cj maxx · 30-03-2023 09:00PM

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i googled all of them, Paradise Lost looks great . How do you watch it?

NIMAN · 30-03-2023 09:08PM

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Should that middle one be DARK instead or NIGHT?

DownByTheGarden · 30-03-2023 09:25PM

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Yes you are right. Thankyou.

NIMAN · 31-03-2023 01:57AM

I'd heard the title Dear Zachery a few times over the years, never got round to watching it until a few weeks back.

Jez, what a story. And how shocking was it?

Lola40 · 31-03-2023 04:37AM

I don’t post very often, but I am a massive fan of documentaries. The best one that I have seen to date is called “Life of Crime 1984-2020”. It’s on Sky and possibly other streaming platforms.

It follows 3 people from the “wrong side of the tracks” from Newark, New Jersey for 36 years. It checks in with them intermittently over the time frame and shows how being born into a society with lawless and poverty can have such a profound affect on the trajectory your life. The drug addiction portrayed in it is harrowing and incredibly sad. Such a powerful documentary. I’m dying for some other people to watch it, so we can talk about it!

Here’s the Guardian’s review on it:

https://amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/nov/30/life-of-crime-hbo-documentary-drugs-crime