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Documentary recommendation thread

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    #452
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,708 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120890773#Comment_120890773

    Also don't understand why he wouldn't just wear scuba gear!

    Overall an excellent documentary.

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    #453
    SimpleDimple
    Registered Users Posts: 183 ✭✭SimpleDimple


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120958971#Comment_120958971

    No scuba gear because you get the bends if you scuba that deep and come up that fast. It says it in the doc



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    #454
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,708 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120959001#Comment_120959001

    Ok but he didn't need to come up fast all he needed was to be on that rope when she came through, he wasn't.

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    SimpleDimple
    Registered Users Posts: 183 ✭✭SimpleDimple


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120959010#Comment_120959010

    It also says in the film that the most dangerous part of surfacing is the last 10m since your lungs expand back out the most there, and so pulls most the oxygen back from your blood, hence more likely to black out



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    JeffreyEpspeen
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭JeffreyEpspeen


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118853667#Comment_118853667

    Notice how much more of an effort the PSNI put in when the victim was a German and not Roman Catholic.



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    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 28,290 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Next tuesday 31st as part of the Storyville series, BBC4 will repeat a delightful documentary about the Truffle Hunters of Piedmont.

    Also on 31st on Sky Arts for Halloween there is documentary Dracula Unearthed focusing on representations of the iconic character on screen.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #458
    robwen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,306 ✭✭✭robwen


    https://twitter.com/dixipoppins/status/1722990950316745010?t=6vs_NNyafGiHBboOJFb9kA&s=19

    First episode was on last night Sky Documentaries very good, both episodes available on Sky



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    #459
    MacDanger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,388 ✭✭✭MacDanger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121362789#Comment_121362789

    Heard an ad for that and thought it sounded pretty tabloidy - I think the six killings are fairly widely acknowledged to be unrelated so I don't understand the premise of grouping them together on the basis that there was once a theory that they may have been related



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    robwen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,306 ✭✭✭robwen


    I've only watched the first episode & didn't find it tabloidy & they mention that 3 of the cases the Gardai know who the murderers are & the victims knew their murderer but the Gardai can't prove it



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    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,708 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Watched The Football Fraudster doc, worth a watch, conman taking people's money I find fascinating, amazing the neck they have.

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    JeffreyEpspeen
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭JeffreyEpspeen


    Watch The Hidden Hand on YouTube about British Army and govt collusion in the bombings in the south of Ireland in the 70s. It originally aired on British TV thirty years ago.



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    JeffreyEpspeen
    Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭JeffreyEpspeen


    And on that note.

    Documentary on psyops in NI during The Troubles.

    Fascinating.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z8FDPU-tDBU&pp=ygUoY29saW4gd2FsbGFjZSB0aGUgbWFuIHdobyBrbmV3IHRvbyBtdWNoIA%3D%3D




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    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 32,202 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Watching the lockerbie doc on sky currently 4 episodes in total, on episode 2 it is extremely well done, highly recommend it.



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    #465
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,708 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450123#Comment_121450123

    Yeah have seen this one it's excellent.

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    Atlantic Dawn
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450123#Comment_121450123

    Yes it's very good, I had always thought the case against the 2 Libyan men was watertight.



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    Atlantic Dawn
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    Murdered: Baby On The Beach, C4 have it on their online offering, I believe it may have been also on Virgin TV originally.

    It's about the Kerry babies trial. RTÉ have so much to answer for still bankrolling those directly involved in the case decades later for crime analysis, so much for Truth Matters and the organisation promoting itself to living on 99 Wokeville Avenue when it feels like it, seems that only applies to their own employees.



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    The Nal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,527 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Really enjoyed the Ronnie OSullivan doc.

    Watched the Sly, Arnie, Rooney and Beckham ones too and theyre all shite. Like a Hello mag interview in documentary form. Never good when the subject leads the movie.



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    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 28,290 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Stasi FC on Sky Documentaries is very good - it is a once off 90 minute documentary.

    It covers how the Stasi took over soccer in East Germany in the 1980s, taking out the competition on and off the pitch.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,708 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Escaping Twin Flames on Netflix is worth a watch. 3 episodes.

    Typical Netflix doc where reality is stranger than fiction, absolutely bizarre stuff which gets more odd as it goes along.

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    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,283 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    I've not seen enough WWII documentaries.

     World War II: From the Frontlines on Netflix. The restored footage.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz1rTZE9xgE


    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



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    #472
    Nigzcurran
    Registered Users Posts: 2,715 ✭✭✭Nigzcurran


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121476417#Comment_121476417

    Watched the first episode today and it's superb. The quality of the footage makes it feel like a movie sometimes. Excellent tv and can't wait for the next one



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    #473
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 32,202 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    The Met documentary series on the BBC is very good.



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    lucalux
    Registered Users Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭lucalux


    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10999260/?ref_=tt_urv

    A doc on life in Hoxton in London filmed over 3 years from 2015 to 2018

    Locals are candid about gentrification, Brexit, ageing, in an area being rapidly altered by outside investors, development and modern society changing

    On Prime



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    #475
    NIMAN
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    The Deepest Breath is excellent.



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    #476
    odyssey06
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    Ken Burns documentaries on American history are always top notch.

    Sky Documentaries are repeating The Vietnam War (starting today) and next week is his masterpiece series on the Civil War.

    BBC4 as part of Storyville will air first part of The Great American Buffalo on Tuesday 9th, which seems to be a new one.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 32,202 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Loved the BBC doc Caroline Aherne:queen of comedy.

    The royle family is one of my faves, but covers other parts of her career, doesnt shy away from tough periods of her life, an amazing talent gone far too soon.

    I knew she was extremely intelligent but didn't know her IQ was higher that Stephen Hawking!



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    #478
    NIMAN
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    I'm a big fan of Louis Theroux and all his BBC shows over the years.

    Been catching up on a lot of the older ones I had missed over the years on the bbc player, and discovered his more recent interviews with Anthony Joshua, Stormy and Pete Doherty.

    Never knew much about Stormzy, but came across as a real nice guy and likeable



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    #479
    LilacNails
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    Where did u find his old docs? Love LT.



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    #480
    dxhound2005
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    I suppose Inside the Factory is a sort of documentary. On 03 January 2024 9 pm BBC Two, Gregg Wallace is inside the Jelly Bean Factory in Dublin.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001txwp



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    S.M.B.
    Registered Users Posts: 9,358 ✭✭✭S.M.B.


    Pretty annoying that it took nearly two years for Q: Into the Storm to make its way from HBO to Sky Documentaries and I was tempted to give it a miss as a result. Glad I didn't as I thought it was excellent.



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