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Documentary recommendation thread

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  • #632
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,584 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Sirius an Apocalyptic Order (BBC4)

    French language with English subtitles on the activities of the cult in France, Switzerland and Quebec which culminated in the deaths of dozens of members in mid 1990s

    2 episodes aired Tuesday with another 2 next Tuesday.

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



  • #633
    MacDanger
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    Pogrom Bheal Feirste on TG4, about the violence against catholics/nationalists in the early 1920s



  • #634
    thereiver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,437 ✭✭✭thereiver


    If you like 70, 80,s music yacht rock a documentary Hbo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a55pyQsI3GQ



  • #635
    robwen
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122825067#Comment_122825067

    This will be available from December 28th on Sky Documentaries



  • #636
    The Nal
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122959742#Comment_122959742

    Its a grim watch.

    Enjoyed the Yacht Rock doc. Somuch bad music in there though.

    Menendez Brothers doc is good.

    Bit ong as usual

    https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/netflix/lyle-erik-menendez-netflix-documentary-248777-20240923



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  • #637
    Odelay
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    Secret Billionaire: The Chuck Feeney Story

    Not sure if it is posted already, but it is interesting viewing.



  • #638
    Mantis Toboggan
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    Thought the Jerry Springer doc on Netflix was very good. I watched the show every now and then but didn't quite realize how nuts it was.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • #639
    gmisk
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    Boyzone: No Matter What

    Only watched episode 1 but very interesting doc, Louis Walsh coming across as the horrible creep he is as expected.



  • #640
    witchgirl26
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123131023#Comment_123131023

    I binged watched this the other night. As a Boyzone fan back in the day, I was always going to watch it but my other half even found it interesting. Both of us came out of it having a very low opinion of Louis Walsh. He came across as just a horrible, sly little man.



  • #641
    robwen
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    Free Solo (2018) is on BBC 2 tonight 11.05pm

    Professional rock climber Alex Honnold attempts to conquer the first free solo climb of famed El Capitan's 900-metre vertical rock face at Yosemite National Park.



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  • #642
    Man Vs ManUre
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123144468#Comment_123144468

    A great film and arguably the greatest sporting achievement in history.



  • #643
    PsychoPete
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    Watched Surviving Black Hawk Down last night, grim viewing as you'd expect but it's very well made and didn't feel like the typical we are the good guys US propaganda as they were far from it. You hear from Rangers,Delta Force and some Somalians so get both sides of it



  • #644
    gmisk
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    Bbc have new (at least to me) episodes of the excellent Murder Trial, they have actual footage of trials in Scottish courts. Very well made and interesting watches.

    • Girl in the river (two part)
    • Body in the warehouse


  • #645
    Nigzcurran
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    Great doc on the rte player about the Steve Collins v Chris Eubank Mill street fight

    Time is contagious, everybody is getting old.



  • #646
    The Nal
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123175827#Comment_123175827

    Really good. Youd forget how much of Collins McGregor ripped off.



  • #647
    Nigzcurran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭Nigzcurran


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123176112#Comment_123176112

    Yep big time. At least Collins went on to defend his belt!

    Time is contagious, everybody is getting old.



  • #648
    The Nal
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    Really enjoyed this

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebaltin/2025/02/13/sly-stone-lives-in-brilliant-questlove-directed-documentary/



  • #649
    The Black Oil
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    Kevin Costner with a 3 part series, Yellowstone to Yosemite.

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

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



  • #650
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,261 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin.

    Documentary on the sinking of the Kursk and subsequent Russian approach to the rescue. On NowTV...

    https://youtu.be/K6xbD_T-brQ


  • #651
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,584 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    A new documentary from Adrian Munsey for Sky Arts: Science Fiction in the Atomic Age, looks at the evolution of the science fiction genre in literature. Starts Thursday 3rd April.

    I thought his previous "Wonderland" documentaries for Sky Arts were very good.

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



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  • #652
    donnacha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭donnacha


    Been following this thread for awhile - thanks for all the recommendations. I did come across a documentary streaming site via a reddit thread and thought I'd share: https://www.docplus.com/



  • #653
    Mantis Toboggan
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    Twister on Netflix I thought was very good especially if you're into weather events docs, although I think this one is a cut above most.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • #654
    Nigzcurran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭Nigzcurran


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123318552#Comment_123318552

    Thought it was only ok to be honest. Watchable but was hoping for more proper footage with the amount of cameras around

    Time is contagious, everybody is getting old.



  • #655
    gmisk
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    Channel 4 documentary series Barristers is an interesting watch.

    No idea how that taxi driver got off...why would he have had a series of video calls with the drug smugglers?!? Give me a break.



  • #656
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,261 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Germanwings: What happened on flight 952, it went up on NowTV yesterday. I remember this crash well when it happened and the blame that went straight on to the co-pilot that he crashed the plane deliberately. After watching this you can't help think there may have been more to it that was covered up.

    The documentary explores the possibility that a catastropic electronic failure which they replicated, smoke in the cockpit or a medical event for the co-pilot and additionally a fault with the secure door code when the pilot wanted to regain access could have caused the incident if they occured together. The chances of these specific rare events happening at the very same time as the pilot leaves the flight deck is up there with me winning the Euromillions tomorrow.

    What was strange is that the original cockpit voice audio that was 'revealed' by the French investigators in the days after the crash was never released to the public or families of the deceased, it was supposed to have been audible that the pilot was shouting out to the co-pilot "For God's sake, open the door!". Surely the audio should have been released and it would give the families some comfort.

    The families were returned personal affects from their relatives that were recovered from the crash scene, this included wallets and electronic devices. Some of the items were relatively intact but all of the electronic devices like phones and cameras had no data on them. The families had the devices examined and said the data on them had been deliberately deleted and not destroyed as a result of the crash, same with the SIM cards for the phones. There's about 10 minutes from the time the pilot attempts to gain access to the flight deck until the plane crashes, it's likely passengers would have been making recordings of what was unfolding and some of this has to have been recoverable.



  • #657
    The Nal
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    Looking forward to this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD3J2jznG34


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