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Best documentaries you have seen

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  • #92
    danish pasterys
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭danish pasterys


    Suprised no1 has mentioned this its on netflix its changed my life

    Food Matters
    http://youtu.be/r4DOQ6Xhqss


  • #93
    tinpib
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,623 ✭✭✭tinpib


    Chun Li wrote: »
    The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Hitman - Richard Kuklinski

    Yep, class. All 2hrs 20 mins on youtube too.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vn7Hz2PK7s


  • #94
    zetalambda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 822 ✭✭✭zetalambda


    Four great documentaries here related to heroin addiction and crime:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XfP58clo1I


    Update 2004:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBhDnVY0f08


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLIz4Ga3SQM


    The same guys filmed a decade later:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU1oONLlDVg


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r03oOoAfp4o


  • #95
    zetalambda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 822 ✭✭✭zetalambda


    The best documentary channel I've found on YouTube:

    https://www.youtube.com/user/journeymanpictures/videos


  • #96
    Mike Guide 69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,546 ✭✭✭Mike Guide 69


    Probably mentioned already but

    The Thin Blue Line - Errol Morris's brilliant documentary about Randall Davies who was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of a police officer. Was groundbreaking at the time, where it used cut away scenes , reenactments of witness statements and evidence

    Touching The Void - Great documentary about Joe Simpsons amazing survival in the Peruvian Andes , saw it in the cinema, not only was the story breathtaking but so was the cinematography!!!!


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  • #97
    LowOdour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭LowOdour


    Off the too of my head

    The Last Waltz
    King of Kong
    The Bridge
    Blackfish
    Shut Up and Play the Hits
    Bobby Fischer Against the World


  • #98
    Pug160
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭Pug160


    I used to like the Louis Theroux documentaries, but I don't see him on as much these days.


  • #99
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,467 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_174

    Captivated Brazil, watch to the end.


  • #100
    Gyalist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Gyalist


    Probably not the best documentaries that I've ever seen but certainly the most memorable recent ones:

    Fire In Babylon

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlCZwIOK-do


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbaI9xeMU-A


    Ostensibly about cricket, but really about much more than sport. Politics, culture, racism, pan-Africanism, apartheid, post-colonial identity - all explored and accompanied by a cracking soundtrack.


    Lost Land Of The Jaguar

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOIdpr30OL8


    Fascinating nature documentary of the part of the world where I grew up.


  • #101
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Some interesting ones here...

    How To Make Money Selling Drugs. New
    This is just the name of the Documentary. It's an insight into how far you make it in this field.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyNlgmN14L8


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    Assaulted - Civil Rights Under Fire New

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sodRczGdgU8


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    Circuits In Our Skies

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t2glWNeVyg


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  • #102
    zetalambda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 822 ✭✭✭zetalambda


    16 year old prostitute that went on to murder one of her clients:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLyenhWOwg8


  • #103
    newbie2013
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭newbie2013


    No one will find any better documentries than these.










  • #104
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    are the above videos only available from the fourth dimension ? because they don't work here ? maybe they were taken down. Can you fix them, thanks. I'm looking for some good ones.

    Try again in 30 minutes it says.


  • #105
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,979 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Shoah.


  • #106
    ricero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    The two escobars and touching the void


  • #107
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    King of Kong is easily the most over rated documentary out there. The film was edited in such a way that what you see is almost entirely false. I hate seeing it on lists like this, everyone in the film has said that it shouldn't even be classed as a documentary.


  • #108
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,978 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    District 9


  • #109
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Cocaine Cowboys (A huge part of Miami was built on coke)

    Or

    Bowling for Columbine (Highlights the insanity of American gun culture)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAouWXzi-1Q


  • #110
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    District 9

    Wasn't that a film. Never heard of a documentary on District 9. Hope they make a District 10 movie soon, good flick.


  • #111
    DMcL1971
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,445 ✭✭✭DMcL1971


    Dogtown and Z-Boys: A documentary about the origins of skateboarding. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP9EMH6R50w

    Pandora's Promise: About why nuclear power isn't as bad as it is portrayed and may be the only hope for the future. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDw3ET3zqxk

    The Crash Reel: The story of a snowboarder who suffers a traumatic brain injury and his attempts to recover. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj0vY2Nymqw


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  • #112
    rwg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 445 ✭✭rwg


    Bobby Fischer against the world - fascinating


  • #113
    yayabalexreya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭yayabalexreya


    Touching the void.


  • #114
    DMcL1971
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,445 ✭✭✭DMcL1971


    All of the Adam Curtis Documentaries.

    The Century Of The Self (2002)
    The Power Of Nightmares (2004)
    The Trap-What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom (2007)
    All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)


  • #115
    ahnowbrowncow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,591 ✭✭✭ahnowbrowncow


    It's a short video of Irish boxer Kevin Mc Bride eight years after he beat Mike Tyson. Just thought I'd throw it up here.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8UNPhQnA1g


  • #116
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,978 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    zenno wrote: »
    Wasn't that a film. Never heard of a documentary on District 9. Hope they make a District 10 movie soon, good flick.
    and there was me thinking it was about second class citizens living a ghetto


  • #117
    wytch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭wytch


    I'm surprised no one has listed "The Cove" yet with all the mentions of Blackfish. I haven't seen Blackfish yet. The Cove is hard to watch, but worthwhile. Very much an eye opener. www.imdb.com/title/tt1313104/


  • #118
    A_Sober_Paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A_Sober_Paddy


    wytch wrote: »
    I'm surprised no one has listed "The Cove" yet with all the mentions of Blackfish. I haven't seen Blackfish yet. The Cove is hard to watch, but worthwhile. Very much an eye opener. www.imdb.com/title/tt1313104/

    Blackfish is good just finished it there after so many people on this thread mentioned it, I've always been against animals in zoo's and waterpark's it just reinforced that in me


  • #119
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,966 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    wytch wrote: »
    I'm surprised no one has listed "The Cove" yet with all the mentions of Blackfish. I haven't seen Blackfish yet. The Cove is hard to watch, but worthwhile. Very much an eye opener. www.imdb.com/title/tt1313104/

    The Cove is one that I know I should watch. I know what's in it though and I just can't bring myself to do it because I know I would find it extremely upsetting.


  • #120
    enfant terrible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,764 ✭✭✭enfant terrible


    mauzo! wrote: »
    King of Kong and Extasy of order are good too.

    My OH made me watch them, ones about Donkey Kong and I'm still not sure if it was a pisstake. And ones about Tetris which I'm unbeleavable at and made me want to enter a competition :o

    Ya apparently King of Kong was set up from the start i.e staged.


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  • #121
    tim3000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭tim3000


    Dont know if these have been mentioned but Prof. Niall Fergusons "The Ascent of Money" is well worth a watch also as is his "The War of the World"



    Also The Great War. The best documentary series I have yet seen on WW1.



    P.S. for those who cant watch those for whatever reason there is a great extension for Chrome called Hola Unblocker. It allows you to watch region locked stuff. Its a documentary lovers dream :)


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