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Documentary recommendation thread

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  • #32
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,278 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Channel 4 tonight Saturday the 21st of March at 9pm.

    Diego Maradona.



  • #33
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,859 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    Channel 4 tonight Saturday the 21st of March at 9pm.

    Diego Maradona.


    I'm not into football but I love personal stories so will watch this. It's got great reviews.


  • #34
    flower tattoo
    Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭flower tattoo


    Just started The Tiger King on Netflix
    I'm engrossed after one episode


  • #35
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,859 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    flower tattoo wrote: »
    Just started The Tiger King on Netflix
    I'm engrossed after one episode

    Friend just text me about that. Said theres not one sane person in it.


  • #36
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Both trailers might give away a bit too much. Honest liar is about James Randi (famous magician and skeptic) 2nd about national enquirer in the US




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  • #37
    enricoh
    Registered Users Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Tt3d - a documentary following guy Martin and a few other road racers competing at the isle of man. It's on YouTube , not sure bout Netflix.


  • #38
    Blondie919
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭Blondie919


    enricoh wrote: »
    Tt3d - a documentary following guy Martin and a few other road racers competing at the isle of man. It's on YouTube , not sure bout Netflix.

    You should check out Speed is my Need on Netflix


  • #39
    bcklschaps
    Registered Users Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭bcklschaps


    The Staircase ...its about true crime and is available on YouTube, very good.


  • #40
    MrSquishSquash
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭MrSquishSquash


    A few of those I enjoyed I can remember:

    The Fog of War - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hcAyzbMvF7k

    The World at War (1973) - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4g4ZZNC1E Approx 20+ hours

    There was a great one on Napoleon & another on the formation of Russia I've forgotten but if it comes to mind I will post them.


  • #41
    maudgonner
    Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Blondie919 wrote: »
    You should check out Speed is my Need on Netflix


    Road, about the Dunlop brothers, is amazing, even if you have no interest in bikes or motorsport.


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  • #42
    RichT
    Registered Users Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭RichT


    Two not mentioned yet, but very good IMO......

    The Keepers
    The Keepers is a seven-episode American documentary web series that explores the unsolved murder of nun Sister Cathy Cesnik, who taught English and drama at Baltimore's Archbishop Keough High School, and her former students' belief that there was a cover-up by authorities after Cesnik suspected that a priest at the school, A. Joseph Maskell, was guilty of sexual abuse of students

    Had to resist the urge to throw something at the TV screen when I watched The Keepers. Very very frustrating watch!


    The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
    From Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling (the Oscar nominees behind Capturing the Friedmans), comes The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, a six-part examination of the reclusive millionaire at the heart of three killings spanning four decades.

    Robert Durst, the scion of a New York real estate empire, has long been a suspect in the notorious 1982 disappearance of his wife, Kathie. Further suspicion was raised with the unsolved killing of his confidante, Susan Berman, thought to be a key witness in the investigation into Kathie's disappearance in 2000, as well as the subsequent killing and dismemberment of a neighbor in Galveston, Texas. Durst has consistently maintained his innocence.]


  • #43
    Mike Guide 69
    Registered Users Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Mike Guide 69


    Watching the Diego Maradona documentary on channel 4 ,made by the same crowd who did the brilliant documentary on Senna.

    Like Senna ,Maradona documentary has loads of personal footage which gives a unique insight into his flawed genius.Some of the stuff he was doing off the pitch when he was playing for Napoli was unreal

    There’s even commentary from the late great Jimmy Magee on a World Cup Match at Italia 90 in the documentary........


  • #44
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    No Stone Unturned 2017
    1994 Loughinisland massacre.

    Dir; Alex Gibney


  • #45
    zweton
    Registered Users Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭zweton


    Mike Guide 69 wrote: »
    Watching the Diego Maradona documentary on channel 4 ,made by the same crowd who did the brilliant documentary on Senna.

    Like Senna ,Maradona documentary has loads of personal footage which gives a unique insight into his flawed genius.Some if the stuff he was doing off the pitch when he was playing for Napoli was unreal

    There’s even commentary from the late great Jimmy Magee on a World Cup Match at Italia 90 in the documentary........

    Just finished watching this...wow so good.


  • #46
    Mic 1972
    Registered Users Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    Mike Guide 69 wrote: »
    Watching the Diego Maradona documentary on channel 4 ,made by the same crowd who did the brilliant documentary on Senna.

    Like Senna ,Maradona documentary has loads of personal footage which gives a unique insight into his flawed genius.Some of the stuff he was doing off the pitch when he was playing for Napoli was unreal

    There’s even commentary from the late great Jimmy Magee on a World Cup Match at Italia 90 in the documentary........


    Maradona is one of the best documentaries i watched last year, i loved everything about it, from the money/drugs/corruption/self-destruction to the 80s real footage giving a sense of that that incredible decade really was about


  • #47
    Mic 1972
    Registered Users Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    RichT wrote: »
    Two not mentioned yet, but very good IMO......

    The Keepers

    The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst


    I started The Jinx last night and I'm totally hooked already


  • #48
    QueenRizla
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭QueenRizla


    flower tattoo wrote: »
    Just started The Tiger King on Netflix
    I'm engrossed after one episode

    I’ve watched so many documentary series and loved them like The Jinx, the Stair Case, making a murderer etc.
    Tiger King is far and away the most crazy, nut job Filled roller coaster of a ride. Maybe it’s quarantine but Jesus Netflix have pulled it out of the bag. Have to pause and process it all. I thought they were actors at first.its absolutely mental.


  • #49
    Michellenman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    Mic 1972 wrote: »
    I started The Jinx last night and I'm totally hooked already

    I’ve watched all the episodes at least 4 times over the years and my heart still races in the last episode, you’re in for a treat.


  • #50
    Mic 1972
    Registered Users Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    Michellenman wrote: »
    I’ve watched all the episodes at least 4 times over the years and my heart still races in the last episode, you’re in for a treat.


    that's what i heard, no spoiler please!!!! :D


  • #51
    Roanmore
    Registered Users Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Roanmore


    Watched a few over the last week

    The Jinx - superb
    Tell me who I am - tough watch, pretty messed up. About identical twins, one has an accident and loses his memory, the other twin fills him in on their life but all is not as it seems
    The Pharmacist - Again tough watch, starts off with a guy trying to find his sons killer and leads in to the whole opioid crisis. The main guy is a hero but at times he'd annoy the hell out of you. It's shocking how Oxycontin really took the US by storm
    Andy Murray - Resurfacing: He's not everyones cup of tea but this is excellent about the hip operations he has and his rehabilitation. Was close to home for us as my wife had similar operations although she didn't try to play professional tennis afterwards :D

    Kidnapped in plain sight - wow, that it was a parody first, shocking when you discover how it is real


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  • #52
    zweton
    Registered Users Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭zweton


    Mic 1972 wrote: »
    Maradona is one of the best documentaries i watched last year, i loved everything about it, from the money/drugs/corruption/self-destruction to the 80s real footage giving a sense of that that incredible decade really was about

    Watched this last night absolutely loved it. Just goes to show how quick people can turn on you.


  • #53
    Nate--IRL--
    Registered Users Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭Nate--IRL--


    QueenRizla wrote: »
    I’ve watched so many documentary series and loved them like The Jinx, the Stair Case, making a murderer etc.
    Tiger King is far and away the most crazy, nut job Filled roller coaster of a ride.

    Holy **** you weren't kidding! Just when you think it couldn't possibly get any crazier, it turns it up to eleven every time.

    Nate


  • #54
    zweton
    Registered Users Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭zweton


    Mic 1972 wrote: »
    I started The Jinx last night and I'm totally hooked already

    Is the Jinx on Netflix ?


  • #55
    Mic 1972
    Registered Users Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭Mic 1972


    zweton wrote: »
    Is the Jinx on Netflix ?


    HBO ...or Piratebay


  • #56
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,278 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    zweton wrote: »
    Is the Jinx on Netflix ?

    NowTv and SkyGo.


  • #57
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 17,652 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Mic 1972 wrote: »
    HBO ...or Piratebay

    Sky crime

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • #58
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room is a great documentary as well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w6duQhWuVk


  • #59
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Any of the Adam Curtis documentaries, or the Metanoia ones..


  • #60
    Tipsy McSwagger
    Registered Users Posts: 9,065 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    Muppet Man wrote: »
    12 sports documentaries listed here on RTEs website

    Some of which are already mentioned above by other folks

    No Hoop Dreams though which could arguably be the greatest documentary of any genre


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  • #61
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    I know this has been mentioned already but I have to say, if you want a rollercoaster ride, this is probably my favourite documentary.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXoRdSTrR-4


    Where it starts off and where it goes is just crazy. Love the graphics they do about the Russian cheating in Sochi as well.


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