Documentary recommendation thread

An account of the two women convicted of assassinating Kim Jong-un's half-brother, Kim Jong-nam. Were they trained killers or simply pawns?

Deleted User wrote: »

Watched Sherpa on Netflix last night and it was excellent. Some great shots of Everest, learned a lot about the Sherpa people, and encountered one of the most arrogant displays of US arrogance ever seen.

marklazarcovic wrote: »

you must.

completedit wrote: »

Someone mentioned here on Boards how this case and the fascination surrounding it is just a modern for of gossip and curtain twitching. True Crime is such a strange mass appeal cultural phenomenon of our times.

I can see it being something that future generations will find odd and bizarre.

cloudatlas wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLgGoT7v3ro

In 2015, a fire at Bucharest's Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists....Following journalists, whistle-blowers, burn victims, and government officials, Collective is an uncompromising look at the impact of investigative journalism at its best.

Just finished watching this. It was very well shot, I felt like I was sitting next to the journalists and sitting in the minister of health's office. The journalists are great characters.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I watched Sherpa tonight and was absolutely gobsmacked when one of the Western climbers said “There’s no way you can talk to their owners?”. Owners? Like the Sherpa are donkeys. Or slaves. Not fellow human beings. And he seemed totally oblivious to the dehumanising thing he had just said. :mad:

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

That was awful. I couldn’t believe he said to them “People see you as happy and smiling and these few are ruining your reputation”. I couldn’t believe he was saying the “happy and smiling” view of them was a good thing. So patronising, like they’re simpletons rather than complex humans. That betrayed a colonial mindset on his part. And there was no indication at all that anyone had threatened the Sherpas with violence so to have to sit there and listen to that must have been galling. I’d say plenty was said by the Sherpas in Nepalese about Brice behind his back.

I don’t see how he was protecting his team from blame. I think he threw them under the bus and chickened out of explaining to his clients that the Sherpas just didn’t want to climb after the awful tragedy. I bet they were also worried about the stability of the icefall after that huge serac fell off. He kept calling them irrational but there was nothing irrational about being devastated by such a tragedy and worried for their safety. I didn’t quite catch what he was saying about having to pay for rope and other equipment himself. That seemed to another factor in him cancelling the expedition but he said nothing about that to the Westerners.

It’s funny, if the tragedy hadn’t happened and had just continued as a documentary about scaling Everest from the Sherpas’ point of view, I think Brice would have come out of it looking good. In the first half of the documentary, he came across well. But his true colours came out when stress hit. The documentary gave him and the Westerners enough rope to hang themselves with but the caption at the end about Brice was complimentary so Peedom still seemed to want Brice to be seen in a positive light.