Dont really care what subject it’s on, just needs to be a good one. Have seen most of Attenborough’s stuff so none of that.

Inside Job – a look at the credit crunch
September Issue – behind the scenes at Vogue (better that it sounds!)
Helvetica – all about the font
Objectified – about design, lots of insights from top designers
Exit through the gift shop – street art

The world at war

One Day in September

The hour-long episode of one of Ray Mears’ series where he made a birch bark canoe in Canada. One of the finest hours of telly watching I’ve ever spent.

Hell and Back Again – Tuesday 10pm on More4.

Proper in-the-moment observational documentary, not the usual storyboarded, illustrated polemic

But see it on the big screen if you can, its popping up in cinemas here and there.

or Encounters at the End of the World
In fact, anything by Werner Herzog
Job Done!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9JDJdaMs-Y

Russian prison tattoos.

Ross Kemp Afghanistan series is good

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=546AUDxeHKs&feature=related[/video]

Old School – http://www.youtube.com/show?p=Di4J3JPjl7g&tracker=show_av

[video]http://vimeo.com/19731783[/video]
and
[video]http://vimeo.com/13972943[/video]
and
[video]http://vimeo.com/31326082[/video]

I am with Mulacs with Herzog.. save, i hate to say it, the cave of forgotten dreams and Wild Blue Yonder.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCFXeChXfcI[/video]

It Might Get Loud.
A view into the world of loving metal and wood.

Check out “The Fog of War : Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert McNamara”. Brilliant stuff.

Inside the Human Body or anything by Michael Mosley

A Sunday in Hell

Chasing Legends

A sunday in hell is excellent. I watched Thriller in Manila last night, recorded from C4 on Friday so may be available on demand, which I thought was very good and topical. Continuing that theme “When they were kings” was excellent as well.

EARTHLINGS Narrated by Joaquin Pheonix, but don’t let that put you off. Full length film and very watchable. It’ll make you question the shoes on your feet, the wool on your back and the meat on your plate. If you’re not donating to PETA after watching, in floods of guilty tears then either you’re SBZ or there’s something up with you.

Really enjoyed this, when it was on the other night:

Richard Grant’s American Nomads on iPlayer

BBC Four well worth keeping an eye on for good documentaries. Loads of good stuff on there.

Oh – yeah saw that and really, really enjoyed it. Reminded me there’s another way of life if I ever need it! Made me want to up and off with nothing but a knife and a $20 bill.

The How to Build series is quite good currently on BBC.

BBC4 – America in pictures – The story of Life magazine
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer/episode/b017svd6

I found the BBC Docu on Abram Lincoln, Saint or Sinner this week interesting.
His part in the whole civil war, slave trade and Indian lands given a new slant..

when we were kings is a favourite of mine about the rumble in the jungle.
there was a great one about big wave surfing on BBC4 the
other night called riding giants

Caught it on BBC 4 recently. The history of big wave surfing. Very humbling when you consider the price you pay when you get it wrong.

Man On Wire

The Flaw. shown on more 4 the other week. very interesting.

I saw Riding Giants last night, it was indeed awesome.

Man On Wire

+1, it’s awesome.

+1 Riding Giants.
More about the watching rather than the listening, if that makes any sense. Awsome footage.
Slightly different, Adam Curtiss has made some interesting stuff. Usually quite a rambling watch with loads of random interesting topics loosely related by a common underlying theme. The latest was “All watched over by machines of loving grace” but some of the earlier work was probably better.

Current TV channel just had a ,50 documentaries to see before you die, season. Some of it was superb. Some I’d seen before.

Supersize Me. (Prob already seen this one)

Jesus Camp. ( follows children at a christian summer camp. Genuinely frightning at times).

King of Kong. About 2 guys competing for the world record highest score in the old school Donkey Kong game. Sounds a bit naff, but it is absolutely riveting. Good vs bad, excitement and corruption!

Enron:The Smartest Guys in the Room. Well its about Enron and rather briliiant.

And as youre on a mtb forum, Krunkerz. Again you’ve probably seen it already though.

The Cove- absolutely shocking what the Japanese are doing

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KRD8e20fBo[/video]

+1 riding Giants, beautifully filmed in parts, had an insight into how these guys think when there was no surf, Hamilton looked lost, kinda when you can’t ride a bike for whatever reason and the weather is awesome.
Senna and closer to the edge may have to sneak into my weekly shop on Blu ray……………