As per the title really, anyone seen anything worth a watch recently, clearly it must wholly portray a one sided argument as all the best ones do………

September Issue – it is about Vogue, but genuinely interesting
Page One: Inside the New York Times – does what it says on the tin
Helvetica – if you like your typefaces

The David Attenborough doc on Evolution is still on the i-player. Not exactly ground breaking stuff but done with his usual quiet authority.

Helvetica might be worth a watch, Chris Evans was banging on about a book about typefaces but didn’t realise there was a film also.

Saw one last week about food production in the USA which was interesting.

There is also one about the christian folk in the deep south i want to watch but i don’t know what its called if anyone can help out

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

Have a look http://www.documentarywire.com/ for inspiration.

‘Food Inc’ is very interesting

Hoop Dreams

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_Dreams

Man on Wire is absolutely fantastic.
Enron: The Smartest guys in the room.

Two off the top of my head, seriously though Man on Wire is amazing.

I’m wading through the documentaries on Netflix right now.
Really enjoyed “The King of Kong” which documents one mans battle to be seen as the worlds best player of Donkey Kong.
Saw Food Inc. Also good.

Senna is good….

Closer to the Edge:TT is also supposed to be good.

Exit through the gift shop was unexpectedly entertaining for reasons I didn’t expect.

Catfish is also supposed to interesting with a few twists

Dig is the story of the Brian Jonestone Massacre & the Dandy Warhols.

Or This is Spinal Tap….

Very much agree re Man On Wire. Excellent.

Touching The Void is excellent also. It’s more like a faithful dramatisation maybe…but very good.

Slight Hijack….Maybe

I have been trying to find a copy the documentary of the 2011 Patagonia Expedition Race called “the last wild race”. If anyone knows where I can get a copy of this I would be very grateful.

My searches of google have so far only found a site that will let me stream it once for 8 dollars, and my emails to the contact on the official site are going unanswered.

Thanks
Steve

Closer to the Edge is ace. Also enjoyed Inside Job, bit depressing though.

Just watched “Chasing Legends”. Really enjoyed it, good insight to Pro road racing.

Dark Days

Trinity and Beyond, about the invention, development and testing of atomic weapons. A truly stunning film!!

I’ve got ‘Inside Job’ lined up to watch. Think it makes you angry…

The future is unwritten by Julien Temple

‘Solo’

Andrew McAuley set out on his quest to become the first person to kayak from Australia to New Zealand.

or

TT Closer to the Edge.

Both will make you think a lot about life.

Talhotblonde

A warning about internet chat.

Recent documentary faves

TT – Closer to the edge

Oil City Confidential (Dr Feelgood by Julien Temple)

180 degrees south and bustin down the doors.

Enjoyed both of these a lot recently

Just finished Senna. Doesn’t do Prost any favours, does it? Good film, I’d enjoyed that races on a Sunday but missed the behind-the-scenes stuff. What a catastrophic weekend that was.

I loved this:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr7_4LrF8As[/video]

And if yer inter them reeadin’ books. you should get “PsychoVertical” and “Cold Wars” by Andy Kirkpatrick.

Funny and brutally honest. For me, funny because they’re brutally honest.

Very British!

I remember that McAuley documentary… Quite disturbing esp the bit where he’s in tears paddling away from his wife and child stood on the beach!

I recognised part of me in that clip- and I did not like what I saw!

Earthlings, narrated by Joaquin Pheonix is a fantastic watch – very i8nformative.

Watch the full film for free here.

Not for the faint hearted. Makes you think, and also significantly reduces the total of your next few supermarket bills (because the meat section makes you want to vomit).

Hell and Back Again (nominated for an oscar this year)

Series of docs currently airing of Al Jazeera called Working Mans Death (also online – check out the sulphur miners – hard as nails)

Three Rooms of Melancholia

The Boy who was a King

Wattstax

Slightly OT but ‘London’ ‘Robinson in Space’ and ‘Robinson in Ruins’. Factual films by a fictional documentary maker.

anything (everything in fact) by Albert and David Maysles

anything by True Vision, but especially ‘Evicted’

‘Solo’

Andrew McAuley set out on his quest to become the first person to kayak from Australia to New Zealand

I remember seeing this on TV a few years back. Painful and mesmerizing to watch. One of the best documentaries I have seen for a long time.

loudQUIETloud about The Pixies is a great music doc, especially if you like them.

One Day In September about the Munich Olympics massacre.

Riding Giants about big-wave surfing.

Klunkerz about MTBing’s early years.

All excellent IMO.

Ride the divide, beautiful locations and endurance riding, what’s not to like.

Grizzily Man is my fave.

Armadillo – about Danish forces in Afghanistan. Riveting, I will never forget the young guys eyes when he was shot and waiting for a medic.

(er, not for the subtitle-phobic)

have a look and Google “50 documenteries to see before I die” theres loads o crackers to choose from. ESPN Classic recently aired 30 from 30 a series of 30 sports docs, some of these were excellent. Watched Chasing Legends a few times, superb coverage of the HTC team on the 2009 tour de france

Good thread! Definitely some that I will add to the lovefilm list.

One of my faves is Scratch: the history of hip hop. Brilliant!

Who killed the electric car

Guess it’s on you tube.

50 documenteries to see before I die”

*wonders how many documentaries I’ve seen in a lifetime, and more specifically, having just booked accommodation for the this years Sheffield Doc Fest, whether I’m destined to view myself to an early grave*

http://www.sebmontaz.com/videos/237-i-believe-i-can-fly-flight-of-the-frenchies

that! only 5quid

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