I do love a good doc. Recently I enjoyed Icarus on Netflix, great watching. I loved making a murderer too.
Nothing earth shattering but keen to see more good ones, so any recommendations from the collective?
You've been trumped .
Forrest Gump 🙂
The keepers on netflix. Like making a murderer but with the catholic church..
Confessions has just turned up on netflix. Watched episodes one and two (covering the same case) and they were quite good. There are also 4 or 5 storyvilles on iPlayer catch up (they're under category: film rather than factual though.
Storyville: Death on the Staircase (on iplayer)
I was going to post Man On Wire. Totally gripping.
The Bridge.
I could not believe what I was seeing.
Compelling and pretty heartbreaking documentary about jumpers on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Blackfish and where to invade next are both pretty good.
The Bridge.
I could not believe what I was seeing.
Compelling and pretty heartbreaking documentary about jumpers on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Completely agree. Great doc.
I was going to post Man On Wire. Totally gripping.
+1 from me as well. Very beautifully put together too.
Dark Days. It's old but it's good. In fact, having discovered it's on Netflix I might just watch it again now. It's about people living in subway tunnels. If you can find 'the making of' it bonus feature from the DVD, that's almost as good as the film itself.
I saw the storyville silk road one; fantastic. Seen man on wire; great. Very much enjoyed [i]the men who made us fat[/i] and [i]inside job[/i] both informative and well told.
Has there been one about the british intelligence and the french exocets? I'd love to hear that story.
Grizzly Man
Waltz with Bashir is very good.
All this mayhem - if you like skateboarding
Valley uprising - if you like climbing
I thought the 'secrets of quantum physics' 2 part documentary was very good, and easy to grasp. Well worth a watch if you like science stuff.
Waltz with Bashir is very good.
Where can I find this ?
Israeli friend recomended it to me but he only had a copy in Hebrew with no subtitles.
I always thought there should be a documentary thread on here. Let's hope this keeps going
Where can I find this ?
It was on Netflix a bit ago. I'll check now
Edit - not there now. It's well worth finding a copy though
Cocaine cowboys, 80's Miami cocaine trade.
The Bridge.
Just watched it after the recommendations, loved it.
There was a nuclear bomb thread awhile back, there's a good few documentaries on YouTube
Man on wire is ace.
Storyville killer summit.
BBC four one about eiger was very good.
All of the Louis Theroux docs on Netflix!
Solo: Lost at Sea
On Netflix some of my favourites are:
Only the Dead - in depth look at the Iraq war, well worth a watch due to how mental the situation is for the journalist
Nobody Speak - about Hulk Hogan and the trial regarding his sex tape, has a very interesting twist
Gringo - a slow watch but a crazy story about the founder of Macafee antivirus software
A Sinner in Mecca - interesting look at the pilgrimage of a gay man to Mecca
Not on Netflix but The Cove is a great watch as well.
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/ab620fba-1151-4565-959d-389041dfc15c ]Sex, Drugs and Murder: Life in the red light zone[/url]
Sad, uplifting, bonkers, and brilliantly produced.
Hopefully all the episodes are still available on iplayer
Another vote for "Storyville: Death on the Staircase". Genuinely gripping TV, and one of those stories where truth is definitely stranger than fiction.
Only a few weeks left to watch the eight episodes on iPlayer, but I guarantee you'll plough through them quickly if you start watching. I would recommend not reading anything about the case before watching it.
In a similar vein, "Making a Murderer" is another astonishing true story.
Agree Waltz with Bashir is brilliant, a dark part of Israel's history that isn't spoken about. Pretty harrowing though.
Surprised no one has mentioned Adam Curtis, probably the best analysis of the last 50 years of western foreign policy in the middle East and beyond
On iPlayer, not just a documentary but also amazingly well made
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04bkttz/episodes/player
£15 (in Sainsbury) will buy you the restored DVD edition of "The World At War" and all the associated programmes; In my view documentaries don't get any better than this.
We also watched "102 Minutes that changed America" (More 4) last night about the 9/11 attacks; that was pretty incredible too!
Cry Freetown
[url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2400291/ ]The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young[/url]
You can ride your bike a long way, right? You've got pretty good endurance, right? Well watch this doc about a ridiculous set of marathons in the Tennessee woods and see how wrong you are.
'Making A Murderer'
Genuinely shout at the telly stuf, I found it totally absorbing/sickening in equal measures. Read rumblings of a Season 2 released this year?
Been out for a while but The Imposter is a brilliant documentary.
Another vote for "The Grizzly Man": Werner Hertzog
"My Scientology Film": Louis Theroux.
"Hell's Angel": Chris Hitchens.
Slaying the Badger. Not a euphemism but the story of Greg LeMond's 1986 Tour De France victory over Bernard Hinault. Worth a watch
"The Grizzly Man". Is that the one where the guy hangs out with wild bears and tells them off like children when they are bit aggressive? I assume he is dead now.
I recommend pretty much anything in Storyville. The OJ series was outstanding.
edit: he is dead
[i]"Storyville: Death on the Staircase"[/i]
Cool, will look out for this.
Best Storyville I've seen is
"Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington"
See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zq89v
Which has led me to
http://restrepothemovie.com/
Must watch that.
Thread added to favourites
Barkley Marathons doc is brilliant. One of the few that I've gone back to watch again.
Man vs Snake was weirdly entertaining as well despite the somewhat geeky subject matter.
I enjoyed Berkeley marathons, and valley uprising, for a couple of sports docs. Lots of BBC natural history docs and series on netflix, soem lesser known ones "Wild Arabia", "the great rift" and "Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands" are good.
I assume he is dead now.
He died at the end of the film, what they didn't release is how he screamed for about 20-30 minutes as the bear ate him (which was recorded). That's the thing with bears they don't kill you straight away like a big cat would striking your neck. Bears just eat you alive, they don't care about your screams, horrible way to go.
I also found Mark Beaumont's first cycle round the world series quite interesting, as he turned from appearing to be at first a spoiled middle class brat, to become a rather likeable adventurer.
Search Dogwoof company that specialises in docs & made quite a few of the most high profile ones inc Blackfish
Everything's Werner Herzog has made is near brilliant.
Cameraperson
13th (shocking indictment of racist America 1 in 3 black males born toady end up in jail)
Zero days (story of the stuxnet virus & US & Israeli intelligence sabotaging irans nuclear programe)
The Other Side (brutal, raw & disturbing looking at white underclass in Louisiana)
OJ - already mentioned but truly compelling
Whitney (she never stood a chance)
Tales of a Grim Sleeper.
“Capturing the Friedmans” – American doc regarding a teacher (and a number of his sons) accused of abusing pupils. A lot of the content was culled from the family’s huge collection of home movies, which they kept filming during the ensuing media hysteria and the trials. Very skilfully directed. Just as your view begins to crystallise as the evidence stacks up, something utterly unexpected crops up and pulls the rug out from under your feet.
Also “Madness in the Fast Lane”. It’s utterly jaw-dropping. A film crew are riding along with a police traffic patrol for one of those Police, Camera, Action-type shows. They’re called out to a report of two women walking along the hard shoulder of the motorway. When the cops get out to speak to them, one of the women (twin sisters as it turns out) attacks them, while the other deliberately charges onto the carriageway and gets hit by a lorry. All of this is captured on film. It only gets weirder, more shocking and more tragic from there on in, as the documentary sets out the terrible (and ultimately lethal) sequence of events that followed and attempts to understand how they came to be there. Don’t expect any neat explanations.
Just been watching "Filmed In Supermarionation" on Sky Arts. Fantastic documentary for those of a certain vintage.
CNN's award-winning chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a chief neurosurgeon, puts medical marijuana under the microscope. All three (3) of CNN's current "Weed" documentaries compiled into one video.
Hell and Back Again
The Reluctant Revolutionary
Finding Vivian Maier
The Berkeley marathons listed above is brilliant
Planet oil is very good, from first strike to present day and the future of hydrocarbons.
Icarus - bloody good.
B29 Frozen in Time , Kee Bird. Well worth a watch if you like WW2 airplanes.
There’s a series of docs called ‘Working Man’s Death’. They’re all good but the epidsode called ‘ghosts’ is interesting - locals mining sulphur in Java and carrying massive loads of it along precarious mountain paths being totally ignored by tourists.
It’s a German production (iirc) but is basically in-narrated observation and really beautifully filmed