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Old 12-12-2006, 01:16 AM   #1
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Recommend some good documentaries
They don't have to be ones that were necessarily released in a movie theater or anything like that.

Anything like Roger and Me/The Corporation/Enron, although the motif does not have to be limited to corporations.
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Old 12-12-2006, 01:25 AM   #2
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The Yes Men-About a couple of anti-corporation activists who impersonate members of the WTO

Capturing The Friedmans-About a family dealing with the father and son being accused of pedophilia

Dig-About 2 rock bands, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Overnight-About Troy Duffy, the writer and director of the film the Boondock Saints

Lost In La Mancha-About director Terry Gilliam's attempt to make a movie based on the life Don Quixote. It doesn't go well.


Sure I'm forgetting some. Lost In La Mancha is probably my favourite of all of them.
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Old 12-12-2006, 01:28 AM   #3
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Old 12-12-2006, 02:06 AM   #4
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The only documentary I've seen that I liked enough to recommend would be Capturing the Friedmans.

March of the Penguins was pretty cool too.

And the Michael Moore documentaries but you've probably seen them.

Check here out though: http://www.imdb.com/chart/documentary
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Old 12-12-2006, 02:10 AM   #5
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That one where that guy gets eaten by a bear.


I hope I didn't ruin it. But yeah, he goes off to try and live with bears and it's actually really good. I have no idea what the name of it is though.

edit - dude was a real wierdo too.
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Old 12-12-2006, 02:11 AM   #6
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Theres also one about this dude trying out for the special olympics but I don't know what the name of that is either. I'm no help.
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Old 12-12-2006, 02:14 AM   #7
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Yeah I haven't seen them but I heard these documentaries were good so look into them if you are interested:

Touching the Void
Murderball
Spellbound (Actually did see this, it was pretty good)
Grizzly Man
Born Into Brothels
Winged Migration
The Fog of War
An Inconvenient Truth
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Yeah forgot about Spellbound. Pretty good.
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Old 12-12-2006, 09:33 PM   #10
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Hearts of Darkness- Great documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now. Might be hard to find though.

Hoop Dreams is also one of the best documentaries i've ever seen. It spans five years and follows two inner city kids as they persue their dream of becomming professional basketball players.
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Old 12-12-2006, 09:59 PM   #11
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Old 12-13-2006, 08:26 AM   #12
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If your not a metallica fan it might not be for you, but it was pretty dam good as if goes thorugh a pretty tough time for the band. Shame the resulting album sucked
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you should definately see Why We Fight and When The Levees Broke.

I'm a huge documentary fan so basically let me know what sort of stuff you are really into and I'll try and work out a few for you.
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Old 12-13-2006, 02:08 PM   #14
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Old 12-13-2006, 02:20 PM   #15
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The last one I have seen is Memoria del saqueo aka Social Genocide.


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Old 12-13-2006, 03:21 PM   #16
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Any shit by That guy that did supersize me (He did a series of '30 day' documentaries) pretty 'eye opening'

If you want some cruel laughs, watching documentaries on ferrel children is funny.

I watch wildlife stuff, its pretty cool, like when they put cameras under floorboards and there are some roaches just chillin' kicking back n all.
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