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LittleFuryThings posted:Whate are the best documentaries that feature musicians writing their songs/working in the studio? The Promise: the Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town is a good one with Bruce Springsteen. Not so much the writing process but jam sessions and early studio versions of songs that ended up much differently.
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Groovelord Neato posted:abducted in plain sight is loving bonkers. i can't believe these people exist. I just finished it. 
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Feb 8, 2019 02:17
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Groovelord Neato posted:it says something that "little girl believes she has to have a child with a grown man to save the world because aliens told her so" is the least crazy part. I almost threw my phone at the TV when the dad admitted that he jerked the other dude off.
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Feb 8, 2019 18:52
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Firstborn posted:Abducted in Plain Sight kept escalating until I was sure it was going to end with the reveal that the aliens were real And the Aliens were also convinced to jerk off B.
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Feb 24, 2019 03:48
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Awful CompSloth posted:Anyone got any political history documentaries about any countries? Talking about elections, their economy, their history, anything. I can’t remember the name of it but I think I watched it on a recommendation from this thread. It’s one about the collapse of Yugoslavia. I believe it’s on YouTube. Someone help me out here.
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Mar 22, 2019 12:05
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The Act of Killing, if you’ve never seen it, is fascinating. Although I don’t think I’ve ever felt worse at the end of a documentary before.
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Mar 22, 2019 21:11
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Phi230 posted:I'm watching Paradise Lost for tge first time and holy poo poo these trials are a farce To whoever asked a page or two ago about feel good documentaries.......this ain't one of em. I thought Paradise Lost was some of the best true crime docs I've ever watched, but holy hell I don't think I could do it ever again.
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Apr 9, 2019 15:30
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I saw him in Vegas like 15 or so years ago. He was awesome.
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May 23, 2019 05:47
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Hey so I made a doc that aired last week. It's about how my home state of New Mexico blew up its own mental healthcare system by falsely accusing a bunch of companies of fraud and shutting them down without due process. It's part poor-man's Errol Morris procedural and part poor-man's Streetwise. drat dude, you're killing me, I started watching it and got like 10 minutes in and was like "no, you're at work, you can't watch this now" and had to turn it off. It's REALLY good so far, and I'm interested to see how it all plays out. I got a big Frontline vibe from it.....only missing the awesome Frontline narrator voice.
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Jun 26, 2019 15:04
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Would one you American based folks mind checking Google play and Amazon Prime for Don't Break Down: A film about Jawbreaker? It's supposed to be out today, but not showing up on either for me. However I'm in Canada. I see it on Amazon Prime.
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Aug 6, 2019 14:51
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Popelmon posted:Anyone here know what happened to Sean Dunne? He made American Juggalo, Trump Rally and Oxyana. I really loved his short docs and Oxyana was just loving amazing (look them up, they are all in Youtube). He’s on Twitter. Apparently has a podcast. https://twitter.com/SeanVeryApe
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Sep 12, 2019 01:27
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So I read a really long article about this a few years ago and I’m so happy HBO is putting out a multi-part documentary about it. Did you know that all through the 90’s, the McDonalds Monopoly game was rigged? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK2ZGOsbeqo
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Jan 24, 2020 02:24
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EL BROMANCE posted:It’s an amazing story, looking forward to this. Yeah I remember reading the story and thinking “why have I never heard of this???” But it is the kind of story that if you didn’t know it was true, it’s almost too whacky to believe.
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Jan 24, 2020 04:25
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And there’s zero reason Carol’s first husband would disappear to Costa Rica and leave Carol with all of his money and let her gently caress over his children. Also laughing at the naiveté that non-profit means good or that non-profit means Carol doesn’t make any money off of it. Goodwill is a nonprofit and their CEO made $700k+ last year.
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Mar 30, 2020 15:58
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Soccus Nephropidae posted:Tiger King (knowingly or not) misgenders and dead-names a trans man throughout, and everything with Joe's husbands stank of bi-erasure as well Saff still goes by Kelci, how was he dead named?
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Mar 30, 2020 22:04
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Much like Tiger King, this is another podcast I listened to that’s been turned into a multipart documentary series. I’m excited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP9dJPBnSjM
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Mar 31, 2020 02:09
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In January I met this filmmaker who is also a professor in Northwestern’s school of journalism and I ended up telling him he reminded me of a friend of mine that he ended up knowing as well. Anyways, he was at the bar as part of a documentary he was making about the closing of Youngstown, OH’s only daily newspaper and the hole that would be left by it. And apparently it made Youngstown the largest city in the US without a daily newspaper. It’s a good little doc, and I’m in it! I’m the geek in the glasses and red hoodie at the bar like 3/4 in. https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2020/10/01/watch-newstown/index.html
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Oct 1, 2020 23:04
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The only thing I liked about that particular documentary was that it managed to tell its story completely through body cam footage, news reports, and social media posts/texts. I always enjoy documentaries that kind of immerse you in the topic without having talking heads and narrators telling you their very biased opinion of what happened. Obviously it has its flaws too in that there’s not a lot of nuance that can be conveyed in that kind of documentary and this was the perfect example of that. The OJ chase 30 for 30 was great in that regard. Perhaps the best example of that type of doc.
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Oct 16, 2020 21:51
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The only mildly interesting but ultimately meaningless extra info was the tuberculosis thing. Talk about a super weird coincidence.
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Feb 15, 2021 02:22
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There’s actually a lot of extra info about the Cecil Hotel itself and it’s links to other crimes, deaths, and murders which I found wayyyyyy more interesting than all the obnoxious internet sleuths. edit: holy poo poo this is by the same guy that directed the Paradise Lost documentaries?! Mahoning fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Feb 15, 2021 02:37
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jisforjosh posted:All 6 parts are now posted. Part 4 and 5 got removed by Youtube for copyrighted music. Edited versions posted below Anyone have links for the last few episodes? 4-6 are showing as not available in the US.
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Feb 16, 2021 23:02
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Just found a great documentary on YouTube about Marvin Heemeyer (the killdozer guy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AuJohMrq5Y
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Feb 21, 2021 23:48
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“It's one thing if you know your place; like, 'Hey, I'm an idiot who plays lovely music but people buy it – gently caress it, I'm having fun. But it's another thing when you think you're David Bowie after you've stayed up all night to write a song called 'Break Stuff'. I mean, Fred Durst probably spelt the word 'break' wrong the first couple of times. Fred Durst might be a cool guy; I don't know him. But his 'art' – in the word's loosest sense – sucks.” -Trent Reznor
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Aug 8, 2021 02:37
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They do discuss during part 2 that they were using 16mm film because they expected to use the footage for a tv special. But as it kind of morphs into using the footage for a movie they lament that they didn’t use 35mm. So I do kind of wonder what they raw untouched footage looks like.
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Nov 27, 2021 14:49
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Why was I sure that documentary came out a few months ago? There was definitely a Jan 6 doc on HBO that I watched. Are they seriously doing another one?
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Jan 5, 2022 05:13
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Yeah if you want a great back catalog of great documentaries, I’d recommend HBO.
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May 2, 2022 02:32
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Anyone watching The U.S. and the Holocaust on PBS? It’s surprisingly honest and critical of the xenophobia, antisemitism, and racism that led to a lot of inaction by the US government prior to its entry into WWII. And as usual, Ken Burns is an excellent storyteller.
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Sep 22, 2022 02:02
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Yeah I also love Burns docs and agree with the criticisms but I think if you’re skeptical you should watch the Holocaust one. It doesn’t even pretend to have that patriotic veneer and in its conclusion draws a direct line from the antisemitism and racism of the early part of the 20th century to the same poo poo today. It’s definitely the most mask off about America that a Burns doc has ever been.
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Oct 14, 2022 01:18
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MrMojok posted:The Netflix doc about Koresh/Waco is pretty good. I assume you’ve seen Wild, Wild Country? If not that is the next thing you should watch. It’s on Netflix
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Winter on Fire is the only one I know of and it was really good. It’s a Netflix doc and I wanna say they put it on their YouTube channel for free after the Russian invasion. Not sure if it’s still available for free or not, but it’s def still on Netflix.
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