Let's watch Awesome Documentaries, 201X edition

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Redrum and Coke: Feb 25, 2006; wAstIng 10 bUcks ON an aVaTar iS StUpid

Satan: Prince of Darkness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uH34mWKLZk (part 1; the rest are on "related videos")
Biography Channel's bio of Lucifer.

Occupation 101
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2451908450811690589

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Synopsis

A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.

The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict are explained through first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets.

The film covers a wide range of topics -- which include -- the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880's, the 1920 tensions, the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the first Intifada of 1987, the Oslo Peace Process, Settlement expansion, the role of the United States Government, the second Intifada of 2000, the separation barrier and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as well as many heart wrenching testimonials from victims of this tragedy.

Featured Interviews

Occupation 101 features a leading list of some of the most credible Middle East scholars, historians, peace activists, journalists, and humanitarian workers.

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Redrum and Coke: Feb 25, 2006; wAstIng 10 bUcks ON an aVaTar iS StUpid

Hell: The Devil's Domain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE_TWhzG-p0&feature=related
History Channel's take on Hell. It includes interviews with scholars and with person who went through near-death experiences.

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Redrum and Coke: Feb 25, 2006; wAstIng 10 bUcks ON an aVaTar iS StUpid

HalfPricePimpSuit posted:

Found a youtube link last night. All seven parts are up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g16sMbgiJ0

I love you. I had been looking for this documentary for a long time.
In fact, I've been looking for it every loving day of my life (for the last 2 days)

# ¿ Mar 9, 2010 22:19

Redrum and Coke: Feb 25, 2006; wAstIng 10 bUcks ON an aVaTar iS StUpid

Dr Scoofles posted:

Thank you thank you thank you! I spent an entire morning last week trying to track this down and gave up. I really want to see this, in fact, I'm going to brew a pot of tea and watch it now

What's amazing is that this is a very smart and wellspoken lady. Her children also seem to be nice kids, despite having grown with a Ted Bundy as a father.

EDIT: If you like sad endings that make you feel empty and that force you to lose faith in humanity, watch this. And then Dear Zachary. And then Occupation 101.
Enjoy your suicide. :smithicide:

Redrum and Coke fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Mar 10, 2010

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Redrum and Coke: Feb 25, 2006; wAstIng 10 bUcks ON an aVaTar iS StUpid

The Story of Stuff
http://www.storyofstuff.com/ (full 20-min movie here)

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The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute film that takes viewers on a provocative and eye-opening tour of the real costs of our consumer driven culture�from resource extraction to iPod incineration.

Annie Leonard, an activist who has spent the past 10 years traveling the globe fighting environmental threats, narrates the Story of Stuff, delivering a rapid-fire, often humorous and always engaging story about �all our stuff�where it comes from and where it goes when we throw it away.�

Leonard examines the real costs of extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal, and she isolates the moment in history where she says the trend of consumption mania began. The Story of Stuff examines how economic policies of the post-World War II era ushered in notions of �planned obsolescence� and �perceived obsolescence� �and how these notions are still driving much of the U.S. and global economies today. Leonard�s inspiration for the film began as a personal musing over the question, �Where does all the stuff we buy come from, and where does it go when we throw it out?� She traveled the world in pursuit of the answer to this seemingly innocent question, and what she found along the way were some very guilty participants and their unfortunate victims.

Written by Leonard, the film was produced by Free Range Studios, the makers of other highly popular web-based films such as �The Meatrix� and �Grocery Store Wars.� Funding for the project came from The Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption and Tides Foundation.

Watch it. Then do something about it.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2010 22:56

Redrum and Coke: Feb 25, 2006; wAstIng 10 bUcks ON an aVaTar iS StUpid

Miss Areola Canasta posted:

I have a request. I saw a documentary forever ago called Fat Girls and Feeders - about 'fat admirers' and those awful men who stuff their wives like foie gras ducks until they're immobile blobs. Can anyone find a streaming copy?

e: here's a picture of the movie's featured couple

Seconding this request. I heard of this documentary a couple of years ago, but I haven't been able to find it.
Anybody?

# ¿ Mar 11, 2010 04:58

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My favorite documentaries from the previous thread. These were posted mostly by me, but some come from some other goons. Keep up the good fight!

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HEALTH AND MEDICINE DOCUMENTARIES :siren:

Medicating Kids

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In "Medicating Kids," FRONTLINE examines the dramatic increase in the prescription of behavior-modifying drugs for children. Are these medications really necessary--and safe--for young children, or merely a harried nation's quick fix for annoying, yet age-appropriate, behavior? View FRONTLINE's second look at this issue with "The Medicated Child," aired in January 2008: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/medicatedchild/

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-9055413814104510828&hl=nl

The Lobotomist
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lobotomist/
The story of the man who perfected this procedure. Using icepicks. And giving a free pair of sunglasses after each one of them.

Thin
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6giq9_thin-part-one_people

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Eating disorders affect five million people in the U.S., and more than 10% of those diagnosed with anorexia nervosa will die from the disease. Seeking to put a human face on these sobering statistics, acclaimed photographer Lauren Greenfield went inside a Florida treatment center to tell the stories of four women who are literally dying to be thin. The devastating HBO documentary THIN reveals what she found there - and explores the issues underlying their illness.

One of girls featured here died: http://www.accesshollywood.com/Polly-Williams-Of-HBOs-Thin-Found-Dead_article_8390

Dying to be Thin
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xao8qc_dying-to-be-thin-part-1_shortfilms
Or here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/thin/program.html

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The film examines a disturbing increase in the prevalence of debilitating and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia.

Dana: The 8-year old anorexic
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaopg7_dana-the-8-year-old-anorexic-part-1_shortfilms

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Shortly after her eighth birthday, Dana's eating habits changed. At first she ate a bit less. Then she gave up sweets and then junk food. But soon she was eating so little that her parents had her admitted to a paediatric ward. There, she stopped eating completely and had to be fed through an IV drip. To prevent the glucose entering her body she held her arm up for six hours.

'I wanted to lose weight. I just stopped eating' says Dana now. 'At the moment, then, I wanted to die.'

After a little progress in hospital, Dana was allowed home again. But she continued to restrict her food intake to 175 calories-a-day and exercised compulsively. Soon she had lost a quarter of her body weight.

In desperation, her parents decide to enrol her on a 12-week residential treatment programme at Rhodes Farm Clinic. But how will she cope, away from her family, as the youngest of 20 girls with eating disorders?

A lot more documentaries on eating disorders: http://www.dailymotion.com/playlists/ThinIsabelle

True Life: "I Have Schizophrenia"
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1586145

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MTV documentary that follows the lives of 3 teenagers who live with Schizophrenia. Powerful stuff.

SEX DOCUMENTARIES :siren:

Sex Slaves.

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It follows the real struggle of a Ukrainian man whose pregnant wife was kidnapped and sold in Turkey as a sex slave. Throughout the documentary he investigates the underground (and sometimes blatantly overt over-ground) slave rings as he does everything in his power to get his wife back. I always knew that this kind of thing happened in the world, but I never had a human face to put on it until now. The guys running the rings are the worst kind of scumbags there are and the video can be absolutely heart-wrenching at times. This is not a very easy watch.

Love me Long Time: Holiday Romance for Sale

A documentary about sex tourism in Thailand.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1011007901652452655&ei=M7TVSfOGKIaYrQKsxYiGCw&q=sex+documentary

Teens Hooked on Porn
http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/teens_hooked_on_porn.php

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This film examines the disturbing reality of teenagers who have become hooked on internet pornography. One 16 year old from Bristol has looked at porn online since the age of 13 and it has almost overtaken his life. We follow his progress as he seeks therapy and tries to overcome his addiction. We also meet other younger children who look at porn, some brazenly and others for whom it's a secret obsession.

I'm pretty sure that my mother (just like your mothers) assumes that I've seen porn or that I've masturbated at some point in my life (specially since I took a fertility test once) but I would never be able to go on camera and talk about how I like to watch fetish porn (I don't!) or how much I masturbate, like some of these KIDS do.
I hope they enjoy school now, since they just managed to ostracize themselves for good.

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WAR AND POLITICS :siren:

The Israel Lobby
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2894821400057137878&ei=AsmkSe_1K5K-rwKVjaH2Aw&q=israel+lobby

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An episode of the Dutch documentary program "Tegenlicht" about the Israel lobby in the USA. This documentary (April 2007) was created as a result of the controversy created by Mearsheimer and Walt's "The Israel Lobby" article. Featuring interviews with Mearsheimer, geostrategist Lawrence Wikerson, Richard Perle, historian and critic Tony Judt, John Hagee, former Congressman Earl Hilliard, Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch, Michael Massing and Daniel Levy. 'Tegenlicht' ('Backlight') is a program from the Dutch VPRO public television. English elucidation at the VPRO website: http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/dossiers/34338368/

Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media & the Israel-Palestine Conflict

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Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This pivotal documentary exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites--oil, and a need to have a secure military base in the region, among others--work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over how news from the region is reported.

It's a war zone documentary, so expect blood and gore.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6604775898578139565&ei=gs2vSdusFpTuqALDoajwDw&q=palestine+documentary

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE watch it.

Gaza War Crimes

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This powerful report looks at the alleged Israeli war crimes committed during the Gaza War. We show blindfolded children being used as human shields alongside innocent civilians and medics being targeted.

By The Guardian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZgNy46aTQ

It's amazing to see how the IDF provides written responses to the accusations, all of them saying basically the same: "none of that happened".

No end in sight (a little out of date now, but still pretty good)

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Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the backgrounds of those making decisions - immediately following the overthrow of Saddam: no occupation plan, an inadequate team to run the country, insufficient troops to keep order, and three edicts from the White House announced by Bremmer when he took over: no provisional Iraqi government, de-Ba'athification, and disbanding the Iraqi armed services. The film has chapters (from History to Consequences), and the talking heads are reporters, academics, soldiers, military brass, and former Bush-administration officials, including several who were in Baghdad in 2003

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6182969183854471645&ei=YH-rSbD2FaaKrQKL5IDEAw&q=documentary

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6621486727392146155

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Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers is a 2006 documentary about the ongoing Iraq War and the behavior of companies with no-bid contracts working in Iraq. The movie was made by Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films.

Specifically, the film claims four major contractors -- Blackwater, K.B.R.-Halliburton, CACI and Titan -- are over-billing the U.S. government and doing substandard work while endangering the lives of American soldiers and private citizens. The documentary contends these companies are composed of ex-military and ex-government workers who unethically help their companies get and keep enormous contracts and milk the American taxpayer.

The film crew interviews military servicemen, watchdog group affiliates, and former employees of Halliburton.

Rachel Corrie: An American Conscience

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Rachel: An American Conscience by Yahya Barakat From the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs: Yahya Barakat, who teaches at Al-Quds University, told The Washington Report that he began work on the documentary the instant he learned that Corrie had been crushed to death by an Israeli-driven Caterpillar bulldozer. This documentary offers rare footage of Rachel talking to a camera and describing Israeli human rights violations against a Palestinian civilian population. The film opens with grim images of dinosaur-like Caterpillar bulldozers turning urban Rafah into a garbage pile of destroyed buildings. It continues with interviews of Rachel's fellow International Solidarity Movement volunteers, and concludes with comments from her parents.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5607228882556373821&hl=es

Norman Finkelstein on the Gaza Massacre

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A talk by Dr. Norman Finkelstein about the Israel-Palestine "war" on the Gaza Strip, earlier this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9G45Ny7Byw&hl=es (Part 1, the rest on the "related videos" section)

Inside Britain's Israel Lobby
Dispatches investigates one of the most powerful and influential political lobbies in Britain, which is working in support of the interests of the State of Israel. This film contains scenes of the aftermath of war conflicts which some may find upsetting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POtk6G7q4Bw

Ray McGovern - Why Accountability for Torture Is Crucial for Human Rights

Not a documentary, but an 1-hour talk that I thought was really worth sharing.

Talk by 27-year Veteran of the CIA Ray McGovern on "Why Accountability for Torture Is Crucial for Human Rights, Our Security and Our Souls" given November 12, 2009 at Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. Talk sponsored by Washington State Religious Campaign Against Torture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWBRyzPzKbY

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

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The familiar and disturbing pictures of torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison raise many troubling questions: How did torture become an accepted practice at Abu Ghraib? Did U.S. government policies make it possible? How much damage has the aftermath of Abu Ghraib had on America's credibility as a defender of freedom and human rights around the world? Acclaimed filmmaker Rory Kennedy looks beyond the headlines to investigate the psychological and political context in which torture occurred.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-82848561528142057

To see the people talk about how they were tortured and, what's even worse, see others talk about how they did the torturing is just scary.

638 ways to kill castro

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Dollan Cannell's documentary on the hundreds of alleged plots to assassinate Fidel Castro, and a look at the evolution of Cuban politics.

Part 1: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2695497521595164067&ei=Wzg5Ssa4NYLmqgLN8Kx1&q (FFW to 2:30, since there are a couple of commercials at the beginning)
Part 2: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=426887276676353148&q=source%3A013515801467348778884&hl=es

(unrelated; what the gently caress is that cooking program at the beginning of the first part? And, can't people produce real programs, as opposed to those drat reality shows?)

Wall of Shame

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The wall being constructed on the West Bank by the Israeli government is twenty-five feet high. Studded with guard towers and armaments, and encrusted with high-tech sensors, the wall cuts across the land, separating Palestinians from their own farms, their own neighbors, and from the Israeli settlements which have sprung up rapidly as a result of lavish subsidies from the Israeli government. Alternate Focus cameraman Rodney Devereux brings us face-to face with the wall and all its implications. Producers: Rodney Devereaux & John Odam, Writer: Lawrence Ludlow (2003) Alternate Focus is available on the Dish Network, Free Speech TV, Channel 9415, Saturdays at 8:00pm EST and on cable stations near you. Check website for details

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3311220407002392907&ei=Cjo5Spi_A4G2rgLTzdDaBQ&q=wall+shame

Warriors of the French Foreign Legion
Title is self explanatory. A documentary about the (�ber awesome) french foreign legion. I know that there's at least one goon that's in it (or at least was there).
For a long time I thought about joining. Who knows, maybe one day I'll just go there, change my name and start over as a loving legionaire!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6777372516104300363&ei=ZHmrSdG2N5HEqQK649zVDg&q=documentary

Waco: The Rules of Engagement

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The first full-length documentary film to present the complete picture of the series of events outside Waco, Texas during 1993 that resulted in the shooting of 4 federal agents and the deaths of 86 men, women, and children of the Branch Davidian religious sect. A highly detailed examination of the interaction between David Koresh, his members, and Federal Law Enforcement. It shows how the FBI misled the public and American political leaders in order to focus overwhelming force on a group whose diversity of race, national origin, and apocalyptic religious beliefs made its members easy targets for lethal abuse of civil and human rights. Gripping and deeply thought provoking, the film provides America with something it truly needs - an opportunity to review the historical record of events at Waco. The findings raise doubts about the FBI's version of the story and their larger role in similar instances of law enforcement.

PART 1 - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4298137966377572665&ei=DnurSZHiIpTWqAL5ioT-DQ&q=waco+documentary
PART 2 - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1755692679103175934
Infrared Footage - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7862840158598189292
Bonus: 911 calls - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8808439217729437398

Waco: A New Revelation

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Waco: A New Revelation is the film that triggered a new Congressional investigation of the Waco tragedy, and caused the Justice Department and the FBI to reverse their long-held positions on Waco. It has generated a firestorm of events unprecedented in the history of documentary filmmaking. After six years of painstaking investigation, the complete story of the tragedy in Texas is finally coming to light. This compelling feature-length documentary presents new revelations about the events that led up to the deaths of 79 men, women and children at Mount Carmel on April 19, 1993. In the spring of 1998, under the Freedom of Information Act, investigators from MGA Studio's film division became the first private citizens to gain access to the Waco investigation evidence lockers. What they found was shocking. Upon examination, the evidence gathered under the supervision of federal officials appeared to contradict the FBI's congressional testimony, raising serious and disturbing questions about events surrounding the siege at Mt. Carmel and the deaths of the Davidians. Gene CullenSince 1993, former members of the FBI, former Special Forces and CIA operatives have come forward with new evidence to suggest that the FBI's claim is inaccurate.

Part 1: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5510108493532885562&ei=DnurSZHiIpTWqAL5ioT-DQ&q=waco+documentary
Part 2: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2962656895645965329&ei=DnurSZHiIpTWqAL5ioT-DQ&q=waco+documentary

Secret Rulers of the World : The Legend of Ruby Ridge

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4565369222910430105&ei=_aS0SbW9L4iGqwLcp4WXAg&q=documentary

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Secret Rulers of the World was a five part series of documentary films by World of Wonder Productions written, directed by and featuring British journalist Jon Ronson. The series was first shown on the British television network Channel 4 on April 2001. The series accompanied Ronson's book Them: Adventures With Extremists, which covered similar topics and described many of the same episodes. Both the series and book detail Ronson's encounters following theorists and activists residing on the cusp of the political, religious, and sociological norms.

Season 1, Episode 1: The Legend of Ruby Ridge

Original Air Date�29 April 2001

Jon Ronson meets with Randy Weaver and daughter Rachel, two surviving members of the Weaver family. The film shows previously unseen archive footage to describe the life of a family who moved to a cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho to live peacefully, and escape what they saw as the tyrannical elite of international bankers bent on enslaving the world. Ronson also explains how the Weaver family's conspiracy theories became a shocking tragedy when the American Government killed two of the family members, their dog, and shot and wounded Kevin Harris, whom the Weaver family considered their son. Ronson explores the unsympathetic media response to the killings and how this incident might have influenced the siege at Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing and the growth of the America militia movement.

Say what you will, but I can't believe what they did to that family.

I love how Bill Maher, who is so much against religion for allegedly being against civil rights, openly mocked what happened to them. He must be really proud of himself.

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MISC

Nietzsche: Human all too human
Documentary from the BBC about him
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1429000020555879119&ei=CH2rSeO-LJTWqAL5ioT-DQ&q=documentary

The Antichrist

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THE ANTICHRIST takes a harrowing look at an evil so obscure that he answers only to Satan. Follow the emergence of the Antichrist from pre-Judaic texts, through the Book of Daniel and Revelation, into Christian writings of the Middle Ages, and beyond. Aided by interviewees with eminent clergy, scholars, historians and psychologists, this incisive program examines the evil enigma from every conceivable angle.

How would you recognize the most evil person on Earth? According to many historical texts, you should look for a brilliant, enigmatic public figure who transforms the world for good--for a while. Basically, the last person you'd tap as Satan's human emissary. While many believe the Antichrist has come and gone, just as many believe he will soon arrive, if he's not already in our midst.

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In the late 60s, Charles Manson convinced a group of "followers" to move in to the California desert to train for the apocalypse. They eventually committed on of the most horrific string of serial murders in modern times. Considered to be one of the definitive documentaries about Manson and his infamous "family," CHARLES MANSON SUPERSTAR tells the killer's story with archival news footage, police photos, and an uncensored interview with Manson himself.

When it comes to the Heaven's Gate Cult, I only found their initiation video. Which I think is very loving scary.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8938223505573157913&ei=hc-oSZraJ5HEqQKA-7CgCw&q=Heavens+Gate

There's also this one:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5767571669034600610&ei=ONCoSf28GpGgqgKl5-XxDw&q=heavens+gate

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Next year marks the 10th anniversary of the Heaven�s Gate suicides that took place in Rancho Santa Fe outside of Sand Diego in Southern California. This is the first video in a series called Beyond Human. This video features Marshall Applewhite. He was the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult. He died in the cult's suicide in 1997.These are clips obtained while filming the documentary "Heaven's Gate: The Day After. They were given to us by Chuck Humphrey, who was known as RKKody while he was with the Heaven's Gate group, just prior to his suicide in 1998. While attending Boise State University in the mid eighties director Sergio Myers encountered members of the Heaven�s Gate cult who were on campus recruiting new members. Three years later, after the mass suicide of 39 members, Myers compiled footage taken from the Idaho recruiting session. It is the director�s goal to portray the cult members as people who loved life, and welcomed the "next level" - not as fanatics. Through the use of their farewell video, one can see the joy on the cult members� faces two days prior to their deaths. This was not a dangerous group such as the Manson Family or as extreme as the Branch Davidians; but ultimately, as in Jonestown, the lives of numerous people are gone for reasons to complex to fathom. For more video clips and to purchase the critically acclaimed film on DVD go to: http://www.heavensgatemovie.com

THE END OF THE WORLD CULT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvytVhqiO6E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjQjcNrY1_A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4O7A1jJw3U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nXkTDIbJ_4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4KDGgaO5Bo&feature=related

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Formerly a sailor called Wayne Bent, Michael Travesser is the leader of a cult in New Mexico called Strong City.

His 56 followers - men, women and children - hang on his every word, serving him with absolute and unquestioning devotion. They say they are all preparing for death, to go to a better place as Michael claims his days on earth are numbered.

With unprecedented access, this compelling film takes viewers into an undiscovered world, into the heart of a cult whose members are preparing to meet their maker. Film-maker Ben Anthony discovers just how a cult operates and how a leader like Michael exerts his influence.

Sixty-six-year-old Travesser has a mesmerizing hold over the members of the cult. Anthony hears teenage girls talking about wanting a sexual consummation with their Leader, discovers that this consummation extended to Travesser's own son's wife and meets parents who are desperately trying to pry their children from his grip.

Strong City have also come to the attention of the FBI, who are keeping a close watch over the group. As the program delves deeper in to the world of Strong City, it asks whether Michael Travesser is about to lead his cult to a tragedy of Jonestown or Waco proportions and ultimately whether he's really a master manipulator: an expert spin doctor who brainwashes his followers simply to serve his own ends?

He claims that 31 October 2007 is Doomsday and at midnight on that date there will be an event of apocalyptic proportions, marking the end of the world.

What happens to Strong City and their Messiah on 31 October? The countdown to Doomsday has begun.

Well it's now August of 2008 so we know the end of the world never happened and probably never will. This is a very interesting and disturbing documentary, a must see.

The crackpot "documentary" by Ben Stein "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" where he rants in favor of creationism.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-518637672896741579&ei=0-yoSfilG5GsrQLB9OHMCw&hl=es

Scams, Schemes, and Scoundrels. With James Randi

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The Eiffel Tour up for sale? Dr Abrams medical marvel a hoax or a true medical detection device? A Master piece or a clever forgery? The Scam and the Scoundrel hasn't changed much over the years. James Randi takes you through the setup and the pay off of History's greatest scams.

Playlist with 11 parts: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=659809881F5CA05C

Visit James Randi's channel for more awesome videos : http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesRandiFoundation

Deliver Us From Evil

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Deliver Us from Evil (2006) is a documentary film directed by Amy J. Berg which tells the true story of Catholic priest Oliver O'Grady, who sexually abused potentially hundreds of children between the late 1970s and early 1990s. The film won the Best Documentary Award at the 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[1] The title refers to a line in the Lord's Prayer, or the "Our Father." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliver_Us_from_Evil_(2006_film

http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=7745088455537169028&hl=es

It's a very good documentary, yet very disturbing, since it includes many interviews with Oliver O'Grady, who talks openly about his sexual desire for kids.
A must watch.

Gangland - Nuestra Familia

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This new series tells the inside story of some of America's most notorious street gangs. We learn how they've shaped their times and affected the neighborhoods that they controlled. From the destruction wrought by the heroin kingpins in Harlem of the 1970's to today's most dangerous gang MS-13, which has spread out from the inner city to infect unexpected turf - suburban communities, gangs have a rich yet deadly history. They usually start out as a form of protection for their members and the community but then, grow predatory as they feed on the very people that they purport to defend. With exclusive interviews and rarely seen footage, this is a raw look at life inside these gangs - from those who live it and the agencies that are working to stop them.

Epidsode Info:
Nuestra Familia. As the predominant Hispanic gang in Northern California, Nuestra Familia, or NF is primarily a prison gang. Compared to other prison gangs, NF's numbers on the inside are relatively small, yet they distinguish themselves through discipline and fear. They have adopted the battle cry "blood in, blood out," and made their rules official, scribing a 50-page constitution laying out their bylaws. Among them, "an automatic death sentence will be put on family member that turns traitor, coward or deserter. " NF also have tens of thousands of loyal followers on the streets known as Nortenos or Northerners. The main rival of NF has always been the Mexican Mafia, with their followers being the Surenos or Southerners.

Nuestra Familia Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJdQc1IA6Dw

Nuestra Familia Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clMIyz6n7-Y

Nuestra Familia Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc6rkBbGehA

Nuestra Familia Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkZZptUSjWk

Nuestra Familia Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1rDVBq64Tw

�GLOBAL METAL (Metal: A Headbanger's journey Part 2)

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In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West`s most maligned musical genre - heavy metal - has impacted the world`s cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world`s emerging extreme music scenes from Indonesian death metal to Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal. GLOBAL METAL reveals a worldwide community of metalheads who aren`t just absorbing metal from the West ... they`re transforming it. Creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass-consumerism.

The playlist with all 10 parts:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9A4DE000729E31EE&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL

Wonderland: Virtual adultery and cyberspace love

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"Carolyn is a 37 year-old mother of four in the midst of a passionate affair that is tearing her family apart. She's spending up to 18 hours a day with her lover, and her husband is in despair. But the extraordinary thing about this affair is that Carolyn's lover is man she has never met. Because he's not a human being. He's an avatar (or computer generated figure), who exists only in the virtual world of Second Life. And their relationship exists only in cyberspace."

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=9093841055587638621&q=source%3A003094456028684016793&hl=en

WARNING: Be prepared to be pissed off

The Life of Andrew Jackson
I've been reading books about the US' history (I'm not from the States), and I must say that I really liked Andrew Jackson.
The man had balls of steel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p63Dvdrggns

:siren:

DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT CHILE, LAND OF AWESOMENESS :siren:

Chile: Land of Extremes

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Stretching four thousand kilometres, Chile is the longest country on earth. From the ice-gripped sub-Antarctic in the south to the parched Atacama Desert in the north, it�s a miracle anything survives these forbidding environments. But animals and humans do survive here. So what are the secrets of continued existence in this land of extremes?

Episode 1: The Riddle of the Atacama Desert http://www.joost.com/02000cv/t/Chile-Land-of-Extremes-Episode-1-Riddle-of-the-Atacama-Desert#id=02000cv
Episode 2: Forest of Defiance http://www.joost.com/02000ct/t/Chile-Land-of-Extremes-Episode-2-Forests-of-Defiance#id=02000ct
Episode 3: Castaway Islands http://www.joost.com/02000cu/t/Chile-Land-of-Extremes-Episode-3-Castaway-Islands#id=02000cu
Episode 4: To the End of the World http://www.joost.com/02000cs/t/Chile-Land-of-Extremes-Episode-4-To-the-End-of-the-World#id=02000cs

# ¿ Mar 12, 2010 23:34

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Nuke Goes KABOOM posted:

Tohokai you need your old av back.

Anyone know if it's possible find that HBO documentary Talked to Death (about talk shows)? I've never been able to find it, but I've wanted to watch it since I saw it on TV back in the day.

Ok, you bring up that poo poo every time.
You wanna call me anti semitic because of the Israel threads? say so openly and stop trolling.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2010 01:46

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minstrel posted:

Do people outside of the UK have access to this video? I searched around for it on Google and found this http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/related/aeutp/youtube_hides_some_video_results_for_inside/

Gotta say, I'm pretty disgusted if this has been hidden from the British people.

Found mirrors!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTC4jbZ7hTY (Part 1, the rest are on the related videos section)

# ¿ Mar 13, 2010 20:03

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Zigmidge posted:

I quickly scanned the thread and saw no mention of it but you guys do seem to appreciate Frontline. If you do, you owe it to yourself to watch their latest. While certainly not their most informative piece, Behind Taliban Lines offers such a perspective that I was riveted for the entire 40 minutes.

It comes from an Afghan reporter who was offered to stay with a Taliban cell called the central group who are part of the Hezb-i-Islami, the main organized insurgent force in charge of activity in north Afghanistan. He was able to travel with them during a planned attack on coalition forces.

Goons outside the US: Try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-KMlx7lks&feature=related

# ¿ Mar 14, 2010 00:36

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Phyzzle posted:

The Staircase About a bizarre murder trial, from the point of view of a man accused of killing his wife.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5188227902435442973&ei=ujOcS5mlAojyrgLM6q3xDA&q=the+staircase+14

Don't read anything about the case before watching it.

I'm watching this, and I really think that this is very interesting.
However, despite the fact that the case is real (I think), are these the real people?

I mean, following your instructions I haven't read anything about the case, so I don't really know anything about it, but I do find it odd that they're recording everything that happens. And, if it's really what's going on, what's the backstory? Did they simply approach him and go "so... mind if we record your life while you're accused of 1st degree murder?"

Rocketfish posted:

Alright alright, I don't want to be that guy, but I feel like I have to be that guy. This isn't a documentary so much as it's a 20 minute flash video with a woman speaking in the broadest possible loving terms for modern consumerism. No experts, to studies cited, just her running her mouth off about "toxins" and how Americans work to much and blah blah blah.

It's a great little affirmation piece for people already involved in the "green" movement, but there isn't much use for the vid outside of that. She speaks exactly hoe you might imagine someone with a graduate degree in "City and Regional Planning" would about the environment, economics, and international commerce: not terribly well.

Well, she wrote a book to go with it. However, her points do seem valid, but if you want to clarify (I'm not being sarcastic) please do.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2010 00:44

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Angiepants posted:

I got the same vibe as you did but I still wasn't sure if I thought he was guilty or not until I read up about the case afterward. Apparently he and one of his sons were both in massive amounts of debt and Kathleen had a $1.8m life insurance policy. The film obviously worked an angle as that was never mentioned in any of the eight parts. Still a wild ride and I've been recommending it to everyone since I finished it yesterday afternoon.

I was stupid enough to google this guy's name when I was watching part 3 or 4, because I wanted to see if this was really him. Needless to say that the same page that had the picture mentioned the verdict.

I hated the assistant to the DA. That woman not only had an obnoxious accent and an annoying attitude, she also dressed as if she was going to do some square dance the day the verdict was read.
Regarding the case itself, I also got the impression that the filmmaker was trying to make Michael Peterson look innocent, which I thought was not very objective.
I would have been surprised by the verdict, had I now known it in advance, because, at least based on what they show in the documentary, specially the blow-poke, they didn't know what the murder weapon was, and the injuries were not consistent with an attack.

EDIT: This may surprise some, specially based on this avatar I got, but I was disgusted to see how the DA's office tried to use bisexuality as a tool to get a conviction. The whole scene about "THEY WERE GOIN' DO ANAL SEX! THIS IS HARDCOOWR POOWRN!" was just sad.

Redrum and Coke fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Mar 30, 2010

# ¿ Mar 30, 2010 07:10

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The Milosevic Case: Glosses at a trial
Documentary about the alleged errors that occurred during the Milosevic trail in the International Criminal Court.
I know next to nothing about this procedure, so I don't necessarily agree with this documentary, I just found it to be very interesting. Specially the part about the concentration camp video.

Part 1: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5840619592451624793#docid=-5915455578968730263
Part 2: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5840619592451624793

Another documentary about the trial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_bU_y3fjsQ

Redrum and Coke fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Apr 18, 2010

# ¿ Apr 18, 2010 06:27

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To see if I'm smiling
http://warincontext.org/2010/05/09/to-see-if-i-am-smiling/

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In the documentary, To See If I Am Smiling (released in 2007), six young Israeli women recount their experiences of military service in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The title comes from a story told by Meytal, a medic and medical officer. Having described how cleaning the corpses of Palestinians after they had been brutalized by Israeli soldiers had become a routine part of her job, she goes on to recount a particular moment that still haunts her: when she posed for a photograph next to a corpse.

[I]I�m not sure when it was, but at some point I became very ashamed of that picture. And I didn�t tell anyone about it, that it existed. I forgot about it a little. But I would like to see it. To see if I look different. I want to see if I�m still smiling.[/O]

If a nation can have such a thing as a soul, To See If I Am Smiling, reveals how profoundly Israel�s soul has been scarred by 43 years of occupation. A fully militarized society has shackled itself to a conviction � we have no choice � whereby each individual can then bury their own awareness of complicity and moral responsibility under a collective weight of irresistible necessity.

But even among Israelis who are comfortably indifferent to the plight of Palestinians, one has to wonder: how do they account for what they have done to their own sons and daughters?

As a nation struggles to avoid looking at itself, no wonder the fury and passion with which it attacks those who hold up a mirror.

It can only be viewed from the US, and I don't know if it'd be against the rules to point a torrent or something like that where you can download it (specially considering that you can watch it for free).

If you want to watch it and you're from outside the US, a google search should help you find it anyway.

# ¿ May 12, 2010 01:01

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Narev posted:

The Vice Liberia documentary is overwhelming. After watching a child no more than 12 smoke Heroin and talk casually about a rape he committed, people making GBS threads on the beach because they have no bathrooms, and prostitutes who sell themselves for less than 1 US dollar, they started talking about the widespread cannibalism. I had to take a break. I never imagined how horrible it could be over there. I wouldn't be surprised to see a Nazi style death camp in the next episode. Oh, and a Liberian journalist they met over there joked about how female genitalia were cut and preserved in such a way that a man could keep them in his wallet.

The thing is, the government sounds unbelievably corrupt, and I doubt aid workers would be safe, especially women. So how do we help them? Send the military? That always works out terribly for everyone involved, and their government would never sanction our meddling. We can't just invade every country to "fix" it. Maybe some of those micro loan companies do business there, but it was also pointed out that most businesses are just fronts for dope houses. Hopefully that's just that one slum. It's amazing to me when I think of how many "lotteries" I won before I was born: I live in a first world country, no serious illnesses, am fairly intelligent, have parents who love me that I can fall back on, live an upper middle class life... Seeing the lives of the people who "lost" these lotteries makes my problems seem pretty insignificant.

This documentary made me feel ill.

People usually think that just sending the UN will help a country, but the truth is that it simply won't work. You can't maintain a Peace-Keeping forever, eventually the countries must take responsibilities for their own fates. This is what has happened in Africa for the last few decades, many countries are just waiting for hand outs from the west and the UN, and do not try to come out of their terrible situation by themselves (after all, God Helps Those Who Help Themselves).

And yes, I agree with you regarding that lotteries we've won. I was born in South America, in Chile, and though we're definitely not a rich country compared to the US, even the poorest person here lives better than anybody over there. It does make you look at your problems in a different light.
(Once again, here's the url for it: http://www.vbs.tv/search/videos?key=liberia )

# ¿ May 22, 2010 02:52

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Svartvit posted:

Working links:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdaioo_american-radical-the-trials-of-norm_news
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdaj7f_american-radical-the-trials-of-norm_news
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdak0e_american-radical-the-trials-of-norm_news
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdakpo_american-radical-the-trials-of-norm_news
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdalbo_american-radical-the-trials-of-norm_news

*edit:
There also appears to be a full version on Youku (although that site has always been slow for me).
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTYyNDkyMzUy.html

I can't recommend this documentary enough, American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein

Really, watch it.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2010 05:26

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Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9045158223206269582

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A Cry from the Grave tells the story of the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, in which the Bosnian Serb army killed an estimated 7,000 Bosnian Muslims. It follows hour by hour the story of the killings. Through the testimony of survivors and relatives of those who died it explores the pain felt when no one is brought to justice.There are interviews with investigators from the UN-sponsored court at The Hague and from the UN special prosecutor. But the underlying message of the film is bleak indeed - no matter what is done, it will never be enough. A Cry from the Grave has won numerous prizes. It has been shown at the UN, and it was used during a war crimes trial at The Hague

This made me feel dirty inside.

Judakel posted:

He recommended an insane documentary about AIDS/HIV a while back. I believe one poster took him to task on it.

You're thinking of another guy. I'm not the one who posted the documentary about AIDS. If I remember correctly, it was something about how AIDS was lab-created or something like that. For the record, I don't think such a thing.
And saying that I hate jews just because I say that I liked a documentary about a JEWISH anti-zionist is, well, pretty stupid.

Redrum and Coke fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Aug 2, 2010

# ¿ Aug 2, 2010 03:02

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Chernobyl Heart:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=414073095760658789

Chernobyl Heart is a 2003 documentary film by Maryann DeLeo. The film won the Best Documentary Short Subject award at the 2004 Academy Awards.
In the film, DeLeo travels through Ukraine and Belarus with Adi Roche, the Irish founder of the Chernobyl Children's Project International, observing the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on the health of children in the area. In addition to mutations and severe radiation poisoning, many children suffer from a previously unknown cardiac degradation condition, so common in the area it is known as "Chernobyl heart". DeLeo herself contracted caesium poisoning during the making of the film, although she was successfully treated and made a full recovery.
DeLeo explored the Chernobyl disaster again in 2008 with the film White Horse.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2010 01:37

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Xipe posted:

A Place for Paedophiles (Louis Theroux)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frvc1snhF98&p=AB120288690C1504&playnext=1&index=22

I enjoyed this, in the sense that it's well made, but it kept pissing me off.

Quite frankly, I don't see the point of having this mental asylums for pedophiles, since they exist exclusively to prolong these people's sentences, without actually saying so (i.e. most of them would never be allowed to leave, even though they had done their time in prison).

Since the state wants to keep them locked up, I think that they should just be open about it, and either establish mandatory life sentences for child-abuse, or just go the extra mile and execute this people (thus doing what most people would like anyway). Even though I can feel no sympathy for child abusers, the fact that they're being incarcerated after their actual incarceration does bother me, since it could set a dangerous precedent in criminal law, and work as a political tool to suppress civil rights (in different types of offenses, of course).

The particularly annoying thing about this whole arrangement is that they actually live in a very pleasant environment, with none of the dangers associated with prison, where child molesters are targeted on a daily basis. So you go to jail for a ponzi scheme and, depending on the amount of money you stole, spend decades in prison, while if you rape a kid, you spend some years in the joint, and then go to this med-club for the rest of your days.

On a "lighter" note I thought that it was hilarious (though downright creepy) that one of the perverts was so adamant about "setting the record straight" by saying that he does not want to gently caress children (again). His basic idea was that he just hosed a kid because he had the chance to do so, but was in no way a pedophile.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2010 15:25

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Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

In his first project since the Sopranos, James Gandolfini brings a stunning documentary about the veterans of the War on Terror. Gandolfini interviews 10 soldiers to see how they're adapting to their lives post war and to discuss the most tragic days of their lives, their Alive Day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j08fvUk67U

# ¿ Oct 25, 2010 14:47

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"Documentaries" about people with obsessions with..

Bewitched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo2KeaJkXJA
Ninja Turtles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaxev-59fcA
Wonder Woman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA4VDO_hwjU
I dream of Jeannie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6FmQ4XL5-o

Links are for the 1st part. The rest are on the side.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2011 02:04

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Doublepost to bump and to add a new documentary I found, which I am watching, and that it's making me feel physically sick.

Dope Sick Love
The movie follows two drug-addicted couples. The way in which, at least in my view, they lose all traces of dignity and humanity is really making me feel ill.

http://documentarystorm.com/drugs/dope-sick-love/

# ¿ Jan 15, 2011 15:54

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Dispatches: Beneath The Veil[/]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4201322772364661561&hl=sv
A truly disgusting look into the living conditions of women under the Taliban regime

quote:

An anonymous woman, covered from head to toe in a blue burka, is dragged across a football pitch and shot in front of 30,000 spectators. This haunting image of Taliban justice was filmed secretly in Channel 4′s award-winning documentary Beneath the Veil broadcast in June 2001. The woman was Zarmina, 35-year-old mother of seven. In a new Dispatches film, Lifting the Veil, Carla Garapedian went to Afghanistan to discover her story and see whether women�s lives have improved since the fall of the Taliban.
After a secret trial, Zarmina was jailed with her six-month-old twins. They were confined to one room for three years. She confessed that her husband, Alozai, had discovered she had committed adultery saying: �He said, �Tomorrow I will go to the Taliban and they will stone you to death.� That night I was afraid. I hit him over the head with a mallet.�
Money could have saved Zarmina�s life. The final Supreme Court ruling stated that her life would have been spared if she paid 10,000 dirhams ($8,000 dollars) to her seven children for the loss of their father. But she had no money. Under Taliban law, Zarmina was judged by her own children. Children often participated in Taliban justice and witnessed executions. Alozai�s brother brought the couple�s children to court. Zarmina�s mother says: �They were always beating the children to say their mother had killed.�

The Final Insult
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6621908278614449486

Channel 4's documentary about how the World Jewish Congress, in the words of Norman Finkelstein, blackmailed the Swiss Banks for reparations, and then kept the money from the survivors.

# ¿ Jan 26, 2011 02:03

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FizzyJuffoWup posted:

I was surprised that nobody posted this yet. Monster Camp is on Netflix Instant.
I'm sure it's available on youtube/hulu etc.It's about LARPers too as it follows a group called NERO Seattle and the people who participate and run the events. I liked it better than Darkon. I found almost every person to be depressing. Here's a trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tobGvjez9x0

Thanks for sharing this. I just finished watching it and, quite frankly, it's great.

Some of the people were really nice, while others were extremely annoying and obnoxious, of course.

Since I have no experience on LARPing or anything of the kind, I don't know if this represents that community, but at least I had fun watching it.

--

EDIT:

e-Dreams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ELRug6fOM

quote:

e-Dreams is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Wonsuk Chin, portraying the rise and fall of Kozmo.com, an online convenience store that utilized bike messengers to deliver goods ordered online within an hour.

Basically, the dot com bubble. The opening pep-talk by the owner of Kozmo is hilariously corny. It also uses the term "roller coaster" repeatedly.

Redrum and Coke fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Feb 5, 2011

# ¿ Feb 5, 2011 03:53

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The American Dream http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPWH5TlbloU I am a retard and forgot to paste the link

Basically, a cartoon 'documentary' about the Federal Reserve, the Rotschilds, and how they have destroyed America, the American dream, puppies, etc.

I post this not because I agree with it, since I'm not american and the Federal Reserve thing is a mystery to me, but to know what's true and what's false, since it seems like a big conspiracy theory video, following the footsteps of Loose Change or Zeitgeist.

It is pretty entertaining though :p

Edited to include the mandatory matrix reference from the comments:

quote:

money are fake, that means that their power is also fake!

if we escape from this matrix, these people will fall down!

the knowlege is the light, only with apollo light we will beat the dark!

I don't know about you, but as soon as I read a matrix reference, no matter in what context, I lose respect for their argument.

Redrum and Coke fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Feb 11, 2011

# ¿ Feb 11, 2011 16:09

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robotsinmyhead posted:

It was entertaining, but they never said anything about what people can do to make things better. It's all very fire and brimstone, then ends abruptly.

Probably "vote for Ron Paul"

I really thought it was an entertaining thing to watch, but I would like more familiar with the US financial system to tell me how much of it is pure fabrication.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2011 02:24

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Mrens posted:

"I stopped doing Chemo and I fell 100% better"

First of all, let me just say that I think that faith healers and the like should be prosecuted, as they abuse the desperation of sick people, scam them and then keep them from using good and helpful treatments.

Now, having said that, a person that stops Chemo will definitely feel better; one of the (many) downsides of Chemo is that the patient will feel awful.

Additionally, keep in mind that Chemo is pretty much useless for most types of cancer, and yet doctors keep prescribing it.

EDIT: Since it's likely that someone will ask for the evidence, here's the research, and a small criticism: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15630849

And the overview: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15630849

Redrum and Coke fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Feb 14, 2011

# ¿ Feb 14, 2011 15:41

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Hellwuzzat posted:

"Zoo" on Documentary Heaven. I dunno about awesome, but it's one of the most hosed up docs I've ever heard of.

I started watching this a while ago, but couldn't get past the first 30 minutes or so. Maybe I'll give it another shot.

I wonder how does the director's resume read: "Zoo. Award winning documentary about a man having his colon destroyed after a horse penetrated him anally".

Finally... how hosed up is the fact that the banner that showed up at the end of this horse related page was for Dubya's book?

# ¿ Feb 21, 2011 15:21

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http://documentaryheaven.com/friends-of-god/
Friends of God
HBO documentary that goes into the Evangelical Christian world.
Ted Haggard is seen talking about the awesome sex life of evangelical Christians with their wives (citing that "all surveys prove..."); he forgot to mention the shemale crackwhore he was loving on the side.
Also, you get to see some neat pictures of Dinosaurs with yokes, since they co-existed with humans.
It's sad to see that most of these people are actually well-meaning (except for assholes like Haggard) but are completely brainwashed (some, obviously, are just retards, who justify teaching the Bible, as opposed to Evolution, because "it's easier to explain it to kids").
To see them teach the motto "God Said it, I believe it, That settles it" to little kids is truly disturbing; they're basically telling these kids to be absolute idiots (who'll probably grow up to watch Fox News)

Redrum and Coke fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Feb 28, 2011

# ¿ Feb 28, 2011 22:23

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Overdose: The next financial crisis
http://documentaryheaven.com/overdose-the-next-financial-crisis/

quote:

In times of crisis people seek strong leaders and simple solutions. But what happens when their solutions are identical to the mistakes that caused the very crisis? �Overdose� is the story of the greatest economic crisis of our age, the one that awaits us. The documentary traces the origins of the financial crisis and explores the eerie similarities with today�s situation, where states like Greece, Iceland and even the U.S. seems to be in danger of collapsing.

Among those interviewed are experts who were mocked when they predicted the current crisis. Other interviewees include Nobel laureate Vernon Smith and former US Comptroller General David Walker (I.O.U.S.A). The film is shot in the U.S., Sweden and Germany and makes extensive use of music, archive footage and graphics.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2011 13:56

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Baby Beauty Queens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVHgXgRPVis
A documentary about the first Kids Beauty Pageant held in the UK. It is, obviously, infuriating and painful.

Some thoughts:
I want to kill the fat ugly bitch that organized this, as well as the crazy parents of the contestants (except the one from the low income family, she was cool, and talked against exploiting kids with make up and the like)

EDIT: Adding the link seemed like a good idea.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2011 06:05

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melon cat posted:

This is such a great thread, and several recommendations have kept me occupied for hours so far!

However.

Can anyone recommend any documentaries that aren't so depressing? I can only learn so much about Bulgarian orphanages/Canada's horrible treatment of Aboriginals/reasons why we're going to run out of fuel and fall into a world of chaos/stories of global financial ruin before I start feeling like slitting my wrists. A few more along the lines of An Idiot Abroad and Exit Through the Gift Shop, for example.

Trekkies 1 and 2
The King of Kong
Monster Camp

In general, any documentary about subcultures where people take themselves too seriously.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2011 19:55

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Did anybody else notice that one of the Phelps' girls makes a reference to Antoine Dodson when answering Louis' questions?
She starts with "Weeeell, obviously..." and her sisters start to giggle.

It was awesome.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2011 02:33

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uG posted:

You know people were saying that before Antoine Dodson right? And that the phelps hate homosexuals?

OMG, really? The dude from https://www.godhatesfags.com is anti-gay? This is an unexpected turn of events.
It was still awesome (EDIT: by that I mean hilarious)

To contribute:

Death of Kim Il Sung
It's not really a documentary (unless you speak Korean, I guess) just a video covering the TOTALLY SPONTANEOUS reactions after Kim Il Sung's death (the father of the current insane North Korean tyrant, Kim Jong Il). I just finished a book about North Korea, so the whole phenomenon surprises me. Though a lot of it is clearly staged, there are actually a lot of people who cried like that, and who even committed suicide after Kim Il Sung's death. It's like North Korea is one big experiment on cult mentality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrvIM1ENcbA

NOTE: The video is hosted by an insane pro-north korea retard, so don't pay attention to the propagandistic title.

Redrum and Coke fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Apr 9, 2011

# ¿ Apr 9, 2011 03:13

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GOP posted:

It's not funny any more. They really need to be eradicated.

No, they don't.
If there's actual evidence of child endangerment (physical abuse) or drug-related crimes then they should be brought to court; otherwise, they should just be left alone.

The Phelps represent one of the beautiful things about the US. The right of people to say absolutely batshit insane things without the threat of being "eradicated".

As one of the many people who will burn in hell, according to these idiots, I couldn't care less about what they have to say, and find it specially offensive in certain occasions, but they have the right to say it, without the threat of "private groups" doing vigilantism because they don't like their message (which, as another poster said, is limited to quoting some of the craziest bible passages, not making them up).

Still obsessed with North Korea situation so...
Inside Undercover in North Korea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_268_pBvPs

quote:

Join National Geographic's Lisa Ling as she captures a rare look inside North Korea - something few Americans have ever been able to do. Posing as an undercover medical coordinator and closely guarded throughout her trip, Lisa moves inside the most isolated nation in the world, encountering a society completely dominated by government and dictatorship. Glimpse life inside North Korea as you've never seen before with personal accounts and powerful footage. Witness first-hand efforts by humanitarians and the challenges they face from the rogue regime.

The ending, with the reactions of the patients after the surgery, is particularly frightening.

Redrum and Coke fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Apr 9, 2011

# ¿ Apr 9, 2011 16:48

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Farbtoner posted:

I feel like I'm the only person on earth who didn't like Dear Zachary. The whole thing was a one-sided hit piece by a bunch of grieving family members about how they knew the way things went down and they didn't need things like evidence or reasonable doubt to get in the way, I can see how it would be depressing if you take everything at face value but I couldn't get over the fact that the entire movie is just a bunch of people bitching about how stupid and evil a guy's ex-wife is and not much else.

You did see the end, right?

# ¿ Jul 30, 2011 13:07

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Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimer's
Best-selling author Terry Pratchett has early onset Alzheimer's disease. And he wants Alzheimer's to be sorry that it ever caught him. In the second of this two-part series, Terry confronts his future living with the disease. He travels to America to witness first-hand how they are coping with the 'tsunami of Alzheimer's', and meets the unlikely doctor who stumbled across a controversial new treatment that he claims produces remarkable results in minutes.
http://vimeo.com/24875580

Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die
In Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die, He explores the realities of medically assisted death. Having been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's disease in 2008, Terry considers how he might choose to end his life as his condition progresses. In a moving documentary he meets those who, like him, would like to control the way they die including a men suffering from degenerative conditions and he is with a British motor neurone sufferer as he carries out an assisted death at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland.

http://vimeo.com/25239708

A truly great guy and author, with a truly awful disease, in two truly depressing documentaries.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2011 23:46

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Stein Rockon posted:

Anyone got something about Yugoslavia? Primarily interested in serbian paramilitaries, Milosevic and that bunch of giant dicks, but I'll take anything you've got.

(doesn't have to be available as a stream)

The Milosevic Case :GLosses at a trial
A Dutch documentary about the irregularities that occurred during the Milosevic trial.
http://vodpod.com/watch/3706901-the-milosevic-case-glosses-at-a-trial-part-1 Part 1
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5840619592451624793 Part 2

Yugoslavia: The avoidable war
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5860186121153047571 Part 1

Controversial documentary about the Balkans war, showing atrocities committed by the other parties, as well as shifting the blame for the outbreak of the war.

Sbrenica: A call from the grave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fliw801iX84
About the massacre.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2011 06:00

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I know what I saw
A documentary about UFO sightings. It shows former generals, ministers, Air Force personnel, etc.
It does not refer to abductions or things like that, it limits itself to UFOs.
Although I'm very skeptic, it's still an interesting watch, since it has more "credible" witnesses, instead of the usual redneck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIeGeE0uDJg

Here's a review http://www.openminds.tv/review-%E2%80%9Ci-know-what-i-saw-james-fox-nails-the-issue-of-credibility-and-ufos/ (although biased in favor of it)

# ¿ Dec 21, 2011 20:04

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# ¿ May 1, 2024 23:59

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IanJ posted:

The People's Cartoonist (2001)

Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA8E6FC8DA8A1ECB4

An anime nerd tries his hand at making an animated short in one year. He's kind of a jackass and there's plenty of unintentional comedy. I recently watched this and found it really funny, it's a perfect snapshot of a very specific kind of geek. Lots of cringeworthy moments. It starts slow but once you get deeper into his world it's pretty revealing.

Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtdFIXS8S8o

Comic sans!

Content:
Sex Slaves
The trafficking of women from former Soviet nations to Turkey. I'm not sure if I (or someone else) posted this before, but it will make you feel like poo poo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXRLfMS8IWc

# ¿ Mar 21, 2012 12:18

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