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'Open Water' is one of the best feel-bad films I've seen (again, it's based on real events).  The rather similar-sounding 'Deep Water' is a film-length documentary about Donald Crowhurst, a British amateur yachtsman who entered a round-the-world race in his prototype catamaran, Teignmouth Electron:  If you've never heard of Crowhurst, just get this and watch it, without doing any online research...if you're prepared to be haunted forever. Colin Firth is set to star in a movie version of this, but I can't see how it can outdo the impact of the original tale, which unfolds like something Joseph Conrad might have written in an especially pitiless mood.
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I just remembered 'A Certain Kind of Death' – a documentary film about what happens when someone dies without any next of kin, which may well have already cropped up on 'scary/unnerving' threads, so apologies if it's been done to -- erm, death. It's still one of the best documentaries I've seen and it turns out it's now on Youtube. Fairly obvious warning: it contains images of the decomposing bodies of real people, starting about 40 seconds in, when the camera flips straight from a man's 3-weeks-dead foot to show his whole body, slumped on the toilet. Less obvious warning: those images are not the thing that will stick most in your mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErooOhzE268
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