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In Training
Jun 28, 2008

girth brooks part 2 posted:

Let the Fire Burn about the Philadelphia P.D. bombing the MOVE headquarters is a personal favorite. It'll probably depress the hell out of you though. There's only like one decent human being in the whole thing not including the children.

I'm more into nature documentaries myself. If you've never somehow never seen Attenborough's series you should probably change that. Getting stoned as hell and watching through them all is probably the closest thing I have to religion.

let the fire burn is real good

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ScrubLeague
Feb 11, 2007

Nap Ghost
That Grateful Dead series on Amazon is pretty good. I don't care much about the band but the doc is quite good.

felch me daddy jr.
Oct 30, 2009
I don't watch a lot of documentaries but one of my favorites is Crumb. I'm not really into R. Crumb or alternative comix, and I'm not a big fan of Zwigoff's other films but Crumb is legit fascinating stuff.

Yobgoblin
Mar 19, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Clapping Larry
Banned pedo documentary from The Discovery Channel: Conspiracy of Silence.

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Yobgoblin
Mar 19, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Clapping Larry
History channel talking about drugs, use and abuse throughout historical empires and what not. Alright stuff

:nws:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBlqz0elTl4:nws:

e: nsfw for drug use and possible advocacy (i do not advocate drug use).

Yobgoblin fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Sep 17, 2017

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

joris ivens was a great talent, as is steve james. hoop dreams and the interrupters are both incredible. how yukong moved the mountains is long but it's probably the best documentary i've ever watched

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


I watched Crumb on the weekend. loving hell, it was really heavy, I can only recommend it. Definitely up there with the best documentaries I've seen.

Kull the Conqueror
Apr 8, 2006

Take me to the green valley,
lay the sod o'er me,
I'm a young cowboy,
I know I've done wrong

R. Guyovich posted:

joris ivens was a great talent, as is steve james. hoop dreams and the interrupters are both incredible. how yukong moved the mountains is long but it's probably the best documentary i've ever watched

joris ivens is probably the greatest and coolest docman who ever lived and it's a shame his movies aren't better known

where did you see how yukong moved the mountains?

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Kull the Conqueror posted:

joris ivens is probably the greatest and coolest docman who ever lived and it's a shame his movies aren't better known

where did you see how yukong moved the mountains?

it's on youtube, haven't come across a screening yet. the china film archive here has weekly screenings but i doubt they'd do yukong in its entirety

Radio Spiricom
Aug 17, 2009

the best documentarian is wang bing and west of the tracks is the best documentary although his new one taang is very good as well

Bongo Bill
Jan 17, 2012

Glas (1958)

Chill Penguin
Jan 10, 2004

you know korky buchek?
Winnebago man ftw

The Hambulance
Apr 19, 2011

:20bux:

ASK ME ABOUT MY AWESOME STARTUP IDEA


Pillbug
I really enjoyed The Farthest. http://www.pbs.org/the-farthest/home/

Transferrins
Aug 18, 2014

Soiled Meat

Bongo Bill posted:

Glas (1958)
~hq~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3QEpQ9ozVU

extremely cool slice of 60s life in the Netherlands by the same dude.
In the titles it says the camera is hidden so it's like eavesdropping on people at the beach, a guy making weird faces at a sporting event and a girl secretly touching some art in a museum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYZxcCPGzm8

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.
Secrets of the SAS on Netflix is surprisingly good. I expected a whitewashed motofest, having grown up on Discovery channel military documentaries from either side of 9/11.

But this is the BBC, and they don't gently caress around.

Not only do they allow them to swear, and being they're career military men it would be odd for them not to do so basically all the time, they're extremely candid about everything that isn't classified or illegal.

They all say point blank that combat is scary, but also kind of fun in a way.
They say point blank, that if a woman or child is pointing a gun at them, they're absolutely going to shoot them, and that's that.
They say point blank, that they will brew tea basically anywhere given half a second's chance.

That's weird to hear in a documentary, as like I said, I'm used to watered down American documentaries, which are in no small portion meant to be for recruitment. They also focus heavily on the men themselves, and not so much the tactics or equipment. There's 4 episodes. One of them is specifically about PTSD, which again, is refreshing to see. It's not often that special forces operators will go on camera and present themselves as that vulnerable.

Scrub-Niggurath
Nov 27, 2007

Too Funny to Fail is currently on Hulu, it’s a documentary about the very short life of The Dana Carvey show, and is a really interesting look at comedy that’s ahead of its time. Lots of interviews with Steve Carroll, Steven Colbert, Robert Smigel and ofc Dana Carvey

Absolutely hilarious and worth watching for anyone who’s interested in sketch comedy

Yobgoblin
Mar 19, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Clapping Larry
i'd like to know people's thoughts on this: PTSD From Gang Violence in LA (Full Length)

Computer Serf
May 14, 2005
Buglord
https://www.thoughtmaybe.com
http://thoughtmaybe.com/by/adam-curtis/

Buncha streamable docs here.
I'd recommend watching Adam Curtis's work, if for nothing else his choice of music and editing style is interesting.

gary_plauche
Jan 9, 2018

there goes tha neighbahood
ive watched capturing the friedmans about a dozen times, highly recommend that one. those types of docs, like theres something wrong with aunt diane, poo poo like that, i can watch endlessly. maybe im just a morbid weirdo

ladron
Sep 15, 2007

eso es lo que es

gary_plauche posted:

maybe im just a morbid weirdo

welcome to the club, friend

GonSmithe
Apr 25, 2010

Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

gary_plauche posted:

ive watched capturing the friedmans about a dozen times, highly recommend that one. those types of docs, like theres something wrong with aunt diane, poo poo like that, i can watch endlessly. maybe im just a morbid weirdo

Have you checked out The Jinx, done by the Friedmans guy? Great docu-series.

Also have you seen Mommy Dead and Dearist? Definitely in the same vain as Aunt Diane.

gary_plauche
Jan 9, 2018

there goes tha neighbahood
I have seen Mommy Dead and Dearest, pretty strange stuff. I started the jinx, fell asleep and never returned to it for some reason. i know its probably great though.

lately ive been watching older hbo docs like the one about the kids on heroin. and that autopsy series that i had completely forgotten about. that show really went balls to the wall when it came to showing you graphic poo poo, they didnt pull punches. i feel like shows just dont do that anymore

ladron
Sep 15, 2007

eso es lo que es

gary_plauche posted:

lately ive been watching older hbo docs like the one about the kids on heroin. and that autopsy series that i had completely forgotten about. that show really went balls to the wall when it came to showing you graphic poo poo, they didnt pull punches. i feel like shows just dont do that anymore

"Small Town Ecstasy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c98D5yRmPWg

and

Life of Crime (1&2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWB_wPK91Cc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c76L_q6FHmc

drat

gary_plauche
Jan 9, 2018

there goes tha neighbahood
i actually stumbled upon small town ecstasy yesterday. maybe the most brutal midlife crisis ever recorded. havent seen life of crime, ill check it out. good looks

ladron
Sep 15, 2007

eso es lo que es

gary_plauche posted:

i actually stumbled upon small town ecstasy yesterday. maybe the most brutal midlife crisis ever recorded. havent seen life of crime, ill check it out. good looks

yeah, the second link says it's part 1, but it's really both parts smooshed together, but whoever did it put part 2 first.

my favorite documentary series. I recorded it off hbo back it the day, actually bought a vhs to dvd converter years later to digitize it, and now it's free for all on youtube. what a world.

hbo had some savagely brutal poo poo in the late 80s and early 90s. autopsy, the iceman interviews, etc. I wonder why they don't have as many as before. probably bc there's no money in them :smith:.

gary_plauche
Jan 9, 2018

there goes tha neighbahood

ladron posted:

my favorite documentary series. I recorded it off hbo back it the day, actually bought a vhs to dvd converter years later to digitize it, and now it's free for all on youtube. what a world.

as a youngboul who isnt internet savvy, i appreciate you big time. and i think the reason we dont see this kind of stuff anymore is the meteoric rise in sensitivity over the years. but like i said im young, i dont know anything.

Murrah
Mar 22, 2015

Anyone got any thoughts on Human Flow?

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

i watched One of Us on netflix recently. i think it was made by the same group that made Jesus Camp, which would make sense because this is about three people who have been effectively banished from hasidic jewish communities in Brooklyn. if you know nothing about the subject i highly recommend watching it

ladron
Sep 15, 2007

eso es lo que es
if anyone wants to watch something that will put things in perspective, I recommend God grew Tired of Us, about Sudanese refugees trying to make it in America.

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301555/

It's on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5N_qKbHHWw

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


Recently I watched Last Men in Aleppo on the big screen. It's absolutely crushing, I can't recommend it enough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT6IagQ7xos

DoubleCakes
Jan 14, 2015

I didn't like Exit Through the Gift Shop as much as I thought I would.

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Computer Serf
May 14, 2005
Buglord

DoubleCakes posted:

I didn't like Exit Through the Gift Shop as much as I thought I would.

most of it was just a remake of Orson Welles' "F for Fake"

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