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Ali Alkali
Apr 23, 2008
i need some tips for political documentaries! i guess it would be preferable it they were from a critical or socialist perspective??? it is nice if you can watch it free on the internet!


i am gonna leave you with some tips of my own

watch act of killing, the long version, it is really good! about the folks who murdered a million people, communists, chinese immigrants, unionists etc, in indonesia in the 60s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tILiqotj7Y
here it is in Indonesian without subs


or i guess you can watch this one hour classic, about street gangs in paris beating up skinheads and stealing their jackets in the 80s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfDbTgb6uyc
english subs


thanks!

Ali Alkali has issued a correction as of 20:16 on Feb 11, 2018

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Apples McGrind
Oct 13, 2013

google Adam Curtis

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Ali Alkali posted:

i need some tips for political documentaries! i guess it would be preferable it they were from a critical or socialist perspective??? it is nice if you can watch it on the internet!


i am gonna leave you with some tips of my own

watch act of killing, the long version, it is really good! about the folks who murdered a million people, communists, chinese immigrants, unionists etc, in indonesia in the 60s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tILiqotj7Y
here it is in Indonesian without subs


or i guess you can watch this one hour classic, about street gangs i paris beating up skinheads and stealing their jackets in the 80s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfDbTgb6uyc
english subs


thanks!

those are both good
i like adam curtis and erol moris

Ali Alkali
Apr 23, 2008
here is a more recent documentary about antifascism in sweden and greece, mostly sweden though if i remember correctly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYHnd4boUoM
english subs

Coolness Averted
Feb 20, 2007

oh don't worry, I can't smell asparagus piss, it's in my DNA

GO HOGG WILD!
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Apples McGrind posted:

google Adam Curtis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afBmN7icFRw Hypernormalization is extremely good. Curtis is pretty depressing though. This is also a link to the version that doesn't randomly have a 4 minute section about modern British Military Adventurism cut out, which for a while was missing from the most common youtube upload.

hallebarrysoetoro
Jun 14, 2003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbZAXFKt-8E

Ali Alkali
Apr 23, 2008

thank you for not asking me to google it

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

"hypernormalization" has become such a cliche answer and such a trite observation on society

i've heard good things about Weiner but i've never seen it

Coolness Averted
Feb 20, 2007

oh don't worry, I can't smell asparagus piss, it's in my DNA

GO HOGG WILD!
🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗

get that OUT of my face posted:

"hypernormalization" has become such a cliche answer and such a trite observation on society

i've heard good things about Weiner but i've never seen it

Weiner was good but less a political documentary and more a weird view into very broken people which just so happens to have been recorded during a political campaign.
Hypernormalization only seems trite if you watch it imagining it was released today. The movie was finished back when we still thought Trump was a joke who would win the primaries only to get crushed by Abuela in the GE. A truth most of still believed when it aired.
I mean yeah for a lot of c-spammers it's just preaching to the choir but I think it's still a great watch.

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
Red Army about the Soviet hockey team is real good. Focus is more on the team than politics per se but there’s enough political undercurrent that it’s c-spam worthy.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
Can we post lectures?

Because I'm posting this lecture which is good fuel for Thanksgiving arguments with your relatives who think the U.S. could've won the war in Vietnam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOjLrUsE6IU

Straight from the the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center.

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEoGrbKAyKE

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT8q6VAyTi8

MaxxBot
Oct 6, 2003

you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!

quote:

For historical purposes. $100'000'000 was spent on the Jeb Bush presidential campaign. This documentary was created to help voters get to know Jeb. This will be an interesting case study for marketing students pertaining to brands and brand failure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3R-vKJJ8XA

Coolness Averted
Feb 20, 2007

oh don't worry, I can't smell asparagus piss, it's in my DNA

GO HOGG WILD!
🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗

I'm a little sad the Jeb! Mailer dvd wasn't at the museum of failure tbh

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


the act of killing is so incredibly good

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

red dawn, published in 1984 and directed by john milius

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
The Fog Of War

a lovely youtube version trying to dodge the algorithm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ZhIi57x-4

rudatron has issued a correction as of 09:11 on Feb 12, 2018

gucci bane
Oct 27, 2008



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LYRUOd_QoM

hallebarrysoetoro
Jun 14, 2003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mloc0jh6kV4

nah
Mar 16, 2009

IDIOCRACY!!!

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Adam Curtis' older documentaries are out on YouTube and they're pretty drat good. They mostly focus on UK and Soviet Russia though.

Edgar Quintero
Oct 5, 2004

POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS
DO NOT GIVE HEROIN
As a canadian i really liked this documentary about the October Crisis. Vive le quebec libre etc. Seriously though I thought it was well made and does a good job summarizing the background to why Quebecois were/still are so fuckin angry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxhbzCRLVVo

Not really about politicians but the labour movement is politically relevant: The classic early 70s documentary Harlan County, USA about striking coal miners in Kentucky and their war with the coal company. Whole thing is on Youtube apparently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5TYSXN0aXs

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN6uLtyTThM

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

dunno if it counts as a documentary cuz there's 10 episodes of it but i liked Cuba Libre for providing about as much historical context as possible for the cuban revolution and subsequent history, I think mostly because they rely on european and cuban historians to avoid the standard insane american perspective

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Byolante
Mar 23, 2008

by Cyrano4747
Labour: The Summer that changed everything

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

When this was pitched it was widely expected Corbyn was leading Labour to their worst defeat in living memory and the film crew decided to follow high profile anti-Corbyn labour MPs as they campaigned for re-election. It leads to some truely magical moments of PLPs getting corncobbed.

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