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What are your favorite docs? List can be as long or short as you like. You know the drill.
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Oooof, nailed it in one.Originally Posted by Packerman
Gives me an excuse to share this. "In The Year of the Pig". Don't think it's ever had a physical release but found it kicking around on youtube. It's about the Viet Nam war and taught me a great deal. WARNING - It's pretty brutal.
Last edited by Blue in the Face; 29-08-16 at 20:00.
Yes. Wish it had a bit more on the pre-war bit though. But, it's a great comprehensive achievement.
Life on Earth for me.
The Blue Planet
Rock Family Trees.
Just about anything to do with Ancient Greece or Rome is my cuppa.
I think The Thin Blue Line is the best documentary I have seen. Everything about it is exceptional. The Philip Glass soundtrack is tremendous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVltIJHDO3Y
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. It was a BBC2 documentary about the amazing Richard Feynman (scientist and bongo player in a brothel). It's available in ten minute segments on Youtube and if it doesn't grab you I'll buy you a pint.
Great film. Same director as "The Fog of War". Another great one.
The Jinx - The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
The Wolfpack is mental about a group of kids who are sheltered from the real world by being kept indoors by their dad. Their understanding of the world is built by watching Hollywood movies - it's bazaar.
Bus 174 about a Brazilian Street kid who hijacks a bus.
Civilisation - it's amazing how productive the human race was before telly and the internet.
Saving Private Ryan.
The John Pilger and Ken Loach documentary back cataolgue are all worth a look.
97% Owned (linked below). It describes how virtually all the money supply is debt created from nothing by commercial banks who charge interest on their loans. We will become 100% owned by banksters when they eliminate notes and coins.
The Civil War by Ken Burns, one of the best ever made.
These are all by either Ken or Ric Burns. They're all amazing and you should watch them:
The Civil War (1990)
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
Baseball (1994), updated with The Tenth Inning (2010)
The West (1996)
Thomas Jefferson (1997)
Jazz (2001)
The War (2007)
The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
Prohibition (2011)
The Dust Bowl (2012)
Coney Island (1991)
New York: A Documentary Film (1999; expanded 2003)
Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film (2002)
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (2006)
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
Jackie Robinson (2016)
Enjoy this one:--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NlJQJUUqR4
Ones about real things, not stories like EastEnders and Coronation Street.
The Square - About the egyptian uprising. On Netflix.
That one about Enron.
The Arabian storyville about that kid riding his bike around the middle east.
The Storyville about the black panthers.
Can't remember many off the top of my head but there have been loads that I enjoyed watching.
Clinton Cash
Where to invade next
In all fairness, the thread asked for favourite documentaries rather than most relevant, informative, thought-provoking, chilling, etc. Without seeing any of the others' mentioned, I'd bet my last leek that 97% Owned is the one which would never be broadcast on the BBC.
How we lied to everyone about going to the moon, www.imaliar.buzzaldrin.com.
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