Documentary Films

I love documentaries :heart:

Some I highly recommend:

The Thin Blue Line by Errol Morris

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I watched that film years ago on the channel IFC and was amazed by it though it was in poor quality, the other elements of the documentary made up for it. The score by Phillip Glass was haunting..I long to hear it again, the testimony by the jury members, the accused, the convicted and the policemen. I loved that documentary, I'm suprised someone acknowledged it here
 
Everybody should see Dear Zachary.. but have some Kleenex handy.

I just watched the trailer on YouTube and looked up some news articles to find out what happened... I literally gasped :cry: ugh my heart would break watching that.
 
i watched The War On Democracy by John Pilger in my Poli Sci class. very good, its on youtube if you guys wanna check it out
 
I just watched the trailer on YouTube and looked up some news articles to find out what happened... I literally gasped :cry: ugh my heart would break watching that.

It is a tough story...

But the parents are so strong and very inspiring. If anything, watch it for them.
 
An Inconvenient Truth By Davis Guggenheim

and

The 11th Hour By Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen

LOVE THEM BOTH!!! :wub:
 
Very neat thread! My bf is heading out next week to film his friend at the World Beatbox champs. He's been filming him since he began his beatboxing career from the streets, to shows and now the World Champs. The story of a quiet kid giving the gift of making music, and noise beyond understanding, with his mouth.
 
My favorites:

F for Fake
Orson Welles' free-form documentary about fakery focusses on the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and Elmyr's biographer, Clifford Irving, who also wrote the celebrated fraudulent Howard Hughes autobiography, then touches on the reclusive Hughes and Welles' own career (which started with a faked resume and a phony Martian invasion). On the way, Welles plays a few tricks of his own on the audience.


Man on Wire
On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit, a French wire walker, juggler, and street performer days shy of his 25th birthday, spent 45 minutes walking, dancing, kneeling, and lying on a wire he and friends strung between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Uses contemporary interviews, archival footage, and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, his passions and friendships, and the details of the night before the walk: getting cable into the towers, hiding from guards, and mounting the wire. It ends with observations of the profound changes the walk's success brought to Philippe and those closest to him.

War photographer
Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever

Deep Water
DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race, and the psychological toll it took on its competitors. Sponsored by the Sunday Times of London, the much-ballyhooed event attracted a field of nine, including amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst, who set out to circumnavigate the globe in late 1968. Battling treacherous seas and his own demons, Crowhurst almost immediately comes apart as he faces the isolation of nine months on the high seas. Part adventure yarn and part metaphysical mystery, DEEP WATER is an unforgettable journey into one mans heart of darkness

Don't look back
Portrait of the artist as a young man. In spring, 1965, Bob Dylan, 23, a pixyish troubador, spends three weeks in England. Pennebaker's camera follows him from airport to hall, from hotel room to public house, from conversation to concert. Joan Baez and Donovan, among others, are on hand. It's the period when Dylan is shifting from acoustic to electric, a transition that not all fans, including Baez, applaud. From the opening sequence of Dylan holding up words to the soundtrack's "Subterranean Homesick Blues," Dylan is playful and enigmatic.
 
Deep Water was very good. As I said in the other film thread, I wasn't aware of any of details about the men nor the race before watching, so I was completely shocked, fascinated and deeply disturbed by what happened. It was especially hard to watch the interviews with Crowhurt's wife. (I recommend to anyone who plans on watching this, to not research Crowhurst first as it may lessen the impact.)

Here's the trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDs67LfPYPU
 
i watched The War On Democracy by John Pilger in my Poli Sci class. very good, its on youtube if you guys wanna check it out

I saw this a while ago. That ex-chief-of-the-CIA guy was absolutely terrifying :shock: I don't think anyone has ever infuriated me more than him.
 
re: Deep Water

Looks like it is on youtube too.. 12 parts
the one by username, gold xxxx
 
I'd recommend Marlene, I just saw it, it's prety amazing:

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I saw this a while ago. That ex-chief-of-the-CIA guy was absolutely terrifying :shock: I don't think anyone has ever infuriated me more than him.

^ heyy i didnt get this post in my email -_- hmmm.

i appreciate my American Govt Professor for showing docs like this, i hate teachers who only teach from the book but dont try to enlighten us with anything else. he says he loves see the light bulbs go off on top of our heads ^_^

you should have seen me and my classmates, we know this stuff goes on but to hear the CIA interviewees being so dismissive about everything pissed us all off. i shook my head at the responses when he said "we didnt kill thousands, count 'em" and John Pilger was like "all of their names are on the memorial site"!

im sure NSA is reading everything i write :lol: my professor also showed us a documentary on the NSA, NOVA : The Spy Factory which talked about the events leading up to 9/11 and the changes to privacy afterwards.
 
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Anything by David Attenborough
The World at War
Joy Division
Cosmos
 
A very good one, but I recommend it if you watch it, you have to be open minded, because Bill Maher expose some very good points about different religions, no one can give him an answer to all his questions lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdkyLrDpaUg
 
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I love documentaries - I was lucky enough to study them last year for my film class and we looked at Biggie & Tupac, Bowling for Columbine, Coalface and Primary (a direct cinema documentary that followed JFK on the campaign trail to election.)

I watched half of The Bridge but found it quite difficult to watch, but I will go back to it soon. I'd like to see Man On Wire as well because it seems like a fascinating subject.
 
^ Funny that you mention Man On Wire... because that is one docu that I'm not interested in. And I don't know why. But it just does not spark any interest for me. :(

Regarding Religulous, I found it to be somewhat boring... longer than it needed to me. It felt as if they really stretched the footage.
 
Oh I love this thread! Thanks to everyone who has shared suggestions, now I got a whole list of documentaries to add to my Netflix queue! ^_^

A couple of my favorite documentaries are:

What Remains: The Life & Work of Sally Mann - At home at her Virginia farm, photographer Sally Mann reflects on the controversy surrounding her earlier collections while forging ahead with new work in this intimate portrait of an artist. Also offering insights into the photographer's career are Mann's husband and her now-grown offspring Emmett, Virginia and Jessie, whom Mann famously photographed nude when they were young children in her career-making collection Immediate Family.

Born Into Brothels - This Oscar-winning documentary is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in Calcutta's red-light district, where their mothers work as prostitutes. Spurred by the kids' fascination with her camera, Zana Briski, a photographer documenting life in the brothels, decides to teach them photography. As they begin to look at and record their world through new eyes, the kids awaken to their own talents and sense of worth.

"What Remains" was superb, Sally Mann is my favorite photographer and it was great watching her process and hearing her speak candidly about her work and life. Also included on special features section of the "What Remains" DVD is a much earlier short documentary, shot by the same filmmaker, and focusing on Sally Mann and her three children during the time she was working on her book "Immediate Family".

And "Born Into Brothels" was not only good, but it really inspired me to see the worth of art, not that I didn't value it before (I pretty much live to make art), but as far as using art to benefit those in need. I had been interested joining the Peace Corps or something similar, but could never find volunteer opportunities for artists. But this documentary reminded me once again of the never dying power of art.

(Descriptions from Netflix :wink:).
 

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