Good Documentaries

[Shambles]

Wow. Thanks for all of the links. I've got a great list of stuff to watch now.

Agreed. A good documentary is close to my heart so I am also appreciating this thread .

Keep the River on the Right and Little Dieter needs to Fly: Both great documentaries by Werner Herzog.

Not seen either of those yet, but Herzog is a genius so I will research - thanks

Other notable Herzog docu's include Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices and (especially) Lessons in Darkness for differing reasons .

 

[Aros2k]

 

[Don Luigi]

theres a few on north korea which im absolutely fascinated in will post later

Yes - Please do!

Unless it's the Vice Magazine 14 episode tour of North Korea. It's very good but I've seen it

 

[Don Luigi]

World War I in Color. This isnt nearly as ground-breaking or mind-bendingly cool as the films listed above, but it's worth a watch because the BBC gathered tons of film footage from WWI and colored it by hand (rotoscoping I imagine. If you're into video production, the mind reels.) Anyway, it's narrated by Kenneth Brannaugh and he doesn't get on my tits in this as much as I thought he might. It's particularly cool because usually when you look at photos of people from that era they seem utterly foreign. Once you watch footage of them jumping out of trenches or just goofing off in a lake or something, you automatically recognize them as people just like ourselves.

I loved this series, among my favourite series' along with The Colour of War and The World at War.

 

[Shambles]

Another good drugs documentary can be watched here - Ecstasy Rising .

EDIT: I'll just add that this is probably the most pro-ecstasy documentary I've seen. I was genuinely surprised at it - especially when it was made by ABC .

 

[Baron_Greenbck]

Methamphetamine - The Worlds Most Dangerous Drug (Nat Geo)

Cocaine Cowboys

Both available on all good torrent sites!!

 

[Shambles]

I've seen the methamphetamine one and it's fairly good - more balanced than some of these things, but still pretty hysterical. Worth a watch if only for some of the fucked up tweaker stories .

 

[fastandbulbous]

^ I was going to be interviewed by the documentary team for that program, but when they were dong the interviews I was in hospital with a badly infected cat scratch, so I didn't get my 15 minutes of fame (anyway I'd have wanted the whole 'filmed in shilouette' treatment anyway to save my folks the shock horror factor!)

 

[Shambles]

^ Ha! And one of those comedy voice-distortions too, of course :D.

 

[The Liberal Media]

David Icke - Was He Right?

Channel 5 documentary from 12/26/06 which chronicles David Icke's career to present day, and asks the big question - Was he right?

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6860946590182985661

 

[TheSpade]

I was going to be interviewed by the documentary team for that program

How did that come about?

 

[Don Luigi]

A simple browse in the police 'lowlife watchlist' for the local area.

 

[fastandbulbous]

^ Ha! And one of those comedy voice-distortions too, of course :D.

Wouldn't need it, just have to set my accent to Jimmy Nail/Auf Wiedersehn Pet setting and nobody would be able to understand me anyway

How did that come about?

Through my comments about my bout of meth craziness on here and a couple of other forums

 

[Evad]

hah i wonder if PhreeX was contacted also, that meth paranoia thread is one of my all time bluelight favourites.

 

[The Liberal Media]

Osho - The Movie

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1916549395176220097

 

[Shambles]

Release your inner pigdog with Outfoxed and The Corporation .

 

[Shambles]

Just watched American Drug War: The Last White Hope and it was really rather good .

Admittedly, there's not a great deal there that most BLers will not already know - it's basically about how the CIA "created" the drugs (particularly coke/crack) epidemic of the 80s and 90s, how prohibition has done nothing but make the situation exponentially worse year on year, and how the only people who benefit are pharmaceutical companies and the (mostly conservative) politicians who just happen to sit on the board of those same companies - but it's well made and honest.

The guy who made it was addicted to OCs for pain relief, his brother died from prescription drugs (although was also addicted to crack), his mother and father died from alcoholism so he looked into the difference between legal and illegal drugs and - surprise surprise - found that legal drugs cause and create far worse problems than the illegal ones.

There are some interesting interviews with some of the key figures from both sides of the argument (including Tommy Chong when he was locked up a few years back and "Freeway" Ricky Ross who converted CIA coke into crack and flooded South Central LA with it in the 80s) and is well worth a watch .

 

[Fishface]

Hmm - does sound rather good - thanks for the heads-up, Shammy, dear friend

 

[Shambles]

No problem, my high-kicking, gertcha! guy and fond fishy friend .

I liked the documentary thread and it was a shame to see it die off, so as I just watched a good docu I thought it worth a bump .

 

[McFly]

I'll try and find a torrent but on National Geographic HD the other night was Afghan Heroin: The Lost War. it was fucking great, and had the crazyest smuggling rouse i've ever seen which involved weaving a big rug with wool that had a thin plastic inner tube filled with heroin .