Recommend a Documentary v. David Attenborough!

[poledriver]

^ Yeah I liked that.

 

[Bardeaux]

The Other 9/11 - Chile - Coup d'état - September 11, 1973

A neat little BBC doc about Salvador Allende's CIA backed overthrow and the installment of the Pinochet regime in Chile.

 

[merkwürdig]

bukowski: born into this

ladies and gentlemen, the great charles bukowski

 

[gimpan]

'Are you good or evil' Anyone who has an interest psychopaths/sciopaths will enjoy it.

Its free on topdocumentaries.com.

 

[kytnism]

the rise of psychedelic truffles in amsterdam.

following the legal condemnation of "magic mushrooms" in deutschland; the revolution and history of the "magic" truffle; keeping the legal consumption of psilocybin alive. a short and very informative view, lasting only 21 minutes. well worth the watch.

...kytnism...

 

[BachIsDead]

I'm a documentary historian, so excuse any obscurantism...

Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (Kazuo Hara) - Japanese film documenting the directors crazy ex girlfriend. See her give birth twice, wallow as an emotional wreck, and despise the son she had with the director while you hear him crying behind camera. The most emotionally striking film I have ever seen.

Images of the World and Inscriptions of the War (Harun Farocki) - Poetic history of photographic analysis.

Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen) - Essay film on how Los Angeles is portrayed throughout film history, almost entirely constructed of footage from Hollywood films. Won a handful of awards, but was never released due to rights issues with using footage from said Hollywood films. (But, it's all online! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SNc41zyLJ0 )

Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (Johan Grimonprez) - History of airline hijackings, with sparse narration implying that terrorists are the only true poets left (mostly ripped straight from the Don Delillo novel 'Mao II'). Premiered at Documenta (a German art festival), and really screen in galleries since and therefor never got much press outside art circles. (Also online, though UbuWeb has been having sever troubles lately http://www.ubu.com/film/grimonprez_dial.html )

Anything by Chris Marker (besides La Jetee). Known as 'France's Most Famous Unknown Filmmaker', he was a pioneer of the 'essay film' genre and had been directing films from the early 50's all the way up till recently when he died. His work is criminally overlooked with the exception of La Jetee, an experimental sci-fi film that 12 Monkeys is based on. I have not seen much by him that I'd consider bad in any way. Letters From Siberia, Sans Soleil, The Last Bolshevik, and The Case of the Grinning Cat are HIGHLY recommended.

Salesmen (Maysles Brothers) - Essential 'cinema verite' or 'direct cinema', whichever you prefer. Following around a rag-tag team of door to door Bible salesmen in the late 60s.

Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch) - Experimental doc on whether or not it is possible to be sincere in front of a camera. Collaboration between a filmmaker and sociologist.

Delits Flagrants (Raymond Depardon) - A minimal documentary classic. Watch petty criminals go through the various bureaucratic levels of a Parisian D.A.s office and change their stories depending on who they are talking to. Very little camera movement. No Narration. If you have a hard time with slow films, don't bother.

 

[kytnism]

alone in the wild - full season

a fantastic documentary about a gentleman who as an adult; follows a childhood dream and decides to live and survive in the wild, alone.

...kytnism...

 

[Bardeaux]

^That reminds me of chris mccandless/into the wild

 

[kytnism]

its very much similar to into the wild.

if you enjoyed that film; youll definitely love this documentary as its shot in real time and depicts all of the same emotions and social responses to having westernized freedoms and luxuries stripped away after a lifetime of being conditioned within them; and the difficulties faced when returning to our "roots".

...kytnism...

 

[Furry mouth]

i saw the bridge a few years ago coming down and it made me cry, i was in a very depressed state of mind.

I watched this last night and was overcome with a sense of total helplessness and sadness. I'm usually one to cry at anything sad but I couldn't this time. I think it was heartbreaking to realise what was unfolding and to watch the families describe events. I was in a state of shock esp. at the end. Worth watching if you are feeling suicidal just to listen to the heart ache of loved ones left behind. Certainly made me think long and hard about suicide.
May they RIP
Poor souls

 

[XThexXTank]

I don't watch documentaries but when I do there about war.

Restrepo, battle for marjah, gunner palace, etc there all iraq and afghan war docs so if you like that their good.

Others prob mentioned this but vice on youtubes got alotta cool shit.

 

[rickolasnice]

Not sure if it has been mentioned but Super High Me was pretty good.

I'm watching it now.. loved the "Go Away DEA" bit

 

[bagochina]

Degenerate Art: The Art and Culture of Glass Pipes

netflix has it.

 

[Max Power]

watch it in blu-ray.

 

[GodSpeedK]

American Movie: best documentary of all time

'best documentary of all time' is a bold statement, but I do think this is an unmissable film.

 

[poledriver]

^ Found that very boring. Would rate it very low personally.

 

[poledriver]

Breaking The Taboo - Film

Narrated by Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman, "Breaking the Taboo" is produced by Sam Branson's indie Sundog Pictures and Brazilian co-production partner Spray Filmes and was directed by Cosmo Feilding Mellen and Fernando Grostein Andrade. Featuring interviews with several current or former presidents from around the world, such as Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo over the United States led War on Drugs and expose what it calls the biggest failure of global policy in the last 40 years.

[video=youtube_share;8UtNF-Le2L0]http://youtu.be/8UtNF-Le2L0[/video]

 

[kytnism]

prom night in mississippi

In 1997, Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman offered to pay for the senior prom at Charleston High School in Mississippi under one condition: the prom had to be racially integrated. His offer was ignored. In 2008, Freeman offered again. This time the school board accepted, and history was made. Charleston High School had its first-ever integrated prom – in 2008. Until then, blacks and whites had had separate proms even though their classrooms have been integrated for decades.

...kytnism...

 

[Nine North]

"The art of the SteaL-- about a self-made millionaire's almost priceless art collection (Cezanne, Picasso, Van Gogh, just ridonkulous) and how over decades the Philadelphia Museum and establishment basically hijacked the collection despite explicit instructions in the millionaire's will that it should never leave his private foundation. I'm making it sound boring but it's a great look at art, the powers that be, and just how shady and relentless they can be if the want to fuck someone over

 

[ricardo08]

watch it in blu-ray.

Brilliant series. The jungle episode really blew my mind.

Werner Herzog's The Land of Silence and Darkness.

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067324/