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Recommend a Documentary v. David Attenborough!

Reality and the Extended Mind is short but fascinating.

This non-profit documentary explores the validity of psi research. It represents one aspect of an exciting and evolving thesis about the nature of reality. As an increasing number of academics acknowledge the findings erupting from psi research, quantum mechanics and many other areas of science, thinkers are coalescing on a new description of reality. This new description of reality signals paradigm shifts in several scientific fields, most notably the necessity for a new model of consciousness.
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Crumb is the best documentary I have ever seen.

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Paris Is Burning
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Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African American, Latino, gay and transgender communities involved in it. Many members of the ball culture community consider Paris Is Burning to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the "Golden Age" of New York City drag balls, as well as a thoughtful exploration of race, class, and gender in America.

The film also documents the origins of "voguing", a dance style in which competing ball-walkers freeze and "pose" in glamorous positions (as if being photographed for the cover of Vogue). Pop star Malcolm McLaren would, two years before Paris Is Burning was completed, bring the phenomenon to the mainstream with his song "Deep In Vogue", which directly referenced many of the stars of Paris Is Burning including Pepper Labeija and featured dancers from the film including Willi Ninja. One year after this, Madonna released her number one song Vogue, bringing further attention to the dancing style.

in full @ http://youtu.be/gS0_NUqPgw4
 
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I recently watched the documentary on the Phelps family (Westboro church in Kansas). For the longest time, I thought the crazy on that website was a parody, but holy shit it's real. They had a documentary on them in 2007 (http://www.kmbc.com/r/10835097/detail.html) and they recently did a followup. Interestingly, one of the reporters from 2007 actually got brainwashed and now follows this cult. Some of the daughters left or got kicked out. Still, it's interesting to see the kind of crazy hate these people have. The Phelps family is absolutely insane.
 
ricardo08 said:
Any of Adam Curtis' documentaries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis
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Adam Curtis has some serious shit to say. But, I tend to shy away as they make me feel so discombobulated and lost.
A whole lotta flash and some murky suggestions about very interesting topics. Still, good call. I like 'em.

JoeTheStoner said:
Paris Is Burning
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Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African American, Latino, gay and transgender communities involved in it. Many members of the ball culture community consider Paris Is Burning to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the "Golden Age" of New York City drag balls, as well as a thoughtful exploration of race, class, and gender in America.

The film also documents the origins of "voguing", a dance style in which competing ball-walkers freeze and "pose" in glamorous positions (as if being photographed for the cover of Vogue). Pop star Malcolm McLaren would, two years before Paris Is Burning was completed, bring the phenomenon to the mainstream with his song "Deep In Vogue", which directly referenced many of the stars of Paris Is Burning including Pepper Labeija and featured dancers from the film including Willi Ninja. One year after this, Madonna released her number one song Vogue, bringing further attention to the dancing style.

in full @ http://youtu.be/gS0_NUqPgw4
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Yeah, I liked that. Pretty cool. Love subculture docs. There's about a dozen great quotes in there that should end up on dance songs, if they haven't already. 101 Rent Boys was another interesting documentary somewhat in that arena that I saw recently.

What else?
'Off The Grid' was decent. probably someone's mentioned it before, I'm sure.
'Ram Dass, Fierce Grace', wasn't too bad. Not because it's 'Ram Dass' who I never took a shine to,
but just as a documentary on having a stroke. And how people deal with approaching death.

There was a Mushroom Documentary that came out recently as well, anyone seen that?
http://www.hulu.com/watch/227146/know-your-mushrooms
 
I love going to you know which tube to look for nuclear bombing survivors telling their stories.
Something about nuclear war just has me obsessing.. and im not sure if any of these stories or documentaries have a specific name but they are
interesting.. take a look ?
 
JohnnyFROST said:
I love going to you know which tube to look for nuclear bombing survivors telling their stories.
Something about nuclear war just has me obsessing.. and im not sure if any of these stories or documentaries have a specific name but they are
interesting.. take a look ?
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if you like that, you may enjoy: Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie

it's absolutely - and morbidly - fascinating.

alasdair
 
I recently saw a great documentary called "Keep the River on your Right" It was about a gay painter who went and lived with a tribe of cannibals back in the early 60s. The documentary basically covers his reasons why he originally went & his journey going back to see the same tribe that he was with some fifty years ago.
 
^ for many, that's pretty challenging material. it's hard to imagine remaining indifferent to something like that. was it poorly made?

alasdair
 
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