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Recommend a Documentary v. David Attenborough!

Inequality For All

A look into past and present wealth inequalities hosted by economist and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. I've seen lots and lots of similar documentaries, but found this one to be rather unique. The film documents interviews from billionaires and struggling families alike, even registered Republican voters who recognize the troubling conditions that vast inequality have on civic responsibility, politics and society as a whole.

I can't say I learned much new material from this film, as this is a subject I'm already very interested in, but it's very well done and takes a very politically fair approach to examining the current situation.
 
Roachsucker said:
Don't know if this was mentioned
earlier, but "world at war" has to rank
as amongst the best documentaries
ever made, if only for its
comprehensiveness (24x1 hour
episodes) and its genuine effort at
being objective - a documentary made
at the height of the cold war which
gives due credit to the ussr's leading
role in defeating nazi germany deserves
to be watched.
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Truly brilliant series, covering all the main battles etc, with some absolutely fantastic footage showing just how hard war is on everyone.Learnt a lot from this.
 
The Act of Killing

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According to a Google search of Bluelight, outside of my thread for this doc it's only been mentioned once elsewhere on the site (not F&T). Werner Herzog has stated we're unlikely to see another film like this in the next 10 years, "It's big." The creator spent a decade in Indonesia interviewing the victors of a genocidal anti-communist campaign in the 1960s that took the lives of half a million people, ultimately convincing them to act in a movie in which they recreate their killings in a style reminiscent of old American gangster films -- their own directorial choice. It's an attempt to make them confront their pasts (and it mostly works). There are many surreal moments. Among the most jarring for me was a talk show appearance where a gleeful and fawning host recapitulates the genocide to a cheering crowd (it's very much like you might imagine Germany if the Nazis had won, though reportedly many Indonesians are horrified). It's ridiculous that it didn't win the Oscar.

It can be watched on Netflix Instant.

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HOST: “Let’s give Anwar and his friends a big round of applause, because they invented a new, more humane, more efficient system for killing Communists.”​
 
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receiving the act of killing as i type. edit! * yea man the act of killing is without doubt one of the most gnarly documentaries ever made. what a fuckin trip!

watched "narco cultura" earlier, must see for all who follow the mexican cartel drug war

 
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Detroitopia

Fairly decent documentary that follows citizens of Detroit who are still living in the city despite the massive industrial and residential exodus. This might be particularly interesting for those who are living outside the US and are wondering what life and culture in Detroit actually looks like.



Currently, I'm watching First Out of Africa. An anthropologists chronicle of her attempt at making contact with an isolated "African" tribe that been living in southeast Asia for tens of thousands of years.
 
TV Junkie

“TV Junkie” is composed of 3,000 hours of mostly self-shot “video diaries” by former Inside Edition anchorman and functional crack addict Rick Kirkham. The sifted and winnowed end product is both frequently fascinating and difficult to watch. Kirkham's efforts to exhaustively document all aspects of his life smack of exactly the sort of indulgent and self-aggrandizing exploits you might expect a successful, quasi-tabloid journalist of the 90s to engage in. There was no getting around my suspicion that this video confessional represents one last desperate effort at regaining the fame he's lost. In a likewise prevaricated, very real and even somewhat familiar way, his on-camera lamentations self-consciously document his drug use and the effects his bad behavior is having on his young family and career while simultaneously functioning as a way of “addressing” problems without doing anything consequential about them. Tellingly, Kirkham only tapes the footage, never watches it.

It's ironic that this evasive technique may be playing a roll in his ongoing success over addiction, as it will forever serve as a very public airing of his dirty laundry and commitment to stay clean. Though I found myself occasionally put off by Kirkham's personality in addition to the expected attendant frustrations of watching an addict's downward spiral, there's an honesty of intent that's almost necessarily associated with so much of this sort of fly on the wall home video that I have to respect the efforts the documentary represents at the same time.

“TV Junkie” was recently added to Netflix Instant Video.
 
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Mr.Scagnattie said:
^^

Yeah that's the one. Only way I'd partake is if I brought the right chemicals with me, and equipment to produce some semblance of a safe/sterile mixture. Because technically, they weren't even making heroin. They were using vinegar to convert the opium, but it was only strong enough to convert it to morphine. So that's what they were banging all day and night.
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Bit late but notice how the reporter actually goes and states the method himself without hearing it from the guys - I wonder if he just looked up "Crude heroin cook" or something on Google. I have a feeling they were just trying to extract the Morphine for IV in the first place, and not always doing the best job, hence the "dirty hits". It's possible they were acetylating the Morphine kind of like Kompot (old school Polish heroin from the communist days, where they just acetylated poppy straw) - but if they were doing that, even if they messed up pretty bad, there'd still be some Heroin in the end product, not just Morphine like the tests found, so maybe they just gave him some opium not some cooked product at the end, thinking since they showed him how to cook it he'd do it himself or whatever?

Iunno really.

Anyway this one might have been mentioned already but check out Breakfast with Hunter Thompson if you're a fan of his or want to know a little something about the guy and haven't seen it :)
 
All you dope fiends might enjoy BBC's Blood, Smack & Tears - Afghanistan's Heroin Hell

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