• ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️



    Film & Television

    Welcome Guest


    ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
  • ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
    Forum Rules Film Chit-Chat
    Recently Watched Best Documentaries
    ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
  • Film & TV Moderators: ghostfreak

Recommend a Documentary v. David Attenborough!

Cyc said:
Do I get BBC?! I am everything science and technology! I've even hacked Hulu to work in Canada. bwhahaha. *cough* anyways...

Symbiotic relationships are indeed interesting.

For your viewing pleasure
Click to expand...

ah i remember that one, i wasnt sure at first but when i saw the guy in the river with that parasite fish go for his tenders i knew it was the one i saw, u could never forget the thought of a pain like that lol


Yeah i hate the regional controls over some videos , a good app for by passing it is Autohide IP which is basically an App that uses proxy servers but good ones from all over the world and many of them dont have the issue of lost bandwidth

That seems a good site you linked to , i will be checking that out for sure , thanks :)

If you like sharks a good one i saw recently was BBC wild life special - the great white shark - the silent killer

also heres a good site i recently found some sea life docs on

http://video.uk.msn.com/

there are some good ones on it :)
 
Continuing my documentary kick, i just watched "the monkey-eating eagle of the orinoco", which is a nice documentary about a Harpy Eagle chick in Venezuela rainforest.

Harpy eagles look kinda silly, they've got this long dangling feathers on their head
 
Definitely check out "Know your mushrooms"

Very goofy and trippy. About mushroom afficiandos (wild mushrooms of all kinds, not specifically psychedelic).
 
I think I have found the best documentary site on the web.

topdocumentaryfilms.com

Sooo many good docos on so many good subjects, i cant recommend it enough.
 
smackcraft said:
The blue Planet is great for those of you who love david attenbourgh like my self

Another is "The Universe" which is shown on the history channel

I loves any documentary about animals or space !!
Click to expand...

That Man is a Legend! ...as are the team's he works with. :) Have most of his Box sets, not all yet though...If I had to recommend two Favourites'-

5999

Poisonous Pitcher plant - The Private Life of Plants

000aaf33_medium.jpeg

The Deep': The Real Twilight Zone


Caught this beautiful Documentary the other day: The Mountains of the Wolves, Director: Joaquín Gutiérrez Acha

However, unfortunately the Narator in the link here on YouTube is dissapointing; in the version I saw there was a more resonant, poignant voice-over. Nevertheless a great watch; dealing not just with the Wolves inhabiting N.Spain(and some other creatures) themselves but also(with some, romantic, overtones) outlining the Folklore and Myth surrounding the Wolf throughout History. Coolness. %)

Also,

The BBC Doc- Yellowstone National Park
...it documents Yellowstone through the Four Seasons of the Year;dealing with each Season in a Seperate episode. Stunning. <3
 
Last edited:
I came across these in the past week. Both are about westerners in foreign prisons doing time on drug charges. The first one is about the ring leaders of the Bali 9. Both these guys come across really well in the documentary and even the head of the prison is shown saying he believes they have been rehabilitated.

The second one follows two British and one Thai prisoner in Bangkwang prison. I really felt bad for Andrew Hawke. After I saw the documentary I searched online to see if there was any information on his situation now but couldn’t really find anything.


The Condemned: Indonesia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GL042bOoSU

Three of the infamous 'Bali Nine' are on Death Row in Bali following their capture for drug trafficking. Unprecedented access was gained for this report; the first time anyone has been permitted to film there.

"I never thought of myself as a bad person - as I look back at myself now I see how stupid I was." Waiting for the verdict on their appeals, the young Australians speak candidly about the choices and crimes that led them to this point, the anguish of their families back home, and the terrifying prospect of death by firing squad. An intimate and powerful report.


The Bangkok Hilton
Part 1: http://www.veoh.com/watch/v15142590KwKhrFSF
Part 2: http://www.veoh.com/watch/v15142594gR48PtHk

Andrew, from London, is currently serving a 50-year sentence after being arrested in 1998 for smuggling 800 grams of heroin. He knows his actions were foolish and deeply regrets doing this. At the time, Andrew acted in a moment of desperation. He was financially and emotionally ruined and homeless. He made his decision to smuggle heroin after an offer in a pub in Amsterdam.

'I was just… pouring out my sorrows and woes, and basically talking with strangers like you don't talk to anybody else. Let's just say I was suicidally depressed. I really didn't want to do it" he says. "Everything screamed against me not to do it... but I went ahead and did it anyway." 'To be honest I was thinking about taking the late night ferry and jumping off it. I was at the end of the rope, frankly…. slowly getting drunk and somebody whispered over my shoulder 'I know a way you can make some money to get you out of your financial problems.' What? He said 'you can you can fly over and do a job for me over in Thailand.' Give you some money be a tourist for a couple of weeks and fly back. I said okay. That must have been about 3 or 4 in the morning. By half past two the next afternoon hung-over and pretty drunk, got taken to the airport and put on a plane. I was here. And once I was here I was pretty much committed because I didn't have a return ticket or enough money to buy one for that matter. I was arrested right before I entered the aircraft. It was a metal detector thingy you've gotta to walk through. God knows what triggered it off. I just remember my heart going like a trip hammer and was waiting… I waited for at least a half an hour before the customs guy showed up. And they checked the stuff and one of the customs guy said that maybe it's milk powder and I just looked at him and said yeah I bloody well hope so. But it wasn't. I arrived here April fools day. Very funny.' Andrew was sentenced to death but this sentence was later reduced to 50 years when he pleaded guilty.

Prisoner Michael Connell, a thin and frail supermarket worker from Manchester, is only 19. His lawyers say he has the mental age of someone several years younger, but he talks clearly of the daily life in jail. The only foreigner in a dorm of 1,000, he survives by teaching his fellow inmates English. He got 99 years for smuggling 3,400 e-pills into the country, where few can afford them, and he won’t explain why. Connell is nervous as the new boy; his last words to camera are "even David Beckham couldn’t get me out of here…"

There is a small sign on the outside wall that says 883 ... the number of men waiting to be killed. One of those waiting is Amporn Birtling, a Thai prisoner on death row.
Imprisoned for drug smuggling, he explains how he will only find out when he is to be executed two hours beforehand.
"I have no clue when I will die," Amporn said. "They could inject me today or tomorrow. All my life I hated drugs more than anything. I never thought that I would be arrested because of them."
 
Last edited:
John Waters DVD Scrapbook (1946-2000)

watersscrapbook.jpg


"Approx. 333 mins total, John Waters' home movies, John Waters' audio interviews with Divine and Edith Massey, video interviews with Waters' friends and associates (including Peter Koper, Pat Moran, Sue Lowe, Morris Martick, Steve Yeager, Liz Renay, Dennis Dermody, Vincent Peranio, Rachel Talalay, Brook Yeaton and Bob Adams), outtakes from Waters' unfinished film Dorothy, The Kansas City Pot Head, theatrical trailers (for Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, Polyester, Hairspray and Pecker), behind-the-scenes footage, rehearsals and interviews from Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble (from Steve Yeager's Film and Audio Archives), deleted scene from Female Trouble, the Love Letter to Edie documentary, the Take Off TV documentary, the Local Boston TV documentary, the Below San Francisco TV interview, the Get To Know… Baltimore TV news interview, an original Hairspray featurette, video interviews with original Buddy Deane Show dancers Linda and Gene Snyder, the Hairspray Reunion from The Ricki Lake Show, The Making of Pecker featurette, the Sundance Channel's Conversations in World Cinema episode with John Waters, animated film-themed menu screens with sound, and many more."
Click to expand...

i watched like an hour of it before i fell asleep for a few days. loved it fans of his films, definitely check it out! or heck just fans of cinema, especially independent films check it
 
Folk America

boggs_512.jpg

Three-part BBC4 documentary series on American folk music, tracing its history from the recording boom of the 1920s to the folk revival of the 1960s.

Ep 1~
The opening part looks at how, in the 1920s, record companies scoured the American south for talent to sell. This was a golden age of American music, as the likes of the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charlie Poole, Dock Boggs and Mississippi John Hurt burst onto record, eager to have a share in the new industry and the money it made, only to lapse into obscurity when the depression hit at the start of the 30s.

Ep 2~
In the depression of the 1930s, John Lomax found convicted murderer Leadbelly in a southern jail. Leadbelly's music was never quite as pure and untouched by pop as Lomax believed, but it set a new agenda for folk music, redefining it as the voice of protest, the voice of the outsider and the oppressed.

Dustbowl drifter Woody Guthrie fitted the mould perfectly and the two of them teamed up with Lomax's son Alan, Pete Seeger and Josh White - a group of friends who believed 'they could make a better world if they all got together and just sang about it'. Their songs and their radical politics took them to high places of influence, but brought about their downfall in the blacklisting 1950s.

Ep 3~
In the 1960s a new generation, spearheaded by Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, took folk to the top of the charts and made it the voice of youthful protest. Whilst the northern folk revivalists helped bring civil rights to the south, the Newport Folk Festival brought the old music of the south to the college kids in the north. However, when Dylan turned up at Newport in 1965 with an electric guitar things would never be the same again.
Click to expand...

Part 1A(B,C,... on You Tube and so on therein, are the 3 Episodes
 
Last edited:
Money As Debt II: Promises Unleashed

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/money-as-debt-promises-unleashed/

Bailouts, stimulus packages, debt piled upon debt…Where will it all end?
How did we get into a situation where there has never been more material wealth & productivity and yet everyone is in debt to bankers?
And now, all of a sudden, the bankers have no money and we the taxpayers, have to rescue them by going even further into debt!
Money as debt II explores the baffling, fraudulent and destructive arithmetic of the money system that holds us hostage to a forever growing DEBT… and how we might evolve beyond it into a new era.
Click to expand...

This is basically a narrative describing our current banking system and how in the long term it is not sustainable. It is supplemented with cartoons that depict transactions between parties to help the watcher visualize what the guy is talking about. Its a little wierd at first, but I found the information to be very enlightening. I learned quite a bit about how banking works, 4/5.
 
One Survivor Remembers

In May 1945, he stumbled upon an abandoned factory in Volary, Czechoslovakia, where about 120 girls, all victims of Nazi concentration camps, were near death. One of the girls guided Lt. Klein to her fellow prisoners, most of whom lay sick and dying on the ground. With her hand, she made a sweeping gesture and quoted the German poet Goethe: "Noble be man, merciful, and good." Perhaps it was her irony – or her composure – or her compassion amidst the tragedy that struck Kurt Klein. Whatever it was, a great love affair began.
Click to expand...

- JS Loftsgaarden (2nd ed.)


got VHS ?
 
q5o8j0xe62a7ryeb55tf.jpg


If you've seen Jaws, you've heard Quint talk about the U.S.S. Indianapolis that went down in 1945. This is the true story told in re-enactments and by the surviving crew. Five days of a nightmarish hell that I can't even begin to imagine.

You can watch it on YouTube here.
 
Last edited:
National Georaphic's "Inside LSD" is a good one, especially since they cover studies on human subjects (they mapped the brain on LSD... pretty cool)
 
Both of the videos on this site

PsyWar
Psywar explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the “elitist theory of democracy” and the relationship between war, propaganda, and class.

This film is designed both as an introduction to the concept of psychological warfare by governments against their citizens and as an exploration of certain dominant themes in American propaganda. Significant time is also devoted to different conceptions of “democracy” as theorized by figures like Walter Lippmann, Edward Bernays, and the “founding fathers” of the United States itself.
Click to expand...

Human Resources
Human Resources casts a wider net, looking at the history of social manipulation and some of the despicable scientific research efforts that have been deployed in the service of manufacturing consent. Interviewed in the film are some of the seminal critical thinkers of the day, including the late Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Morris Berman, and Christopher Simpson.

Noble begins, appropriately, with the roots of mandatory public schooling as a tool for creating a compliant workforce, then turns to the noxious doctrines of Fordism and Taylorism, which transformed factory floors into mechanism for demolishing skilled labor and unions. Both, Taylor and Ford unmentioned in the film, were deeply admired by Adolf Hitler, whose private office contained two pictures: Frederick the Great and Henry Ford.

The film concludes with that most potent of all compliance machines, the television.

Human resources is dedicated to his aunt, Nancy Noble, who was the subject of the most infamous of the CIA’s mind control experiment programs, conducted by Scottish-American psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron at the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal. Many of Cameron’s findings would be adopted by the CIA for coercive interrogation and memory destruction.
Click to expand...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top