Documentaries thread (2 Viewers)

[Gambra]

After La La suggesting this somewhere else, here's the thread for discussing documentaries and linking em etc.. I'll start with a few excellent ones I've seen recently.

Richard Dawkins - The Enemies of Reason (Episode 1) - http://tv-links.co.uk/video/9/5200/10777/67091/94381

Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion - http://tv-links.co.uk/video/9/5200/10501/65288/91617

Revolution Will Not Be Televised - http://joox.net/cat/44/id/1087003

The Corporation (Part 1) - http://joox.net/cat/44/id/1045999
The Corporation (Part 2) - http://joox.net/cat/44/id/1045987

Zeitgeist - http://joox.net/cat/44/id/1480171

(for the Joox links, you need the DivX web player installed)

 

[plug]

was that not plug's suggestion?

 

[plug]

not that it matters of course. the corporation's a good movie. trying to get some links together fhere or a few good docs I've seen recently.. computer's being a spa though. and I'm drunk. this might take a while...

 

[La La]

Grizzly Man

I watched this last year and loved it. stunning scenery, a great insight into Timothy Treadwell who spent 13 summers with Kodiak Bears in Alaska and (i think) the Yukon......until he and his girlfriend were killed by one.

Aided by Werner Herzog's beautiful narrative, this is a must-see.

The Tank Man

you will have to watch this in stages as can be seen on the link, but this is such an important and well put-together documentary, featuring interviews with journalists, dissidents and leaders of the 1989 student protests. Excellent and haunting footage of the crackdown. Very moving, have some kleenex nearby.

 

[RSJ]

The Bridge - About people who commit suicide by jumping off the golden gate bridge. Excellent.

Deliver Us From Evil - About an irish priest abusing kids in California and the cover up that followed which, amazingly, directly involved the current pope.

Overnight - About the guy who wrote and directed Boondock Saints and how he turned into a complete cock.

 

[The Schnapper]

Excellent thread. Theres nothing I love more than a good documentary

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Deliver Us From Evil - About an irish priest abusing kids in California and the cover up that followed which, amazingly, directly involved the current pope.

that priest is a nutjob

 

[RSJ]

that priest is a nutjob

And he's in ireland somewhere, without any police observation or community knowledge of his past.

Decline Of Western Civilisation - About late 70s/early 80s LA punks.
Decline Of Western Civilisation Part Two - About mid to late eighties hair rockers.
Decline Of Western Civilisation Part Three - About crust punks in the US in the late 90s.

 

[frona]

Someone put up an auld link to the Coconut Revolution. Class!

The Corporation is pretty depressing/enraging.

 

[Daisy's Dukes]

Just watched Sisters in Law. Its amazing

www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c645.shtml

 

[Daisy's Dukes]

Storyville: A Lion in the House
BBC4, 8.00pm
There are no half-measures in this intimate study of what a family goes through when their child has cancer. At nearly three hours, it is very long, but these stories unfold over six years as five families embark on a journey of almost unimaginable highs and lows. When film-makers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert were approached by the chief oncologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to make this film, he was unaware that their own daughter had just been through chemotherapy. That experience accentuates their awareness as they document the trauma of diagnosis, through to intensive treatments. The financial cost aside, the emotional toll on the families is huge, dividing some and uniting others. It is, though, the children who are at the centre. Children like 15-year-old Tim, who says of his Hodgkin’s lymphoma: “I love the attention. Before I got sick I got none.” SH

I watched this last night on BBC4. It was one of the saddest things I have ever seen. Its nearly 3 hours long and I think I cried from start to finish. It was very very emotioanlly draining and I can understand why some people would hate the idea of watching it but I found the courage of the children and their families very inspiring.

 

[nofriendo]

Why We Fight

He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests.

The Elegant Universe

 

[nofriendo]

The God Who Wasnt There

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Here's some of my favourites. Links to DVDs rather than downloads.

John Pilger has two box sets out. First one is good anyway.
Documentaries That Changed The World
In The Name Of Justice

World In Action compilation is great
Volume 1

Whicker's World remains very whacko.
Volume 1

Beats the movie.
General Idi Amin Dada

Don't forget Big and Little Edie.
Grey Gardens
The Beales Of Grey Gardens

More Maysles goodness
Salesman

Walmart
Walmart - The High Cost Of Low Price

Peter Watkins was some dude
Punishment Park
The War Game / Culloden

Car crashes? Check this out.
Hell's Highway: The True Story Of Hollywood Safety Films

Or do you just want to be educated?
Sex And Drugs, Social Engineering, Driver's Ed., On The Job
More Sex And Drugs, Social Engineering 2, Religion, Patriotism

 

[La La]

S:21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

what can I say? very distressing, but one of those things you just have to see. They feature that famous painter - the guy whose life was spared as they made him do portraits of Pol Pot et al....his hair went white from the stress.....the stuff he says is really, really sad.

 

[La La]

bump.

i dont want this thread to die. im on a docu-buzz people, please keep the recommendations coming!

 

[magicbastarder]

hoop dreams. quite possibly the best film on sport ever made. follows two kids in america who are tipped for basketball glory.
paradise lost: the robin hood hills murders, about three teenagers being convicted for murder of three younger kids. very sobering watching.

 

[La La]

cool.

on the sports front also Murderball, all about wheelchair rugby. deadly to watch.

 

[ann post]

i didnt suggest it, but i got the ball rolling. and it was in photography last week, ye of little memory.

anyways. now that i've got that off my chest, great thread.

 

[wageslave]

The God Who Wasnt There

is this any good? downloaded it before but never watched it...