Your favorite documentary?

sbro32

I love a good motivational documentary about people who turned their life around with diet and exercise. There’s a lotttttt of hokey stuff out there though. Anybody got any recommendations?

nic_27_grassisgreener

I love them too! Total guilty pleasure. I can't/won't recommend any though, because as you said there is a lot of bias. (And I'd get booed by someone lol).

Sp1tfire

HANDS DOWN gotta be "what the health"

So scientific. So accurate. So not fear mongering.
(sarcasm font)


For real though, my favorite is "Cave of forgotten dreams" I believe it is still on netflix. If I am having trouble sleeping I watch that and the narrator's voice and the soothing footage of the caves lulls me to sleep.

Ready2Rock206

I look at them all as entertainment - nothing I'd base my life on. The one I did watch recently that I thought was motivating was From Fat to Finish Line.

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purplebobkat

Supersizers is fun to watch.

Puts me off fast food when I'mcraving it

Hamsibian

I enjoy nature documentaries as well as human rights/justice/struggles. Slingshot Hip Hop and 13 are what comes to mind.

johnwelk

"The Last Waltz" - documenting the final concert of The Band on Thanksgiving night in 1976. Simply amazing.

sbro32

Thanks for all the suggestions! They’re a fun little guilty pleasure for me, too. I’ll give all these a go! And I have to humbly admit that What The Health is what prompted this post. I was twenty minutes into it when I suddenly felt both A) uninspired and punked. I went straight to these community forums for all my debunking needs!

purplebobkat

Watched "what the health" with my partner. We kept having to pause it to yell at the morons !

lemurcat12

sbro32 wrote: »

Thanks for all the suggestions! They’re a fun little guilty pleasure for me, too. I’ll give all these a go! And I have to humbly admit that What The Health is what prompted this post. I was twenty minutes into it when I suddenly felt both A) uninspired and punked. I went straight to these community forums for all my debunking needs!

Punked was my reaction too (I have not finished it), and I'm reasonably open to the plant-based arguments. It's just such transparent games/tactics were annoying.

On other documentaries, I've had Gatekeepers out from Netflix for an insane amount of time and should probably watch it already. I can't seem to get myself to watch anything I cannot stream, so when I finish this and send it back I'm cancelling the non streaming part of my membership.

Benbedelljr

"The Thin Blue Line", it is film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.

pumasareace

The WidowMaker is pretty good all about heart disease (morbid, I know)

The House I Live In - All about the war on drugs

Prescription Thugs - How big Pharma is shaping peoples lives (predominantly in the USA)

13th - The history of the USA prison system and why it is failing everyone

Get me Roger Stone - Really interesting character that helped get Trump into office

The Barkley Marathons - An insane race organised buy a quirky old man who used to run marathons.

Pumping Iron - Arnold Schwarzenegger and his rise to Mr Universe

Every Second Counts: The Story of the 2008 CrossFit Games

The Hurt Business - Story of up and coming stars in MMA

Fittest on Earth - 10yrs of Crossfit and what people do to prepare for the Crossfit Games

Sunshine Superman - The pioneer of Base Jumping and the evolution of the sport

Rocbola

"Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead"

"Forks Over Knives"

"What the Health"

Calichusetts

Zero Days:

Scary to think of what hackers can do.

bluestarlight19

If you want to ball your eyes for 2 hours : cries from syria