Favorite documentaries?
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I know there's a lot of hype around Blackfish but I actually prefer The Cove and End of the Line. I have my students watch all of them and we get some really great discussions on propaganda, bias, cultural influence etc. but still manage to drive home the environmental impact issues. If I had to pick only one it would be End of the Line, it doesn't have the tug on heart strings impact that The Cove does, but it is BY FAR the more important issue, and one that few people are aware of.0
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That's a good list, Meerata. I saw Kumare, and it was good. The revisionists sounds very interesting -- i will check that out. I saw one on North korea and life for the people there that was very disturbing, but also informative. Even though we have a lot of things wrong here, it made me so glad not to live in north Korea, and so sorry for those that do. An oldie but a good re; our messing around in South and Central america is called the Panama Deception.Zeitgeist: The Movie
Future by Design
Kumare (it's like an inoculation against religious frauds)
Eat, Fast, & Live Longer
Food Inc
Supersize Me
American: The Bill Hicks Story
No End in Sight
All the Michael Moore ones I've seen, which is most.
Blackfish
Luna (about a killer whale, and I cried like a little girl)
Grizzly Man
Taking Aim: The Story of the American Indian Movement
GasLand
Reel Injun
Guns Germs and Steel
Incident at Oglala – The Leonard Peltier Story
The Revisionaries (why I would never want to be a school teacher)
Dirty Wars
So many on our exploitation of Latin America that I can't even begin to name them all.
I could pretty much go on forever. I better stop now.
Okay now I'm stopping. Really.
I'll have to check out the Panama Deception, original home of our own School of Americas. Honestly, there were some I couldn't watch when I was using Netflix for all my documentary needs, because I couldn't handle it right then. One was on torture and death squads in Indonesia, one was on atrocious human rights violations in Africa (forget which country), and I think there might have been one on North Korea, too. Come to think of it, I'm surprised there hasn't been a good on on Chechnya, or not one I've found yet. The Russians must be keeping a tight lid on their atrocities.
@QueenBish: Two more to add to my list of films that keep me disturbed and awake at night!0 -
Oh, and Giant Squid: Filming the Impossible - Natural World Special
Utterly incredible. I love squids0 -
I just finished watching one called The Woman Who Wasn't There, which was both disturbing and amusing. I would recommend it. One of my all-time favorites that I haven't seen listed here is God Grew Tired of Us. Must-see.0
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@QueenBish: Two more to add to my list of films that keep me disturbed and awake at night!
The Cove is rough, I get at least a few students crying on that one every year. End of the Line I feel is actually somewhat heartening because it's an issue that's fixable, and it's an issue that the individual consumer can really do something about.0 -
Showgirls, and anything involving sharks.0
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'H.H Holmes: America's first serial killer' is also good, if you find serial killers interesting!0
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Showgirls, and anything involving sharks.
Well in that case I should cast my vote for Magic Mike and 300
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ETA: Sharkwaters, I can't stand the host and it also has a lot of Paul Watson whom I also have some issues with, but its really the only decent documentary I've seen on the shark fining issue so.... I have to recommend it on principle.0 -
I enjoyed that one a lot. Cocaine Cowboys is a good one as well. It is interesting to me how much cocaine helped turn Miami into what it is today.'H.H Holmes: America's first serial killer' is also good, if you find serial killers interesting!0 -
Oh yeah, Cove...0
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I also watch
Cosmos
Nova
Fifth Estate
The Nature of Things
Lots of other nature shows, science documentaries, animal rescue such as Hope for Wild Life.
Jane Goodall and others with scientists that study primates.
The Story of Science0 -
Cove was really incredible - but Ill never watch it again and a small part of me wishes I could erase it from my memory "Men In Black" style. :frown:0
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Here is a book I wish they'd turn into a documentary, even if I don't think I could stand to watch it (cried my way through a class that was largely based around it): Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland0
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I also watch
Cosmos
Nova
Fifth Estate
The Nature of Things
Lots of other nature shows, science documentaries, animal rescue such as Hope for Wild Life.
Jane Goodall and others with scientists that study primates.
The Story of Science
I actually got to meet Jane Goodall when she spoke at my college. I'm not usually one to refer to having hero's, but if I did, she would be one of them.0 -
I can't believe no one has said "Dear Zachary" yet. I cried. So much.0
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I just asked my daughter and she recommended: Your Inner Fish0
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And VICE has tons of great short docs.
I have seen two of these - they were the North Korea one, and the Cannibal Warlords of Liberia. Both great.0 -
And VICE has tons of great short docs.
I have seen two of theses - they were the North Korea one, and the Cannibal Warlords of Liberia. Both great.
In that case, there is one on rightwing deathsquads in Colombia that will make your blood boil, too.0 -
I also watch
Cosmos
Nova
Fifth Estate
The Nature of Things
Lots of other nature shows, science documentaries, animal rescue such as Hope for Wild Life.
Jane Goodall and others with scientists that study primates.
The Story of Science
I actually got to meet Jane Goodall when she spoke at my college. I'm not usually one to refer to having hero's, but if I did, she would be one of them.
Lucky!!! A lot of my friends have met her also. My husband has met Stephen Hawking.0 -
I like random documentaries on youtube.0
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I like random documentaries on youtube.
usually how i do it too, im watching "the times of harvey milk" right now on there0 -
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth is a must see for anyone interested in learning the basic beginnings of modern American housing inequality.
anything from Ken Burns will be good but I especially like the one on baseball (and i HATE baseball but it helped give me some appreciation for it) and the one on the US national parks!
american hardcore is good for anyone interested in american punk
a band called death for anyone interested in american punk0 -
Love documentaries. I work at one of the last surviving video stores, and organized the documentaries we had in to one easy-to-browse section and it's been a real hit, which makes me happy.
Anyway!
- Sharkwater
- March of the Penguins
- DisneyNature African Cats (sobfest)
- The Cove - RAGE INDUCING SOBFEST.
- Blackfish - Ditto!
- Dear Zachary - see above, as well as -if you though the Canadian legal system was effed up before... oh wow.
-Supersize Me - ONLY for entertainment value, not scientific.
- Bowling for Columbine - the only Michael Moore documentary where he didn't seem too insane. Plus, it showed Marilyn Manson as an intelligent human haha, I wasn't aware of that side of him.
-The Paradise Lost Trilogy - ongoing story of the West Memphis Three, from incarceration to exoneration
- Religulous
-What Would Jesus Buy
And essentially any true-crime documentary. There's one on Netflix (which I don't have at the moment and therefore can't remember the name of) about a guy who shot and killed his sister, because he thought it was his parents coming home, and he had forged their wills and was trying to collect money. His parents still visit him and don't believe he's a monster... We watched it in school (paralegal course) last year and the guy has the dead eyes of a sociopath.
Also, this. There was one I found entirely by chance a few months ago, it was British and about this guy who got catfished by someone pretending to be a secret agent... it had a major ridiculous twist ending.I like random documentaries on youtube.0 -
I can't believe no one has said "Dear Zachary" yet. I cried. So much.
I missed this post before posting my list. I absolutely mentioned it, because, OH MY GOD. I was younger when I watched it, still living at home with my parents, and sobbed so hysterically my mom came upstairs to check on me :sad:0 -
PBS just had one on their American Experience series last week about the Freedom Summer (this is the 50th anniversary). It was really good. It was a good reminder of how far we have come, and it also was a good warning about where we are again headed with voter suppression laws. You can still watch in on the PBS website:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/freedomsummer/player/0 -
Let's see here:
Blackfish
Super Size Me (heard it's not very truthful though)
GLOW and other wrestling docs
Kumare
Tent City USA
This film not yet rated
Earthlings (even though it makes me incredibly sad it gives lots of info)
A band called Death
Deliver us from evil
the most hated family in america
American Scream and other making of horror movie docs
Best Worst Movie ever
Room 237
Bully
I'm sure there is more on youtube and netflix that I'm forgetting but these are off the top of my head
OH and interview with the iceman. It's about richard Kilkinski. He was a hitman for the mafia for most of his life0 -
I recently got started on the different ones produced by British TV where anthropologists, historians, etc live on farms like the people did at various times in history like Tudor times, the Stuarts, WW II, Edwardian, etc. I really liked the Victorian Pharmacy.0
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There was another one we watched in class last year, about a guy already in prison on murder charges who murdered another inmate on camera, stabbing him over and over and over, and they showed the video. Even though it was from a distance, it was really disturbing. I cringe thinking about it, but that's probably why it sticks with me. The whole thing was interesting, though. If I find it I'll add the name to this post.0
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There was another one we watched in class last year, about a guy already in prison on murder charges who murdered another inmate on camera, stabbing him over and over and over, and they showed the video. Even though it was from a distance, it was really disturbing. I cringe thinking about it, but that's probably why it sticks with me. The whole thing was interesting, though. If I find it I'll add the name to this post.
thats the only scene i remember i seen that too
BBC had a great documentary 3 part series called "life and death row" that came out earlier this year0 -
PBS just had one on their American Experience series last week about the Freedom Summer (this is the 50th anniversary). It was really good. It was a good reminder of how far we have come, and it also was a good warning about where we are again headed with voter suppression laws. You can still watch in on the PBS website:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/freedomsummer/player/
That one was good.
This one was, too, if it's the one I'm thinking of:The Pruitt-Igoe Myth is a must see for anyone interested in learning the basic beginnings of modern American housing inequality.0
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