Documentaries

[Tyler Durden]

I'm looking for some really good documentaries. I'm open to any type really. But to give you an idea some of my favorites include

Zeitgeist
Jesus Camp
Grizzly Man
My Flesh and Blood
Man On Wire
Religilous
I.O.U.S.A.

any suggestions would be great

[TombStone]

Cocaine Cowboys
Paradise Lost 1 & 2 (WM3 Docs)

The obvious Michael Moore ones:

The Big One
Bowling for Columbine
Fahrenheit 9/11
Sicko


And for real, EVERYTHING by Louis Theroux. I Got all his episodes and they're GREAT. He adresses the widest range of people, from nazi's to televangelists to prison to black nationalists to rappers to bodybuilders, etc. All very interresting, don't sleep.

[greddie]

who killed the electric car
zeitgeist: addendum
What the Bleep do we know (Down the rabbit hole)
The corporation



And for real, EVERYTHING by Louis Theroux. I Got all his episodes and they're GREAT.
:winner::trustme:

[kenz]

esoteric agenda

[rasaqboy]

super high me

[greddie]

lol, super high me is amusing, but its not exaclty ground breaking, sensationlist or gripping. Also, i dont know about you, but to me the guy doesnt even look like he toking properly, is this cos they not allowed to show you smoking properly on american tv or something? i was so up for watching it, but it just seemed pointless

another docu is Where in the world is Osama Bin laden, i must admit i fell asleep. watching it, but i think its good.

OH< also: the BBC make really good documentaries, look up "Blue Planet" "Planet Earth" "Life in Cold Blood" all voiced by the loveable david attenborough, a true legend

[rasaqboy]

Also, i dont know about you, but to me the guy doesnt even look like he toking properly, is this cos they not allowed to show you smoking properly on american tv or something?
I kept telling my cousin that he wasnt inhaling the smoke...he would just hold it in his mouth and them wait a couple seconds n blow it out

http://trapstarmusic.com/forum/images/smilies/afro.gifi just like it because its about weedhttp://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x86/skittles420_swed/smiley_aaxs.gif

[greddie]

i just like it because its about weedhttp://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x86/skittles420_swed/smiley_aaxs.gif

lol, thats why i watched it to.

Yeah thats what we were saying, he doent inhale, just holds it and blows out, he goes about talking the biggun about how high he gets, but he doent even seem that high or smoke properly, jackass comedian, u come round my house at about 11 at night, you'll see how high mother fu*kers look.

[rasaqboy]

maybe they look something like this???
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t300/greddie101/Photo24.jpg

[greddie]

who's that ugly mother f.....ohhh

lo, no thats not even close

[mrnicksta]

as others said, i highly recommend louis theroux, not really feature-length documentaries like the ones you mentioned tyler, but he does always make good uns :) like tombstone said, varied topic matter, he's serious when he has to be but is often tongue in cheek so they're very entertaining to watch

greddie hit the motherfucking nail on the head with the david attenborough recommendation tho!! david attenborough is by far the greatest nature documentary maker of all time, he will never be topped. shit i could just listen to his voice talking about anything and i'd be happy - it's too damn tranquil :D i bought the blue planet boxset for £7 the other day - what a BARGAIN!!!! when i get paid (a week today woohoo!) i'm gonna buy the life boxset, 24 DVDs, 4000 minutes of pure dai attenborough magic - i would happily watch that in one sitting :) it's only £60 on amazon at the mo reduced from a substantially higher price!

as for feature-length documentaries i HIGHLY recommend "capturing the friedmans" it's very very interesting in that most of the footage is actually home video from the family being studied in the movie. it deals with the problem of paedophilia and the media sensation that surrounds such circumstances. it'll really make you think, everyone who ive shown it to has loved it because it deals with such a sensitive subject in such a great way.

[greddie]

shit i could just listen to his voice talking about anything and i'd be happy - .

you know this.
ive always joked he should make audio cds for helping people sleep or relax. just him reading a shopping list, bus timetable, instruction manual, anything

[mrnicksta]

yeah man ive made the same joke myself to my friends. even describing a brutal murder or something equally disturbing, his voice could still send me off into a blissful slumber :D

[Tyler Durden]

thanks for all the input guys! ive seen a few of those that you were talking about, ill get a bunch and let you all know what i think! It would also be cool if this thread continued every time somebody saw a good one!

[mrnicksta]

yeah there's a few i've not heard of or seen before so i'm gonna check them too. plus i'll post back if i find any new ones.

i was reading about the obama deception the other day, that sounds like an interesting watch..

[greddie]

yeah same, i'm always on the look out for new docs. when i know whats hot il let u know :)

[TombStone]

I can't remember the name, but i saw a documentary on BBC that spoke on possible events that could've spawned the HIV virus. No conspiracy shit, just factual information that isn't forcefead as the truth, shit was a great watch. The most plausible explanation to me was that it was accidentally created as a vaccin for Polio that was distributed in African countries.

Anyone know the name?

[greddie]

hmm, not sure i know bbc did a "HIV and me" bu i think that followed individuals rather than facts about the virus. sorry

[kenz]

i watch a lot of documentaries, though i havent for a while, (i go thru phases wit watchin them)

all i do is go to isohunt type documentary or such like.........
and download anythin that looks interesting....

it works!

[mrnicksta]

the obama deception was pretty interesting stuff... but as with all this conspiracy stuff you really have to take it with more than a pinch of salt.

also watched esoteric agenda the other day. i almost suffered a coronary i had to take that with so much salt.

still, some interesting points made even if the majority of it is the questionably sourced, un-cited, unreferenced musings of a neurotic fool with some video editing software

EDIT: also, caught louis theroux's weird weeekend where he attempts to become a gangsta rapper. that was hilarious, though i think it would have been a better doc (though less hilarious) if he went to see the underground side of hip hop rather than the commercial crap. i might write a letter to him discussing this, as i was flabbergasted by the image/media consultant who claimed you have to be big and hard to have any success in hip hop - he's obviously never heard of nerdcore lol

[Tyler Durden]

anyone have links to this 'esoteric agenda' i cant' seem to find it

[mrnicksta]

can watch it free on google video. though it's got polish subtitles... only one spot in the whole film where they clashed with some other subtitles, but it's not pivotal..

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5407431706601832542&ei=vm4ZSsOpE9OA-QbSvLGtBQ&q=esoteric+agenda

[Tyler Durden]

thanks! ill check this out after work

[TombStone]

EDIT: also, caught louis theroux's weird weeekend where he attempts to become a gangsta rapper. that was hilarious, though i think it would have been a better doc (though less hilarious) if he went to see the underground side of hip hop rather than the commercial crap. i might write a letter to him discussing this, as i was flabbergasted by the image/media consultant who claimed you have to be big and hard to have any success in hip hop - he's obviously never heard of nerdcore lol

That dude was a fucking dumbass, i'd love to spark a conversation with that guy, can't stand people like that.

But yeah, Louis rapping, how far from his comfort zone, shit felt akward lol. Great though as usual.

[greddie]

i found this list on facebook http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=210908&id=686275170&l=d506b12652
i found the link on the group for the Zeitgeist movment http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=55303891744 which if youve seen the films you'll know about

a list of must see docu films, which some have already been said here

• The War on Democracy
• Zeitgeist Addendum
• Loose Change Final Cut
• The World According to Monsanto
• Earthlings
• Why We Fight
• The Great Global Warming Swindle
• Terror Storm
• Fabled Enemies
• David Icke - Big Brother, The Big Picture
• Zeitgeist, the Movie
• Taxi to the Dark Side
• Iraq For Sale - The War Profiteers
• The 11th Hour
• 7/7 Ripple Effect
• The End of America
• The Corporation
• The Money Masters
• Fiat Empire
• America: From Freedom to Fascism
• Endgame
• Monopoly Men
• Dark Secrets - Inside Bohemian Grove
• OutFoxed
• Future by Design
• Religulous
• Planet Earth
• The End of Suburbia
• A Crude Awakening
• Who Killed the Electric Car?
• Manufactured Landscapes
• Flow
• Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices
• Matrix of Evil
• The New Rulers of the World
• Manufacturing Consent
• Enron: The Smartest Guy in the Room
• Sicko
• Fahrenheit 9/11
• Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties
• Imperial Grand Strategy
• What the Bleep Do We Know!?
• What the Bleep!? Down the Rabbit Hole
• The Fourth World War
• This is What Democracy Looks Like
• The Take
• Distorted Morality
• Anarchism in America
• Life + Debt
• Commanding Heights: The Battle for World Economy
• Masters of the Universe
• No End In Sight
• Manda Bala
• Occupation 101
• Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
• The U.N. Deception
• We Become Silent
and
• 9/11: Blueprint For Truth (Watch it!!)
• New World Order
• Weapons of Mass Deception
• The Future of Food
• The Story of Stuff
• The Obama Deception
• Money as Debt
• The Road to Guantanamo
• Standard Operating Procedures
• Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
• Grass - The History of Marijuana

[TombStone]

I always forget to search for New World Order documentaries. Didn't Louis Theroux have an episode with people who were afraid of it? Like a little town, closed off, trucks driving around it to protect the community from the NWO? That was a good one aswell, i gotta dust off my Louis collection.

[mrnicksta]

i watched a good documentary the other night, called "the night james brown saved boston".

basically its about this concert that he performed, if i remember rightly, the night after martin luther king's assassination. whilst pretty much everywhere was rioting en masse, boston was completely peaceful because of this concert.

was a real good watch, further cemented my opinion of james brown being a complete legend :) only downside is after seeing so much of his performance, it makes you wish you were at that show in the boston garden in 1968!

[elephant_man]

Louis Theroux docs are always hillarious,the wrestling one is the funniest doc ive ever saw,the training session where he ends up vomiting is legendary.