What's the best documentary you've seen?

Feeded

It was entitled ''Our Daily Bread'' . . . . .it was a two hour documentary about the journey that food makes and those people who work to bring it to us. . . It was shot in eastern europe and the only sounds from the documentary came from the machines or livestock. . Nobody spoke througout the whole think . . Pretty amazing stuff- one clip showed a cow being lifted up by a mechanical arm, rotated, stunned, slaughtered and sent down a conveyor belt all in the space of a 40 seconds.

carlowed

the bridge, on youtube about people jumping off the golden gate bridge, very sad

grohlisagod

Senna. Stunning documentary. Really captures the spirit of the man.

+1 on Choosing to Die also. Powerful and fascinating stuff.

marcsignal

Defamation - Yoav Shamir - Full Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D_t7vzHhac

Temptamperu

Im watching Mysteries of the universe at the minute theres only four parts but it is very interesting.

The_Thing

Many years ago I saw a documentary about several guys who skateboarded down along the entire coast of California in the '70's (or maybe it was the early 80's). I can't remember the name of it and I've never seen it since, if anyone has a link to it I'd be grateful.

R P McMurphy

The_Thing wrote: »

Many years ago I saw a documentary about several guys who skateboarded down along the entire coast of California in the '70's (or maybe it was the early 80's). I can't remember the name of it and I've never seen it since, if anyone has a link to it I'd be grateful.

Is it lords of dogtown or something like that

stateofflux

hearts of darkness
mc5 - a true testimonial
The War - ken burns
exit through the gift shop
the filth & the fury

Paparazzo

stateofflux wrote: »

hearts of darkness
mc5 - a true testimonial
The War - ken burns
exit through the gift shop
the filth & the fury

Forgot about that one, that's a great one

Stinicker

Am currently watching BBC's "Planet Earth" on BluRay with David Attenborough and it is absolutely brilliant I think.

paddyandy

The series that showed the construction of the worlds greatest..bell Rock lighthouse/empire state/brooklyn bridge and others.iT'S the only type of thing i watch.

The_Thing

R P McMurphy wrote: »

Is it lords of dogtown or something like that

Thanks for that.

I've never seen Dogtown so I'm not sure if it is based on the documentary I saw. As far as I remember these three or four guys set out specifically to skateboard down the Pacific Coast Highway. I can recall the graininess of the footage due to the film stock in use at the time. Must check out Lords Of Dogtown.

Captain Darling

Spinal Tap. :pac:

Truley

Occupation 101

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhOa5hv3zas

milltown

Earth: The power of the planet.

Another top class BBC documentary detailing the elements that make up our planet, how they effected the formation and how they affect us now. Stunning on bluray. If you liked Earth, or it's bigger brother Planet Earth, you'll love this too. Not Attenborough but IMO Iain Stewart is every bit as affable and watchable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BG-7F-idBI

BailMeOut

Who was Lee Harvey Oswald

and

The men who killed Kennedy

Dman001

Any of David Attenborough's narrated Documentaries/Nature Shows are brilliant, Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Life etc. Really shows the fascinating side of the Natural World.

The bit about the Ants 2 Minutes into the video is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIO4W8el7Fk

Bag of Poo

ZEITGEIST

chakotha

Hands down The Ascent Of Man by Jacob Bronowski.

A brilliant mathematician and biologist and in his mid sixties in 1973 created a documentary series and talks directly at you and communicates his knowledge to you.

Here is the first bit. http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...98489326170915

Bipolar Joe

chakotha wrote: »

Hands down The Ascent Of Man by Jacob Bronowski.

A brilliant mathematician and biologist and in his mid sixties in 1973 created a documentary series and talks directly at you and communicates his knowledge to you.

Here is the first bit. http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...98489326170915

GOD yes, I could listen to that man explain anything. I'd love to be his student.

Bag of Poo

No way, that Bronowski ain't got a thing on Brian Cox.

chakotha

He's the man.

Mr. Boo

Most anything by Errol Morris. Really interesting vignettes. Insights into stuff you wouldn't even think of!

Werner Herzog's documentaries. Grizzly man, for example, is un-turn-offable.

'The end of the line' by Rupert Murray. About the modern fishing industry, and what is in store if industrial fishing continues unabated.

'TV Junkie', about Rick Kirkham.

I love documentaries, and once I got into them, I uncovered more and more.

chakotha

I remember watching as a kid on saturday mornigs before Anything Goes became mainstream on between the Invisibe Man and Sierra . I should move to the nostalgia forium!

vicecreamsundae

Three of my favourites.

Capturing the Friedmans (about a family torn apart by charges agains the father and son raping kids. reallly good)

King of Kong (about a guy who challenges the Donkey Kong champion of the world -this is amazing!)

The Devil and Daniel Johnston - about the musician, but just such a great story.

Darius.Tr

Ray. It's more of a biography though, but still really good.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0350258/

KittyeeTrix

Jesus Camp.......... Crazy to see the carry on of Christian fundamentalists as they literally terrify the young kids at this summer camp:mad:

Adam

Encounters at the end of the World, about Antarctica and the people that live there. And Dark Days, documenting the lives of homeless people living under New York City. Must see.

locked_out

Man on WIre:pac:

punk77

Don't know if this has been mentioned in an earlier post but my vote goes to Manufacturing Consent : Noam Chomsky and the Media. I first saw this when it was screened at the Galway Film Fleadh sometime back in the early 90s and it included a Q&A session with the film makers.Powerful stuff at the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_Noam_Chomsky_and_the_Media