What's the best documentary you've seen?

Longboard

Riding Giants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADy8f6t4Ri8

!MAVERICK!

RTE'S Documentary on Gilligan's and Mitchell's gangs in the Costa del sol.

pragmatic1

Forgot about this one. Adam Curtis makes the best political type documentaries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOlwbaPe2os

starviewadams

This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yt4Mmn7ofI

This:

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

Or this:

Aishae

it was a documentary on bbc in the late 90's on Henrietta Lacks - the woman the Hela cells came from

holystungun9

Rocky 4 or any one of the Lethal Weapon series.

Toby Take a Bow

Second DIG! from the previous poster.

I loved The Devil and Daniel Johnston. Absolutely insane and so very very sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJZOe65eA4Y

starviewadams

Or these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6-1oo-b3Ds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTH1rbTeqyg

Nhead

When the levee breaks- Spike Lee
Grizzly Man- Werner Herzog
Encounters at the end of the world- Herzog
The Filth and The Fury-Julien Temple
The Clash-Westway to the world

checkyabadself

1. Inside Job
2. Cosmos
3. Religulous.

My name is URL

Carl Sagan's Cosmos is my favourite documentary series by far.

OutlawPete

Aileen: Life and Death of Serial Killer.

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

dx22

Grizzly man - a very intriguing film about a very peculiar man

Fog of War - interesting doc about Robert Mc Namara giving a unique perpective of American actions during the Cold War and Vietnam

Im Only 71Kg

dark days is also another very interesting watch.

Aishae

thinking about it - the life of john merrick on discovery was good

elephant man

ColeTrain

Beyond The Mat.
Bowling for Columbine.

Tipsy McSwagger

The Falling Man
The Bridge
Anything by the legendary John Pilger

Saila

probably the ascent of money

fedor.2.

Good thread, plenty here to watch on friday

aligator_am

Some good suggestions in here, will make a point of trying to see as many of them as possible.

Two I'd recommend are Inside Job and Beyond the Mat (wrestling documentary).

fontanalis

Touching the Void about a mountain climbing expedition gone slightly wrong, unbelievable.

everyday taxi

seaniemoylan wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO1nSVy8q8I

watching it now, WOW!!! thx

Hande hoche!

Death of Yugoslavia.

stanley1

Einhard wrote: »

The American Civil War by Ken Burns. Over ten hours long so you might want to give yourself more than a single evening!

+1

mikemac

The one about Robert McNamara, very good film

The Revolution will not be televised
Shows the state can influence media and show what they want to be shown.
It was an Irish film crew who did it so well done to them

c_man

I would recommend loads of those already mentioned (especially Cosmos).

Another great one is 'TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball'

filthymcnasty

GR88 wrote: »

Some Kind of Monster: The Metallica documentary.
The band were about to fall apart when they started filming, It's fasinating stuff. The scene when Lars goes on a rant against Hetfield is interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDCLdNt_oK0

sorry man this I love Metallica but this tripe nearly put me off them for life- a bunch of narcissistic self absorbed mental defectives: particulary (and surprisingly) Hetfield and to a lesser extent Ulrich.
Ok we all know rock stars are divas etc but to see it in glorious techni-colour from your heroes was not pretty.

In one scene Hetfield pisses off to Russia bear-hunting or some **** and then starts moaning hes missing his kids birthday because of it...wtf?!

anyway rant over..if you want to see a good rock n roll documentary, watch the Story of Anvil.

krudler

Bigger, Stonger, Faster, a great look at steroids in American sports and society. The director/narrator comes from a family of three brothers who are all involved in weightlifting or wrestling in some way. his older brother Mike was actually a WWE wrestler at one stage (he since died from a drug OD, possibly related to steroids).

Its frank look at how America as a whole is obsessed with being champions, and the lenghts people go to just to win, be it using steroids or doing it naturally. It also answers a lot of questions about steroids and the supplement business (also shows how easy it is to make unregulated vitamin supplements yourself with no licence or funding, its pretty funny)

well worth a look if you have any interest in sports:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qqwsbBZCkk

KeithAFC

Peter taylors The Troubles.

Dangerous Man

Encounters at the End of the World - Werner Herzog. I don't know if it's the best I've ever seen but it's up there. BBC's documentary series 'Planets' was excellent too.