What's the best documentary you've seen?

SRFC

A great one by Michael Palin on Brazil well worth a watch

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starlit

The one with what happens to your tax was a good one on recently!

Saw a good one a few weeks back about the life of a cell, really cool indeed how it survives even the common cold and how your body fights it! So basically little machines working in your body they are small but mighty! Cool to watch at a digital/microscopic view! It was class to watch! Graphics was very good seemed quiet real. Very interesting too.

keith16

doovdela wrote: »

The one with what happens to your tax was a good one on recently!

Saw a good one a few weeks back about the life of a cell, really cool indeed how it survives even the common cold and how your body fights it! So basically little machines working in your body they are small but mighty! Cool to watch at a digital/microscopic view! It was class to watch! Graphics was very good seemed quiet real. Very interesting too.

Does it have a name by any chance?

milltown

keith16 wrote: »

Does it have a name by any chance?

The secret life of cells, if memory serves.

DMcL1971

Raw Deal: A Question of Consent

Tells the story of a stripper hired to perform at a frat party. She stays on afterwards for more drinks and to party. The next morning she is found running from the frat house claiming to have been raped. The frat boys are arrested. They then reveal that they have a video tape of the entire nights proceedings. At whch point things start to take a few unexpected twists.

Despite interviews with nearly everyone involved and some disturbing video footage, this documentary leaves most viewers arguing about whether a rape ocurred or not. All the evidence presented shows how incredibly difficult rape is to prove. All the footage can be interpereted two ways and every interviewee seems reliable one minute and a liar the next. The police, lawyers and politicians are so busy covering their asses that they are of little help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld2Gld32UMQ

starlit

Seen a really good one recently make you think twice and look at the earth and how you do things in a different light. Supersized Earth I think its called, three part series on BBC, very interesting!

MrSing

doovdela wrote: »

Seen a really good one recently make you think twice and look at the earth and how you do things in a different light. Supersized Earth I think its called, three part series on BBC, very interesting!

Best series on TV at the moment!

RoverZT

Loved this one.

Have always loved Wolves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWmOtXSAr1M

DMcL1971

I saw a very good documentary yesterday. It is a new one called 'Side by Side' it is narrated by Keanu Reeves, but don't let that put you off. It is about the effect digital film capture, editing and projection has had on the way movies are being made.

It contains interviews with David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, James Cameron and dozens of directors and cinematographers. It shows how in a short period of time digital motion cameras and projectors have completely taken over cinema and discusses the pros and cons of that change.

jaykay74

thanks for all the excellent recommendations in this thread. One I haven't seen mentioned here is Triumph Of The Nerds from 1996. Its a look at the history of computing. I watched it at the time when it was first broadcast (think on channel 4). May not be for everyone but for those with an interest in computing they might find it interesting.

The documentary chronicles the rise of the personal computer/home computer beginning in the 1970s with the Altair 8800, Apple I and Apple II and VisiCalc. It continues through the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh revolution through the 1980s and the mid 1990s, ending at the beginning of the Dot-com boom with the release of Windows 95.

It includes interviews with many influential figures in the PC industry, including Apple's Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, and Oracle's Larry Ellison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFL9IyJ_qHk

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3lmM6WlR-Y

starlit

The last best documentary i've seen was supersized earth. Seen a few others - about the weather, with david attenbouragh. There are a few interesting ones recently - 'the undateables' and 'first time farmers' on channel4.

DMcL1971

Last night I watched a new documentary called 'The Imposter'. I don't want to give away too much, but it is the story of how a guy managed to pretend to be a missing boy returned home to his family after three years missing.

Like most of the best documentaries it builds the story up from the ground and explains exactly how he did it and how he fooled everyone. It's one of those truth is stranger than fiction stories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67cMet52mL4

TheUsual

Saw a documentary there before Christmas.
It was about using remote controls to crash a Boeing passenger airplane.

They said that cars are crashed all the time to test how to improve the design of them for humans but a plane has never before been crashed. This was the first time.
Was done in Mexico as they were the only place happy to have a plane with nobody on board crash into a desert.
Can't think of the name of it, was an American show, like Engineering stuff. Maybe somebody remembers it.

guttenberg

Was it The Plane Crash on Channel 4?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9602873/The-Plane-Crash-Channel-4-review.html

Mal-Adjusted

I saw that as well. pretty good show, especially showing the way the impact throws stuff ridiculous distances away.

TheUsual

^^^^^^
That's the one.
thanks !

KERSPLAT!

The Impostor, thought it was good, although a true story some parts are a little unbelievable...

Scar Tissue

There was a thread on Reddit discussing the greatest documentaries of all time (based on Rotten Tomatoes critics/audience rating I believe).

The top comment has a link to all the documentaries which are available on Youtube, bound to pass the time for someone!

Linky

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Watching a documentary called "Word Wars : Tiles and Tribulations of the Scrabble Circuit". While it's not mindblowing it is interesting to see the level of dedication they put into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjVVH9P1gNU

jeddie20

Very good documentary on the career of Colin McRae

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx61QAZaTxc

Blueboyd

I saw this documentary last autumn. Really really hard to watch. Tears come every time.

One could say that for once the documentary crew was in the right place at the right time. It felt almost unreal. One watches and says to oneself - can this really be leading where it will be leading.

It was meant to be a documentary about high school elections.

Before the national elections in Norway there is high school election and even if the students are underaged to vote in real elections media follows the high school elections a lot as it can show some trends in coming national elections.

They had picked 4 youngsters from 4 different parties whom they followed but little did they know when they started to film where they would end up.

Bravehearts

http://vimeo.com/52835608


Four young people want to change the world – then the world changes them.
In “Bravehearts” we follow four politically involved youths between the summer of 2009 and the fall of 2011. Four youngsters who have the courage to say what they really think of our society, who wish to make the world a better place.

Blueboyd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKXewWDh1og

yohan the great

Lizard lick towing is a great documentary. Shows sane and intellectual guys going around repossessing stuff and the challenges they face

PandyAndy

Bully

A documentary about children being bullied in American schools, focuses on mainly 3-4 children.

Very eye-opening and it will leave you feeling pissed off, you'll understand when you see the vice-principal of one of the schools. She is so inept at her job, for instance, there's one scene where a 9-12yr child is clearly distraught about having to telling her about the problems he experiences in the canteen and she asks him what shall they do about it.

Watch it if you can.

Achtung! Bono

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-plane-crash/4od

Link to The Plane Crash Documentary mentioned above.

PandyAndy

Under Our Skin (Watchable link)

Great documentary on Lyme disease in the US, and how it was discovered and how it's currently treated. Never knew it was such a debilitating disease.

dubsgirl

Life with Murder - watched this on Netflix recently thought it was really good

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675309/

Storyline


Chatham, Ontario, 1998. Eighteen-year-old Jennifer Jenkins is brutally shot to death by multiple rifle rounds in her family home. The main suspect: her brother, Mason Jenkins, who fled the scene of the crime. After fabricating a story about what occurred, Jenkins was incarcerated. His parents, facing the loss of both their children, chose to support his claims of innocence...

Fletch87

@ Blueboyd

Did you watch the doc on Norway for free online? I can't seem to find it.

Not sure if this site has been shared yet but http://www.filmsforaction.org/walloffilms/ has a fairly mixed bag that some may be interested in.

The Pontiac

Really enjoyed this.

The World According To Dick Cheney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3BPK8ahNPo

MANUTD99

Crossing The Line

"The film is about a former U.S. Army soldier, James J. Dresnok, who defected to North Korea on August 15, 1962."

Really interesting. The guy still lives in North Korea

Mike Litoris

Being a huge fan of the film All the Presidents Men the discovery doc "Watergate: A Third Rate Burglary".

Fascinating stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we6YG7S3oNQ