Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

What's the best documentary you've seen?

Options
12357…31

Comments

  • Options
    #122
    audidiesel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭audidiesel


    the greatest raid of all. A ww2 documentary on the commando raid at st nazzair by jeremy clarkson. A really good documentary


  • Options
    #123
    poppyvalley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 372 ✭✭poppyvalley


    The Incredible Journey
    Private life of plants


  • Options
    #124
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    The trials of life
    planet earth
    the living planet ect
    Sasquatch legend meets science with george shcaller

    Apart from the nature documentaries there was a few excellent bbc programs about the atom ect.


  • Options
    #125
    Wheelie King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 238 ✭✭Wheelie King


    Team America World Police was very good.


  • Options
    #126
    dpe
    Registered Users Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    World At War is still one of the best documentaries of WWII
    Blue Planet. Could pick any one of a number of Attenborough series but this is my fave.
    In The Shadow Of The Moon One of the best docs on the space race (there was a really good BBC docudrama about the Space Race a couple of years ago as well, but I forget the title).


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #127
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    About 5 years ago I seen a documentary on more4 about Egyptian street kids in Cairo.Can't remember the name ,but can't get it out of my head.It was top notch!.

    One Day in September(Winner of the 1999 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.) and Holy Warriors Richard the LionHeart & Saladin(pbs). are two of my favourites.
    I also have the history Channels Rome & American civil War Documentary box sets,which are great viewing.I still have to watch their Vietnam Boxset ,so I can't comment on it yet.


  • Options
    #128
    jayteecork
    Site Banned Posts: 5,676 ✭✭✭jayteecork


    King of Kong.

    Grizzly Man.

    Anything from the BBC earth series.


  • Options
    #129
    Magic Eight Ball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭Magic Eight Ball


    Murderball
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436613/


  • Options
    #130
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    jayteecork wrote: »
    King of Kong.

    Grizzly Man.

    Anything from the BBC earth series.

    Grizzly man was great but to be honest I thought your man was a bit of a muppet!


  • Options
    #131
    jayteecork
    Site Banned Posts: 5,676 ✭✭✭jayteecork


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    Grizzly man was great but to be honest I thought your man was a bit of a muppet!

    Well in fairness I think that's what Werner Herzog was pointing out.

    One of the the most interesting comments was the pilot saying that he thought the bears left him alone for so long was because they thought he was retarded.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #132
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Another vote for King of Kongs. Seriously entertaining documentary about obsession.

    Dig! is also a hugely entertaining doc about the Brian Jonestown Massacre.

    His & Hers is a very good Irish doc about women and the men in their life. Not in the same class as the other two but worth a watch.

    Roman Polanski: Desired & Wanted - terrible title but really good examination of his trial in the states. Well worth a watch.

    Also enjoyed a Channel 4 series called Escape From Colditz. Not a WWII buff but the inventiveness the prisoners display in their various attemtps, successful and not, to escape are ingenious.
    Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »
    The Bridge
    superelliptic wrote: »
    The Bridge (2006) - Very interesting, but equally very sad documentary about suicide, and how the Golden Gate Bridge is a popular destination for people chosing to end it all. Controversial, but worth the watch if your in the mood for something deep.
    Orando Broom wrote: »
    The Bridge is good but seriously depressing.

    What I saw of it was good but I could only make it around half an hour in before switching off.


  • Options
    #133
    GavRedKing
    Registered Users Posts: 53,262 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    Man on wire
    Senna
    Battle of Chernoybl

    Their the most reccent that I can remember that I found to be good.


  • Options
    #134
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    jayteecork wrote: »
    Well in fairness I think that's what Werner Herzog was pointing out.

    One of the the most interesting comments was the pilot saying that he thought the bears left him alone for so long was because they thought he was retarded.

    True he also put grizzly conservation back years.


  • Options
    #135
    marwelie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭marwelie


    Currently watching Living with Lions, fly on the wall documentary about the 1997 Rugby Union Great Britain and Ireland Lions trip to South Africa. I can't even say I like Rugby Union but it is brilliant. The team talks from various heads like Keith Wood, Jason Leonard Martin Johnson and especially Jim Telfer and Ian McGeechan, could make you run through brick walls for them.


  • Options
    #136
    Cianan2
    Registered Users Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭Cianan2


    I have to re-suggest the following that have already been recommended:

    Big River Man
    The Bridge
    Dear Zachary
    Devil and Daniel Johnston
    King of Kong

    All are must see documentaries. I've found myself a good few more to watch now, thanks everybody!


  • Options
    #137
    boblong
    Registered Users Posts: 255 ✭✭boblong


    Revolution OS is another good one.

    http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/revolution-os/


  • Options
    #138
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    skinsseries3 wrote: »
    Swansea Love Story
    VBS do some really good documentaries. The vice guide to N.Korea and Liberia are also well worth a watch.


  • Options
    #139
    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    Anthony Bourdain does a food program, but it has lots of politics and history as well, I love them.
    The one in Beirut when Israel decided to flatten the whole place was shocking ...

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


  • Options
    #140
    Irishchick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭Irishchick


    The cove is a load of tripe. It was just to make himself feel better about being involved in capturing dolphins for the entertainment industry in the past.

    Id recommend:

    Food Inc.
    Supersize me.

    and the book fast food nation ( not the film. Its muck)


  • Options
    #141
    Uncle Mclovin
    Registered Users Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Uncle Mclovin


    More Than A game


    It takes you through the rise of LeBron James and his 4 close friends to the top of college basketball.


    Its got clips from loads of their games through high school and college.



    Best sports documentary I've seen in a good while. Would recommend it to all sports fans.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #142
    cocalolaman
    Registered Users Posts: 547 ✭✭✭cocalolaman


    cocalolaman wrote: »
    There was one i saw a few months ago on some website that was linked on here, it might have been by BBC. It was about 9/11,but it wasnt the falling man or farenheit 9/11. I can't for the life of me remember what the name was..


    Found it, 102 minutes that changed America.Seriously chilling footage.
    http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/102-minutes-changed-america/


  • Options
    #143
    rokossovsky
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭rokossovsky


    1. Shoah (9 hours long )
    2. Hoop Dreams


  • Options
    #144
    JBnaglfar
    Registered Users Posts: 841 ✭✭✭JBnaglfar


    I'm sure some of these have been mentioned but I'm not reading the whole thread:

    Man on Wire
    King of Kong
    Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage


  • Options
    #145
    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    There was some BBC documentary on human behaviour. I must go looking for that again.


  • Options
    #146
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    The Coconut Revolution

    'The world's first succesful eco-revolution'

    Inspirational.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPF3cnIdy5s


  • Options
    #147
    doc_17
    Registered Users Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭doc_17


    Dangerous Knowledge


  • Options
    #148
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    While we are on the topic, does anyone have a link to a good website that has good documentaries?


  • Options
    #149
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Caoimhín wrote: »
    While we are on the topic, does anyone have a link to a good website that has good documentaries?
    http://documentaryheaven.com/


  • Options
    #150
    Dogdaysareover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭Dogdaysareover


    Mugabe and the White African.
    http://www.mugabeandthewhiteafrican.com/

    This was part of the true stories series on more4 not too long ago, powerful stuff.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #151
    Andre80Johnson
    Registered Users Posts: 239 ✭✭Andre80Johnson


    My Kid could Paint That
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0912592/

    The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320512/

     The English Surgeon
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1200060/

    Bus 174
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340468/

    Cropsey
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1277936/

    Last Train Home
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1512201/

    The Garden
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1252486/

    Waiting for Superman
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1566648/

    F For Fake
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072962/

    Confessions of a Superhero
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016164/

    For film students.
    Overnight - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390336/
    American Film - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181288/
    The Cutting Edge - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428441/


Advertisement