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As per the title really, anyone seen anything worth a watch recently, clearly it must wholly portray a one sided argument as all the best ones do.........
September Issue - it is about Vogue, but genuinely interesting
Page One: Inside the New York Times - does what it says on the tin
Helvetica - if you like your typefaces
The David Attenborough doc on Evolution is still on the i-player. Not exactly ground breaking stuff but done with his usual quiet authority.
Helvetica might be worth a watch, Chris Evans was banging on about a book about typefaces but didn't realise there was a film also.
Saw one last week about food production in the USA which was interesting.
There is also one about the christian folk in the deep south i want to watch but i don't know what its called if anyone can help out
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
'Food Inc' is very interesting
Man on Wire is absolutely fantastic.
Enron: The Smartest guys in the room.
Two off the top of my head, seriously though Man on Wire is amazing.
I'm wading through the documentaries on Netflix right now.
Really enjoyed "The King of Kong" which documents one mans battle to be seen as the worlds best player of Donkey Kong.
Saw Food Inc. Also good.
Senna is good....
Closer to the Edge:TT is also supposed to be good.
Exit through the gift shop was unexpectedly entertaining for reasons I didn't expect.
Catfish is also supposed to interesting with a few twists
Dig is the story of the Brian Jonestone Massacre & the Dandy Warhols.
Or This is Spinal Tap....
Very much agree re Man On Wire. Excellent.
Touching The Void is excellent also. It's more like a faithful dramatisation maybe...but very good.
Slight Hijack....Maybe
I have been trying to find a copy the documentary of the 2011 Patagonia Expedition Race called "the last wild race". If anyone knows where I can get a copy of this I would be very grateful.
My searches of google have so far only found a site that will let me stream it once for 8 dollars, and my emails to the contact on the official site are going unanswered.
Thanks
Steve
Closer to the Edge is ace. Also enjoyed Inside Job, bit depressing though.
Just watched "Chasing Legends". Really enjoyed it, good insight to Pro road racing.
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Trinity and Beyond, about the invention, development and testing of atomic weapons. A truly stunning film!!
I've got 'Inside Job' lined up to watch. Think it makes you angry...
The future is unwritten by Julien Temple
'Solo'
Andrew McAuley set out on his quest to become the first person to kayak from Australia to New Zealand.
or
TT Closer to the Edge.
Both will make you think a lot about life.
Talhotblonde
A warning about internet chat.
Recent documentary faves
TT - Closer to the edge
Oil City Confidential (Dr Feelgood by Julien Temple)
180 degrees south and bustin down the doors.
Enjoyed both of these a lot recently
Just finished Senna. Doesn't do Prost any favours, does it? Good film, I'd enjoyed that races on a Sunday but missed the behind-the-scenes stuff. What a catastrophic weekend that was.
I loved this:
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And if yer inter them reeadin' books. you should get "PsychoVertical" and "Cold Wars" by Andy Kirkpatrick.
Funny and brutally honest. For me, funny [i]because[/i] they're brutally honest.
Very British!
I remember that McAuley documentary... Quite disturbing esp the bit where he's in tears paddling away from his wife and child stood on the beach!
I recognised part of me in that clip- and I did not like what I saw!
Earthlings, narrated by Joaquin Pheonix is a fantastic watch - very i8nformative.
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Not for the faint hearted. Makes you think, and also significantly reduces the total of your next few supermarket bills (because the meat section makes you want to vomit).
Hell and Back Again (nominated for an oscar this year)
Series of docs currently airing of Al Jazeera called Working Mans Death ([url= http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/general/2010/10/2010101113656323582.html ]also online - check out the sulphur miners - hard as nails)[/url]
Three Rooms of Melancholia
The Boy who was a King
Wattstax
Slightly OT but 'London' 'Robinson in Space' and 'Robinson in Ruins'. Factual films by a fictional documentary maker.
anything (everything in fact) by Albert and David Maysles
anything by True Vision, but especially 'Evicted'
'Solo'Andrew McAuley set out on his quest to become the first person to kayak from Australia to New Zealand
I remember seeing this on TV a few years back. Painful and mesmerizing to watch. One of the best documentaries I have seen for a long time.
loudQUIETloud about The Pixies is a great music doc, especially if you like them.
One Day In September about the Munich Olympics massacre.
Riding Giants about big-wave surfing.
Klunkerz about MTBing's early years.
All excellent IMO.
Ride the divide, beautiful locations and endurance riding, what's not to like.
Grizzily Man is my fave.
Armadillo - about Danish forces in Afghanistan. Riveting, I will never forget the young guys eyes when he was shot and waiting for a medic.
(er, not for the subtitle-phobic)
have a look and Google "50 documenteries to see before I die" theres loads o crackers to choose from. ESPN Classic recently aired 30 from 30 a series of 30 sports docs, some of these were excellent. Watched Chasing Legends a few times, superb coverage of the HTC team on the 2009 tour de france
Good thread! Definitely some that I will add to the lovefilm list.
One of my faves is Scratch: the history of hip hop. Brilliant!
Who killed the electric car
Guess it's on you tube.
50 documenteries to see before I die"
*wonders how many documentaries I've seen in a lifetime, and more specifically, having just booked accommodation for the this years Sheffield Doc Fest, whether I'm destined to view myself to an early grave*
When we were Kings
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Skateboard history doc. Much better than I made it sound
180 south is cool
Riding Giants +1
Fog of War
Seven Sunny Days (if only for this bit)
I forgot to mention Restrepo
rekindling this thread as im about to depart for a month in the back of beyond with work so if anyone else has any good recommendations im all eyes and ears
The TT documentary is cracking. (don't know if it's been mentioned already)
Couldn't be bothered to check properly, but someone posted the trailer for STEEP, tis on you tube
If this is a double post, ppppffftttttthhtt
TT Closer to The Edge (again)
Have we had SENNA yet? It will make you cry a bucket load at the end.
The First Ascent series is good.
http://www.senderfilms.com/firstascentseries.com/
Also The Eiger doc. Might still be on bbci player.
The eiger documentary and man on wire. Both awesome.
Herzog's 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams'.
There is simply no greater documentary film maker on earth.
Big River Man.
Ata Whenua, helicopter shot film of Fjordland in NZ. Truly stunning. May not classify as a documentary I suppose but worth a watch.
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
We Went to War
The Reluctant Revolutionary
The Boy who was a King
Moving to Mars
Hell and Back Again
The Photographer (by Dariusz Jablionski in case theres more docs with the same name)
The First Movie
The Liberace of Bagdad
Personal Best
and to listen to rather than watch - podcasts
99% Invisible
Snap Judgement
Freakonomics
The most recent episode of the Rouleur podcast (the earlier ones are bit so-so)
Cheers guys and cheers maccruiskeen, not even thought of podcasts! Might have to start a new thread!
Think i should have about 30 to watch so should keep me going!
Haven't read all the replies here but my suggestion is :
Darwin Nightmare
... also - if you've been watching the current Welcome to India see if you can find the earlier 'Welcome to Lagos' - a 3 part series.
Senna (again)
Touching the Void
Frozen Planet (series)
The North Face
The Beckoning Silence
Exit through the gift shop
"Hands on a hard body" if you can find a copy anywhere. Seem to remember some of the characters are quite funny.
Am gunna win a truck!!
Oh and +1 touching the void!
Second 'Dogtown and Z boys', and 'Big River man'. I liked 'Joe Kid on a Stingray' too - the history of BMX.
On a deeper level ' All watched over by machines of a loving grace ' or anything by Adam Curtis.
Documentarystorm.com has got loads of links to docs you can watch for free.
I have lost track the amount of times i have seen this :
""Undoubtedly one of the greatest cycling documentaries ever made""
http://www.rouleur.cc/a-sunday-in-hell
The future is unwritten - the most heartfelt documentary I've even seen
If you want to see something depressing then go to youtube and type in
'Krokodil'
Grim viewing indeed.
'The fight of their lives'
Story of Nigel Benn Vs Gerald Mclellan fight in 1994 and the aftermath..
Story of Nigel Benn Vs Gerald Mclellan fight in 1994 and the aftermath..
for a very brief second there I read that as Nigel Benn Vs [i]Lenny McLean[/i]
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you're thinking about [i]Tony[/i] Benn vs Lenny McLean
Restrepo was good, and Welcome to Lagos was amazing.
Didn't know there was a Welcome to India - will look out for it.
On a deeper level ' All watched over by machines of a loving grace ' or anything by Adam Curtis.
This (in addition to Herzog).
More votes here for Riding Giants and Tall Hot Blonde
Dunno where you might pick it up but 'Gas Land' is an excellent doc on the risks of shale gas extraction (also known as fracking). It's a US doc but those of you living in the NW will be aware of a plan to start doing it off the coast of Blackpool.
It's genuinely one sided (as per the OPs request) but thought provoking even to someone who would try and see the benefits
'Capturing the Friedmans'. Follows a family after the father (a computing teacher) and sons are accused of abusing local children. Tough watch, but brilliant.
Complete opposite: 'Mad Hot Ballroom'. Follows kids from very diverse backgrounds being taught ballroom dancing in New York schools. Pure prozac on film; surprisingly funny.
Didn't know there was a Welcome to India - will look out for it.
Its on the iplayer just now I'd image
Cave of Forgotten Dreams by Werner Herzog, documenting the exploration of the oldest cave artwork yet discovered, in the Chauvet caves of Southern France, really surprised at just how good it was