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#1 mike_me
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I feel like watching some documentaries, right now I'm... uhm... what was the word... oh, right, "renting" >.> a moving called Food, Inc (got the idea from another thread here a few minutes ago) and I'm interested in hearing about your guys' favorite docs?
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#2 yellosnolvr
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that walmart one. i forgot the name. supersize me is also a great documentary-ish movie. and thats about it.
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#3 funsohng
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Planet Earth best. documentary. ever. made. period.
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Planet Earth best. documentary. ever. made. period.funsohng
beat me to it.
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An Idiot Abroad.

If you don't live in the UK, then you're going to find it difficult to watch it. But I'm sure soon enough some schmuck will upload the episodes on YT.

It's litrally the funnist documentory I've seen in a long while. Pure British humor.

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We Stand Alone Together
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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters Man on Wire
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Planet Earth best. documentary. ever. made. period.funsohng

kind of boring my history teacher made us watch that everyday

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#9 PannicAtack
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The only one I ever really liked was "Bonhoeffer."
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[QUOTE="funsohng"]Planet Earth best. documentary. ever. made. period.ChiSoxBombers
beat me to it.

This. The Blue Planet's also excellent, especially the episode on deep seas.
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[QUOTE="funsohng"]Planet Earth best. documentary. ever. made. period.Vader993

kind of boring my history teacher made us watch that everyday

I have no idea why you had to watch that in History class, but still if you don't like that one, I don't know what to tell you. Did you watch it in Blu-ray and surround sound?
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Eyes on the Prize - about the American Civil Rights movement

The Smartest Guys in the Room - about the fall of Enron

Hoop Dreams - about high school basketball

Trekkies - about Star Trek fans

Memphis Belle: The Story of a Flying Fortress - the original 1940s war documentary by William Wyler, not the Hollywood movie made by his daughter in the 1980s. The Hollywood movie was good, too, BTW.

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[QUOTE="ChiSoxBombers"][QUOTE="funsohng"]Planet Earth best. documentary. ever. made. period.jimmyjammer69
beat me to it.

This. The Blue Planet's also excellent, especially the episode on deep seas.

How is Life?
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#14 Vader993
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[QUOTE="jimmyjammer69"][QUOTE="ChiSoxBombers"] beat me to it.funsohng
This. The Blue Planet's also excellent, especially the episode on deep seas.

How is Life?

or was it life:P

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Dear Zachary.
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[QUOTE="funsohng"][QUOTE="jimmyjammer69"][QUOTE="ChiSoxBombers"] beat me to it.

This. The Blue Planet's also excellent, especially the episode on deep seas.

How is Life?

Kinda sucks at the moment (lolol) but I haven't seen the series.
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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

Super High Me

Andrew Jenks Room 335

These are all awesome docs.

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Planet Earth best. documentary. ever. made. period.funsohng

I so love Planet Earth.... In fact I think I'm in love with David Attenborough. Have you seen Life? That's just been released here in Australia on Bluray. I heard it's pretty spectacular but I was wondering how it compares to Planet Earth

EDIT: Ignore me - didn't read the post above me :P

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[QUOTE="funsohng"]Planet Earth best. documentary. ever. made. period.poptart

I so love Planet Earth.... In fact I think I'm in love with David Attenborough. Have you seen Life? That's just been released here in Australia on Bluray. I heard it's pretty spectacular but I was wondering how it compares to Planet Earth

EDIT: Ignore me - didn't read the post above me :P

yeah i saw life being advertised here in Canada, so that's why asked :D
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Supersize Me :| It was either that or Al Gore's one (since they've the only ones I've really seen).
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[QUOTE="poptart"]

[QUOTE="funsohng"]Planet Earth best. documentary. ever. made. period.funsohng

I so love Planet Earth.... In fact I think I'm in love with David Attenborough. Have you seen Life? That's just been released here in Australia on Bluray. I heard it's pretty spectacular but I was wondering how it compares to Planet Earth

EDIT: Ignore me - didn't read the post above me :P

yeah i saw life being advertised here in Canada, so that's why asked :D

Well I've just read a couple of reviews - it seems steer clear of the one narrated by Oprah (!!??), but the Attenborough one is amazing. I can't quite compute how it'll top Planet Earth mind you, but many people on Amazon seem to think it's surpassed it :shock:

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[QUOTE="funsohng"][QUOTE="poptart"]

I so love Planet Earth.... In fact I think I'm in love with David Attenborough. Have you seen Life? That's just been released here in Australia on Bluray. I heard it's pretty spectacular but I was wondering how it compares to Planet Earth

EDIT: Ignore me - didn't read the post above me :P

poptart

yeah i saw life being advertised here in Canada, so that's why asked :D

Well I've just read a couple of reviews - it seems steer clear of the one narrated by Oprah (!!??), but the Attenborough one is amazing. I can't quite compute how it'll top Planet Earth mind you, but many people on Amazon seem to think it's surpassed it :shock:

oh dang, I guess I really need to check this one out too then eh
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This Is Spinal Tap.

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[QUOTE="poptart"]

[QUOTE="funsohng"] yeah i saw life being advertised here in Canada, so that's why asked :Dfunsohng

Well I've just read a couple of reviews - it seems steer clear of the one narrated by Oprah (!!??), but the Attenborough one is amazing. I can't quite compute how it'll top Planet Earth mind you, but many people on Amazon seem to think it's surpassed it :shock:

oh dang, I guess I really need to check this one out too then eh

Sadly tis a must but it seems. I think I may buy it tonight...

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[QUOTE="funsohng"][QUOTE="poptart"]

Well I've just read a couple of reviews - it seems steer clear of the one narrated by Oprah (!!??), but the Attenborough one is amazing. I can't quite compute how it'll top Planet Earth mind you, but many people on Amazon seem to think it's surpassed it :shock:

poptart

oh dang, I guess I really need to check this one out too then eh

Sadly tis a must but it seems. I think I may buy it tonight...

I just bought fifa11 so I don't have money for it right now :cry: I guess I will have to watch Planet Earth again till I get more money
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#26 poptart
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[QUOTE="poptart"]

[QUOTE="funsohng"] oh dang, I guess I really need to check this one out too then ehfunsohng

Sadly tis a must but it seems. I think I may buy it tonight...

I just bought fifa11 so I don't have money for it right now :cry: I guess I will have to watch Planet Earth again till I get more money

Well I'll let you know how it is in comparison to Planet Earth once I've checked out a couple of episodes anyway...

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#27 funsohng
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[QUOTE="funsohng"][QUOTE="poptart"]

Sadly tis a must but it seems. I think I may buy it tonight...

poptart

I just bought fifa11 so I don't have money for it right now :cry: I guess I will have to watch Planet Earth again till I get more money

Well I'll let you know how it is in comparison to Planet Earth once I've checked out a couple of episodes anyway...

thx man! :D
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When You're Strange. It's a documentary about The Doors, really interesting. That and Planet Earth.
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Bowling for Columbine will always be my favourite I think. Such a powerful movie. A fist full of quarters is alright too - but its kind of sad seeing these grown men acting the way they are. Look out for one later this year called Gas Land. Looks interesting!
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Monster Camp. It's not going to blow your mind, make you ponder the metaphysical or give you a gritty view of the truth of the world, but it is a bit fun.It's about LARPing.

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Money Masters

Ring of Power

Miracle in Orbit

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An Idiot Abroad.

If you don't live in the UK, then you're going to find it difficult to watch it. But I'm sure soon enough some schmuck will upload the episodes on YT.

It's litrally the funnist documentory I've seen in a long while. Pure British humor.

AzzoLovesBirdy

Humor like Faulty towers. If so ill like it.

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#34 POPEYE1716
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[QUOTE="funsohng"]Planet Earth best. documentary. ever. made. period.

This man speaks the truth. Planet Earth is awesome. And get Life both on bluray serious Eye candy
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Ken Burn's Civil War and Carl Sagan's Cosmos were both astounding.

I'll have to check out Restrepo when it comes out on dvd.

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Shadow Company.

It is really awesome. It's about PMCs and mercenary corporations.

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America: The Story of Us was pretty awesome.

I want to go see that education documentary Waiting for Superman, too.

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apparently the cove was really good it was about the slaughter of dolphins in japan
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stronger better faster is good. (i think its called that) its about steroids.
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This one I saw when I was younger, it was made in 1967 or '68 and they interviewed hippies throughout it and it had clips of hippie concerts and parks where literally hundreds of hippies would sit round having fun and stuff, It really was an amazing documentary, it really gave me an inside view of what the movement was like and what the people were like. It was like going into a timemachine really, Just all these clips and interviews with long gone people from a long gone movement.

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This one I saw when I was younger, it was made in 1967 or '68 and they interviewed hippies throughout it and it had clips of hippie concerts and parks where literally hundreds of hippies would sit round having fun and stuff, It really was an amazing documentary, it really gave me an inside view of what the movement was like and what the people were like. It was like going into a timemachine really, Just all these clips and interviews with long gone people from a long gone movement.

loft8000

I love '60s documentaries and interviews like that. :)

We're always shown that whole decade like it was this bleak, desperate period all about the Cuban Missile Crisis and the unpopular Vietnam War, growing racial tensions and general civil unrest etc. - a country near the brink of revolution - so it's nice to be reminded how a lot of people were actually just chilling out all day at free rock concerts, doing drugs and loving everything.

History doesn't have to be all about class struggle and war... Maybe even better to just forget entirely sometimes. It's like they say: If you remember the '60s, you weren't really there.

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[QUOTE="loft8000"]

This one I saw when I was younger, it was made in 1967 or '68 and they interviewed hippies throughout it and it had clips of hippie concerts and parks where literally hundreds of hippies would sit round having fun and stuff, It really was an amazing documentary, it really gave me an inside view of what the movement was like and what the people were like. It was like going into a timemachine really, Just all these clips and interviews with long gone people from a long gone movement.

jimmyjammer69

I love '60s documentaries and interviews like that. :)

We're always shown that whole decade like it was this bleak, desperate period all about the Cuban Missile Crisis and the unpopular Vietnam War, growing racial tensions and general civil unrest etc. - a country near the brink of revolution - so it's nice to be reminded how a lot of people were actually just chilling out all day at free rock concerts, doing drugs and loving everything.

History doesn't have to be all about class struggle and war... Maybe even better to just forget entirely sometimes. It's like they say: If you remember the '60s, you weren't really there.

Hellyeah man

If I ever get the name of it I'll definitely share it on here, its real good.

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Life after people, Global Metal, Penn and teller's bull**** ( not really a documentory but factualish), QI ( not really a documentory but factualish)
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Shark Water is my favorite
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Any documentary by Ken Burns is worth watching. They're all American-centric, but The Civil War, Baseball, and The National Parks are all incredible series.
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'Through the Water' was pretty good.

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I love:

  • Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
  • Anvil! The Story of Anvil
  • Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
  • The Yes Men

......and many more! I love documentaries.

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American the bill hicks story ! , planet earth , most micheal moore documentrys have a very left wing bias but capatalism a love story is very good piece of documentry film making in my opinion!

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Uhh...that's not a documentary...Charlie Sheen is definitely not a Vietnam Veteran.
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"Who Killed the Electric car?"

"Super-Size Me"

"Deliver Us From Evil"

"It Might Get Loud"

Those are the only three that come to mind right now. Very good documentaries.