Good documentaries. Know of any?

I am currently watching "When We Left Earth" and i find it enthralling. I just like learning stuff that i didn't know so really any subject matter will work. The only thing i try to stray from are War related pieces and such. Wife was watching "The Nazis" not long ago and i found it oppressively bleak and could not watch it.

I have already had "Exit Through the Gift Shop" suggested by a friend which i plan to catch after i finish the stuff i am on. Just anything informative, enlightening or educational will work.

Thanks in advance.

Journey To The Edge Of The Universe.

Also,check out Through The Wormhole.

I like Rush Beyond the Lighted Stage and Joe Strummer The Future is Unwritten.

This is a good documentary. It's about a group of young, African, males known as the "lost boy's", and their journey from a refugee camp in Africa to the U.S.. I highly recommend it.

Good ones I saw in the past couple of months:

Which Way Home?

Up the Yangtze

Darkon

Until the Light Takes Us

Restrepo

The Wildest Dream

The Linguists

Collapse

Black in Latin America is a four-part series on the influence of African descent on Latin America. Features Haiti & the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided, Cuba: The Next Revolution, Brazil: A Racial Paradise?, and Mexico & Peru: The Black Grandma in the Closet.

I like Religulous by Bill Maher.Sunsha

Me too.

Black in Latin America is a four-part series on the influence of African descent on Latin America. Features Haiti & the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided, Cuba: The Next Revolution, Brazil: A Racial Paradise?, and Mexico & Peru: The Black Grandma in the Closet.

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Black in Latin America is a four-part series on the influence of African descent on Latin America. Features Haiti & the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided, Cuba: The Next Revolution, Brazil: A Racial Paradise?, and Mexico & Peru: The Black Grandma in the Closet.

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Transcendent Man. mrmusicman247

Oh yes, I enjoy documentaries quite a bit. I'll try not to mention anything overtly political here though...

This Film is Not Yet Rated: Very interesting film about how the MPAA really works.

Wisconsin Death Trip: Account of a seeming wave of mass insanity that swept through a small Wisconsin town in the 19th century. Narrated by Ian Holm!

Darwin's Nightmare: Extremely depressing film about the fishermen of Lake Victoria in Tanzania.

Night and Fog: The best Holocaust documentary I've ever seen.

Attenborough's Life series is well worht a look, it's not the hardcore type of documentory that shoves facts in your face but the video content looks great.markop2003

I really must get around to grabbing that - Planet Earth was great and I've heard Life is perhaps a marginal improvement.

I would receommend some Louis Theroux - some of his back catologue is only relevent if you're from thew UK (e.g. Luis meets Jimmy Saville), but some really interesting ones out there - swingers, brothels, Ice, etc. He's a good bloke is Louis - very disarming.

• Anvil! The Story of Anvil
• Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage
• The Yes Men
• Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
• Manufacturing Consent: Naom Chumsky and The Media
• Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
• Evidence of Revision

I remembered watching this like two years ago, I cried :(

Children Full of Life

blue planet. A David Attenborough series that focuses on the seas. The Episode called "The Deep" is honestly one of the greatest pieces of television I have ever seen. johngebreadman

That seen with the Killer Whales mugging that young grey whale (I think) was awful - I can't re-watch that at all. In fact I read an interview with one of the camera crew talking about how terrible and moving it was, going on for hours and hours. Poor little fella...

Gasland
Food Inc
Outfoxed
Lord, Save us from Your Followers

All of those are really good and need to be watched by everyone.

Dear thread starter.

Check this site out. That should satiate your need for documentaries for a while.

[QUOTE="johngebreadman"]blue planet. A David Attenborough series that focuses on the seas. The Episode called "The Deep" is honestly one of the greatest pieces of television I have ever seen. poptart

That seen with the Killer Whales mugging that young grey whale (I think) was awful - I can't re-watch that at all. In fact I read an interview with one of the camera crew talking about how terrible and moving it was, going on for hours and hours. Poor little fella...

I have only seen 2 episodes so far, I bought it on DVD, but I have been ill earlier and busy with exams so haven't seen past that.

The episode of "life" with the reptiles was quite bad, with the komodo dragons. They bit and poisoned a group of water buffallo and then stalked them for weeks until they died of the poision. That was a pretty horrible scene.

March of the Penguins, **** yeah. :P

March of the Penguins, **** yeah. :P

GabuEx

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.

It's a must see.

Inside Job.

as a punk fan the documentry "punk rock isnt dead" was a good watch

also waiting for superman was phenominal

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[QUOTE="johngebreadman"]blue planet. A David Attenborough series that focuses on the seas. The Episode called "The Deep" is honestly one of the greatest pieces of television I have ever seen. johngebreadman

That seen with the Killer Whales mugging that young grey whale (I think) was awful - I can't re-watch that at all. In fact I read an interview with one of the camera crew talking about how terrible and moving it was, going on for hours and hours. Poor little fella...

I have only seen 2 episodes so far, I bought it on DVD, but I have been ill earlier and busy with exams so haven't seen past that.

The episode of "life" with the reptiles was quite bad, with the komodo dragons. They bit and poisoned a group of water buffallo and then stalked them for weeks until they died of the poision. That was a pretty horrible scene.

Well get ready for a little :cry: if you haven't seen the whale part yet

[QUOTE="Sunsha"]I like Religulous by Bill Maher.no_more_fayth

Me too.

Argentina's Economic Collapse

Is a rather interesting one

I just saw Restrepo, damn good film.

Blood into Wine is good if youre a fan of Maynard (from Tool, A Perfect Circle, Pucifer)

*Oh but my favorite is problably this one where they interview this guy who was the Sec of Defense or War or something during Vietnam. The name escapes me, but the guy was so brilliant and fascinating to listen to.

**Found it! Fog of War Simply brilliant, if I taught US history I'd have my ****watch it and get tested on it

• Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

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• Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

PannicAtack

Good for you, I guess.

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I am currently watching "When We Left Earth" and i find it enthralling. I just like learning stuff that i didn't know so really any subject matter will work. The only thing i try to stray from are War related pieces and such. Wife was watching "The Nazis" not long ago and i found it oppressively bleak and could not watch it.

I have already had "Exit Through the Gift Shop" suggested by a friend which i plan to catch after i finish the stuff i am on. Just anything informative, enlightening or educational will work.

Thanks in advance.

Alter_Echo

between the folds

life of mammals

the age of stupid

various national geographics

prehistoric predators

the universe

cosmos (rewatched it reciently and it still holds up strangely enough)

we shall remain

wolves in paradise

how the earth was made

showdown air combat

raging planet

breaking the bank

ww2 in hd

the blue planet

volcanoes of th deep

fearless planet

the revolution

that is just scratching the surface because there are hundreds on there.

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.

It's a must see.

sammyjenkis898