Documentary Recommendations?

[RAIDEN6]

Documentaries are by far my favorite movies, but I was just wondering if anyone can recommend some.

I've seen

Fahrenheit 9/11
Bowling for Columbine
Supersize Me
Baghdad High
and others that I cant recall as of right now.

I've heard "My kid can paint that" is good, I'll have to check that out.

So can anyone recommend some other good ones?

[Sanghelli]

I wouldn't exactly call all of those documentaries..

[The Gollum]

The Endurance
The Legend of Boggy Creek
Grizzly Man
Starwoids
Spellbound

[cochese75]

Cocaine Cowboys I/II




:spawnorb:

[frinspar]

I don't watch many, but I won a contest for the book and the DVD a while back of Ewan MacGregor's "Long Way Round". He and Charley Boorman ride motorcycles around the world. Pretty good.

And I watched some horribly depressing HBO doc that followed two junkie couples around the streets of NYC. Scummy, sad, sick and corrupted people. Interesting, but I felt greasy and ill afterwards.

[RAIDEN6]

I wouldn't exactly call all of those documentaries..How are those not documentaries? What would you call them?

[Gymsokk]

This film is not yet rated
Inside Deep Throat

Those are the last ones I've seen, and I enjoyed both

[D2eux]

How are those not documentaries? What would you call them?
mokumentaries. Semi documentaries but grossly biased and misleading. at least that can be said for mr. moore

I recommend "The Devil Came on Horseback" dealing with the current situation in Sudan

[SeattleMariners51445]

NERD! Haha, just kidding man, I like alot of those too.

[RAIDEN6]

mokumentaries. Semi documentaries but grossly biased and misleading. at least that can be said for mr. moore

I recommend "The Devil Came on Horseback"How can you be biased about the columbine shooting?:confused:

[xGGAx]

Terrorstorm is one of my favs

[Sanghelli]

How are those not documentaries? What would you call them?

Docu-fiction? A documentary is by definition a film "emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation" Michael Moore's films tend to be sensationalized. While he gets most of it right, he has a lot of innaccuracies and misrepresentations thrown into the mix as well. I've always felt that he's just out to cause controversy and gain attention for himself rather than actually bring real issues to the public's attention.

[D2eux]

How can you be biased about the columbine shooting?:confused:

sometimes its the factors depicted that are misleading. for example, moore liked to show viewers you could just "go in" and buy a rifle. When a documentary called "Michael Moore Hates America", showed that moore actually manipulated that scene to have him just walk out with the gun. it really doesnt work like that.

and he also HEAVILY manipulated heston's speech, since it had nothing to do with columbine

EDIT: Scratch that, it was the free gun with bank account.
Free gun for opening a bank account

In March 2003, John Fund reported in a Wall Street Journal diary page that the bank employee who handled Moore's account, Jan Jacobson, said that Moore had arranged the transaction weeks in advance, and that customers have "a week to 10 days waiting period" before collecting their guns.[8]

Moore later responded to these criticisms, writing, "Nothing was done out of the ordinary other than to phone ahead and ask permission to let me bring a camera in to film me opening up my account." He also states that the background check took less than ten minutes and he was handed the rifle five minutes later. Moore posted a compilation of outtakes from the documentary to support his version of events. This video shows Jacobson explaining the process to Moore, including that the rifles are held in the bank's vault.[9] The footage in which an employee states that the guns are stored in the bank's vault appears in televised broadcasts of the film.

[Sanghelli]

How can you be biased about the columbine shooting?:confused:

You can be biased about the NRA and gun control. For instance, in his Bowling for Columbine film he showed events out of sequence and out of context to meet his agenda.

[dayday6]

"The Smashing Machine" The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr

"Rising Son" The Legend Of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi

"Style Wars"

[RAIDEN6]

sometimes its the factors depicted that are misleading. for example, moore liked to show viewers you could just "go in" and buy a rifle. When a documentary called "Michael Moore Hates America", showed that moore actually manipulated that scene to have him just walk out with the gun. it really doesnt work like that.

and he also HEAVILY manipulated heston's speech, since it had nothing to do with columbine

EDIT: Scratch that, it was the free gun with bank account.
Free gun for opening a bank account
In March 2003, John Fund reported in a Wall Street Journal diary page that the bank employee who handled Moore's account, Jan Jacobson, said that Moore had arranged the transaction weeks in advance, and that customers have "a week to 10 days waiting period" before collecting their guns.[8]

Moore later responded to these criticisms, writing, "Nothing was done out of the ordinary other than to phone ahead and ask permission to let me bring a camera in to film me opening up my account." He also states that the background check took less than ten minutes and he was handed the rifle five minutes later. Moore posted a compilation of outtakes from the documentary to support his version of events. This video shows Jacobson explaining the process to Moore, including that the rifles are held in the bank's vault.[9] The footage in which an employee states that the guns are stored in the bank's vault appears in televised broadcasts of the film.I think just about everyone knows you can't walk in and 30 minutes later walk out with a rifle.

[D2eux]

yea well it shouldnt have been in the movie then, thats called deception.

[pensfan71]

Super High Me
The King of Kong

[Sickman]

This is an interesting movie...

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

[julio1867]

I wouldn't exactly call all of those documentaries..

Agreed.

[DEN7ER]

bigger, faster, stronger.

capturing the friedmans.

Deliver Us from Evil

[92272]

Dogtown and Z-Boys

[Tablehead]

Tales Of the Rat Fink (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqqLUAYYt_U)

2 I'm looking forward to-

On To Something (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX6uO90Vmc0) (Raymond Scott) &
Visual Acoustics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_5FuW1SK88) (Julius Shulman)

[craigjames]

Paradise lost (my personal favorite)
Zeitgeist
Born into brothels
bigger, faster, strong (very good)

[D2eux]

This is an interesting movie...

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

just be sure to not swallow it up like propaganda. Because that is what it essentially is, I wouldnt call it a documentary. its claims on religion are blatantly false, all you need to do is do some quick google searches yourself to prove it wrong.

but it has a nice look and overall hypnotic presentation, so natuarlly people will believe it.

[OCELOT]

How are those not documentaries? What would you call them?

Most film critics and real doc filmmakers call Moore's "docs" mocumentaries because of his gross stretching of the truth, use of timelines proven to be false, splicing together different events to make them appear to be happening at the same time, etc.

my list:

The Devil and Daniel Johnston(best doc I've ever seen)
The King of Kong(about beating the high score on donkey kong)
The High Coat of Low Prices(more reason to hate wal-mart)

[OCELOT]

I was watching a show on conspiracy theories about 9/11 yesterday and it interviewed the guys who made "Loose Change," the popular doc/propaganda against 9/11. And I think it's funny that people still believe what those guys put in their movies even though they themselves say they are currently making a third version of the film because they need to take out their theories that have already been debunked.

[Felmat]

"The Fog of War" is a pretty brilliant film about Robert McNamarara by Errol Morris, with an original score by Philip Glass. Well worth watching more than once.

"In the Realms of the Unreal" is a great documentary by Jessica Yu about the life and art of Henry Darger. You'll never look at a janitor the same way again.

[magneto1138 Part Deux]

Star Wait
THE KING OF KONG!
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices
Who Killed the Electric Car
Ringers: The Lords of the Fans
Trekkies 1 and 2
Educating Peter
Graduating Peter


I still haven't seen The Bridge, Chalk, and What Would Jesus Buy.

[The Critic]

Watched this one last week, very good. Funny at times.

Chicago 10

[OCELOT]

The War Photographer is another great one.

[The Gollum]

Educating Peter
Graduating Peter




Didnt know about these. I'll check em out.

[Dan Kane]

Only one I own is Grizzly Man.

[Mr_Gone]

Jesus Camp
Hell House
The Bridge
American Meth
Ring of Fire
DIG!
Word Wars

I own them all and they are all amazing.

[Fatty McElbows]

Hoop Dreams
The Heart of the Game
No End in Sight
And I'll second whoever said Born into Brothels . . . I actually held the Academy Award. :p

[Masked Moron]

The Rise and Fall of ECW.

[D-Compose]

Roger and Me
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden
The Big One
Bangkok Girl

[w00tiness]

This is Spinal Tap.

:p

[Thorondor 33]

I liked "Empire Of Dreams".

[Scruf]

"The Fog of War" is a pretty brilliant film about Robert McNamarara by Errol Morris, with an original score by Philip Glass. Well worth watching more than once.

I second this one, very entertaining documentary.

[Gymsokk]

I'm watching Trekkies right now... And I really don't know what to say...

[Masked Moron]

I'm watching Trekkies right now... And I really don't know what to say...

I was watching trekkies a while back... one of my friends tried to mock me as being one of them ( I'm a trek fan. but not a trekkie...)

I pointed out that he was the one wearing a mock up uniform for something he wasn't actually part of ( He was wearing a football jersey.) he kinda shut up after that.

[owenstar]

Paradise Lost...both of em....its a sad story all around...with a great soundtrack, when metallica was still good

supersize me....edit you said you saw this one

Dog town and z boys

[craigjames]

Grizzly man is also VERY AWESOME!!!

[Gymsokk]

I was watching trekkies a while back... one of my friends tried to mock me as being one of them ( I'm a trek fan. but not a trekkie...)

I pointed out that he was the one wearing a mock up uniform for something he wasn't actually part of ( He was wearing a football jersey.) he kinda shut up after that.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a Trek fan too, but obviously not a trekkie! Some of those guys just took it way too seriously though, but that's the fun of that documentary.

[CowboysFan79]

Grey Gardens... Best Doc I've ever seen... I never want to watch it again.

Don't Look Back... The Bob Dylan doc by Pennebaker. The guy is a monster of docs.

The Ballad Of Ramblin Jack... The first Bob Dylan who never could make it. The one link between Bob and Woody Guthrie. Filmed by Jack's daughter...whom he was never there for.

American Pimp... Hilarious

Hoop Dreams...brilliant film

American Movie...the opposite of Grey Gardens. Possibly the funniest doc of all time. Seriously made me laugh my butt off like a comedy.

[WAKAUB]

loose change
9/11 chronicles
endgame
fabled enemies
america: freedom to fascism

[silversurfur65]

I love these docs and watched them many times !!

Dogtown and Z-Boys
Hoop Dreams
American Movie

[Fatty McElbows]

Ooooh, a really good documentary . . . It was the French brothers who were doing a documentary on the New York City Fire Department when the planes hit the WTC. Man, that one was amazing. Watch it, watch it, watch it.

[joewillie99]

...I watched Bigger,Stronger,Faster last night....very good...

[92272]

Watched, Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock? this week very good.

[Kabong30]

Let's see, as a Christian since I was a kid, Jesus Camp scared the living **** out of me. Also check out "Hell House"

Bowling for Columbine is BS. Moore is an idiot and a liar (he didn't used to be) and it's totally offensive to tie the NRA to the KKK when one reason the NRA was founded in order to arm freed slaves to fight the KKK.

I saw enough of the Walmart documentary on Penn & Teller's BS when they shredded it.

If you're at all interested in WWII check out Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State. Disturbing and very informative.

I've been watching a lot more documentaries since I started streaming Netflix.

[avsfan21]

Truth in 24. It was just on ESPN last night and was awesome. Although I am not sure that it will be shown again as rumor has it, it will never be on DVD, but lets hope that Audi does release it.

[Jutty]

Farce of the penguins :D


Also just got " ENDGAME 1.5" to watch

[Mega Daddy T]

Religulous.
Perhaps more of a satirical look at religion but Documentary-ish, and not without its poigniancy.

[cqb101]

Jesus Camp. Scariest movie I have ever seen.

Also,

This Film is Not Yet Rated
Anvil: The Story of Anvil
Trouble the Water
Grizzly Man
Born Into Brothels
Who Killed the Electric Car?
a/k/a Tommy Chong

[RAIDEN6]

Let's see, as a Christian since I was a kid, Jesus Camp scared the living **** out of me. Also check out "Hell House"

Bowling for Columbine is BS. Moore is an idiot and a liar (he didn't used to be) and it's totally offensive to tie the NRA to the KKK when one reason the NRA was founded in order to arm freed slaves to fight the KKK.

I saw enough of the Walmart documentary on Penn & Teller's BS when they shredded it.

If you're at all interested in WWII check out Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State. Disturbing and very informative.

I've been watching a lot more documentaries since I started streaming Netflix.I'm actually interested in WWII quite a lot, read a lot of books, watched a lot of movies about it. So I'll check that out.

Truth in 24. It was just on ESPN last night and was awesome. Although I am not sure that it will be shown again as rumor has it, it will never be on DVD, but lets hope that Audi does release it.What's it about?

Religulous.
Perhaps more of a satirical look at religion but Documentary-ish, and not without its poigniancy.Seen it, like it.

Jesus Camp. Scariest movie I have ever seen.

Also,

This Film is Not Yet Rated
Anvil: The Story of Anvil
Trouble the Water
Grizzly Man
Born Into Brothels
Who Killed the Electric Car?
a/k/a Tommy ChongWatched a/k/a Tommy Chong a few weeks ago.

[Brandon Storm]

Earthlings.

Narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, really good.

[mmevile]

I haven't seen it yet but ever since the trailer, I've been looking everywhere to rent this video w/ no luck ----- Man on Wire. It's about how this guy pulled this stunt below.
http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Man_on_Wire/man_on_wire_movie_image__5_.jpg

[magneto1138 Part Deux]

...I watched Bigger,Stronger,Faster last night....very good...

I've been meaning to watch this one.

[magneto1138 Part Deux]

Also, is anyone has ever seen Blue Vinyl, it is total BS! It was filmed mostly where I live and the woman did not have her **** straight. Calling Lake Charles nothing but a trailer trash pollution plant. What a ***** *****. And when she was asked questions in interviews, she would play narrations over all of her answers cause she had no clue what she was talking about. She mostly used studies done 30-40 years ago to base her "modern facts." It's people like her and Michael Moore that need to rethink their careers.

[xGGAx]

...I watched Bigger,Stronger,Faster last night....very good...

http://www.q45.org/uploads/old_thread.jpg

[Kabong30]

I haven't seen it yet but ever since the trailer, I've been looking everywhere to rent this video w/ no luck ----- Man on Wire. It's about how this guy pulled this stunt below.
http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Man_on_Wire/man_on_wire_movie_image__5_.jpg

Yup, that's on the Netflix instant queue! I need to watch it.

[SpawnFan1]

Why did you dig up this ancient thread?!

lol it's hardly an ancient thread and people seem to like it. ;)

[ftw-jedi]

bigger, faster, stronger

[burngwngs]

Beyond The Mat

[The Gollum]

"Lessons in Darkness" I believe it's called, by Werner Herzog.

[Kabong30]

Beyond The Mat

Man that movie makes me sad.

[alex_rogan83]

y wouldn't they release it on dvd?

Truth in 24. It was just on ESPN last night and was awesome. Although I am not sure that it will be shown again as rumor has it, it will never be on DVD, but lets hope that Audi does release it.

[Touche'!]

I recommend Penn & Teller: Bull****.

Penn has an excellent YouTube channel here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/pennsays

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/2919/bull01.jpg

[Lord Magneto]

Man on Wire was excellent... solid 9 out of 10

Cocaine Cowboys was great as well
Jesus Camp
Super Size Me

Netflix watch instantly has a great selection of movies as well... i think Man on Wire is on there as well

[zurita54]

Beyond The Mat

Man that movie makes me sad.

Especially the part about Jake the Snake. Both when he is talking about his dad and about his personal life on the road. Oh and how could I forget the relationship with his daughter.

[burngwngs]

Man that movie makes me sad.

Yeah, me too. :(