Can anyone recommend seriously good documentaries?

watch the one about timothy treadwell made by warner hertzog-its great

Jesus Camp was rrrrrridiculous, wasn’t it?

King Corn

The Power of Nightmares
The Corporation
Word Wars
Devil’s Playground
American Movie

Murderball. It’s about the paraplegics who play for the US Olympic Rugby team. Many people do not realize there are paraplegic games, typically immediately following the Olympic games at the same venue, China most recently, not to be confused with the Special Olympics, which seems to get more publicity. It is very good. Answers questions about what their life is like being paralyzed, and has the sport/competitive component. I think everyone age 16 and up should see it.

I like Standing in the Shadow of Motown, about the Funk Brothers, the in-house session musicians from Motown who were pretty much unsung until this doc came out.

Capturing The Friedmans is haunting. I still am not sure of what actually happened in this family or if the older son committed a crime.

Crumb is great, even though its subject is kind of repellent to me as a person.

The …Up series from Michael Apted has followed around a group of British people from 1964, when they were 7 years old. The last time was 49 Up and the next time will be 56 Up sometime around 2012. I wonder if Apted will still be alive by then to film it, or of someone else will take over.

@JLeslie I was going to make the same recommendation – lurve! FYI, the athletes the movie follows are actually quadriplegic and they are competing in the Para-Olympics. My boyfriend plays quad rugby, that’s why I felt compelled to comment.

Grey Gardens is great, so are Bowling for Columbine and Fast Food Nation.

@SuperMouse Mark Zupan, the main person in the movie, his parents are very close friends of ours.

fastwalkers

I really enjoyed Touching the Void

Planet Earth(TV_series) is probably the most amazing thing I’ve ever watched, period. (If you get it, get the David Attenborough narration, not the Sigorney Weaver one.)

I also like Attenborough’s other series. The Life of Mammals was particularly awesome.

@JLeslie Mark is quadriplegic isn’t he?

Food, Inc.

@SuperMouse Technically I think he is an incomplete quadripalegic?? He has some use of his arms, and can kind of stand for a few seconds. Honestly, I am trying to think of him and how much movement he has, and I can’t really. I know I saw him once stand for a few second to move from his wheelchair to a chair. It’s such a non-issue we have known them so long nothing specific stands out to me

I love good documentaries. I’m mostly a fan of nature or history so anything by David Attenborough I would recommend. I also recently watched a three part documentary called The Last Nazis. Brilliant. You can still access it on the bbc website: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

I wholeheartedly second @deni‘s recommendation of Planet Earth.

It may be an older film, but I still think Jacques Cousteau’s film World Without Sun (1964) was excellent. The Sorrow and the Pity (1972) about Nazi-occupied France is excellent. Also Burden of Dreams (1982), about Walter Herzog’s attempt to film Fitzcarraldo. And don’t forget Hoop Dreams (1994) – really great film.

There are several other great documentaries here and here and here.

Anvil: The Story of Anvil
Most Nick Broomfield documentaries
Indoctrinate U (free online)
Arsenal of Hypocrisy (free online)
Sherman’s March is a classic

@kevbo – Oh, I didn’t know about the Anvil documentary, I’ve got to see that one now!!

It’s a really good story.

http://www.biggerstrongerfastermovie.com/
I tried to post of my good friend, Mike “Mad Dog” Bell, may he rest in peace, whom I had the pleasure to had known.
Also the Tyson Doucumentary got really amazing reviews, hadn’t seen that though.

I just watched Nursery University, which is about the process of getting a kid enrolled in a Manhattan preschool. If you enjoy looking under the rocks of our culture a la “Jesus Camp”, check this out.

Zeitgeist!! click on the giant eyeball. this documentary will blow your mind and you’ll never be the same again.

@iputthexintexas – If you liked Zeitgeist, you should see The Power of Nightmares. I felt it was a movie every American should see. It’s done by the BBC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_Western_Civilization

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• Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World
• The Future of Food
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
• Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
• This Film Is Not Yet Rated
• Who Killed the Electric Car?
• Waco – The Rules of Engagement
• Incident at Oglala – The Leonard Peltier Story
• Broken Rainbow
• The Men Who Killed Kennedy
• Super Size Me
• Outfoxed – Rupert Murdoch’s War On Journalism
• Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky and the Media
• On Native Soil
• Iraq For Sale – The War Profiteers
• Fast Food Nation
• The Injustice System in America
• America: Freedom to Fascism
• Uncovered – The War On Iraq
• Unconstitutional – The War On Our Civil Liberties
• A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
• Maxed Out
• In Debt We Trust
• The Big Guy – Tom Delay’s Stolen Congress
• No Human Rights
• Terrorstorm – A History of Government Sponsored Terrorism
• The Unforeseen
• NOVA – The Family That Walks On All Fours
• American Experience: Hijacked
• NOVA – Battle Plan Under Fire
• Frontline: The Storm
• Stagedoor
• NOVA – Life and Death in the War Zone
• About Baghdad
• Dealing Dogs
• Scared Sacred
• Absolutely Positive
• Remaking American Medicine
• 100 Years of Flight
• Frontline: The Age of AIDS
• No Human Rights
• Omar & Pete
• A Life Without Pain: A Documentary
• NOVA: Secret of the Wild Child
• Reporting America At War
• Parallel Lines
• Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans
• Easy Street
• Echoes of Forgotten Places
• The Park
• National Geographic – World’s Most Dangerous Gang
• National Geographic – World’s Most Dangerous Drug
• Ghost of Abu Ghraib
• Plastic Disasters
• Twist of Faith
• Frontline: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
• Forgiving Dr. Mengele
• The War Tapes
• North Korea: A Day in the Life
• 30 Frames A Second: The WTO in Seattle

I have watched every single one of these documentaries and they are all very good and highly recommended, in my opinion.

American Movie

Bukowski: Born Into This

@Bluefreedom- The film Fast Food Nation wasn’t a documentary. The book is, however (if you can call books that).

Hearts of Darkness is the making of Apocalypse Now. It is riviting, funny, scary, and insane, showing Coppola trying to make the movie I feel is his masterpiece.
The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt a biography of the incredible force of a man who was one of our greatest presidents.

If you like cultural documentaries there are many good ones about the Native American Culture.

One of the most famous is: Incident at Oglala
Another good one is: In Whose Honor?

(and if you like those I could probably come up with more) :)

Screw you guys, my answers were good. What a whore.

Huh?

How to Fluther incorrectly: Answer just for the lurve, and get pissy when you don’t get any.

@bumwithablackberry – You may notice that very few people got any lurve. Sometimes it just Fluthers that way. Did you give out any lurve on this question?

Im gonna blame that outburst on the Manichevitz

@bumwithablackberry lurve for being a good sport. Now, close that wine bottle. BTW, many a great jelly has Fluthered under the influence.

@forestGeek American Movie is my favorite documentary. I try to watch it at least once a year. always during football season!

I“ve been watching Ken Burns The National Parks on PBS all week. I love anything that he does but this documentary is one that you shouldn’t miss.

Manichevitz may be kosher, but it isn’t kosher to drink and Fluther at the same time.

GA @jonsblond, I’ve been liking the The National Parks documentary too.

@jonsblond Did you mean me?

@jonsblond – I owned American Movie but lent it out and haven’t seen it in years! :(

I’ve also been watching That National Parks series, definitely a good one.

Ignore my last post. I’m a moran.

@Sampson I was going to include you too but I noticed forestGeek answered first. At least you have great taste for a moran. ;)

What’s a moran?

lol, A moron who obviously doesn’t know how to spell? :)

To get back to the question , has anyone mention The Fog of War yet? I thought it was excellent.

Also, This is Spinal Tap. :-)

@jonsblond @AstroChuck Exactly.

@AstroChuck: This picture explains it all.

Hmm, I was thinking more on these lines.

@SuperMouse
@Darwin
Thanks, it seems fun at the time, then you end up getting a FUI, and well, the shame.

Does FUI here stand for Fluthering Under the Influence?

Shark Water. Great doc – surprised no one mentioned it.

Sharkwater is great, i also enjoyed it.
For me one of the greatest documentaries I’ve seen this past few days is The Cove. It follows the same line of Sharkwater. Snicosia you should really watch it!!!!! =)