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[Zoobot]

I second microcosmos! I don't know if "Baraka" counts as a documentary: it's more a film essay, but it's fantastic.

I saw an amazing doc about the oil industry and American militarism, but I can't remember the title.

My favourite doc is "Night and Fog" by Alan Resnais.

I saw a good doc at the Busan Film Fest, but it wasn't good from a film critic's perspective so much as the people it was about were so damn inspiring. It was called "Crossing the River" and it was about two Koreans living in Japan and one Japanese high school student trying to improve Japanese-Korean and North and South Korean relationships. One of the Koreans was a man who served as an indentured labourer in Japanese factories during WWII. He was taking the Japanese government to court over the poor treatment of Korean workers during and before the war.

[Zoobot]

oops double post.

[eamo]

Kurt and Courtney...............by Nick Broomfield. He meets some really wacked out characters!!

The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife...............another Nick Broomfield about the white supremacist movement in South Africa.

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition.........I really love this one. Narrated by Liam Neeson. What these guys went through beggers belief.

I find a documentary less of a personal investment than a movie. More relaxing to watch.

[skinhead]

[endo]

For those interested in politics I would reccomend the BBC documentary called Century of Self.

March of the Penguins was also fantastic.

[twg]

This may take twice as long to load as it does to watch, but if you enjoyed Tintin at any point in your life, this is a pretty good documentary on Herge.

[gotte00]

When the Levees Broke(brilliant and sad, Spike Lee did a wonderful job)
Any of the Michael Moore documentaries, especially his tv show The Awful Truth
When We Were Kings
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Hoop Dreams
Enron(forgot the title)
The Deadliest Catch(Discovery Channel about crab fishing)
American Chopper

[ddeubel]

Buy this!



I'd go for any one of Herzog's dozens of docs. Grizzly Man was just the last of a long line. High on the list would be Fata Morgana and Lessons of Darkness (a must see about Kuwait/Iraq, war). So many others, as he himself once said, "I should quit making films, I should go to a lunatic asylum. Wheel of Time, about the Dalai Lama was also good....

DD

[re:cursive]

[Son Deureo!]

I'm a huge fan of Michael Moore's first documentary, Roger and Me, about the closing of the GM factory in his hometown of Flint, Michigan and the downward spiral that Flint went into afterwards. This one has it all, cruelty to animals, corporate arrogance, senseless crime, people getting evicted on Christmas Eve, and Bob Eubanks caught on tape telling anti-Semitic jokes.

[Novernae]

[igotthisguitar]

http://www.documentaries.se/forum/

http://www.redicecreations.com/downloads.html

[jajdude]

A good site to watch some documentaries and other things:

http://www.guba.com/

[cosmicgirlie]

I love Docs....every year I try and check out Hot Docs which is a festival in Toronto.

Anyways I saw a few good ones there this year.

Once in a Lifetime was a nice little doc about Pele and the New York Cosmos....check it out.

Cottonland which is a story about the oxycotin crisis in Glacebay Nova Scotia

No Past to Speak of which is a really sad yet heart warming story. It's sad because of the tragic events that led to the heart warming part which is the adoption of a child in South Africa--this child was the youngest of the infant rape victims.

I would also recommend

Who killed the Electric Car?
The Corporation--one of my faves
The Oil Factor
Death on Gaza
Life and Debt
Black Gold
and of course if you're going to do Farenheit 9/11 then you must follow it up with Farenhype 9/11

March of the Penguins is always a beautiful documentary. If you are into science filled documentaries then downloading any of The Nature of Things with Suzuki is always a good show.

[sistersarah]

some really good recommendations. thanks, everyone!