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jhaelin
Joined: 30 Aug 2006
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: what documentary would you recommend? |
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just saw a decent doc last night, "zeitgeist" (google video);
and michael more's "sicko" wasn't too bad either.
please share any recent documentaries you've seen and would recommend... |
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Demophobe

Joined: 17 May 2004
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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An Inconvenient Truth.
Any IMAX rip. (Microcosmos, Winged Passage, Africa...) |
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indytrucks

Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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Grizzly Man
Hoop Dreams
The Fog of War |
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Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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The Thin Blue Line
Grizzly Man |
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seoulsucker

Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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Overnight. |
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that guy

Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Location: long gone
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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The Natural History of the Chicken
Spellbound |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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I caught the end of Grizzly Man on Discovery this weekend. Great documentary. |
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swetepete

Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Location: a limp little burg
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Been watching a lot lately.
"China Blue," an Independent Lens about Chinese textile workers...
"The Living Weapon," about British, American, and Japanese biological weapons programs since 1940...
Any of the "Planet Earth" BBC ones...
"Parallel Universes," a PBS Frontline I think it was...
"the Mormons," PBS...
"the Edwardians in Colour"...
"The Six Billion Dollar Experiment," about the huge particle accelerator they've built in Switzerland...
and, "Private Warriors," about contractors in Iraq. |
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faster

Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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RACETRAITOR wrote: |
I caught the end of Grizzly Man on Discovery this weekend. Great documentary. |
Yeah, Werner Herzog can do no wrong. |
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endo

Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Century of Self for all you political nutbags.
Fog of War, zeitgeist, and Sicko like earlier mentioned were great as well. |
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cosmicgirlie

Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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Saw some beautiful ones in April. One def worth watching is War/Dance. It won the audience award at the Hot Docs.
The Last days of Yasser Arafat--pretty self explainatory
Girls Rock--about a camp that promotes girls self esteem through rock music--very funny moments
Your mommy kills animals--about the rise of animal rights activists and how they are the #1 terror groups in the USa
Circus school--about a school in China--can be hard to watch
Without the King--about Swaziland's last king
Nanking(which is a totaly different format--actors reading diaries but dressed up in the period piece)--pretty self explainatory
Milk in the Land--Ballard of an american drink(which is also an interesting way of doing a documentary)--about Milk really
The Devil came on Horseback--about an american soliders eye witness accounts to the Darfur crisis
Forgiveness--Stories of our time--talks to 4 people who have lost loved ones because of violence and their process to forgiveness
End of Suburbia--Peak Oil theory
THe Foreign Eye--about Brazil and how it is percieved in the world because of Hollywood films
Lets all hate Toronto(kinda funny if you get Canada's hate for Toronto)--Mr. Toronto travels Canada in hopes of getting a Toronto Appreciation day going
Losers and Winners--about a German company that is sold to a Chinese company and the dismantle of this company to be shipped to China
Manufacturing Dissent--a look a Michael Moore
Metal and Melancholy--about Cab drivers in Peru
Strawberry Fields--about farming in the Gaza strip
The Suicide Tourist--about the only country that allows people to committ suicide
Village of Socks--about a village in Eastern Europe that has it's whole village income based on socks these women make
What would Jesus Buy?--a funny story--Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir are on a mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse
Revolucion--about Hugo Chavez
There is a whole list of Documentaries we didn't see plus a little bit of info--and also past documentaries shown--at www.hotdocs.ca
Those are just to name a few--these are ones I went to see during the Hot Docs festival in Canada--by far though my favorite would have to be War/Dance--beautiful in so many ways!!
That should get you started....on PBS as well they have a whole Frontline series that you can watch for free...I just watch The Mormons--interesting to see...wonder how long it will be before people start trying to string 9/11 to September 11th in Mormon history--hahaha
Ohhh and Once in a Lifetime--about the New York Cosmos!!
*Edited for those who are lazy and don't want to search the internet
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Compunction Junction
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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you tv-links there is a show called "Weird Nature". There is some insanely stuff out there. Y'all should really check that out. |
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safeblad
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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I will mention 'the power of nightmares' - it charts the rise of the neoconservatives in the US and radical islamists showing them as forces which feed off each other, the politics of fear etc.
(its really not helpful unless you give a brief description folks, i for one am not going to wading through IMDB , for stuff i probably wont be interesting in on the basis of a recommendation of some guy/gal from the internet) |
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Tiger Beer

Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:28 am Post subject: |
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great thread.. I'll be downloading some of these very soon. |
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hogwonguy1979

Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: the racoon den
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:36 am Post subject: |
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The War Room-about the Clinton campaign in 1992
When We Were Kings-About the Rumble in the Jungle Ali-Foreman fight, thats when boxing meant something
Roger and Me
cant go wrong with Hoop Dreams and Fog of War |
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