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[safeblad]

Louis Theroux has made a series of good documentaries for the BBC mostly about bizarre subcultures in america. Porn, survivalists, UFOolgists etc. Has a really amusing naive childlike style of investigation

Live Forever - Documentary about britpop, interviews with everyone important, really really funny, great tunes.

I started watching the mormons very boring IMO

[fiveeagles]

the boys of barak - excellent film on taking trouble kids out of the american educational system and setting them up in a school in africa.

born in a brothel - looks at the caste sytem in India and how many of the poorer are without hope and are chained into prosititution.

osama - a look into a muslim girl's life while growing up in Afghanistan. A tragic tale of losing her womenhood in the midst of barbaric laws. (More of a movie than a documentary)

the corporation - you probably have heard of this one. A personal fav of mine.

fast food nation - a new one that has just come out. I haven't seen it yet, but I bet this will be a good one.

The underground - I haven't seen this one yet either, but it looks amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7sSZ7Ux3Hg&mode=related&search=

[Tiger Beer]

http://freedocumentaries.org/ you can quickly stream many documentaries.

[discostar23]

[cwemory]

Ken Burn's Jazz

[eamo]

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

A must-see for all fans of American cinema. Just limited by the fact that, it's only about American film, and, he made a personal decision to not discuss any movies made after he started directing. About 1970.

[jhaelin]

[bejarano-korea]

No-one has put it down but here is one of the greatest documaentaries of all time!

The leader, the driver and the drivers wife.

Nick Broomfield went to South Africa to interview AWB (a racist political party popular in the white, agricultural heartlands of the Transvaal, OFS and Natal) but despite numerous attempts to get hold of him, Broomfield befriends Terreblanches driver. Best thing about it? You can watch it right now!

http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/archive/the_leader_player.html

It is everything a documentary should be. Funny and thought provoking.

[Cheonmunka]

Thanks all for those excellent links
Much, much appreciated.

[ddeubel]

There is definitely ONE doc missing here. Especially relevent for us teachers and I've been told it is one of the most watched docs of all time.
Jane Elliot's experiment the day MLK Jr. was assassinated. She decided to use her elementary classroom as a test tube and divided the kids into blue eyed (superior) and brown eyed (inferior). The documentary shows both this and when she subsequently switched roles. Also shows the discussion some 15 years on with these students now turned adults.

I'd also recommend even more, the subsequent documentary when she did the same thing in an Iowa prison.

I think the doc is on PBS but came across it on my hard drive as I was "sorting" this early early morning. Just uploaded it. Enjoy, a great watch/thought. In 5 parts in that folder...

http://www.esnips.com/doc/f136560b-2353-46a5-8935-ee8fb29cbdc8/The-Daring-Lesson-Jane-Elliot-1

DD

[swetepete]

Your post reminded me of the Milgram Experiment for some reason..."Obedience: the Milgram Experiment" tells that sad tale. You can get it sometimes as a download, but I just checked and nobody seems to be seeding that particular version of it on ISOhunt at the moment.

Another ethically flawed but interesting sociological experiment is the Stanford Prison Experiment. I watched a crap doco re-enactment about it a few years back, but despite its low budg' the facts of the matter made it quite a compelling show.

Heavy stuff; I wouldn't recommend either to those of you who enjoy a faith in the inherent goodness and intelligence of humans. Both documentaries have a way of disabusing folks of such notions.

[Don Gately]

[Fishead soup]

The Filth and the Fury

A no nonsence look at The Sex Pistols. Some rare footage of Syd who is surprisingly coherent. The infamous swearing on live televison incident that got them on the front page . A rare interview with Johnny about Syd
Johnny starts crying.

The Punk Years

Starts with the New York scene at C.B.G.B's and works its way up to Crass. Lots of great interviews. with John Lydon and former Crass members

[jhaelin]

just watched a great one:

"Trials of Darryl Hunt 2006"

"The Trials of Darryl Hunt" is a feature documentary about a brutal rape/murder case and a wrongly convicted man, Darryl Hunt, who spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Both a social justice story and a personally driven narrative, the film chronicles this capital case from 1984 through 2004. With exclusive footage from two decades, the film frames the judicial and emotional response to a chilling crime - and the implications that reverberate from Hunt's conviction - against a backdrop of class and racial bias in the South and in the American criminal justice system.

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3733228/The.Trials.of.Darryl.Hunt.2006.LiMiTED.DVDSCR.XViD-QuidaM

[ddeubel]