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recommend me some documentaries

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pop science, politics, history or whatever. i need something to watch

non-copyright preferred but i'm not too fussy :ninja:
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trembling before god
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manufacturing consent (link to view below )
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf ... e12972.htm

the corporation http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12998.htm
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The Root of All Evil - The Virus of Faith (Richard Dawkins)
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when we were kings
Nanook of the North
Stop Making Sense
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
The Times of Harvey Milk
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Children Underground
The Weather Underground
Scratch
One Day In September (Munich, not 911)
Spellbound
Favela Rising
This Is Spinal Tap :>
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Loose Change 2nd edition
Too fast to race (not politics, but the coolest car documentary ever, group b rally cars)
Why we fight
Stupidity
NOVA The Elegant Universe
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The end of suburbia ( http://www.endofsuburbia.com )
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The Staircase
Thin Blue Line
Fast Cheap and Out of Control
Gates of Heaven
Fog of War
Growing up Cunt: The Untold Story of Hillary Clinton (my fave)
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Post by [xeno]Julios »

some of these have been mentioned, but wth i'll add my vote

Origins (pbs nova special)
The End of Suburbia
Oil Crash ( http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/index.html )
Why we fight
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Post by menkent »

Hannibal wrote: Fog of War
just saw that last week. good stuff.

origins was also good, as were origins 2 and "the day the universe changed". origins were more series than documentary though.
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The Ken Burn's Civil War set is brilliant... and Fog of War of course
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Star Trek - New Voyages

... seriously Google nova_eu
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"lessons of darkness" by Werner Herzog

One of if not the most impressive doc i've ever seen
It's about the burning oil wells in iraq after the first war. There's also a similar I-Max doc, but forget it.

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The Rutles

This is Spinal Tap

great sourcematerial there
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thx for all the suggestions, about half which i've seen already. i'm snagging fog of war, loose change ed2 and end of suburbia as we speak. oilcrash hasn't been released yet, but looks good.

saw the nova elegant universe docs a couple of nights back. good stuff, and actually made sense to non-mathematical non-physicist. why we fight, manufacturing consent, the corporation and root of all evil are good too
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chopov wrote:"lessons of darkness" by Werner Herzog

One of if not the most impressive doc i've ever seen
It's about the burning oil wells in iraq after the first war. There's also a similar I-Max doc, but forget it.
yeah those oil well fires were mostly set by us special forces...of course they blamed it on the iraqis...
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Post by [xeno]Julios »

oh forgot about these:

blue planet (not the imax piece of shit, but the BBC one) - it's a DVD set.

life of mammals
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Freakaloin wrote:
chopov wrote:"lessons of darkness" by Werner Herzog

One of if not the most impressive doc i've ever seen
It's about the burning oil wells in iraq after the first war. There's also a similar I-Max doc, but forget it.
yeah those oil well fires were mostly set by us special forces...of course they blamed it on the iraqis...
I don't care, who set the fires. Doesn't change the awesomeness of the pictures in this docu. It's like a real sci-fi. Watch it.
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sitting here and pissing in the wind

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Time to torrent a bunch of these bastards :up:
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the power of nightmares

the century of the self

both by adam curtis.
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Post by dzjepp »

Julz is blue planet about the oceans? I remember seeing a glimpse of a preview about some ocean documentary on the tube but never got around to watching it but I'd love to see it now.
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Post by [xeno]Julios »

yep it's all about life in the oceans. Fascinating stuff. Don't be fooled though - it is narrated by attenborough but not written by him.

Life of mammals, on the other hand, is written by him.
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Post by shiv4 »

music:

no direction home - bob dylan
townes van zandt - docu, country-stylish
pink floyd - making of dark side of the moon

other:
skinhead attitude
kubrick, nixon & the moonlanding - it's fun
we feed the world - about eurofood production (dunno if there's already an english version yet)
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