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recommend me some documentaries
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 3:34 am
by seremtan
pop science, politics, history or whatever. i need something to watch
non-copyright preferred but i'm not too fussy
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 3:39 am
by HM-PuFFNSTuFF
trembling before god
american pimp
manufacturing consent (link to view below )
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf ... e12972.htm
the corporation
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12998.htm
supersize me
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 3:42 am
by mjrpes
The Root of All Evil - The Virus of Faith (Richard Dawkins)
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 3:51 am
by HM-PuFFNSTuFF
when we were kings
Nanook of the North
Stop Making Sense
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
The Times of Harvey Milk
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 4:03 am
by JulesWinnfield
Children Underground
The Weather Underground
Scratch
One Day In September (Munich, not 911)
Spellbound
Favela Rising
This Is Spinal Tap :>
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 4:04 am
by ToxicBug
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
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 4:19 am
by mjrpes
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 4:19 am
by Hannibal
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)
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 5:24 am
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
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 5:42 am
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.
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:30 am
by Dave
The Ken Burn's Civil War set is brilliant... and Fog of War of course
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 7:02 am
by Whiskey 7
Star Trek - New Voyages
... seriously Google nova_eu
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:35 am
by chopov
"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.
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:52 am
by MKJ
The Rutles
This is Spinal Tap
great sourcematerial there
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 11:54 am
by seremtan
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
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 1:31 pm
by Pext
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 2:01 pm
by Freakaloin
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...
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 5:52 pm
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
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:09 pm
by chopov
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.
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 7:03 pm
by hate
sitting here and pissing in the wind
both hilarious
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 12:57 am
by dzjepp
Time to torrent a bunch of these bastards
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 1:07 am
by [xeno]Julios
the power of nightmares
the century of the self
both by adam curtis.
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 1:10 am
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.
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 1:30 am
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.
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 2:05 am
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)