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Post by MrFurious on Jul 1, 2017 10:08:33 GMT
I watch a lot of great doc's so am gonna be bumping this thread regularly. Heroin: Cape Cod, USA(15) Can't believe its got so few ratings on IMDb. Some very sad stories throughout and the odd happy one.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jul 15, 2017 17:24:43 GMT
Religulous which I thought was actually hilarious...
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 18, 2017 4:39:30 GMT
Tower / Keith Maitland (2016). I was home from college at my parent's house in San Antonio, Texas on August 1, 1966. I always made it a point to be home at 1:00 p.m. because the local TV channel was re-running "The Fugitive" every week day and I had become hooked on the series. But when I turned on the set, all I could find on any channel was the news from Austin, about 80 miles north. A sniper with a high-powered rifle had barricaded himself on the 27th floor observation deck of the University of Texas main building tower and was shooting people. Watching this unfold practically in my back yard is one of my strongest memories of those years. “Tower” recreates that day from the point of view of the people on the ground. It opens almost at the moment of the first shot fired from the tower with no backstory or tracking of the gunman to that point. Except for two archival clips of news coverage from 1966 coming at the end of the movie, the killer’s name is never even mentioned, a practice I will continue in this review. The recreation of events is done by rotoscope animation with actors portraying victims and participants, using their own words from interviews, both from the past as well as new for this feature. This is backed-up by newsreel and interview footage, both from 1966 and recent. The first shot fired that day struck Claire Wilson, eight months pregnant, who walking with her boyfriend Tom Eckman. They had just left the main building and were crossing a plaza with their backs to the tower when Claire was hit by a force that knocked her to the ground. As Eckman moved forward asking what had happened, he was shot in the back of the head, dying instantly. As Claire lay on the 110-degree concrete (it was summer in Texas), unable to move, she felt her life slowly slipping away. Helpless in open, easy range of the sniper, it was a tremendous risk for anyone to go to her aid. As the sniper kept shooting and the number of dead and wounded began to climb into – for the time – unbelievable numbers, a few people felt a reckless courage and risked their lives for others. The sniper killed 16 (including his mother and wife from the night before and Claire’s unborn baby) and wounded 32. “Tower” is a total immersive experience in this tragedy, putting the audience in the middle of the fear and danger and making us witness to some amazing, everyday heroes who did what had to be done and then went home without acclaim or medals or an invitation to the White House. This is a tremendously moving, emotional, and effective film. I have picked it as my Best Movie Of The Year Of 2016.
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Post by paislene on Jul 23, 2017 0:45:17 GMT
I'm sorry Guys , although I watch a lot of documentaries , I tend to enjoy boring documentaries . Some that I'm watching at the moment are Great British Railway Journeys , Great Continental Railway Journeys , Great American Railway Journeys (I haven't got to this yet) , Mighty Ships , Mega-Structures , Cities of the Underworld , plus many History and War Docos .
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Post by notoriousnobbi on Aug 3, 2017 22:51:32 GMT
More an essay film than a documentary but nevertheless a great pleasure
Above and Below
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Post by politicidal on Aug 5, 2017 0:32:17 GMT
Oklahoma City (2017). It was on PBS earlier this year. Haunting stuff.
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Post by geode on Aug 5, 2017 16:08:47 GMT
Road to Redemption (2016) produced by NHK. It covers two men that fought on opposite sides of WW II and hated the opposite country's people but became missionaries through their discovery of Christianity, buried their hatred, and pleaded for peace.
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Post by hi224 on Aug 19, 2017 0:06:10 GMT
Tower / Keith Maitland (2016). I was home from college at my parent's house in San Antonio, Texas on August 1, 1966. I always made it a point to be home at 1:00 p.m. because the local TV channel was re-running "The Fugitive" every week day and I had become hooked on the series. But when I turned on the set, all I could find on any channel was the news from Austin, about 80 miles north. A sniper with a high-powered rifle had barricaded himself on the 27th floor observation deck of the University of Texas main building tower and was shooting people. Watching this unfold practically in my back yard is one of my strongest memories of those years. “Tower” recreates that day from the point of view of the people on the ground. It opens almost at the moment of the first shot fired from the tower with no backstory or tracking of the gunman to that point. Except for two archival clips of news coverage from 1966 coming at the end of the movie, the killer’s name is never even mentioned, a practice I will continue in this review. The recreation of events is done by rotoscope animation with actors portraying victims and participants, using their own words from interviews, both from the past as well as new for this feature. This is backed-up by newsreel and interview footage, both from 1966 and recent. The first shot fired that day struck Claire Wilson, eight months pregnant, who walking with her boyfriend Tom Eckman. They had just left the main building and were crossing a plaza with their backs to the tower when Claire was hit by a force that knocked her to the ground. As Eckman moved forward asking what had happened, he was shot in the back of the head, dying instantly. As Claire lay on the 110-degree concrete (it was summer in Texas), unable to move, she felt her life slowly slipping away. Helpless in open, easy range of the sniper, it was a tremendous risk for anyone to go to her aid. As the sniper kept shooting and the number of dead and wounded began to climb into – for the time – unbelievable numbers, a few people felt a reckless courage and risked their lives for others. The sniper killed 16 (including his mother and wife from the night before and Claire’s unborn baby) and wounded 32. “Tower” is a total immersive experience in this tragedy, putting the audience in the middle of the fear and danger and making us witness to some amazing, everyday heroes who did what had to be done and then went home without acclaim or medals or an invitation to the White House. This is a tremendously moving, emotional, and effective film. I have picked it as my Best Movie Of The Year Of 2016. nice choice.
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 2, 2017 18:18:19 GMT
...two more...Mondo Kane and Ecco....
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Post by MrFurious on Jan 2, 2018 13:59:47 GMT
Bloody hard to find this place
Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper(16) Never heard of the woman, she's had some life.
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 2, 2018 15:26:57 GMT
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Post by lordquesterjones on Jan 2, 2018 15:39:42 GMT
The 'World at War' narrated by Lawrence Olivier.
Came out in about 1975.
That's the last good one I've seen.
It's the only accurate one I've seen.
I haven't seen an accurate or informative one for about 30 years now.
'Horizon', the BBC's flagship Documentary program, is just absurd.
The old adage about not learning anything from watching TV is more accurate now than it ever was.
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Post by MrFurious on Jan 5, 2018 17:21:10 GMT
Its a short doc
Warning: This Drug May Kill You(17) Very sad what these families went through
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Speaking of short docs, I absolutely love everything Louis Theroux does but his full lenght scientologist doc was just so so imo
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Post by MrFurious on Jan 5, 2018 17:22:37 GMT
The 'World at War' narrated by Lawrence Olivier.
Came out in about 1975.
That's the last good one I've seen.
It's the only accurate one I've seen.
I haven't seen an accurate or informative one for about 30 years now.
'Horizon', the BBC's flagship Documentary program, is just absurd.
The old adage about not learning anything from watching TV is more accurate now than it ever was.
I loved that World at War series. I though the recent Vietnam series was outstanding Actually love the Horizon series, watch 90% of the eps
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Post by MrFurious on Jan 9, 2018 20:13:39 GMT
Happy Valley(14) Remember years ago on the sports board it was all Sandusky this and Paterno that, but the sport didn't interest me. Now I finally know who they were. What I learnt from this is, US sports fans are nuts and after the sanctions put on Penn State, there won't be any more covering up sex offenders. Great doc. Now awaiting the doc about mass statues being taken down around the US last year and of course the Weinstein doc
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Jan 10, 2018 6:21:51 GMT
Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies You've Been Trumped The Seven Five
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Post by MrFurious on Jan 17, 2018 14:44:54 GMT
Loved The Seven Five(14) a while back
.................. Meth Storm(17) deserves a better IMDb score but its early, dammit I keep watching these docs about the drug epidemics in the States, fear for the poor kids futures in this one, mostly idiot parents here .................. The Happy Film(16) The randy Stefan Sagmeister could not make this one in these times of the #MeToo movement
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Post by MrFurious on Jan 29, 2018 14:51:10 GMT
LA 92(17) Best one I've seen in a long time, watched a lot of it with my mouth open, wondering where this footage was all these years.
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Post by rizdek on Dec 15, 2018 10:35:25 GMT
I tend to like the astronomy/physics and geological/earth formation documentaries. I have watched the 2 season documentary How the Earth was Made numerous times. Then I found Voyage of the Continents and Australia, the Last 4 Billion Years, both of which emphasize plate tectonics and how the surface of the earth changed over the course of billions of years. Those are the kinds of documentaries/science/nature videos I gravitate to.
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Post by MrFurious on Dec 15, 2018 17:38:17 GMT
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