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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 5, 2020 21:16:57 GMT
For those of you invertebrates who don't think that Naked and Afraid is a doc, I'll name a few of my favorites (you can Google them, I'm in no mood to cut and paste links). Fuck, maybe y'all will learn something
1. Anything by Ken Burns. Duh. I never watched Jazz because I don't like Jazz but I did watch the C/W one. It was good and I don't like C/W, goat ropin' music.
2. The World at War. Great WWII series. The real highlight is Larry Olivier's narration. When showing the Maginot Line "The guns would stop the Hun. Provided the Hun came this way" Cooooooooooooooool
3. The Great War. A YouTube doc, made by the great Indy Neidell. I did it week by week, from July 2014 to November 2018, 100 years to the dy. Many extra episodes, biographies, home front stuff, even even all about the weapons from C&Rsenal. You can go from knowing shit about WWI and be an expert. 700+ 10 minute episodes. He's doing WWII now. I will link this
4. Battlefield. Great WWII doc. Informative as all get out. Takes separate battles, not chronologically. I read a shitload of books about Normandy and never got why the hedgerows were so tough. Three minutes watching this and I got. Good narration
5. New York: A Documentary Film. Ken Burns' little bro Ric. Very nifty history on NYC. Oddly, never never mentions baseball or the Mafia. Still good, good narration by David Ogden Stiers (the fat major from MASH)
6. Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood. Yeah, not to everyone's taste. The story of the silent movie era in Europe. Really good. Great narration by Kenneth Branaugh, nearly as good as Olivier's. Only problem, YouTube in missing one episode.
Feel free to name your favorites.
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Post by sdm3 on Apr 5, 2020 21:33:51 GMT
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Apr 5, 2020 22:02:35 GMT
Tiger King
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Post by NJtoTX on Apr 5, 2020 22:41:18 GMT
O.J.: Made in America
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 5, 2020 22:51:14 GMT
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Post by Rufus-T on Apr 5, 2020 22:52:42 GMT
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 5, 2020 23:01:39 GMT
I forgot The Beatles Anthology. Well done, other than it's like a table with three legs. If Lennon was alive...
And I'll ignore the last one on your list. You're a good guy
I didn't name 30 for 30. Most were good but if a episode was about something that didn't interest me, I ignored it. PBS American Experience too
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Post by Rufus-T on Apr 5, 2020 23:03:39 GMT
I forgot The Beatles Anthology. Well done, other than it's like a table with three legs. If Lennon was alive...
And I'll ignore the last one on your list. You're a good guy
Lol. The last one, I don't count the final 3 episodes.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 5, 2020 23:37:14 GMT
The BBC one “The Nazis, a Warning from History”.
I enjoyed the recent Ken Burns one on Country Music too ... although I only watched the abbreviated version made for showing outside the US.
Also, most of David Attenborough’s wildlife documentaries.
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Post by tristramshandy on Apr 6, 2020 4:15:06 GMT
The Keepers
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
Making a Murderer
Wild Wild Country
Wormwood
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Post by NJtoTX on Apr 6, 2020 12:31:26 GMT
I'll add the Paradise Lost trilogy. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills., Paradise Lost 2: Revelations in 2000, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory in 2011.
I only saw 28 Up, so can't vow for the series.
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Post by No_Socks_Here on Apr 6, 2020 14:46:38 GMT
Ken Burns: The Civil War
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2020 16:38:17 GMT
Planet Earth
On a side note, I hate all Netflix documentary series. Everyone thinks they are experts after watching them.
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Post by Rufus-T on Apr 6, 2020 16:59:59 GMT
I never watched Jazz because I don't like Jazz but I did watch the C/W one. It was good and I don't like C/W, goat ropin' music.
btw, at the time I was watching Jazz, I was not too crazy about Jazz either. The series was still very interesting. Just like Baseball, it paralleled the topic with social issue. A movie that got me interested in Jazz was Whiplash, probably my favorite movie from last decade. This movie for me to Jazz was like Amadeus for me to classical music. After seeing the movie, I took a free online course on Jazz on edx.org. I appreciate Jazz music much more now. I have not watched the country music one yet. Look forward to see it.
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Post by Rufus-T on Apr 6, 2020 20:55:15 GMT
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Post by fjenkins on Apr 6, 2020 21:05:20 GMT
O.J.: Made in America When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts OJ Made in America truly was one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. So well done and interesting.
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Post by fjenkins on Apr 6, 2020 21:06:59 GMT
The Keepers The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst Making a Murderer Wild Wild Country Wormwood Making of a Murderer is one of the most dishonest unethical documentaries I've ever seen. They purposely leave out stuff that shows he's clearly guilty for the sake of their agenda. it's insulting and worse, most people who've watched it think that's how it is and have never taken time to actually research the case. Teh guy is really guilty and deserves to rot in prison for what he did.
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Post by nogbad on Apr 6, 2020 21:10:09 GMT
It wasn't a laugh a minute, unsurprisingly, but the BBC's The Death Of Yugoslavia was very good.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 6, 2020 21:32:55 GMT
The Keepers The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst Making a Murderer Wild Wild Country Wormwood Making of a Murderer is one of the most dishonest unethical documentaries I've ever seen. They purposely leave out stuff that shows he's clearly guilty for the sake of their agenda. it's insulting and worse, most people who've watched it think that's how it is and have never taken time to actually research the case. Teh guy is really guilty and deserves to rot in prison for what he did. I was going to say that. They cherry picked the facts in that. The nephew on the other hand. That "confession" was pitiful. How that wasn't thrown out of court is beyond me. A minor with limited mental capacity, without his parents or a lawyer. That was criminal
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Post by tristramshandy on Apr 6, 2020 21:46:03 GMT
Making of a Murderer is one of the most dishonest unethical documentaries I've ever seen. They purposely leave out stuff that shows he's clearly guilty for the sake of their agenda. it's insulting and worse, most people who've watched it think that's how it is and have never taken time to actually research the case. Teh guy is really guilty and deserves to rot in prison for what he did. I was going to say that. They cherry picked the facts in that. The nephew on the other hand. That "confession" was pitiful. How that wasn't thrown out of court is beyond me. A minor with limited mental capacity, without his parents or a lawyer. That was criminal
No documentary is objective - - it's only the Michael Moore ones that let us recognize that. Even the Ken Burns-style ones aren't objective.
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