Do you like watching documentaries?

Question

Can you tell me some good documentaries? I am open to almost anything.

Answer 1

Hoop Dreams (1994)
two African American boys struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional

The Thin Blue Line (1988)
successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.

Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence

Spellbound (2002)
follows eight teenagers on their quest to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee.

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide

Crumb (1994)
portrait of the controversial comic book writer/artist and his traumatized family

Gimme Shelter (1970)
Rolling Stones' 1969 tour, with much of the focus on the tragic concert at Altamont

The Fog of War (2003)
the former US Secretary of Defence, Robert S. McNamara, and the various difficult lessons he learned about the nature and conduct of modern war

Roger & Me (1989)
Michael Moore pursues GM CEO Roger Smith to confront him about the harm he did to Flint, Michigan with his massive downsizing

Grey Gardens (1975)
visits the reclusive Edith Bouvier Beale, nearing 80, and her daughter Edie, (relatives of former First Lady Jackie O) in Grey Gardens, a crumbling mansion in East Hampton.

Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middleclass Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes

Born into Brothels (2004)
In Sonagchi, Calcutta, the lives of children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district

Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Aging Cuban musicians brought out of retirement resulting in triumphant performances of extraordinary music, and resurrecting the musicians' careers

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
what happened to the United States after September 11; and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Grizzly Man (2005)
grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska

Woodstock (1970)
The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival

Enron: The Smartest Guys in The Room (2005)
Enron dives from the seventh largest US company to bankruptcy in less than a year

Paper Clips (2006)
As a part of their study of the Holocaust, the children of the Whitwell, TN Middle School try to collect 6 million paper clips representing the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis

The Civil War (1990)
A comprehensive survey of the American Civil War

Nanook of the North (1922)
Documents one year in the life of Nanook, an Eskimo and his family

When We Were Kings (1996)
1974 heavyweight championship bout in Zaire between champion George Foreman and underdog challenger Muhammad Ali.

The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. comment on the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fear of Bolsheviks, to simple caution.

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director

Streetwise (1984)
looks at the life and lives of teenagers living on the streets of Seattle

Bob Dylan: No Directions Home (2005)
chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.

Jesus Camp (2006)
Follows several young children as they prepare to attend a summer camp where the kids will get their daily dose of evangelical Christianity

March of the Penguins (2005)
look at the annual journey of Emperor penguins as they march -- single file -- to their traditional breeding ground

The Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
A cameraman travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness

Murderball (2005)
A film about paraplegics who play full-contact rugby in Mad Max-style wheelchairs - overcoming unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.

Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
Documentary about the pioneering 1970s Zephyr skating team. The movie Lords of Dogtown iis based off this film.

Answer 2

Absolutely! At least I'm learning something, not just being fed dreck like what is found on the "reality" shows or some stupid soap opera fantasy world. Most of what I watch are documentaries, old movies, (when actors could ACT without all of the special effects) and sports.

Answer 3

I rather do. And with extensive research, I've also discovered just how expansive the genre is--not just in respect to subject matter but narrative style.

F is for Fake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYjRQrSKBdI

It's considered more of a "free form" documentary. In other words, several filmmakers don't feel confined to the ideals of an "objective presentation of facts" (and it's arguable that no documentary is objective because there is a degree of manipulation in ordering the presentation of facts). Welles's films essentially plays upon that logic, and also furthers that concept through his uncanny ability to deceive the audience through the instructive, reassuring style of his narration.

Sans Soleil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBIubMBwj6M&feature=related

It's arguable that this is not really a documentary in the first place. It's a divine meditation on a myriad of subjects, the greatest of which is human kind's ability (or inability ) to connect subjective experiences and images--temporal ones--with the Infinite. The director, Chris Marker, is more grounded in ethnography, so expect to witness many social critiques and many expansive observations of world cultures. The film is narrated by a woman dictating the letters of a traveling intellectual who attempts to do what the film sets out to do: relate images to images.

Night and Fog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt1tu4igqnk

Alain Resnais' short documentary is both simultaneously informative about the Holocaust and pressing in its attempt to vouch for the defensive mechanisms of human nature, especially, in regards to interpreting sadistic acts of mankind. Yes, Resnais is confined by recording and editing "real life", but his interpretation of the true meaning behind these realistic observations is just as manipulative and thematically-aimed as fictionalized account.

Answer 4

Try "This Divided State" or "The Bridge". Both are moving in different ways and will at least give you something to think/talk about for awhile.

Answer 5

I luv documentaries and I even get the documentry channel on my satelite dish.

Answer 6

Murderball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kaT5dDiISw

Born into Brothels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESvVRMfGWAA

Devils Playground
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293088/

Follow my voice with the music of Hedwig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYIPVuKeei4

Answer 7

Oh Yes.

Best I saw recently was "New York Doll" about Arthur "Killer" Kane. Really moving - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436629/

Answer 8

No, I like comedies, love stories, mysteries , and well you know hehe. ♥j

Answer 9

they interest me.