recommend me some documentaries

Post by **seremtan** » Tue May 16, 2006 3:34 am

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

non-copyright preferred but i'm not too fussy

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Tue May 16, 2006 3:39 am

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

Post by **mjrpes** » Tue May 16, 2006 3:42 am

The Root of All Evil - The Virus of Faith (Richard Dawkins)

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Tue May 16, 2006 3:51 am

when we were kings
Nanook of the North
Stop Making Sense
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
The Times of Harvey Milk

Post by **JulesWinnfield** » Tue May 16, 2006 4:03 am

Children Underground
The Weather Underground
Scratch
One Day In September (Munich, not 911)
Spellbound
Favela Rising
This Is Spinal Tap :>

Post by **ToxicBug** » Tue May 16, 2006 4:04 am

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

Post by **mjrpes** » Tue May 16, 2006 4:19 am

The end of suburbia ( http://www.endofsuburbia.com )

Post by **Hannibal** » Tue May 16, 2006 4:19 am

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)

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Tue May 16, 2006 5:24 am

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

Post by **menkent** » Tue May 16, 2006 5:42 am

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.

Post by **Dave** » Tue May 16, 2006 6:30 am

The Ken Burn's Civil War set is brilliant... and Fog of War of course

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Tue May 16, 2006 7:02 am

Star Trek - New Voyages

... seriously Google nova_eu

Post by **chopov** » Tue May 16, 2006 8:35 am

"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.

Post by **MKJ** » Tue May 16, 2006 8:52 am

The Rutles

This is Spinal Tap

great sourcematerial there

Post by **seremtan** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:54 am

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

Post by **Pext** » Tue May 16, 2006 1:31 pm

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September Wheat

Post by **Freakaloin** » Tue May 16, 2006 2:01 pm

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...

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Tue May 16, 2006 5:52 pm

oh forgot about these:

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

life of mammals

Post by **chopov** » Tue May 16, 2006 6:09 pm

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.

Post by **hate** » Tue May 16, 2006 7:03 pm

sitting here and pissing in the wind

both hilarious

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed May 17, 2006 12:57 am

Time to torrent a bunch of these bastards

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Wed May 17, 2006 1:07 am

the power of nightmares

the century of the self

both by adam curtis.

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed May 17, 2006 1:10 am

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.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Wed May 17, 2006 1:30 am

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.

Post by **shiv4** » Wed May 17, 2006 2:05 am

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)