Thread: Documentary Suggestions

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Also, this one:

Big Think - We Are What You Think

A little less docu., and a little more academic.

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I would love to make a documentary about the exploitation of Burmese workers in Thailand. It would be easy to make and would shock a lot of people.

I wouldn't mind pushing the envelope and making a documentary about Elvis. I doubt I would ever be able to return to these sunny shores however.

Back on topic: I recently watched Slacker Uprising - Michael Moore's latest documentary, which is available for free. I'm a Brit, so It wasn't very relevent to me (surprisingly) but it was still mostly enjoyable.

Hey brother...

Check out the "Gangland" and "Lockdown" series, if you like prison/gang documentary's.

That's some good shit, right there.



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'The Tower' on 'UK Nova' is riveting stuff.

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About a grotty tower block in Deptford which is done up and sold as luxury apartments.

Filmed over a decade, it documents the characters and culture clashes involved.

There's one guy whose dry sense of humour is just irresistible. He's a junky and virtual down and out except he has a hovel of a flat and scrapes by collecting scrap metal, mostly copper wiring. Doubtless he steals some here and there too.


He has a best mate who is not a drug addict, just an alcoholic. Consequently, drug addict thinks of this mate as some kind of success story.

The interesting thing is that all the 'made it' types seem to fail to connect so badly that it's these two who almost seem the best off.

- 'Yeah, he's a great mate - reliable, known him a while now'
- 'You must be close'
- 'Yeah, we've had some times'
- 'Where did you meet?'
- 'In a skip'.

Originally Posted by Cyrille

I liked louis theroux's 'weird weekends' a few years ago.

His style seemed quirky and different.

Now it's wearing thin, imo.

He's just having to try too hard to act the naive 'Oh REALLY????' nerd.

Yes, definitely. I think in this case it's more a case that the subject matter is not conducive to his style for this latest series. The Jo-Burg episode's subject matter was undeniably good though. Despite him as opposed to because of him in my opinion. Like his brother though, I think he's a superior journalist. He's essentially doing a Donal Macintyre and a Ross Kemp series without being a cunt and a limited, if likeable, dullard respectively.

I'm watching The Tower now. It really is rather good. I wish the BBC would lift its head out of the sewerage more often nowadays, they still make excellent factual programming.

Docsyou has lots of docos - http://www.docs4you.org/

I'm sure you'll find something if you have a wander thru there.









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Carl Sagan's Cosmos was always good, but that was years and years ago...(not eons though ).

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....and I'd particularly recommend "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara' which is Robert MacNamara reflecting on his role in the great events of US history in the second half of the 20th Century. It won an Academy Award and is a very powerful documentary.