Documentaries

[David]

There's already a movie thread but I thought I'd give this a go.

Documentaries by Adam Curtis, John Pilger, and Naomi Klein are good for political stuff. There's probably a documentary about any subject you can think of, so post your favorites or ones that deserve our attention.

Dark Days: great film about people living in abandoned tunnels.

Dark Days - Trailer HD 720p

Julio's Security System- Excerpt from "Dark Days."

The Shock Doctrine. naomi Klein has an interesting take on economics.

The Shock Doctrine (2009) -- Naomi Klein

Talking Feet (w/ D Ray White) : about appalachian dancing.

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The Dancing Outlaw (starring jesco white). cant find a full version, here's a trailer.

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[frisco]

Man on Wire

Man on Wire Trailer

King of Kong 

The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters

Hearts of Darkness

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Baraka

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[Mouth]

topdocumentaryfilms.com.

That is all.

[Eschaton]

The Last One: Popcorn Sutton
It's about making moonshine, pretty cool

Infamy
It's about graffiti, pretty cool

New American Century
It's about how america sux, pretty cool

Grizzly Man
It's about a man who fights bears and dies, pretty cool

[iKobrakai]

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Grizzly Man
It's about a man who fights bears and dies, pretty cool

No it is not. He fucking loves the bears and they actually like him back, but hungry bears love food more so the dude and his girl got buck...

[Eschaton]

Sorry I had the wrong title. I ment Project Grizzly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Grizzly

[Fongstarr.]

I thought this was a good film on arm wrestling but then I am a fan of Over The Top. It's a good watch though about something that people aren't too familier with:

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[Locbrew]

Trailer: The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia — Feature Narrative, 2009

this movie is pretty fucked up, but good.

[Pelican]

anyone seen "cave of forgotten dreams" yet?

Werner Herzog has some good ones.

[floop]

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Tarnation (Movie Trailer)

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[The Bullet]

lately i've been getting really into documentary shorts, mostly ones that are found on vimeo.  Here's a couple of my favorites:

Borderland

Scrapertown

The Archive

[Cadillac Ranch Dressing]

lately i've been getting really into documentary shorts, mostly ones that are found on vimeo.  Here's a couple of my favorites:


Borderland

Scrapertown


The Archive

Thank you for posting these, I got really into them. I love documentaries like these three because I get to experience things that I don't know nearly anything or enough about. They were also really beautifully shot and well edited. The Archive got me down though because it sucks that we live in a society that can't appreciate stuff like that and the fact he can't even sell them for an astoundingly low price than what they're worth sucks.

Anyway I love this thread, keep it up dudes.

[ciaran]

Good post Bullet.  I'd forgotten about those documentary shorts - the same guys also did this one about pool skating -

Cannonball

Adam Curtis's The Power of Nightmares is savage, particularly if you're any way interested in the Cold War, US foreign policy and the last 10 years spent at war in the Middle East.  Definitely worth taking the time to watch Curtis' other documentaries, The Trap and the somewhat cerebral The Century of the Self.

Year Zero - The Silent Death of Cambodia is close to 30 years old now and as far as I can tell, is one of the first major investigations in the popular media about how the Khmer Rouge managed to get into power before the wholesale slaughter of its citizens.  Compelling viewing.

I'm a massive fan of Prof. Jim Al-Khalili, particularly the excellent and enlightening The Secret Life of Chaos, I've watched this loads - it's largely about chaos theory and the inherent unpredictable nature of the universe and everything else in it.   The more recent mind-melter Everything (about relativity and the massiveness of the universe) and Nothing (string theory/quantum physics) is equally riveting, if you happen to be into this sort of thing - http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/everything-and-nothing/. 

Loosely related to the chaos theory side of things and also neatly tying in with Adam Curtis' The Trap is High Anxieties - The Mathematics of Chaos, which traces how modern market economics is fundamentally flawed from the start due to how little we/policymakers understand about the maths which run it.

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Excellent thread, there's some top notch tips to get stuck into later.

[Reev]

My mate showed me a documentary today called The King of Kong, in which two men compete for the Donkey Kong World record. It's weirdly compelling to the point where I actually cared about how good a forty-something year old man is at an arcade game.

The King of Kong : A Fistful of Quarters ( 2007 )

There was also a really good documentary on in the UK the other week about the feud between Banksy and Robbo, can't find a streaming link but here's the torrent for those of you that have Demonoid accounts.

Edit: Just found another link for those that don't have Demonoid, here. You have to download the torrent file from Mediafire first, as Channel 4 keep on deleting those found on most of the torrent search engines.

Graffiti Wars : Channel 4 Sun 14 Aug, 10.30pm

[Spike Hawke]

The Yes Men Fix The World, P2P Edition FULL MOVIE (2009) (w/subtitles)

awesome movie, totally recommend if your into documentaries/movies that are a bout the little guy sticking it to the big guy. ooh yeah

[David]

That Secret Life of Chaos link was down at the site, so here's another...

Complexity - Secret Life of Chaos - BBC 2010

[vince the stud]

Sean (1970 documentary)

[TwisT]

I had to watch this in film class. Its about this crazy dude who wanted to live with bears and make an epic documentry about it. the story is told by the 2 people who knew him best. Its so trippy becuase the main character seems like the type of dude owen wilson would play, and the story is so absurd that you think it would be fake but its 100% real. 100% authentic footage

Grizzly Man Trailer

[3.14]

Winnebago Man - Trailer (NSFW)

[landCow]

king of kong is such a great film. its seriously entertaining even though its centered around a 20ish year old game. PS Brian Kuh who makes several appearances in the film is such a fucking kiss ass weiner.

a friend showed me this, modify. its about body modification. piercing tattoos and way way more extreme stuff. its a fascinating film but some of the content is seriously fucking graphic.

Modify Official Trailer

 

[InternetDaddy]

I watched "Man on Wire" last night actually, it's really really good.

[Prison Wallet]

Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986) (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[PBODY]

Man on Wire is tight, crazy frenchman. Food, Inc. is a good one, makes you think twice about what you're cramming down your pie hole.

[weed420]

http://www.dartballthemovie.com/dartball_08.html

[The Drew]

I watched the bridge last week (it's all on youtube...) it's about people committing suicide off the golden gate bridge... Depressing subject matter but a very interesting doco

[luc]

watch "word wars". its a documentary about pro scrabble players.. pretty awesome. some dudes just live and breath it and practice nonstop and some of the other dudes are just naturally brilliant and kill it without trying.

in this one part theres 3 dudes in a hotel the night before the national championship and 2 guys are practicing in the hotel all night but another dude goes and gets a hooker haha. then he shows up ten minutes late to his game the next day and still slays the guy he plays.

[David]

This documentary about the financial crisis is pretty good. It talks about financial interests in the US and how they've taken over government.

Inside Job / Trabalho Interno (2010) Legendado PT (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[Smurph]

As far as I know, there aren't any geographical restrictions on 4od.com

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/road-to-las-vegas/4od

I've just finished watching this. In summary, it's the antithesis to the american dream.

As for the documentary's production, the 1 hour and forty minutes doesn't really do the story justice. It would also have been interesting to cast more of an insight into the childrens' perspective. Saying that, I would highly recommend it.

[happenstance]

The Corporation - pretty self explanatory. The whole thing is on youtube:

THE CORPORATION [1/23] What is a Corporation? (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

[FCN]

Chronos (full movie) (Embedding disabled, limit reached)

Chronos by Ron Fricke.  it's quite similar to koyaanisqatsi