Must see documentaries..

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I watched this quite recently and found it interesting, albeit maybe over dramatic at times:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhJD1UrJXKM[/youtube]

This is an interesting series too, there's a few of them:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XDbcMND7fY[/youtube]

 

[TCIB]

That evacuate earth is great.

Personally i think whatever asteroid smacks us will do so giving us little to no time to do sod all about it though.
I will face the on rush of pressure waves and fire like Cappa in sunshine :D

 

[dronefromsector7g]

Ben Fogle New Lives In The Wild, on Ch 5 right now.

About folks giving up the rat race to go and live in the middle of nowhere.

 

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The American Civil war one on PBS amazing how brutal that war actually was as it was arguably the first war using modern type weapons.

at the end there is a very poignant part showing a green house that was made up of old glass photo slides depicting the war

also really strange that whilst the war was ranging on the rest of the country wasn't even affected

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

The Real Inglorious...
Caught this gem on Sky recently. Its basically the true story of the special ops mission as told by the surviving agents.The courage and guile shown by these people was truly incredible.

 

[union city blue]

Anyone seen 'The Act of Killing'?

It was the Guardian critics film of the year last year, about the Indonesian death squads of the 1960s who tortured and killed communists. The documentary maker, Joshua Oppenheimer, interviews these ageing gangsters who the Indonesian government used as paramilitary death squads, and not only gets them to tell their stories but gets them to recreate scenes from their lives in a kind of 'film within a film' using prosthetics, make up and location filming.
The casual manner in which these men openly talk about the murders they committed is truly shocking. Also interviewed are government ministers who were clearly complicit in the death squads, who laugh and joke with the gangsters.

It's a genuinely disturbing film dealing with truly evil people who are, mostly, completely unrepentant about the crimes they've committed.

Not very comfortable viewing but well worth watching.

 

[jayblue]

Dont know if said previously but the documentary about the virtuoso guitarist jason becker is unbelievable. Also very sad. I think its called not dead yet. Struck down in his prime with lou gehrigs disease. The guy is a musical genius. Sound depressing but its worth a watch.

 

[pominoz]

Anyone put up, Keane + Viera - Best of enemies. ?

Just watched it again as a filler before the Arse v Pool game.

Very good doco, Keane even comes across as half human.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGAQhCAMV1k[/youtube]

 

[Chipmeister]

Just watched this, Keane was almost decent and his hatred of Ferguson is huge, his book should be fun. Viera was cool as

 

[steviemc]

It may have been mentioned before but The Imposter is an excellent watch :-

The twisting, turning tale begins with an unsettling disappearance – that of Nicholas Barclay, a 13 year-old Texas boy who vanishes without a trace. Three and a half years later, staggering news arrives: the boy has been found, thousands of miles from home in Spain, saying he survived a mind-boggling ordeal of kidnap and torture by shadowy captors. His family is ecstatic to have him back no matter how strange the circumstances – but things become far stranger once he returns to Texas.

Brother's Keeper

This documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky details the murder trial of Delbert Ward. Delbert was a member of a family of four elderly brothers, working as semi-literate farmers and living together in isolation from the rest of society until his brother William's death. A police investigation and Medical Examiner's autopsy suggested that Bill may not have died from natural causes and Delbert was arrested on charges of Second-Degree Murder. It also shows how residents of the rural community of Munnsville, NY rallied to the support of one of their own residents (previously considered a social outcast), against what they felt were intrusive 'big-city' police and District Attorney tactics.