Must see documentaries..

fathellensbellend said:
Ukraine, enemy in the woods, incredible, absolute must watch
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We watched this documentary last night on sky catch up, and as you rightly say, an absolute must watch.

The hour long film pieces together body cam footage from Ukrainian soldiers, defending a vital railway line on the eastern front. It captures the intense struggle faced by a unit of ninety nine soldiers from Berlingo battalion, some of them still teenagers, that fiercly defended 500 metres of the 1,500k front line.

What the lads lacked in resources, they more than made up for with their unwavering courage and patriatism, as they fought the enemy head on, sometimes at very close quarter.

At the end of their seven week rotation, and out of the ninety nine brave defenders, sixty six were seriously wounded, with ten of their combatants killed in action, including Fury and his sidekick Addidas, who defended their dug out to the last from heavy infantry attack.

Rip Fury and Addidas, and all of the courageous defenders of Berlingo battalion.Glory to ukraine: Glory to the heroes.
 
Two Gun Bob said:
We watched this documentary last night on sky catch up, and as you rightly say, an absolute must watch.

The hour long film pieces together body cam footage from Ukrainian soldiers, defending a vital railway line on the eastern front. It captures the intense struggle faced by a unit of ninety nine soldiers from Berlingo battalion, some of them still teenagers, that fiercly defended 500 metres of the 1,500k front line.

What the lads lacked in resources, they more than made up for with their unwavering courage and patriatism, as they fought the enemy head on, sometimes at very close quarter.

At the end of their seven week rotation, and out of the ninety nine brave defenders, sixty six were seriously wounded, with ten of their combatants killed in action, including Fury and his sidekick Addidas, who defended their dug out to the last from heavy infantry attack.

Rip Fury and Addidas, and all of the courageous defenders of Berlingo battalion.Glory to ukraine: Glory to the heroes.
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Could always chuck a spoiler alert in there pal :-/
 
doots said:
Could always chuck a spoiler alert in there pal :-/
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Apologies Doots for the embarrasing faux pa, sometimes I need to concentrate more as my chubster fingers thrash away at the keyboard. That particular segment was a defining part of the documentary that enabled a sense of perspective, as to the absolute carnage and brutality of war.

As Mrs bellend mentioned, this is a not to miss documentary concerning the bravery, cameraderie and reliance of an active combat unit filmed in the heat of battle. There's no misting out of engagements with the Orcs, so viewer discretion is recommended.
 
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Just finishing this. Incredibly hard hitting.
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Two-part investigation of the dangers facing teenagers who leave home for the bright lights of London.

The July 1975 screening of Yorkshire Television's Johnny Go Home across the ITV network had tremendous impact on viewers. That it is largely unknown by those not young enough to have seen it then is partly down to the simple fact that in the case of documentaries, even landmark television is rarely repeated (Johnny did remain available as part of the 16mm library of the Concord Films Council, an active distributor of films of social and educational value). It must also be something to do with its investigative, crusading style. It's still compelling - if not shocking - viewing, but made for the moment rather than with an eye on posterity. The same can be said of other work by John Willis, in particular the series First Tuesday (ITV, 1983-93) and the controversial From the Cradle to the Grave (ITV, 1985).

Here Willis produces, directs, narrates and briefly appears on screen. Because of events that unexpectedly occurred during shooting, his programme eventually doubled in length and was screened in two discrete parts. 'The End of the Line', shown at 9pm, followed the case histories of a 17 year-old girl hardened to her homelessness and, Tommy, a 12 year-old Scottish boy seen arriving at Euston Station as the documentary begins. The boy's plight deeply affected viewers, forcing attention on the Dickensian images and grim statistics.

During production, a murder took place in one of the local hostels. The crew realised they had filmed many of those involved. With police permission they began documenting the unfolding investigation: 'The Murder of Billy Two-Tone' became the second half of Johnny Go Home, screened after the ITV 10pm news bulletin. It forensically uncovers the facts behind the killing, centring on the hostel's owner. His housing empire turns out to be based on sexual exploitation, religious cultishness, financial corruption - and bureaucratic ineptitude unable to see these behind his persuasively respectable front.

The two 'films' have similar styles, but the second has greater urgency. It may feel an opportunistic means of sensationalising the first film's theme. But it also cleverly recalls it. Some footage is replayed: now-sinister scenes which had seemed innocent when first shown. An interview with the victim's mother echoes that with Tommy's. Willis isn't crass enough to imply that Tommy is headed for the same fate as his older compatriot, but leaves us in no doubt as to the ugliness and danger of modern homelessness.
 
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This will have some hyperventilating, but they could do with watching all the way through before they dismiss contributors including William Happer, professor of physics at Princeton University, who advised three American presidents, and says: “The climate alarm is nonsense... it’s a hoax.”
John F Clauser, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2022, who says: “I assert there is no connection whatsoever between CO2 and climate change.”
And Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace? Well let's hear his view too:


 
Anyone watched programme about Richard Proenneke. Think about a WW11 veteran who went off grid and built himself a cabin in Alaska
 
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