Must see documentaries..

PinkFinal said:
Just watching this

www.theguardian.com

Storyville: White Man Walking review – the man who marched 1,500 miles with a Black Lives Matter sign

This documentary starts with an off-putting sense of white saviourism and sanctimonious liberalism … only to become a compelling tale of how the US is riven by disfranchisement and division
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Interesting premise but ultimately disappointing imo.

The lad was on a fool's errand of his own making. No-one was ever going to listen to him, and I honestly think that a couple of 'situations' may well have been manufactured for dramatic effect, i.e. the guy who invited him onto his land and then threatened to shoot him for trespassing, and when the canera filmed him through the woods to make it look loke he was being followed.

Did he get his 'message' across..? I don't think so. He was so addled and confused towards the end I'd be surprised if anyone he spoke to understood what he was doing.

All I got from it was confirmation of ny existing opinion that the vast najority of white Americans are paranoid Jesus freaks who don't deserve to live in a decent community. It's a disaster of a country.

Either way, he's lucky he didn't get badly beaten up or shot 'off camera' or have their equipment stolen.
 
Lavinda Past said:
Interesting premise but ultimately disappointing imo.

The lad was on a fool's errand of his own making. No-one was ever going to listen to him, and I honestly think that a couple of 'situations' may well have been manufactured for dramatic effect, i.e. the guy who invited him onto his land and then threatened to shoot him for trespassing, and when the canera filmed him through the woods to make it look loke he was being followed.

Did he get his 'message' across..? I don't think so. He was so addled and confused towards the end I'd be surprised if anyone he spoke to understood what he was doing.

All I got from it was confirmation of ny existing opinion that the vast najority of white Americans are paranoid Jesus freaks who don't deserve to live in a decent community. It's a disaster of a country.

Either way, he's lucky he didn't get badly beaten up or shot 'off camera' or have their equipment stolen.
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Yeah it's a foolish programme really. But well intentioned.
You'll have noticed he said in a roundabout way. that he didn't care if he got shot. That indicates some kind of emotional or mental issue.
 
Anyone seen this ?
It depicts a coup in America and how it would be handled by the state.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023jxf

A Storyville documentary that sweeps viewers into an elaborate simulation which dramatically escalates the threat that was posed in the USA by the Capitol attack on 6 January 2021.

The film follows a bipartisan group of US defence, intelligence and elected policymakers as they participate in an unscripted role-play exercise.

A fictional president of the United States and his advisors confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the US military in the wake of a contested 2024 presidential election. Like actors in a thriller, but with profound real-world stakes, the players have only six hours to save American democracy.
 
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Mike N said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz

In the most personal and unflinching film of his career, historian Simon Schama confronts the Holocaust as not just a Nazi obsession but as a European-wide crime of complicity.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

Excellent documentary
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Just watched it. The stats at the start of it must surely mean that the Holocaust is taught in the curriculum for our learners at school. One in twenty young people think the holocaust is a hoax or fake news. Fucking shameful world we are in. We still have a chance to fix these lunatics
 
PinkFinal said:
Just watching this Britain Under the Nazis
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We had a family holiday in Jersey in the very early 60s, staying in a little guest house in St Helier.

The two elderly sisters who owned/ran the guest house kept us entertained in the evenings, telling us tales about the occupation and how the Gernans stayed in local properties as (obviously) non-paying guests.

The sisters said the better quality food that was provided by the Nazis for their soldiers, invariably ended up on their own plates, and those of their friends/family/pets, and the soldiers never realised that they were eating poorer qualty scraps.

It was obviously a worrying period of history on the CI, but locals learned that if they 'smiled and waved' and did as they were told, the German soldiers didn't bother them too much. The people of the Channel Islands weren't any real threat to them, other than pranks etc causing a bit of inconvenience.
 
Mike N said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz

In the most personal and unflinching film of his career, historian Simon Schama confronts the Holocaust as not just a Nazi obsession but as a European-wide crime of complicity.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

Excellent documentary
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I used to like his documentaries. Won't watch them anymore.
 
Giovinco said:
Just watching a new documentary on Amazon about the Tunisia beach attacks - extremely harrowing stuff
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I watched that yesterday afternoon. Completely fixed from the get go. What a horrible thing they went through. Can’t believe that was 10 years ago either, feels more recent than that.
 
richardtheref said:
Watched The Liver King last night. How are so many people taken in by idiots like this. Then I wondered if I was adding to his notorious reputation by watching this
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At first I thought you were talking about Louis Edwards ...

Seriously, sounds worth watching . The internet has given a green light to so many grifters and our biggest insurance against being taken by them in has to be learning their trade secrets and tactics and exposing their self serving projects .Thank you .
 
richardtheref said:
Watched The Liver King last night. How are so many people taken in by idiots like this. Then I wondered if I was adding to his notorious reputation by watching this
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He’s a weird **** him. Not watched the documentary - most likely will - but about 5 years ago his clips would appear on Facebook or instagram. Tucking into raw meat, dragging big piles of wood around for exercise. He was that ripped he looked like he was about to explode.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
He’s a weird **** him. Not watched the documentary - most likely will - but about 5 years ago his clips would appear on Facebook or instagram. Tucking into raw meat, dragging big piles of wood around for exercise. He was that ripped he looked like he was about to explode.
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Conned plenty into thinking that raw meat got him that body but in a shocking twist no one could have anticipated it turned out steroids made quite an impact too.
 
PinkFinal said:
www.bbc.co.uk

BBC Four - Storyville, Dogs of War

Film about a seemingly ordinary Englishman who spent more than 40 years as a mercenary.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Real hard faced **** that cockney bloke no doubt, but in reality a chancer. Im sure he popped up in another bbc doc about the time some gang of well funded herberts tried to catch Escobar for a shit ton of cash and some (mental Scottish, shock) maniac ex SAS ended up very wounded in the jungle for weeks on end
 
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