Must see documentaries..

m7mcfc said:
mindmyp's_n_q's said:
The Bridge - Two guys spend a whole year either bank of the Golden Gate Bridge and film all the jumpers. They then go and find the relatives and interview about 7-8 of them to find out why the people did it. Some are pissed off some upset etc. Its fascinating however the best part is an interview with the only jumper to survive that year, his story is mind boggling.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwl-Pa_QT0M[/youtube]
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This sounds totally fucked up but I will watch this out of curiosity.

I myself love documentaries and will watch anything from Horizon to Inside Natures Giants. I cant stand soaps and I have not sat through a film for about 2yrs.
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just watched this, the woman (whose identity was hidden) she may as well pushed him!
 
haydockboy said:
m7mcfc said:
mindmyp's_n_q's said:
The Bridge - Two guys spend a whole year either bank of the Golden Gate Bridge and film all the jumpers. They then go and find the relatives and interview about 7-8 of them to find out why the people did it. Some are pissed off some upset etc. Its fascinating however the best part is an interview with the only jumper to survive that year, his story is mind boggling.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwl-Pa_QT0M[/youtube]
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great doco this I watched it last night. Really harrowing stuff and interesting to get an insight into the instant regret some feel once they have jumped and realise they don't want to die. The lad who survived had a remarkable story.

As sad as it all was. I couldn't help but think Gene's fall at the end was actually quite graceful
 
lostmyhouseski said:

great doco this I watched it last night. Really harrowing stuff and interesting to get an insight into the instant regret some feel once they have jumped and realise they don't want to die. The lad who survived had a remarkable story.

As sad as it all was. I couldn't help but think Gene's fall at the end was actually quite graceful
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i hired a push bike and rode across the Golden Gate, it was wet windy and Foooookin high, it shit me up looking down at the choppy water hitting the sides, just dont know how people could jump off
 
des hardi said:
kp789 said:
tangaroa said:
You need to take their advice ... excellent film.
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I will give it a go
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just got it yesterday.... was told dont read up on it either. will watch over w/end.
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Watched Searching for Sugar Man last night. Really enjoyed it, and even downloaded the guy's music afterward.

It's unbelievable that you could be famous without even knowing it, yet both him and his family remained so humble.
 
lostmyhouseski said:
great doco this I watched it last night. Really harrowing stuff and interesting to get an insight into the instant regret some feel once they have jumped and realise they don't want to die. The lad who survived had a remarkable story.

As sad as it all was. I couldn't help but think Gene's fall at the end was actually quite graceful
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You should listen to this podcast on suicide regarding how quick the decision to actually do it can be.

<a class="postlink" href="http://freakonomics.com/2011/08/31/new-freakonomics-radio-podcast-the-suicide-paradox/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://freakonomics.com/2011/08/31/new- ... e-paradox/</a>

Very interesting stuff.
 
mindmyp's_n_q's said:
lostmyhouseski said:
great doco this I watched it last night. Really harrowing stuff and interesting to get an insight into the instant regret some feel once they have jumped and realise they don't want to die. The lad who survived had a remarkable story.

As sad as it all was. I couldn't help but think Gene's fall at the end was actually quite graceful
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You should listen to this podcast on suicide regarding how quick the decision to actually do it can be.

<a class="postlink" href="http://freakonomics.com/2011/08/31/new-freakonomics-radio-podcast-the-suicide-paradox/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://freakonomics.com/2011/08/31/new- ... e-paradox/</a>

Very interesting stuff.
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thanks mate I'll download it now

on another topic-Watched searching for sugar man and thought it was ok however the story itself is pretty much bollocks...
http://www.cracked.com/article_20585_6-famous-documentaries-that-were-shockingly-full-crap_p2.html
 
Watched Kirsty Wark (BBC Newsnight Presenter) programme on sexism, Blurred Lines. Very thought provoking and quite difficult to watch with the wife and adult daughter.

Id recommend it.
 
Paul Lake's Left Knee said:
dazdon said:
Mike N said:
Watched Kirsty Wark (BBC Newsnight Presenter) programme on sexism, Blurred Lines. Very thought provoking and quite difficult to watch with the wife and adult daughter.

Id recommend it.
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Is Kirsty fit?
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Obviously he thinks so, thus his difficulty knocking one out in front of his wife and daughther.
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A viagra candidate?
 
Beware of Mr Baker. Doc about, you guessed it, Ginger Baker. Brilliant, a complete twat but very funny.
 
A great guy.
Opening with the news of Internet "hacktivist" Aaron Swartz's untimely death at the age of 26, "The Internet's Own Boy" traces the rise and fall of a tech industry prodigy. Interviews with his friends and loved ones paint a portrait of Swartz as a martyr of freedom of information and hail his fight for the public's right to access tax-funded academic and scientific research, culminating in a personally devastating two-year Federal lawsuit.

Having developed RSS technology at the age of fourteen Swartz was embraced by tech leaders at the top of their fields including Cory Doctorow and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig. Affable and baby-faced, Swartz was a frequent presenter at conferences and participated in academic pursuits at top-level universities throughout his teenage years. He established himself as a force to be reckoned with as co-founder of Reddit, one of the largest social media and news aggregator sites online to this day. Despite a profitable job offer at Conde Nast, Swartz rejected corporate culture in favor of pursuing a democratic Internet in the interest of information sharing over profit.

An avid researcher who had previously accessed otherwise private databases, Swartz, acting "in the grand tradition of civil disobedience to declare... opposition to this private theft of public culture" used MIT computers to access tax-funded research that would otherwise be held privately by for-profit publishers, an incident many viewers may remember from national headlines just a few year ago. Though neither MIT nor the digital repository Swartz accessed pressed charges, a US Attorney stepped in and filed a 13-count felony charge against Swartz, threatening him with over $1 million in fines and up to 35 years of jail time.

The case drew unwanted media attention to Swartz, skewing him as a hacker and pirate instead of a liberator of information and defender of civil liberties. The Swartz we meet through the film, however, is an admirable, kind-hearted young man adored by his friends, family and collaborators. Passionate about addressing societal problems and deeply influenced by World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, who chose to share the Web freely instead of for-profit, the film paints Swartz as a maligned activist, wrongly presented to the public as a criminal for his efforts to release a information to the general population.

Despite the defense of his peers, these events launched Swartz into a two-year long downward spiral of withdrawal and depression. The film highlights the impact technology has on society's access to information, the amount of control for-profit entities and the government dictate over this access, and ultimately questions whether Swartz's efforts proved him to be defeated or victorious at the end of his life, though his impact on the open access movement is undeniable either way.
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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
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<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58</a>
 
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