evenflow

I am trying to break your heart
Meeting People is Easy

MurraySiskind

I love all of errol morris's documentaries:

Vernon, Florida
Gates of Heaven
Thin Blue Line
Mr. Death
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control

I haven't seen his Brief History of Time though.

Also Hoop Dreams, American Movie, Hearts of Darnkess, Crumb, both the Paradise Lost films...i'm sure there are others i can't think of.

boobietheclown

hearts of darkness
meeting people is easy
battle for citizen kane
gimme shelter

i really want to get the frank lloyd wright one.

Giles

The Kid Stays in the Picture
Alexi and the Spring
Promises
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
The Ghost of Roger Casement (Festival screening)
Hoop Dreams
Visions of Light
Trembling Before G-D
Cousin Bobby

Norm de Plume

There was a fave doc thread not too long ago. Wonder what happened to it?

In no order:
Best Boy (1979)
Streetwise (1984)
Scared Straight (1978)
Waterwalker (1984)
The Killing of America (1981)
Life Without Death (2000)
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1990)
Hearts of Darkness: Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1993)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance (2002)
Winter Soldier (1971)
Gizmo (1977)
Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
Lessons in Darkness (1992)
Roger & Me (1989)
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Promises (2001)
Offspring (2002)
Chavez: Inside the Coup (2003)
Return to Kandahar (2003)
Warrendale (1967)
A Married Couple (1969)
High School (1968)
Titicut Follies (1967)
Salesman (1969)
Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
Memory of the Camps
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Interviews With My Lai Veterans (1971)
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)
Hearts and Minds (1974)
Lodz Ghetto (1988)
Shtetl (1993)

Mammal

Streetwise and Gizmo, absolutely. I wish we had DVDs. Has anyone else seen First Contact? It's basically amateur footage of a group of Australians, brothers, gold-hunting in the New Guinea highlands in the 1930s. They run into primitive people who were previously uncontacted by "civilization." Some believed the Aussies, being white, were ghosts.

Norm de Plume

I was lucky enough to track down a laserdisc of Streetwise in the mid '90s, so I'm not hurtin' for a DVD. I wish Bell would film an update; I'd like to know where some of these kids are today. The film has a very moving Tom Waits score.

Mowork

4 Little Girls is an amazing documentary...

Mammal

Yep, I've got the Streetwise LD, and an old VHS of Gizmo. I remember a magazine article, possibly Life, with a story on Rat & company. Rat was carrying a .45 around, not a very good indicator for Rat's future.

Norm de Plume

Is that the Life article of '83 that inspired the film, or a follow-up? Rat was the most charismatic and memorable of the kids.

Gizmo I haven't seen in ages. I remember it being hilarious and having a splendid score.

Mammal

I don't remember, except that Rat looked about the same age as in the film. I expect it was the former.

javanut

Errol Morris is my favorite filmmaker - hands down.

I really want to see Grey Gardens - but can't find a copy anywhere. I've scoured local video stores and NetFlix doesn't have it. Seen it? Recommend it?

Cusm

I just saw this one the other night and it is interesting. The docudrama The Legend of Ron Jeromy.

DocumentaryNut

hearts & Minds
Dark Days
Crumb
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
qatsi trilogy

and a good recent one

Winged Migration

shanester

Ambush In Mogadishu

A lot of the post 9/11 documentaries were excellent. I saw one (cant think of the name) about the architect who built the towers and how they were not designed to have a jumbo jet crash into them (duh?). He felt really guilty it was very sad

chowderhead

I love Hoop Dreams. Simply one of the best movies for me ever!
I will add
E-Dreams - a story of the rise and fall of Kozmo.com . The CEO was such a conceited prick that I rooted for his demise.

hgar78

this is a great one! especially so, because i grew up about 30 minutes from this strange town. the people truly are this odd.

Giles

a few month's back I saw a wonderful French documentaryat the American Film Institute/Discovery Channel Documentary Film Festival on a French teacher and three grades he teaches in a small country school. It's my second favourite film of this year. New Yorker is the stateside distrib, so there's a chance it will get a wide release later in the year. It has become the highest grossing documentary in France and the European/UK critics have given this unanimous praise - I can wholeheartedly agree that this is a wonderful film.


On another note, with the success of "Winged Migration", I noticed awhile back in Variety that the makers of the BBC television series "Big Blue", are planning to cull through some 7,000 hours of unused footage and compile it into a feature length film, that should be amazing!.

Supreme Sean

Murder On A Sunday Morning
Hoop Dreams
Comedian
Roger & Me
Hookers At The Point

AndyA

No one mentioned "Crumb" It is a great Doc.

endlessmike

people mentioned crumb

i'll add "capturing the friedmans"

ProjectMayhem

Capturing the Friedmans was excellent!

1. Crumb
2. American Movie
3. The Kid Stays in the Picture

Good enough...

NEUMANN

The Up Movies (7up,14up,21up,28up,35up and 42 up), I was born within a couple years of these people and its like i have known them for a while lol. Very good look at the British class system and what these people became when they grew up.

Where is the box set lol

Vision of Love

I just joined an online DVD rental service, and with this larger selection, I'm itching to watch some documentaries.

So far, all I have in my queue is For All Mankind (Criterion) and Africa: The Serengeti (IMAX).

Would anyone have any other suggestions for me? Just FYI, I am more interested in nature/science documentaries than historical ones, but I can take exceptions.

MahatmaPetey

Waco: The Rules of Engagement is a favorite of mine.