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world at war
Blue Planet Cosmos Life of Mammals Living Planet Placeholder for Planet Earth. |
I wished the Oscar nominated doc shorts would get released.
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I need to see more documentaries, but the top of the few I have seen are:
Spellbound Paper Clips Rabbit in the Moon The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill Winged Migration The Story of the Weeping Camel |
1. Grey Gardens / The Beales of Grey Gardens
2. Capturing the Friedmans 3. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills / Paradise Lost 2: Revelations 4. Tokyo Olympiad 5. Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance / Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation / Naqoyqatsi: Life as War |
The Up Docs (7 Up, 14 Up, 21 Up, 28 Up, 35 Up, 42 Up, 49 Up)
Salesman Don't Look Back Portrait of Jason The Corporation |
Originally Posted by garmonbozia
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills / Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
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Recently released doc.
Shootout, The History Channel Presents. |
berkeley in the '60s<--- how is it even possible no one mentions this?
hoop dreams hearts and minds beyond the mat Imagine: John Lennon i can remember a few really good pieces from college, i forget the names, one was about ww2, another about how lions do not hunt nearly as well in pairs, but they take mates regardless. |
American Movie
Brother's Keeper Crumb Hoop Dreams Paradise Lost 1 & 2 |
1. The two docs out on Aileen Wuornos (lesbian serial killer)
2. The Mayor of Sunset Strip 3. The Life and Times of Harvey Milk 4. Ghosts & Gravesites of Hollywood 5. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill |
Originally Posted by NatrlBornThrllr
A lot of love for March of the Penguins. Did I miss something?
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Maybe not all "Top 5", but here's some great ones:
Radio Bikini Battle of Algiers My Flesh and Blood White Light / Black Rain Hoop Dreams Night and Fog Salesman Harlan County, USA ...and any of Ken Burns' stuff is great, too. |
Originally Posted by Randy Miller III
Maybe not all "Top 5", but here's some great ones:
Battle of Algiers |
Originally Posted by Randy Miller III
Blood
White Light / Black Rain I didn't go through the first two or three pages as I'd seen them quite some time ago, and until about two posts ago I was thinking to myself, I can't believe there's no mention for White Light/Black Rain. I've not seen the entire thing, I never knew it existed and just came across it on one of the movie channels in the last week. Probably saw about half of it, maybe less, but it had no repeat play listed for it, and I couldn't look away. I've got an August 6 birthday... |
Lots of great documentaries already listed. I'm going to list some that haven't been listed in this thread yet:
1.) GG Allin's Hated 2.) Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Mark Kerr 3.) The King of Kong 4.) Confessions of a Superhero 5.) I'm From Hollywood |
I'll throw "Overnight" into the mix. About Troy Duffy (writer/director of "The Boondock Saints") getting Hollywood handed to him on a platter and burning the whole thing down...
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My Fave 5
1.Beyond the Mat 2.The Smashing Machine 3.Super size Me 4.The Curse of the Bambino 5.Pumping Iron |
Five favorites:
Portrait of Jason The Fog of War Salesman High School Crumb |
Originally Posted by grem458
1. The Life of Birds (David Attenborough has never done anything bad)
2. 7 Up 3. Grey Gardens (bet they felt like they were filming a train wreck) 4. Crumb 5. Trinity and Beyond:The Atomic Bomb Movie (this is probably my fave) and Race to the Moon from the History Channel. I've watched that one over and over. 1. Trinity and Beyond:The Atomic Bomb Movie (still a fave and has such great replay value) 2. The Up Series (watched all that are available at this point and think they're still amazing if a little repetitive) 3. A Paralying Fear: The Story of Polio in America 4. Planet Earth (the mother of all nature documentaries) 5. American Experience: Eleanor Roosevelt and five should be warned about 'cause they are horrible: 1. Albert Fish (and H.H. Holmes) - both by the same director in the same boring, awful style. 2. Jack the Ripper Conspiracies - worst documentary of all time with the most annoying narrator possible 3. The War: A Ken Burns Film - I love most of the stuff he's done but I just thought this one was too boring to get through (I really tried!!) 4. American Experience: Partners of the Heart - again a boring presentation of what could have been very interesting 5. Ebola: The Plague Fighters - I love anything about diseases, but this was HORRIBLE!! |
The Fog of War
The Farmer's Wife http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...s/farmerswife/ (I don't think it's on dvd though) One Day in September Waco Hoop Dreams Paradise Lost Looking at some of the previous listings make me wonder if we are all on the same page as to what is actually a documentary. For instance, Michael Moore films, which I enjoy, to me are not documentaries. A behind the scenes look at a movie isn't really a doc. |
Originally Posted by J-Dubya
The Farmer's Wife http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...s/farmerswife/
(I don't think it's on dvd though) Looking at some of the previous listings make me wonder if we are all on the same page as to what is actually a documentary. For instance, Michael Moore films, which I enjoy, to me are not documentaries. A behind the scenes look at a movie isn't really a doc. |
Originally Posted by Yakuza Bengoshi
I'm curious of what keeps the films of Michael Moore out of the realm of documentary in your mind. Is it their polemical nature, or that Moore appears in front of the camera, or what?
From The Free Dictionary: doc·u·men·ta·ry adj. 1. Consisting of, concerning, or based on documents. 2. Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film. n. pl. doc·u·men·ta·ries A work, such as a film or television program, presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration. I don't see how either Bowling for Columbine or Fahrenheit 9/11 fits those definitions. I've seen both; in my opinion, they're filled with distortions and half-truths that are well-disputed (if not disproved) elsewhere. Here's a controversial site with a biased view that, if you can wade through the crap, points out a lot of the, well, lies in BFC. And here's another biased site that has less crap, but you still have to get past the pettiness, finger-pointing, and name-calling, to see the kind of deceptions used in F-9/11. As an example (hypothetical, not actually from Moore's films), if somebody were to say "I hate people who say Mexicans are evil," and then the clip is edited down so you only get the person saying "Mexicans are evil," then that is a lie. Moore seems to think that it's a valid clip to include in a documentary to prove his point if (1) he believes the person really feels that way, and (2) he doesn't have another clip where they really said it. So, he seems to feel it's OK to use the one where that person did utter those words, even if they were out of context. On the other hand, Sicko, in my opinion, seems to be mostly pretty honest (except for the obvious and stupid scene at Gitmo), and I (as if it really matters to anyone else what I think) would classify it as a documentary. I'm not trying to start a debate on the issue. I'm just trying to point out why many people don't consider his films documentaries--and it's not just the vast right-wing conspiracy who think that way. |
I am going to cheat a little and go to 6 although my list is not overly different.
Errol Morris Collection (Vernon, Florida/Gates of Heaven/The Thin Blue Line) Salesman High School Wojciech Wiszniewski Documentary Set Harlan County, U.S.A. Dont Look Back |
Originally Posted by Cheato
From The Free Dictionary:
doc·u·men·ta·ry adj. 1. Consisting of, concerning, or based on documents. 2. Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film. n. pl. doc·u·men·ta·ries A work, such as a film or television program, presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration. I don't see how either Bowling for Columbine or Fahrenheit 9/11 fits those definitions. I've seen both; in my opinion, they're filled with distortions and half-truths that are well-disputed (if not disproved) elsewhere. Here's a controversial site with a biased view that, if you can wade through the crap, points out a lot of the, well, lies in BFC. And here's another biased site that has less crap, but you still have to get past the pettiness, finger-pointing, and name-calling, to see the kind of deceptions used in F-9/11. As an example (hypothetical, not actually from Moore's films), if somebody were to say "I hate people who say Mexicans are evil," and then the clip is edited down so you only get the person saying "Mexicans are evil," then that is a lie. Moore seems to think that it's a valid clip to include in a documentary to prove his point if (1) he believes the person really feels that way, and (2) he doesn't have another clip where they really said it. So, he seems to feel it's OK to use the one where that person did utter those words, even if they were out of context. On the other hand, Sicko, in my opinion, seems to be mostly pretty honest (except for the obvious and stupid scene at Gitmo), and I (as if it really matters to anyone else what I think) would classify it as a documentary. I'm not trying to start a debate on the issue. I'm just trying to point out why many people don't consider his films documentaries--and it's not just the vast right-wing conspiracy who think that way.
Originally Posted by cfloyd3
Wojciech Wiszniewski Documentary Set
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1. Gimme Shelter
2. Radio Bikini 3. Capturing the Friedmans 4. Waco: Rules of Engagement 5. Gates of Heaven |
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