I love documentaries too.I have watched a ton. Pictures of most of my favorites in the spoiler.

American Movie, Hoop Dreams, Children Underground, Spellbound, Born into Brothels, Word Wars,I Like Killing Flies, The Up Series ( follows kids from ages 7 ever 7 years till the most recent at 49) Names of movies are 7 Up, 14 Up, 21 Up, 28 Up, 35 Up, 42 Up, 49 Up, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, God Grew Tired of Us, Air Guitar Nation, The Cats of Mirikitani, The Great Happiness Space, Confessions of a Superhero, Darkon

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CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

September 30 2009 20:41 GMT

#27

On October 01 2009 00:55 Binky1842 wrote:
if you're on facebook, there's a group for exactly this thread
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=62879761653

If you look at their top pics though it's shit like loose change and 80% 9/11 related. It's one thing to watch a few to get a different perspective, but you can only take so much of that shit.

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

September 30 2009 20:42 GMT

#28

Thanks Ideas and wbirdy, I'll probably watch those first. And Bosu thanks for the whole list, 7up looks interesting too. But If you guys could at least give a brief description of each film instead of just writing the title, that would be nice.

DoctorHelvetica

United States15034 Posts

September 30 2009 20:59 GMT

#29

Philosophy Of The Knife is an interesting documentary/exploitation film about the horrors japanese doctors inflicted upon chinese citizens during World War II.

I would check out "Yes Men"

I also remember a documentary about a guy who goes on a quest to get a date with Drew Barrymore and actually succeeds. Forgot the title though.

Heyoka

Katowice25012 Posts

September 30 2009 21:02 GMT

#30

I really liked Chasing Ghosts, its the same subject as King of Kong but focuses on some different people and doesn't have the whole clash of titans storyline thing

also Word Wars is a sweet doc about professional scrabble players

keit

1584 Posts

September 30 2009 22:23 GMT

#31

I'm also a real documentary fan so I'll just list some documentaries which were not in this thread that I feel are must-watch.

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152758/ I really liked it, can be a bit hard to watch sometimes due to the 'amateur' editing but it keeps you hooked anyway, feels genuine.

Anvil! The Story of Anvil http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1157605/ Really interesting docu about Anvil, and I don't even like the genre. It's more a documentary about the life of these guys then a strict music docu

Helvetica http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0847817/ A really nice movie about typography and design, might be boring if you're a total anti-design guy though, but I think it should be interesting for anyone.

Between the Folds http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1253565/ You might think this is a boring documentary about origami at first but it's way beyond that, it's just a great docu which lets you in on things I'd not had a clue about before I watched it.

DoctorHelvetica

United States15034 Posts

September 30 2009 22:26 GMT

#32

On October 01 2009 07:23 keit wrote:
I'm also a real documentary fan so I'll just list some documentaries which were not in this thread that I feel are must-watch.

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152758/ I really liked it, can be a bit hard to watch sometimes due to the 'amature' editing but it keeps you hooked anyway, feels genuine.

Anvil! The Story of Anvil http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1157605/ Really interesting docu about Anvil, and I don't even like the genre. It's more a documentary about the life of these guys then a strict music docu

Helvetica http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0847817/ A really nice movie about typography and design, might be boring if you're a total anti-design guy though, but I think it should be interesting for anyone.

Between the Folds http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1253565/ You might think this is a boring documentary about origami at first but it's way beyond that, it's just a great docu which lets you in on things I'd not had a clue about before I watched it.

I signed up for TL right after watching "helvetica"

hence the name.

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

October 01 2009 00:39 GMT

#33

On October 01 2009 06:02 heyoka wrote:
I really liked Chasing Ghosts, its the same subject as King of Kong but focuses on some different people and doesn't have the whole clash of titans storyline thing

also Word Wars is a sweet doc about professional scrabble players

any idea where I can watch these online? Don't have much space/bandwidth to DL.

JeeJee

Canada5652 Posts

October 01 2009 04:15 GMT

#34

well you didn't mention anything about nature and you talked about cheesy stuff from discovery etc.. but i am still going to mention this:
planet earth

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

October 01 2009 10:31 GMT

#35

yea i've seen random bits here and there of planet earth and the making of it, and even that new one that is just called earth or blue planet? anyways, I've been meaning to watch the thing from start to finish I just dont have space or bandwidth for the whole thing (i'd prefer to get it in hi-def)

lac29

United States1485 Posts

October 01 2009 15:06 GMT

#36

Children Underground and Wordplay are all excellent docus ... both are top class stuff imo.

Gnarly

United States151 Posts

October 01 2009 15:20 GMT

#37

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samachking

Bahrain4949 Posts

October 01 2009 15:38 GMT

#38

Louis Theroux documentary series are very informative and quite entertaining, hes basically a guy that goes investigating sub cultures and extremist groups, very likeable guy and presents things with no bias at all and lets the extremists present their own ideas. Its probably my favorite documentary show

BBC Visions of the Future is a great documentary series on technologies that will be possible in the near future or changing our world now

The Story of Maths/Dangerous knowledge are 2 great docs on math history, reccomended if you are interested in that stuff

Bizzare foods is a cool food documentary series, not a cooking show, but just a random fat bloke going around and eating really weird shit

Mythbusters- No comment needed here

A History of God does a great job covering basic aspects and beliefs and history of the 3 monotheistic religions

Richard Dawkins "Enemies of Reason" and "Root of all Evil" are pretty good documentaries, root of all evil is basically a summary of the God Delusion and Enemies of Reason is debunking pseudo science groups

The Elegant Universe is a pretty cool physics documentary on a intro to string theory

Web Warriors is a interesting documentary on hackers

Steal This film 1/2 are good at covering the piracy copyright debate

You have to look at Louis Theroux, its good stuff

Edit: If you are interested in martial arts/fighting check out Fight Quest/Human Weapon

rushz0rz

Canada5300 Posts

October 01 2009 19:56 GMT

#39

I saw a documentary on the History channel that I've always wanted to see again. It's basically about a guy who stays at a remote Canadian base in Afghanistan. It just shows their daily lives and such. Was really good. I never got the name of it.

DoctorHelvetica

United States15034 Posts

October 01 2009 19:58 GMT

#40

If you don't mind watching Political Documentaries, "Why We Fight" is a great documentary and so is "Fog of War"

Both explore the motivations behind US Military actions and the increasing prevalence of corporate and economic interest in military operations.