I saw through the wormhole, it's pretty awesome.

I'm looking for a documentary about Astronomy, Space, Stars, galaxies. TtW is more about the Universe and how it works.

Does anyone know a good one? I'd like something in HD, The Planets sounds good but it was aired in 1999. I want something more recent.

Thanks.

Golden Ghost

Netherlands1041 Posts

July 26 2012 21:49 GMT

#302

So in the last year I have watched quite some great documentaries I found through this thread and after watching two new ones yesterday and rewatching some old favorites today I need some new blood so to speak.

The two new ones I watched today and that I can recommend are:
Being Elmo: A puppeteers journey & Indie game: The movie

Being Elmo: A puppeteers journey (October 2011) is about the guy behind the puppet. Who is he. What motivates him. How did he become what he is. A beautiful and very emotional documentary at times. There is this scene where he tries to comfort a sick girl and is standing next to her but she stays sad and the moment he puts the Elmo puppet on his hand and begins to talk in Elmo's voice the girl lights up and it's as if she doesn't see him anymore but only the puppet. Very emotional scene for me.

Indie game: The movie (June 2012) follows two guys who try to make their own independent game. It follows them through their tribulations and takes away something of the glamor and perhaps even myth that hangs around working in the gaming industry. The film shows the high level of personal expression that typically goes into independent games, through the story of three games: Braid (released in 2008), Super Meat Boy (in preparation for its 2011 release) & Fez (still struggling with development).

So what are the new good documentaries out there that I need to see?

ps. please no discovery stuff or things that are part of a serie like Louis Theroux or Ross Kemp. Louis Theroux I have seen, Ross Kemp I really don't like and most of the discovery stuff mentioned up to now in this thread is not really a documentary but just a science program.

HwangjaeTerran

Finland5967 Posts

January 21 2013 20:33 GMT

#303

Bumpity

Poyo

Canada790 Posts

January 21 2013 23:59 GMT

#304

On January 22 2013 05:33 HwangjaeTerran wrote:
Bumpity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slZnfC-V1SY&feature=share

That was brutal, absolutely gut wrenching for me to watch. I'm apparently not as strong as I thought...

koOl

Canada254 Posts

January 22 2013 02:53 GMT

#305

Another awesome documentary of similar subject to the one above. I found this one very powerful.

Grettin

42381 Posts

January 29 2013 20:12 GMT

#306

Watched a food documentary about 85-year-old sushi master and his son(s) in Japan. Can be found on Netflix.

Excellent watch.

A documentary on 85-year-old sushi master Jiro Ono, his business in the basement of a Tokyo office building, and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Yoshikazu.

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Trailer:

+ Show Spoiler +

EuSpex

Germany73 Posts

January 30 2013 11:26 GMT

#307

Host 1:
http://archive.org/details/The_Corporation_

this documentary is by far my most favorite. If you have a lot of time (it goes 2h) i recommend it deeply to watch this film

@Youtube
The corporation

Destro

Netherlands1206 Posts

January 30 2013 11:37 GMT

#308

One of the best documentaries about my personal hero, romeo dallaire. canadian general in rwanda trying everything he can do to stop the genocide while getting no help from the foreign community. a really sad and depressing story, but the things this guy went through and now dedicates his life to ending genocide and child soldiers is just inspiring. truly one of the greatest canadians to ever live. (imo)

Grettin

42381 Posts

February 02 2013 22:48 GMT

#309

More documentaries to watch!

Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.

Searching for Sugar Man

Trailer:

Dyme

Germany523 Posts

February 02 2013 23:15 GMT

#310

On January 22 2013 08:59 Poyo wrote:

Show nested quote +

That was brutal, absolutely gut wrenching for me to watch. I'm apparently not as strong as I thought...

I like how they describe the assisted dying as ~"he died singing a song with me" and then when the guy dies at the end his last act was begging for water. Dying sucks so much.

Enzymatic

Canada1301 Posts

February 02 2013 23:26 GMT

#311

This is a video about the cover-up at the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor (government basically downplayed it as nothing for quite sometime until it was investigated).. And about the people that basically went into the reactor to face certain death from radiation exposure in order to try and seal the place up so it wasn't streaming out radiation. One part later on in the movie that sticks out the most is the guys shoveling pieces of metal off the top of the reactor that were completely saturated with radiation (enough that would bring death within minutes if you even touched it, or didn't have a lead suit on).. They had on nothing but a make-shift lead suit. Most of them died years later of cancer from the exposure, or had long-term permanent health problems. Its absolutely chilling to watch them while they're actually on top of the reactor in the midst of massive amounts of radiation.

magicmUnky

Australia280 Posts

February 02 2013 23:27 GMT

#312

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104275/

Fires of Kuwait, absolutely amazing documentary... the scale of this disaster and the speed of the recovery is absolutely staggering...

adwodon

United Kingdom592 Posts

February 03 2013 00:33 GMT

#313

80 Blocks From Tiffanies is really great, and previously really rare documentary about a bunch of South Bronx gangs in the 70s. It's full of really memorable characters, highly recommended.

Grimmyman123

Canada939 Posts

February 03 2013 00:39 GMT

#314

One of my favorites.

Faster (2003) A Documentary about motorcycle racing in 500cc Grandprix and MotoGP
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368721/
Narrated by Ewan McGregor

http://www.motogp.com/en/videos/2003/Faster trailer

magicmUnky

Australia280 Posts

February 05 2013 10:40 GMT

#315

Thanks to whoever suggested all the Louis Theroux stuff... it's really entertaining :D

Maesy

United States1444 Posts

March 28 2013 22:28 GMT

#316

Following the Chernobyl one a couple posts up, I was searching to see if there was a thread like this on Teamliquid so I could share one that I really enjoyed and opened my eyes to a lot, if it hasn't already been posted. Even if it has been, bumping an epic thread, FOR DOCUMENTARIES!

(It's in 6 parts, 10 minutes each (Or 1 hour total))

Aerisky

United States12128 Posts

March 28 2013 22:34 GMT

#317

Oh I posted this in the recent films place, but I watched Conan O'Brien Can't Stop, which deals with his time on the road for his "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television" tour. I thought it was really cool to see into his life off the air etc, though one has to wonder how much of that personality is contrived as well. We all kind of have a social mask on whether it's in front of a camera or even talking to friends etc.

OPman

United States131 Posts

March 29 2013 05:34 GMT

#318

Holy fack, I can't believe no one mentioned "Alone in the Wilderness". It's about a guy named Dick Proenneke who lived mostly alone in Alaska for a long period of time. Really relaxing and refreshing film. Probably only "awesomely entertaining" to nature enthusiasts.

MarlieChurphy

United States2063 Posts

August 12 2013 13:54 GMT

#319

I'm not really a car guy, but these documentaries are really good. Suspense and entertaining and all the other good documentary stuff too. Best of all, you can probably watch them on YT (assuming they don't get deleted after I post this)

Senna:
(About one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time)

32 Hours 7 minutes:
(About cannonball runs and beating records)

prplhz

Denmark8045 Posts

August 12 2013 14:36 GMT

#320

Director Mads Brügger has some interesting documentaries. What he does is highly questionable but I'm pretty sure I have never seen anyone else do anything like it so everybody should really give it a try.

First one I'm going to recommend is Ambassadøren (en. "The Ambassador"). This documentary is about Mads buying a diplomatic passport from corrupt officials in the Ivory Coast (I don't know if it's illegal to buy them but it surely isn't legal to sell them) and then he goes to the Central African Republic and attempts to set himself up as a guy who can smuggle illegal diamonds out of the country using his status as a diplomat to bypass customs. During all of this he gets to talk to a bunch of interesting people who he secretly films.

Here is the leading sentences from Roger Ebert's review of the movie:

At what point did I realize "The Ambassador" was an actual documentary, and not a fraud? Perhaps when I realized that everyone in the film was just as dishonest, venal and corrupt as they seemed — including the director.

I like this quote because it shows that while "The Ambasador" is a documentary, it's hard to believe it. Both because of the subject matter but also because of how Mads Brügger and his team carries it out. Everything is real and everything is fake and corrupt.

Det Røde Kapel (en. "The Red Chapel") is a movie in which Mads Brügger and two danish comedians of korean ethnicity (one of them a spastic) goes to North Korea (yes, THE North Korea) posing as a theater group on a mission for cultural exchange. It very quickly becomes evident that cultural exchange in North Korea only goes one way.

Mads Brügger does some highly questionably things in this documentary too, it becomes pretty clear that he is actively manipulating one of the comedians and he subtly ridicules everything going on. The official who was supposed to keep track of them while they were in North Korea reportedly went missing after it was revealed that it was all a big joke on North Korea.