I have been digging on Louis Theroux. He just went back to the Westboro Church to do a second film called " The Most Hated Family in the US in Crisis". Quite interesting. The one with the white supremest in California is good too.
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[last edit 5/24/2011 6:42 PM by Shael - edited 1 times] "The best wine lies at the bottom of the pail/And Happiness lies below the navel." - Drukpa Kunley, "The Divine Madman of the Dragon Lineage" and "Saint of 5,000 Women".
I also enjoyed Capitalism: A Love Story. Say what you want, Michael Moore is funny and makes his point.
Funny thing about Michael Moore. You know I'm a lefty, and largely (yeah, pun intended) agree with him, but his stunts, like going to the banks to collect on the money they were lent, I think detracts from his message. I know that's his style, but I think a lot of his good points are lost behind the stunts and the anecdotal evidence.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
Funny thing about Michael Moore. You know I'm a lefty, and largely (yeah, pun intended) agree with him, but his stunts, like going to the banks to collect on the money they were lent, I think detracts from his message. I know that's his style, but I think a lot of his good points are lost behind the stunts and the anecdotal evidence.
My problem with Michael Moore is his complete disregard for the truth. I agree with many of the ideas he puts forward. But sadly his facts are wrong, interviews misleading, and events staged. I feel like there is enough good solid evidence to back up the things he claims, yet he never uses it. He makes fantastic movies, but horrible documentaries.
This documentary shows that communism regime was equal to nazi regime.Sometimes it was hard to watch, but it helped to understand some of reasons that caused WW2. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305871/ *** A Complete History of My Sexual Failures [2008]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1037033/ One guy tried to interview all his ex-girlfriends to learn about what made him a bad lover. Really funny! *** Paragraph 175 [2000]
This documentary has quite specific theme - it tells about nazi's regime plan to get rid from homosexuals. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236576/ *** A state of mind [2004]
Story about one of the most strangest countries in world - North Korea. Documentary is focused on two little girls who strongly believes in their country's ideals. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456012/ *** Baraka [1992]
Very beautiful visualisation about world itself, about all the things that unite us and tear apart. Brilliant! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103767/
Documentary series looking at the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery. Michael Mosley recounts the history of surgery through its catastrophes and successes.
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Posted by Opheliaism Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
I know this is a movie thread, but this book is one of the best ever on the history of healing and surgery (if you got sick in ye olde tymes you were screwed!): http://www.amazon....ions/dp/0674383311
“You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.”
No, no, no.....The BBC did a 5 part documentary on it. Check the link! One of the best I have seen.
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<Mandias> I think she's gonna slug that cop. -------------------------------------------------------- <Axle> "She's just not a farmer Owen, she has too much of her Father in her." <Axle> Death by Hut
Posted by telefontubbie Some documentaries that i found awesome: This documentary has quite specific theme - it tells about nazi's regime plan to get rid of homosexuals.
That's funny, because I saw a You Tube video of a preacher claiming that the SS was made up of gays because Hitler found that straights weren't vicious enough.
Right now I'm slogging through Ken Burns's "The War." Only two hours to go!
[last edit 8/2/2011 7:41 PM by splumer - edited 1 times] “We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
Splumer, you might dig Guns, Germs and Steal. Not a substitute for the book, but good cliff notes. The whole thing is on netflix and YouTube.
[last edit 8/10/2011 8:29 PM by earthworm - edited 1 times] Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
Just watched "The Last Mountain" on Netflix. It's about the process of mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia. The premise is that these coal companies, primarily Massey Energy, the folks who brought you the mine disaster of 2010, tell people how wonderful this is because they're bringing all these mining jobs, while at the same time blowing the tops off of mountains, dumping the former mountaintops into the valleys, sometimes onto people's homes, and causing serious water and air pollution.
Also portrayed was a coal-fired power plant in western PA that I used to live near, and actually did a story on when I was a newspaper reporter.
Very well-made, moving documentary. It brought tears to my eyes.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
Watching "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" about movies in the '70s. Awesome.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
It began as a housing marvel. Two decades later, it ended in rubble. But what happened to those caught in between? The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development and the St. Louis residents who called it home.
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I enjoyed "Heckler". They really went at it from a lot of perspective. But....watch Pruitt-Igoe. It will not disappoint.
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EARTHLINGS is a powerful and informative documentary about society’s treatment of animals, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix with soundtrack by Moby. This multi-award winning film by Nation Earth is a must-see for anyone who cares about animals or wishes to make the world a better place.
** To anyone with a heart and soul, this movie will change your life. **
Watch this documentary in its entirety here for free:
Searching For The Wrong Eyed Jesus: hypnotic, life-affirming, gorgeous road trip through the deep south. Trailer below, can't find a streaming copy. Worth it for first five minutes alone. Just watching the trailer makes me want to jump around and shout One of my favourite things in the world.
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace: about, err... attempts to systemise human behaviour and how we became accidentally tied to machines, I guess. Lots of wonderfully odd archive footage. Full thing here
Ethics
One of my favourite things in the world.