THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Madrun Badrun on August 07, 2014, 11:27:27 PM
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You can only post documentaries I like and no Willcos allowed. Posting documentaries about alpha-centaries will get you a spanking*
Watching this right now; liking it so far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znRQvTCJvy0
5/10 doc. 4/10 if you were expecting nice African titties. They crop those out.
Ok that was pretty good. Docs with Jimmy Carter in them tend to be better than those that do not have him. Apparently lifelines is a whole series so I will be watching more of them. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/lifelines/
* have to remember alpha-centaries when spelling documentaries or else it gets spelt documenturies.
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Pull 'em down, O. I'm going to go cut a switch.
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You can only post documentaries I like and no Willcos allowed. Posting documentaries about alpha-centaries will get you a spanking*
How about Wilco documentaries?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQoaP-dx5dk
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No. No musical band docs. I don't like those. Elastic band docs are OK.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqGhNKT-M4Q
One of the greatest, if not the greatest, sports documentaries.
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NOUtZOqgSG8
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O and no VICE docs. Those fucking suck.
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One of the greatest, if not the greatest, sports documentaries.
More Ali propaganda. He had a favorable style match up against a mediocre brawler
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I guess he was the LeBron James of his era. Overrated media creation.
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I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
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I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
We didn't land on plymouth rock, plymouth rock landed on us. Did I do that right?
Also no personal journey docs about non-famous people unless it is by the bbc or pbs.
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I want to post Helvetica but it looks like no brave soul has uploaded it in its entirety to YouTube.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLkVG-vgF6M
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I would like to see a documentary on how Father Mike came up with these rules.
"Everything changed on the late evening of August 8th, or 'The Late 88' as it has come to be known. It was on that day that Father Mike, after spending hours watching documentaries, discovered something that would change thread rules forever."
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Mocking the rules is not allowed.
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To me the GOAT documentary of all time is The Great War, all 26(!!) parts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXhiagFG8KE&list=PLwn22WhrrUFMg65XgPicFBfYgHj7Xpcdn
I find it weirdly soothing to watch. I've probably gone through it a half dozen times in the past few years
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ya that Cold War and Worl at War are my favorite docs.
Because you posted a doc I like I'm giving you 7 super user points
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eewg6-Il_w
Amazing footage, amazing soundtrack.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjN_XI_T-jY
:bow Brian Eno - "An Ending (Ascent)" :bow2
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwXF6UdkeI4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-7j4WVTgWc
Not actually a documentary but might as well be one.
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Also, if your into WW2 the Battlefield series is top-notch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22xpNBJCS4U
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLkVG-vgF6M
Holy Toledo, 70% of the British Expeditionary Force was dead by 1915?
Fucking World War I.
e: Reminds me of some of the German International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War; they had nothing to go back to so they just threw themselves at everything and anything until they were wiped out.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUAavzJsTBw
Sad but also uplifting movie about people that basically live in a garbage dump and make money by picking out all the recyclables, and an artist that creates portraits of them using the medium of trash.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUAavzJsTBw
Sad but also uplifting movie about people that basically live in a garbage dump and make money by picking out all the recyclables, and an artist that creates portraits of them using the medium of trash.
I saw this one on Netflix a couple of years ago. I wanted to hate it for some reason, but I was really moved and couldn't help it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFukiQOvDYs
The best.
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Sad but also uplifting movie about people that basically live in a garbage dump and make money by picking out all the recyclables, and an artist that creates portraits of them using the medium of trash.
I loved Waste Land, but I can see how some people will dislike how melodramatic it can be at times.
The best doc I've seen in the past year is Burn. It follows a fire department in Detroit for a full year. I really can't recommend it enough. Beautifully shot and really nails the feeling of growing up in this part of the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N2YSafBmUg
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The best.
I love Errol Morris' docs. Werner Herzog's too.
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I have a friend who quit a job being Errol Morris's assistant in August of 2008. His remembrance of that decision? "That was the dumbest fucking thing I can ever imagine myself doing"
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'Stuck' is another I saw in the past year that left a pretty good impression on me. Follows four different couples and their trials in adopting a baby from another country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR9UyFh-PJk
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I'll Stan for Errol Morris anytime.
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter jr. (http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/mr_death_the_rise_and_fall_of_fred_a_leuchter_jr)
edit: Replaced link with officially supported, less edited, drastically less anti-semantically commented link. Whoopsie.
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If I didn't read those comments I would never know the real spelling is "Holocau$t" :maf
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Russian nastiness during the Georgia war/occupation. Also some retrospectives of even more nastiness on the black sea coast during the soviet years. Depressing, but really nice. Sad that Olga Nekrasova (co-director) passed away now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7ULqMm_3TA
Stranded, about THAT Uruguayan rugby team that crashed in the Andes and survived by eating human flesh. Amazing docu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qGM9ypR-UI
A Crude Awakening, a depressing docu about Peak Oil (FULL MOVIE!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy4jdzVpCV4
American Movie, about two Wisconsin misfits who want to make a great horror movie. Is on youtube in parts, but can also be downloaded here and there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60EYUFZQ4KQ
Pianomania, about an amazing Steinway tuner who knows the intricacies and sound characteristics of every Steinway piano in the country. Fantastic and hilarious, even if you're not that into classical music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF6eKo41X9s
Manda Bala, about São Paulo, Brazil, and all the business that has evolved in the city as a consequence of the violence and corruption. Bad trailer, but film is gud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXdMZCKCTU8
The King Of Communism, mostly hilarious docu about the Ceaucescu couple that ruled communist Romania.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKu7eb_-NL4
Shadow Of The Holy Book, another hilarious film about a dictatorship, this time about Turkmenistan under former leader Saparmurat Niyazov. Low budget, but worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1DhWglFeLU
The Day After Trinity, about J R Oppenheimer. Probably my fave docu ever. FULL MOVIE!
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If I didn't read those comments I would never know the real spelling is "Holocau$t" :maf
That reminds me, there was an excellent 6 part Auschwitz documentary on Netflix I watched a while back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz:_The_Nazis_and_'The_Final_Solution' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz:_The_Nazis_and_'The_Final_Solution')
Holocaust deniers :pacspit
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy4jdzVpCV4
I love everything about this movie.
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How did I forget American Movie. One of my favorite movies, doc or otherwise of all time.
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* have to remember alpha-centaries when spelling documentaries or else it gets spelt documenturies.
:what
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Don't you Bill Cosby me! Not for that.
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It's Centaurus like Ford Taurus, meaning bull.
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No that doesn't make sense because then I can't spell documentaries anymore.
As punishment for your unprovoked Bill Cosbying of me, there shall be a new rule.
Recusive is no longer allowed to post documenturies about Bill Cosby or Bill Cosby related subjects including but not exclusive to pudding and being the patriarch to a upper middle class black family.
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Brother's Keeper :(
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The Cosby Show wasn't a documentary, Mike.
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No lies, liars, or ligars in this thread Joe.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbfKm8TCti8
very good. One thing that gets me is that these people got such light weight jail sentences for what they did. The Rich & Powerful :piss2
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No docs where the presenter opens up with "My name is ___ and I'm in search of ...".
Also looking forward to this
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-roosevelts
Burns are kind of hit or miss for depending on how much I like the subject. His last one was great though.
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First episode of Years of Living Dangerously. meh, another propaganda climate change doc. An actual sci doc would be nice for once
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/generation-like/
really intresting
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For some reason this slipped my mind, should've posted this first. REALLY interesting
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poisoners (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poisoners)
Some great criminal investigations but some of the most interesting stuff is how they were often tapped for public safety investigations (radium poisoning, leaded gasoline).
In the early 1900s, the average American's medicine cabinet was a would-be poisoner's treasure chest. Deadly chemicals such as radioactive radium, thallium, potassium cyanide, and morphine lurked in health tonics, depilatory creams, teething medicine, and cleaning supplies. As industrial innovation increased, the tools of the murderer's trade multiplied, but the scientific knowledge to detect crime and the political will to prevent it lagged behind.
In 1918 New York City was on the brink of becoming the largest metropolis in the world, but it lacked a system for accurately recording deaths. Unnatural deaths were handled by the coroner, a position typically filled by corrupt and unqualified candidates as political payback. New York City's coroners were particularly notorious for taking kickbacks from funeral homes and changing death certificates for a price.
All this changed when Charles Norris, the scion of one of Philadelphia's wealthiest families, signed on to be New York's first scientifically trained medical examiner. Alexander Gettler, the son of poor immigrants, was Norris' extraordinarily driven and talented chief toxicologist. Against the opposition of corrupt politicians and powerful industrialists, Norris and Gettler redefined criminal investigation and led the first campaigns against the dangers of a new chemical age. Using chemistry to explain the causes of violent or suspicious deaths, Norris and Gettler championed a criminal justice system based on forensic science. Their work led to corporate and government regulations on chemicals used in workplaces and included in consumer products, and helped lay the groundwork for the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.
Actually think I might watch it again right now.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/watch
PBS :bow2
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLkVG-vgF6M
Holy Toledo, 70% of the British Expeditionary Force was dead by 1915?
Fucking World War I.
e: Reminds me of some of the German International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War; they had nothing to go back to so they just threw themselves at everything and anything until they were wiped out.
British command didn't kick John French out until the start of 1916 (http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wow.png). Had he been under GQG's authority Joffre would've canned him two weeks into the war. Will check this one out later.
Fan of Fog of War, how was The Unknown Known?
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/nixon/player/
Just started, Nixon was a major simp, :lol drove his future wife to LA so she she could go on dates with other dudes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NUTfLhPE5I
Relevant given recent events. The whole series is one of my favorites.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/two-american-families/
kind of heart breaking, mostly because I've seen my mom go through a series of jobs and lay offs where she got less each time. Honestly one of the most depressing things I've seen in a long time.
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you see King of Kong yet, Arvie?
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No I try to stay away from the popular docs especially the human interest story ones.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/dropout-nation/
would have been more interested in the stats angle
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http://video.pbs.org/video/2365297690/?resub=damnitformatyear
Losing Iraq
second time I watched this. Its ok. Think it would have been better if it was 4 hours long instead of 1.5
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I watched Cane Toads: The Conquest on Netflix, it was more entertaining than informative, but it made me laugh a few times.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNgQiXkGEM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCiVMngILEI
Full movie isn't on YT but you can watch it here (http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/harlan_county_usa)
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ebola-outbreak/
Good. Pretty sad.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-boko-haram/
Not really about boko but rather the militias that have formed to fight boko and go around committing mass murder of people with no ties to boko.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/vaccines-calling-shots.html
mostly informal on why the hell people should do vaccinations. I liked the sets ups against anti-vacinationers too.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ccUeLI2SEw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zIGNkR62Mo
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Went on a Netflix mini-binge last night:
Tiny the Movie - Not great. About the tiny house movement
Lost Angels: Skid Row is my Home - Great. Explores the history and the current state of L.A.'s infamous Skid Row.
WWE: History - Not much new insight since WWE made it, but it's a nice nostalgia bomb if you were a fan at any time.
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one of the best sports documentaries IMO, even if you don't like sports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIqtDykn0l0
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http://www.pbs.org/mormons/view/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNgQiXkGEM
Thought this was going to be about gaf
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20mins in. These guys make meth sound great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgmRPNp5RbQ
One of the coolest docs I've seen in a while
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaZeWed3O64
Fun doc
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjV2oUO2tExKKhbUxfeLsTA
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Doc on the history of oil companies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qspu35JG59Q&list=PL521AC800379852CC
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jEE3zhwvVQ
Frontline's recent NRA doc kinda sucked. They have one one Putin next week though.
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http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV%20Shows/the%20fifth%20estate/ID/2646889875/
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Went on a Netflix mini-binge last night:
Tiny the Movie - Not great. About the tiny house movement
Lost Angels: Skid Row is my Home - Great. Explores the history and the current state of L.A.'s infamous Skid Row.
WWE: History - Not much new insight since WWE made it, but it's a nice nostalgia bomb if you were a fan at any time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08OzKr-JytI
This was a fascinating documentary; I recall the WWE (WWF at the time) tried to get it pulled from distribution after cooperating and then not liking the picture it painted of their organization.
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Beyond The Mat is great, so is Wrestling With Shadows.
And if you want something really fucked up then watch The Rise & Fall of WCCW (NOT the WWE produced one, this one is from 2005-06 I think). Really great look at early to mid 80s wrestling in Texas and what happened to the Von Erichs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1hWVDGJjFg
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North Carolina kkk history
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365401775/
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http://video.pbs.org/video/2365422025/
not the best doc but interesting if you like American race issues. The little girl doing to the doll test was heart breaking.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zYBmsP6fes
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO2739Fw3hk
The whole series is very intresting
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The Blue Planet
:aah out of :aah
Mile, Mile and a Half
Some ginger neckbeard and his douche-friends spend a month hiking the John Muir Trail through the Sierra Nevada and none of them even have the common courtesy to get eaten by a bear.
6 out of 10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmcZRgWBdwQ&list=PL67E3C67A63A5E594&index=4
great series on fat people. So big it comes in 4 parts.
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Good lord 4+ hours on fatasses? Sounds horrible.
"I'm fat because it's genetic" she says as she drinks her 64oz pepsi and slams 2 mcdoubles....
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This was a fascinating documentary; I recall the WWE (WWF at the time) tried to get it pulled from distribution after cooperating and then not liking the picture it painted of their organization.
Thanks for this. I've always been distantly fascinated by pro-wrestling, so this was a really enjoyable watch.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rda0DMIlld8
Good doc about the ATF arms sting
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g11nNUqMcro
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Started watching "The Jinx" after seeing the headlines from yesterday (damn viral marketing, you win this time!), and I also saw that HBO has an documentary adaptation of "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief" coming out in a weeks. Should be good.
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Catassed "The Jinx" this afternoon.
:dead :dead :dead @ that ending
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To Catch a Trader is a whimsical examination of the machinations of our job creating titans of business acumen.
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http://m.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/550/three-miles
:( man that's really sad
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Watching Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room and the treatment of mark-to-market is absolutely ::). Muckrakers talking about accounting is :yuck.
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Did a yearly rewatch of Restrepo. Rawest documentary on the war with the Taliban and a great look at the effects of PTSD on platoons that constantly saw combat everyday. You can watch it on Netflix but I think I originally saw it on Youtube years back.
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Restrepo is one of my favorites of all-time.
Came across a doc called "Twin Sisters" last week. Its about Chinese twin girls that were adopted by two sets of parents from different parts of the world. It shows how they both grow up and what happens when they meet. Lots of interesting angles about nature/nurture and will definitely make you emotional.
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365338330/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COa2t_m1K7I
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Inside: Lego is a shallow work, but it's only 30 minutes long so there's really not much room for depth.
Worth a gander to see how hilariously wrong the company was about things, however. (e.g. They assumed girls didn't like building and marketed a lot of unsuccessful prefab sets to them. This product strategy was, of course, not founded upon any market research whatsoever.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUhisi2FBuw&feature=youtu.be
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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
watch this if you want to be a blubbering, sobbing wreck
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Inside: Lego is a shallow work, but it's only 30 minutes long so there's really not much room for depth.
Worth a gander to see how hilariously wrong the company was about things, however. (e.g. They assumed girls didn't like building and marketed a lot of unsuccessful prefab sets to them. This product strategy was, of course, not founded upon any market research whatsoever.)
Yeah, they’re still really, really wrong about marketing to girls. The Friends line was goofy-colors, and they’re just trying to repackage it with more of the same with Elves. I mean, c’mon: just pop out more female minifig hairstyles; hell, include them as optional pieces, since there are always a couple “gimme” freebies in any set.
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http://m.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/525/call-for-help
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I bought BBC Earf's Africa on Blu-Ray and started watching it.
That giraffe fight was pretty intense. :o
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http://observationdeck.io9.com/10-making-of-docs-that-are-better-than-the-actual-movie-1700210399/
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Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss' is a good one, too.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsBphHpOfd4&feature=youtu.be
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I'm in love with this. It's THE most American thing I've ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipYpHC1rxoY
Has it all. The small town origins. The big business. The looks, their fading and the clinging on to them. The money. The hilarious sales pitches. The grandeur. The acting like you care about people while thinking of everyone as mooches. The fat kids. The insane number of kids. The fast food. The bling. The neon lights. The kitsch. The gambling. The BIGGEST. The BEST.
:usacry :usacry :usacry
Edit: The scene starting at around 41 minutes is amazing. Like straight out of a parody.
Edit Edit: Damn, getting rather dark now...
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Yea, that was a great doc. I loved the random shots of neglected dog shit on the mansion floor. Such a fitting metaphor for it all.
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I enjoyed that documentary a heap. That timeshare douchebag also tried to sue the filmmakers afterward to get edits put in to make them (him) look less bad. He also has had to admit that his campaigning for Bush Jr. was probably a mistake, and Obama’s presidency has been part of what returned him to solvency. Diiiiiick.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqiKJ6GnXSU&index=2&list=PLPeHJNaHoEjOLTH4i3404ICz3koEWCxO2
No one makes history docs like the BBC. Just wish it was 24 hours long.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvPrP-8rOjA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfElkGLXbH8
pretty hard to watch. About post-war reprisals against Germans.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obama-at-war/
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http://serialpodcast.org/
Serial is really amazing. Up to episode 5.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QROEzCEd_Kg
We watched it in the Plug.DJ on Sunday, but here's a link for everyone else.
Oh one day you'll find yourself UP TO YOUR NECK in FALSE DRUGS, FALSE SEX, FALSE JOBS, FALSE MONEY, and you'll say "But where's B-Bob?? Where's Bob? You mean..you mean there really is a conspiracy? You mean there really was a Bob? You mean...you mean I COULDA HAD SLACK AND I BLEW IT!"
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Listening to serial makes me realize that if I ever got charged with something, I'd totally be convinced, regardless of innocence, based on my internet postings. Its like you make 500 jokes about murdering hookers and someone is going to find you weird.
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I really enjoyed Serial. It's amazing how it become the most popular podcast of all time. But it makes me feel a little bad for all the other podcasts that have been trucking away for years without a fraction of the recognition. Regardless, I'm definitely looking forward to the second installment this fall. Hopefully we finally find out what Mail Kimp is.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nASqSOtXkhk
I like this guy despite his obnoxiousness.
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The oldest daughter from The Queen of Versailles family died over the weekend. She was 18. No cause of death yet, but the police reported that she was "found unresponsive in her home" and that they "don't believe it was natural causes" so you can probably figure it out.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsC0b70wPzI
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The oldest daughter from The Queen of Versailles family died over the weekend. She was 18. No cause of death yet, but the police reported that she was "found unresponsive in her home" and that they "don't believe it was natural causes" so you can probably figure it out.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-victoria-siegel-death-versailles-20150609-story.html
I can't tell if this is one of their birth daughters, or the one they "adopted" (were raising); it also sounds like she was in a delicate situation and then bullied. Very sad.
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1vz96p_bbc-empire-warriors-1of4-mad-mitch-and-his-tribal-law_shortfilms
4 part series on the latter days of the british empire
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A look at small town american poverty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNp0AuPiZ3Y
:tocry
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDgRMdT1QVI
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WHERE IS MY FUCKING DEUTSCHLAND EMOTICON
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Calling Himu
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/growing-up-trans/
going to watch this now.
edit: o man that kids father is a self righteous ass. The whole family cant even look at each other.
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http://m.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/561/nummi-2015
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https://youtu.be/d4o13isDdfY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyqleIxXTpw
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Just watched The Price of Gold. Since I was a kiddo at the time, I really didn't know a lot of the story other than the attack. Interesting to get more of it.
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http://video.pbs.org/video/2365552604/
Coast guard stories from Katrina. Pretty awesome stuff.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_R77js3dQ4
haven't watched it yet
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZwEhLQKg4I
Coywolves going to eat your babies. I welcome this future.
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A look at small town american poverty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNp0AuPiZ3Y
:tocry
I caught this on Netflix today. It's a very good documentary and anyone who grew up in a small town or know people who grew up in a small town can relate very well to the people in this documentary. Although their situations are terrible and a display of the difficulties of social mobility in these towns, it was much worse 10-20 years ago when meth was ravaging small towns like this. Now the preferred small town drug are legal opiates and if they can't afford them, heroin/fentanyl. At first that might not seem like an improvement but now drug addicts just nod off in their crumbling houses instead of meth induced psychosis because they've been up for three straight nights in a row.
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Docs I watched recently:
Samsara: I've been to watch this forever. It sorta lived up to my expectations. It's non-narrative and non-verbal. It tries to explore themes such as wonders of the world and human society. Everything is exaggerated for effect and it works when it's not too contrived and unsubtle. 3.5/5
The Search for General Tso: I enjoyed this more than I expected. Initially I thought it was only going to cover the history of the General Tso Chicken dish, but it thankfully covered the historical context of Chinese American cuisine. 4/5
What Happened, Miss Simone?: This one broke my heart. I'm a recent big fan of Nina Simone but up until this doc I never looked into her backstory or the context of any politically fueled songs. It covers her rise (up until her civil rights association) and fall (continued paranoia bolstered by her mental illness, dishing/receiving physical and emotional abuse, etc.) 5/5 if you're a fan.
Somm: About 4 sommelier candidates on their quest to take the test. An interesting look into wine culture, specifically this area I never thought existed... and how douchebags are sometimes rewarded. Just kidding. Maybe. 3.5/5
How to Die in Oregon: I heard about this so much, and I finally watched it. It revolves around the Death With Dignity Act, used by terminally ill patients, and follows the lives of few people invested in it. It goes without saying that it will test your views on assisted suicide (and whether you want to continue using that term)... and also that it will make you cry. 4/5
The Circle: I'm not sure how many straight people will be interested in important piece of LGBT history, but I thought this one was a very strong production. It's not strictly a documentary, but more of a Docudrama. Real people retelling the story of the 1940s titular gay publication from Zurich, broken by a solid cast reenacting the events that culminated in how the mag was used as a scapegoat for a series of murders during that era. It's possibly my first view of European LGBT ordeals from the 20th century. 5/5 if you're gay
Bad Johnson: Just kidding. Fun fact tho: the writer, Jeff Tetreault, is a big, hot, douchy, straight go-go dancer with a very NSFW tumblr. 0/5 movie. 5/5 tumblr
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http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/565/lower-9-10
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http://www.vice.com/read/jeanie-finlay-orion-interview
I'd never heard of this Orion character before, but now I want to see this documentary.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61GmUYCzCzU
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just,_Melvin:_Just_Evil
this was such a hard watch
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just,_Melvin:_Just_Evil
this was such a hard watch
Weird that they didn't just gang up and put the beast down.
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The hardest part is that a lot of the girls still show affection for him. Hell even the 11 year cousin says 'well he is my grandpa so I will always love him'. Its really disturbing.
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Apocalypse: WW2 is pretty good. It's all color or colorized footage and told from a French perspective which is refreshing. There are a couple inaccuracies and the American version is narrated by Martin Sheen who cannot pronounce "Wermacht," but otherwise great stuff. It's six parts and is on Netflix and apparently YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RSCrvr6kBY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUbclpxMyYs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw_tClcS6To
this is damn good
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http://www.pbs.org/video/2365635287/
A modern history of food, pretty good.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4TenQxUVR4
New Homo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPv1sjMv37w
Turns out what came before the big bang was your mom
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-0G9-_v_Yo
this is still an interesting watch
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OLVpkSItTI
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PBS keeping em' coming. Really liked this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsz0_2pdTXk
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Just saw this at the film festival over here
https://www.nowness.com/story/waiting-for-b-beyonce (https://www.nowness.com/story/waiting-for-b-beyonce)
SUPER good. Really impressed.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNE7VPtvfbI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOCpo10zQlM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEq_1VSuT9U
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Any of y'all seen Where to Invade Next?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_GVkR0SITo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrTlI6seM0A
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/chasing-heroin/
Grew up with Oxycontin over prescription. I had no idea that over prescribing opiates was a recent thing.
Jesus, Drug courts. You give away your rights to a trail if you agree to these things. WTF.
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Tried watching The Look of Silence, but may not be able to finish it. It's a look back at the "communist purge" in Indonesia, largely centered around a man whose brother was killed in it. The men who murdered hundreds in his village are old, still in power, wealthy, and appear completely unrepentant about cooperatively mass-murdering a huge portion of their village. When questioned, they seem to casually threaten that just asking questions could get the interviewer killed. Documentary shows how winners write the history books, in this case continuing to educate the current generation of children by demonizing the mythical communists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA_ZHAs4M9k
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On the other side of the coin (Or COIN) you have the excellent S21 The Red Khmer Death Machine, which is equally chilling. It's not about old cronies but rather on the no name prison guards of what was a death camp (only 7 known survivors out of the thousands brought here). A former inmate (and recently deceased painter) make them reenact the thing in the camp abandoned premises. A discussion between one of the former guards and his parents give the same impression that nobody is too eager to reflect on that in the rural areas.
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The Birth Of Sake is out now on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-birth-of-sake/id1089311959). Started as a kickstarter project. Really really beautiful, but also a very human and intimate documentary. Recommended.
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On the other side of the coin (Or COIN) you have the excellent S21 The Red Khmer Death Machine, which is equally chilling. It's not about old cronies but rather on the no name prison guards of what was a death camp (only 7 known survivors out of the thousands brought here). A former inmate (and recently deceased painter) make them reenact the thing in the camp abandoned premises. A discussion between one of the former guards and his parents give the same impression that nobody is too eager to reflect on that in the rural areas.
I don't get the "COIN" reference... :-\
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On the other side of the coin (Or COIN) you have the excellent S21 The Red Khmer Death Machine, which is equally chilling. It's not about old cronies but rather on the no name prison guards of what was a death camp (only 7 known survivors out of the thousands brought here). A former inmate (and recently deceased painter) make them reenact the thing in the camp abandoned premises. A discussion between one of the former guards and his parents give the same impression that nobody is too eager to reflect on that in the rural areas.
I don't get the "COIN" reference... :-\
COIN is the abbreviation for Counter-Insurgency (http://kingsofwar.org.uk/2012/06/my-correct-views-on-coin/#more-7034), which is (or was ?) one the recently popular label for irregular warfare.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/saudi-arabia-uncovered/
SA sure sounds like a shitty country.
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On the other side of the coin (Or COIN) you have the excellent S21 The Red Khmer Death Machine, which is equally chilling. It's not about old cronies but rather on the no name prison guards of what was a death camp (only 7 known survivors out of the thousands brought here). A former inmate (and recently deceased painter) make them reenact the thing in the camp abandoned premises. A discussion between one of the former guards and his parents give the same impression that nobody is too eager to reflect on that in the rural areas.
In 2009 Michael Paterniti wrote a great article about lack of desire to confront the history of the Khmer Rouge http://www.gq.com/story/cambodia-khmer-rouge-michael-paterniti
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As you may have guessed with the article, Vann Nath is the painter I mention for the documentary.
That's a good paper. Depressing.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjnakAlF-s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q74ZZ8VUj6s
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https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-trap/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
Watched a few minutes, seems pretty cool. I like documentaries about China.
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I like this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqSGLqLFZsg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyHiUF8GhmI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD5Fp7rIna0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
this was great thanks for sharing
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48IznM5CEYs&feature=youtu.be
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPwb0-tYLWs
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/dollars-and-dentists/
:( this made me feel bad
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2uaaAHh1XI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAeXskZHC2o&feature=youtu.be
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/hypernormalisation-adam-curtis-bbc-documentary-to-look-at-why-the-world-is-so-hopelessly-fcked-a7322391.html
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Ava DuVernay's documentary about the prison industry in the U.S.
https://youtu.be/V66F3WU2CKk
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http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/597/one-last-thing-before-i-go?act=1#play
Ugly, ugly tears will ensue.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxXiQqul4io
10 to make you feel very sad.
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The Amanda Knox doc was good. The final clip of Nick Pisa's interview is baffling, what a jerkoff.
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http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/best-enemies-full-film/
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/hypernormalisation-adam-curtis-bbc-documentary-to-look-at-why-the-world-is-so-hopelessly-fcked-a7322391.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwUh-yVBV_Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvKUN1a2AHE
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/oct/09/adam-curtis-donald-trump-documentary-hypernormalisation
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFtsrjlsclQ
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Fantastic! I saw a preview for that last week or so, and am super hyped to watch it.
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(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTUxODA4NjE2MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwOTg4MTc3ODE@._V1_UY1200_CR90,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg)
Not sure if people talked about it earlier in the thread but I recommend this.
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yeah, watched it last night. it's a good look into a guy who probably has some sort of personality disorder. him watching clips of his televised 'interview' with lawrence odonnell was something else.; dude is in his own world... you also see some inner workings of campaigning, and how calculated and impersonal the process can be.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X75COneJ4w8&list=PL0crDwQFj-O1-u-zQK3m-FEH-gVgo9pJk
8 part series on history of africa, episode 6 is really good.
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From Vice: "Our latest doc exposes the life of a vigilante pedophile hunter."
https://video.vice.com/en_ca/video/age-of-consent/586c12d69436da9d5ff4c9b4?ref=vice?utm_source=vicecanadafbca&utm_campaign=global
I could see Glen Shinobi/AWESOM-O doing this during his spare time.
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CBS broadcast on d-day
https://archive.org/details/Complete_Broadcast_Day_D-Day
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFYIHwxY5dY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emqAGQW6HEA
75 days later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua_RVwuywvk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua_RVwuywvk)
Been itching to have an aquarium again, but was looking into something a little more enthusiast and elegant than your standard Petsmart set-up. Some of these aquascaping tanks are legit works of art.
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Saw Kirsten Johnson's "Cameraperson" yesterday at the film festival here. Very great. Recommended.
http://www.camerapersonfilm.com (http://www.camerapersonfilm.com)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aodCbmLjzI
very good
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBde7eTqwq0
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http://thedividedocumentary.com
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/21/the-divide-review-spirit-level-documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w8JrDILQBM
I enjoyed this, but it sure-as-fuck made me angrier about the world.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5gojIuL1q4
Such an amazing plane. Watched in awe as it performed its very first flight back in 2005, flying almost right above me :rejoice
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSaGMaA3eA4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7k-q21pJzQ
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Bump~
This thread is so good, I've been watching lots of weird shit posted here the past two days.
If anyone wants recommendations from Netflix, let me know! I'm worryingly into crime documentaries.
(I'll edit some links into this post later today.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_P7Y0-wgos
Really wanted to watch this but I can't understand his English. :'(
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_P7Y0-wgos
Really wanted to watch this but I can't understand his English. :'(
15:55... That agony of a sharp mind not being able to think any longer before it vanishes. Remarkable wife. Her describing to him his televised concert and how it moved so many people present was touching.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMoEs7eQeZE
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I dislike how they say women aren't visual. Visual. Just not as much as guys maybe. Also lol @ girls don't care about cock. Where do they get this shit?
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Long Shot on Netflix is a good watch. Short 40min watch but insightful and interesting.
Definitely not another murder crime doc... I'm not obsessed with those.. 🙄
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I like to think Long Shot is just long term viral marketing for the new season of Curb instead of your garden variety complete miscarriage of justice by the LAPD and DA
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I just finished the first episode of the recently premiered documentary series The Vietnam War, directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick - and it was really really good
I tend to be a bit wary when it comes to history documentaries but this doc managed quite well to maintain a good balance between entertainment and education, with excellent cinematography and haunting score.
The first episode deals with French Indochina, the First Indochina War and the subsequent division into North- and South Vietnam. It also explores how the US slowly but surely embroiled themselves in Vietnamese affairs. It ends with Kennedy's election and the founding of the Viet Cong. I really liked that there was a focus on the Viet Minh instead of just making it about the US involvement but apparently there were some that criticized the series’ general emphasis on North Vietnam while disregarding the South Vietnamese narrative.
I saw it on the French-German arts network ARTE and all episodes can still be watched on their website via stream but only until the following Thursday. I’m afraid they are all dubbed into French and German tho.
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/057385-001-A/vietnam-1-9/
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A tip for the handful of French and German peeps here: I just watched a really cool animated documentary (using cutout animations) on ARTE about the short period of Russian history in 1917, between the events leading to and the aftermath of the February Revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution in October, but from the point of view of the Russian intelligentsia, represented here by people like Gorki, Zinaida Gippius and other poets, journalists or painters.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/060131-000-A/octobre-1917-les-artistes-de-la-revolution/ (https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/060131-000-A/octobre-1917-les-artistes-de-la-revolution/)
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/060131-000-A/1917-die-kuenstler-und-die-revolution/ (https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/060131-000-A/1917-die-kuenstler-und-die-revolution/)
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Oh, neato. Thanks, man. That sounds interesting, and Arte is always worth a watch.
Cripes, my video backlog is worse than my video game backlog.
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Yeah, ARTE is great. I used to follow that channel more regularly but since the advent of Netflix in the last few years I've kinda started to ignore old fashioned television, so I decided to at least visit their website and video library more often.
Keep in mind that their videos are only available for about four weeks or so, though that doc is still new and can be watched until December.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOiLPbexgWk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc-QqOIvq5I
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I havent posted anything yet, but this is my favorite thread, i just want you all to know i;ve been leaching from you since day 1
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Watched this one the other day and thought it was pretty good 👍👍
https://youtu.be/yxLByThNvWU
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Ants :rejoice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEx6bTFS06g
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On Netflix (in Europe at least) they've recently added 'The Apocalypse' a series of documentaries about WW1/WW2 and related events such as the rise of Stalin originally created in France.
I highly recommend it as it goes into quite a bit of detail regarding the background of certain actions/battles and events.
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Watched the 'Five who came back' on Netflix.
A documentary about WW2 documentaries (so meta). With that said it was great to watch the allied film effort during the war.
In fact, it rekindled my interest in Frank Capra's 'Why we Fight' series. A series of 7 films he made to prepare US soldiers for the war they were to fight.
I hadn't realized this before but the films are almost entirely made using Axis (Nazi/Japanese) propaganda and news reels. Turning their own footage against them.
It's quite devious and brilliant and had never been done before. Also interesting to hear him say he felt like the Allies could never win, because he had watched the Triumph of the Will and other propaganda films.
The Axis had fully prepared their armies and literally bred them from youth groups to fight this war and they were all willing to die for their cause.
While the Allies, especially the Americans literally pulled boys from the street to go and fight somewhere overseas.
His goal with the films was to show just how formidable the enemy was but also to boost their morale into thinking they could win even though he knew the situation in theory was hopeless.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th-L1lmQfYE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNUYGRn3W9Q
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When I figure out how, I'm going to watch PBS' documentary Civilizations, which is a spiritual successor to the documentary Civilization.
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Lemme know if it's worth the time.
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Short and touching. Sadly after someone noticed him and thought he was too frail authorities nabbed him and wouldn't let him return, after living there for nearly 30 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMeBauA1um4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pjUNZSajuE
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6400730/
really great series
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZDm0yM8hM
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https://www.netflix.com/title/70281117
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmSircOd1w4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in--_OWfTd4
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I watched that thing with John McAfee on Netflix.
Holy shit, goals af :doge
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-4E_VUHKL0
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Watched the Netflix Fyre Festival doc and my main takeaway is "Jesus they self documented their crimes on video".
:neogaf
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs
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https://youtu.be/9Rah1F1zq1k
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Watched The Great Hack on Netflix
Interesting how a pawg that started out as an Obama intern and unpaid human rights activist in the Clinton/Obama orbit started to work for Cambridge Analytica because Nix offered her a high paying job.
The documentary actually raises more questions than answers but it is nice to actually have some CA guys on the record. With that said, it seems like it has gone 'underground' now and won't have a company seeking publicity behind it.
That need for publicity of course also raises questions about CA (are they bluffing about the effectiveness of their data and campaigns?).
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Did not see it mentioned but to correct Phoenix Dark. The greatest sports documentary and one of the top 10 documentaries ever is Hoop Dreams. It's was a rare look inside two kids growing up in the inner city and the challenges they faced, when it was release in 1993. Both kids from broken(ish) homes. One gets bused to a private school on a free ride, the other stays at a public school. Disney would have a hard time dreaming up the ending. Best part of the doc is when Arthur's mom graduates top of the class from Nursing school, despite all the hardships. Can't find it free but I am sure you guys have ways. For me it is easily worth the $4 renal from Amazon. etc. It's also a long ride at just under three hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scFTAyjs2cc
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If you guys have a chance to watch this, please do. Big balls on display. It's on bbc (uk vpn) or dr.dk (danish vpn). or just get it here https://mega.nz/folder/Qo4DEAZQ#WHgJVyUMqTkBYz5w-sqjKg
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13243898/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7ca_cZbIBY
It's absolutely fucking insane. A random dumb ass danish guy literally spent 10 years infiltrating North Korea and their arms dealings... . Him and another guy gets really deep into it all, buying islands in Uganda and all that good fun.
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https://youtu.be/AfygCVvW-lc
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https://youtu.be/Yp0MrJo0m88
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https://youtu.be/FFVefuKGT4Y
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I've been watching lots of Soft White Underbelly lately. This one was really hard to watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mysbsbKD6d8