Anyone care to recommend an interesting documentary?
 

I am really into it all when it comes to docs. I just got Netflix so I've been on a kick watching one documentary a night. So far I've seen:

Spellbound - documentary about spelling bee kids.
e-dreams - kosmo.com eventual fallout
startup.com - govworks.com eventual fallout
The Smartest People In The Room - enron doc.

Now I need more. :mad: :thumbsup

I have a few.

9/11 - depressing but the best documentary about that day, only footage from towers
Favela Rising - Rio De Janeiro's AfroReggae movement w/ amazing personal story
Paper Clips - Tennessee students collect 6 million paper clips to understand Holocaust
Rize - dope doc about "krumping"

These are some great documentaries. Hope you enjoy them.

Cocaine Cowboys..

edit.. btw go to PBS.org and to the Frontline show.. they have tons of good ones online.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/

just posted this one::
http://www.fancast.com/tv/Inside-a-Cult/101846/main

also coke cowboys 2

I have seen this before I got netflix, very interesting.

Tonight I ended up watching Word Wars a documentary about Scrabble players, I will really check out anything, keep em coming.

Bigger Stronger Faster is a HELL of a documentary on steroids and I've watched it a few times already. Seriously, you won't be disappointed...:2 cents:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1151309/

You HAVE to check out King of Kong. :thumbsup:thumbsup

Capturing the Friedmans really sucked me in. You can stream it from Netflix.

One of the best I've ever seen, it caught me completely off guard...

well netflix might have a few of these.. I saw the gulf war one and the Plan Colombia one.. both were pretty interresting.

http://www.freewillprod.com/Catalog.htm

yeah very intense

there is a part two?

I will definitely put this on the list. I was ranked top 10 in the nation for DDR players when I was sixteen (six years go). I didn't play any sports in high school, but I was good at a stupid video game and made a decent some of money from it. :1orglaugh Thanks.

outstanding documentary about Norwegian Black Metal focusing on Gaahl and Satanism and church burnings

it is a gripping story of this interesting man who is the singer for Gorgoroth and has spent time in jail for torture and forcing his victim to drink his own blood (the guy started the fight, Gaahl ended it)


Great Documentary, and the ending is as intense as it is disturbing: (click 'skip ad' when it first starts)

http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=3009727001

Out Foxed.
Jesus Camp (this is one is jaw dropping)

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price - After watching this one I no longer buy there.

Super High Me - Very entertaining AND enlightening.

Maxed Out - VERY GOOD and shows the corrupt nature of credit card companies

The Business Of Being Born

Have you ever seen, 'City of God'. Its not really a docum, but a movie based on a true story.


Then there is always, Hookers at the Point, from HBO :)

d-null, I love metal as I know you do too and will certainly put that on the list. Was almost going to watch it tonight.

Warchild, I saw Jesus Camp and it is definitely up there among my top favorite docs. I will have to check out Out Foxed.

Darkland, I saw Super High Me, despite the fact that I'm not a big user or anything but I definitely thought it was hilarious. Not too much useful information, was more or less good for a laugh and I still enjoyed it.

Like I said, I love docs, keep em coming guys. :)

I just watched a documentary called "dark days" on netflix streaming..It's about homeless people who made their own community in the dark Amtrak tunnels under New York City...It's amazing what people can adapt to...

Some of them actually had a comfortable shack down there with electricity and everything.

I have not seen City of God but I have been told multiple times to do so, will add that to the list, thanks man. :thumbsup

I saw that one too. I thought it was decent. Certainly an interesting way to live, but it didn't do much for me overall.

Forgot to mention a couple of me favs:

Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride

and

Gonzo: The Life and Work Of Hunter S Thompson

awesome, even for people that don't like metal, this documentary is extremely well done and thought provoking on religion and nature and the cold northern country, really entertaining half hour, will disturb some I'm sure :thumbsup

Thx for link ... had been looking for this movie but had forgotten the name :)

Platypus - World's Strangest Animal

Word Wars

about pro Scrabble players, its outstanding

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ars_poster.jpg

I just finished a few about classic video games and pinball... yeah geeky, but pretty interesting if you're into that sort of thing.

King of Kong - A fistful of quarters
Chasing Ghosts - Beyond the arcade
Tilt - The battle to save pinball

King of Kong is amazing.

That was my recommendation, i loved that doc....

Breaking into someones garage and testing their donkey kong machine for officialdom because they have the highest score... classic

sound cool

Wow, that guy that was going around announcing the Donkey Kong kill screen, how annoying. Props to the guy going on anyways.

People were treating it like the guy found a cure for cancer, it was fantastic.

It was a great watch, thanks for the guy that originally mentioned it. It's a shame the bearded guy never took him up on a live match. When I competed, I beat the number 1 player, lost to a guy that was ranked around 64th, shit just happened... it's all apart of the competitive nature of the sport and that's essentially what really makes things fun and interesting. Similar things happen a lot in tennis.

Can't wait to go through these posts some more, although now it is time for bed. :)

thread bookmarked, great suggestions in this thread :thumbsup

not sure if anyone mentioned it before but "web dreams" series is pretty good...

amazing movieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

cidade de deus é bom pracaraio!

Supersize Me!

esoteric agenda

Scratch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143861/
American Pimp http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179074/
Roger & Me http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098213/

Who Killed the Electric Car?
What the BLEEP do we know?
Bush's Brain

yeah he seemed pretty sick of those kids at the end

Check this man Zeitgeist you will like that

Well, I recommend 'Space' documentary, I've watched on BBC and I thought very interesting, like 'Blackholes', 'supernova', 'aliens', just amazing... I really recommend you ;)

The Money Masters

:1orglaugh

the one dude that they show earlier in the documentary smoking a cigarette outside Gaahl's house and complaining about having to walk through a field of mud to get to the outhouse to take a shit is the same producer that starts crying and whining that he is going to faint climbing the mountain too, pretty funny city slicker kid almost passing out on a Norwegian nature walk :1orglaugh