Recommend a documentary

Richard B Riddick

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Recommend me a good documentary. :ohshit:

I have the Bob Marley documentary entitled: Marley and one called Farmageddon which claims someone got rid of their allergies and asthma by consuming healthier food I'm planning to watch later.

Good stuff I've already seen:


The Perfect Vagina

Lisa Rogers investigates vaginal cosmetic surgery and why more and more women consider this surgical procedure.


Nightmares in Red, White and Blue


An exploration of the appeal of horror films, with interviews of many legendary directors in the genre.


The Pixar Story


A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company's relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hits. The contributions of John Lasseter, Ed Catmull and Steve Jobs are profiled. The decline of two-dimensional animation is chronicled as three-dimensional animation rises. Hard work and creativity seem to share the screen in equal proportions.


Tales from the Script


War stories and life lessons from the industry's top writers.


Gasland

It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas." Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called "fracking"-and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.


Dealers in Death

This documentary film is a pacifistic polemic that presents the argument that the world's largest munitions works, principally those in Europe, work in conjunction with one another, even when their countries are wartime enemies. These munitions works, in the interest of making money, manipulate wartime conditions to prolong wars.


The Ghost in Your Genes

A documentary chronicling the latest breakthroughs in genetics & the implications it poses for us all.

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A documentary on Michael Ruppert, a police officer turned independent reporter who predicted the financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness.


Who Killed the Electric Car?

A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.


How Weed Won the West

With California and the rest of the country going bankrupt, one business is booming. 'How Weed Won the West' is the story of the growing Medical Marijuana industry, focusing on Los Angeles with over 700 legal dispensaries doling out the buds. Following the story of Organica, a southland dispensary which was raided by state and federal agencies in August of 2009, the film shows that although much has changed with Obama in office, the drug war is nowhere near over. Kevin Booth, producer/director of American Drug War, picks up where the last film left off and continues his fight against the hypocrisy of the War on Drugs.


I.O.U.S.A.

Few are aware that America may be on the brink of a financial meltdown. I.O.U.S.A. explores the country's shocking current fiscal condition and ways to avoid a national economic disaster.
 
The documentary series Voyage to the Planets was one I really enjoyed a lot if you're into space and stuff. I dunno if you are but I will tell you about it anyway.
Each episode is about each of the main planets and then the last ep is about some of the newly discovered ones in other galaxies.

It's really great and informative and I didn't get bored at all :hmmm: and I have a short attention span.
I think if you're bored one day you should give it a go, even if you're not really interested in space and what's out there.

Otherwise the david attenborough ones are always good :hmmm: specially the one about the deep sea animals that not many people know of :hmmm:
 
i recommend the classic albums series. these documentaries take you inside as to how great albums by notable groups were put together. iron maiden's number of the beast, rush's 2112 and moving pictures, sex pistols' never mind the bollocks, motor head's ace of spades. just to name a few.
for me my taste is musical documentaries mostly. i love learning how bands came together, where their influences came from and why the are where they are today.
 
i recommend the classic albums series. these documentaries take you inside as to how great albums by notable groups were put together. iron maiden's number of the beast, rush's 2112 and moving pictures, sex pistols' never mind the bollocks, motor head's ace of spades. just to name a few.
for me my taste is musical documentaries mostly. i love learning how bands came together, where their influences came from and why the are where they are today.
I second this.

Also, if your a person who's music taste is inclined towards the hard and heavy, give the 'Metal Evolution' series and 'Global Metal', 'Metal: A Headbanger's Journey' and 'Iron Maiden: Flight 666' films a go. All done by a guy called Sam Dunn. Very good stuff!

I'd also look at 'Lemmy: 49% Motherfucker, 51% Son of a Bitch', 'God Bless Ozzy Osbourne' and 'Kurt & Courtney'. Again all very good and informative films on their subjects.
 
Kurt & courtney i saw. thats the one where courtney read kurts suicide note.. very disturbing in my opinion.. metal: a head bangers journey spun off to a series. i loved that documentary and learned a lot about the music and the scene's i also liked rush's r30. where they talked about the entire bands career, including neal pearts trip after his wife's and daughters death.. that was sad. but what came from it all was a great album in vapor trails as he wrote the album while he was on his journey.
 
banksy's exit through the giftshop was really interesting. it starts out as a documentary about banksy, but he managed to turn it around on the guy who was shooting it and exposed him for making banksy's style of street art into a commercial money-making thing. i'm not a huge documentary fan, so i don't think i would ever rewatch it again in a hurry, but it's worth at least watching once.


and of course, everyone knows that terminator is a documentary about the life of arnie :monster:
 
Catfish

It's about a photographer who gets sent a painting by a ten year old girl, of one of his photos. So he gets talking to her and her family on facebook. He and the girl's older sister fall for each other. His brother is a filmaker and documents this whole thing. Then they start to realise that some things don't quite add up, and everything is not as it seems. So it becomes an investigation into who the girl really is. It was just phenomenal
 
Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Green. It's a really interesting look into what space is made of, how time works and the possibility of multiple universes.
 
Catfish

It's about a photographer who gets sent a painting by a ten year old girl, of one of his photos. So he gets talking to her and her family on facebook. He and the girl's older sister fall for each other. His brother is a filmaker and documents this whole thing. Then they start to realise that some things don't quite add up, and everything is not as it seems. So it becomes an investigation into who the girl really is. It was just phenomenal
to second this, catfish was excellent. although there's a lot of debate about how genuine it was. apparently they filmed the end first, then made the rest up for a more dramatic finish. either way it's still worth watching.
 
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