Can we start an all-time best documentary thread?
Does anyone have a chart or list of great documentaries? Feel free to just drop your personal favorites I’ll add them to my backlog.
For context, I recently watched Empire of Dust and I’m about to watch into Grizzly Man today.
Buck Breaking (2021) is a must see, really opened my eyes to the plight of African Americans at the hands of the white man historically and to this very day.
into Grizzly Man
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Grizzly Man
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He fucks the bears
That was a typo.
I kek'd
everything Herzog
Most things by Werner, Louis Theroux and Adam Curtis are worth watching. Julien Temple made a few good ones, Glastonbury (2006) is amazing if you can find it and like music.Im lining up some Chantal Akerman documentaries, you cant really go wrong with most artist come filmaker ones but theres a wealth of tv syndicated stuff out there. I used to love this series on the BBC called Horizon youtube.com
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
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Devil At Your Heels - Canadian stunt driver dreams of jumping the St Lawrence river. FFO Trailer Park Boys
Everyone always post this exact same answer: Werner Herzog.
Im starting to believe its true, what would be his worst, easy to avoid?
What's more, I would fight for the Confederacy today if the circumstances were similar...States' rights is not just a theoretical excuse for oppressing people. You have to understand that the raggedy Confederate soldier who owned no slaves and probably couldn't even read the Constitution, let alone understand it, when he was captured by Union soldiers and asked, 'What are you fighting for?' replied, 'I'm fighting because you're down here.' So I certainly would have fought to keep people from invading my native state."
I dont think Werner has made any bad ones really, i think the ones about people dealing with extremes are some of his best, so like Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Into the Abyss and The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner are a few of my favorites. Secrets of the Tribe en.wikipedia.org
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987)
Do not google anything about it. I think there are some torrents of it. It's only a DVDrip.
This is the most "I can't believe this is a real person" doc ever made. It's so unique and bizarre I guarantee you will be fucking flabbergasted by the end of it.
Encounters at the End of the World is my favourite Herzog doc. So comfy. Made me want to get a temp job in Antarctica some day.
Paris is Burning
I Think We're Alone Now
Reindeerspotting
american movie (1999)
last train home (2009)
abducted in plain sight (2017)
hearts of darkness (1991)
the king of kong (2007)
man on wire (2008)
9/11 (2002)
searching for sugar man (2012)
Would you consider docufiction an antithesis or subgenre? My favorites would be Close-Up (Kiarrostami), Colossal Youth (Costa), and The Five Obstructions (Von Trier). I love how they shine a light on how thin the difference between construct and concept can be.
Adam Curtis
this nigga's docos are incoherent messes. all style, no (coherent) substance. he's like the opposite of herzog. htf do people watch his shit?
Fog of War
Chickenhawk
Hated
American Dharma
The Act of Killing
Battlefield (Episode 3: Midway)
Also, almost any documentary I've seen about Professional Wrestling. I never liked or watched wrestling but pretty much every documentary I've even seen about a wrestler has been kino.
The ones he made in the 80's, 90's, 00's are mostly pretty good, but yeah he stopped interviewing people in his more recent ones and i dont like those as much but go watch the Mayfair set or the The Great British Housing Disaster, they are not inchoerent and less esoteric babbling
Cave of Bones (2023) was really interesting to me, it might be to (you) too if you're into archeology/anthropology.
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If you can find this guys documentaries they are worth a watch
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OJ Simpson: Made in America
Three Identical Strangers
Oh fug I made another docu thread without seeing this one. My bad OP. My top two right now are The Death of Yugoslavia and The Dying Rooms, both from 1995.
Secrets of the Tribe
Is this some white guilt shit?
Hated
The Allins was good too
Also, Metal: A Headbanger's Journey and following movie and series.
You're too low IQ
He swung from one extreme warmongering militarized culture to the postwar repressed imposed mass amnesia. Don quixote had nothing on the guy
Streetwise 1984 is a classic. Tho my feelings towards leftist do activists is no longer kosher
80 Blocks From Tiffany's, about NYC street gangs in 1979
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Surprised no one has mentioned Crumb (1994). There have been quality threads dedicated to its discussion.
Africa Addio will always be the GOAT shockumentary, but The Killing of America was also fairly good. I haven’t seen the Japanese cut though.
Idiocracy (2006)
I liked this one a lot, just one of those incredibly messy film productions with a lot of ridiculous scenarios and melodrama.
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The World at War
all-time best documentary thread
Everybody really out to check out "Jodorowsky's Dune", even if you're not into documentaries it's a great film.
dying so the 1%er plantation class can have black slaves
Crazy thing is, it wasn’t supposed to be
Love Has Won was good. It’s definitely got that streaming service stink on it but it’s better than all that viral bait tiger king shit
Poor Southerners fought because the Northerners were psychos who wanted to invade and free all the blacks to give them equal rights.
How to Die in Oregon
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I liked the style of this one
Anyone see the tylenol murders on netflix?
That Lewis guy was shady af but I don't think he did it, I think he tried to capitalize on the crime to get money
i freakin love Ken Burns documentaries
A couple of uniquely American documentaries are "Tales of Rat Fink", the story of Ed Roth and his contributions to hot rodding in America from the 1950s onward. Ed "Big Daddy" Roth caused a shift in mid-20th-century culture through his artwork and custom cars.
The other documentary is "On Any Sunday", the Bruce Brown film about motorcycle racing in the 1970s as seen from the saddle of actual racers. The film was shot by Brown but mainly produced by Steve McQueen who appears in it.
I really enjoyed this one
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the new Da Vinci one is great
the ones on prohibition and lewis & clark tie for my favorites
the pbs pass app is probably the best cost-value deal in streaming
R. Crumb is a Anon Babble anon in spirit, right down to his architectural tastes.
Fog of War
spoiler: he tried to science the hell out of this war but failed
Melissa is eating her babies!
This retard really thought he had a connection with these animals. He should've been sectioned under the mental illness act