Documentaries

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Documentaries

What are some of your favorite documentaries? Any you'd strongly recommend for others?

Titicut Follies. One of the only films ever banned in America. It's amazing.

Good luck finding it, though. It's nearly impossible to find.

Originally posted by BackFire
Titicut Follies. One of the only films ever banned in America. It's amazing.

Good luck finding it, though. It's nearly impossible to find.

And what's that about?

Titicut Follies is a black and white 1967 documentary film by Frederick Wiseman about the treatment of patients at Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Originally posted by Selphie
And what's that about?

Documentary about a how the patients in a mental institution are treated and abused.

Hehe, Titty**** jollies...weird name.

I really want to see Titicut Follies.

Some I like:

The Corporation
Grizzly Man
Spellbound
The Aileen Wuornos ones by Nick Broomfield
Bowling for Columbine, and Sicko
Koyaanisqatsi
Etre et avoir

F*ck - about the word f*ck

The Bridge - about how the Golden Gate Bridge is the world's #1 suicide site and how people from all over the globe travel there to commit suicide. It even has actual footage of jumpers.

The Question of God - a docu about Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis and their respective atheist beliefs, even though Lewis converted to Christianity.

Metal: A Headbangers Journey - About the origins and inspirations of heavy metal from it's beginning to as it is now. Very fun to watch, if you're a metalhead, like me.

night and fog...perhaps the best and most powerful documentary ever made...it's a french film about the holocaust...magnificent

the last tommy...a documentary about the last 6 surviving WW1 soldiers of the British army

planet earth...goes without saying...the best nature documentary ever made and the big screen version looks spectacular

Heima: Sigur Ros documentary...brilliant

rain in my heart: story of 4 severe alcoholics and their battle with drink and their stories of why they drink

A few of my favorites

paradise lost; the child murders at Robin Hood Hills
Paradise lost 2; Revelations
Iceman; Confessions of a serial killer
Waco: the rules of engagement

Oo Sigur Ros one for me too, totally forgot about that dvd.

The King Of Kong
The Bridge
Hearts Of Darkness

And then there's this one doc I watched a few years ago where some guy documented his life from when he was eight years old until he was in his twenties and he was gay and his parents beat him and neglected him and stuff, it was quite compelling, but I don't remember it's name.

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
A few of my favorites

paradise lost; the child murders at Robin Hood Hills
Paradise lost 2; Revelations
Iceman; Confessions of a serial killer
Waco: the rules of engagement

Paradise lost.........would this be about the West Memphis Three?

Originally posted by Selphie
Paradise lost.........would this be about the West Memphis Three?

yep

Originally posted by MildPossession
Oo Sigur Ros one for me too, totally forgot about that dvd.

what is that about?

I'm a bigger fan of the obscure and bizarre world of documentaries.

There is Shocking Asia which I saw when I was a teen. Pretty bizarre back then for me.

Then there is the most sickest doc ever filmed which is call Shocking Africa or Africa Adiou. I've seen the 83 min. version which is heavy cut and is pretty disturbing enough. The 124 minutes version is known to have the most offensive material and remains banned in most countries.

Believe me I'm not exaggerating...it was sicker than Cannibal Holocaust and Men Behind the Sun and Cannibal Ferox put together. This stuff looked real to me. Good luck trying to find it if you're into been disgusted.

Independence Day.

Re: Documentaries

Originally posted by Selphie
What are some of your favorite documentaries? Any you'd strongly recommend for others?

The Root of All Evil?

I don't really remember the title of this documentary but it was a film about poverty and how it affects children who are forced to work instead of play.

There was another documentary about the causes of climate change which was shown to us once during one of or Social Science class. It was a really comprehensive documentray, in my opinion.

And then there's this one doc I watched a few years ago where some guy documented his life from when he was eight years old until he was in his twenties and he was gay and his parents beat him and neglected him and stuff, it was quite compelling, but I don't remember it's name.

Ah how could I forget that! It's called Tarnation.