Need Documentaries for my Netflix queue

[Anonymous]

Mardi Gras -- Made in China. It goes inside the Chinese factories that make Mardi Gras beads and shows the workers' lives and contrasts it to the lives of the people in New Orleans enjoying the beads. Fascinating and thought provoking.

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Hands on a Hard Body -- about contenstants in one of those contests where the person who keeps his hand on a car for the longest time wins the car.

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I am not even a Dixie Chicks fan, but "Shut Up and Sing" is facinating. It's a Barbara Kopple doc and really you can't go wrong with anything she's done.

Also


Herb and Dorothy (2008)

About a middle class couple who became major art collectors, collecting Chuck Close, Sol LeWit etc (she was a school teacher and he worked in a post office if I remember correctly). I was skeptical that it would be good but saw it when it won a big award at AFI's Silver Docs festival and it's really great. Also, they have donated a lot of their art to the Nat'l Gallery, so now it's cool to go see the art they donated on the walls of the museum and think back to the documentary. Also they are this very sweet old couple who are still totally in love, so it's just very cute to watch!!!!

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Gasland
Spellbound
Nursery University

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Cracking the Maya Code (how they figured out the meaning of the glyphs)
SuperSixe Me! I haven't given up fast food, but I buy smaller everything and share with others.

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War Dance!
was up for an oscar, and was done by a local couple: Sean and Andrea Fine

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Word Wars - on the national Scrabble competition.

Helvetica - on the font. I haven't seen it yet, but want to. It's supposed to be good.

And unless I missed it, I'm surprised no one's suggested the Planet Earth series yet. Gorgeous.

[Anonymous]

I second "Spellbound" and "Hands on a Hard Body"!

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I second Word Wars

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I second Word War

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Ken Burns Civil War
Super Size Me
Born into Brothels

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Food Inc.

Changed my life - very well done.

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Spellbound
Tying the Knot
Business of Being Born
Super Size Me
Eyes On The Prize (impossible to rent, but still available on VHS from some libraries)
Mad Hot Ballroom
Winged Migration (not a true documentary, as the birds are trained to fly with light aircraft, but still great)

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I was not a fan of Born into brothels
I liked Sins of my Father
To Be and to Have
Capturing the Friedmans

[Anonymous]

I second "To Be and To Have"