What is the best documentary you have ever seen?

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Anonymous wrote:I am a documentary junkie. Any suggestions?


My latest favorite was The Imposter. So many questions! I want an update.

Also many people say "DO NOT WATCH DEAR ZACHARY IT WILL MESS YOU UP FOR LIFE" however I find it to be a brilliant documentary and think it is worth viewing.

I think Just Melvin, Just Evil has the ability to mess with you, especially if you can make it through to the end.

***SPOILER*** Also trigger warning




The end... at the funeral... I was sick to my stomach. Those poor broken women. I don't see any hope for them. I think he was still having a sexual relationship with his "favorite" youngest daughter too, even though only the intellectually disabled one admitted that he was still raping her and *barf* paying her a dollar because he could "get it all the way in" now.

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Tupac: Resurrection
I am not a fan of Tupac or rap music or documentaries - usually. But this was well made and thought provoking. I am a white 41 year old woman if that matters.

There was also a documentary i saw on HBO that was about transgendered people - I can't remember the name if it but came out around the same time as the book Middlesex (which I tried to read but gave up on). The HBO documentary profiled 2 or 3 people in different stages of reassignment. Incredibly sensitive and non-exploitative of these people - and educational for the rest of us.

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There were a couple Frontline episodes that were extremely powerful. The one about the Little Rascals Daycare scandal. Also the one about pornograghy.

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The Dark Matter of Love-- about a family who adopts 3 Russian orphans at once.

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God Grw Tired of Us - about the lost boys of Sudan. Very moving.

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Ken Burns' The Civil War
Mad Hot Ballroom
7-up series
Black to the Promised Land

I love sports documentaries particularly:
Ken Burns' Baseball
Murderball
Hoop Dreams
Requiem for the Big East
Unguarded (not to be missed--absolutely riveting)
You Don't Know Bo

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Life According to Sam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5hm44x7ICA

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When We Were Kings

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Documentary NOW! Long Reign Queen Helen!

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Definitely: "Hoop Dreams"

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Innocence Lost produced by Ofrah Bikel

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Frontline: American Porn

Warning: not for the faint hearted

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There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane-- that movie just haunted me.

Blackfish-- so powerful.

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Balseros is amazing

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Waste Land is my favorite film ever:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/waste-land/