Recommend must see documentaries?

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Anonymous wrote:I just watched College Behind Bars which is available free on PBS about the Bard Prison Initiative. It's four episodes. If you're not up for four, I'd start with episode 3 which focuses on students working on the final theses.

Nice do they talk about the debate team beating harvard’s Debate team.

Oh yes! The debate team is featured in episodes 3 and 4 and the Harvard debate is in episode 4. Great story!

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Anonymous wrote:The 7-up series
From Britain. The latest installment has just been released. Netflix has it I think.

No way! I watched that ages ago....I guess 7 + years ago! will look for the next installment

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American Factory

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Anonymous wrote:The Keepers on Netflix. It is about a nun who was found dead in Baltimote in 1969. 'Students of hers did this investigative work uncovering priest abuse.

I was especially riveted, as a former Catholic. It made me absolutely furious.

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If you’re interested in alcoholism at all, Rain in my Heart is amazing/heartbreaking

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Anonymous wrote:The 7-up series
From Britain. The latest installment has just been released. Netflix has it I think.

No way! I watched that ages ago....I guess 7 + years ago! will look for the next installment

Same! Hoping everyone has fared ok over the past 7 years!

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Anonymous wrote:Rotten tomatoes has a top 100 documentaries list. I agree and have seen most of them!!

Now if someone can help me. There was a movie about a man who became a famous architect in NYC, involved in Empire State Building etc. he started as a young boxer and was self taught as an architect. Does anyone know this film. It was so touching. About his whole life. He was a delightful man.

I don’t know that one but years ago I saw My Architect:

Louis Kahn, a giant among twentieth-century architects, left a legacy of brilliantly designed and engineered buildings that have a tough beauty and deep spirit. His work challenges us to discover an astonishing sensibility and poetry through light, space, and texture. Kahn's personal life was even more mysterious, and his death, alone and unidentified in Penn Station in 1974, revealed that he led not a double but a triple life, shuttling between his legitimate family and two women and the children they bore him. One of these, his son Nathaniel, takes us on a personal journey to consider the contradictions of this complicated genius and eccentric parent.

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I second “Making a Murderer.”
Best. Documentary. Ever.
Especially the first season.

And you just have to watch the R. Kelly one.

Yes, the Frye Festival on Netflix is pretty good.
I love cats personally & have heard the Netflix documentary is pretty graphic so may not watch it.

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For lighter fare Jiro Dreams of Sushi

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First Position

Follows the lives of 4 teenage ballet superstars

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There is a documentary on Amazon Prime about Harrow school in London which was very interesting! I also liked Country Boys and Poor Kids. The documentary that made me first get Netflix was Dear Zachary which was a tearjerker. I like documentaries about kids so send your suggestions my way. Thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:There is a documentary on Amazon Prime about Harrow school in London which was very interesting! I also liked Country Boys and Poor Kids. The documentary that made me first get Netflix was Dear Zachary which was a tearjerker. I like documentaries about kids so send your suggestions my way. Thanks!

Have you watched Spellbound about the national spelling bee?

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No I haven't. I'll check it out. Thanks!

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Biggest Little Farm
American Factory
Human Nature
Strong Island
Chicken People

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Far From The Tree was excellent and recently
Linda Ronstadt's documentary