Need Documentaries for my Netflix queue

[Anonymous]

Crumb

This guy is fascinating. Robert Crumb is a controversal cartoonist/artist and just a unique and talented oddball with a sense of humor that is so sick.... you have to watch it to understand. He would probably be diagnosed with some sort of spectrum disorder nowadays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mockumentaries: Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind, Incident at Loch Ness

And Best in Show and Spinal Tap, of course!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Warning: I tend to like dark documentaries:

'Stevie' -- the director of 'Hoop Dreams' goes back to find out what happened to Stevie, a kid he mentored while in film school.

'Dear Zachary' -- this one is really disturbing. Only rent it if you are feeling up to it.

'Capturing the Freidmans'

I just finished 'Dear Zachary'. Wow.. Heartbreaking.

[Anonymous]

The Hobart Shakespeareans
Paper Clips
Exit Through the Gift Shop

also, these movies based on true stories - be sure and watch the special features:

Shattered Glass
Taking Chance

[Anonymous]

I watched Maxed Out last weekend. It is all about the credit card mess many Americans find themselves in. Very interesting. Dear Zachary was the reason I joined Netflix. Very compelling but make sure you have tissues ready.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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)

Would agree with other PPs to add:
King of Kong
When We Were Kings
Bowling for Columbine (the least political and best of his films, IMO)
the Walmart movie

And, I'm curious about which ones you went with, OP!

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penguinsix wrote:Hoop Dreams. One your DH will watch with you.

Same probably true of When We Were Kings.

[Anonymous]

OP here -
Here's my list:
Waiting for "Superman"
Raising Cain
The Lottery
49 and Up
les Paul: Chasing Sound (for my guitar playing DH)
Frontline: Sick Around the World
Faces of America
Murderball
Ken Burns: The West
Frontline: College Inc
The meaning of Food
Babies
Man on Wire
Stevie
Word Wars
Maxed Out
Killer at Large: Why Obesity...
The Brain Fitness Program
Mad Hot Ballroom
Paper Clips
To Be and To Have
Frontline: The Vaccine War
Planet Earth
In the Womb
Inside the Living Body
The Human Face
Secret Life of the Brain

I'm noticing a trend in my picks...

[Anonymous]

Ooops - forgot When We Were Kings!

[Anonymous]

One I was surprised to find fascinating is Dogtown and Z-Boys, which is about the history of skateboarding. Not a subject I have much interest in at all, but the whole cultural history thing was really interesting.

[Anonymous]

Any documentary by Werner Herzog. Anything by Errol Morris.

[Anonymous]

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is a 2005 documentary film directed, produced, and edited by Judy Irving. It chronicles the relationship between Mark Bittner, an unemployed musician who is living rent-free in a cabin in Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, California, and a flock of feral parrots (cherry-headed and two blue-crowned conures) that he feeds and interacts with. Bittner also wrote a book by the same name on the subject

[Anonymous]

First of all, big shout out for War Dance. And yes, Dear Zachary is incredibly sad. However, after watching it more than twice, I did find the strength and integrity of the parents very inspiring.

[Anonymous]

This is one of the PPs. I watched Dear Zachary lastnight. You could have warned me about the ending. Seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One I was surprised to find fascinating is Dogtown and Z-Boys, which is about the history of skateboarding. Not a subject I have much interest in at all, but the whole cultural history thing was really interesting.

I agree, I loved it!!!