What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
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Anonymous
I really loved this documentary. My father loved boxing, and I was a kid in the 70s who idolized Muhamed Ali. You forget how mesmerizing he was, how dynamic, how likable. Parkinson's is a terrible disease - and while this film does not explore the devastating consequences of so many blows to the head, it is hard not to watch it without thinking of the damages Ali sustained. |
Anonymous
I find this terrifying to watch. |
Anonymous
Interestingly, it was never filmed. That has been brought to light with the new Joseph Gordon-Levitt film coming out about this. It was only photographed, nobody filmed it...what a botch! |
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PBS just had a good one on Walt Disney. It mainly kept it confined to former employees, not stars of his movies.
Boy, did he work his ass off and came close to bankruptcy a number of times. I had known that he appeared before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, but wasn't aware of his battles with organized labor. |
Anonymous
I love the HBO vice series- I just can't understand how the content on Vice online that comes up on my facebook feed is such total trash compared to what they are doing with that series- its shocking they are even the same publication. |
Anonymous
It's those long shots of him halfway between the two towers that freaks me out. Even the reenactment gives me chills. I hate heights. This was a DH choice to watch, not mine. |
Anonymous
This is me, I think it's actually called "Brother's Keeper"... totally agree with 20 Feet From Stardom, Muscle Shoals, both great. Aunt Diane ruined my life for a few days (not complaining). Would like to add: I Am Divine |
Anonymous
| Ghengis Blues -- one of the best music documentaries about Paul Pena, who was an amazing man. Starts a little slow but quickly sucks you in. |
Anonymous
| The Gift, a 2003 documentary about gay men actively trying to get HIV to fit in. |
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Life According to Sam, a 2013 documentary about a kid with progeria.
We Were Here, a 2013 documentary about the impact of HIV/AIDS in San Francisco How to Survive a Plague, a 2012 documentary about HIV |
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I had to study Errol Morris in a college film class and Fast Cheap and Out of Control still stands up for me as touching and well done.
I also like Between The Folds, a doc about paper folders. The young guy from MIT is so purely passionate about his work and I find it moving. The more I watch it the more I am struck with raw emotion. About math. And paper. But really, it's about people. Neither of these are sexy, but they are quality. Obviously, I'm an educator. |
Anonymous
| I DVRed the new frontline series my brother's bomber - not sure if this will count, but I was in college during the Lockerbie bombings and had friends studying abroad, coming home for Christmas. It was terrifying to think how random it was, so curious to see how this research plays out. |
Anonymous
| The Central Park Five |
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| Searching for Sugar Man |
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| Yes, Searching for Sugarman is fantastic |