Anonymous
Post 09/30/2015 02:45     Subject: Re:What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
"Dreamcatcher" it focuses on Brenda Myers-Powell, who survived an unbelievably tough life and twenty-five years as a sex worker in Chicago and now runs the Dreamcatcher Foundation, offering counselling to women on the streets, in prison or in otherwise desperate straits.

It will change you. Made me realize there are still truly beautiful people left on this planet.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2015 02:44     Subject: What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
Seriously The Queen of Versailles - if you haven't seen it you have to.

Slow mo train wreck, right on your screen.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2015 02:23     Subject: What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
Anonymous wrote: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


Clearly we were separated at birth. I agree with your entire list.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2015 01:15     Subject: What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
If you're interested in sports at all, a lot of the ESPN 30 for 30 shows are good.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2015 01:12     Subject: What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
Anonymous wrote:Agrees with all these - dear Zachary was brilliant and heartbreaking, and the Cheshire murders was just as horrifying.

I watch a ton of documentaries. Off the top of my head:
Living Dolls (pageant kids)
The Last Just Man (Rwandan genocide)
Stories We Tell (not strictly a documentary but excellent)
Beware of Mr Baker (drummer Ginger Baker)


+1 for The Last Just Man. Incredibly powerful.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2015 23:43     Subject: What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
Anonymous wrote:There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane-- that movie just haunted me.

Blackfish-- so powerful.


There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane got me worse than Dear Zachary and Dear Zachary destroyed me. I didn't know anything about Dear Zachary going in, but I could see the ending coming and was bracing for it. But Aunt Diane just got me right in the heart and made me angry.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2015 23:41     Subject: Re:What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
Anonymous wrote:Guys and Dolls-really freaking weird but also fascinating (and a little bit sad)


Is this about those dudes who replace actual human contact with their sex dolls, like that Davecat guy?

Sad is right.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2015 23:17     Subject: Re:What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
Guys and Dolls-really freaking weird but also fascinating (and a little bit sad)
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2015 23:15     Subject: Re:What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
I second The Dark Matter of Love...incredible story. Considering all the horror stories of avoidant personality disorder present in kids adopted from orphanages abroad, this was an amazing story.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2015 23:14     Subject: Re:What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
Cropsey...still gives me the creeps.
12th and Delaware...it's about the pro life vs. pro choice movement. I thought going in I'd be all pissed off at the pro life stance but honestly, both sides portrayed felt smarmy to me, it was interesting perspective to have.
Saving Face...about women in Pakistan who were burned by acid attacks...really powerful and really sad.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2015 23:07     Subject: What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
Searching for Sugarman-- so good
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2015 23:02     Subject: What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
Have you seen Finding Vivian Meier? FASCINATING!!
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2015 22:57     Subject: What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
Anonymous wrote: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.


+1 on Tupac.

Also Nine Lives of Marion Barry. Really fascinating, not kidding.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2015 22:56     Subject: What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
The world according to Dick Cheney (On Showtime on demand) is frighteningly good
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2015 22:52     Subject: What is the best documentary you have ever seen?
Jiro dreams of sushi