Best documentaries

[Mad Cyril]

The world at war
Senna
Hoop dreams

Any more?

 

[Pubey]

There's one on Netflix called The Bridge which films a year's worth of suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge, and then asks family and friends (and one survivor) about the stories behind them. Immensely moving and interesting TV.

Also, Closer To The Edge is a good documentary about Guy Martin and the Isle of Man TT races.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Almost any from ESPN's '30 for 30' series, including

Once Brothers

Without Bias

The Band That Wouldn't Die

But if you can only watch one then it must be....

The Two Escobars

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Have a look at this list.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/nov/12/top-10-documentaries

My favourites would be Michael Moore's Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and Shoah.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Michael Moore is a mug.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Michael Moore is a mug.

He directed the most famous and best selling (plus Oscar winning) documentary ever.

Quite like Nanook of the North too.Also Robert Flaherty's Man of Arran,which should have been on The Guardian's top ten list somewhere.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Barry Fry getting relegated

 

[MK Shrimper]

Capturing the Friedmans.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

Both paedophilia based, one about a witchhunt (Friedmans), the other where the Catholic Church regularly cover it up.

Starsuckers was also superb, about our fascination with celebrity and how that's manipulated.

Man On Wire.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Capturing the Friedmans.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

Both paedophilia based, one about a witchhunt (Friedmans), the other where the Catholic Church cover it up.

And on that note Chris Langham's People Like Us.

 

[Uncle Leo]

And on that note Chris Langham's People Like Us.

:smile:

They were very good. Not sure they'll be on again for a while though...

 

[steveo]

Theres one on Thursday Chanel 4 about life in North Korea which I am recording. Not sure if its been on already but my be interesting.

 

[Mad Cyril]

He directed the most famous and best selling (plus Oscar winning) documentary ever.

Quite like Nanook of the North too.Also Robert Flaherty's Man of Arran,which should have been on The Guardian's top ten list somewhere.

Michael Moore's documentaries are heavily biased.

 

[Rayleigh Weir]

Another big vote for Man on Wire.
Also:
When We Were Kings
Murderball
Touching The Void
Sharkwater

Can we get away with 'This Is Spinal Tap' and 'Best In Show'?

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Michael Moore's documentaries are heavily biased.

True but why should a documentary have to be impartial?

Many of those which claim to be, aren't.

Robert Flaherty famously filmed a whalecatching scene in Man of Arran,which was entirely fictious.Didn't stop his film being a work of art though.

 

[Rayleigh Weir]

True but why should a documentary have to be impartial?

Because otherwise it becomes propaganda?

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

The Devil vs Daniel Johnston is a great watch as he obsessively records himself as part of his bipolar disorder and gives a good insight into that.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Because otherwise it becomes propaganda?

Next time you read a newspaper article or see a TV News report I suggest you ask yourself what the journalist's political point of view is.

Everything and everyone is political.Fact.

While we're on the subject of great documentaries,how about a shout for Inside Job?

 

[TrueBlue]

Air crash investigation

 

[Ricey]

Loose change.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Loose change.

Oof, paranoid nonsense.

Catfish (if plausable) is a good one.