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ITT: Top-tier documentaries
lurking thread..
Jiro Dreams Of Sushi is great, you've probably already heard of it by now though
>>53469845
That isn't even top-tier Errol Morris
https://vimeo.com/39846969
>>53469845
The Fog of War was better IMO, from what I can remember from both. Fog of war felt more of a history lesson from a "new" perspective.
The Unknown Known felt like a movie with a direct political agenda, too soon maybe? I dunno.
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>>53470486
yes
Boy did that footage they shot looked like shit
The Greatest Raid of All
I swear I'm obsessed with this raid now. Whenever I hear exciting music I fantasize about those commandos running through the streets of St Nazaire shooting German soldiers, or that destroyer charging up the estuary in pitch black darkness, blinded by searchlights, getting shot to shit with Britain's entire future potentially at stake, yet the captain remaining totally calm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXusKM5uX0s
Also, Micky Burn biopic fucking when? That guy was like a real life James Bond, if Bond was a commando instead of a spy.
is senna good? im thihkning about wathcing it by i have no interst in car racing nor prior knowledge of the subject of the film
>>53473579
SENNA IS FUCKING AMAZING
ITS BETTER IF YOU KNOW ABOUT CARDRIVE F1 BUT ITS REALLY A RIVALRY STORY SO ITS ACCESSIBLE TO ANYONE
>>53469845
BASED RUMSFELD
BEST SHIT EATING GRIN OF ALL TIME
>>53470453
THATS BECAUSE RUMSFELD TOOK CONTROL OF THE INTERVIEW AND USED IT AS A PLATFORM TO SELL HIS BOOK, MORRIS GOT PUSHED AROUND
DONALD RUMSFELD DIDNDU NUFFIN, AND WHEN HE DID IT WAS TO FURTHER AMERICAN INTERESTS
WHAT ARE YOU A FUCKING COMMUNIST
GO CRY INTO YOUR GRANOLA BERKELEY SCUM
Hoop Dreams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stCLhlqzWgc
According to Roger Ebert, after the film failed to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, he and Gene Siskel learned about the nominating process. He said that members of the Academy's documentary committee held flashlights when they watched documentaries, and anyone who had "given up" could wave it against the screen. The movie was turned off if a majority waved their flashlights. Hoop Dreams (1994) was turned off after 15 minutes.
Does anybody know this documentary? It's about 4 different people, locations were Mexico, Syria, Brazil and somewhere else. They were all filming what was going on, all focused on crime andwar.
The Greatest Story Never Told.
>>53474429
Ah. They should have made the opening fifteen minutes better then.
The Thin Blue Line.
>>53474615
Problem Child 2: The Real Story
Let the Fire Burn
Blackfish
The Act of Killing
Somm
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
But to be fair, TAoK and JDoS both have pretty noticeable pacing issues. Let the Fire Burn is probably the best documentary I've seen in years.
I feel like watching a good documentary about religion.
Specific religion doesn't matter, but I'm kinda in the mood for something about Greek shit.
Any recommendations, /tv/?
>>53474802
Also, Street Fight and The Kings of Pastry are fantastic.
>>53474802
Let the Fire Burn is one of my favorite documentaries. It was put together well and had a fantastic soundtrack.
ITT We post movies that are so true
Restrepo and Korengal
>>53470468
Awful. I dropped it midway during the interview with the man who couldn't stop saying "uhh" and couldn't keep his kids quiet. I understand it wasn't edited to keep opinions as unfiltered as possible, but when describing personal interpretations it comes off has disjointed and plain annoying.
>>53471123
dude animal killing and savages lmao
>>53475361
Jesus Camp was interesting. I enjoyed watching it but at the same time I was incredibly uncomfortable, kind of like watching Louis Theroux.
First Kill is a good one, it's one of the darker documentaries about Vietnam and talks to some pretty scarred vets.
>>53469845
>>53473579
> i have no interst in car racing nor prior knowledge of the subject of the film
That's the beauty of it. You don't need to know shit to fully appreciate it.
>>53475426
korengal was only okay and came out way too long after the fact, but I suppose you cant just skip it once you watch restrepo
>>53470453
This is funny because McNamara was doing the exact same thing with fog of war. He's considered the worst secretary of defense of all time for a reason. He pushed for war in vietnam based on methods he used to sell cars, that's how sociopathic he was. I have no interest in defending rumsfeld, but fog of war was nothing more than "We couldn't have known better at the time, sorry guys"
>>53475361
>mfw the little girl goes up to random people at the bowling alley and tries to convert them
Indie Game: The Movie
>>53476661
>>53476661
I rather enjoy it as well.
Phil Fish looks like the massive bleeding cunt he is and the fat one with the fucked up head gets to live happily ever after
>>53477360
It's like poetry.
>>53469845
Hate all you want /pol/lacks
Inside Job
>>53470624
this
>>53477857
Best doc on 2008
Supersize Me
the cove
the tillman story
king of kong
heima
fat head
>>53474239
Morris was too soft on Rummy. He saw the attack coming and took control of the interview. Morris should have kept the heat on Rumsfeld but didn't and allowed him to steer the interview.
>>53474853
Jesus Camp
Is pic related good?
Adam Curtis is probably my single favourite documentary maker.
>>53478179
No it's boring as cuck
>>53477857
>>53477993
Check out No End in Sight. Same director, same style.
>>53478179
Holy shit yes. Also really hard to watch.
>>53478046
Aesthetically good, but the premise is bullshit. He over-ate. He could have been eating organic hamburgers and that stuff would have happened
>>53478214
9 times out of 10 you'd be a pleb but this time you're spot on, for such an interesting premise The Act of Killing is literally nothing happens: the movie, subtitle: don't forget to pretend that something is happening
>>53478255
Thank you friend
While this documentary isn't really that shocking to anybody who has a single clue about US foreign policy (which going by reddits /r/worldnews board or /pol/, most don't) it's interesting to get an inside view from someone who was actually involved in several NSA/CIA plots.
>>53478236
He addresses this in like the last 15 minutes of the film. I can't remember specifically what he says, but its along the lines of weighing personal responsibility against outside influences, eg. the premise of the second half of the documentary.
>>53474687
Ayyyyy
>>53469845
Depression tier documentary.
Collapse
I eat that alarmist shit up. Dear lord, when the man starts crying. Absolutely love it.
Also every Adam Curtis video.
>>53478344
I remember laughing at all the jumps
>>53478342
Is it just Sweet 16 the documentary?
Fuck I hate rich kids.
>>53478305
Perkins had a good 15-20 minutes in a Zeitgeist film. Is it worth watch Confessions or was the summary in Zeitgeist the gist of it?
>>53478344
i regret watching this documentary. years later and I still remember it
>>53478344
Intentionally emotionally manipulative trash. What's the next one gunna be? A cancer ward film? Shit, call it "The Ward.". Film the dying people. Talk to them. Talk to their families. Show pictures of them when they were happy. Film their funerals. Film their graves.
Fuck off
>>53478391
Nah it's more than that. Jamie Johnson really fucking hates being rich, he even got sued by a guy in the movie.
>>53478364
>Le all ourz oil will be gone o nozz
Stupid.
>>53478364
THAT INNAWOODS /pol/FAGGOT KILLED HIMSELF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjnakAlF-s
>>53478401
Go back to reddit
"I remember he was drunk one night and he had his fucking Gerber out saying 'hey bro ima fucking stab someone. ima stab these fools! ' and this was while I was peeing...in my pants."
>>53478386
Edgy as fuck bro. Isn't it passed you're bedtime?
>>53478419
That sounds like a pretty good doc though. Also I think Louis Theroux already did something like that.
>>53478404
Have not seen Zeitgeist, but Confessions is Perkins talking about how the US Government overthrew Latin American Governments they didn't like and him retelling his personal experiences in several coups/assassinations.
>>53478419
>>53478419
LOUIS THORAX BASICALLY DID EXACTLY THIS
ABSOLUTE FAGGOTRY
ALSO THE BRIDGE FAGGOT SHOULD BE TRIED FOR MANSLAUGHTER
>>53478477
What's the context of this quote?
>>53478478
no my bedtime is at nine but i can go to bed at ten when my parents let me watch the walking dead, but i have to close my eyes when its scarry
Not a movie but a series, but really should be watched by every single fucking American who still repeats the same bullshit history they got from high school textbooks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FDSdg09df8
>>53478419
Piss off. Don't try to act like some moral cunt and act like this isn't fascinating. The background behind the most interesting suicides are explored and given due respect.
>>53478527
its at the end of the documentary. I couldn't stop laughing at how he impersonated his buddy telling that story
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>>53478550
is it like generation kill?
>>53478444
I would actually love this done outside the style of conspursee therries w/ Jesse Ventura
>>53478573
>top tier docus
>posts Vice dreck
>>53478573
You see that on /x/ too?
Make this a list and post it on the guide.
>>53478477
>how to kill a persons desire of joining the military: the documentary
>>53478477
Fuck I have ex army friends from Afghanistan and they have come back as fucking sociopaths, every single one of them.
Also when they get drunk, they get incredibly violent. We had to call the cops on one when drunk ran around my friends birthday house party with an axe trying to kill people, then trapped a girl and tried to rape her.
Because he was a rich kid with influential parents and ex-army, he didn't even go to jail the fucktard, just got good behavior.
>>53478634
It's posts like these that remind me /tv/ doesn't actually watch anything /tv/ related.
>>53478634
I failed to find an argument on your post.
>>53473164
I sure hope none of those guys lived to see what became of England, it would be too cruel.
>>53478666
You can't "become" a sociopath, you're born one. Those are just the symptoms of severe PTSD.
>>53478638
>did you see a highly popular documentary from a popular media company with millions of views on my shitty memeboard?
>>53478621
No, it tells the story of US history that is totally ignored in US high school textbooks and and put the actions of the United States in a global context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOPoEDLtcJU
Here's a trailer for it.
>>53478724
Not true, Hannibal Lecter turned into a sociopath when he saw his sister get eaten. Learn your history.
>>53478575
It's not about morals you fucking pleb. I stated it was emotionally manipulative trash. It did nothing but aim to make the viewer sad. Mildly informing. Incredibly crass to just slap the viewer in the face with "LOOK HOW SAD THIS IS! LOOK HOW SAD THIS IS! LOOK HOW SAD THIS IS!" over and over.
The Up Series is pretty top tier.
This turned out to be one of the best documentaries i ever watched.
>>53469845
any les blank (pic related especially)
>>53478179
Yes. Second best film of 200-2014.
>>53478812
capeshit
>>53478791
It's a film about suicide, of course it's sad. No need to throw a bitch fit over it. I enjoyed it because it actually went into the motivations and state of mind of the jumpers.
However, it's not as bleeding heart as say The Cove.
>>53478828
>Crumb, Pekar, Spiegelman, Griffith, Coe, Burns
>capeshit
Nice b8, m8
>>53478859
> motivations
they wanted to kill themselves because they were depressed.
> state of mind
depressed.
Once again, it was crass and emotionally manipulative.
Few Words
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zsKyMNVTFAM
>>53478887
>Quiksilver
fuck off memer
Samsara
The Imposter
>>53478477
The saddest part about this documentary is that you see how naive all these young black, white, asian, hispanic, whatever. men were when they first joined the army. They had absolutely no idea what was really going to happen.
It's fucking sad.
>>53478885
So is Time of Death emotionally manipulative trash as well, according to you?
>>53478952
>qt recommends Samsara as we are getting to know each other
>download another movie with the same name as a mistake
>movie has a scene with an helicopter-dick sex
>talk about this, laughing with her and some friends
>she thinks i'm making fun of a flick she loves (and of her as an extension)
>neither realize the mistake
>look it up and find out the real movie she wanted me to see
>go apologize
>she blocked me on everything over the internet
Fun times.
>>53477857
Inside Job is the mature version of The Corporation
>>53479058
Haven't seen it, can't comment. And it's not the content, its the way the content is presented. The Bridge might as well have had Mad World by Gary Jules playing on repeat for the entirety of its run time. Crass af
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1GCeuSr3Mk
For anyone who's ever been interested in 9/11 conspiracies, you'll eat this shit up.
This was a piece of cake. Get it? GET IT?
>>53478969
The whole thing just felt like a fucking mess. Just not winnable, because the locals were against them, the elders were against them, and these soldiers weren't equipped to change that. From what I understand, not all of Afghanistan is that bad, as the Korengal valley has a particularly strong negative reputation, but damn, the overpowering feeling of hopelessness.
>>53478724
you're wrong
This documentary is hilarious.
Basically the premise is the documentary pretends to be a Guru to get insight into people who come to Guru's for advice and help but accidentally starts his own Cult.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXUzG6YKuvo
>>53478917
>thinking quicksilver is a meme
It's a brand like redbull, you know they sponsor athletes.
>Something you will not be apart of is a meme
I guess >/reddit/ is where you spend most of your days.
Citizenfour
I got this from here like 4 years ago, so it needs to be updated already.
>>53479269
Man I get sad everytime I see one of them look at someone else with love like they're staring at a blood brother, and you can tell they feel hopeless because they know that person can die at any moment.
Triumph of the Will
Birth of a Nation
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>>53479481
I fucking loved Sweetgrass.
>all these meme-tier docs
hello reddit.
herzog is a fucking god
Grizzly Man
actually, anything by Herzog.
>>53479891
>>53479925
these
into the abyss is top shelf feels
>>53479888
also this one
>>53479891
>>53479925
>>53479963
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7kdDeGXUjI
;__;
>>53480060
so dramatical
>>53480060
fuck you anon
The Death of Yugoslavia
>>53478939
What I really loved about this one is that in the end, I didn't really know which side I hated more. The black people were abusing kids and got themselves killed because they wouldn't just leave the house, but the cops still burned them to death and destroyed three city blocks in the process. The documentary doesn't really take side.
>>53479163
Enjoy your teeth falling out.
Read le sticky.
>>53477533
I loved this. It didn't really portray the black power movement in a particularly positive light, it just kind of documented its existence.
7.5/10 would watch again
>>53470624
I bet you LOVED Forrest Gump.
>>53480237
>The documentary doesn't really take side.
Uh huh sure
>>53480060
>you will never go to penguin mountain
![Happy%20People%20A%20Year%20in%20the%20Taiga[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ACDt0rQ.jpg "Happy%20People%20A%20Year%20in%20the%20Taiga[1].jpg")
Herzog could read me nothing but classifieds and I'd listen to every word
>>53473719
good movie and that's a cold fact
>>53480795
this was great. I laughed everytime he said bears
>>53478193
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg
>>53479079
mick jaggers face when he saw the gun, jesus christ.
>>53470624
One of my favorite documentaries ever. I might watch it again tonight thinking about it.
>>53478714
Right at the end, when you see Micky Burn reciting some of his poetry, you only get to hear a single line of it:
"What a world we might have made..."
He fought like a lion to save England (and by extension the civilised world) from military invasion, only to watch it slowly collapse from within.
Two of the other surviving commandos (Tiger Watson was one) went off to Africa to dig wells and saved entire communities from death by drought. Heroes 'till the end.
>>53481663
i love the gibby interview while hes getting a root canal buttholes are GOAT
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
>>53479888
>>53480014
Anything with Sir David is gold.
>>53479891
Damn, I watched this and it was good, when into IMDB to read more about it and the crazy bitch that married one of the guys in jail posted there saying not to talk about her baby, this is some next level shit
I thought this was pretty neat. Had no idea people played Super Smash Bros competitively.
>inb4 /v/eddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
Mini-doc of sorts. Not the greatest visually, but I found it fascinating.
>>53478179
Indonesian here, it's banned here and the people who lived in that era that i showed this documentary don't like it and constantly in denial since most of the people who live at that time are indoctrinated to stand by the side of the dictator whose responsible for that genocide. That incident was originally caused by several kidnapping and assassinations of high ranked military generals and high-profile political party member that caused outrage across the nations.
Some conspiracy theorists also believe that USA is indirectly involved with this.
Imo a 8/10 documentary. There's a slight mistranslation here and there a bit but overall it was pretty okay.
>>53481668
There is no way our grandfathers would have known that later generations would be irresponsible with the future. Remember that it was only 30 or so years ago where a cultural shift in Western culture had a generation damn the teachings and accomplishments of their parents.
>>53483742
During that documentary one of the commandos says that, given the same circumstances, he's sure the young people of today would fight just as hard for their freedom and rights, making the same sacrifice he did.
I guess he didn't anticipate the level of corruption that we face in our "leadership."
There's a lesson to be learned from that documentary, and it's that we all have a responsibility to protect the rights and freedoms of later generations. Whether it's from Nazis or from double-dealing politicians in our own establishment.
>>53480795
Anywhere I can find this?
Into Eternity is visually gorgeous and has an interesting theme
>>53470996
the giants footage looked really good, very in the style of terry
>>53470468
>Nirvana for film fans
The fuck is this?
>>53478634
The only good thing they did was the cannibal interview, and that's only because none of the faggy journalists spoke.
>interview with a guy who lives alone in the wilderness
>"Do you have anything vegetarian? I can't eat this."
>>53485761
The state of being, not the band you idiot
>>53469845
Mission Accomplished
>>53478550
Gonna have to check this out. Though probrably already shit I complain about to my parents and conservative friends about how America has been and become too much of an empire.
>>53473719
Man, that made you feel there is some hope in this sad world.
>>53469845
lol
Errol Morris is good at tearing into conservatives, but he's such a hardcore defender of Obama who's pulled so much shit of his own that I simply cannot take him seriously.
ya'll want some interesting and heavy ass shit?
>>53480795
MFW watching The Wind Rises dub and Herzog pops up out of nowhere.
MFW the same day I'm watching parks and rec and he pops up AGAIN
What a Legend
>>53486023
WatchDreamworks' Penguins of Madagascarnext
>>53483084
Nice one. Thanks for that.
>>53486036
I remember the head of the Anti-Defamation league of New England came to my high school during some week of tolerance thing. He was a bigoted asshole. The city of Boston named a bridge after him... because "he built bridges in life". Ugh.
![fam-poster[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qDv4Srh.jpg "fam-poster[1].jpg")
For All Mankind
How has no-one said that yet, it's easily the best I've ever seen.
>>53486036
>americans are so racist they need a league to tell them not to be racist
Holy jesus, what the fuck is wrong with Americans? Are you all that stupid and rude to each other you need a "anti-defamation" league to keep track of how racist you are?
>>53486297
I got that for my dad who is a NASA geek and still haven't watched it with him
>>53486303
It's pretty much a league to secretly promote a pro-Zionist agenda. I would be curious if they have ever defended Muslims and Palestinians.
>>53486303
>europoor or aussie calling others racist and rude
lol
>>53469845
Dear Zachary is a rollercoaster ride of emotions. In my opinion it shows pure good, and pure evil.
If you do decided to watch it, go into it with no knowledge of the film. Don't look at the IMDB page, or a youtube trailer. Just watch it.
>>53486356
It's pretty sad honestly it's very one-sided for a documentary.
>>53486408
Yeah, that I will agree with.
I suppose the director was best friends with the subject of the film, so it's hard not to be biased.
It would be very hard for it to be sympathetic for the mother.
>>53486297
thanks, i love space stuff. will watch later today
>>53473719
>tfw the director commited suicide about one year after he won the Oscar for this
>>53485917
>Man, that made you feel there is some hope in this sad world.
>>53486611
>>tfw the director commited suicide about one year after he won the Oscar for this
I shoulda known better than to hope
>>53478634
>>53485827
What's wrong with Vice? I've only seen a couple of their documentaries on Youtube and I liked the style of journalism they used.
Do they make up facts or something? Are they biased?
>>53488313
They're popular and mainstream.
Man on Wire
>>53469845
Too bad Danny Elfman ruins it with his shit fucking cartoon music.
jodorowsky's dune
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>193 posts
>no Super Size Me
Did it hurt your feelings fat fucks?
Are All Men Pedophiles
http://thegreateststorynevertold.tv/
>>53489313
This is the most pointless documentary ever created. Of course you're going to get fat if you do nothing but stuff yourself with mcdonalds all day. Retards point at this film as a reason never to eat fast food whilst they eat their normal shitty diets convinced they know everything about nutrition.
>>53489313
Since the thread was about top-tie documentaries I don't see why you posted it. What's next 'Zeitgeist'?
>>53489313
>posting spurlock trash in a "top tier documentaries" thread
>>53489313
(pic related)
A few more...
Project Nim 2011
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1814836/
Blackfish 2013
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2545118/
The Cove 2008
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1313104/
A Certain Kind Of Death 2003
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342180/
Girl Model 2011
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1806911/
The Way of All Flesh 1997 Adam Curtis
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796719/
Touching The Void 2003
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379557/
The Final Member
Another vote for Adam Curtis. Everything he makes is fucking awesome. The only documentaries I have watched repeatedly because they are so dense and so mind-blowing.
Downside is, when you go watch other documentaries afterwards, they will feel cheap, thin and fluffed.
>>53491883
Adam Curtis is a hack and a blowhard. His "work" is babby tier baseless conjecture narrated in a serious tone over stock footage, with no citations or references given. Fuck him, and fuck the faggots like him, especially Spurlock, Moore, that other cunt whose name I can't remember right now. Propagandists and fantasists.
>>53491989
is pretty great
>>53492200
You may enjoy this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg
(Thanks to the anon who posted it the other day)
