Documentaries

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Can we have a dedicated thread where people post their favourite documentaries that are available online for others to watch? I love watching documentaries and would love to discover hidden gems that other people have watched.

For reference, as well as youtube a few of my favourite sites are www.topdocumentaryfilms.com/ & http://www.darkdocumentaries.com/category/serial-killer-documentaries if others want to check them out.

Subject matter not important.

[Shaun]

I don't know if they're the same sort you want to talk about, but off the top of my head the most moving documentary I've ever seen was 'Dear Zachary'.

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I went into watching this thinking it would be a touching tribute to the father and a gift for his son, but I wasn't aware that the son also died. So that hit me like a tonne of bricks (because it's revealed rather suddenly). It's a series of testimonials and anecdotes about, and from, their family and friends, and whilst it's incredibly harrowing and upsetting, it's also so uplifting - particularly the support given to Zach's grandparents through their legal battles.

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Not many come to mind that I've seen... Super-Size Me was interesting, I guess, but the guy behind it was a little annoying (He's done the One Direction movie, now, so go figure).

I really want to see Catfish.

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I don't know if they're the same sort you want to talk about, but off the top of my head the most moving documentary I've ever seen was 'Dear Zachary'.

bHaIYcWbnFM

I went into watching this thinking it would be a touching tribute to the father and a gift for his son, but I wasn't aware that the son also died. So that hit me like a tonne of bricks (because it's revealed rather suddenly). It's a series of testimonials and anecdotes about, and from, their family and friends, and whilst it's incredibly harrowing and upsetting, it's also so uplifting - particularly the support given to Zach's grandparents through their legal battles.

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Not many come to mind that I've seen... Super-Size Me was interesting, I guess, but the guy behind it was a little annoying (He's done the One Direction movie, now, so go figure).

I really want to see Catfish.

Thanks i'll probably end up watching any and all posted in this thread to be honest. :joker:

I intended to say in my original post but got distracted, subject is not important. Post ones that you enjoy for whatever reason.

[billy123]

The zeitgeist documentarys are amongst the most fascinating i have ever seen you dont have to agree with everything the claim but it certainly contains some thought provoking things.
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[Kate!]

Great thread idea, I'll have a look for a good one. Like Documentaries.

[Kizzy]

Agreed brill idea verbal :D
Will have a think....

[arista]

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Saw this recently, its very interesting:

Every Saturday night in China, millions gather around their televisions to watch Interviews Before Execution, an extraordinary talk show which interviews prisoners on death row.
In the weeks, days or even minutes before they are executed, presenter Ding Yu goes into prisons and talks to those condemned to die. Combining clips from the TV show, never-before-seen footage of China's death row and interviews with a local judge who openly questions the future of the death penalty in China, This World reveals a part of China that is generally hidden from from view.


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Titicut Follies is a 1967 American documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman and filmed by John Marshall, about the patient-inmates of Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, a Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. In 1967 the film won awards in Germany and Italy. Later on Wiseman made a number of such films examining social institutions (e.g. hospitals, police, schools, etc.) in the United States.

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Not a documentary as such, I guess. But, still it fits...

Ricardo Lopez (January 14, 1975 – September 12, 1996), also known as the Björk stalker, was an Uruguayan-born American pest control officer from Hollywood, Florida, who is known for his attempted assassination of the Icelandic musician Björk in 1996. Lopez recorded a video diary of himself talking about his plans over an eight month period, culminating in his video-recorded suicide. Lopez mailed a letter bomb, disguised as a book from a touring company and rigged with sulfuric acid, to Björk's residence in London. The bomb was intercepted by Scotland Yard before being able to harm anyone. By the time of Lopez's death, Lopez had left an 800-page diary, and 18 hours of footage himself talking to the camera, and making the bomb.

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Richard Leonard "The Iceman" Kuklinski (April 11, 1935 – March 5, 2006) was an American contract killer who worked for Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and New York City's Five Families of the American Mafia. The 6'5" (196 cm), 300 pound (135 kg; 21.5 stone) Kuklinski claimed to have murdered over 100,[2] or possibly 250 men (his recollections varied) between 1948 and 1986. Kuklinski claimed to have committed his first murder at the age of 13.[3] He lived with his wife and children in the suburb of Dumont, New Jersey prior to his arrest.[4] His story has been documented in two documentaries, two biographies and a feature film.

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Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer who murdered ten people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita, Kansas), between 1974 and 1991.

He is known as the BTK killer (or the BTK strangler). "BTK" stands for "Bind, Torture, Kill," which was his infamous signature. He sent letters describing the details of the killings to police and to local news outlets during the period of time in which the murders took place.

After a long hiatus in the 1990s through early 2000s, Rader resumed sending letters in 2004, leading to his 2005 arrest and subsequent conviction. He is serving 10 consecutive life sentences at El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas, with an earliest possible release date of February 26, 2180.

Arrest
The BTK killer's last known communication with the media and police was a padded envelope that arrived at FOX affiliate KSAS-TV in Wichita on February 16, 2005. A purple 1.44-MB Memorex floppy disk was enclosed in the package. Also enclosed were a letter, a photocopy of the cover of a 1989 novel about a serial killer (Rules of Prey), and a gold-colored necklace with a large medallion.

Police found metadata embedded in a deleted Microsoft Word document that was, unbeknownst to Rader, on the disk. The metadata contained "Christ Lutheran Church," and the document was marked as last modified by "Dennis." A search of the church Web site turned up Dennis Rader as president of the congregation council. Police began surveillance of Rader.

Sometime during this period, police obtained a warrant for the medical records of Rader's daughter. A tissue sample seized at this time was tested for DNA and provided a familial match with semen collected at an earlier BTK crime scene. This, along with other evidence gathered before and during the surveillance, gave police probable cause for an arrest.

Rader was stopped while driving near his home and taken into custody shortly after noon on February 25, 2005. Immediately after, law enforcement officials, including a Wichita Police bomb unit truck, two SWAT trucks, and KBI, FBI, and ATF agents, converged on Rader's residence near the intersection of I-135 and 61st Street North. Once in handcuffs, he was asked by an officer, "Mr. Rader, do you know why you're going downtown?" to which he replied, "Oh, I have my suspicions, why?" Police searched Rader's home and vehicle, collecting evidence, including computer equipment, a pair of black pantyhose retrieved from a shed, and a cylindrical container. The church he attended, his office at City Hall, and the main branch of the Park City library were also searched that day. Officers were seen removing a computer from his City Hall office, but it is unclear if any evidence was found at these locations.

He stated he chose to resurface in 2004 for various reasons, including David Lohr's feature story on the case on the Court TV (now Tru TV) Crime Library Web site and the release of the book Nightmare in Wichita:

On February 26, 2005, The Wichita Police Department announced in a press conference that they were holding Rader as the prime suspect in the BTK killings.

Rader was formally charged with the murders on February 28, 2005.

Legal proceedings
Kansas reinstated the death penalty in 1994. The last known BTK killing was in 1991, making all known BTK murders ineligible for the death penalty. Even if later murders are linked to the BTK killer, it was originally unclear whether the death penalty would come into play, as the Kansas Supreme Court declared the state's capital punishment law unconstitutional on December 17, 2004. However, that ruling was reversed by the United States Supreme Court on June 26, 2006, in the case of Kansas v. Marsh, and the Kansas death penalty statute was upheld. The Sunday after his arrest, Associated Press cited an anonymous source that Rader had confessed to other murders in addition to the ones with which he was already connected. Asked about the reported confessions, Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston said, "Your information is patently false," but she refused to say whether Rader had made any confessions or whether investigators were looking into Rader's possible involvement in more unsolved killings. On March 5, news sources claimed to have verified by multiple sources that Rader had confessed to the 10 murders he was charged with, but no additional ones.

On February 28, 2005, Rader was formally charged with 10 counts of first degree murder. He made his first appearance via videoconference from jail. He was represented by a public defender. Bail was continued at $10 million. On May 3, District Court Judge Gregory Waller entered not guilty pleas to the 10 charges on Rader's behalf, as Rader did not speak at his arraignment.

On June 27, the scheduled trial date, Rader changed his plea to guilty. He unemotionally described the murders in detail and made no apologies


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The full footage of the court confessions of the BTK (Bound, Torture, Kill) killer. The nonchalance with which he describes what he did is quite unreal.

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[billy123]

Not a documentary as such, I guess. But, still it fits...


oVevxHoEkuUOh cool thanks.
I have seen the unedited version of his final moments when he finishes himself off with a bullet to the head but i havent seen this.
Thanks.

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Oh cool thanks.
I have seen the unedited version of his final moments when he finishes himself off but i haven seen this.
Thanks.

No problem. Its like watching a real life big brother style version of the movie Taxi Driver. A total madman.

Apologies for the number of posts i've already made. Its not unusual for me to spend most of a day watching documentaries and they are all coming slowly back to me :joker:

Please anyone post any you know of.

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Werner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, she survived after falling about 3 km (~10,000 feet) still strapped to her airliner seat, before the seat crashed through the rainforest canopy and came to rest on the forest floor. They find the remains of the plane and recreate her journey out of the jungle.

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This is thoroughly depressing, and has the added advantage of being filmed in my hometown. YAY!

Swansea Love Story: An award-winning look at a generation lost to heroin, as told through the tragic love story of Amy and Cornelius.

In 2009, Swansea drug agencies reported a 180 percent rise in heroin use, and it's visible on the city's streets. Early one morning we meet a young, homeless couple named Amy and Cornelius in a city centre alley. As heroin-addicted alcoholics, they're smack in the middle of two of South Wales's most harrowing epidemics.

Subtitles are advised :joker:

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[Chuck]

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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father is a 2008 American documentary film conceived and created by Kurt Kuenne.
Kuenne's close friend Andrew Bagby was murdered by Shirley Jane Turner after Bagby ended their tumultuous relationship. Shortly after she was arrested, she announced she was pregnant with Bagby's child, a boy she named Zachary. Kuenne decided to interview numerous relatives, friends, and associates of Andrew Bagby and incorporate their loving remembrances into a film that would serve as a cinematic scrapbook for the son who never knew him. As events unfold, the film becomes a sort of true-crime documentary.

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Comedian Andrew Maxwell takes five British creationists to the west coast of America to try to convince them that evolution rather than creationism explains how we all got here. Stuck on a bus across 2,000 miles of dustbowl roads with these passionate believers, Maxwell tackles some firmly held beliefs - could the Earth be only 6,000 years old, and did humans and T-Rex really live side by side? It's a bumpy ride as he's confronted with some lively debates along the way, but by the end could he possibly win over any of these believers with what he regards as hard scientific fact?

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Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Planetary Evacuation Recruitment Tape

Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religion doomsday cult based in San Diego, California, founded in the early 1970s and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985).[1] On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group who had committed mass suicide[2] in order to reach what they believed was an alien space craft following the Comet Hale–Bopp, which was then at its brightest.

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Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.

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[Kizzy]

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od

This is a Dispatches documentary on Cyril Smith the Lib Dem MP who got away with being a paedophile due to a cover up.

[Redway]

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It was a real eye-opener to understand just how much prejudice gays go through within religious communities.

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Lift

Filmmaker Marc Isaacs sets himself up in a London tower block lift. The residents come to trust him and reveal the things that matter to them creating a humorous and moving portrait of a vertical community.

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[Ammi]

I don't know if they're the same sort you want to talk about, but off the top of my head the most moving documentary I've ever seen was 'Dear Zachary'.

bHaIYcWbnFM

I went into watching this thinking it would be a touching tribute to the father and a gift for his son, but I wasn't aware that the son also died. So that hit me like a tonne of bricks (because it's revealed rather suddenly). It's a series of testimonials and anecdotes about, and from, their family and friends, and whilst it's incredibly harrowing and upsetting, it's also so uplifting - particularly the support given to Zach's grandparents through their legal battles.

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Not many come to mind that I've seen... Super-Size Me was interesting, I guess, but the guy behind it was a little annoying (He's done the One Direction movie, now, so go figure).

I really want to see Catfish.

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..that's a heartbreaking story..his parents were so brave and just extraordinarily nice people....

[Chuck]

oh I didn't notice Shaun had already posted it. :tongue:

and isn't it horribly sad, Ammi? :bawling: I don't even want to think about it again, I remember I watched it on a Sunday at night and I needed to wake up early in the morning on Monday but I couldn't sleep because I was too scared to dream about it. :"(

[Ammi]

oh I didn't notice Shaun had already posted it. :tongue:

and isn't it horribly sad, Ammi? :bawling: I don't even want to think about it again, I remember I watched it on a Sunday at night and I needed to wake up early in the morning on Monday but I couldn't sleep because I was too scared to dream about it. :"(


..when his dad said at the end that he had looked into the face of evil or something..?..you just knew that for his family, he really had..there wasn't any other way to describe what she did..she truly was but even with all of that and their sadness, they still were happy to have friends around them, his friends and to help people...just such incredibly inspiring people...

[Chuck]

..when his dad said at the end that he had looked into the face of evil or something..?..you just knew that for his family, he really had..there wasn't any other way to describe what she did..she truly was but even with all of that and their sadness, they still were happy to have friends around them, his friends and to help people...just such incredibly inspiring people...

yes, his parents are truly amazing people, I remember there was a point in the movie that I thought, well this is absolutely heartbreaking and this is officially the saddest doc I've ever watched but at the time I thought that his parents having to deal with that monster on a daily basis was "it" but when we get to find out that she actually killed Zac, omg it's just too revolting

[Ammi]

yes, his parents are truly amazing people, I remember there was a point in the movie that I thought, well this is absolutely heartbreaking and this is officially the saddest doc I've ever watched but at the time I thought that his parents having to deal with that monster on a daily basis was "it" but when we get to find out that she actually killed Zac, omg it's just too revolting



..I don't think she wanted anyone to have any place in the life of her 'obsessions'..I won't call it love because love wouldn't do the things she did..but she kept Andrew from his friends and parents until she realised that she couldn't keep his love, then she killed him so that no one else could love him..then she did the same with his son, so that the people who truly loved him, his grandparents couldn't have him and be happy...I wanted to see some small bit of her that was good in some way but, even after she killed Andrew..but there was nothing there, she was completely unlikeable and I do think that he was right..she was evil, cold and incapable of love or compassion

[Chuck]

..I don't think she wanted anyone to have any place in the life of her 'obsessions'..I won't call it love because love wouldn't do the things she did..but she kept Andrew from his friends and parents until she realised that she couldn't keep his love, then she killed him so that no one else could love him..then she did the same with his son, so that the people who truly loved him, his grandparents couldn't have him and be happy...I wanted to see some small bit of her that was good in some way but, even after she killed Andrew..but there was nothing there, she was completely unlikeable and I do think that he was right..she was evil, cold and incapable of love or compassion

yeah, the most worrying part is that she didn't even go to jail like, she wasn't even considered a treat by authorities to society after having killed her husband. D:

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Man with a movie camera

This amazing film made in 1929 is a silent masterpiece made by Dziga Vertov. Vertov believed that the camera should capture life as it is really lived, not as the maker of the film believed it should be. Nothing in this movie is staged and no narrative to be followed. Just a man with a movie camera. Vertov tried to make the first trans-cultural film by showing the deeply we are intertwined with machine, that we are part of a larger machine and that machines are extensions of ourselves. It depicts an age where the human anthill began to construct their large cities. Startlingly self-reflexive, this documentary can not but make you feel part of some bigger order and chaos, life and death, progress and decay.

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Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens) is a propaganda film made by Leni Riefenstahl. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 700,000 Nazi supporters. The film contains excerpts from speeches given by various Nazi leaders at the Congress, including portions of speeches by Adolf Hitler, interspersed with footage of massed party members. Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his name appears in the opening titles. The overriding theme of the film is the return of Germany as a great power, with Hitler as the True German Leader who will bring glory to the nation.

Triumph of the Will was released in 1935 and rapidly became one of the best-known examples of propaganda in film history. Riefenstahl's techniques, such as moving cameras, the use of long focus lenses to create a distorted perspective, aerial photography, and revolutionary approach to the use of music and cinematography, have earned Triumph recognition as one of the greatest films in history. Riefenstahl won several awards, not only in Germany but also in the United States, France, Sweden, and other countries. The film was popular in the Third Reich and elsewhere, and has continued to influence movies, documentaries, and commercials to this day.

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Life In A Day is a historic film capturing for future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.

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Exit through the gift shop is produced by Banksy in the year of 2010. The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. Billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie" the film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work.

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Dreams of a life:
Zawe Ashton (C4's Fresh Meat) takes the lead role in this drama-documentary, director Carol Morley's quest to discover the truth about the life of a vivacious, intelligent woman, and how she came to be so tragically forgotten.

Nobody noticed when 38-year-old Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in north London in 2003. When her remains were discovered three years later, her heating and her television were still on. Newspaper reports offered few details of Joyce's life - not even a photograph.

Morley places adverts in newspapers, on the internet and on the side of a London taxi, and the responses lead her to Joyce's former friends, lovers and colleagues. Their testimonies, together with re-imagined scenes from Joyce's life form a multi-layered portrait of the deceased woman, and an insight into the world she inhabited.

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Jeffrey Dahmer - Serial Killer - Full Trial

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