[Verbal]

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/cat...-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.

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by 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'.

Youtube video

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.

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
Will have a think....

[arista]

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[Verbal]

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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[Verbal]

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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[Verbal]

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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[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.

[Verbal]

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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[Verbal]

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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[Verbal]

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.

[Verbal]

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]

Originally Posted by 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'.

Youtube video

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.

Originally Posted by Chuck

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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.

and isn't it horribly sad, Ammi? 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]

Originally Posted by Chuck

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

and isn't it horribly sad, Ammi? 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. :"(

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..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]

Originally Posted by Ammi

Spoiler:

..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...

Spoiler:

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]

Originally Posted by Chuck

Spoiler:

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

Spoiler:

..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]

Originally Posted by Ammi

Spoiler:

..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

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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.