Fog of War is probably my favorite doc that I rewatch every year or so. WWII to Vietnam straight from the man in the middle - McNamara

Act of Killing is like nothing I've ever seen before. It transcends the entire medium. What the director did/the entire concept is more than anything I've ever seen in video form. It's art, human condition, blah blah blah. It's long, and sad, and can come off hokey at parts, but holy fuck it gets incredible. The murderers come off as charming, funny, bumbling at times and when it comes together it's triumphant.

Unforgivable Blackness is my favorite Ken Burns doc. About the first black heavyweight champ of the world - jack johnson(not the faggot singer). Who laughed in the faces of people who wanted him dead, owned businesses, fucked white women, did what the fuck he wanted in a time when looking the wrong way at a white woman could get you killed. All around badass smart motherfucker, perhaps the most badass motherfucker ever - taunted crowds and smiled while battering any and every opponent that was thrown at him. Packed with lots of great footage and narrated by some big names.

Grizzly Man Silly fucker plays with bears. Done by Herzog, who's cold narration and pessimistic world view serves as perfect juxtaposition.

Shermans March Sherman was a fucking badass

The Perverts Guide to Ideology Whacked out Marxist dude teaches postmodern Ideological theory via great movies and clips. Just a taste: rioting,beethoven,

The Tillman Story Great guy Great family, fucked over by a stupid government participating in bullshit and lies.

Untold History of the United States Narrated/produced by Oliver Stone. Start of WWII to Present. Lots of stuff you don't learn in school/us history books. He absolutely falls left on everything, but the truth falls between what we were taught and this. Lot's of spin from both sides, this helps to provide a less US centric interpretation of events. Again, the truth probably falls somewhere in the middle.

King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters Billy Mitchell is a cocksman and a patriot who commands respect.

Queen of Versailles Rich cunt, I kill rich cunts.

American Pimp Hilarious pimps that without knowing they're real you'd think were caricatures of pimps. My naive mind was shocked to learn how much money the ho's get to keep. Fillmore Slim gets his benchwarmers knocked (hilarious story, shitty quality)

The Death of Yugoslavia This was recommended in /r/documentaries the other day and I watched the entire 5hr thing that night. Might not be great for those uninterested in that area of the world, but the doc was done during the start of the balkanization period up to 1995 so the main players provide all the dialogue (many of which would become war criminals).

The Jinx Rich ghoul with black soulless eyes got away with a few murders.

The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Hitman Scary fucking Polak that you don't wanna fuck with

Grizzly Man is a great one.

That guy was out of his damn mind

Wasn't that on O&A? I remember them making fun of some dumb fuck who thought he was one with nature or some shit. Got killed by a bear at the end I think.

Yeah, Bill Burr introduced it to them https://vimeo.com/83973054

Im the only person I know that hated Grizzly Man. I tapped about 40 mins in, I actually went to the fucking theater to see it. I couldn't stand another minute of that stupid motherfucker, or Herzog (who I do love) narration.

The Untold History of the United States is phenomenal; more importantly every item mentioned in the series is factually documented (the citations for every topic covered in the series can be found in the companion book; if anyone is interested in the book, let me know and I'd be happy to share the .epub).

Shoot me the link. Yes, there are facts that can't be ignored, but he does bend his opinion and interpretation of them.

For instance, he paints the Russians as being almost entirely reactionary - void of any aggressive ambition. Some of the quotes are cut off or manipulated out of context. All in all it's a great series, I've watched it a few times.

I've messaged you a link to my DropBox so you can download the book.

I thought the series was powerful as it challenged one to examine historical events from other perspectives and not through the lens of our own propaganda machine. More importantly, I thought the series spoke truth to the fact that each human life is precious and when empires fail to recognize that truth, empires fall.

I downloaded it, thanks!

I thought the series was powerful as it challenged one to examine historical events from other perspectives and not through the lens of our own propaganda machine.

You would like this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18qD9hmU9xg and of course Fog of War if you haven't already seen it

I deleted this show when Stone hinted that Truman was a fag and used to wear a wig and his moms underwear.

fuck stone

I was way too high to get into it when I posted that haha, I love a lot of Oliver Stone's movies (Platoon, Scarface, Born on the 4th) and respect him as a director but the man's politics and watered down version of political history, as well as his whitewashing of Stalinist atrocities and crimes committed by so-called "enemies of the West" are reasons why he's a fucking idiot outside of moviemaking. Here is a pretty good analysis of the many inaccuracies in his so-called documentary.

Those are the things I stated above. Russians being completely void of ambition and painted almost entirely reactionary. In fact the Truman quote was one of the quotes I thought of when writing that. After I heard it while watching I looked it up and saw it was out of context and incomplete. Still most of the facts about the period covered were new to me - a lot of them are never discussed in US history books or history class. You just have Stones explanation/context/spin of them with a grain of salt - but the facts/events happened. Still it's a very good series and a long one at that, the article you referenced even gets some things wrong. It would be a mistake to dismiss the entire series. I guess that's why I like Fog of War so much, it's straight from the Secretary of Defense if anything he should be making himself look better and it's closer to Stone than what I learned in school growing up. Stone is far from an idiot, then again he did make Savages.

American Pimp has so many great lines in it. Highly recommended.

You know why my fingers are so smooth? Cuz all I do all day is count money and touch bitches.

She make you smile when you feel like frowninnnnnnnnnnnn.

bahahaha I just had a flashback to that. He sounded like a big tongued child with a stuffy nose when he said it.

Iceman one I watched months ago and it was amazing. I also recommend the Charles Bukowski documentary that came out in 2003.

Hell of a fucking list

Ah, Grizzly Man, unintentionally hilarious.

Didn't make it more than half an hour into Grizzly Man. Poorly done, and the only interesting shots were from Treadwell's own footage. King of Kong and The Jinx were both excellent, though.

Iceman doc is good. Is American Pimps the one with Mr White Folks or is that Pimps Up Hoes Down? http://youtu.be/sXskqBCT6sU

Silly fucker

You mean "Insane faggot".

Seriously. He embodies that phrase down to the pen strokes.

If anyone hasn't seen it, whether you've seen the documentary or not, you gotta watch the VideoOandA video someone linked. One of the goddamn funniest things they've done.

These on netflix? Some sound amazing

Most of them were at some point, but I doubt they're still on there. TPB has all of them obviously

Gosh that Jack Johnson description is shockingly unique. I've never heard blacks act like that before. Truly worthy of a Ken Burns documentary.

Queen of Versailles

The daughter in that film just killed herself

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Suuure. I gotta cuke stuck watchin that one.

Everyone in this thread needs to watch that one. Mandatory doc viewing

There's this talented documentary filmmaker working right now who goes by the name Leni Riefenstahl. Talented lady with an eye for honesty and reality.

There's a great doc about her on YouTube. I think its called the life and work of lR or sumptin

Edit: the wonderful horrible life of L.R.

I would have never thought that was written and directed by a woman

Mondo Topless - an explosive expose of San Francisco's topless go-go scene in the 60's. Don't know if any of you have ever heard of it.

"Now enough of this palaver, let's get the show on the road."

I remember when O&A talked about it on the show as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1hmqMspeI0

"Crumb". About the underground artist and his fucked up family. It's really the best display of the relationship between art and insanity.

The best thing about that doc is the moment you realize holy shit robert is the most well adjusted Crumb brother.

Yeah, no kidding. But what's even more amazing is that the brothers are just as talented, if not more so, than Robert, but they weren't able to become successful. The movie basically shows you the only possible outcomes of being a tortured genius: earn enough money and be famous enough to overcome your afflictions like robert or never make it and become like the brothers: destitute, dilapidated, heavily medicated, and incredibly disturbed. Their minds are all equal but Robert won the life lottery.

Well said. Now I want to watch it again.

Well I will also say, that Robert seemed the happiest and most optimistic of the three. Which is also quite a statement. : )

Something as simple as believing there can be joy in life, can be really key in finding it. It can fuel hope and perseverance. This is something that isn't entirely a choice for some people, which is where brain chemistry and medication can come in. But it is still something one can choose to try for. And it seems to me Robert did this more than his brothers, especially the one (I think the eldest?) who was still living with his mother.

....Omg. I would have gotten the fuck out of that house so quick...I would rather be depressed anywhere than in that place. It would be better on the street.

It's great. A family of bona fide weirdos and creeps.

It's really the best display of the relationship between art and insanity.

The Devil and Daniel Johnston is another doc like that

I went through a big documentary kick awhile back. Here's some of my favorites.

Marjoe - A genius documentary on Marjoe, a evangelist who's fallen in with the hippie set and decides to pull back the curtain on his profession.

Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist - A documentary on Bob Flanagan, a performance artist with Cystic Fibrosis. It recaps his life and follows the decline of his health. Oh, and he also nails his penis to a board on camera.

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse - A documentary on the making of Apocalypse Now. It was put together by Francis' wife and was out of print until the Blu-Ray release.

Dark Days - A documentary on homeless people living underground in New York City.

American Movie - A hilarious documentary on a delusional white trash guy trying to make his own movie.

Death in Gaza - A documentary that will make you (rightfully) say fuck Israel.

The Smashing Machine - A documentary on an MMA fighter back before MMA's resurgence.

• edit How could I forget The Act Of Killing? What a surreal film. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366

The Act of Killing is a fucking masterpiece like nothing that's ever been made before. It has very little to do with Indonesia/politics that just really sets up the concept of the film. I'm gonna check out Marjoe, never heard of it.

Let me know what you think of Marjoe.

There's a scene in it that's one of my all time favorites. He's in the woods with his girlfriend and dog, he jokingly starts doing his preaching act and the dog takes it as a sign he wants to play. Marjoe immediately incorporates it into what he's saying, saying that the dog has the spirit in him, as the dog bounces around.

It's a scene nobody else mentions but it's the one that hit me the hardest.

Watched it last night. Pretty good doc, especially for when it was done. Pentecostals are rubes. You could show them this doc and they would still show up the next day for a revival.

All charlatans follow the same dynamics - the high and low cadence, the fear, the dramatic movement, the empowerment, the jubilee interspersed with dominant commands and appeal to authority.

Evangelists, motivational speakers, sales gurus, mlms, etc. it's all the same thing. They manipulate the audience and sell themselves. Marjoe had a good point though, he is just a tiny insignificant piece. It's the ones with millions in capital, marketing teams, gimmicks using tv/radio "stealing" millions with their bullshit scams and empty promises. Arena's full of rubes can't touch the profits of those using media and hard tested sales tactics. The ones that get the elderly to give them their pensions or mortgage their homes and retirement. Marjoe was small time in comparison and he made the moral decision not to take it any farther. I liked the scene with his dog and girlfriend, I wish they would have done more with his father - he wasn't even confronted. Imagine being waterboarded by your parents, that shit is fucked up. Luckily Marjoe ended up a pretty cool guy.

Hearts of Darkness is amazing

Dark Days is fantastic, there's also a book that dwells even deeper into the mole people society living in the Amtrak tunnels in the 90s

Dunno if you guys caught it, but Women Aren't Funny is a really thought provoking and eye opening look at how a male-dominated society perceives women. The Hughes donated a portion of their wealth to get this message out and I really think it is the duty of the fans of O&J to check it out.

I gave in and watched it.

Oof.

I'd like to make a joke, but it was too bad for humour.

Airlock.

Is it really that bad or is it just all the right wing O&A fans upset because women want a voice too?

I've never seen it, so I'm not trying to defend it or anything. O&A fans can be so sexist/racist/ignorant of all things that it is hard to take any of them seriously though.

Why not both?

It's hilarious how you leftist faggots, who are into men on the whole, are the first to accuse conservatives, i.e. the last remaining straight people in America, of being the ones to hate women or not realizing their place in society.

Look at your comment history. No one on reddit is more obsessed with gay men than you. For obvious reasons.

LOL that you wake up and think of me you hilarious faggot. I like when you try to get me brigaded too through comments like this because it just exposes how much of a faggot you are.

Wake up and think about you? What a freudian slip on your part, you silly boy! You may not realize it, but I frequently am looking at O&A threads and you frequently are being deeply in denial in them. That's how I came across your latest attempt to suppress your true nature.

I like when you try to get me brigaded

What is brigaded? Some bath house term I'm not familiar with no doubt.

Again with your horseshit attempts to understand what I'm saying and then apply your homeless man psychological diagnosis. You saw my name here and felt compelled to troll me you dumb faggot - I wasn't talking to you - but you wanted attention from me.

I know you're autistic but try to understand.

And LOL that you see gayness in the word brigaded, it's not surprising to see you project another fagtasy, but LOL.

Haha, we both know they aren't attempts to understand you, it's successfully understanding you to such a deep level it's sending you into a panic. So much so that you have to go back and edit your comments, yet they still remain weepy, hysterical messes. It's ok though, one day you'll thank me for helping you embrace you true self!

I wasn't talking to you

Haha, what a terrible attempt at getting out of this! No one this sub is ever talking to you when you start unpacking your closeted psyche on them.

LOL that you see gayness in the word brigaded

I see gayness in everything you say. Because it's obvious.

I know you're autistic but try to understand

It's funny how quickly you completely run out of steam when you're not just parroting dumb talking points from a gay point of view.

I know you're autistic but try to understand

Haha, the old meaningless repeat. The lamest concession of defeat on reddit. Glad I can still make you weep so easily.

projecting

I know you're autistic but try to understand

Haha you dunce, you fucked up your own surrender! At least have the backbone to stick to your retarded plans. Oh who am I kidding, there's no way you made it past the word "backbone" before your imagination and pecker ran wild.

surrender

pecker

projecting

I know you're autistic but try to understand

The ease with which you're completely manipulated is a little scary. You can't stick to your own point or convictions for more than a couple of minutes. Obviously because the personality you're trying to project is a complete fraud.

I know you're autistic but try to understand

I take issue with this post. Nobody and I mean nobody can recommend a quality doc like the Opester. He's the fucking King of documentary recommendations. Opie is 32-0 with the docs, he can just smell them out.

Any Louis Theroux documentary is great

I feel the same about the Ross Kemp ones too.

If you really want to be creeped out, I highly recommend the first episode of "When Louis Met" (broadcast 13 April 2000) his childhood hero: Jimmy Saville.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ziq8u_wlm-s01e01-jimmy-savile_news
(Full 49 minute episode, commercial free)

Gregg "Opie" Hughes is an eminent alumnus of a highly selective university. His decades-long reign at the rarefied heights of what lesser men find an unstable—nay, unsustainable!—artistic profession is nearly unparalleled. We have to aim for the intellectual stars to overshoot his so-called "pedestrian taste."

So here's Leonard Bernstein explaining how music works, using an 11-hour sustained analogy to Chomskyan linguistics.

Let's break this down.

ME: I was ALL IN on this one until the bit about Mixolidean Mode, I thought that was COMPLETE pandering to rock guys, PERIOD. Lawrence Bernstein was trying to be Mr. Toocoolfortheroom! Also I felt he was trashing burp Dvorak in the episode about music inspired by America, it was so OBVIOUS he was kissing up to Eric Copland! period!

Erock, we got any rachmaninoff? Let's go to break, we'll play some Rachmaninoff. Eric what song? Piano concerto 2? Nice, a deep cut. Love those deep album cuts, I'm ALL IN on late romantic Russian music. Ok, after the break we got Sherrod Small in studio, we got Bruce Jenner audio, busy show today.

"Let the Fire Burn" is a 2013 documentary film about the events leading up to and surrounding a 1985 stand-off between the black liberation group MOVE and the Philadelphia Police Department.  The standoff ended when Philadelphia police bombed the neighborhood via helicopter, killing 11 and completely destroyed a Philadelphia neighborhood.

Available On: Netflix, Amazon Prime & Google Play.

(Sorry, couldn't find a YouTube link)

I like the one cop at the end. Probably the only virtuous person in the entire documentary.

Yes. If you haven't, I'd suggest Googling that officers name as his act of valor caused him to go through hell on the job.

The way the documentary ends/the way the hearings concluded is just so disheartening...

That was such a great doc. The story is absolutely disheartening. In light of certain news stories this year, it really makes one look at things with a different perspective.

Haven't seen anybody else mention The Thin Blue Line. It's Errol Morris, same guy who did The Fog of War. I'm all in with his work. Probably the most talented documentary film-maker in the game right now (only other person I'd consider is Werner Herzog).

Anything by Morris or Herzog is great. Dr. Death and Tabloid are really good too. There is a follow up to Fog of War with Rumsfeld called Unknown Known. Following his dialogue/opinion will make you stupid. Rumsfeld really is a clueless lizard person.

Just watched Thin Blue Line on Netflix the other day

He also did "The Unknown Known" about Donald Rumsfeld, which is excellent.

Shurre !!!! I know a documenterry called Chickenhawk. Its about love and romance and it shows the BIGOTS that are trying to stop it!!! Very informative too, I like to show it to the young and impressionable kids in my neighborhood while I rub warm sardine oil myself.

I'm afraid the FBI will come to my front door looking for me after clicking that.

They can go ahead and look through my stuff. I've already been falsely accused 37 times.

That's a lot of times to be falsely accused.

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For anyone who wants to watch a brilliant documentary which scientifically explains exactly why the Twin Towers collapsed on 9/11, "Twin Towers: The Missing Evidence" (2014) that aired on Channel 5 in the UK.

This documentary DOES NOT in any way suggest any of the conspiracies promulgated by the truthers, it uses science to explain how and why the towers collapsed.

I highly recommend it.

Full 46 minute documentary, commercial-free: http://dai.ly/x2991ev  

Thank you so much, for finishing that comment by not being a Truther.

What I found so valuable about this documentary is that it is scientifically sound and makes so much sense; I think it would be extremely difficult for a truther to challenge the science explained in this documentary.

Truthers will always find a way.

The Man Who Predicted 9/11 about the head of security at Morgan Stanley is fantastic as well.

Anything by Alex Gibney. He did the Enron documentary, he did Taxi to the Dark Side which is one of my favorites too. Casino Jack and the United States of Money is great, he just did the Scientology one that came out a couple months back.

Made this post a sticky keep on adding more documentaries.

The Imposter (2012) is a good documentary/non fiction film.

That's a docu-drama, right? Like its a documentary with reenactments?

Right yeah, not a traditional documentary at all but it's interesting.

I personally enjoy educational / science documentaries.

Everything BBC's Natural History Unit produces. Simply amazing.

BBC's Horizon series is great. PBS NOVA is almost as good

PBS's American Experience series

Even The Discovery Channel has some gems like "When We Left Earth"

Thought you might enjoy these Daily Motion channels that I follow; they are excellent sources for documentaries that air on British television:
http://www.dailymotion.com/user/docs4all/1

http://www.dailymotion.com/user/mackie33/1

http://www.dailymotion.com/user/couchtripper/1

http://www.dailymotion.com/user/CrimeInc3/1

All of those channels are updated regularly; within a couple days of airing on British television.

Going Clear. HBO's fucking amazing documentary on Scientology.

Can't BELIEVE Opie apparently hasn't seen or talked about this yet.

Give him 2 years he'll start talking about it like he discovered it

He has kids he does not have time.

Gotta pay the nanny, tutors, and driver that takes them play dates. Check writing is quite time consuming.

He has, the week it originally aired. As has Sam Roberts who posited that all religions are silly when you take a microscope to them. Which is letting off Scientology way too lightly. He then proceeded to interview Elisabeth Moss, a Scientologist herself who was on coincidentally the week the doc aired. Sam and her completely skirted the topic.

Yeah that's right, I do recall a discussion about it that lasted maybe 6 minutes. Opie said he hadn't seen it yet, that was entirely due to guest's wanting to talk about it until Opie successfully changed the subject.

Got pointed to that from this very subreddit in fact...

Senna is phenomenal.

Yep Senna is amazing. Not a F1 fan at all so even americans who hardly know the sport will enjoy it.

fuck, i forgot that one. Ronnie B turned me on to it and it really lived up to what he said.

Whoa. You have a link to Ronnie talking about it by chance? That's like two of my favorite worlds overlapping.

Zoo: a thought-provoking expose of individuals and their romantic relationships with animals, complete with laugh out loud blooper reel footage!

The Paradise Lost docs (West Memphis 3)

Exit Through the gift shop (about street art / graffiti)

Pentagon Papers documentary (daniel ellsberg doc)

Cocaine Cowboys 1&2

Great list.

I love documentaries but a lot of them are too slow; I tried to make it through 'Heart of Darkness' but I couldn't do it.

Cocaine Cowboys keeps you glued to the set. And of course, Exit Through the Gift Shop is both funny and insightful.

Searching for Sugarman was alright. I think I heard about it on Ron & Fez. A 60s singer/songwriter washes out of the music scene and spends most of his life as a day laborer in Detroit. Little did he know he's idolized in South Africa as sort of a voice of the anti-Apartheid movement. He visits there at the end and sells out stadiums.

Also I saw Inside Job on an airplane. It was pretty good. About the economic collapse of the 2000s. Interesting if a little thermite paint-y.

Searching for Sugarman was a great doc, it's crazy that a record company can make millions off a man and he never even realizes he's famous.

Vice's North Korea documentary is probably my favorite

"The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" is a 2011 documentary film detailing the history of the Pruitt–Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis, Missouri, and the eventual decision to implode the entire complex in 1976.

The documentary demonstrates that the violent social collapse within the Pruitt-Igoe complex was not due to the demographic composition of its residents, but was a result of wider, external social forces, namely the declining economic fortunes of St. Louis and the resulting impact upon employment opportunities.

The film also shines a light on the public housing policy which prohibited married couples with children from being approved for housing; a policy which forced the husband/father to live apart from the family (if he was caught staying overnight with his wife and kids in public housing the family would be evicted).

Available On: Netflix & Amazon Prime.

This is a great one.

I LOVE this one.

That was fantastic, I thought it would be boring but it was so informative and well-made.

My favorite 30 for 30 documentaries. "Two Escobars". About Pablo Escobar, and Andreas Escobar ( the soccer player for Columbia that got gunned down for scoring the own goal in the World Cup).

Another good one is "Once Brothers".

I watched "Once Brothers" the other night. It was pretty good.

I really need to see Once Brothers.

Fuck ESPN. "We need to fire Bill Simmons because we, as a responsible network with journalistic integrity, can not let someone call out the NFL Commissioner for being the worst person at his job ever."

Hillsborough is a MUST watch 30 for 30 about soccer fans getting crushed to death in the pens

"Shut up and Sing" changed me, forever. I had bought into FoxNews and Limbaugh ideology. I changed. This is what the First amendment is about.

The persecution of the Dixie Chicks is a study on free speech. You dont need to like country music, or them, to enjoy this. One of my favorites:

https://vimeo.com/26790078

Others, that I have just loved, some previously mentioned:

Enron: the smartest guys in the room

Senna

Fog of War

Food Inc. (mind blowing how fucked up corporations are)

and Untold History of the United States.

I wish I could forget them all and watch them again.

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Almost anything by Louis Theroux is top notch. My favorites are the Miami Mega Jail, Westboro Baptist Church, Nazism, and gambling documentaries; surprisingly the gambling documentary was the most interesting for me.

Also, most of the his documentaries are easily found online, which is a plus. Here are all of the ones I mentioned:

Gambling

Westboro Baptist Church

Miami Mega Jail

The Nazis

I like his Law and Disorder series the best. If I may include an addendum to the above:

Law and Disorder in Philadelphia

Law and Disorder in Lagos

Law and Disorder in Johannesburg

There's also:

A Place for Paedophiles

The City Addicted To Crystal Meth (Fresno)

America's Medicated Kids (aderall, ritalin, etc)

In addition, widely confirmed to be a real nigga.

Thanks for the additions, Louis Theroux is the shit.

Lots of torrents available for these, highly recommend making a weekend of all Louis Theroux's docs

Hoop Dreams. They filmed two high school basketball players for four years and it turned out better than anything you could have scripted.

One of my favorites. It seemed there were no pre-conceived conclusions for this film. The story is amazing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_Dreams

Major Fraud - about a family that pulled off cheating their way to wining Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. It's on youtube in parts.

Stevie: "In 1995 Director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an 'Advocate Big Brother' to ten years earlier." Turns out Stevie molested his 10-year-old cousin a couple years into filming and things get weird...er. The movie is full of crazy white trash and it's my favorite of all time. The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia is a great trashy-doc too.

Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman

A documentary chronicling the 35 year car racing career of Paul Newman. The documentary showcases Newman's racing life as both a prolific driver and owner.

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Set in the golden era of Grand Prix Racing '1' tells the story of a generation of charismatic drivers who raced on the edge, risking their lives during Formula 1's deadliest period, and the men who stood up and changed the sport forever.

Senna

A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34.

Racing Dreams

A feature documentary following three young racers as they compete in the World Karting Association's National Pavement Series. Clocking speeds up to 70 mph, these kids chase the National Championship title and take one step closer toward their dream of someday racing in the big show... NASCAR.

.THE SHEIK

.MAIDENTRIP

Before there was "Miracle on Ice", there was The '72 Summit Series.

Many documenchries exist. Most on YouTube. Follow the vids...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPsYuG218X8

I dunno if it's considered a documentary, but the Qatsi trilogy is a great watch, pretty crazy.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/

A bit different than what people are suggesting but:

• The First 48 - A TV series (Ant is obsessed with it). After a murder is committed, Police have 48 hours to try and get a substantial lead on who the murderer is. There's a season or so on Netflix.

• Forensic Files - A TV series (on Netflix) that examines one murder per episode and how forensic evidence led to the capture of the murderer.

• Crimes of the Century - A CNN miniseries (on Netflix) that details 8 different "Crime of the Century" incidents - DC Sniper, Lennon Assassination, Andrea Yates, Reagan Assassination Attempt, Oklahoma City Bombing, Amanda Knox, Waco, and the Unabomber.

• Locked Up in America - A FrontLine 2-parter (on Netflix). I only saw the first part (53 minutes) which examines solitary confinement in the US prison system.

• Hard Time - A docu-series (on Netflix) that follows inmates in the Georgia prison system for a year to see how their lives change.

Then there's The Killer Speaks. I've only watched one episode - the one featuring Maxim Gellman. Gellman went on a 30 hour killing spree in NYC before being caught. The episode chronicled the events but also had input from him, being interview in jail.

A couple of years ago, O&A had the guy who stopped Gellman on the show. He's interviewed in the episode as well.

A non-series doc that I loved was The Two Escobars. Its an ESPN 30 for 30. It's about when Andres Escobar, who, after he scored an own goal in the 1994 World Cup and got Colombia eliminated from the competition, returned to Colombia and was shot and killed as retribution for the own goal. The film examines the sport of soccer and its association with organized crime in Colombia.

As you can see, I love crime documentaries.

I'm a big fan of rockumentaries, if anyone knows some good one I would appreciate it.

I'll just post it now for the down votes:

"This is Spın̈al Tap"

Cool, thanks

Beyond the Lighted Stage (Rush) and The Fearless Freaks (Flaming Lips) spring to mind, even if you aren't a fan.

Noisey has some on YT that are ok: there are NY Hardcore and Two-Tone ska ones that are part of some series whose name eludes me (although you have to put up w/Tim Armstrong's weird narration) and one about Judge (NYHC).

There's also a 4 hour block of studio footage taken of Faith No More working on Angel Dust. It's pretty raw footage... like 20 minutes tweaking with a keyboard patch. And awkward interviews that they guys didn't want to be doing. You can find it as "The Making of Angel Dust". It's a bit of a slog, and isn't a documentary, per se, but I don't regret watching it.

well, i think Jinx was the most explosive one in recent memory, and the benningtons were the ones that brought that to my attention.

opie didn't know shit about it.

i like the educational docs too. i found a torrent full of old bbc horizons reaching all the way back to the 70s, and it's somewhat hilarious while still being informative.

i don't know if this one would be mind-blowing to anyone, but alastair sooke did two favorite art history docs treasures of ancient rome and treasures of ancient egypt that had some things I hadn't seen before, and shot in glorious HD. Egypt was probably better and more enlightening.

i enjoy micheal wood's docs and he did one on the story of india that was amusing, considering how the romans said the same thing about indians that everyone else says. also did some chasing down myths and legends.

i'm having trouble remembering more.

ya Jinx was great. It reminded me of "Serial" in the visual form

"Surviving Progress"

Tim's Vermeer was pretty good. It's interesting even if you don't know or care about art. What they discovered (if true), is kinda a big deal.

I've only seen a handful of documentaries, but the best ones I've seen so far are "King Of Kong", which they've mentioned before. But the other one is "Best Worst Movie", which is about a movie that is so bad it's good, Troll 2

Only slightly related, but Jon Ronson is writing a book on the rise of public shaming on the internet, CBC did a segment on it. The first subject was a woman who posted a photo of two guys at a conference who made a joke about "big dongles". She wanted to make it a "safe space for future generations of women" so she posted their photo on twitter. Surprisingly she's cited as the shaming victim in the segment given the backlash after one of the guys lost his job. The irony is glossed over.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/online-shaming-the-return-of-mob-morality-1.3071354

Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades Pretty good show,i think the Stiglels would be interested in this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2QLaksc8Tk

I've binge watched Frontline documentaries before. Sometimes they really hit the nail on the head with what they cover and talk about.

Children of The Pyre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBxM1OQKAcg American Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMFZOu8rDUQ King of Kong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbqJm2birME The Act of Killing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5oMxbMcHM Dope Sick Love (HBO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atsUXOegIQQ

The Last Gladiators. It covers hockey enforcers, particularly Chris Nilan. A great bunch of interviews if you like that sort of thing.

This is one of my favourite documentaries, The doctor who hears voices.

This guy, Rufus May, came out the other side of treatment for schizophrenia in the 80's and chose to train as a clinical psychologist. The documentary covers him treating a junior doctor using his alternative method. He encourages her not to take anti-psychotic medication used to suppress the symptoms, and instead learn to confront the voices and build a relationship.

They filmed it with the woman involved, but they reconstructed it with an actor to protect her identity.

The director also made a film about one the doctors who first proposed Munchausen syndrome and accused dozens mother's of abusing their children and the legal fallout from it. A very dangerous doctor

Dear Zachary

I dunno if it's been said, but on Netflix there's a great documentary about Dock Ellis called "No-No: A Dockumentary". I'm not a really big baseball fan, but this was a very interesting documentary about his no hitter when he was on LSD, and I really enjoyed it.

First Kill.

A documentary about vietnam veterans and war in general but specifically asking the question "what is it like to kill a man?" and more worryingly "does it feel good?". They interview a bunch of vietnam vets who describe how easy it was to slip into behaviour that they never dreamed they were possible of committing in their day to day lives. It's more a documentary about how seductive violence is.

How the fuck has none of you fuckers mentioned JesusCamp?

It's 14 years old, think most have seen it eons ago

Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple - I'm sure most people here have heard the infamous Jonestown audio, but this doc provides that and more with tons of footage from the early days of the cult to its final hours. The most heartbreaking scenes are the interviews of the survivors and how they weren't able to save their loved ones from the camp.

Vimeo link

Torpid sloth and I (the Anthony cumia story: how I went from a humble tin knocker to full time morning zoo keeper)

While I am interested to see what people with actual taste liked and want to share, I am afraid Breasts will steal it.

Jokes aside, Food inc got to me, I can watch it as I eat a steak, but what fucked me up is how so few companies handle nearly all the meat production.

Chicken farmers and their treatment pissed me off. Not so much for the animals (although that is horrid too) but for the farmer.

Pretty much, the farmer owns the structures and pays upkeep, the company owns the chickens.

Company has a new standard on building type or ventilation, you pay! You do not comply, they cut you loose, and impoverish you, maybe send you into default on your farm.

Of Two Minds, it's on Netflix right now. About people with bipolar disorder, characters all. Highly recommended

I recently watched Valley Uprising (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3784160/) which is about rock climbers who climbed the faces of Yosemite National Park. It was tremendous.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o86TpaSBcWw

Anything by Adam Curtis. The way he weaves seemingly disparate subjects together and utilizes montage with stock BBC footage is incredible.

The Century of Self, The Power of Nightmares, It Felt Like a Kiss, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, Every Day is Like Sunday, etc.

The Kid Stays in the Picture - Visually stunning biopic on Godfather Producer Robert Evans

No End in Sight - Iraq War documentary with the actual people who fucked it up.

Hoop Dreams - One of the benchmark docs of the 90's.

Dear Zachary: the fucking Devil.

and, of course, motherfucking JESUS CAMP.

The Act of Killing

Grizzly Man

Koyaanisqatsi (not a foreign language film)

Baraka (neither is this one)

Act of Killing is easily among the best ever made. There is a lot going on in that movie that both completely changes the nature of the genre and makes so many sides of so many political and social debates look absurd.

I watched Koyaanisqatsi just a couple of years ago and it was amazing. I get what you're saying, but the retro-ness of it doesn't turn me off. I haven't see the rest of the trilogy. I'll have to check out Samsara.

So many great documentaries in these posts. Any documentaries by Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, Alex Gibney, Andrew Jarecki or Joe Berlinger are must-see. Here's some great docs I haven't seen posted in this thread yet:

Best Worst Movie: It's about the following that so-bad-it's-good movie, Troll 2, has gained over time. Pretty much everybody involved in that movie (or at least the one's that could be found) are featured at some point. Knowledge of Troll 2 is not required to appreciate it. It's fun, very rich in character and the stories about making Troll 2 are fascinating. Here's the trailer.

Hell House: Perfect for pairing with the already-mentioned Jesus Camp. A look at an evangelical church's "haunted house" of immorality. Very fly on the wall feel to how it was filmed. Here's the trailer.

Waltz with Bashir:An Israeli man (the director of the film) who served in the 1982 Lebanon War when he was a teenager tries to find his lost memories of his service. He does this by conducting interviews with those also involved in different ways with the war. The film is animated to recreate the stories told in the interviews. It's thoroughly engrossing. Here's the trailer.

Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns): It's about the development, influence and following of alt-rock band They Might Be Giants. Nothing more should need to be said. Here's the trailer.

Lost in La Mancha: Filmmaker Terry Gilliam (Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Time Bandits, Etc...) set out to make a Don Quixote film that completely falls apart. Everything that can go wrong does and it's all filmed. Basically, any filmmaker's nightmare come to life in a darkly funny way. Here's the trailer.

Overnight: The quick rise and fall of filmmaker Troy Duffy, who directed The Boondock Saints. His former friends were filming him through the whole process of making The Boondock Saints and portray how his massive ego and many other character flaws undid his potential success. Serves as a prefect warning for anyone trying to get into the movie industry to treat people well and keeping yourself in check. It's also delicious schadenfreude. Here's the trailer.

This Film is Not Yet Rated: An investigation of the secrecy, prejudices and hypocrisy of the MPAA rating system. Here's the trailer.

Wordplay: Yes, a documentary about crossword puzzles. And yes, it's actually very interesting. The celebrity interviews and history of crossword puzzles stuff is great but the best part to me was the crossword competition. Seeing all these people from different walks of life bond and have such reverence towards these puzzles is oddly touching. Here's the trailer.

Jodorowsky's Dune - about the greatest science fiction movie that never existed

Side by Side - Keanu Reeves made a documentary about digital and analog film technology

F for Fake - fat drunk Orson Welles fucking around with a camera for ninety minutes

When Stand Up Stood Out - the definitive documentary about the early Boston comedy scene

I Think We’re Alone Now - this is about creepy autists that make bronies look like high school jocks

Public Speaking - Fran Lebowitz talking shit about New York and everything else

"I think we're alone now" is fucking great

I'd love to hear Jimmy's reaction to that one.

Jodorowsky's Dune - about the greatest science fiction movie that never existed

Please tell me you don't actually believe that. Jodo isn't a genius visionary auteur, he's a delusional unrealistic hack who couldn't give two fucks about source material past the name because he wanted to tell his stupid fucking Acid Jesus tale. He's an ass.

Science fiction my ass.

My summaries are glib, didn't mean to cause any asspain. Though Jodorowsky pulled together the creative team that would go on to make Alien, one of the best science fiction movies ever.

it's a good watch and interesting to any sci fi fan

Kowloon Walled City - it's a German documentary (with English subtitles) about a walled neighborhood in Hong Kong's Kowloon district that was entirely free of any kind of governmental oversight - no police, no firefighters, no medicine, no social services. Their only connection to outside was power and water. It was torn down in the early 90's I think, but the footage is pretty incredible.

Gates of Heaven http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077598/

don't know if this one has been mentioned yet but Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) is also a great doc

pretty short but American Juggalo is an awesome watch. Plus a clear member of the Norton family makes an appearance.

A few I liked and will vouch for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. About Enron, duh.

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God. About tattletales.

Restrepo: Military doc about Afghanistan.

I'm just glad that sticky about the fight is gone. It had been there so long it was becoming an eyesore.

Deep Web : http://mightyupload.com/6dh9i33htbog/Deep_Web.%282015%29.WebRip.UBFlixRip.mp4.html

" Touching the Void " is absolutely amazing! Best documentary I've ever seen(besides King of Kong). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379557/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Defamation : An israeli journalist travels to the USA to make semi serious documentary about the ADL and follows Abe Foxman on his journey around the world to spread guilt.

https://youtu.be/9hE5Sr4YdgI

History of the Eagles

Muscle Shoals

Sound City

Paul Williams: Still Alive

Narco Cultura Documentary about the shit culture down south that has irreversibly seeped into America.

The Devil and Daniel Johnston - Already mentioned, but deserves another recommendation. Really interesting look at a musician with severe bipolar.

Murderball - Covers a wheelchair basketball league. That sounds like some feel-good bullshit but these guys are absolutely BRUTAL when they play.

Anvil! The Story of Anvil - The story of a metal band that's absolutely refused to stop. Skews pretty optimistic without being too saccharine about it.

Touching the Void - Covers two climbers' attempt to summit a Peruvian mountain that got DISASTROUSLY fucked up. Not a "pure" documentary; features some dramatized re-enactments but never feels hokey about it.

Well now, this is a great list! Here are a few additions:

Overnight: Total narcissist who thought he had Hollywood by the balls after he gained a following with Boondock Saints.

Particle Fever: CERN, Hadron Collider, Higgs boson but not just for “Big Bang Theory” nerds. Excitement and drama ensues. Easy to follow and incredibly interesting.

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room: Despicable people are fucking with all of your money

Rivers and Tides: A different look at what we call art through the work of Andy Goldsworthy

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work: I was never a Joan Rivers fan but I did enjoy this one.

I know this one was mentioned but American Movie is incredibly unassuming and without agenda. Just a couple middle class losers trying to get beer money very likely living in mom’s basement to this day.

Im a drummer & somehow never even heard of Ginger Baker, but Beware Of Mr Baker (Netflix) is amazing.

Just saw the The Seven Five last month (dude was on O&J not long ago) is honest to god one of the most entertaining/interesting documentaries I've ever seen. I don't usually go to the theater to see docs, but that one I did and I was happy I did.

Carolla's Paul Newman doc is pretty damn good, and I couldn't give less of a shit about racing.

The TWA Flight 800 doc was pretty compelling.

Blackfish was heart wrenching, and Im not even an animal guy. That's one of the most powerful docs Ive ever seen.

American Movie is still one of the funniest, most quotable documentaries ever. "Coven sounds like OVEN, man."

The Farm: Angola, USA - A 1998 award-winning documentary (nominated for an Academy Award) about the maximum security prison in Angola, Louisiana. You meet long-term prisoners and lifers (some on death row). It's intense, gripping, thought-provoking. It's on NetFlix now.

Holy shit! I never knew The Staircase had a sequel. Will watch.

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Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog; 1980) Hour of the Furnaces (Fernando Solanas; 1968) Listen to Britain (Humphrey Jennings; 1942) Near Death (Frederick Wiseman; 1989) The Power of Nightmares (Adam Curtis; 2004) A Man Vanishes (Shohei Imamura; 1967) The War Game (Peter Watkins; 1965) Looking for Richard (Al Pacino; 1997) The Battle of Chile (Patricio Guzman; 1975) Warrendale (Allan King; 1967)

I can rattle off hundreds.

Other words, the Opester don't know shit.

Rattling off names instead of explaining why they are worth watching makes you just as shit at this as Opie will be.

We don't know if Opie even likes documentaries, he's never talked about that. He likes documentrees.

The Paradise Lost series was fukin hot as fuk

Zeitgeist

Pacific Rim

The Turnip Deception

Witch Hunt: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196112/

'The Imposter' was incredible: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1966604/

'Waiting For Superman' was strangely good, even as a Brit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1566648/

West of Memphis: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2130321/

'Restrepo' legit made my cry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1559549/

Armadillo (Danish, Afghanistan): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640680/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Rize (black people doin funny dances and a clown): https://vimeo.com/63644618

Waiting For Superman is basically propaganda for charter schools/the privatization of public schools so take it with a giant grain of salt.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-charter-schools/?pagination=false

Both neo-liberals and conservatives want to get this one done so it's not a partisan issue.

I think "I am Joe's Stomach" is quite educational.

The Summit is a good one I saw on Netflix not long ago. It tells the story of a mountaineering expedition on K2 (world's second tallest and most dangerous mountain) that didn't end well.

Frontline: The Anthrax Files.

Like a real life spy movie. Available on the PBS Frontline website.

1971 is also another decent documentary worth checking out that's currently up on PBS Independent Lens.

JUST GREAT!!

HOW LONG UNTIL OPIE READS THIS LIST AND STARTS DROPPING THE TITLES LIKE HE DISCOVERED THEM ON HIS OWN DOKYOO MENTREE MARATHONS?!!

Grow up, stop being a child. Get your own life and stop worrying about Opie's.

The one documentary that everyone I've either watched it with or recommended it to absolutely loved is "Man On Wire."

It's a great documentary to watch if you're just getting into the genre or to screen for friends that you might want to introduce to the genre (people who hear "documentary" and think "boring").

Enjoy:

Man On Wire (94 min):
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20yzwx_man-on-a-wire-documentary-complete-hd_shortfilms

Checkout Tales of a grim sleeper on HBO I think it's a Louis Theroux. About a black serial killer in south central LA. It's good like other Louis docs.

Made a mistake Tales of a grim sleeper is a Nick Broomfield documentary. He has the same style as Louis Theroux IMO.

Metal: A Headbangers Journey is about different genres of metal , where it started, and some controversy. There is a sequel called Global Metal that I would recommend if you liked A Headbangers Journey.

Get Thrashed is about Thrash Metal and the impact it had in the 80s and 90s.

Lemmy if you like Motörhead, watch it.

Last Days Here is about the lead singer from Pentagram and how bad he fucked up. A fan of his goes out of his way to help him get back to playing live and get sober.

Last Days Here is mandatory viewing if you're in this thread

Last Days Here is one of the best.

"Anvil" is great too, but completely different of course

Heres a good one, opie as a father should appreciate it

https://youtu.be/kHsoIsbML_0

I like lost soul about the making of the island of Dr Monroe movie

"the house I live in" "how to make money selling drugs" "the spirit molecule"

Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me

Why we fight.

I'll add another I forgot- Hype! It's about the grunge music explosion

Hype!

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles - A filmmaker narrates his pursuit of an anonymous graffiti artist, who wanders the continent leaving one short, unchanging, cryptic message as a clue. It´s a truly unpredictable and gripping detective story/comedy.

The Gift - about gay guys who purposely try to catch AIDS.

Brooklyn Castle

Honestly: almost every HBO documentary

Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon

Available on Netflix Instant Watch. Story of one of the biggest talent agents ever.

Feel good Opie Raqio doc of the Summer:

AIDS

Hot Coffee and Bobby Fischer Against the World

Most supposed Documentaries are just as fake as scipted movies. 90% of the time, there is a film maker with an agenda trying to pretend that he has no agenda. He will edit the film according to his agenda and thats what you get.

Wooooah no way

you just opened my eyes

YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSE TO LET THEM FIND THIS OUT YOU FUCKING TRAITOR!!!!!

I think I've watched 2 documentaries in my life. Reading the crap getting thrown around in this thread, I won't be looking for my third anytime soon.

Now that the sub might get banned and you un-stick this horrendous post?

It's great. A family of bona fide weirdos and creeps.

The best thing about that doc is the moment you realize holy shit robert is the most well adjusted Crumb brother.

It's really the best display of the relationship between art and insanity.

The Devil and Daniel Johnston is another doc like that

I've messaged you a link to my DropBox so you can download the book.

I thought the series was powerful as it challenged one to examine historical events from other perspectives and not through the lens of our own propaganda machine. More importantly, I thought the series spoke truth to the fact that each human life is precious and when empires fail to recognize that truth, empires fall.

ME: I was ALL IN on this one until the bit about Mixolidean Mode, I thought that was COMPLETE pandering to rock guys, PERIOD. Lawrence Bernstein was trying to be Mr. Toocoolfortheroom! Also I felt he was trashing burp Dvorak in the episode about music inspired by America, it was so OBVIOUS he was kissing up to Eric Copland! period!

Erock, we got any rachmaninoff? Let's go to break, we'll play some Rachmaninoff. Eric what song? Piano concerto 2? Nice, a deep cut. Love those deep album cuts, I'm ALL IN on late romantic Russian music. Ok, after the break we got Sherrod Small in studio, we got Bruce Jenner audio, busy show today.

Again with your horseshit attempts to understand what I'm saying and then apply your homeless man psychological diagnosis. You saw my name here and felt compelled to troll me you dumb faggot - I wasn't talking to you - but you wanted attention from me.

I know you're autistic but try to understand.

And LOL that you see gayness in the word brigaded, it's not surprising to see you project another fagtasy, but LOL.

The ease with which you're completely manipulated is a little scary. You can't stick to your own point or convictions for more than a couple of minutes. Obviously because the personality you're trying to project is a complete fraud.

Jodorowsky's Dune - about the greatest science fiction movie that never existed

Please tell me you don't actually believe that. Jodo isn't a genius visionary auteur, he's a delusional unrealistic hack who couldn't give two fucks about source material past the name because he wanted to tell his stupid fucking Acid Jesus tale. He's an ass.

Science fiction my ass.

Whoa. You have a link to Ronnie talking about it by chance? That's like two of my favorite worlds overlapping.

"I think we're alone now" is fucking great