[HN Gopher] Best Documentaries You've Ever Seen
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Best Documentaries You've Ever Seen
Author : Kye
Score : 34 points
Date : 2024-01-27 16:46 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| starwin1159 wrote:
| KJ: Music and Life
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiCYpZebx9U
| EarthAmbassador wrote:
| The Act of Killing
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| JODOROWSKY'S Dune
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| Burden of Dreams
| hotcrossbunny wrote:
| BBC Horizon, thinks the microchip is going to be a big deal
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| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_the_Chips_Are_Down
| deoxykev wrote:
| Here is the list from the thread: --- 1. A Man Named Pearl
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| 2. Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
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| 3. Microcosmos
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| 4. Crip Camp!
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| 5. Keep The River On Your Right
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| 6. All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
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| 7. Harlan County USA
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| 8. Stay on Board: The Leo Baker Story
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| 9. Good Night Oppy
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| 10. We Met in Virtual Reality
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| 11. All That Breathes
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| 12. Still
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| 13. Can't Be Stopped
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| 14. The Amazing Jonathan Documentary
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| 15. Searching for Sugarman
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| 16. AKA Mr Chow
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| 17. The Pigeon Tunnel
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| 18. Little Richard: I Am Everything
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| 19. I Know That Voice
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| 20. Genghis Blues
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| 21. Kings of Pastry
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| 22. 20 Feet From Stardom
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| 23. Stevie
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| 24. Anvil: the Story of Anvil
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| 25. Searching for Sugar Man
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| 26. King of Kong
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| 27. The Gleaners and I
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| 28. Touching the Void
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| 29. Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
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| 30. 20 Days in Mariupol
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| 31. Minding the Gap
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| 32. How to Survive a Plague
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| 33. Speciesism
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| 34. Free Solo
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| 35. Jim Allison: Breakthrough
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| 36. Seven Up! series
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| 37. Bowling for Columbine
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| 38. The Fog of War
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| 39. Rivers and Tides
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| 40. Capturing the Friedmans
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| 41. Spellbound
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| 42. King of Kong
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| 43. Crip Camp
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| 44. Jesus Camp
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| 45. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
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| 46. Flee
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| 47. Man on Wire
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| 48. Queen of Versailles
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| 49. The Thin Blue Line
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| 50. Time Indefinite
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| 51. The Gleaners and I
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| 52. My Life as a Turkey
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| 53. Happy People
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| 54. Grizzly Man
| dizhn wrote:
| Rivers and Tides is there. I highly recommend it and The Queen
| of Trees (2005) which is not in the list.
| michelb wrote:
| Missing "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
| (2008)" here. I thought it was very good but an absolute kick
| to the stomach.
| Kye wrote:
| The Fandom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv0QaTW3kEY
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| Even the best-intended looks at the furry fandom from the outside
| tend to be surface level with a focus on dispelling stereotypes.
| The Fandom comes from deep inside and covers the fandom I know,
| not just the fursuits, which are a good and valid but tiny part
| of it.
| prepend wrote:
| Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control by Errol Morris [0] might be the
| best ever for its detailed exploration into its four subjects and
| their passions into their area of expertise.
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| It's so simple, but part of why it's so hard to make a
| documentary.
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| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast,_Cheap_%26_Out_of_Control
| andy800 wrote:
| Hoop Dreams is not on a list of the 50+ best documentaries?
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| There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane - investigation of a car
| crash that killed 8 people
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| Art of the Steal - walks through the back-room negotiations and
| money resulting in the move of the Barnes Foundation (one of the
| world's greatest private art collections) from Main Line to
| Center City Philadelphia, which was specifically against the
| patron's wishes.
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| Roger & Me - I don't love Michael Moore's politics or his later
| movies but his breakthrough film, where he looks at everything
| gone wrong in his hometown of Flint Michigan, is very good.
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| June 17th, 1994 - this is an ESPN 30 For 30, splices together TV
| clips covering multiple historic sporting events of that
| particular day, most famously, the O.J. Simpson car chase. If you
| weren't alive on that date (and even if you were) it's utterly
| fascinating.
| kevinsync wrote:
| American Movie (1999) has lived rent-free in my head since Y2K.
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| The filmmaker Chris Smith has gone on to make Fyre, Tiger King,
| Bad Vegan and others.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Smith_(filmmaker)
| BMc2020 wrote:
| I seem to recall from the end credits, where after it was over
| at Cannes, they said anyone who wanted to stay and watch Coven
| could. Everyone stayed.
| kevinsync wrote:
| For a couple of years there after it came out on DVD, Mark
| Borchardt and Mike Schank had a website that they posted
| Mike's phone number, and you could call and leave a
| voicemail. That always put a smile on my face, his outgoing
| message was jamming on a guitar playing Led Zeppelin. I wish
| I could recall the URL to find it on Wayback Machine.
| grotted wrote:
| The Act of Killing
| prirun wrote:
| Everything and Nothing: the Amazing Science of Empty Space:
| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2071460/
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| The Corporation: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/
| BMc2020 wrote:
| _Grossing over $222 million total worldwide, the film is the
| highest grossing documentary of all time, according to Box Office
| Mojo....It was the highest-grossing film released by Lionsgate
| until it was surpassed by The Hunger Games in 2012._
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| Down the memory hole. It's not mentioned once here. (up til this
| post)
| daswerth wrote:
| What documentary are you talking about?
| sparky_z wrote:
| Fahrenheit 9/11
| derbOac wrote:
| I'd have to say my favorites are
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| 1. The Up series
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| 2. Fog of War
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| 3. The Act of Killing
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| There's several on that list that I want to see now, though.
| juddlyon wrote:
| I saw Meru in a theater and sat in the parking lot afterwards
| wondering what I just watched.
| ratg13 wrote:
| 1997 BBC2 Horizon Documentary about bacteriophage therapy in the
| former Soviet Union
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| https://archive.org/details/BBCHorizonS1997e13TheVirusThatCu...
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