Greatest documentaries. Channel 4 tonight.
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Cid said:
Point taken about the rifles, but show me a documentary that doesn't have any set-up scenes (especially from that era).
Juice Terry
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Typical C4 
Wife Swap, Faking It, Driving Fucking School get in and they don't even mention Shoah.
Wife Swap, Faking It, Driving Fucking School get in and they don't even mention Shoah.
Louloubelle
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Cid said:
and they left out the fact that Nanook and his family died of starvation soon after the film was released.
Fuzzy said:
Largely directed by Michael Apted, 7 up and its sequels (14 up, 21 up etc) took a cross-section of children at age 7 and asked them about their hopes for the future, then returned every seven years to mark their progress. First broadcast in 1964, the most recent installment, 49up, was shown on ITV last month.
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002S64SC/002-2718791-5979200?v=glance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Up!
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
No Martin Bashir & Michael Jackson? 
When it'd reached number two and there was still no mention I was expecting to see it at number one 
When it'd reached number two and there was still no mention I was expecting to see it at number one
Nine Bob Note
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luigi said:
I'll give More4 a month before they resort to showing their entire array of "100 best..." shows
lostexpectation
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what was the black and white one where they were hiding under the table and was supposed to be very chilling?
what was the black and white one where they were hiding under the table and was supposed to be very chilling?
Johnny Canuck3
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Good Intentions said:
I agree: it's a good documentary.
mhendo
Aussie in San Francisco
Lots of my favourites already mentioned, including:
Some of my other favourites that haven't yet been mentioned:
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media: smart introduction to the man and his thought and politics.
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.: fascinating tale of a guy who started out designing execution equipment and then moved over to Holocaust denial. A strange yet oddly compelling story.
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Story: brilliant colour footage of early nuclear bomb tests, and a good history of the early part of the nuclear arms race. Suitably portentous narration by Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, and a rather stirring original music score.
Atomic Cafe: hilarious and disturbing all at the same time, this looks at government propaganda surrounding atomic bombs in America during the 1950s and 1960s. The "duck and cover" stuff is priceless.
Winged Migration: one of the most beautiful films ever shot, in my opinion. A "must see" on the big screen, the close-up shots of flying birds are magnificent. (This movie was titled Travelling Birds in some markets)
Microcosmos: fascinating look at insects, close up.
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women: third in a series of films looking at images of women in advertising. Excellent stuff. The first two are also good, but are now a little dated; number 3 brings the story up the moment.
Playing Unfair: The Media Image of the Female Athlete: as the title suggests, this film looks at the way that the media both trivializes and objectifies female athletes, and represents them using very different criteria than those applied to male athletes.
Boom! The Sound of Eviction: looks at the consequences of the '90s tech boom for poor people in San Francisco, with gentrification, evictions, astronomical rent increases, and a city government that cared more about the influx of cashed-up Yuppies than about its long-term residents. Depressing stuff, but required viewing.
Edited to add:
This is Duckpin Country: film tracing the decline of the rather odd sport of duckpin bowling here in Baltimore. This isn't the greatest documentary ever made, but it's interesting local stuff, and it's here because it was made by a friend of mine (third from the left in the picture), and also because i took the picture that they used for their promotional material, the picture of the ball and pin that is on this website. Don't laugh. I'm not a professional photographer, i had no professional lighting (it was done in my living room), and i just used a regular prosumer digital camera.
- Baraka
- American Movie
- One Day In September
- Roger and Me
- Bowling for Columbine
- When We Were Kings
- Hoop Dreams
- 7 Up, 14 Up, etc.
- Spellbound
Some of my other favourites that haven't yet been mentioned:
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media: smart introduction to the man and his thought and politics.
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.: fascinating tale of a guy who started out designing execution equipment and then moved over to Holocaust denial. A strange yet oddly compelling story.
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Story: brilliant colour footage of early nuclear bomb tests, and a good history of the early part of the nuclear arms race. Suitably portentous narration by Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, and a rather stirring original music score.
Atomic Cafe: hilarious and disturbing all at the same time, this looks at government propaganda surrounding atomic bombs in America during the 1950s and 1960s. The "duck and cover" stuff is priceless.
Winged Migration: one of the most beautiful films ever shot, in my opinion. A "must see" on the big screen, the close-up shots of flying birds are magnificent. (This movie was titled Travelling Birds in some markets)
Microcosmos: fascinating look at insects, close up.
Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women: third in a series of films looking at images of women in advertising. Excellent stuff. The first two are also good, but are now a little dated; number 3 brings the story up the moment.
Playing Unfair: The Media Image of the Female Athlete: as the title suggests, this film looks at the way that the media both trivializes and objectifies female athletes, and represents them using very different criteria than those applied to male athletes.
Boom! The Sound of Eviction: looks at the consequences of the '90s tech boom for poor people in San Francisco, with gentrification, evictions, astronomical rent increases, and a city government that cared more about the influx of cashed-up Yuppies than about its long-term residents. Depressing stuff, but required viewing.
Edited to add:
This is Duckpin Country: film tracing the decline of the rather odd sport of duckpin bowling here in Baltimore. This isn't the greatest documentary ever made, but it's interesting local stuff, and it's here because it was made by a friend of mine (third from the left in the picture), and also because i took the picture that they used for their promotional material, the picture of the ball and pin that is on this website. Don't laugh. I'm not a professional photographer, i had no professional lighting (it was done in my living room), and i just used a regular prosumer digital camera.
Good Intentions
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There were a few other great documentaries I'd forgotten to mention, like "When We Were Kings". Could a Linda Riefenstahl film ever make a list like that? Both "Olympia" and "The Triumph of the Will" are hands-down some of the best films ever made, but C4 isn't going to give the thumbs-up to something documenting the glories of Nazism, is it?
And "Roger and Me" pisses over anything else Michael Moore made. It is one docu doesn't have a set-up - how naive Moore is and how brashly he is disillusioned is exactly the fulcrum of the film. The only political act I know of where being a feel-good liberal makes it better.
And "Roger and Me" pisses over anything else Michael Moore made. It is one docu doesn't have a set-up - how naive Moore is and how brashly he is disillusioned is exactly the fulcrum of the film. The only political act I know of where being a feel-good liberal makes it better.
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