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I love documentaries, and I need some more to watch. I'll watch them on just about any topic. My main request is that, with controversial issues, they're not too ... preachy, if that makes sense.

Marwencol. Seriously it's amazing.

Looks interesting! Thanks for the rec.

One of my favorites (but be warned, you need a strong stomach) is Night and Fog, a French documentary filmed back in 1955 about World War II and the concentration camps. We watched it in high school and it was on Hulu at some point. I think it's part of the Criterion Collection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_and_Fog_%281955_film%29

"Welcome to North Korea" is another interesting one on the atrocities committed in North Korea. I have no idea where I found it, but I ended up downloading it.

Mm, genocide documentaries are important but they're definitely something I need to be in a certain mood for.

Thanks for the recs!

If you're looking for long series documentaries, look up Ken Burns. He has done TONS of different series that aired on PBS. Two I can recommend would be his Civil War series or his series on Jazz, if those are your things. I think he did one on baseball more recently.

Re: Documentary recommendations?

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shortysc22 - 2016-01-12 00:57 (UTC) - Expand

Zoo

Because it's a good documentary or because it has shocking content?

both

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It's been a while since I watched it so I don't remember how preachy it was, but I liked 8: The Mormon Proposition.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1484522/

It's about the secret Mormon conspiracy to destroy gay marriage in America. Gets really weird and trippy once it starts talking about Mormon theology.

Oh, I've watched that. From what I remember it was really intriguing, especially the relationship between Mormons and other Christian denominations.

Nature docs:

* Planet Earth - I think that's its name, fairly recent, goes all around the world to amazing locations, the cinematography is mind blowing
* anything with David Attenborough
* Wild China

History:

* Ken Burns' Civil War series is a classic
* The BBC did this great series with archaeologists living under historical conditions and showing you what it was like. "Tales from the Green Valley" was the first, but the rest get even more detailed and interesting: Tudor Monastery Farm, Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm, Wartime Farm, Secrets of the Castle
* More excellent BBC docs: A History of Scotland, Vikings
* Secrets of the Dead has quite a few episodes on varying subjects
* Tim's Vermeer - some random non-artistic guy tries to replicate a Vermeer painting

Food/Culture:

* Rick Sebak has some lovely ones mostly about the U.S. and specifically Pittsburgh, his hometown, but my favorite is called "Sandwiches You Will Like"
* Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Mystery/crime docs:

* Making a Murderer
* The Jinx
* The Staircase
* West of Memphis, about the West Memphis Three
* Paradise Lost, 3 parts also about the West Memphis Three
* There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
* The Imposter
* BBC A Very British Murder - about the UK's obsession with crime/murder
* The Galapagos Affair, about a series of unsolved disappearances/murders in the Galapogos islands in the 1930s

I've seen the nature docs (I love animal documentaries) and some of the history docs. I'll definitely check out the mystery/crime docs - I like true crime but it's mostly been confined to books so far.

Thank you!

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I thought I saved the post on Facebook this week but can't find it. Maybe I liked it. Can you see past liked posts?

It was about documentaries and I want to share it...

Afraid not.

My favorite documentary is Babies. There's almost no dialogue and it follows several babies across the continents as they grow into infancy. Just a cool exploration on how children develop, what's universal and what's culturally divergent.

Another excellent documentary I've seen. Thank you for the rec!

Re: Documentary recommendations?

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Documentaries that have absolutely nothing to do with each other:

Cave of Forgotten Dreams: neolithic cave art. If you ever get a chance to see this in a theatre in 3D DO IT. I hate 3D and this is awesome.
The Art of the Steal: art theft.
Knuckleball: a documentary about the rarest and most unique pitching style in baseball. I guarantee this is accessible and interesting to a non-baseball fan. How can you not be fascinated in what makes THIS work?!

The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai.

Breaking the Maya Code

Seconding this. It's absolutely fascinating.

Miracle In The Marshes. You can find it on Youtube, and netflix used to have it (I don't know if it's still available there).

Absolutely fascinating in-depth documentary about the Tigris-Euphrates marshes in Iraq, how they were destroyed and how they're being restored. I felt they did a good job focusing on the local people and local efforts towards restoration compared to most nature documentaries like this which can come across very poverty-tourism-ish.

SO MANY

Okay, for crime/dark documentaries on Netflix, you've got Shenandoah, the Impostor, Dear Zachary (BE WARNED THIS ONE'S BRUTAL), Into the Abyss, Cropsey, The Price of Gold. Central Park Five, a classic if REALLY depressing. After Tiller, about late-term abortion providers, is really heavy stuff but incredibly moving. Capturing the Friedmans isn't on Netflix, but it's well worth seeking out if you want some fucked up family stuff.

If you're into the history of criminology I HIGHLY recommend both the Poisoner's Handbook (on Netflix and on the PBS website) and Of Dolls and Murders (you can find this one online). These are a couple of my absolute favorites.

My TOP RECOMMENDATION, though, is a documentary called Slingshot. It's on Netflix, and it's about the man who invented the Segway, but it's so much more than that-- turns out the man who invented the Segway is probably the best human in the world, and the Segway is by far the least of his inventions. Most of my recs are p dark crime-focused movies, but if you want an actual feel-good documentary that makes you feel comforted and optimistic about the world, watch Slingshot. Watch it even if you don't want that; it's a lovely movie and he's the sweetest man in the world.

I feel like I'm the only person who was really underwhelmed by Cropsey. It was mildly interesting but it doesn't take long to get their point (i.e. real life murderer as urban legend) and they still drag out it.

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Alone in the Wilderness.

It's about an old guy being more awesome than all of us put together. Not controversial at all.

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