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Not really a discussion question. I watched The Elephant in the Room yesterday on Netflix (I would recommend it if you are interested in the exotic animal trade of the US).

I was hoping for some suggestions of your favorite documentaries (or ones everyone should watch) on Netflix (or not, I can probably find them elsewhere online). I enjoy social/cultural and environmental/nature documentaries the most, but am open to any. :)

I love Louis Theroux's documentaries. You can find a lot of them on youtube. His earlier ones were more weird/silly, like investigating UFO hunters, but they get more serious, such as the one about America's Medicated Kids, or about Law and Disorder in Philadelphia.

I have heard great things about him. And I have been meaning to watch his one on Westboro Baptist Church. I shall add his docus to the list!

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This Film is Not Yet Rated is really good; it's about the US rating system and how messed up it is. I really like that one and it's definitely on Netflix.

Oh yeah that one is great. I watched in a while ago for reasons I don't remember. o.O

Only half the time I was annoyed with some of the more moronic of the film producers who were trying to pass off their porn as "art".

Like the one lady who was all like "the rape is so important to the plot" and I'm like "SVU deals with rape all the time, in a (mostly) respectful way on f-ing TV. If the rape is that important, you can dig your creativity out of your ass and make better cut-aways"

I watched a really disheartening one on North Korea on youtube a while ago. It was called "Welcome to North Korea" and it was a good look inside one of the most isolated countries in the world.

Looks like it is still on youtube. :D I will put it on my list to watch.

Netflix has the "Walking with Dinosaurs/Beasts/Cavemen" series, with original Kenneth Branagh narration! Definitely one of my favorites.

I loved Walking With Dinosaurs when I was a kid. :3 I didn't know they were on netflix!

About nature:
March of the Penguins
Microcosmos (about insects! with intense close-ups)

Haven't seen yet but seem interesting:
12th and Delaware (by the makers of Jesus Camp, terrifying documentary by the way), about an abortion clinic which is next to a pro-life center
Lost in la Mancha (about Terry Gilliam's attempts to make a Don Quixote movies. Key word: attempts.)
Darwin's Nightmare (about gun trafficking and fish)
Buena Vista Social Club (about Cuban singers)
The Winged Migration (about birds!)
Berkeley in the Sixties

Oh no, not March of the Penguins. Them baby penguins ;_;

But I will look at the rest of them! Thank you for the suggestions.

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The ones I can think of at the moment are Jiro Dreams of Sushi and Island President. 1st one is about a famous sushi chef and how he's pretty much a national treasure and the epitome of discipline. Island President is about the Maldives and its former president working on global warming.
Both are really good, I'd recommend it!

Oooh. The second one sounds really interesting. I'll add it to my queue. :D

I thought "Urbanized" was fascinating. It's about city planning and design, and uses real life examples of good and bad. I plan to watch it a second time, soon.

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I just watched Indie Games: The Movie and it was an insightful look into the ups and downs of making an indie game. The movie focused on following the creators of Super Meat Boy, Braid, and Fez.

By the end, I really felt for the guys, having watched the trials they went through to get their games to the masses.

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Alone in the Wilderness is an absolutely mesmerizing film about a guy who moved to Alaska and built a cabin and lived there alone for many years. It's amazing watching him build all sorts of things by hand - even carving a latch for his cabin door - and exploring the dramatic environment around him.

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kaijinscendre - 2013-05-28 01:14 (UTC) - Expand

One of my recent favourites is called The Union: The Business Behind Getting High.

"BC's illegal marijuana trade industry has evolved into a business giant, dubbed by some involved as 'The Union', Commanding upwards of $7 billion Canadian annually. With up to 85% of 'BC Bud' being exported to the United States, the trade has become an international issue. Follow filmmaker Adam Scorgie as he demystifies the underground market and brings to light how an industry can function while remaining illegal. Through growers, police officers, criminologists, economists, doctors, politicians and pop culture icons, Scorgie examines the cause and effect nature of the business - an industry that may be profiting more by being illegal. "

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kaijinscendre - 2013-05-28 01:25 (UTC) - Expand

"Leaving Bountiful" - woman who escaped the ultra-fundie Mormons in Bountiful, BC.

"Wee Houses" How to live large in small spaces. (Much better than it sounds, trust me. Very inspirational, that is how I eventually want to live."

"My Mother Diana" - I usually loathe anything to do with the Brit Royals, but this was actually one of the better documentaries (and the guy who used to be in every one, legit or otherwise, screaming how IT WUZ ALL A KONNNSPIRACYYYYY!!!!ELEVENTY" about her death finally shut up and sat down, which is why this documentary was tolerable to me)

Aaaaaand, in the same vein as the above doc, "Richard III - King i the Car Park." It was actually quite interesting. And the last living descendant of Richard III is a Canadian!

"Children, Full of Life." - If you watch nothing else on this list, WATCH THIS ONE.

"Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God" - about the pedophile priest in Virginia, and how the Deaf students he tormented for decades, basically declared war on him AND the Catholics who were trying to cover up the priest's molestation. Bear in mind that not only had these Deaf students been severely sexually, physically, and emotionally abused, they were barely even literate, or capable of living to their fullest potential in society because they had essentially been institutionalized. AND THEY FLYERED THE PRIEST'S WHOLE NEIGHBOURHOOD TELLING WHAT HE HAD DONE. They even went as high up to the highest whatever in the area (they never got to the Pope, because Ratzi the Nazi covered that up, along with everything else he hid - the man totally resigned before the public discovered something even WORSE I just know it /rant) and they ALSO FACED DOWN THE PRIEST HIMSELF IN THE PRESENT. Who was living absolutely free of charge in a swank house, with his own personal housekeeper, and HE LITERALLY SAID ON CAMERA "Yeah I did all those things but it's all (somehow magically IDEK) OK now so go away and stop persecuting me."

Yeah so that last one was the most recent one I watched. I'm also deaf, so ... yeah it had an impact.

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One of the ones I watched a while back on Netflix was about the New Orleans red light district at the turn of the century/early 1900's. It focuses more on what it was like living there/who worked there [and why]/what came out of there [for example, muscians that helped shape jazz [or ragtime, I can't quite remember]/etc.

It should still be up on Netflix [I just...can't remember the name, other than it was fairly obvious what it was about from the title.]

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kaijinscendre - 2013-05-28 02:16 (UTC) - Expand

Not sure if this is too obvious of a rec, but I loved that Planet Earth documentary series, which had some of the most amazing places/cinematography I've ever seen.

Also from the BBC:

A History of Scotland
A History of Ancient Britain
A History of Celtic Britain
Vikings

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kaijinscendre - 2013-05-28 14:28 (UTC) - Expand

I have no idea if this counts, but the National Geographic Channel aired The '80s: The Decade That Made Us not too long ago and I'm sure they'll run it again. It's a six-part miniseries narrated by Rob Lowe about the things that happened in the 80s in the US that spawned political, technological, cultural, and social revolutions. I found it really interesting.

Some of these also look quite good (http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/03/the-25-best-documentaries-streaming-on-netflix-right-now/).

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kaijinscendre - 2013-05-28 14:27 (UTC) - Expand

Highly recc "Exit Through the Gift Shop". A movie famous street artist Banksy and his friends made about a man who was making a movie about Banksy. People claim it was all fake but it's too surreal and ironically hilarious to have been conjured up, imo at least. The whole message of the film is really thought provoking, but it's also really cool to see all the street art and how all those street artists do what they do.

I also really liked "Gasland". It's a look at how big oil companies began fracking in America and how it has destroyed small towns and communities. It's pretty scary because I live in Colorado. T_T

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kaijinscendre - 2013-05-28 14:27 (UTC) - Expand

For nature, David Attenborough is required viewing. Pick a topic (birds! Insects! The ocean! Africa!) and go nuts. The entire Life series, actually, is amazing. There's also some more 'general' series - my favourites are The Trials Of Life (literally the first TV show I ever remember watching, I was three) and Planet Earth.

I've watched the entirety of Trials of Life, Life in the Freezer, almost all of Life in Cold Blood, The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Frozen Planet, and Africa, and bits and pieces of... most of the others. HIGHLY recommended.

Don't watch the American versions where they dub over his voice. That should be an offense punishable only by a 2x4 to the crotch.

Also, it's more science and astronomy than environment and nature, but Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is just... well, literally life-changing, it's what inspired me to go back to school to go to uni. If you're American, it's available on Hulu, I believe. Some parts are a little dated (it's from 1980!), but others are so amazingly relevant and other bits are so wonderfully timeless that you HAVE to see it, oh my god. The book is also amazing, but I actually like the series better, dated graphics aside. (Poor episode ten!) Sagan has one of those voices like Attenborough - it just commands your attention. Plus, some of the music is gorgeous - a lot of classical (there's a part in episode thirteen using Shostakovich that actually makes me nearly cry), plus some beautiful stuff from Vangelis, including the opening theme.

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On Netflix:

Moving Midway: follows the efforts to preserve and move a big plantation house to a new location.

My Architect: A Son's Journey : just a pretty neat film altogether

Also, the whole site topdocumentaryfilms dot com. Lot of different stuff there.

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