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Best Documentaries You've Seen ----> (2 Viewers)

El Floppo said:
Alpinist, otoh, pulled me in because of the climbing footage which showed how insane what he was doing actually was.
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Reason I put The Rescue and The Alpinist together upthread is the way they impacted me. The former is just edge of the seat narrative - it doesn’t even matter you know the ending. It’s still incredible storytelling. The latter has insane visuals - it sucks you bc what you seeing is simply unbelievable. How do people like that even exist?

 
Fire in Paradise. Pretty good doc about how fast wildfires can spread.

The Imposter (2012)  is a film about this Spanish kid who impersonates a missing child in order to get out of an arrest. Turns out the missing child is American, and blonde. The Spanish kid dyes his hair and when the American family shows up to get him they take one look and go "Yep that's him".  And from there it gets crazy.

The Woman Who Wasn't There. Another crazy doc about an imposter who survived the World Trade Center attack on 9/11 and became an advocate for survivors and eventually became President of the Survivors Network. Trailer

 
The Murders at Starved Rock, a 3 part doc on HBO Max. I went from thinking he's definitely guilty to no way in Hell did he do it and back again a few times. Worth a watch.

 
headcrack said:
The Murders at Starved Rock, a 3 part doc on HBO Max. I went from thinking he's definitely guilty to no way in Hell did he do it and back again a few times. Worth a watch.
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I agree, he's guilty as hell but I do think that he had at least one accomplice and the letter at the end makes me think his father helped him out in some way (participant or just moved bodies or helped stage the scene or something?)  At any rate, I think at the very least he's a compulsive liar, serial rapist and at the very minimum he's an accomplice in those murders but I suspect he was an active participant.  I don't think they'll probably ever uncover physical proof or evidence but I do think he should have remained behind bars his entire life.

 
Sullie said:
I agree, he's guilty as hell but I do think that he had at least one accomplice and the letter at the end makes me think his father helped him out in some way (participant or just moved bodies or helped stage the scene or something?)  At any rate, I think at the very least he's a compulsive liar, serial rapist and at the very minimum he's an accomplice in those murders but I suspect he was an active participant.  I don't think they'll probably ever uncover physical proof or evidence but I do think he should have remained behind bars his entire life.
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agreed

 
BeTheMatch said:
The Tinder Swindler was kind of interesting. 
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It really was. Sort of like a Tiger King vibe of rising levels of craziness. My wife and I couldn't look away.

I believe it was made by the same filmmakers as "Don't #### with Cats" which was similarly interesting.  

 
My wife and I have been watching more and more documentaries. Off the top of my head my rankings would be: 

1. Skinheads USA: Soldiers of the Race War (HBO)

2. The Staircase (mainly because I had a murder case very similar to this that also went to trial) (Netflix)

3. How to Fix a Drug Scandal (Netflix)

4. Hoop Dreams

5. Tiger King (yeah, I know, but it still was an interesting watch)

Free Solo and Man on Wire were brilliantly made documentaries - I just didn't include them in my top five because I had to look away for the height stuff. 

 
mr. furley said:
over the last 2 weeks i was live streaming a local murder trial

granted it was during work hours so i didn't hear every word but essentially the prosecution's case was "wife is dead.. must be the husband." they kept hammering away that he didn't seem emotional enough about his wife having gone missing. 

defense brought the wife's psych doctor up to talk about her lifetime of battling depression and multiple suicide attempts including one in the year before she disappeared.

prosecutors best "evidence" was the guy drove trucks and could have dumped her body in a pit. 

that was it. oh, and he started dating a woman 6 months after his wife disappeared.

he just got convicted with no body, no physical evidence, no witnesses, no contradictions in his story.. nothing. 

juries are a freaking crapshoot
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Literally just said this to somebody about an hour ago. 

 
Zow said:
My wife and I have been watching more and more documentaries. Off the top of my head my rankings would be: 

1. Skinheads USA: Soldiers of the Race War (HBO)

2. The Staircase (mainly because I had a murder case very similar to this that also went to trial) (Netflix)

3. How to Fix a Drug Scandal (Netflix)

4. Hoop Dreams

5. Tiger King (yeah, I know, but it still was an interesting watch)

Free Solo and Man on Wire were brilliantly made documentaries - I just didn't include them in my top five because I had to look away for the height stuff. 
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i want to watch Man on Wire so bad, but i wont pay Penisheadspaceman Inc for the privilege

 
Osaurus said:
The Lost Leonardo

Great documentary showing the monetization of fine art and the shady business dealings surrounding it. 4/5
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Where are you watching this?  JustWatch says it's available a few places but all are $5-6 and I hate paying for extra stuff when I already subscribe to Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon, and Disney+.

 
PlayaHata said:
Where are you watching this?  JustWatch says it's available a few places but all are $5-6 and I hate paying for extra stuff when I already subscribe to Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon, and Disney+.
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Take a flight somewhere- it's on a couple of airlines I flew last month. And that'll save you the $5-6.

I thought it was fantastic. Even though I kinda remembered the big story happening at the time, I had no idea the crazy extent of it.

 
WampusCat43 said:
Watching the Battle for Chosin on Prime now.  Pretty harrowing  piece of history from the Korean War.
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watched that awhile back, they did a good job with that one

there are less docs/films on The Korean War than the other three 20th wars we were in - nice to learn more about it 

 
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

It's on Netflix. I haven't seen it yet, but I intend to. It's gotten good reviews.

 
Maurile Tremblay said:
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

It's on Netflix. I haven't seen it yet, but I intend to. It's gotten good reviews.
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I just watched it. It's short, and definitely attention-grabbing throughout. It provides a strong sense of Ukrainians' longing for freedom and their willingness to sacrifice for it.

 
Gaming Wall Street is a neat investigation into the GME stock “to the moon” phenomenon that was all over the news last year.  I loved the narration by Kieran Culkin, although I was a little disappointed they weren’t able to land an interview with Redditor “deepfu**ingvalue”. They showed clips of some of his podcasts and Reddit posts, but it would have been really nice to hear his take on everything after the fact.  I can certainly understand why he would want to keep his privacy though.

It’s (2) hour-long episodes on HBO.  This is a perfect time to watch it because I know it’s one of those free HBO weekends on a bunch of cable networks, etc. this weekend.

 
Titicut Follies (1967)

real-life "Cuckoo's Nest", i assure you there is no McMurphy here, tho.

- was banned for quite some time - matter of fact:

The Massachusetts Superior Court banned the film on the grounds that it violated patients' privacy. No court has banned any other American film for reasons other than obscenity or national security. The Massachusetts court ordered all copies of Titicut Follies destroyed.

it's a tough sit.

 
otb_lifer said:
Titicut Follies (1967)

real-life "Cuckoo's Nest", i assure you there is no McMurphy here, tho.

- was banned for quite some time - matter of fact:

The Massachusetts Superior Court banned the film on the grounds that it violated patients' privacy. No court has banned any other American film for reasons other than obscenity or national security. The Massachusetts court ordered all copies of Titicut Follies destroyed.

it's a tough sit.
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sounds like a sit, watch, & bottle of bourbon.

 
Finally got to see Val, the Val Kilmer documentary. It’s very introspective, artsy, and honest. I enjoyed it very much. 4/5

 
The Acid King. Free on Tubi - about Ricky Kasso, who murdered a friend of his in a so-called "Satanic sacrifice" in Northport, Long Island in 1984. 

 
BobbyLayne said:
Reason I put The Rescue and The Alpinist together upthread is the way they impacted me. The former is just edge of the seat narrative - it doesn’t even matter you know the ending. It’s still incredible storytelling. The latter has insane visuals - it sucks you bc what you seeing is simply unbelievable. How do people like that even exist?
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Dude the Alpinist.....holy ####!  That guy is straight up nuts!  Fascinating for sure.....I have no idea how someone looks at the scariest mountain faces in the world and decides he needs to climb them.

 
Tiger king was ####### awesome!  It had it all....####in Carol Baskin.....sick ### music videos.....a cast of characters so hilarious, and ridiculous....including Doc "Bhagavan" Antle who may be the worst of all of em!......actually Jeff Lowe is the definition of scum bag.  Then there was the fat guy on the jet ski....haha

The show was pure comedy...

 
Red Dog, 2019, Prime and Hulu 

I’ve always thought strippers and those who work in that industry are interesting people, so it’s not surprising I liked this. There are some wild stories, happy and sad moments, and it’s a very sentimental journey. 

 
Osaurus said:
Finally got to see Val, the Val Kilmer documentary. It’s very introspective, artsy, and honest. I enjoyed it very much. 4/5
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I liked this too. I knew he was considered tough for directors on sets but I never knew about his always personal cam filming at the sets. Strange dude.

 
Manster said:
Dude the Alpinist.....holy ####!  That guy is straight up nuts!  Fascinating for sure.....I have no idea how someone looks at the scariest mountain faces in the world and decides he needs to climb them.
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These guys basically lack the fear centers in their brain. They touch on this a bit with Alex Honnold in Free Solo.

 
Joe Mammy said:
I liked this too. I knew he was considered tough for directors on sets but I never knew about his always personal cam filming at the sets. Strange dude.
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Osaurus said:
Finally got to see Val, the Val Kilmer documentary. It’s very introspective, artsy, and honest. I enjoyed it very much. 4/5
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Thanks for the recommendation. Just watched it. Well done and I enjoyed it, but I don't feel great about it. The documentary is so many things, and very melancholic. It's a celebration of his impact as an artist, a reminder of life's fragility, a tribute to family, a warning not to compromise. If that is what he was after in making this, he succeeded.

 
Creem  - America’s Only Rock N Roll Magazine.

Great documentary about the rise and abrupt fall of the iconic magazine whose staff was larger than life just like the music they chronicled. 4/5

 
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Attica is on Showtime and was really good.  The most I knew about Attica is when Pacino references it in Dog Day Afternoon, so learning about the prison riots was all new to me.

Anyway, it is FREE on YouTube now…. HERE

 
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