What`s the best documentary you`ve ever seen?

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Gotta get my two cents here.
1) Harlan County USA...Brings tears to my eyes just thinking about having something to fight for!
2) Capturing The Friedmans...Sure he did it, but it must have been extremely difficult for the producer to keep that balancing act going.
3) War Photographer... About James Nachtway, should be required viewing for membership into the human race.
4) Shoah... 8 hours and not one shot of archival footage.
5) Tarnation...A heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Spike Lee's Katrina doc was great, Scorcese's Dylan doc was great, Rize was great and Tupac Ressurected was great, I could go on for the rest of the day, gotta go.
 
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I'm waiting for Streetwise to come out on DVD. I've been wanting to see it for years. Takes place in my home, Seattle.
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....I have Streetwise on VIDEO DISC!! :huh: And I'll mention Jupiter's Wife just because it hasn't been mentioned.
 
In no order...

Nanook of the North / Flaherty in general
March of the Penguins
Bowling for Columbine
Highschool
 
Geno said:
5) Tarnation...A heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
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Yikes, and I was thinking that I didn't really have a choice for the worst documentary thread. What I saw of Tarnation was just plain awful. I never did make it past the endless, endless iMovie generated text providing the exposition of his life in minute detail.

That's just my opinion...
 
I just wanted to say I recently watched Al Gore's 'An Incovenient Truth' and I was totally floored.

No matter if you are a liberal or conservative, black or white, rich or poor, this issue effects us all and everyone should see this film.

A movie every person on the planet should see period.

Thats all I have to say ;)
 
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Dogtown and Z-Boys - the editing alone captured the whole spirit of the time. One of many favorites.
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Great movie. I watched it for the second time last Thurday... awesome editing and the way the story is written is great too. Some cool surfing in there as well.

I saw Bowling for Columbine and I thought that was a pretty good Documentary...

I bet this will spark some controversy but IMO the worst is Fahrenheit 9/11.

The "Documentary" called "loose Change" is well put together but if you do some of your own research it is evident that a lot of that movie is not based on facts and merely fiction.
 
MONDOVINO - IMO beats any Michael Moore film.

CHILDREN UNDERGROUND - shoking

NOTICIAS DE UMA GUERRA PARTICULAR - brazilian doc about traffic in Rio de Janeiro
 
I would like to add "Scratch" and "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart " to the long list of the previously mentioned.
 
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help!?

Hey Guys,
I'm trying to track down a documentary, it's about an older gent living on a property in africa, who then has to leave and return to the UK for his final years, depressing and moving, cant for the life of me think of the name!!
any ideas?

cian
 
Some people have touched upon this one, but I need to mention it too!

Wiseman's masterpiece "Titicut Follies"
http://www.subcin.com/titicut.html

it's a dark & scary look @ a hospital/prison for the criminally insane in the late 60's!

If you get a chance watch it, it's cinema-verite @ its BEST!
 
i've been trying to get bellevue, inside out. it was an hbo documentary that came on a few years ago. it used to be on amazon but always said "not in stock" i tried to win it off ebay last night but a bidding war at the last 10 seconds lead me to defeat. does anyone have this? i'm pretty sure it only came out on vhs. but i just read this whole thread and added 12 movies to my netflix cue. anyone know when hands on a hard body is going to be out?


edit* i found this story dealing with the hands on a hardbody, kinda sad. but i dont think it has anything to do with the film

http://www.news-journal.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/09/15/20050915LNJhohbmain.html
 
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A few others that you maybe interested in from a British/European angle....

Gallivant - Andrew Kotting

Children Underground - Edet Belzberg

Into the arms of strangers - Mark Harris
 
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