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I was thinking that there isn't a thread about favourite documentaries and I like documentaries so I've started this one, notable ones I've seen:

Senna
Searching for Sugarman
Andre the Giant
The Untold series of documentaries on Netflix
Maradona
Formula One Drive to Survive
Blackfish
Amy
OJ Made in America
Apollo 11
The Eagle Huntress
Class Action Park
Tiger King
Making a Murderer

to start off with.
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Good thread.

Really enjoyed the Eagle Huntress.

Try Skid Row Marathon, it is excellent.



Also, not a Documentary, but a Docu/Drama which is good is Spacewalker.
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Senna was great.
Just about anything by David Attenborough
Origins Of Us & The Incredible Human Journey - both by Alice Roberts
History of Britain by Simon Schama
Bettany Hughes and Michael Wood have done excellent history series as well - Terry Jones too, for that matter
Not sure if it counts - but They Shall Not Grow Old by Peter Jackson
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The Ken Burns Vietnam Documentary is epic.
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Numbers wrote:The Ken Burns Vietnam Documentary is epic.
It is f'ing Incredible

I watched his country Music series which is also brilliant (liking country music not essential but does help)
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I think your list can be improved substantially Numbers - I would say stuff like tigerking is entertaining maybe but rubbish essentially


Will add a few more but these 3 for starters

Capturing the friedmans
Big riverman
Man on wire
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paddy no 11 wrote:I think your list can be improved substantially Numbers - I would say stuff like tigerking is entertaining maybe but rubbish essentially


Will add a few more but these 3 for starters

Capturing the friedmans
Big riverman
Man on wire
I did add a couple of frivolous ones, see also Class Action Park.

Man on Wire is excellent, I haven't seen the other two.

Another good one is A Year in the Taiga about a remote region of Siberia
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I almost forgot Grizzly Man.
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Happened across Garage People on BBC4 about people living in the Arctic Circle in Russia and how they found solace in their "garages". Fascinating if a little bonkers.
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Numbers wrote:I almost forgot Grizzly Man.
And its not even Herzog's best, the cave of forgotten dreams is his best imo

Herzog, Theroux, Burns and Nick broomfield. Serious amount of material there
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Have also watched Adam Curtis's Century of self, Hypernormalisation and bitter lake, well worth a look though not sure about the man himself
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paddy no 11 wrote:
Numbers wrote:I almost forgot Grizzly Man.
And its not even Herzog's best, the cave of forgotten dreams is his best imo

Herzog, Theroux, Burns and Nick broomfield. Serious amount of material there
I watched Broomfield's Tupac and Biggie documentary last night funnily enough.

I've not heard of The Cave of Forgotten Dreams so I'll keep my eye out for that.
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When we were kings
Waltz with Bashir, exceptional though hardly a traditional documentary
The fog of war
The act of killing
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On a rugby tip Pacific Warriors on Prime is excellent.
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Numbers wrote:I was thinking that there isn't a thread about favourite documentaries and I like documentaries so I've started this one, notable ones I've seen:

Senna
Searching for Sugarman
Andre the Giant
The Untold series of documentaries on Netflix
Maradona
Formula One Drive to Survive
Blackfish
Amy
OJ Made in America
Apollo 11
The Eagle Huntress
Class Action Park
Tiger King
Making a Murderer

to start off with.
On the untold series episode 4 on ice hockey was a bizarre selection?

I thought the mardy fish episode the best
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paddy no 11 wrote:
Numbers wrote:I was thinking that there isn't a thread about favourite documentaries and I like documentaries so I've started this one, notable ones I've seen:

Senna
Searching for Sugarman
Andre the Giant
The Untold series of documentaries on Netflix
Maradona
Formula One Drive to Survive
Blackfish
Amy
OJ Made in America
Apollo 11
The Eagle Huntress
Class Action Park
Tiger King
Making a Murderer

to start off with.
On the untold series episode 4 on ice hockey was a bizarre selection?

I thought the mardy fish episode the best
Yeah, it was an eye opener on mental health at the highest levels of sport.
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I watched Drew: The Man Behind the Poster on Sky Docs the other day, really interesting film about Drew Struzan who painted the posters for pretty much every big film I can think of.
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For those interested in Italian food, or just Italy.

"Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy" is repeated over this weekend on CNN HD. Starting 12 AM Fri.

Six episodes. Naples/Rome/Bologna/Milan/Tuscany/Sicily.
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Watched the garett mcnamara documentary the 100 foot wave, very good as long as you Don't hate surfers or something
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paddy no 11 wrote:Watched the garett mcnamara documentary the 100 foot wave, very good as long as you Don't hate surfers or something
I watched that the other day too, fucking madness.
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Lol, yeah Nazare is monstrous but then he thinks mavericks is a cake walk and gets destroyed on first wave. Have you watched Riding Giants, the best surf doc of them all and flat out one of the best docs ever?
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paddy no 11 wrote:Lol, yeah Nazare is monstrous but then he thinks mavericks is a cake walk and gets destroyed on first wave. Have you watched Riding Giants, the best surf doc of them all and flat out one of the best docs ever?
No mate, is it on any of the streaming services?
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Think I watched it on YouTube, Internet says its on amazon video whatever that is
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paddy no 11 wrote:Think I watched it on YouTube, Internet says its on amazon video whatever that is
That's the cut down version of prime without the free deliveries basically, thanks I'll give it sa go.
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I watched The Queen of Speed last night about French rally driver Michele Mouton, it was good, on SKY.
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