>>4931997
I was dissapointed that not once did Johnny Cash's music appear in this movie, it worked so well for the trailer.

>>4931997

>>4931997
>>The Cardnial said "We knew you were being abused but you were a girl. Had you been a boy that would have been obscene"

Damn.

Fuck yeah cats ;_;

More of a drama-documentary.

Would mockumentaries work? Because if so This is Spinal Tap and Man Bites Dog are must see

>>4932034
Fuck this. I don't know how but they managed to make bestiality boring. I couldn't finish watching it.

>>4932029
Is this seriously a documentary about cats in rome?

>>4931989
>>4931997
Devastating.

American Movie

DOES EVERYONE HAVE BROWN GLOVES!?

>>4932053
Yep. There is a big stray cat problem there. If you like cats then I recommend it, though of course there are sad parts.

>>4932004
I assume you're talking about The Bridge, which Dr. Phil said the same thing.

The thing he doesn't understand, is that those people were pretty damned determined to jump, documentary or not, in fact they weren't aware that they were being filmed at all.

The documentary does not paint this individuals in any cruel light, it only interviews their family and friends who share the same feeling that although what they did was foolish, it's what they wanted to do.

The documentary is one part a documentary about suicide, which there are many of already that no one seems to get into a fussy about, and then the other side with is the mystic nature of the Golden Gate Bridge and the exploration as to why people come to it from all across the world just to end their on it.

Golden Gate is seriously some kind of sacred place.

>>4931989

I got this shit bookmarked nigger.

I also saw a good doc a long time ago on the Bridges construction.

>>4932065
It's alright, it's okay, there's something to live for! Jesus told me so!

R.I.P. Uncle Bill.

Lindsay Anderson's "Thursdays Children"
difficult to find but luckily came as an extra on "if..." (a must see).
simply wonderful

>>4932076
Planet Earth.

I mean seriously Planet Earth is probably the most approachable documentary ever, and the cinematography makes it very enjoyable experience.

And besides, it has the "LOL WUT" bird in it

David Attenborough's "Life" series.

A State of Mind (about North Korea)

The show Intervention

Very well constructed, and it's just hard looking into some of these people's lives. Like the black kid who's a technical genius but lost it all to DXM

>>4932065

This isn't only one of the best documentaries, it's one of the best movies period.

"Is that what you wanna do with your life? Suck down peppermint schnapps and try to call Morocco at two in the morning? That's senseless! But that's what happens, man. "

Cocain Cowboys

Koyaanisqatsi
Trekkies
Fank and Ollie

>>4931989
Before this I didn't realise just how pivtol that bridge is to people's death.

There's a bridge in Seattle that holds the title of the second biggest suicide bridge, with over 230 deaths.

Golden Gate has had over 1,200....

>>4932034
Zoo sucks. Slow as fuck, vague voice-overs, overly stylized reenactments, annoying score - I nearly fell asleep.

>>4932167
FUCK YES TREKKIES

TRANSVESTITES SINGING IN KLINGON

Guys and Dolls

its about dudes that fall in love with their sex dolls, some of it is very inspirational.

I saw that OP. /tv/ recommended it to me. It was pretty 'meh' and shallow. No depth to anything they were talking about.

>he was always depressed and then he killed himself

Go watch Man on Wire, son

>>4932162
i luv that movie...makes me wanna be a miami drug dealer

>>4932186

Dear Zachary

>>4932188
I always laugh that Garth's Mom is #3

dear zachary
crumb
anything by errol morris particularly gates of heaven, thin blue line, vernon florida
the ones herzog makes grizzly man, my best fiend, encounters at the end of the world, little dieter needs to fly
overnight
those should get you through the day

>>4932199
A real life look into the fall and resurrection of one of America's finest sportsmen to ever lived.

>>4932186
I don't think you watched it....


But yes Man on Wire was good, dude was a fucking nutter.

"I walked around naked trying to find the fishing line"

>>4932220
Yes, I did. Just didn't find it to be very thought provoking or compelling. Some of it was, but overall it wasn't even worth it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KiEP5Ctfk0

"He came from outer space, to save the human race"

I was crying towards the end. Shit is so sad

>>4932229
Well okay then. I won't badger you about it.

>>4932186
agreed, hmmm... ppl jump off the golden gate cause its famous

how bout we get morgan freeman to narrate faces of death and warch it win a oscar

>>4932241
I was about to post this and got a duplicate file error. Great documentary

>>4932241
this is the saddest shit, how empty these people and their lives are.

>>4932207

Damn it you beat me to it.

Shit was surprisingly deep.

orson welles is the shit

The Corporation
Food inc
King Korn
Playing Columbine (would have been better if it where edited down a bit more and because of the kinda people who would seek it out its kinda preaching to the choir but whatever its still good)

>>4931997
I just watched that a few days ago. I second the recommendation.

>>4932247
Oh man, I can't watch the Cold Song without tearing up now that I know what was going on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hGpjsgquqw

He KNEW that this would be his last performance of his life, he KNEW he was going to die shortly after, and he KNEW that his audience didn't know a single thing, there were there to see him perform.

Hearing him struggle to keep the notes is heartbreaking, his body not able to keep breath anymore, seeing the frustration on his face.

The most damning part about it is that his final song is taken from King Arthur, and it's a song about a dying man. "I can scarcely move or draw my breath.... Let me, let me, freeze again to death"

;_;

If that's not a powerful story of life I don't know what is.

>>4932296
I'm just not a fan of Klaus Nomi's music but his life's story is just plain tragic.

White Light, Black Rain
The most affecting documentary I've ever seen.

>>4932241
Holy shit I am going to watch this as soon as possible.

I got offered to be a host when I lived in Japan (I am near fluent, not weeaboo, I did modeling there), but I was returning to America to finish college. I was debating doing it when I go back. I have a feeling this is going to make me not want to do it.

>>4932296
What did he die of?

>>4932296
The part that got to me the most was when that one chick talked about how the first time she met Nomi they were walking through New York in the winter and he just decides to climb this mound of snow under a streetlight and start singing. That is the most magical image ever.

>>4932337
Yeah...don't.

>>4932353
AIDS, no seriously.

Nomi was the first celebrity death due to AIDS (Freddie came shortly afterwards, though Freddie's fame was much larger)

Also, classic black comedy.

>>4932381
Detectives?

>>4932381
The guy with the 2 inch dick or however short it was cracked me up.

>>4932265
>>ppl

That's fantastic.

Anyway The Golden Gate has transcended beyond simply fame. Some people view it as a holy place, as if the Golden Gate is the one place where it's okay to die.


I live in SF, and they're debating putting up a huge suicide barrier, but that will greatly destroy the beauty and iconic image of the bridge. Plus there's the logic that it already has a 4 foot wall that people still jump over.If you're determined to commit suicide you're going to find a way.

>>4932247
Where can I find this?

>>4932419
Oh for fuck's sake why don't you just say Zeitgeist?

Deep Water

>>4932405
I was on a plane ride from atlanta to SF and I was sitting next to a female firefighter. She has to retrieve a lot of the bodies, because the fire department is often the only ones available. Shes says they are so frequent she is completely dull to the bodies now, but she said her first week on the force destroyed her view on humanity.

Also, seconding >>4932202 and >>4932264

no Planet Earth? I know you guys found it entrancing and beautiful.

Has anyone seen Twice bombed, Twice survived (Nijuuhibaku)? It's about the guy who survived the atomic blast at both hiroshima and nagasaki. It's supposed to be pretty intense but i havn't been able to find it anywhere.

>>4932504
Oh, missed that somehow :(

>>4931989
>>4932241
>>4932199

>>4932419
There was a documentary I watched about the moon landing that wasn't conspiracy theories, but it was a "funny thing that happened on the way to the moon"

Basically they kept seeing strange phenomenon like flashes of light inside the cabin (later was determined to be cosmic energy particles piercing the walls of the capsule and popping once they hit air) or that they had a strange object "following" them.

The men inside had to be VERY careful how they worded the question they would ask mission control, because they knew the object wasn't an alien but if they had said "we have an unidentified object out our window" it would have freaked the public out. So they instead asked "What is the position of the stage 4 rocket" that they had jettisoned hours ago, and Mission Control basically replied thousands of miles away from them. The crew just turned their head away from the window and kept on with their mission ignoring whatever it was that was following a similar path to their capsule. Nowadays Nasa believes it was some sort of debris that came off the stage 4 rocket that had mantained momentum, but they can't say for sure.

>>4932405
>SF

there...look i have a problem with you abbreviating that fag ridden city

everything about that movie is topical, from the stories, to its attempt at "shock"
and sacred place to die?, more like the place where their death will give them the 5 minutes of fame, they wanted in their empty meaningless lifes, that made them jump to begin with

completely devastating no one has mentioned 'In the Shadow of the Moon'

should be required viewing for every single human being.

>>4932445
That didn't take long did it?

Titicut Follies is one that I think people should watch if they are serious about the genre.

>>4932487
Wait weren't those bombs dropped at the same time?

Was he just in the center of the two?

Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist.

Wow... If you can find this, and aren't a closed-minded prude, watch it. I don't think I even have the words to describe it.

>>4932530
A commonly associate abbreviation for a city, like NYC, is far more acceptable that abbreviating a word because you can't type a couple of letters. "Ppl" these days...

>>4932557

>>4932557

Days apart dipshit.

Learn your history better.

He was in Hiroshima on business.

Went back to Nagasaki just in time to get bombed again.

>>4932561

0/10

The Corporation, anyone?

>>4932557
they were dropped 2 days apart.
after the first blast he went back to his home town of nagasaki.

>>4932586
>>4932557
No they were three days apart.

I would just be mad if I went through it a second time

>>4932561
If I'm not a creationist and don't think things should be tought in unrelated classes (ie no geography in math class and no theology in science class) will I still enjoy this?

>>4932613
no, its just creationist garbage

>>4932523
lol "Uhhhhhh Houston......"

Best documentary ever.

>>4932660
I wasn't aware Ben Stein is a creationist. Should I not be surprised?

>>4932569
one of my favorite films

>>4932683
it was filmed in real time!

The best documentary I have seen is one called Harlan County USA.

It is about Virginia Coal Miners in the '70s, and they get shot up and one gets his brains blown out with a shotgun.

There were witnesses and everything and the evil Sheriff never charged the killer with a crime or even arrested him.

>>4932579
i would think online ppl, is far more common and understood to use as an abbreviation than ones like
Balt.

Bklyn

Cleve

Chgo

Cin

Indpls

Milw
Mpls

Phila

Pitts

I like how Moore hasn't been mentioned a single time.

/tv/, I know I sometimes say mean things about you but moments like these make me remember how much I love you.

>>4932712
Don't you have a Facebook you should be updating?

>>4932734
Oh u

>>4932715
well bowling for columbine was pretty good actually

i didnt see sicko

Fahrenheit was meh

>>4932715
Moore documentaries are terrible because they are as much about him as they are about the subject at hand.

"Look at how sensible I am and how silly other people are"

>>4932325

Hell, I thought I saw that on TV. Pretty graphic stuff. Mentally wise.

>>4932715
>>4932734
>>4932739

Lulz.

NO U!

>>4932202
Oh yes.

>>4932727
a facebook?
i prefer to keep up with friends and social events in real time

>>4932712
Are you some kind of retarded?

24 hour party people

I really like Planet Earth, but something's bugging me about it. This may be a stupid question, but how do they record the sound from the animals so clearly? Do they have super-sensitive microphones set up in a certain area, or are all the sounds added in afterwards?

>>4932755
This is my only criticism of Moore. Documentary filmmakers are journalists, and the last the a journalist should do is make the story about them.

There were already two mentions, but this thread needs a lot more Dear Zachery.

>>4932741
>well bowling for columbine was pretty good actually

No, it was his shittiest one.

Roger & Me is his best, followed by Sicko.

Watch all of Herzog's docs... even his obscure hard to find shit is amazing

>>4932767
Never learned how to capitalize did you? A terrible strife you must have. I'll teach you:

See the key that says "Shift"? Press that at the same time you press the letter you wish to capitalize. Now you're typing like a normal person.

>>4932768
>you some kind of retarded?

you sound edumacated

>>4932767
Which is why you're here, right?

Burden of Dreams
Hearts of Darkness

awesome double feature

>>4932775
Amazing documentary. A bit fast paced for me but the story more than made up for it. Holy shit.

>>4932792
The implacation was that the user was a part of a social group of retarded people. "Some kind of retarded" as in, "Some variety of retarded".

Grammatically it checks out.

I didn't know Herzog made Grizzleyman.

Awesome

Late to the thread and in after Man on Wire fellating. Overrated shit.

>>4932789

it would actually be "retardi"
dont back peddle faggot

Watch dispatches

>>4932847
Admit it, you just hate the French. That's okay to admit, but you have be honest with yourself.

>>4932853
uhhhh 0/10?

I know, I know, conspiracy theory-like bullshit, but a friend of mine told me to watch America: From Freedom to Fascism because that is the best way to be introduced to Ron Paul, and I would have to agree.

>>4932867
Nah, it was too dramatized for me. The reenactments and what not. Not very much original footage other than him going over the WTC. They should have just made a regular movie rather than this and call it a documentary.

no king of kong?
WHAT THE FUCK /TV/

Helvetica.

>>4932789
why be an insistant grammerfag to begin with,
picking out the miniscule errors

obviously my earlier post's struck a nerve

>>4932883
It's a good one, you mentioned it. Take honor in that.

>>4932894
I wanted to see this, is it any good?

>>4932894
Not as popular as the similar films Papyrus and Chiller

>>4932704

I know!

How awesome was that documentary?

>>4932903
how's that?
it's pretty obvious the producers were trying to fan the flames, perhaps a little too obvious. but it's still a really compelling story.

Shakes: The Michael J Fox story.

>>4932853
>"retardi"

Are they part of the Gallic Legions?

>>4932907
It's common practice to point out easily avoided typographical errors as evidence of a user's age/maturity.

>>4932938
Oh u

>>4932773
high quality microphones, high-gain postproduction


i enjoyed when we were kings, a must-watch if you are a boxing fan

>>4932949
Wouldn't that be retardii?

>>4932949
no...but close
they were under Jabal Tariq

I forgot what it was called, but I saw this documentary about a boxer who was caught with his glove depadded and it single handedly ruin his career.

It was like a real life Wrestler story

Check out "Dark Days"
also "black Coffee"

>>4933041
Oh I saw that wwith Jake the Snake Roberts or something. It was really sad.

>>4933041
I saw that too. Shit was pretty cash.

>>4932938
Fuck you! MJ Fox is twice the man you'll ever become

My contribution, Planet Earth.. or deep blue sea. either of those BBC nature documentaries which make you come from the DP

>>4933089
Oh thanks man! Now that I know what it's called I can get it

>>4933087

Found it "Beyond the Mat"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218043/

>>4933089
>>4933118
Wow, seems the event was pretty big

>>4933143
I thin now looking back at both films Wrestler was very influenced by Beyond the Mat.

King of Kong : Fistful of Quarters.

Documentary about a middle school teacher's journey for the world's high score in Donkey Kong.

>>4932883
>>4933188
Chasing ghosts: Beyond the arcade

>>4932028
Anybody know where I can dl this?

>>4933387

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/99400149/Flight+from+Death?tab=summary

>>4932755
You ever seen Nick Broomfield docos? Well thats the new thing, conveying the "narrarators" experience within the story itself.

Most Louis Theroux documentaries are really good. Basically, he just hangs around with odd parts of society, Nazis, UFO-believers, the inmates of San-Quentin prison, Meth users, whatever, and lets them tell their stories.

He seems to have a real talent for just letting people speak and not getting in the way, and it's really interesting to hear from a lot of the odder sides of humanity.

>>4932014
Second, great documentary.

>>4931989
The Bridge fucked me up. Did they really have to show people commit suicide for 2 hours?

>>4932894
Are you serious?
Because I've seen other people recommend it.

>>4932241
watching this on netflix instant play,
these people depress me so much, fascinating market though.
surprised it hasn't caught on here.

bumping this awesome thread

>>4932569
I FUCKING BAW'D HARD TO THIS MOVIE! My god, this movie is, while extremely disturbing, very powerful. It made me want to call my grandmother who is on dialysis.

American Pimp
Cocaine Cowboys
Banging in Little Rock

>>4932569
What the fuck. Just reading the IMDb forum makes me want to vomit. This sounds horrifying.

I remember watching this movie two years ago on the net and got depressed after viewing it. I just looked up Zoo after seeing the poster and lol at a shock video spawning a documentary.

Dear Zachary is the saddest movie ever made.

>>4935099
Shock video? That dude died from taking a horse dick in the ass, bro.

>>4935911

And that, paired with the video of it happening, was apparently not "shocking".

Obvious /b/tard is obvious.

http://www.documentary-log.com/d65-penis-size-insecurity-by-men/

this made me lol youtube preview below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW7tKuMcfZM

>>4935096

Grow a pair and watch it. His lifestyle was extreme, but so were the circumstances that led him to indulge in Sadomasochism. Dude was one of the longest living Cystic Fibrosis survivors in history. He wasn't supposed to live past a few years. Take that into account and look at how good of a person he seemed to be, and how bright his outlook on life was, and Bob Flanagan starts to look like a fucking saint. :)

http://www.atheistnation.net/video/?video/00260/atheist/the-most-hated-family-in-america/

This always makes me feel better about my family

>>4932569
i saw this at the Lumiere when it came out .. funny, weird, sexy, disgusting .. and kinda sad .. he dies at the end .. i don't know how to do that neat spoiler blackout thing that you guys do -- sorry

>>4936383

I'd also like to know how to do the blackout text.

Pic kind of related.

>>4936677

check the faq, bro

>>4936087
best doc ever

>>4936719
derp derp http://www.4chan.org/faq#spoiler thanks!

btw SPIKE DIES!

As long as this thread keeps going.

My cock throbs with the force of a thousand ocean waves. WHITE WHALE! HOLY GRAIL!

The Devil & Daniel Johnston

If you're not aware of Daniel Johnston, read up on him a bit. If he sounds interesting even a tiny bit watch this documentary. It's great.

In the Realms of the Unreal

Even though it's narrated by Dakota Fanning it is still awesome

Derailroaded. Brilliant movie about Larry "Wild Man" Fischer, the schizophrenic nutcase that had an album produced by Frank Zappa and then their friendship deteriorated when he tried to get all stabby with baby Moon-Unit.

"MERRY GO, MERRY GO, MERRY GO ROUND! BOOP BOOP BOOP!"

I just finished watching Dear Zachary

I baawed.

>>4937385

same here, was tearing up like a motherfucker at the end. what a devastating film.

>>4937385
>>4937451

Someone please spoil the shit out of this movie. I'm too busy to watch it (I think I might have already seen it, or glitch in the Matrix) and I want to know all the details.

I'm pretty sure I watched it on MSNBC... I'm not sure how that is possible though if it came out recently. Maybe it was just one of those hour long docs they do and they used a lot of the footage from this dude's home videos.

>>4937372
I didn't know they made a documentary about that guy.
And while we're on the topic of outsider musicians...

the jesco white flick, the dancing outlaw