what are the best documentaries you've seen

[Lorilei]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003RZE2H2/ref=wtls_list_pr_12?ie=UTF8&redirect=true

 

[tactful]

Victory at Sea
The World at War
The Civil War

 

[IndieSnob]

Oh fuck, I forgot Ken Burn's Baseball series.

 

[VladHarkonnen]

Walking with Cavemen

 

[blackleggings]

Spirit of the Marathon

 

[Lorilei]

http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70119962&trkid=13005733&t=The+Botany+of+Desire

 

[lovetoread]

The one with the governor, who use to be a wrestler, that thinks there are alien lizard people among us.

Hey now, there are lizard people among us.

 

[Sean]

The Power of Nightmares
The World at War
Life on Earth
Pretty much anything from the BBC's Horizon slot

 

[jomar]

Jeez, who knows, tons of good ones...

Helvetica
Wordplay
Who Killed the Electric Car

lots of others...

The current HBO series Vice is an ongoing documentary.

 

[KyleW]

Queen of Versailles was good.

That was surprisingly good. Jinx had me watch it.

 

[lovetoread]

That was surprisingly good. Jinx had me watch it.

I didn't like the family, but it was good.

 

[Sinny]

Exit Through the Gift Shop
Any documentary about Banksie
Helvetica
King Corn
Queen of Versailles
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (MUST WATCH)

 

[RoryN]

Dadetown.

A mock-umentary, but a damn good one.

 

[KyleW]

Exit Through the Gift Shop
Any documentary about Banksie
Helvetica
King Corn
Queen of Versailles
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (MUST WATCH)

The tiles are fascinating.

 

[RoryN]

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

 

[gravyrug]

I'm hoping this one gets funded and made:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smogberrytrees/under-the-smogberry-trees-the-true-story-of-dr-dem

 

[MJ10]

So many, I can't choose just one

Best Docs?

There are so many I've seen in the last few months. Most while I am getting ready to go to work. I mostly try to avoid anything too dark or heavy (or sexual) but there are a few I've seen that are just too good not to go unrecommended:

-After Porn Ends. Great doc about the lives of ex-porn stars, both from the 90s and today. Nina Hartley is one of the 'girls' they interviewed. Asia Carrera is another. There isn't a lot of juicy details, but what they do reveal is interesting to say the least. To say that the women didn't come from privileged backgrounds is putting a fine point on it. Asia is a very big exception to this for a whole host of reasons, but the film is an eye opener regardless. There is a big difference too in the way the male and female talent perceived their roles too, but that is a topic for another day.

-Beautiful Losers. About a group of underground artists who go to live in New York to become famous. Shepard Fairey is in it, Margaret Killgallen too. Check it out.

-Kill Your Idols. Like Beautiful Losers, but with a avant-garde punk rockers in the late 1970s/1980s. Lydia Lunch is in it, and Thurston Moore as well for some strange reason. Great doc, music sucks though.

That is all.

 

[marshalt]

Exit Through the Gift Shop
Any documentary about Banksie
Helvetica
King Corn
Queen of Versailles
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (MUST WATCH)

I'm pretty sure half of Resurrect Dead was bullshit.

I can't believe no one has mentioned King of Kong yet.

 

[Disgustipated]

I'm pretty sure half of Resurrect Dead was bullshit.

I can't believe no one has mentioned King of Kong yet.

Good one, dickwad. Loved it.

 

[Laurel]

Gates of Heaven (because Errol Morris is a god)
The Imposter (stylistically interesting and good story)
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (very amateur shooting/editing, but story is heartbreaking)
New York Doll ('cause New York Dolls and it's an awesome, well-edited/shot story that even non-NYD fans enjoy because of the Mormon angle)

There's tons, but this is all I got now. I like docs.

 

[Laurel]

Best Docs?

There are so many I've seen in the last few months. Most while I am getting ready to go to work. I mostly try to avoid anything too dark or heavy (or sexual) but there are a few I've seen that are just too good not to go unrecommended:

-After Porn Ends. Great doc about the lives of ex-porn stars, both from the 90s and today. Nina Hartley is one of the 'girls' they interviewed. Asia Carrera is another. There isn't a lot of juicy details, but what they do reveal is interesting to say the least. To say that the women didn't come from privileged backgrounds is putting a fine point on it. Asia is a very big exception to this for a whole host of reasons, but the film is an eye opener regardless. There is a big difference too in the way the male and female talent perceived their roles too, but that is a topic for another day.

-Beautiful Losers. About a group of underground artists who go to live in New York to become famous. Shepard Fairey is in it, Margaret Killgallen too. Check it out.

-Kill Your Idols. Like Beautiful Losers, but with a avant-garde punk rockers in the late 1970s/1980s. Lydia Lunch is in it, and Thurston Moore as well for some strange reason. Great doc, music sucks though.

That is all.

I love all of those as well.

 

[IndieSnob]

I'm pretty sure half of Resurrect Dead was bullshit.

I can't believe no one has mentioned King of Kong yet.

I already did, fucknut.

 

[IndieSnob]

Best Docs?

There are so many I've seen in the last few months. Most while I am getting ready to go to work. I mostly try to avoid anything too dark or heavy (or sexual) but there are a few I've seen that are just too good not to go unrecommended:

-After Porn Ends. Great doc about the lives of ex-porn stars, both from the 90s and today. Nina Hartley is one of the 'girls' they interviewed. Asia Carrera is another. There isn't a lot of juicy details, but what they do reveal is interesting to say the least. To say that the women didn't come from privileged backgrounds is putting a fine point on it. Asia is a very big exception to this for a whole host of reasons, but the film is an eye opener regardless. There is a big difference too in the way the male and female talent perceived their roles too, but that is a topic for another day.

-Beautiful Losers. About a group of underground artists who go to live in New York to become famous. Shepard Fairey is in it, Margaret Killgallen too. Check it out.

-Kill Your Idols. Like Beautiful Losers, but with a avant-garde punk rockers in the late 1970s/1980s. Lydia Lunch is in it, and Thurston Moore as well for some strange reason. Great doc, music sucks though.

That is all.

Couldn't stand Kill Your Idols. As much of a fan I am of Sonic Youth and bits and pieces of the No-Wave scene, interviewing Karen O (god she's such a fucking joke) and even The Liars (like the band, but they're dipshits) about that scene, well, I couldn't take the stupidity.

 

[MNGuy]

Victory at Sea
The World at War
The Civil War

These are all good ones.

Plus the History of English.

 

[Aquagal]

Come on, no one has seen "Zoo"?

Freakiest docu I've ever seen.