Recommend me a documentary

[pearcinator]

Big, Bigger, Biggest

It's a show about the world's largest ____________ (skyscraper, bridge, submarine, prison etc.). They explain it quite well with easy-to-understand demonstrations (with some comedy thrown in for good measure).

This one was filmed before they had finished constructing the building but nevertheless it is still relevant (as it is still currently the biggest skyscraper in the world)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h14-GasIw2Y[/youtube]

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Searching for Sugar Man. It's a very interesting and well told story about a musician who was mega famous in South Africa and nowhere else, and nobody seemed to know anything about the guy. Very heartily recommended.

 

[imagineak]

It will take time to watch all of these, haha.
I'll check them out, thanks for recommendations!

 

[Mr.Cynic88]

Talhotblonde is a cool mystery-murder type documentary.

I would also recommend the work of the Vice journalists. Lot's of their stuff can be found on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuSS0iiFyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24R8JObNNQ4

 

[BlumiereBleck]

A great documentary on a god king. Also because it's narrated by the great author Christopher Clark.

 

[Nikkigrace]

I'd start with Nick Broomfield, that man knows how to make documentaries. Check out 'Aileen' and 'fetishes'.
Also some really powerful documentaries are 'Dear Zackary'and the'Paradise Lost'trilogy.

 

[antidonkey]

Gasland was informative, worrisome, and depressing. It's about fracking for natural gas, the unforeseen consequences, and how the government isn't doing anything to regulate it. The movie even managed to get a sequel that I haven't seen yet.

 

[Weaver]

I've only ever seen two good ones:
Human, All Too Human (a Nietzsche documentary)
Dangerous Knowledge (a BBC documentary on the continuum hypothesis)

They're both available on youtube.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

BBC documentary " The Century of Self" is a must watch, documenting the history of mind control via information control to control the masses:

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-century-of-the-self/

"The Diamond Empire" is also a good one:

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/frontline-the-diamond-empire/

 

[Guffe]

"Metal, A headbangers journey"
If you want a small insight into what Metal, Rock and death metal is about then it's a nice little intro into that territory

 

[legend of duty]

You gotta see "Snow on tha bluff". Its about a crack dealer who steals a camcorder from some students and films a week in the life in New Bluff,Atlanta,Georgia. Its on Netflix.

 

[ItouKaiji]

I'd recommend one called Room 237. It's about all the weird fan theories that surround Stanley Kubrick movies, specifically The Shinning. There's like this almost cult like atmosphere surrounding the movies of Kubrick because he was know for being such a meticulous director so some people assume there has to be meaning in even the smallest details when he might have just put stuff there because he thought it made the movie look better. He never ascribed any special meaning to most of the imagery in his movies, so it's left fans to come up with the craziest theories. My favorite being

Spoiler

The Shinning is actually meant to tell us that Kubrick helped NASA fake the moonlanding.

Anyway, it a documentary that explores what happens when fans read way to much into things and dedicate too much of their to lives ascribing meaning to things to probably never had any other than it was supposed to look creepy on film.

 

[Nata-chan]

Anything with David Attenborough / BBC/ NATGEO is going to be interesting.
Cosmos is great, especially if you loved Carl Sagan.

Free to Play is interesting. Second Skin (about MMOs) was good but made me rage (in my head) against interfering moms.
James May and Richard Hammond (from Top Gear) do some interesting tv-show documentaries, May's is especially about machines.

My husband (who LOVES documentaries) usually just goes to the Documentary list in Hulu or Netflix. When we had cable in Singapore we had the NATGEO channel so we watched a lot of Shark Week and ones about building impressive skyscrapers (I think they had the Singapore Marina Bay Sands on repeat).