Shandon Par Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 Man on Wire. French lad tightrope walks between Twin Towers The Act of Killing Werner Herzog gets some death squad leaders to re-enact some of their mass killings in a cinematic genre of their choosing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 A good companion piece to Senna. Starts slow but builds and builds. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggy Snake Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 On 02/04/2021 at 18:14, Stormzy said: Where would this be available to watch? The World at War is available in full on Sky Go/Catch Up or, if you don't have Sky, UKTV Play. I've just started watching it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SANTAN Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 4 minutes ago, Jaggy Snake said: The World at War is available in full on Sky Go/Catch Up or, if you don't have Sky, UKTV Play. I've just started watching it. Cheers I've got a week off so will get it watched sometime soon. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Golden God Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 Dear Zachary It's about a man who is killed by his pregnant girlfriend. His friend is an amatuer film maker and decides to make a film for the unborn child so he know his dad and ends up becoming the legal proceedings behind custody and his murder. It's the single most devasting and depressing thing you'll ever watch. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 6 hours ago, The Golden God said: Dear Zachary It's about a man who is killed by his pregnant girlfriend. His friend is an amatuer film maker and decides to make a film for the unborn child so he know his dad and ends up becoming the legal proceedings behind custody and his murder. It's the single most devasting and depressing thing you'll ever watch. That film was so fucked up and incredibly depressing 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonHMFC Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 Recently watched the Britney Spears documentary on Sky. Thought it was going to be a waste of time, but it was incredibly sad. The girl has been through a lot of shit. Well worth watching. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted April 16, 2021 Author Share Posted April 16, 2021 Watergate is on BBC4 and the iPlayer. Made in the 90s it is excellent. Like WAW, it has the main people being interviewed. G Gordon Liddy (who died this year I think) comes across as an absolute nutjob. Before Watergate, and before the break-in at the psychiatrist's office, he had planned to hire a boat in Florida and rig it with cameras, then hire prostitutes to seduce Democrats and film them having sex, then blackmail them. All with the OK of Nixon's inner circle. They didn't go ahead with that one as its chances of success were too low. As you watch it, you realise that in terms of utter scumbaggery, Trump was an amateur compared to Nixon and his gang. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 The Raft - Mexican anthropologist in the 70s assembles a co-ed multinational crew to sail the Atlantic hoping to prove some of his pet theories about conflict. Things don't go as planned. Hail Satan? - The Satanic Temple isn't actually a religious movement...it's more a bam-up of born-again America. Oklahoma decides to put a statue of the Ten Commandments outside their state capitol? Fine, we'll crowdfund a f**k-off statue of Baphomet to go up next to it, and so on. Laugh out loud funny in parts. Shoah - Unremittingly grim but riveting 12 hour doc about the Holocaust...for the most part, just people involved on both sides giving their stories. Best of Enemies - ABC hired William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal to be pundits at the Republican national convention in 1968...they hated each other viscerally, and it got progressively nastier over the course of ten debates... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 (edited) Izdani Grad (Town betrayed) Norwegian documentary that goes a bit deeper on Srebrenica than most western media coverage does. There's a WWII angle they only have time to gloss over so it's still far from a full picture of why so many people in this area were particularly eager to get stuck in where ethnic conflict was concerned ca. 1992. Ratko Mladic and co lost the plot in a way that deservedly had them wind up in The Hague but the documentary outlines evidence (perhaps a bit too one-sidedly by interviewing only Serbs and the Bosnian Muslim political opponents of the Izetbegovic family) that the Bosnian Muslim leadership in Sarajevo and the Clinton administration deliberately engineered a scenario in Srebrenica that could be used as a pretext for the NATO bombing that brought the conflict to an end. Hence the title: On 07/04/2021 at 12:37, Jaggy Snake said: The World at War is available in full on Sky Go/Catch Up or, if you don't have Sky, UKTV Play. I've just started watching it. In a similar vein to The World at War Granada's The Spanish Civil War series from 1983 is worth a look from back in the era when there were still plenty of people around to give first hand accounts: Edited May 6, 2021 by LongTimeLurker 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roverthemoon Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 (edited) Don’t think I would claim any of these to be the best of all time, but they are allextremely watchable Hoop Dreams - following some NBA hopefuls Être et avoir - French film about a junior school. Lovely Spellbound - following some spelling bee contestants in the US Spotlight on the troubles - BBC’s in-depth unpicking of Northern Ireland is a fascinating watch. it’s very measured and thoughtful Edited May 7, 2021 by roverthemoon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmudgePop Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 I've seen that man of wire before and after I re-watched it I still get goosebumps. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfha Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 (edited) On 06/05/2021 at 14:16, LongTimeLurker said: Granada's The Spanish Civil War series from 1983 is worth a look from back in the era when there were still plenty of people around to give first hand accounts: One of the first programmes on the then new Channel 4 Edited May 11, 2021 by sfha 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 16 minutes ago, sfha said: One of the first programmes on the then new Channel 4 Hooray for Harold Lloyd... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenlantern Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Free Solo. Jaw dropping documentary about Alex Honnold who attempts to become the first person to free solo climb El Capitan mountain in Yosemite National park. The guy has this insane desire to do this climb and the tension is unbelievable throughout. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 The Scheme. Life in Ayrshire is an eye opener. The entire place is a waste ground and the people are pond life. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UsedToGoToCentralPark Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 The Ginger Baker documentary is tremendous. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UsedToGoToCentralPark Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 The United Way on Sky Sports is decent. Good range of ex players and managers in it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfha Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 (edited) JCS Criminal Psychology I stumbled across this the other night, not one documentary but several that are on youtube. Very much worth checking out if you like true crime and the interrogation techniques used by the police to eke out the truth. Each entire episode takes place in the interview room and courtroom and uses actual police footage. Edited June 6, 2021 by sfha 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny van Axeldongen Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 I don't know about "best", but Empire of Dust is pretty good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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