Recommend me a documentary! (Please, 1 per person)

@vierastalo: The original is pretty good, fake sports commentary is kind of terrible but the church scene makes it work. Also NC-17 back then would just be a normal to low R now. But it's not totally insane unpredictable perfection, which is what Port of Call is.

The Keepers on netflix!

kickstarted and enjoyed the death of "superman lives"

some background into the nicholas cage superman movie that got cancelled

Resurrect Dead: mystery of the Toynbee tiles. That title is close to correct. This is one of the best mysteries of any documentary. It is amazing that it is so captivating since it is low stakes.

The most watchable doc is Hoop Dreams.

Many documentaries are so depressing that I have to turn them off despite teh subjects being important. Hoopdreams follows two African American boys in Chicago who get a basketball scholarship to go to a prestigious, predominantly white high school. It follows them for five years and it shows the thrill and the grind of their lives. In the end it just makes you wish people would do things for other people for reason teh uplift people instead of as "an exchange of services".

Check out Five Came Back!

Whether you agree or not with Michael Moore, and feel his view is getting too much in the way of fact, I still thought his Where to Invade Next was interesting. It shows how The U.S. could be a lot better than it is.

I posted this in the movie thread earlier:

For All Mankind (1989) - 9/10

Utterly fascinating footage of the manned missions from 1968-1972 to the Moon, seductively edited and scored.

As a huge Brian Eno fan, it was a bit strange at first to hear the soundtrack that I'd listened to many times in the film. It almost felt forced in the beginning, but then I realized that it was original music recorded for the film. It's a fitting ambient soundtrack.

If you want to watch a movie about the relationships people form in MMORPG's than I highly recommend Second Skin. This movie hit really close to home for me as I have been in the position that a lot of the people of the movie were in. Check it out here.

Finders Keepers. It's about a guy who steals another guys foot and it's actually incredibly poignant and touches on unfulfilled potential and failed dreams.

This is the best recommendation in the thread by far. It's very long, challenging and depressing, but you'll come out of it a better person.

Even if you don't like heavy metal, this is a great doc. This isn't a typical music doc however. Halfway through it becomes a courtroom trial after the arrest of lead singer Randy Blythe stemming from the death of a fan in the Czech Republic. Crazy stuff, especially since this got little to no news outside of the heavy metal community

American Movie

Searching for Sugar Man was an enjoyable documentary I saw a couple of years ago

The Search For General Tso on Netflix is really good. A quick and easy watch, a lot lighter subject than most docs

I would suggest you look into Louise Theroux a Journalist (I know its one documentary and this post is 20 days old) that likes to get close to people and find out first hand from people things. He had a long serise of diffrent documentary subjects years ago, from the people who believe in Aliens and visiting Roswell and Area 51...so much so he starts walking up to the no trespassing signs and sees the local security start moving.

There is the one about Pornography, the one about the Westboro Baptist Church (the ones protesting outside American soldiers funerals and saying their gay and god dosnt want them) were he actualy stayed with the family and talked to all of them who would, the head grand father to the smallest children and you could see and understand why the Westboro Baptist church is as it is. This clip sums up how he interacts and records things.

FYI extreme offensive slurs.

There was also the one about Neo Nazi's which that was a weird one, real proper American Neo Nazi's and the many contradictions from their believes and the lives they lead.

He made the documentary film "My Scientology Movie" which had him talk to past members, interact with current members and....encounter the very strange practices of past and present first hand.....he actualy gets tailed by the Scientologists.....

New serise of Documentaries with one even talking to alcoholics who have hut the absolute breaking point of their addiction and not getting better.

One Day in September - Documentary about the Black September attacks in the Munich olympics. Well done and, as expected, grim. Someone's probably already mentioned 102 Minutes That Changed America which is probably the go-to for 9/11.

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness. Documentary on Studio Ghibli.

Brother's Keeper, and Hearts of Darkness. Two docs to watch before you die, in my opinion.

Icarus, its on Netflix.

The Cove is probably the best doc I've ever seen. Fair warning, it gets pretty intense in parts. Interesting subject, well made, has a straight up night time infiltration part in it. Really good doc.

@lostoddity: Agreed, this is essential viewing! It's truly harrowing.

If you like Hip-Hop... was a great watch especially after they released their latest album after a 17 year break

Icarus

Enlightening and scary look at athletics doping.

Ressurect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

trailer here

edit: didn't see @tradee9691posted this las week--but thats 2 votes so watch it!

try Home (2009)

Watched this one not long ago, its pretty good.

King of Kong is my favorite documentary ever, the pacing and the story unfolding is just so damn entertaining

super high me

I'd recommend any doc by Louis Theroux. Even with the more serious topics he takes on there are little moments that are awkwardly Hilarious

I can't reccomend this doc enough.

I would recommend the Channel 4 documentary The First World War. I know here in the US WW1 is mostly forgotten about and what is remembered is just trenches and the Red Baron. This series goes into how big the scale of the "war to end all wars" was and also what a horrific meat grinder it turned into.

Planet Earth one and two