What are your favorite documentaries?

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The thread about docudramas/biopics made me curious about everyone's favorite documentaries....

Here are some of mine:

Winnebago Man
Paradise Lost (1-3)
West of Memphis
Super Size Me
Religulous
Sicko
Manhunt

religulous
an inconvenient truth

This Film is Not Yet Rated.

I haven't watched many movies or documentaries, but my all time favorite documentary series is The Day The Universe Changed.

You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks.

The Beatles Anthology

the snow monkeys of mozu

Some of my favorites are:

The Cruise
Journey to the Edge of the Universe
Big River Man
Black Tar Heroin
Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem
Neurotypical

I liked these a lot, also.

Here are my favourites. My criteria here is that I learned something valuable from them, and enjoyed them enough that I watched them more than once:

Manufacturing Consent- is an invaluable introductory resource for people interested in why the news media is usually far less than objective and impartial; as well as an introduction to the thinking of Noam Chomsky.

The Red Chapel- is about a Danish troupe of comedians, who go to NK to put on a show. The body language of the NK's is particularly interesting. We project a lot of our own assumptions about what they must be thinking, but who is to know if we are right.

The Corporation- anthropomorphises the corporation, and sets out to demonstrate that they are psychopathic.

The Power of Nightmares- explains how our politicians use fear mongering to control the population. Particularly delves into the background of the, "War on Terror" narrative.

Cosmos- No need to explain what this is.

Slavoj Zizek: Perverts Guide to Ideology- explains how ideology functions.

Dark Days- is about New York's subway dwellers.

Crips and Bloods: Made in America- explains the origin and lifestyle of these gangs.

Jean Luc Godard: Sympathy for the Devil- This is my favourite documentary. It makes some interesting observations about the essence and function of phoney mainstream rebellion culture epitomised by the Stones (whose music I like, by the way).



To add a documentary series that is terrible, but I like anyway: Ancient Aliens.
Has anyone been to the "Vice" youtube channel? Their documentaries are outstanding.

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Stories We Tell

An Inconvinient Truth

Bully

March Of The Penguins

Waiting For Superman

Spellbound

The Fog Of War

Murderball

Taxi To The Dark Side

Man On Wire

Searching For Sugar Man

Grizzly Man

Touching The Void

Super Size Me

Winged Migration

The Panama Deception

Bowling For Columbine

The Root of all Evil
First Life (David Attenborough)
Fahrenheit 911
Sicko
Bowling for Columbine
Capitalism - A Love Story
Stephen Hawking's Universe
The Story of Britpop
1989 - The Summer of Rave
Anything about Quantum Physics.

Adding the Up Series.

William S. Burroughs - A Man Within
Lovecraft - Fear Of The Unknown
Grizzly Man
Pretty As A Picture - The Art Of David Lynch
Capitalism - A Love Story
The Lost Legions Of Varus

I'm certain there are others.

I don't think anyone mentioned these yet...

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Planet Earth
The Civil War
Prohibition

"Helvetica" - Probably the most entertaining documentary about a font that you will ever see.

The Up Series - It seems less intresting now as the participants have gotten older and seemed to blend into more or less similar lives, but i really enjoy seeing how different people try to find out where they are going as they grow up.

"Koyaanisqatsi" - This is a mesmerizing film and still the best one of the three.

"Memory of the Camps" - this was a documentary that Alfred Hitchcock directed but was not finished. I saw it maybe 15 or 20 years ago and it was extremely powerful.

"Grizzley Man" - Pretty much any documentary by Werner Herzog is worth watching. I thought this one was particualrly good.

"The Mystery of Picasso" - Shows Picasso working.

The Century of Self.

This explains how different theories about human psychology have been imposed on the public.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_YLy6yZeaw[/youtube]

Watch it here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyxlxj ... shortfilms

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