Like Documentaries? List one that you've seen and has made an impression on you.

[Stravinsk]

I love documentaries. This thread is dedicated to recommending a documentary that you have seen and that has made an impression on you.

Here is a partial list from relatively recent memory:

The Corporation
Manufacturing Consent
Food Inc.
Big Sugar
Fiat Empire
Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve
The Great Conspiracy, the 911 news special you never saw
Loose Change, 1 and 2 (911 doco)
September Clues (911 doco/video analysis)
The Flouride Deception
Sweet Misery - A poisoned World(Aspartame - artificial sweetner)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death
Making a Killing: The untold story of psychotropic drugging

 

[Wren]

Excellent thread idea. I shall use it for ideas to take to the library.

My sister has told me (a couple of times) to watch The Corporation, but I haven't gotten around to it, even though I believe Hulu has the full film. She's a fan of Manufacturing Consent, too.

An Inconvenient Truth (It made me interested in taking environmental sciences classes and a social science class related to that topic when I was in school, instead of taking other classes to fulfill my science requirements)

Walmart: The High Cost of Low-Price (it made me boycott Walmart for awhile, then my financial status got even lower and it's now one of my preferred stores )

Flow: For the Love of Water

The Business of Being Born

Beyond the Color Line

 

[sea oat]

-Jesus Camp
-Defamation (a VERY good documentary about the paranoia of certain lobby groups who investigate "anti-semitism")
-Food, Inc.
-Sicko
-The Persuaders
-The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
-Kamp Katrina

 

[traingosorry]

"My Flesh and Blood"
"Born into Brothels"
"The Deletes"

 

[white dove]

Tried looking up my old thread, but realized I hadn't put much in there; I was merely asking for suggestions.


This is still a favorite of mine.



Some that I've seen that have impacted me in some way:


Born Into Brothels
Supersize Me
King Corn
Super High Me (although...)
Rize
Food Matters
Jesus Camp (yikes)
The Business of Being Born
Babies
Mad Hot Ballroom
Baby Beauty Queens
In Pot We Trust

 

[MacFall]

I haven't watched many, but this one is well-done and very relevant to the current economic situation. It's the one I watched most recently.

 

[Thunder Peel]

I really like music documentaries. Rattle and Hum, It Might Get Loud, Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns and Under Great White Northern Lights are some of my favorites.

 

[Guy Incognito]

Some Kind Of Monster; Metallica Documentary
The Rise and Fall of ECW - Wrestling documentary on a little company based out of Philly that would make a huge splash on it's entire industry, fantastic dvd
Air Jordan - A Michael Jordan documentary
Empire of Dreams - A documentary on the making of the original Star Wars trilogy

 

[grasping the after wind]

Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero

 

[Allen1901]

I've seen most of the films already listed. I would add "The Fog of War" and anything else by Errol Morris. God bless!

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003) - IMDb

 

[Obzocky]

The Cove.

 

[AlexBP]

The most memorable documentary I've seen is Michael Moore's Roger & Me, about the economic disaster that hit Flint, Michigan, after General Motors closed its plants there. It was touching because in the footage, Flint looks a lot like my hometown of Lexington, Ky.

YouTube - Roger and me

I also watched on called The War Tapes, about the second Iraq War, made by American soldiers themselves.

 

[TheTrash]

The Age of AIDS. I am truly in love with Edwin Cameron.
The Private Dirk Bogarde. Physically, one of the most beautiful men to ever grace the screen, but he was not just a pretty face. Much better than the Rank Organization's cleaned-up version.
This Film is Not Yet Rated.
Hiroshima.
I Love Being HIV+. If you have any problem with frank discussion about gay sex, I suggest you do not watch. But truly, one of the weirdest docs I have ever seen.
The Putin System.

 

[Stravinsk]

Thanks for the ideas, everyone. I started watching "born into brothels" last night...but had a hard time finishing it. Very sad.

This is still a favorite of mine.

Thanks for the link!

 

[white dove]

Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero

This was a GREAT one.

 

[Paulie079]

-Jesus Camp
-I also just recently watched one about the reconciliation that's still going down after the Rwandan genocide between Hutu and Tutsi people. I can't remember the name, though...but it was great!

I'm sure I've seen others but I can't just think of them offhand...

 

[Sri]

Everyone wants to watch a chic flick due to this I've only seen a few. I wait till everyone leaves so I can secretly watch a documentary. That is how nerdy I am. I've only seen a few and I like them, find them interesting like the one on mcdonalds and what it does to you or ones about deep sea creatures. I only like comical chic flicks. I don't know. Mix some adventure in there too like sahara minus mcauhnahay (sp).

 

[LoneSheep]

The only one I liked would be this:

Amazon.com: The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns: David McCullough, Sam Waterston, Jason Robards, Morgan Freeman, Garrison Keillor, Arthur Miller, George Plimpton, Horton Foote, George Black, Philip Bosco, Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Irons, Ken Burns: Movies

Sure it might be 11 hours long.....but I watched it all the way through twice

YouTube - Jay Ungar - Ashokan Farewell~Soundtrack "The Civil War"

 

[TheTrash]

From Russia with Love. A doc from the perspective of the boyfriend of Rudolf Nureyev, before he defected to the West.
Shine a Light.

 

[Nom De Guerre]

Kinda surprised that Zeitgeist hasn't been mentioned at all, probably because of the initial commentary about religion in the beginning...

I enjoyed both Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist: Addendum.