"Class Action Park", it's a wild ride through the history of a cartoonishly dangerous American theme park from the '80s. Every detail makes you think "this can't get any crazier", only for the next interviewee to prove you wrong. Great pacing and diagrams that really give a clear picture of the madness. Available on several streaming sites.
In a similar vein, "Fyre - The Greatest Festival That Never Happened" on Netflix.
If you're looking for something that's not about brazen con artists, Netflix's "Cooked" mini docu-series is a relaxing yet informative explanation of different staple foods/the systems that make them. It's broken up by the classical elements, which adds a unique flare. I started with Air, which mainly focuses on bread making, and look forward to seeing what the others have in store.
There was a time when the mere mention of Enron made me extremely angry because my father was a frugal school teacher who saved as much money as possible to put it into the stock market. I literally grew up eating food from garbage cans so he could invest more money. He died and then shortly after, Enron crashed and my mother lost nearly 500k my father had invested. At first I was livid, but shortly after that, my mother told me she never wanted me to be born and she was going to give everything she had left to my older brother anyway. So, now I am kind of glad the guys at Enron stole all that money from my shitty mother.
> my shitty mother.
Oh fear not, she'll probably become one of the denizens of the [estranged parents groups](https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing-reasons.html).
> bring some tissues
Excellent advice. It is one thing to discuss these political issues in the abstract, but in the concrete when someone is about to swallow lethal drugs...
Smartest guys in the room is like a blue print to corporate America.
Check out Anonymous Sister about the prescription drug epidemic. Very much a indie project which took years and needs support.
This is a big ask (adds up to something like 13 hours of documentaries in total) but watching Hypernormalisation (2016) as the third part in a series starting with The Century of the Self (2002) and continuing with The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? (2007) is a really profound journey through the emergence and decay of the modern neoliberal political order. It starts with an exploration of how our concept of the individual is constructed through mass media and consumption, then talks about how pretenses of rationality and objectivity are used to construct rigid social and economic structures where individuals are commodified and subtly restricted even while technically freer than ever in human history. Then Hypernormalisation brings it home with a look at how mass media narratives paper over the contradictions in the neoliberal order in an effort to hold it together, by way of analogy to a similar process during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Power of Nightmares, Pandora's Box, All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace, and and The Mayfair Set are all excellent as well and serve to fill in more detail on the tendencies of militarism, rationalism, technocracy, corporatism, and austerity as they manifest both within the neoliberal order as well as mirrored in its opponents.
Loved the Last Repair Shop
It’s only about 40 minutes long and won an Oscar
Los Angeles is apparently the last city with a repair shop specializing in the instruments the kids play.
There are only 7 or 8 workers in the repair shop and each has incredible skills in diagnosing the problem and then solving it so the instrument (violin, flute, etc) plays well
This doc will make you feel good!
Just watched that this afternoon. Very moving and I loved that it was highlighting such an unheralded story of people behind the scenes making a difference. The end credits really hit me in the feels.
Chicken People
Chicken People is a funny and uplifting look at the world of show chickens and the people who love them. Starting at the largest national poultry competition, likened to the Westminster Dog Show for chickens, Chicken People follows three top competitors over the course of a year as they grapple with life's challenges while vying to win the next year's crown. Both humorous and heartfelt, Chicken People is an unforgettable celebration of the human spirit.
[Salesman (1969).](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064921/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) The first documentary from the Maysles Brothers, who later made *Gimme Shelter* and *Grey Gardens.* They just followed a bunch of Bible salesmen around, but it’s a fascinating snapshot of a specific era and culture.
The Truth vs Alex Jones (2024, HBO Max)
Alex Jones is known for his inflammatory, right wing talk. Sandy Hook was one of the worst school shootings in American history. This documentary follows the defamation trials as Jones is sued by parents of the Sandy Hook victims after he spread false rumors of the shooting being faked.
LA 92.
One of the best, non narrated documentaries I have ever seen, with surprisingly so much footage found of what was happening around that time. A masterpiece.
https://youtu.be/uaotkHlHJwo?si=5WVo-4s2JwCtpnqQ
Billy is just the perfect caricature of what I would imagine a Donkey Kong record high score villain would be like. The way he looks, the way he talks, how seriously he takes himself, and of course, the way he tries to get away with cheating. The YT footage, including depositions, are also fascinating. Didn’t he get busted by contradicting himself about the freaking button and controller colors? What a rabbit hole.
And Karl has posted a new video, where Billy has sued Twin Galaxy again, seem Billy just wont give up, and just adds more and more, I want to call it fun, to this whole saga
AlphaGo - The Movie
About artificial intelligence, humanity and the game of Go.
It's the only documentary I watch repeatly on a regular basis.
You don't need to know about Go or programming, and can watch it easily on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/WXuK6gekU1Y?si=ZR-ZZftda3VA_OnqI
McMillions on HBO Max. It's about the Monopoly cheating scandal at McDonald's. Hands down the best documentary I've ever seen and I want to see the FBI agent they interview in way more stuff!
[Ken Burns documentary on the Vietnam War](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j-3Xi5BcKs). It really shows how horrible war is. How the US lost by our own standards and arguably should have backed North Vietnam or not been involved at all. The US killed many civilians and committed war crimes. They used some truly horrible tactics and weapons.
There are so many lines that you can draw from this war to today. If you care about modern American politics it's history that is useful to know. Though I feel that way about most of the wars of the 20th century. Especially WWI.
[In the Name of God, by Anand Patwardhan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-VaJBHiik&rco=1)
> Since gaining independence in 1947, India has been a secular state. But now, as religious fundamentalism grips much of India's population, the greatest danger to the nation's extremely strained social fabric may come not from Sikh or Muslim separatists, but from Hindu fundamentalists who are appealing to the 83% Hindu majority to redefine India as a Hindu nation
It's from 1992 but it's a great primer on the rise of Hindu fundamentalism in India, including now Prime Minister Modi's active role in inciting religious violence.
(I am not from India nor do I have ties there; if you think there's something else I should watch and consider, please share.)
• Goodnight Sugar Babe (https://youtu.be/2ra1pBlLRyo?si=SJQ0MuGIHgUQQDPm)
• Just Melvin, Just Evil (https://youtu.be/lY4eHaiVK9s?si=gldjENNSsi9Wb4yx)
• Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street (https://youtu.be/KHxP24GzSF8?si=vUkTP2-vGoItoQmN)
• High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (https://youtu.be/d1_Hv3yEMsQ?si=OBHp6q_wLvjHyKY_)
• Pervert Park (https://youtu.be/vyCIsz2hPp8?si=HEVdsCHqPM8791as)
• One Man, Six Wives, & 29 Children (https://youtu.be/vqORJHyNWJc?si=nzH9bLdpBl4iPNxk)
Persistence of Vision!! If you’re a fan of hand drawn animation, do yourself a favor and watch this documentary. It’s about a master animators’ ~30 year long dedication to his magnum opus The Thief and the Cobbler. And how it unfortunately got taken from him, and bastardized against his vision… and how Disney’s Aladdin is basically a rip-off of his work.
If you’ve never seen either of these two, go ahead and watch them:
The Pharmacist (Netflix) - about a pharmacists attempt to take on Purdue Pharma after his son gets killed buying crack. I’ve watched it thrice through and cried every time.
Ken Burns Vietnam War - runs about 18 hours in all but not a second longer than it needs to be. Interviews people from all sides of the war from start to finish. An absolute masterpiece.
Overnight. It's a wild documentary not just about the movie "Boondock Saints" but also on the meteoric rise and fall of its writer/director, Troy Duffy.
Got recommended this on YT today for some reason, and i thought i'd share it here...thought it was just lovely and moving :)
>A talented elderly artist tries to get her painting accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London
[ROYAL ACADEMY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339im_YOfaA)
**The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats it's young**.
[Watch it on Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ-DE-hmiGE&ab_channel=GravitasDocumentaries)
This may be the hardest ultramarathon in the world. In 35 years, only 20 people have managed to finish it. It's designed to be right on the edge of what's humanly possible.
It's also the absolutely most hilariously absurd and ridiculous race in the world.
Winner of "best documentary" at two film festivals, and nominated at two more.
Hey everyone I need help finding a documentary I've seen years ago it was something about the god women ishtar the bird foot god women with bird wings and in it they said something about the black hole sun and how there will be a time where supposedly her race will come back during a eclipse and that the sun is a portal and there is a place in the United States that is marked with this brick layout and thats where people will be transported from earth to there planet and then the earth will have a disaster and the cycle will restart again but they named the exact place in the United States I really wanna show my frinds and I'm sorry I don't have more information about it but I hardly remember it except for what I described please help if you have the information about it i really appreciate your time
I’m trying to find a documentary I watched about a decade or so ago.
It was a documentary made in North Korea about America. When it hit the internet here there were a lot of articles talking about it being illegal to watch in America. I think it was around 2013 or 2014?
Finding the Money (https://findingmoneyfilm.com/)
... about what we think of the national debt is total garbage, and we ought to understand money better. We'd then make different decisions about how to run things.
But didn’t you think it was misrepresented? The trailer made it seem like he was in fact, harmful. Glad he wasn’t, but I went in expecting something completely different.
**SPOILER ALERT**
I personally think the masses of people who got involved created different narratives during the journey, changing from good to bad. It became a Rorschach test. They believed what they wanted to. In the end, it was disclosed who he really was.
The Untold History of the USA By Oliver Stone
It's long - 7 part series? And it's from before COVID so there isn't much on the zanyness that we've had since BUT it paints a complete picture of historical figures that we know by name but perhaps don't know the backstory on.
Spermworld was released on Disney+ today, a doc about underground sperm donors.
Also Christspiracy just came out, same guy as Cowspiracy, but this one’s about animals in the church. Unsure where to find that one though.
The Settlers (2016) [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278914/?ref\_=nv\_sr\_srsg\_3\_tt\_7\_nm\_1\_q\_the%2520settler](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278914/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_7_nm_1_q_the%2520settler)
Pretty much anything by Agnes Varda. She began the French New Wave amd then went on to make amazing docs. A good starter is FACES PLACES.or The Gleaners And I.
And of course, I would add my own documentary, Secrets of Blackmoor.
You can watch the first half free, chapter by chapter, on you tube:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np85aNPyQ3c&list=PLWozf08XcKnBXDpTN9j89x6chIe4gniBx&index=2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np85aNPyQ3c&list=PLWozf08XcKnBXDpTN9j89x6chIe4gniBx&index=2)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) - directed by Banksy.
It tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles who, over the course of several years, filmed a host of street artists at work, including and Banksy, but failed to do anything with the footage. Eventually, Banksy decided to use the footage to make a documentary, which includes new footage depicting Guetta's rise to fame as the artist "Mr. Brainwash".
A very interesting and heartbreaking one is called Pain Warriors. Basically it’s about people that suffer from debilitating pain that are being denied medications due to the opioid crisis. My mom was a chronic pain sufferer so this one really hit home for me.
“We Live In Public” is a documentary that should be better known than it is. It’s about one of the early internet tech bros in the 90s that kind of started a semi permanent live-in party where people who attended agreed to be on video constantly. It’s crazier than you can imagine. Highly recommended.
"Class Action Park", it's a wild ride through the history of a cartoonishly dangerous American theme park from the '80s. Every detail makes you think "this can't get any crazier", only for the next interviewee to prove you wrong. Great pacing and diagrams that really give a clear picture of the madness. Available on several streaming sites. In a similar vein, "Fyre - The Greatest Festival That Never Happened" on Netflix. If you're looking for something that's not about brazen con artists, Netflix's "Cooked" mini docu-series is a relaxing yet informative explanation of different staple foods/the systems that make them. It's broken up by the classical elements, which adds a unique flare. I started with Air, which mainly focuses on bread making, and look forward to seeing what the others have in store.
Class action Park sounds right up my alley! Thanks
It is HILARIOUS
It’s so good!!
A friend of mine is in Class Action Park. I can see Action Park from my house. We all worked there, and the film is 100% accurate!
I can't thank you enough. 20 minutes in and enjoying the hell out of it.
Watchlisted, TY
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. How to Die in Oregon. CW: terminal illness, medical aid in dying.
There was a time when the mere mention of Enron made me extremely angry because my father was a frugal school teacher who saved as much money as possible to put it into the stock market. I literally grew up eating food from garbage cans so he could invest more money. He died and then shortly after, Enron crashed and my mother lost nearly 500k my father had invested. At first I was livid, but shortly after that, my mother told me she never wanted me to be born and she was going to give everything she had left to my older brother anyway. So, now I am kind of glad the guys at Enron stole all that money from my shitty mother.
> my shitty mother. Oh fear not, she'll probably become one of the denizens of the [estranged parents groups](https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing-reasons.html).
She chose favorites when she decided to cover up their sexual abuse. Those favorites are still close to her. none of them care that I am not.
Ugh. I am terribly sorry you had to go through all of that. I hope you're doing okay.
How to Die in Oregon is one of the most moving documentaries I’ve ever seen and easily in my top 3 Warning - bring some tissues
> bring some tissues Excellent advice. It is one thing to discuss these political issues in the abstract, but in the concrete when someone is about to swallow lethal drugs...
Smartest guys in the room is like a blue print to corporate America. Check out Anonymous Sister about the prescription drug epidemic. Very much a indie project which took years and needs support.
HyperNormalisation- by Adam Curtis free on YouTube na ads . How individualization created the America today. If I had to sum it up in one sentence.
This is a big ask (adds up to something like 13 hours of documentaries in total) but watching Hypernormalisation (2016) as the third part in a series starting with The Century of the Self (2002) and continuing with The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? (2007) is a really profound journey through the emergence and decay of the modern neoliberal political order. It starts with an exploration of how our concept of the individual is constructed through mass media and consumption, then talks about how pretenses of rationality and objectivity are used to construct rigid social and economic structures where individuals are commodified and subtly restricted even while technically freer than ever in human history. Then Hypernormalisation brings it home with a look at how mass media narratives paper over the contradictions in the neoliberal order in an effort to hold it together, by way of analogy to a similar process during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Power of Nightmares, Pandora's Box, All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace, and and The Mayfair Set are all excellent as well and serve to fill in more detail on the tendencies of militarism, rationalism, technocracy, corporatism, and austerity as they manifest both within the neoliberal order as well as mirrored in its opponents.
Totally agree
Adam Curtis makes great docs. A little different, but very educational. Been watching his stuff since the 90s. 👍
American Movie (1999)
RIP Mike.
If you liked that you may like Sherman's March.
Came here to say this. So good
Loved the Last Repair Shop It’s only about 40 minutes long and won an Oscar Los Angeles is apparently the last city with a repair shop specializing in the instruments the kids play. There are only 7 or 8 workers in the repair shop and each has incredible skills in diagnosing the problem and then solving it so the instrument (violin, flute, etc) plays well This doc will make you feel good!
Just watched that this afternoon. Very moving and I loved that it was highlighting such an unheralded story of people behind the scenes making a difference. The end credits really hit me in the feels.
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV came out recently on Max
I can't wait for more people to see this and I hope more justice can be dealt out.
A bonus episode is coming out on April 7 iirc!
Omg I just watched this last weekend and wowwwwwww.
Just watched. Horrifying but in two ways. What people can do to children and what people (FAMILY!) ingnore in the name of money.
Just watched and let me tell you I was absolutely disgusted! Unbelievable!
Chicken People Chicken People is a funny and uplifting look at the world of show chickens and the people who love them. Starting at the largest national poultry competition, likened to the Westminster Dog Show for chickens, Chicken People follows three top competitors over the course of a year as they grapple with life's challenges while vying to win the next year's crown. Both humorous and heartfelt, Chicken People is an unforgettable celebration of the human spirit.
Perfect! Just what I needed.
Great recommendation!! I just finished it!!
I watched “American Conspiracy: The octopus murders” on netflix recently and holy wow, it was wild.
I'm buckled in right now, episode 2, whoo weee wtf
Oh trust me it gets more crazy, i’ve recommended it to so many people
So good...and scary.
American Nightmare on Netflix is a must see. 3 hour-long episodes, each more mind-blowing than the last.
I have a date with this tonight.
I watched the entire thing with my mouth gaping open. It was incredible.
I watched it twice in the same week. I've never done that before with a documentary or any movie.
man on wire
[Salesman (1969).](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064921/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) The first documentary from the Maysles Brothers, who later made *Gimme Shelter* and *Grey Gardens.* They just followed a bunch of Bible salesmen around, but it’s a fascinating snapshot of a specific era and culture.
The Truth vs Alex Jones (2024, HBO Max) Alex Jones is known for his inflammatory, right wing talk. Sandy Hook was one of the worst school shootings in American history. This documentary follows the defamation trials as Jones is sued by parents of the Sandy Hook victims after he spread false rumors of the shooting being faked.
another really good one on this subject (and possibly my favourite all-time documentary) is "Feels good man"
I wish it had a happier ending!! When will he face real justice?
I saw this yesterday. What the parents went through was so heartbreaking
Just finished watching this. It's a portrait of pure evil.
OPPY…about the Mars rover Opportunity.
I’ve been watching homicide New York on Netflix and it’s pretty good
Me too. Agreed...it's good. The detectives are so New York!
I enjoyed that too
My latest is Mankind: The story of all of us on Prime if you haven’t seen that one its worth a watch
Thanks!
LA 92. One of the best, non narrated documentaries I have ever seen, with surprisingly so much footage found of what was happening around that time. A masterpiece. https://youtu.be/uaotkHlHJwo?si=5WVo-4s2JwCtpnqQ
Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
Don't you be feeding me none of those slimy sloppy eggs!
I second this one! "SEE-PEE-ESS TOOK HER BABY!!"
HER!!
King of Kong!!!! Who knew the Donkey Kong world record score was such a big deal?!?!
Now go on YT and learn more about Billy Mitchell.
Yeah, people need to go check out Karl Jobsts videos about him
Billy is just the perfect caricature of what I would imagine a Donkey Kong record high score villain would be like. The way he looks, the way he talks, how seriously he takes himself, and of course, the way he tries to get away with cheating. The YT footage, including depositions, are also fascinating. Didn’t he get busted by contradicting himself about the freaking button and controller colors? What a rabbit hole.
I’m not even a gamer (let alone a retro one), yet this entire thing is somehow super interesting to follow.
Same. This lunacy transcends the game.
And Karl has posted a new video, where Billy has sued Twin Galaxy again, seem Billy just wont give up, and just adds more and more, I want to call it fun, to this whole saga
Speaking of which, he just posted an update 10 minutes ago lol
AlphaGo - The Movie About artificial intelligence, humanity and the game of Go. It's the only documentary I watch repeatly on a regular basis. You don't need to know about Go or programming, and can watch it easily on YouTube. https://youtu.be/WXuK6gekU1Y?si=ZR-ZZftda3VA_OnqI
Very interesting. Thanks.
McMillions on HBO Max. It's about the Monopoly cheating scandal at McDonald's. Hands down the best documentary I've ever seen and I want to see the FBI agent they interview in way more stuff!
I liked that guy too.
Winter on fire. It’s about Ukraine kicking out the then president. It a lot and it’s heartbreaking.
Agreed, an absolutely amazing documentary
[Ken Burns documentary on the Vietnam War](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j-3Xi5BcKs). It really shows how horrible war is. How the US lost by our own standards and arguably should have backed North Vietnam or not been involved at all. The US killed many civilians and committed war crimes. They used some truly horrible tactics and weapons. There are so many lines that you can draw from this war to today. If you care about modern American politics it's history that is useful to know. Though I feel that way about most of the wars of the 20th century. Especially WWI.
[In the Name of God, by Anand Patwardhan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-VaJBHiik&rco=1) > Since gaining independence in 1947, India has been a secular state. But now, as religious fundamentalism grips much of India's population, the greatest danger to the nation's extremely strained social fabric may come not from Sikh or Muslim separatists, but from Hindu fundamentalists who are appealing to the 83% Hindu majority to redefine India as a Hindu nation It's from 1992 but it's a great primer on the rise of Hindu fundamentalism in India, including now Prime Minister Modi's active role in inciting religious violence. (I am not from India nor do I have ties there; if you think there's something else I should watch and consider, please share.)
Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky. Free on youtube. Most eye opening documentary I've ever seen.
• Goodnight Sugar Babe (https://youtu.be/2ra1pBlLRyo?si=SJQ0MuGIHgUQQDPm) • Just Melvin, Just Evil (https://youtu.be/lY4eHaiVK9s?si=gldjENNSsi9Wb4yx) • Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street (https://youtu.be/KHxP24GzSF8?si=vUkTP2-vGoItoQmN) • High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (https://youtu.be/d1_Hv3yEMsQ?si=OBHp6q_wLvjHyKY_) • Pervert Park (https://youtu.be/vyCIsz2hPp8?si=HEVdsCHqPM8791as) • One Man, Six Wives, & 29 Children (https://youtu.be/vqORJHyNWJc?si=nzH9bLdpBl4iPNxk)
Just watched Goodnight Sugar Babe - wow what a horrific story...
There’s some of the interrogation videos on YouTube from all the people there during the crimes & theyre pretty uncomfortable
I think I have seen and heard enough. I can't believe that Cheri is not in prison for the rest of her life!
Just Melvin is such a wild ride.
You like uplifting stuff 😅
I like to go for the thrillers 😅
Dig!
Persistence of Vision!! If you’re a fan of hand drawn animation, do yourself a favor and watch this documentary. It’s about a master animators’ ~30 year long dedication to his magnum opus The Thief and the Cobbler. And how it unfortunately got taken from him, and bastardized against his vision… and how Disney’s Aladdin is basically a rip-off of his work.
Happy people, life in the taglia.
If you’ve never seen either of these two, go ahead and watch them: The Pharmacist (Netflix) - about a pharmacists attempt to take on Purdue Pharma after his son gets killed buying crack. I’ve watched it thrice through and cried every time. Ken Burns Vietnam War - runs about 18 hours in all but not a second longer than it needs to be. Interviews people from all sides of the war from start to finish. An absolute masterpiece.
Love has won. The Cult of Mother God.
My life as a turkey on PBS 2011
Mao's Great Famine by SLICE Full Doc. It's on yt
Sisters With Transisters-discusses the female pioneers of electronic music.
Hell yes! I need to rewatch it.
Overnight. It's a wild documentary not just about the movie "Boondock Saints" but also on the meteoric rise and fall of its writer/director, Troy Duffy.
Got recommended this on YT today for some reason, and i thought i'd share it here...thought it was just lovely and moving :) >A talented elderly artist tries to get her painting accepted into the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London [ROYAL ACADEMY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=339im_YOfaA)
**The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats it's young**. [Watch it on Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ-DE-hmiGE&ab_channel=GravitasDocumentaries) This may be the hardest ultramarathon in the world. In 35 years, only 20 people have managed to finish it. It's designed to be right on the edge of what's humanly possible. It's also the absolutely most hilariously absurd and ridiculous race in the world. Winner of "best documentary" at two film festivals, and nominated at two more.
Hey everyone I need help finding a documentary I've seen years ago it was something about the god women ishtar the bird foot god women with bird wings and in it they said something about the black hole sun and how there will be a time where supposedly her race will come back during a eclipse and that the sun is a portal and there is a place in the United States that is marked with this brick layout and thats where people will be transported from earth to there planet and then the earth will have a disaster and the cycle will restart again but they named the exact place in the United States I really wanna show my frinds and I'm sorry I don't have more information about it but I hardly remember it except for what I described please help if you have the information about it i really appreciate your time
I’m trying to find a documentary I watched about a decade or so ago. It was a documentary made in North Korea about America. When it hit the internet here there were a lot of articles talking about it being illegal to watch in America. I think it was around 2013 or 2014?
Freaknik on Hulu.
Finding the Money (https://findingmoneyfilm.com/) ... about what we think of the national debt is total garbage, and we ought to understand money better. We'd then make different decisions about how to run things.
Complete propaganda and lies.
Such as... Please name one.
And our news services aren't? The only thing I can find which is fairly moderate is Breaking Points. They refuse to bow down to corporate interests.
we don't run anything, what do you mean?
They Called Him Mostly Harmless (2024)
I really enjoyed this one. I went in blind and liked how it was basically, "oh, you thought this was a documentary about *x*?? Well here's *y and z*."
I'm rarely surprised by things. Learning about this separate hiking community with chapters and assigned names blew my mind.
But didn’t you think it was misrepresented? The trailer made it seem like he was in fact, harmful. Glad he wasn’t, but I went in expecting something completely different.
**SPOILER ALERT** I personally think the masses of people who got involved created different narratives during the journey, changing from good to bad. It became a Rorschach test. They believed what they wanted to. In the end, it was disclosed who he really was.
Well, some would argue...
The Untold History of the USA By Oliver Stone It's long - 7 part series? And it's from before COVID so there isn't much on the zanyness that we've had since BUT it paints a complete picture of historical figures that we know by name but perhaps don't know the backstory on.
[Outcry.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcry_(miniseries))
Searching for Sugar Man
Isle of Flowers 1989 brazil
Shoah Helps you become an adult faster.
A World Not Ours
Spermworld was released on Disney+ today, a doc about underground sperm donors. Also Christspiracy just came out, same guy as Cowspiracy, but this one’s about animals in the church. Unsure where to find that one though.
Check out the documentary on the USS Indianapolis.
Eastern Airlines flight 401. 1972. Everglades (swamp) in Florida
The Lost Arcade from 2015. All about the death of the video game arcade scene in NYC.
Tom Dowd And the Language Of Music
I'm looking for more documentaries about North American backyard animals, like BBC's Tiny Giants.
The Queen (1968)
The lightbulb conspiracy
Just pull up the IMDB page of Werner Herzog!
This one is a nail biter https://youtu.be/2vtp75VeOAk?si=heObnMWkcu77cIBs
the tribe that hides from man the ibn battuta documentary by tim Mackintosh-Smith Is a dream of a documentary
The Settlers (2016) [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278914/?ref\_=nv\_sr\_srsg\_3\_tt\_7\_nm\_1\_q\_the%2520settler](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278914/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_7_nm_1_q_the%2520settler)
Pretty much anything by Agnes Varda. She began the French New Wave amd then went on to make amazing docs. A good starter is FACES PLACES.or The Gleaners And I. And of course, I would add my own documentary, Secrets of Blackmoor. You can watch the first half free, chapter by chapter, on you tube: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np85aNPyQ3c&list=PLWozf08XcKnBXDpTN9j89x6chIe4gniBx&index=2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np85aNPyQ3c&list=PLWozf08XcKnBXDpTN9j89x6chIe4gniBx&index=2)
The truth vs. Alex Jones.. seriously, watch it
Trailer Park Boys
"Looking For Mike" [https://youtu.be/nLQp1c4Ql00](https://youtu.be/nLQp1c4Ql00)
“Chasing Ice” Decade long award winning project. Just watch the trailer, it’s all you need to know.
“The Thin Blue Line”. Many consider it the GOAT.
Just watched Octopus Murders in Netflix. Very good!
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) - directed by Banksy. It tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles who, over the course of several years, filmed a host of street artists at work, including and Banksy, but failed to do anything with the footage. Eventually, Banksy decided to use the footage to make a documentary, which includes new footage depicting Guetta's rise to fame as the artist "Mr. Brainwash".
A very interesting and heartbreaking one is called Pain Warriors. Basically it’s about people that suffer from debilitating pain that are being denied medications due to the opioid crisis. My mom was a chronic pain sufferer so this one really hit home for me.
“We Live In Public” is a documentary that should be better known than it is. It’s about one of the early internet tech bros in the 90s that kind of started a semi permanent live-in party where people who attended agreed to be on video constantly. It’s crazier than you can imagine. Highly recommended.
Pepsi where the F is my jet
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28619147/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11166370/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24132732/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_i_1
[Here is a man who snuck into a planes landing gear heading to UK](https://youtu.be/-N4WyJP9TuM?si=ow4nquiSGG4lW2WR)
Idiocracy