Documentaries I should watch

David Attenborough's doing some stuff on Gem or 7mate lately.... Life of Mammals, but the show is also preceded with some Zoo Doco's from around the world.

Might be on Wednesday Night...


I checked, it's on Gem, on Wed, 8:30. Zoo thing is at 7:00.
au.yahoo.com?err=404&err_url=abu-live-oob.media.yahoo.com:4443/tv-guide/94/0/4/19/

If you're drooling for Doco's, this might fill a void. I know DA^ is not everyone's cup of tea though!

I once saw a doco on the building of the "Millau Viaduct" one of the worlds highest and longest bridges..... jawdropping doco .

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_Viaduct

End of the Line

Anyone who gives a 5hit about the ocean should watch this.

"Cool it" - Documentry that looks at the way we plan to fix the climate. Totally changed my outlook on the situation. A must see in my book.

I'm a mad fan of docco's
watch heaps of them
A few goodies that come to mind......

Anything by Louis Theroux especially his first series wierd weekends where he looks at American Subcultures. Fascinating
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Louis_Theroux_Documentaries

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
In the early 1980s, legendary Billy Mitchell set a Donkey Kong record that stood for almost 25 years. This documentary follows the assault on the record by Steve Wiebe, an earnest teacher from Washington who took up the game while unemployed.
Brilliant but sad!
www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/

Skinhead Attitude (2003)
SKINHEAD ATTITUDE is the first documentary which outlines the history of forty years of skinhead movement - from its extreme left to its extreme right wings. Starting by asking for the most recent development of the movement, the film describes the transformation and radicalisation of this subculture of youth.
Fascinating stuff - but i'm mad into Ska, Reggae, Blues beat etc..
www.imdb.com/title/tt0399660/

Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
Jennifer Baichwal's cameras follow Edward Burtynsky (1955- ) as he visits what he calls manufactured landscapes: slag heaps, e-waste dumps, huge factories in the Fujian and Zhejiang provinces of China, and a place in Bangladesh where ships are taken apart for recycling. In China, workers gather outside the factory, exhorted by their team leader to produce more and make fewer errors. A woman assembles a circuit breaker, and women and children are seen picking through debris or playing in it. Burtynsky concludes with a visit to Shanghai, the world's fastest growing city, where wealth and poverty, high-rises and old neighborhoods are side by side.
Its astounding the amount of polution and sh!t China produces
www.imdb.com/title/tt0832903/

Sean (1969)
Following Sean (2005)
Ralph Arlyck was one of the first filmmakers to show hippies from the inside out. His 1969 short student film Sean was about a 4-year-old boy growing up in San Francisco's legendary Haight Ashbury. Sean's ever-shifting family arrangement included card-carrying Communist grandparents and a host of drug-doing houseguests. In his eerily mature baby voice, Sean talked about smoking and eating pot.
Folllowing Sean is a follow up about 30 years later.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0479916

Beautiful Losers (2008)
Filmmaker Aaron Rose celebrates the independent spirit of D.I.Y. (do-it-yourself) culture in this documentary detailing how a group of like-minded American artists emerged from the underground in the early 1990s to have an enormous impact on the worlds of fashion, film, art, music, and pop culture in general. With virtually no connection to the mainstream art world, the ten artists featured in Beautiful Losers somehow managed to become the strongest creative voices of their generation.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0430916/

Earthlings
EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers." The film is narrated by Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (GLADIATOR) and features music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby.
www.earthlings.com/

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
Errol Morris' magical film ''Fast, Cheap & Out of Control'' is about four people who are playing the game more strangely than the rest of us. They have the same goal: to control the world in a way that makes them happy. There is a lion tamer, a man who designs robots, a gardener who trims shrubs so they look like animals and a man who is an expert on the private life of the naked mole rat.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0119107/

Vinyl (2000)
A documentary about obsession. Many peoples obsession in fact with primarily records and the need to have to collect.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0120454/


I hope you can be arsed to read and grab some of these movies they are top shelf and as with anything there are many many more.........

This was a good Doco too.

A few more that spring to mind.

Teenage Tourettes Camp

This is a neat little documentary about five British teenagers with Tourette's Syndrome who spend a week at a summer camp in the US. I thought it was a really fascinating look at a syndrome that is characterized by numerous misconceptions, although the latter part of the film is a bit heavy on the animosity between two of the campers.
www.imdb.com/title/tt1068782/

The Human Behavior Experiments (2006)

"Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and right place, they're capable of anything," says John Huston's character, Noah Cross, in the movie Chinatown -- dialogue that seems especially apt watching this engrossing docu collaboration to be simulcast by Sundance Channel and Court TV. Following up on their "First Amendment Project," the cable nets tap filmmaker Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) to craft this thought-provoking examination of three controversial psychological studies whose chilling results still resonate today
www.imdb.com/title/tt0822813/

Most anything by Werner Herzog
He did this docco about this obsessional emotional guy who made a balloon to fly along the rooftop of a jungle and they employed a local to help. Its a fascinating insight into the journey this guy took and the local is a crack up. I cant remember the name though......just found it Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) No it wasn't that i got it wrong it was The White Diamond www.imdb.com/title/tt0435776/

Jesus Camp (2006)

I found this as disturbing as the millitants of Islam except its something in our own backyard. this docco is all about evangelical christianity in the US and its influence over our next generation and current politicians. It follows a summer camp for evangelicals and it is very frightening.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0486358/

Helvetica (2007)
2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Max Miedinger and Edouard Hoffmann's design Helvetica, the most ubiquitous of all typefaces. Widely considered the official typeface of the twentieth century, Helvetica communicates with simple, well-proportioned letterforms that convey an aesthetic clarity that is at once universal, neutral, and undeniably modern. In honor of the first typeface acquired for MoMA's collection, the installation presents posters, signage, and other graphic material demonstrating the variety of uses and enduring beauty of this design classic. As a special feature in the exhibition, an excerpt of Gary Hustwit's documentary Helvetica reveals the typeface as we experience it in an everyday context.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0847817/

Titicut Follies (1967)

"Titicut Follies" is a controversial documentary by Frederick Wiseman. The film records events at the Bridgewater State Prison For the Criminally Insane. It was shot in 1967, but was subjected to a worldwide ban until 1992. The Judicial Court ruled that the film was an invasion of inmate privacy, but in reality Wiseman had been granted full permission to film at the prison. The ban was merely an attempt by the authorities to silence the uneasy truths that Wiseman's camera had uncovered.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0062374/


Flipping Out (2008)

Military service in Israel is compulsive for all able-bodied Jewish men and women. Once their years of service is up they are granted a bonus which many use to travel to India to wind down and recover from their experiences. About 90 per cent of them will use drugs during their travels and every year about two thousand of them will require professional help to recover from this drug use. The extreme psychotic break these people experience is commonly referred to as "flipping out".
www.imdb.com/title/tt1213858/

World's Biggest Penis

No doubt about it, society celebrates the big penis. Seen as a sign of adequacy, virility and manliness, those lucky enough to be well endowed are heralded by both sexes and all sexualities. As women have always maintained, and men have always thought, size matters, but not in the way that most of us imagine. Sometimes having a Big Johnson is a bigger problem than you'd guess. Meet the men, including the man claiming to have the World's biggest penis, who reveal there is a bittersweet side to nature's gift, and who lift the veil on a taboo subject and to show the reality of what it's like to have what all men dream of.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0989101/

Dark Days (2000)
In the pitch black of the tunnel, rats swarm through piles of garbage as high-speed trains leaving Penn Station tear through the darkness. For some of those who have gone underground, it has been home for as long as twenty five years.
Deeply moving and surprisingly entertaining, Dark Days is an eye-opening experience that shatters the myths of homelessness by revealing a thriving community living in tunnels beneath New York City and honestly capturing their resilience and strength in their struggle to survive.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0235327/

When i think of some more i have enjoyed i'll let you know.
:-)

I always find something worthwhile to watch on here

iview.abc.net.au

The great thing is that you can watch it in your own time and with no ad's!! SBS also have a good freeview channel for Docs - go to www.sbs.com.au/documentary/ then hit the Watch Video button.

just watched lois thoroex one about jews / religious extremists in the west bank.
shed a bit of light - was very good on a subject that never really interested me/ knew anything about

This is best documentary i have watched.

http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/cancer/the-beautiful-truth-2008documentary-about-a-diet-basedcure-for-cancer.html



"For each of us, it will one day come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten will be passed to someone else.
Your fame, your wealth and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
It will not matter what you owned or owed.
Your grudges, frustrations and jealousy will finally disappear.
So to your hopes, ambitions, plans and to do lists will expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
It will not matter where you came from, or what side of the tracks you lived.
At the end it won't matter if you are beautiful or brilliant.
Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
So what will matter?
How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought but what you built.
Not what you got but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that empowered enriched or encouraged others to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence but your character.
What will matter is not how many people you knew but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone.
What will matter is not your memories but the memories that live in those that learned to love from you.
A life lived that matters is not of circumstance, but of choice."

Not a doco as such, but I find TED talks have some very interesting speakers (including our own Saul Griffith) and some very interesting topics

www.ted.com/talks

Also available on youtube and as a podcast on itunes