In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

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Re: In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

Postby Searcher08 » Wed Dec 17, 2014 8:24 pm

MacCruiskeen » Wed Dec 17, 2014 10:37 pm wrote:A haunting short documentary about a man who was determined to disappear:

The Last Days of Peter Bergmann

http://aeon.co/video/psychology/the-las ... tery-film/


Thank you for that, Mac.
Beautifully made, haunting film.
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Re: In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

Postby conniption » Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:58 pm

The Unknown War Ep1 June 22 1941

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuuthpJmAig

Published on Feb 8, 2013

The Unknown War

The greatest battles of World War II, the most colossal encounters of military force, the most devastating human losses which the modern world has ever seen, occurred on Russian soil during 1941-1945, on a battlefield that is unknown to most Americans. The conflict between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia claimed more than 30 million lives.

On the early morning of June 22, 1941, the Nazi Wehrmacht had amassed 4.2 million crack troops along a front that stretched for 1,800 miles, and Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union began. The Nazi high command was extremely confident, expecting the total collapse of Stalin's Russia within six weeks. In reality, The Unknown War raged on for nearly four years. Before it finished, the Nazis and Soviets fought the single greatest campaign in military history. The Unknown War covers that period of history beginning in June 1941, when Germany launched its surprise attack on Russia, through to the end of the war.

The Unknown War was a landmark television series, detailing the drama of the Eastern European front during World War II. Academy Award Winner Burt Lancaster hosts the 20 part series. Film footage from Soviet archives
comprises a major portion of the series, supplemented by film from both the United States and British archives. Burt Lancaster spent three weeks in eight cities in Russia, for location filming.

The Unknown War was made as a counter to the deliberate distortions in the Anglo-American series The World At War, which chose to give as much coverage to the US in Italy as it did to the Red Army at war from the Arctic to the
Black Sea. So blatant was the politically motivated distortion in The World At War that the Soviet authorities ultimately refused to cooperate in its production. Instead they set out to make a documentary series of their own that would tell the real story of the War in the East.

The Eastern (Russian) Front of WW2 has been side-lined in the Western media for decades, reduced to just "one aspect" of the War, if it is even mentioned at all. Certainly there is never any recognition given to the fact that it was the main, decisive arena of WW2, the scene of a titanic struggle that, at the cost of 30 million Soviet lives, saved the world from fascism.

Made by the USSR's Central Documentary Film Studios, The Unknown War dealt exhaustively with the war on the Soviet front.

Narrated by Burt Lancaster, who also appeared on camera, the series featured interviews with many participants from numerous battles, partisan campaigns and SS massacres. It showed the destruction, the sacrifice and the heroism, and also the pride in their colossal achievement. As Stalin said in one of his communications to Churchill, "Hitler has 25 divisions in North Africa; I have 250 in the Soviet Union."

Unfortunately, the Western TV networks and distributors who bought The Unknown War for telecast were not prepared to mount the kind of publicity campaigns needed to overcome 30 years of lies, distortion and simple suppression of the facts about the Soviet role in WW2.

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Re: In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

Postby minime » Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:36 pm

The Big Fix, by Josh and Rebecca Tickell, on the BP oil spill and its aftermath. I see it hasn't been mentioned on this site.

It could have been more comprehensive... But it's definitely effective on a visceral level.

Watch it: Better to be pissed off than pissed on.

http://documentarylovers.com/film/the-big-fix/
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Re: In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

Postby Iamwhomiam » Mon Jul 24, 2017 9:32 pm

Short clip from Everything Is a Rich Man's Trick
https://www.facebook.com/EvolvePolitics/videos/1666350230283584/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Qt6a-vaNM

A better quality video of Everything Is a Rich Man's Trick is available here: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/everything-rich-man-trick/
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Re: In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

Postby Iamwhomiam » Sat Feb 29, 2020 1:23 pm

Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown


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Re: In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

Postby Laodicean » Sun Mar 01, 2020 7:47 pm


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T7VXlB4qUI
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Re: In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

Postby Iamwhomiam » Tue Mar 03, 2020 8:23 pm

My grandmother died from influenza in January 1919, when my mother was 10 months old.



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Re: In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

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Re: In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

Postby cptmarginal » Thu Mar 19, 2020 6:33 pm

This one looks pretty good. Just got a high-definition copy recently...




A Visit to Old China, Before It Drowns

NYT Critic’s Pick - Directed by Yung Chang - Documentary - 1h 33m

By STEPHEN HOLDEN APRIL 25, 2008

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Tourists on sampans in the Lesser Three Gorges, in a scene from “Up the Yangtze.” Credit Jonathan Chang/Zeitgeist Films


Imagine the Grand Canyon turned into a lake. That image is summoned by Yung Chang, the Chinese-Canadian director and occasional narrator of “Up the Yangtze,” an astonishing documentary of culture clash and the erasure of history amid China’s economic miracle.

The film explores the incalculable human impact of the giant Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze, China’s longest river. When completed, the 600-foot-high dam will be the largest hydroelectric project in the world. As we watch the steadily rising water swallow more and more of the landscape, the film conveys an ominous sense of a society changing too fast in its stampede into an unknown future.

The dam, suggested by Sun Yat-sen and later supported by Mao Zedong, but not begun until 1994, is expected to be finished sometime in 2011. Not since the Great Wall has China undertaken such a massive engineering project.

By the time the dam is completed as many as two million people will have been relocated to new homes from the flooded area. As one struggling merchant forced to move from his riverside home explains before breaking down in tears, the Chinese people are expected to “sacrifice the little family for the big family.”

“Up the Yangzte” is the second recent film based around the project. “Still Life,” Jia Zhangke’s haunting docudrama, was about a man and a woman who never meet while searching for their mates in Fengjie, a town in the process of demolition. It was drenched in a mood of despair.

The more sociologically oriented “Up the Yangzte” is largely set aboard a ship making what are billed as “farewell cruises” up the river. Many of the tourists, we are told, come expecting to see the “old China” before it disappears. As the boat sails upriver, the landscape is spectacular. At the same time the yellowish haze over the water suggests China’s already serious air pollution problem. There are brief glimpses of cities whose gaudy wall-to-wall signs match those of the Las Vegas Strip or Times Square. In these cities what remains of the old China is hidden by the glitter.

Beyond Mr. Chang’s reflections on the country as described to him by his grandfather, the movie refuses to editorialize. It lets the images demonstrate the degree to which the old China has already disappeared. What emerges is a country in the throes of rampant economic development and the global homogenization it augurs.

The movie offers an “Upstairs, Downstairs” view of life aboard the vessel, which is crowded with well-to-do American and European tourists catered to by a Chinese staff that is minutely drilled on proper etiquette: Never compare Canada and the United States; never call anyone old, pale or fat (plump is O.K.); never talk about politics.
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Re: In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

Postby cptmarginal » Thu Mar 19, 2020 6:36 pm

I keep forgetting that there is another great ongoing documentary thread:

Some Absolutely Fascinating New Documentaries
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Re: In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

Postby Elvis » Mon Apr 20, 2020 12:00 am

"Finding the Money" — upcoming documentary by Maren Poitras

Click through to Vimeo to watch the teaser. You won't be disappointed.


https://vimeo.com/387886793
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Re: In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

Postby fruhmenschen » Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:56 am


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEl_DeCtMl4

Mod note: Edited to add the embed with title.
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Re: In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

Postby JackRiddler » Sun Aug 16, 2020 11:19 am

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Re: In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

Postby Elvis » Sun Aug 16, 2020 6:41 pm

Probably the best doc on the 2008 financial fraud.
Part 1 of 5 parts:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XGZ7F3IPY8

https://www.thecon.tv/

The Con is an in-depth investigation into the 2008 financial crisis nine years in the making, Who did it, why it happened and how our country went from “of, for and by the people,” to “of, for and by the corporation.” And what’s past is prologue: The heist of our democracy that includes fraudulent practices, massive credit card debt, student loans, auto loans, and the revolving door between finance and government, is still going on, and will become even worse than before.



Lengthy discussion by regulators & other participants in the film:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWSe5jIakVk
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