In Need Of Some Good Documentaries

[8bitagent]

Recently rewatched Resurrect Dead: Toyn Bee Tiles, and just watched the other day Mirage Men and the follow up to RFK Must Die called "Killing Oswald"(which I didn't quite like) Also recently watched
Glow: Glorious Ladies of Wrestling, Salinger, Apocalypse Man w/ Mike Rupert, The Central Park Five, etc...need some good recommendations of newer(last 3-4 years?) ones I may have missed. Either netflix or
more underground youtube ones.

For some reason it's hard for me to watch normal movies, however strange and artful. But a good one on Netflix, like Samsara or Marwencol, I never get tired watching.

[jingofever]

If you missed it, Chasing Ice. But if you do not find any new documentaries and do not mind older ones, I suggest:

Poto and Cabengo


Shoah


and Phantom India by Louis Malle, which is available on Netflix but not by streaming. Some parts of it are on Youtube.

I was trying to think of newer documentaries but you have already posted something about most titles I could think of.

[Zombie Glenn Beck]

Awesome documentary on Thomas Pynchon.

Young Buckethead

This, this one just has to be seen.

[jingofever]

Just remembered one I saw: Pina, by Wim Wenders. It is on Netflix.

[Johannes]

Here are few that popped up...

The Source Family (2012)

http://www.primewire.ag/external.php?gd ... loggedin=0



Room 237 (2012)

http://putlocker.bz/watch-room-237-onli ... ocker.html

[coffin_dodger]

Non-RI ish but..

"Bobby Fischer against the World" - on Netflix (in the UK, anyway) is fascinating.

If you can find "Pulling John" (it's about arm-wrestling, bizarrely), it's a great watch.

[JackRiddler]

The first three episodes of Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States (covering the WWII years and the set-up for the Cold War) are online & surprisingly good. I could carp about things like using actors' voices for quotes, but pretty much the best intro to these subjects I've seen in film form.

[slimmouse]

How about

"The day they tried to geo-engeneer our souls out of existence"

Its not a movie in and of itself.

More of a compilation of logical progression based upon the ever increasing freeflow of information.

Strictly for those who are listening of course

[cptmarginal]

Just remembered one I saw: Pina, by Wim Wenders. It is on Netflix.

Thanks, going to watch this one. His film "Tokyo-Ga" is one of my all-time favorite documentaries, and I just recently rediscovered how great the music of "Buena Vista Social Club" is...

Here are few that popped up...

The Source Family (2012)

Seconded; the ending was incredible!

[BrandonD]

Just found this today, looks to be good:

[streeb]

Was walking on air after this one

[JackRiddler]

That looks great!

That linked to a Terminator 5 with all the (much older) stars from all prior Terminators in it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPPenARkdNg

One less Terminator (T3 & T4 = crap) could have financed that Dune. Man.

So fucking hot. (And I like the Lynch, actually. Conditionally.)

OOOPS! Sorry! This is the documentary, not video thread. Here, I'll make up for it:

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States:

The first 3 episodes work very well as a unity, which is why I guess all 3 seem to be available, but beyond that eps not available in full form. (Revise! Most of the rest appear in the search results for disclose.tv).

Episode 1: World War II
http://www.sho.com/sho/oliver-stones-un ... /episode/1

Episode 2: Roosevelt, Truman and Wallace
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo ... ates_ep02/

Episode 3, The Bomb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVLYyvpIex4

[streeb]

It was never going to be made under Jodorowsky, but the impression by the end of the doc is that it doesn't matter. He accomplished powerful magic regardless. His reaction to seeing the Lynch version is one of the film's highlights. If any of us could manage that mixture of honesty and grace!

[stefano]

I just finished watching Rwanda's Untold Story - a BBC doccie produced by Jane Corbin that lays out a lot of Rwanda's history that is normally occluded in the simplified 'Hutu extremists massacred Tutsis' narrative that everyone knows. It's excellent, not only for the facts that it lays out quite plainly, but for the glimpses it gives into how the trauma of 1994 made the RPF's takeover possible, how propaganda gets used for social control, how intelligence services operate at that level, and how elites collude with absolute disregard for millions of people's lives. The Rwandans are livid about it. Well worth watching for anyone who's into history, let alone hidden histories.

On vimeo:


There's an HD version on the Pirate Bay - I recommend getting that for the really stunning landscape shots.

[MacCruiskeen]

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/