📺 Documentaries

This is still on iPlayer actually. And well worth the watch. Discussed on another thread on here I think.

A couple of other Adam Curtis docs available on YouTube. I like this one:

The Hunt (BBCiplayer) has been awesome.

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Making of a Murderer on Netflix. Currently caning 9.4 IMDB and 85% on Metacritic. Plenty of real life true crime docs out there. This is superior to all of them. Shocking and barely credible but all true. Nuts.

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Grey Gardens, a fascinating documentary about the aunt and cousin of Jackie Kennedy…

It’s a factual film but uses kind of covert techniques to reveal things, it’s just the trailer but its really worth watching.

Started watching based on your shout, TiCK.

Compelling and a half.

3 episodes in and I just want to get rid of the relatives and keep watching it.

No spoilers please!

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No spoilers from me. I’m 5 episodes down now. It’s taking all my willpower not to Google the outcome. Amazing television.

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Originally posted by @TheCholulaKid

Making of a Murderer on Netflix. Currently caning 9.4 IMDB and 85% on Metacritic. Plenty of real life true crime docs out there. This is superior to all of them. Shocking and barely credible but all true. Nuts.

Watched the first episode and was truly shocked! :astonished:

Orion…a documentary on storyville, not available now, about a Elvis ‘impersonator’…just so happens he sounded exactly like Elvis and was born illegiamatlely (sp) in the deep south…the fathers name on the birth certificate was just Vernon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sh3vrxOAg4

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Werner Herzog movie, it’s more interesting that the guy was a failed US californian actor but sought fame through getting close to Grizzly Bears. Werner Herzog is known as a dour German documentary filmaker. He was eventually maulled to death and Werner documented it.

They look so cute

I went to see grizzly man with a slightly mentally unhinged friend of mine at a local arts cinema. We got shouted at by a serious man as my friend laughed at some of the footage deemed to be sad.

Backcountry, these bears aren’t cute :frowning:

Originally posted by @saintbletch

Started watching based on your shout, TiCK.

Compelling and a half.

3 episodes in and I just want to get rid of the relatives and keep watching it.

No spoilers please!

Where have we got to Bletch? I’m up to episode 8 - been absolutely no let up - am going to try and finish it tonight then it will be really important that I discuss it with strangers on the internet.

Right, finished it. Incredible.

People need to watch this.

TiCK, just finished episode 8, and I am fucking fuming!

I won’t tell you how I felt at the end lest it betray the outcome.

Struggling to think of a better documentary series though.

Oh, fuck.

Just finished it, TiCK.

We probably need a thread to chat about that - or at least we should couch everything in spoiler warnings.

People. Don’t read the spoilers. Watch it.

I feel fucking angry and frustrated by that.

I guess I’ve become used to happy endings, and was expecting something positive at the end. But to watch all the sieving of the evidence, and then to see juries and judges time and time again reach the wrong decision was quite baffling.

I have to remember that we’ve seen everything from the filmmaker’s perspective, but even so…

The evidence of procedural and evidential wrong-doing is surely so bloody obvious.

Lt Lenk can go fuck himself.

Kratz can go fuck himself too.

And Brendan’s first state defender needs to be beaten to death violently.

Mass collusion to fit up a man/men for crimes the likely did not commit.

Very angry.

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