compl3x Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I want to add some docos to my library and I thought I would see what people on here like. I am happy to take suggestions about any topic (history, war, space, nature, etc.) but please no conspiracy stuff. I don't want to watch "documentaries" about the Moon Landing being a Hoax or deranged paranoid theories about 9/11, please. Thanks all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GotBored Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Man Vs Wild or Top Gear? Just kidding. National Geographic: Weirdest Planets, Dangerous Companions, Megafactories, Megastructures, Gangs in prison, Cocaine Wars, Taboo Drugs, heaps of others. What topics are you interested in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watkinsx2 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 This is my favorite space documentary ever: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233514/ Archstroke 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanx Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States was quite captivating when I saw it last year. patseguin 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luc2k Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 A couple of examples come to mind: Eternal Enemies: Lions vs Hyenas Letting Go of God Planet Dinosaur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copernic Reporter Posted March 18, 2014 Reporter Share Posted March 18, 2014 Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iW1SHPgUAQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick H. Supervisor Posted March 18, 2014 Supervisor Share Posted March 18, 2014 David Attenborough. If he's narrating, it's an awesome documentary. The Blue Planet, Frozen Planet and Planet Earth are incredible, but there are plenty of others that I've yet to get hold of. Also, Brian Cox's two series. Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe. Finally, Andrew Marr's History of the World is an interesting take on some important moments in history. I'm looking forward to hearing other options. I seem to remember making a similar thread a year ago or so. Sadly it didn't get as much attention as I was hoping. +E.Worm Jimmy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compl3x Posted March 18, 2014 Author Share Posted March 18, 2014 Cool. My dad also enjoys documentaries. I think he is mostly interested in history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagokod Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 Stare Into The Lights My Pretties (2017) Spoiler We live in a world of screens. The average adult spends the majority of their waking hours in front of some sort of screen or device. We're enthralled, we're addicted to these machines. How did we get here? Who benefits? What are the cumulative impacts on people, society and the environment? What may come next if this culture is left unchecked, to its end trajectory, and is that what we want? *Stare Into The Lights My Pretties* investigates these questions with an urge to return to the real physical world, to form a critical view of technological escalation driven by rapacious and pervasive corporate interest. Covering themes of addiction, privacy, surveillance, information manipulation, behaviour modification and social control, the film lays the foundations as to why we may feel like we're sleeprunning into some dystopian nightmare with the machines at the helm. Because we are, if we don't seriously avert our eyes to stop this culture from destroying what is left of the real world. Offline Is The New Luxury (2016) Spoiler To be online all the time and everywhere. It sounds great, but it has its drawbacks. As digital networks are closing in, there are fewer places to be really on your own. Being offline is becoming a luxury. Where can you be offline? We are connected to the internet even in our bedrooms. It’s the ambition of companies like Google and Facebook to connect the entire world, so that we can be online all the time and everywhere. Google has sent balloons up into the skies over Sri Lanka to provide the island state with free Wi-Fi for a month. On the ground, more and more devices communicate through the so-called Internet-of-Things. We are going to be ‘glass citizens’ in a transparent house, connected for life to a wireless intravenous drip and traced anywhere via our smartphones. What does it mean? A small but growing group of people is saying goodbye to lifetime connectability. They are researching ways to keep control. What can we learn from them about life in the digital era? With: Paul Frissen (political scientist), Sherry Turkle (psychologist MIT), Evgeny Morozov (internet critic) and Birgitta Jonsdottir (hacker & founder Pirate Party) Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2016. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted September 22, 2018 MVC Share Posted September 22, 2018 That Sugar Film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buttus Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 https://www.amazon.com/Resurrection-N-T-Wright/dp/0830834354 to go with the post, resurrected from 2014... LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exotoxic Posted September 23, 2018 Share Posted September 23, 2018 Anything by... Levison Wood (Travel/Adventure) Brian Cox (Physics) Guy Martin (Engineering/Challenges) Bettany Hughes (History) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lissi88 Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 A few years ago I watched Senna the movie on the legendary Formula 1 driver Aryton Senna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagokod Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Beware of Images (2016) Quote From cave paintings to virtual reality, Beware of Images embarks on a fascinating journey through the history of mediated representation. This is the history of media you will never find on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patseguin Global Moderator Posted October 21, 2018 Global Moderator Share Posted October 21, 2018 I just watched Death Of A Nation and it was terrific. On 3/18/2014 at 7:23 AM, vanx said: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States was quite captivating when I saw it last year. Yeah I just watched that one. Really well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagokod Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 (edited) On 10/21/2018 at 4:57 PM, patseguin said: Yeah I just watched that one. Really well done. In case you want more 32 Documentaries About War That the US Government Doesn't Want You to See "These documentaries expose the ugly truth about war and the governments who wage them. The US government is focused on in this collection because I am based in the US, and it is every citizen's duty to call out and name the crimes of their government. It's all too easy to decry the injustices of other countries while remaining silent when those crimes are committed by our own. But nothing good has ever come from silence when the truth is marginalized and lies are amplified." 22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works "Pretty much everyone is aware to some extent how corrupt and dysfunctional the US political system has become. "Has become" is a bit misleading though. As several of these films will show, there was no true 'golden age' of American politics. Those who "want to make America great again" will find that the true history of America doesn't exactly offer shining models to go back to. And those who are generally aware of the troubling aspects of our past and present will be shocked to discover just how bad and crazy it gets. It's the depths and the degree that most people still aren't aware of. " 87 Deeply Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo "Sadly, you are not likely to see these documentaries in school, broadcast on television, or available on Netflix. The subversive nature of these films, which deeply challenge all aspects of the status quo, means that the internet is really the main avenue where these films are available. By collecting them all in one place, we hope they can be watched and shared widely, as they truly deserve to be." Edited October 23, 2018 by nagokod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagokod Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 (edited) Yuri Bezmenov: Deception Was My Job Quote This is G. Edward Griffin's shocking video interview, Soviet Subversion of the Free-World Press (1984), where he interviews ex-KGB officer and Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov who decided to openly reveal KGB's subversive tactics against western society as a whole. Bezmenov explains how Jewish Marxist ideology is destabilizing the economy and purposefully pushing the U.S. into numerous crises so that a "Big Brother" tyranny can be put into place in Washington, how most Americans don't even realize that they are under attack, and that normal parliamentary procedures will not alter the federal government's direction. He then explains how Marxist leaders use informers to make lists of anti-Communist and other politically incorrect people who they want to execute once they - actually a Jewish oligarchy - come to power. The oligarch's secret lists include "civil rights" activists and idealistically-minded "useful idiot" leftists as well. Bezmenov provides several real world examples of how Marxist leaders even execute and/or imprison each other. Also he explains how American embassy employees were known to betray Soviets attempting to defect, how there existed a "triangle of hate" in the Soviet government, why he realized that Marxism-Leninism was a murderous doctrine, and how the CIA ignored (or didn't care) about Communist subversion. He also mentions that revolutions throughout history are never the result of a majority movement, but of a small dedicated and highly-organized group who seize power, whether for good or bad. Next he explains how the American mass media spread lies about life in the Soviet Union. Bezmenov also explains how the LOOK magazine article falsely claimed that the Russian people were proud of their victory in the Second World War, where in reality the Judeo-Bolshevik-Communist-Marxist government was happy that Hitler had been defeated so that they could remain in power. Find out how the KGB utilized various individuals to undermine the Western society in its morals and values. Watch it on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3qkf3bajd4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Topham Hatt Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 (edited) Inside Natures Giants I also find the Great British Railways Journeys series good. It's not really about the trains but the places he goes. Did an American, European and Indian version too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dipsylalapo Supervisor Posted November 30, 2018 Supervisor Share Posted November 30, 2018 Love the nature shows that David Attenborough does. Blue Planet, Plant Earth and more recently Dynasties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trek Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 When We Left Earth - The NASA Missions But I'm a space nerd... Nogib 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EonStar Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Blackfish, it's very informative about the stuff going on at Seaworld. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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