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Movies That Are Educational and Fun to Watch: Documentaries

CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
edited February 2011 in Social Entropy++
I've been craving some knowledge lately

Read books?

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Fuck that. I'm gonna watch TV.

But if you watch the right stuff, you can learn lots and lots by watching DOCUMENTARIES!!!

Here are some that I've watched lately:

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A cool little documentary about how small breweries are fighting against the likes of Budweiser and Coors to get you drunk.

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Some people think it's funny. I thought it was depressing as shit. A look at just how fucked up one family in WV can be.

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Made by the notorious graffiti artist Banksy, it looks into how one guy got into graffiti just to make money. It is a neat look into some of the more popular artist's lives. It has gotten a lot of notice from celebrities lately.



Have you fellas seen anything good lately? Recommend them! Tell us about them!

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I made a documentary once.

    It got premiered at a theater and everything.


















    validate me

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    whats the name of it?

    can we see it anywhere?

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
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    this is supposed to be pretty good. its next on my list to watch

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    my girlfriend, being from WV, made me watch the Whites

    and, man, that's a lotta drugs

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  • ShimShamShimSham Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    CrackedLens wrote: »
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    this is supposed to be pretty good. its next on my list to watch

    I liked it a lot, and I've shown the Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia to everyone who comes to my house, it's great.

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  • Bacon-BuTTyBacon-BuTTy Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Restrepo was pretty depressing, but very good all the same.

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I have the raw files still, but it is not posted anywhere in case we ever entered it into a film festival (we will never do this but my partner is a god damn lawyer and a tight ass)

    It was just a ten minute doc but I was pretty proud of it. It was about a pretty famous Alabama blues-man named Willie King. He died about a year and a half after we completed it.

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  • ShimShamShimSham Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Also, as with everything else on the list, this is on Netflix instant streaming too

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I looooove documentaries.

    The last one I saw was Waiting for Superman. Which was alright. Important stuff but I didn't like the narrator's voice which is a petty thing considering the subject matter.

    But before that I saw Deliver Us From Evil. Which was awesome

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq0lZ57AdWU

    And We Live In Public which is an amazing, amazing movie if you are into the internet, and art, and the future

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

    My favorite documentary is Dear Zachary. Which is something you need to watch knowing nothing about. Here is a trailer anyway

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtyY0CXdiNo

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  • ShimShamShimSham Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I can't post the cover art because it's questionable NSFW, but This Film Is Not Yet Rated is a pretty interesting little documentary/search to find out who is on the MPAA Ratings board and what their criteria for rating movies is.

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I watched this the other day and enjoyed it a good deal. It's a bit short but any longer and I would have wandered off and done something else:

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
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    i watched this a few weeks ago and just felt bad afterwards

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Mysst wrote: »
    my girlfriend, being from WV, made me watch the Whites

    and, man, that's a lotta drugs

    I've met Jesco a few times

    its.... interesting

    where in WV is your lady from?

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  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Anything by Louis Theroux is pretty great:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGQZAnl7QAQ

    Also, BBC nature documentaries are always worth a watch. I'm really enjoying their Human Planet series at the moment:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MThzrKR8FIM

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    the_devil_came_on_horseback.jpg

    About as incredibly horrifying as you'd imagine.

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    So this isn't really about documentary films, but a few weeks ago I heard this interview on NPR about a woman who would take pictures of people in their houses, without their permission, and then post the pictures in galleries.

    It's the most angry I've been at art in basically forever.

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Hobnail wrote: »
    the_devil_came_on_horseback.jpg

    About as incredibly horrifying as you'd imagine.

    whoa

    gross

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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
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    this movie made me pretty angry/sad

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Liiya wrote: »
    Anything by Louis Theroux is pretty great\

    Abso-fucking-lutely.

    Other british people who make good documentaries: Brian Cox with all his Horizon business, and Simon Reeve with his 'travel to central asian dictatorships and ask people things that make the government unhappy' business

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

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGeK0UjMRTs&feature=relmfu

    they're TV documentaries not films, but deal with it

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    aren't snuff films mostly a huge hoax? other than just somone videotaping a killing, but to have an entire movie and people in it for the express purpose of really dying at the end

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    CrackedLens wrote: »
    Hobnail wrote: »
    the_devil_came_on_horseback.jpg

    About as incredibly horrifying as you'd imagine.

    whoa

    gross

    I saw this at Sidewalk Film festival, and got to see the film maker give a little talk afterward, it was pretty gruesome.

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  • Josiah_9Josiah_9 Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I watched this recently is was entertaining, but I didn't really learn anything:

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  • ShimShamShimSham Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    These are sort of documentaries, I suppose, as much of a doc as some of the others which have been listed at least.

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    http://www.hulu.com/nfl/americas-game

    NFL Film's "America's Game" series. They've made one for every Superbowl championship team in league history and they're all (but the two most recent) available on Hulu for free watching.

    They're 45 minute episodes chronicling the entire season of each Championship team, and they interview three key members of the team to guide the episode.

    I've never watched one I didn't find really interesting and compelling, but I am a big football fan. They are seriously well crafted films though. Don't think this is just a collection of highlights because that's hardly it.

    The most recent one I've watched, which immediately became a favorite, was the 1988 San Fransico 49ers.

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    You and me, Josiah? Un-educational documentary watching buddies.

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Documentaries a.k.a movies that make you sad/disgusted/ashamed.

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Raneados wrote: »
    aren't snuff films mostly a huge hoax? other than just somone videotaping a killing, but to have an entire movie and people in it for the express purpose of really dying at the end

    if i remember right, it all boiled down to everybody saying that its all a hoax, aside from a few murderers videotaping their crimes

    except for one guy that used to buy porn films to release under a big production company. he talked about being blindfolded and led to a hotel room where some sketchy guys from taiwan showed him an actual film

    but take that story for what its worth

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Raneados wrote: »
    aren't snuff films mostly a huge hoax? other than just somone videotaping a killing, but to have an entire movie and people in it for the express purpose of really dying at the end

    Don't tell Sean Penn.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Raneados wrote: »
    aren't snuff films mostly a huge hoax? other than just somone videotaping a killing, but to have an entire movie and people in it for the express purpose of really dying at the end

    Don't tell Sean Penn.

    is sean penn a snuff film director?

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    seriously everyone watch We Live In Public and Dear Zachary

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Josiah_9 wrote: »
    I watched this recently is was entertaining, but I didn't really learn anything:

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    this keeps showing up on my Netflix recommendations

    ill have to give it a look

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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    ShimSham wrote: »
    These are sort of documentaries, I suppose, as much of a doc as some of the others which have been listed at least.

    nfl-america-s-game-40c78.jpg

    http://www.hulu.com/nfl/americas-game

    NFL Film's "America's Game" series. They've made one for every Superbowl championship team in league history and they're all (but the two most recent) available on Hulu for free watching.

    They're 45 minute episodes chronicling the entire season of each Championship team, and they interview three key members of the team to guide the episode.

    I've never watched one I didn't find really interesting and compelling, but I am a big football fan. They are seriously well crafted films though. Don't think this is just a collection of highlights because that's hardly it.

    The most recent one I've watched, which immediately became a favorite, was the 1988 San Fransico 49ers.
    watchin the bucs season asap

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Raneados wrote: »
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Raneados wrote: »
    aren't snuff films mostly a huge hoax? other than just somone videotaping a killing, but to have an entire movie and people in it for the express purpose of really dying at the end

    Don't tell Sean Penn.

    is sean penn a snuff film director?

    Sean Penn saw some weird Japanese movie of a woman getting hacked up by a guy in a samurai costume, thought it was real, and somehow used his Sean Penn powers to get the film maker arrested in Japan.

    Edit: Never mind, it was Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen powers.

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Raneados wrote: »
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Raneados wrote: »
    aren't snuff films mostly a huge hoax? other than just somone videotaping a killing, but to have an entire movie and people in it for the express purpose of really dying at the end

    Don't tell Sean Penn.

    is sean penn a snuff film director?

    Sean Penn saw some weird Japanese movie of a woman getting hacked up by a guy in a samurai costume, thought it was real, and somehow used his Sean Penn powers to get the film maker arrested in Japan.

    What the hell how

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Raneados wrote: »
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Raneados wrote: »
    aren't snuff films mostly a huge hoax? other than just somone videotaping a killing, but to have an entire movie and people in it for the express purpose of really dying at the end

    Don't tell Sean Penn.

    is sean penn a snuff film director?

    Sean Penn saw some weird Japanese movie of a woman getting hacked up by a guy in a samurai costume, thought it was real, and somehow used his Sean Penn powers to get the film maker arrested in Japan.

    Edit: Never mind, it was Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen powers.

    yes clearly charlie sheen is a bastion of truthfulness and dependability

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    the sites a bit slow but this is a link to a documentary about host bars in japan, where women come in and pay to spend time with some hunky dudes
    and the dudes get the chicks to fall in love with them and want to spend all their life savings and give up everything to be with them
    so they are all pretty fucked because the dudes are all dead on the inside and the women are desperate and hopeless
    it is called The Great Happiness Space - The Tale of an Osaka Love Thief

    http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjEzMjkxMjQw.html


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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I've been meaning to see that.

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Raneados wrote: »
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Raneados wrote: »
    Hobnail wrote: »
    Raneados wrote: »
    aren't snuff films mostly a huge hoax? other than just somone videotaping a killing, but to have an entire movie and people in it for the express purpose of really dying at the end

    Don't tell Sean Penn.

    is sean penn a snuff film director?

    Sean Penn saw some weird Japanese movie of a woman getting hacked up by a guy in a samurai costume, thought it was real, and somehow used his Sean Penn powers to get the film maker arrested in Japan.

    Edit: Never mind, it was Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen powers.

    yes clearly charlie sheen is a bastion of truthfulness and dependability

    i can totally see Charlie Sheen getting into snuff films though

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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Air wrote: »
    the sites a bit slow but this is a link to a documentary about host bars in japan, where women come in and pay to spend time with some hunky dudes
    and the dudes get the chicks to fall in love with them and want to spend all their life savings and give up everything to be with them
    so they are all pretty fucked because the dudes are all dead on the inside and the women are desperate and hopeless
    it is called The Great Happiness Space - The Tale of an Osaka Love Thief

    http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjEzMjkxMjQw.html


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    this was good

    those poor lonely ladies

    especially that one really lonely lady

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  • Ginger MijangoGinger Mijango Don't you open that Trap Door!Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZe1AeH0Qz8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoyKe-HxmFk

    Gasland was interesting, Into Eternity slightly less so.

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    CrackedLens wrote: »
    Mysst wrote: »
    my girlfriend, being from WV, made me watch the Whites

    and, man, that's a lotta drugs

    I've met Jesco a few times

    its.... interesting

    where in WV is your lady from?

    somewhere close to boone county. she felt very strongly about it and has been writing jessica(?) white who is back in jail

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