The Documentary Thread

Imgur album of 35 good docs currently available to stream from Netflix, with shorts synopsis of each.

Netflix US Documentary Suggestions - Imgur

i saw this tonight, its pretty awesome

yeah Schooled was really well done, highly recommend.

Watched "Food, Inc." on Netflix. Made me pretty much hate myself and all the food I eat.

Salinger (2013) - IMDb

Watched this a couple of days ago. Some of it is really interesting, particularly the parts about his unpublished stuff. I thought some of it was kind of weird and cheesy, and the people who make pilgrimages to his house are fucking weird.

This looks pretty good, I usually enjoy music docs. Probably will watch it soon, its on torrents now fyi.

First trailer for Jodorowskys Dune | Den of Geek

Jodorowsky's Dune

Documentary about one of the early attempts to bring Dune to the screen. Both the documentary and that what might have been Dune look pretty awesome.

Adebisi_sl said:

Overnight (2003) - TagTélé

Documentary confirming what I already believed:

1. Boondock Saints is a shitty movie
2. The director/writer of Boondock Saints must be some kind of tasteless jock retard.

Seriously. Troy Duffy is a bad investment, and a straight up terrible person who believed his own hype.

At least Kanye waited til he released some hit albums before he called himself Jesus.

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So I just read up on this guy. Is he really working on a Boondock Saints 3? 2 might be one of the worst movies I've ever sat through. Seriously, it's fucking awful.

This is VERY NSFW... but very interesting. I'm only a few hours from this place... I'm thinking, weekend trip?Docunography (documentary of prostitution in Tijuana, Mexico). - XVIDEOS.COM.

Little gallery someone made suggesting a few easier to get in to docs.

Documentaries for the Uninclined - Imgur

Xarpolis_sl said:

There's a new documentary out there called "The Act of Killing".
Director Ti West (the Innkeepers) was talking about it on Opie & Anthony yesterday.
It's supposed to be very emotionally powerful.
Rotten Tomatoes has it at 97%.

It's a story about murder in Indonesia, where over 1 million Chinese people were killed for being Communists.
They even had some of the real soldiers acting out what they would do to the Chinese people they were killing.

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Watched this on Netflix last night and it was pretty incredible. It basically follows one guy and his partner as they talk to a lot of the people who were involved with them in the Communist executions in Indonesia back in the 60's. Goes through all the corruption, intimidation, and propaganda involved by the gangsters, politicians, newspapers, and military/police. The premise is these guys (the executioners) are setting out to create a movie recreating some of the atrocities they committed. There's a stark contrast between the two main executioners; Anwar (main dude), starts to realize how fucked up what he did was and how terrible the torture was when he acts as the person being tortured in a few scenes. The other guy, Adi, shows no remorse and justifies it in his mind because he was doing what his country needed. Both of them acknowledge that they were the real bad guys, not the communists. In one scene they talk to the head publisher for the newspaper who is a national icon, and he openly talks about directing the executioners whom to kill and altering what hostages said to make them look like the communists were the bad guys.

Movie was crazy from start to finish, and I definitely recommend it. Watching documentaries like this and just thinking about all the chaos and corruption in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, South America, and Russia helps me realize just how insulated we are from most of the rest of the world. Outside of Europe, Australia, U.S, and Japan, the world can be pretty fucked up.

this is the documentary putin tried to bribe the makers not to show.
its about the corruption and fuckery behind the winter olympics.