Currently converting from s***pond Frequent Drop-out ADSL2+ to Optus Cable and had some GB's to kill. So I went on a "free" documentary spree. I've been glued to the tv all weekend watching some real eye opening s***. My weekend has been 2 weeks long due to teh H1N1 and following secondary viral infections.

I wont give anything away, JUST WATCH!

Zeitgeist.Final.Edition.DVDRip.XviD
IOUSA (FULL VERSION)
Wake Up Call - New World Order Documentary - 2008 (DivX)
20090310_ObamaDeception

Others I watched but not as above

History.Channel.Ancient.Aliens.XviD.AC3.MVGroup.org (interesting)
Documentary GNU Linux The Codebreakers
Thrillbillies 2 Doublewide (good X Games style s*** if you can handle the odd Jackass CRAP!)

You should definitely check out "The Corporation" Zylox if you're into the anti-establishment type doco's.

Extremely well done and entertaining, not conspiracy but rather a good look at how s***ty some of the larger corporations have been.

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Best advice is to never watch docos about marijuana unless they are purely taking the piss (eg. Super high me) because they are all retarded (both sides of the argument)

Best docos ive recently seen:

f*** (2005) - about the best word used in language today. Where I discovered the greatest quote ever: "Ford's economics are the worst thing that's happened to this country since pantyhose ruined finger-f***ing." Lyndon B. Johnson

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara - Extra relevant since the guy just died in the last month or two, interesting insight into a pretty big period of history.

A case for UFOs :D
There is a BBC series on time (4 parts) that is pretty interesting.
Geological series called 'how the earth is made'.

A brief history of disbelief & the more expansive 'the athiesm tapes'.
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I didn't really get in to IOUSA. It got the message across that the US is a big bag of fail atm, but the doco itself was quite slow.

I watched one called Beer Wars the other day which was alright...

'The Ascent of Money' which was on the ABC just recently.

Holy Faceman doccos Zylox.

I'd recommend anyone watching The Zeitgeist go and do a little reading about it and his sources (he quotes a lot of sources but mostly he only takes his 'information' from one book by a crackpot). I mean it has a couple of small redeeming features and if it makes people research them self and question things it's good but I'm sure the majority of people who watch it just soak it all up and think it's all fact.

A good religious themed docco I watched a while back was The Gospel of Judas.

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This is an awesome standup/docco type thing. It's done by a standup guy, presented very well. Robert Newman's history of Oil. He talks about how war has changed in the media, how the first world war should be taught as being begun by an invasion on Iraq etc etc. Top watch, recommend it to everyone!

It's kind of dated now but god damn it's awesome. You can learn and lol at the same time.

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Britain AD is pretty good on ABC iView. It's all about Britain after the Romans left in 600AD.

Britain AD is pretty good on ABC iView. It's all about Britain after the Romans left in 600AD.

Ooo, I just remembered a kind of movie/docco I downloaded recently. It's called 1066: The battle for middle earth. It's a two part job, first part is about the Vikings invading England, second is about the Normans coming to invade directly after they beat the Vikings out.

Yeah I have no interest in watching Zeitgeist (what a stupid name it sounds like "site guide" like a yellowpages for websites), read about what it was, and while it covers topics I think about a lot, I really don't care what one particular idiot's premature opinion is, except mine. I am more knowledgeable and insightful on these topics than anybody I know as evidence by morons I meet at parties. Even nuts who are fully into conspiracies have a lolable level of thought compared to me.

Sometimes I think I've found someone with a bit of intelligence and something interesting to say, and then they go and say some s*** about the zionists, jfk's assasination, or the moon landing and leave me bitterly dissapointed.



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Another vote for The Fog of War, maybe the best political documentary I have ever seen.

For the subject of peak oil I recommend The End of Suburbia (American-centric, but very good).

I love the new ways people come up with to promote Zeitgeist.

BBC's Iran and the West, f***ing amazing documentry

Most compelling of all was the tale of the hostage taking and America’s efforts, both military and diplomatic, to get them back, with Jimmy Carter relating the bulk of the tale here. The hostages’ 15-month incarceration destroyed Carter’s presidency. He still hoped, in his remaining couple of months after Reagan had been elected, to secure their release. They were indeed all sitting in an aeroplane on Tehran airport’s runway while Reagan was being inaugurated. But not until five minutes after Carter was no longer president was he told they were free. Iran had permanently humiliated a US leader. An action that, as the narration pointed out, was part of a "pattern of intransigence that continues to this day – and still bamboozles the West."

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what was the name of the docco that featured the chap who made that office game 'f*** you buddy' years ago?

I recall watching it late one night, but lost it in a hdd failure before I could finish seeing all of it

Another vote for The Fog of War, maybe the best political documentary I have ever seen.

Same here. For those (most) of us that weren't around at the time it's a more than interesting lesson in WWII and cold war thinking from one side (but is also applied to a broader context).

check out:

Enron - The smartest guys in the room
Money Masters ....oldie but a goodie, and very relevant to today's economic crisis
The Century of Self (BBC)
Jesus Camp

Bill Maher - Religulous

Okay, having taken a look at what I have I will add these to this thread:

The King of Kong - A Fistful of Quarters (about pro oldschool video gaming, awesome fun :) )

King Korn (about the stupidly inefficient subsidised corn sector in the USA)

Trinity and Beyond (nuclear weapons development)

Planet Earth (is cool but isn't specific enough to be a documentary.)