the book thread prompted this one..

I'm not one for dl-ing fiction pdfs and audiobooks, though I notice a lot of peeps at lans have enormous docco collections going back more than a generation.

what's your favourite docco(s) and why?


(given that we're legally allowed to link to 'some' plz do)

World at War - Narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier.
BBC History Series - WW1 and WW2


Why? Because I'm into history - military history, archaeology and modern history.

These two docos are close to the best on WW1 and WW2 and should encompass much of the footage used in the other WW2 docos.

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- bigger stronger faster : doco on steroids and the guy who's arms exploded
- planet earth blu-ray : could cream my pants to this blu-ray with all the pretty scenery
- Freestyle art of rhym : doco on freestyling's birth
- documentary MS13 - gangs in america
- Hitler and the Occult - talks about adolf hitler, crazy experiments, how nuts he was
- afghanistan: guns drugs and dirty money : how usa took over afghanistan for the heroin trade

heaps of different modern marvels.

farenheit 911 doco/comedy - i just love to laugh at michael moore.

Lions & Hyenas, enternal enemies
It's a Nat Geo doco and one of my all time favourites

Anything from the BBC's 'Walking With' series. I'm just nuts about evolution.

man on wire owns in that its just a doco about a crazy guy doin the craziest thing ever. good for people who dont give a s*** about gay science s***

Light hearted doco.

The King of Kong. Watched it assuming it was a mocumentary and kept assuming it was a moco, but it turns out its for real! Funny :) Think computer games player but.. paced like a rocky movie!

Pallywood: According to Palestinian sources

- bigger stronger faster : doco on steroids and the guy who's arms exploded

koopz, if you haven't seen this one, get on it. SBS play it every other week. You will be glued to the screen watching this s***.

i agree with sc00bs on the planet earth ... although i have the povo dvd version ;) as long as ya don't watch it as a s***ty divx rip it's good.

i recommend all the bbc documentaries by adam curtis -
the trap (what happened to our dream of freedom)
the century of self
the power of nightmares

i don't fully support all the views in these docos but they have ideas worth considering.

nef can tell you what mine is.

who killed the electric car?

jeez that was quick.

8mins!

well done old son.

fat bastard named some of my favorites but I also liked these

encounters at the end of the world - werner herzog
fog of war with mcnamara speaking about his experiences

oh no, you've got it wrong slaps

i was just naming my favourite doco

I like that quantam physics doco about string theory... 'an elegant universe' or something. It is highly interesting. Talks about what the universe is made of, how it may have come to be, what our universe actually is in the scope of where the universe is, the problems with classic physics and the search for the ultimate unified theory, other dimensions.... etc... I'm not sure there is a better doco about this sort of stuff than this.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377171/ <-- har

Oh and King of Kong, a documentary about Donkey Kong. When you watch it - imagine the bad guy is Ben Stiller and the good guy is Owen Wilson. Awesome.

cocaine cowboys is really f***ing interesting as well.

^ watched that the other day. Boy Oh Boy! What an eye opener.

I like that quantam physics doco about string theory... 'an elegant universe' or something. It is highly interesting.

I'm more or less an applied mathematician and this doco bored the f***ing bejesus out of me...

the king of kong

bah beaten

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Do you mean you found the topic uninteresting or how it was presented? I guess it's not the sort of doco that grips you on an emotional level or anything, and you already have to be interested in the topic... So it was win/win for me!

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Too many to mention really, but here's a few I've enjoyed recently.

* What Would Jesus Buy?


* The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream


* The King of Kong (just had a lot of fun watching this)


* No End In Sight


* The Universe Season 1/2

Dear Zachary is good - http://www.ausgamers.com/forums/general/thread.php/2700624

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152758/

and When the Levees Broke is good too

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783612/

Wolves of the sea its a Killer Whale doco f***en awesome

Jesus Camp
Comic Book Confidential
March of the Penguins
Crumb
Rize
King of Kong
Wordplay
Word Wars
Heckler
American Movie
The Show
Scratch
Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
Aileen: Like and Death of a Serial Killer

Oh, I forgot one doco I love - COSMOS with Dr Karl Sager.

Recent ones I have watched recently, that I enjoyed:

D Tour: A Tenacious Documentary

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

Gotta Dance

Grizzly man - Werner Herzog

I just got that after watching his antarctica doco, will watch it this week

Dear Zachary is good - http://www.ausgamers.com/forums/general/thread.php/2700624

that was f***ing excellent!

and yer, king of kong was surreally good;

The Corporation - really solid anti-corporation doco. The WW2 stuff is pretty badass, how Coke went and created Fanta so they could sell drinks to the nazi's without tarnishing their image. Also how IBM (USA) directly sold/serviced punchcard machines to the concentration camps and provided training to the operators at the concentration camps. Lots of interesting history about how "corporations" got their legal powers WAY back through a loophole that originally meant to give rights to the black slaves. Lots of crazy characters, like some stupid f***er that wants to privatize AIR and lots of bitches you want to c*** punch from marketing that have the most evil ways of viewing the world.

D'autres mondes / Other Worlds - French (get the subs version) doco about a guy that travels deep in the amazon to meet/live/TRIP with the shamans on ayahuasca (incredibly strong DMT brew). This filmaker gets his head absolutely turned inside out and goes through the most extreme transformation of conciousness while under the guide of the amazon shamans. Some of the footage you have to see to believe, these guys don't use psychedelics like the western world, the doses are out of this world and the rituals before/during/after the use of DMT are supposed to magnify the effects 100x. Doco is supported with lots of scenes/interviews with doctors/psychiatrists/psychologists/chemists etc.

This guy gets absolutely PWNED.

The King Of Kong
Who Killed The Electric Car
Enron - The Smartest Guys In The Room
Cocaine Cowboys
Crude - A Rude Awakening

We have a documentary on the Clitoris here at work that is fairly compelling viewing...

how deep does it delve into the subject, obes?

Apparently it's only part of the human body that has the sole purpose of pleasure.

I've not watched a lot of doccos but one I have which I thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend is "BUDS Class 234, which is like US Navy SEAL training stuff (entry level). It's pretty amazing to see how hardcore you have to be to get into the SEAL programme.

There's a bunch of it illegally uploaded to google video by the looks if you want a taste

Watching now trog, I love this stuff.

Badass highspeed tailgate exit at the start.

Some of my favourite docos are:

- The Victoria Cross (narrated by Jeremy Clarkson)
- David Attenborough's Life in Cold Blood
- David Attenborough's Planet Earth

Just to name a few...

"What the bleep do we know: Down the rabbit hole".

I thought the superstructures docos were pretty cool.

nats, that Pallywood one is such a perfect example of what's going on there. Too bad people are too blind to see it. Would love to see how quickly that gets buried on Digg :)

Yeh actually I saw that Enron docco about 18months ago. If you watch it now its almost prophetic.

also ...
1. Startupdotcom (about the dotcom boom/bust)
2. Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky

There should be some trailers on youtubez if you are interested.


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Pretty much anything by BBC and David Attenborough. I got the Planet Earth box set on BluRay, absolutely amazing.

so far these docos can be summed up into three categories
1. war
2. nature
3. anti-'the man'.

American Pimp. - Youtube Link.

It's full of awesome quotes like "I was told by the BIGGEST pimp of all... GAWD"

"What the bleep do we know: Down the rabbit hole".

cool ideas... some of it was a little bit too 'new wave hippy' for me, but overall has very cool ideas.

march of the penguins

mainly for morgan freemans dreamy voice

I thought the superstructures docos were pretty cool.

Oh yeh, I saw one of that epic suspension bridge they built in France - it was awesome. Definitely want to watch that again.

Fitna, on live leak since they had the balls to stand up it despite the death threats to their staff. The man who produced it is under constant guard. Along with his family they are shuffled between safe houses every couple of days. At the same time his government is prosecuting him for hate crimes.

Submission, by Theo van Gogh. He received death threats for making it, but wouldn't change the way he lived his life. He was stabbed to death and had his throat slit in broad day light as he road his bike along a city street.

It was written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is also under constant guard. She was a Dutch politician but they started action to strip her of her Dutch citizenship so she had to flee to America for a while. Her security detail is now paid for by donations.

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COSMOS with Dr Karl Sager.

Sure it's not Carl Sagan?

'The fog of war' is awesome

'The war room' follows the 1992 Clinton campaign and is more for specific tastes but I found it interesting

there were two i watched a long time ago.

big crocs taking wilderbeast from the banks

and killer whales surfing waves then taking seals from the shore.



bit like this one ^^

that s*** is badass

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Needs less s***ty voice over and crappy music.

bit >>>>LIKE<<<< this one ^^

Watched grizzly man last night ... god the guy was nuts! couldnt make it in the real world so decided to be a grizzly bear

Sure it's not Carl Sagan?

It sure is, Ta. s*** I'm getting forgetful in my old age. I'd forget my own head if it wasn't screwed on. I'd probably forget to attend my own funeral too.

• A Perfect Fake - about creepy japanese men and their dolls.


• The Great Happiness Space: Tales Of An Osaka Love Thief - about japanese male host bars that serve women (ends with a semi twist).

Did anyone catch The Rise & Fall of the Russian Oligarchs on ABC or SBS last night?

Add that to the must see list.

about creepy japanese men and their dolls.

I have one of those dolls (at the start of the vid, not the end, lol) - about 20cm tall (sitting) seductive looking anime type chick. My gf brought it back from China - it's a jap rip-off though clearly.

It's interesting, it gets mixed reactions. I personally like it - it just sits on my cupboard and does not much.

I don't think my gf's dad likes it much though, although he's never really said anything about it. My gf likes it, she likes anything that's sort of trinkety and fashionable though.

although he's never really said anything about it

Explains your feminine nickname and feminine pciture under your name then ...

although he's never really said anything about it

Explains your feminine nickname and feminine pciture under your name then ...

You missed the "gf's dad". The apostrophe is used here to signify ownership :-P

Not only is it a feminine nickname - it's my real-life nickname, hahaha. Nearly everyone knows me as Pinky. People I see on a weekly basis don't actually know my real name. I fought it at first but you know how it is, you try and fight and peeps try harder to use it, so in the end I just accepted it. Now I roll with it.

My Uncle Greg made a Doco for the ABC called Killers Of Eden
http://www.killersofeden.com/
Basically a Doco about this group of killer whales that used to help a family of whalers in Eden (Australia) hunt for Baleen Whales.

I quite liked Attenboroughs recent docos,

the blue planet
and
planet earth

more just incredible camera work then interesting facts.

also +1 for "the elegant universe."
there is lots more info on pbs.org under "nova"

The quest for cold I think it is, was fairly interesting. Is a doco about the quest of absolute zero.

I have one of those dolls (at the start of the vid, not the end, lol)

dammit! I thought I could finally say that I've met (even if it was e-meeting) a creepy doll guy. :P

got an old one I've been meaning to watch, Vietnam: the 10,000 day war. watched a good foreign correspondent report on the plight of the orangutan in SE Asia, showed the massive difference between old growth and palm oil plantations.. holy crap. also, the end of suburbia is a must see.