Knuckleball! I think has been discussed, but is about mainly Tim Wakefield and R.A. Dickey, but knuckleballers in general. Well made, well covered, interesting, I liked it.

The Elephant in the Living Room is about the world of exotic pets. It tells a full story with okay production, and interesting characters and subject. It was pretty eye opening and I definitely enjoyed it.

Really looking forward to the "Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger" documentary the first trailer was released this week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPg2wXigvQ

Living in the UK hadn't heard of this guy before so looked up his wiki page which I found to be a very interesting read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Bulger

Also found an interview with the producer of the documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54ubzlAGEog

Probably not technically a documentary, but still an interesting 80s series on a young Marco Pierre White cooking for his teachers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfbbY30vyL0

Carts Of Darkness. It's about, as someone so perfectly commented, "The best insight into the lives of shopping cart racing homeless men there is to watch!"

the trailer:



the film:

"Can't live on fresh air and good looks. I could get a damn job tomorrow if I wanted, but ya don't show up for 2 days cause you go on a bender with some blond and the next thing ya know you're fired!!" lol

I saw this a while ago and loved it, also this:



MPW is such a boss. I can't remember which clip it is in, but a young Gordon Ramsay is in it looking extremely scared.

Have we talked about how the director of Searching for Sugarman killed himself recently? I have no proof, but my honest take is that he figured he could never make a movie that good again. I had seen him interview about how he considered the success of the movie to be tremendous pressure, and how the subject matter was so unbelievable that he wasn't sure how he'd find another movie to do after it. I think he was also naturally depressed, obviously.

Yeh really bad depression. I actually just got back from holiday in Cape Town, and dropped in at Mabu Vinyl a few days ago.

As Louis Theroux gets quite a few mentions in this thread, I saw this picture recently.

Need some mind blowing docs, seen most of the ones talked about in here.
Any suggestions?

Craigslist joe

Had to QFT -- I plugged Elephant earlier in this thread and I can't say enough good things about it.

I loved Knuckleball too. I picked up Dickey at the beginning of his incredible breakout season in fantasy baseball, so it was cool to see what he went through to get where he is.

I'm looking forward to this. If it's done well it should be really interesting, even if you've never played Eve.

Saw and enjoyed Tim's Vermeer. It's about this guy figuring out/theorizing how this painter (Johannes Vermeer) achieved such photorealistic paintings in the 1600s. I thought it was pretty interesting, but probably would've been better off as a short doc.

Watched Is the Man who is Tall Happy, probably would've been better if I were on psychedelic drugs of some kind. It's about a conversation with Noam Chomsky (by a thickly accented frenchman). It was interestingly crafted, but overall thought it was meh. Admittedly I was only sort of passively watching it while practicing guitar though.

I just saw this list on reddit and had only seen The Bridge out of them. To be honest, reading the descriptions, I'm not really in the right mindset to watch any of the other at the moment, but they may be of interest to others.

10 most disturbing documentaries
1. Child of Rage
A documentary about a young girl who was sexually abused when she was a year old. She has a desire to murder her entire family and carries out numerous disturbing tasks. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2-Re_Fl_L4

2. The Scariest Drug in the World
Scopolamine is a drug that when taken keeps a person coherent but makes them open to follow commands. It’s been used to make people steal, as a rape drug and a way to humiliate people. It’s known as a “chemical hypnosis”. This film documents people’s experience with it. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQ8PWYnu04

3. Demonic Possession and Exorcism
Self-explanatory. The footage you are about to witness contains highly disturbing material. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAzHL6hGkL8

4. An Interview with a Cannibal
An interview with a man named, Issei Sagawa who committed a pretty horrific crime. He butchered and raped a young Dutch women because he wanted to absorb her “energy”. He spent 3 days consuming her flesh. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BosZxa1bYcE

5. The Bridge
A film on the Golden Gate Bridge, which captures the number of suicides. Many describe it as a powerful documentary, that leaves a lasting impression. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhARXu3wWDc

6. High on Crack Street
Shows just how badly crack ruins lives. A great portrayal of the harsh, dark side of drugs. Link: http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title...ives_in_lowell

7. Aokigahara/Suicide Forest
A geologist walks through the forest and shows us what he sees. Definitly contains some depressing material. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FDSdg09df8

8. Atomic Wounds
The effect of a nuclear weapon on a mass number of people. It’s disheartening, it’s horrifying, but it’s reality. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EOeRb-ddqc

9. Just Melvin, Just Evil
A documentary about a tormented family who suffered from sexual abuse and substance abuse because of one man. It leaves you wondering how can one man be so destructive? Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY4eHaiVK9s

10. Earthlings
One of the most intense documentaries made about animal abuse. Footage contains graphic material. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRspwfKHmI

Enjoy!

isn't # 2, scopolamine a motion sickness drug?

I watched Somm, Armstrong Lie, and Art of Killing on the plane to China last week. Did not like Art of Killing, really liked Somm and Armstrong Lie.

Yeah, I wasn't as high on TAOK as most. Somm rules.

How can you watch so many horrible documentaries.

Here's a happy one: Jodorowsky's Dune

Scariest drug in the world surely has to be krokodil. http://www.vice.com/vice-news/siberi...rs-full-length

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The Bridge was excellent and well worth watching. Sad, but really well done imo.

Earthlings is exactly what you think it's gonna be.

Haven't seen Child Of Rage or Just Melvin, I'll put those on my list.

El Bulli: Cooking In Progress

Just watched two fantastic documentaries on netflix:

1) Which Way is the Front Line: The Life and Times of Tim Hetherington
- about the career of one of the men behind Restrepo. A fascinating meditation on war and journalism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PYjh8Ue7IA

2) Gideon's army
- about the role of public defenders in the USA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcMyoqzxSbA

I highly recommend both.

Did your version have subtitles?

Genie: Secret of the Wild Child

This is an Emmy Award-winning documentary about a girl who spent her early life chained in a bedroom. Brought up in confinement, "Genie" was primitive, brutish, and hardly capable of walking or talking. NOVA follows the contentious attempts to unbolt the secret of the wild child who has reached near maturity in an agonizing seclusion with almost no human contact.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/genie-secret-wild-child/

Annoying lack of payoff in the scopolamine doc, I was hoping for some footage of people actually on it or a more in-depth explanation of how the drug actually works. Nit points for a half hour doco of course but I wanted more.

Seconded. Absolutely fascinating if you are a scifi fan.