Not sure about channels, but if you haven't seen it, The Cannibal Cop is on YT. Def some mindblowness in that one. Also there's a bunch of docs on serial killers and stuff.

Barkley marathons (available on Netflix) was pretty great imo. Fun, quirky, nice narrative. It's about an obscure race in Tennessee. Wouldn't read too much about it ahead of time.

Yeah, I'd always been interesting in the Barkley and happened upon that doc a few weeks ago. Just a fun film, and they happened to pick a compelling year to film as well.

No Netflix here sadly, but sounded good. Any other recommendations similar? My old man has just got back into running in a big way, and I'd like to watch some running inspiration/scare stories with him.

Poignant documentary by Michael Palin on the last day of WWI.



Anything on WWI blows my mind (I had a big post wrote out, but managed to delete it).

I just recently watched the cannibal cop, it was very well done and posed some interesting questions.



I would definitely recommend.

I am trying to find an online copy of The Seven Five

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBB7DolmQPY

Yep, Cannibal cop was pretty good, especially as a law student in NYC.

Let me know if you find The Seven Five. It's been on my list too. I have the Central Park 5 queued up next.

Can anyone recommend some hospital documentaries? Recently watched Code Black on Netflix, There was also a BBC one recommended in here a while ago which was great.

You might like this one if you haven't seen it yet:

The doc on Nina Simone by Netflix is very good.

Freakin love Nina and would love to see this - what is it called?

What Happened, Miss Simone?

Actually among the latest Oscar nominees. Just so well done all around imo.

We were watching a Daft Punk doc right before and it outlined nicely what works and what doesn't. While I appreciate their act, I don't need any glimpsing hope of enjoying a Daft Punk track interrupted by some hyping douchebag music journalist - constantly - who adds very little, actually. That documentary felt too much like a music biz circlejerk for my liking. Still alright to watch though.

Ty, will give it a watch.

New Louis Theroux documentary titled "Drinking to Oblivion" just came out. Very good, as expected. Those in the UK can stream it on the BBC website. The rest of us sorry folks will have to track it down elsewhere.

Just watched this fascinating short documentary on bees. Turns out most bees don't live in hives, but just chill by themselves.



It's only 17min, and very well done. If you like Attenbourgh kind of stuff it's well worth a watch.

Thank you/**** you. I may never drink alcohol again.

Louis is so goddamn good at what he does.

Thanks for the tip, just watched it.

I was completely baffled by this doc. Not once was there any mention of any kind of structured recovery program. Apparently people just stay in the hospital until they're physically stabilized and then shoved out on the street and expected to cure their addictions with "will power" or some nonsense. This is like putting a band aid on a gunshot wound. I thought the UK had a wonderful health care system where everything is free. I can't understand how they would expect people to recover from any kind of addiction without structured recovery. Detox and recovery are totally different things. I would bet every dollar I have on all of those people relapsing within the next 6 months.

In my experience, they'll meet with a member of the alcohol team, who'll contact their GP, and arrange an appointment with an alcohol specialist - doctor/psychiatrist/support worker, who will try to figure out some kind of program for you.

I'm sure this differs from place to place, but they do try to help. Sadly, as great as the NHS is, stuff like this can take a long time, and include long waits. Also, again in my experience, a lot of these specialist units have been hit hard by recent cuts, I assume as they are 'non essential'.

I totally agree on these points, I think they have a very softly softly approach where they think that telling the people not to drink will suddenly change them.

This documentary also comes at an odd time in my life in that it was around this time 2 years ago i decided to quit alcohol cold turkey, just decided it wasn't for me anymore.

I could have been like one of the guys in Drinking to oblivion, I started drinking around 13 and used to go drinking with friends every weekend socially but then as I got older going drinking meant going missing for 3 days.
Physically I started to feel sick after just having a couple of beers so it was concerning, then outta nowhere I get quite ill and have to go to hospital where I spend nearly two weeks getting my stomach checked out.

Everything was fine but that sold me, I was never drinking again. 2 years without a beer / drink

Zen Mind

This is kind of an intro to zen philosophy and a look at the daily life of zen monks in Japan. I'm not sure where it can be watched legally.

Great documentary for the German-speaking folks itt. If there are any.

http://www.bpb.de/225092

"Master Of The Universe" by Bauder.

This documentary was great but it was almost nauseating to watch. Drinking yourself to death is a terrible way to go out.

Is there a way to watch it for non-Brits?

Vpn bbc iplayer

Any good cartel docs besides Cartel Land (which was vg imo) ?