To add to the North Korea list, National Geographic: Inside North Korea (2006) is pretty interesting. It's also available on Netflix instant.

“Slasher” fol lows a used car sales man who is called in to a dealership in emergen*cy situ ations—he can move cars. He comes into town with an assistant sales man and a DJ, and, in a week, slashes prices uses his mile-a-minutes sales drives to try to move merchandise. Definitely an interesting guy...addicted to both his family and alcohol. Also a rather sobering snapshot of capitalism in an area of Memphis where crowds turn up in hopes of getting an $88 car.

I lived in Lowell, MA for three years and I just saw "The Fighter" with Mark Walberg which debuted in theater's last night. It is about two brothers from Lowell who became successful boxers. The older brother fell into a crack addiction while his brother was up and coming in the boxing world. The 1993 documentary "High on Crack Street" (HBO) mentioned in "The Fighter" documented Dick Ward's cocaine addiction. Its pretty messed up you can find it on youtube.

Correction it was made in 1995 and it used to be on youtube, they took it off so that the masses wouldn't see how ****ed up a life Dickey was leading.

I just saw a doc yesterday about North Korea called Kimjongilia. It's a series of interviews with people who were held in prison/work camps and escaped. The only weird thing about the film is that they kept cutting away while someone was talking to show some random woman doing this lame interpretive dance.

I also watched Kings of Pastry. It follows one of my instructors from pastry school as he tries to become an MOF in France in the field of pastry. An MOF is basically a government certified badass of a certain profession. To get the award they have to make all kinds of pastries for 3 straight days and the judges are super tough. One of the requirements is making a sugar showpiece, so there's the inevitable idiotic drama of someone making a huge elaborate sugar sculpture and then watch in agony as it shatters into a million pieces. The chef from my school is kind of a douche irl, but it was an interesting doc nonetheless.

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title...ves_in_lowell/

Found it here.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/196879/fat...-and-Biography

Fat Head

A guy loses a few pounds in a month by eating nothing but fast food, while elaborating on why Morgan Spurlock is a liar and all around ******. Highly recomended for anyone who saw Supersize Me or is interested in human nutrition.

as someone who knows very little about nutrition this was pretty crazy. great watch, thanks for the recommendation.

I just watched fat head. The narrator's voice got on my nerves. Both this guy and Morgan Spurlock's POVs regarding fastfood seem to be too far from the middle of the road. Both documentaries set out with very extreme objectives. It feels like they're trying to lead the audience too much. I mean, of course fast food is bad for you, and should be taken in moderation, but that doesn't justify eating it for 30 days to make you unhealthy, or eat it for 30 days to lose a bunch of weight. Sorry about the rant, it just feels like these documentaries are super condescending/patronizing to the audience. A lot of people are dumb enough that their decision making should be revoked, but that's certainly not everyone.

I'm about to watch that myself.

+ 1 mirrion. Amazing film which really makes you wonder.

Ultimately, the vast majority of documentaries are still entertainment first and information 2nd. Of course neither was going to be from a perfectly balanced perspective. Both docs used the same stunt to try to prove a point, and to entertain the audience.

Are you really expecting to see a film where they just have super serious interviews with 1000 different doctors and nutritionists, and nothing else? That would probably be very balanced and informative, but about 90% of the audience would fall asleep. These are movies, not PBS specials.

SSM definitely played up the "you're too stupid to make your own decisions" angle. I don't feel like Fat Head was condescending to the viewer. It was condescending in a mocking way towards SSM.

Charlie Rose is tha sht!

All I know is how crappy I feel after just one fast food meal now that I'm not used to it anymore. I don't need a documentary to tell me there's something not good in there vs. a healthy home-cooked meal.

Uh yeah, no one does. I don't think you get it.

nutrients are underrated

nice .gif btw

I don't expect my documentaries to be an episode of NOVA or something, but a more middle of the road presentation couldn't hurt. Also, what I meant with the condescension comment was that it felt like SSM was saying "Hey viewer, you're too dumb to not know this is bad for you, so listen only to me and disregard all other information" and fat head was like "hey viewer, you're too dumb to know that SSM presented skewed info, so listen only to me and disregard all other information" I might be a little sensitive to being talked down to though... idk.

Fat Head was great imo. At least in that it shed some light on other possible causes for weight gain, diabetes and heart disease. Definitely worth a look.

9/10

Blood Into Wine is awesome. Maynard James Keenan is also a winemaker. Not at all what I was expecting.

I watched BBC's Ancient Worlds series http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1777715/ and then The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey Wiki. Very fascinating combo actually. Take the journey all the way back as far as our history takes us to the land of our ancient ancestors and the first civilizations. Then, take a DNA guided tour all across the globe to find present day relatives of the first people to migrate out of Africa. Later, populating the entire globe.

I'm watching The Incredible Human Journey series now.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397256/

I watched the last three-quarters of "Good Hair" - Chris Rock on the politics of Black hair care, followed by the last three-quarters of "Babies" - following 4 babies from birth to age 1 from Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo the other night. Both were good. Feeling that both were good made me feel super old and boring. I encourage you all to watch them and also say they were good to make me feel slightly less old and boring.

Explain "it" to me then.

Recently saw "The Union" and thought it was really interesting.

The Incredible Human Journey series
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397256/

Every KKK member should be mailed a VHS copy of this.

Watched Exit Through The Gift Shop(Netflix instant) and Every Fu**ing Day Of My Life(HBO On Demand) today. Exit was a very cool look at a world most people don't think too much about. Really liked it. Banksy is sick talented and seems like a cool dude. I'd love to get a beer with him.

Every F' Day was a doc about a battered woman who, along with her young son, killed her husband. It tells her story in the 4 days leading up to her incarceration. Really enjoyed this too. Her husband was a waste of life. Def. rec both.