^ Had a quick look at these and they seem really interesting. Will definitely watch them when I have some spare time.

Some more good art ones are The Private Life of a Masterpiece series by the BBC.

The list of pieces they go into detail on is here.

Watching them certainly gave me much greater insight as to why certain bits of art are seen as important masterpieces.

I think most of the episodes can be found on Youtube. This is one on Goya's The Third of May 1808.

documentary about james hydrick who had a bit of fame in the early 80s as a trickster. hes been in jail/mental hospitals since 1989 now according to Wikipedia for molesting children

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30o7_iy-O1g

Getting ready to sail from Port Isabel TX to Playa Del Carmen Mx, been watching a lot of sailing related things and don't think this was previously posted.

A 2012 recreation of Thor Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki voyage.

Just watched "Shut Up Little Man", as someone trying to get past 15 years of alcoholism it was very moving. The window into Peter & Raymond's lives strengthens my resolve to be done with that lifestyle, I found the attempts to make movies and plays based upon the recordings a bit bizarre and it's no wonder they failed, no substitute for the real McCoy.

Summary of documentaries I've watched so far this year. The first 10 or so are in about the order I enjoyed them, after that it's a bit dicey. Majority of them are covered somewhere in the thread, but I added a few words about each.

Year Title
2014 The Internet's Own Boy - Aaron Swartz
2014 DivorceCorp - Divorce and the legal system
2013 The Short Game - Children's golf
2013 We Cause Scenes - Improv Everywhere
2014 Tim's Vermeer - figuring out to recreate Vermeer's photorealistic painting style
2012 Indie Game the Movie - Indie Games
2013 Particle Fever - Large Hadron Collider, search for higgs-boson
2012 Knuckleball! - Knuckleball pitchers
2013 I know that Voice - voiceover actors
2014 Harmontown - Dan Harmon's (creator of community) podcast tour
1994 Hoop Dreams - 2 young baskbetball players
2014 Maidentrip - Adventures of youngest girl to sail around the world
2014 A Brony Tale - My little pony enthusiasts
2013 Spark: A Burning Man Story - A Burning Man experience for a few people
2011 The Elephant in the Living Room - exotic pets
2014 Jodorowsky's Dune - an attempted production of Dune that was way ahead of its time; super expensive and failed
2010 El Bulli: Cooking in Progress - creative process and execution of possibly the best restaurant to ever exist
2012 The Summit - rock climbing, deadliest day on a mountain
2010 Senna - About the driver
2008 The Sharp End - rock climbing
2006 First Ascent - rock climbing, being first to conquer a route
2014 Plastic Paradise - great pacific garbage patch
2014 Manhunt: Search for Osama Bin Laden - as it sounds
2014 The Unknown Known - Donald Rumsfeld,
2014 Battle Company Korengal - followup to Restrepo
2003 Touching the Void - rock climbing, severe experience
2010 Waste Land - repurposing garbage for art
2012 Call me Kuchu - LGBTQ activist in Uganda
2014 God Loves Uganda - similar to above
2014 Generation Iron - followup to pumping iron, today's era
2013 Oxyana - oxy addiction in a certain town
2014 The Culture High - marijuana industry
2014 Fed Up - obesity, processed sugar
2013 Narco Cultura - mexican drug war
2013 Is the Man who is Tall Happy - chat with Noam chomsky
2013 12 O'Clock Boys - kids in baltimore who ride dirt bikes in baltimore
2007 Helvetica - fonts
1970 Gimme Shelter - rolling stones concert

nice list, I've only seen 6 of those

Bob And The Monster



The life story of Bob Forrest, lead singer of the punk band Thelonius Monster, and recovering heroin addict. To me, I had only known him as the old dude in the floppy hat from Celebrity Rehab on VH1. Cool story imo.

8/10

Statin Nation

Statins are one of the most widely prescribed drugs in the world, despite the science showing they do almost nothing, especially for people who have not yet had a cardiac event or have been diagnosed with heart disease. There's also severe side effects of muscle pain and memory loss that are very common. The use of statins is all based on the false assumption that cholesterol is evil, when in fact it's one of the most important nutrients in the human body. Lowering cholesterol through statins also cuts off the supply of other important nutrients such as CoQ10.

Overall this was not nearly as informative as some of the better books about cholesterol, but it was a reasonably well made doc.

7/10

Battle Company Korengal

Basically the same as Restrepo. I had trouble wrapping my head around how these guys find it so exhilarating to get shot at and it's all they look forward to. The rest of their time is spent doing nothing and going bat**** insane sitting around the base.

9/10

Running From Crazy

In which Mariel Hemingway (grand-daughter of Ernest) talks about how ****ed up her family is. Alcoholism, mental illness, suicides, sexual abuse, etc.

7/10

Oxyana

omg this is the most depressing thing I've ever seen. I've been listening to Dr. Drew say on his podcasts that almost no one dies from illegal drugs anymore, addicts all die from prescription pills now. I never really believed it until I saw this.

9/10

Farmageddon

Farmers telling stories about getting raided by armed federal agents because they were selling raw milk. It's basically a doc about how small farmers are getting ****ed up the ass by the US government.

9/10

Tear jerker depressing or sick to your stomach depressing? I'm thinking of watching it, but would prefer the latter.

more of a tear jerker, but it's not as if the filmmakers were trying to be emotionally manipulative. It's depressing because it's so real.

I caught this while flipping channels in a hotel room a couple of days ago: The Day Israel Attacked America

A pretty amazing incident, that I think very few Americans actually know about.

Cool. Thanks.

just watched Oxycana. it is definitely a somber existence these poor people live in and the reality is that Oceana is just one of hundreds of rural areas just like it. ironically, that is quite the sobering thought.

Hour long BBC piece on piracy in W. Africa, Nigeria's notoriously corrupt Government has struggled to properly address the problem for decades.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02bbxb2

can't remember if i saw this in here originally, but i think it was on reddit. it's 12 mins long and is about a guy taking 5 years to make and blog all the dishes in the alinea cookbook. nicely shot and a good little watch.

Trailer just released for a documentary I recorded some VO for. By that I mean I recorded Edward James Olmos doing the VO, not me actually doing the VO.

I just watched and I agree with all of this.

yeti: that was a fun quick watch. i really liked his message at the end.

OK WTF, I don't know whether to admire this guy or think hes a ****ing idiot.

Admire him. There's no one in the world as good at something as he is at rock climbing.

Capturing the Friedmans. (2003)
Rather fascinating documentary told substantially through home videos of the Friedman family, of which the father & son were arrested for sexual molestation charges. Surprisingly ambiguous, it leaves the viewer to decide.

The Corporation (2003)
Corporations have the same rights as people in the 21st century. The documentarians decide to give them the hare psychopathy checklist to see how similar they are. At 2.30 hours it's a bit butt numbing and could have been leaner but still quite decent.

The Last Nazis (2009), three parts.
Another compelling series of documentaries in which the last remaining caught nazi war criminals are interviewed, when well into their 90s.

No No: A Dockumentary - About Dock Ellis, the guy who pitched a no hitter on acid. Not bad, interesting to see the level of drug use in baseball during the 70's

Drug Lord: The legend of Shorty - Worth a watch for sure. I like anything to do with drugs and gangsters so I probably rate it a little higher. Just too bad they didn't get more into their conspiracy theories about how the cartels, mexican govt and us govt are all working together.

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films - A fun one for sure but I think a little too long. Bonus points for lots of boobies!