Whats the last great documentary you saw?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2119463/

All archival footage, very good film.

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I'm going to go with... Indie Game: The Movie... mostly because that was the only documentary I ever saw.
I'm such an uncultured person.

My most recent was a week ago, "Particle Fever", a fascinating look (believe it or not) at the Large Hadron Collider, the largest machine ever built (17 miles in diameter). It has been under construction for longer than the great pyramid and the Web, as we know it, was invented in order to facilitate communications between researchers in this project. This gadget has enough post-doc physicists to populate a medium sized town and is intended to accelerate sub-atomic particles to within a hair's breadth of light speed and then collide them, in order produce the elusive Higgs Boson, sometimes referred to as the God Particle. This particle supposedly informs physicists on the nature of the universe. What's surprising about this flick is that you can actually understand why all this matters and why these people are doing this. I really enjoyed it, as did the theater full of Hopkins physicists and astronomers who were also there. I actually would give it a "two thumbs up", even for civilians.

Murder on a Sunday Morning - Jean-Xavier de Lestrade

I've seen this before, but it gets me every time. Thank god those defense attorneys never gave up. It also shines a spotlight on some of the faulty techniques still being used in a crime investigation. Witness identification has proven to be spotty at best. Not that it can't still be helpful, but it's nothing you can hang your hat, gloves and coat on. If the methods you are employing to get a confession also produces false confessions then the method is broken. This isn't the first case where this has happened, not even close.

The last documentary-ish film I saw was Zeitgeist. It lays down conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory on religion, 9/11, and the US economy. Anyway, I found it super interesting even though I realized it has an extremely clear agenda (which most documentaries have nowadays anyway).


The one I saw before that was Brooklyn Castle. It's a very uplifting documentary about the chess program at a Brooklyn public school. I love documentaries like these, that leave me wanting to google all of the subjects to find out what happened to them since the documentary. I haven't done this since I watched Born into Brothels.

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The Central Park 5.

Shocking but brilliant. Injustice at it's worst. Thoroughly recommend it.

Senna and it is probs one of the best Ive seen. Got the interested education of any good doc but plays out like a fast paced rivalry!

Even though it's a Frontline series I figured I'd share it here. Interesting and worth watching, what's to be expected from Frontline. Watch for free here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...es-of-secrets/

see this three weeks ago ! great documentary about shark killing !

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I know everyone else had already seen it, but I only saw it yesterday.


Beautiful, touching, heartwarming, inspiring, brilliant.

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It's pretty raw and, somehow, remains actual.

Never really been into documentaries as a rule...I can count the number of documentaries that I have watched from beginning to end on one hand. But because the subject matter has always been fascinating to me, I really enjoyed Marilyn: The Final Days...narrated by James Coburn, the film documents Marilyn's work on her final film project Something's Got to Give. The film chronicles the film's troubled production schedule and there is plenty of rarely seen footage of Marilyn, including several outtakes of a scene with Dean Martin where she keeps messing up her line. The most interesting part of the documentary was the end where the filmmakers spliced together all of the available footage from Something's Got to Give and ran it like a movie to give the viewer an idea of what the film might have looked like if it had actually come to fruition and I think the film would have been something really special. This documentary is a must for all Marilyn fans.

You might like this, Gideon.

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The Act of Killing (will never watch THAT again, ever. )
We Steal Secrets ( AMAZING)
PAGEANT (Hugely entertaining, about a drag queen competition. The one I wanted to win didn't deserve it though. )

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Blackfish

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Jodorowsky's Dune

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/



Must see for all film fans. Maybe even pair it up with Lost in La Mancha, could make for a great double bill.

And yeah, big poster for big ambitions and because it kicks ass.