Whats the last great documentary you saw?

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Gotta go with Sicko, please recommendations?
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One Day in September (1999 Documentary)
The Palestinian terrorist group Black September holds Israeli athletes hostage at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.



We've gone on holiday by mistake
Touching the Void

Pumping Iron

When We Were Kings

Senna

Seen all these recently. Highly recommend Senna.



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agreed, and will add Casino Jack and the United States of Money.



not to be confused with the dramatised kevin spacey vehicle that was terrible.
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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
The Thin Blue Line
Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster
When We Were Kings
Hearts Of Darkness
Hoop Dreams
Pretty much anything from Nick Broomfield

Some documentary series.
David Attenborough's "Life On..." series
The World At War
The Nazis: A Warning from History
Up Series
Civilisation: A Personal View
Cosmos
The Ascent Of Man



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In The Shadow Of The Moon (2007)

It's a little over 1 1/2 hours.

It's a documentary about the NASA missions to the moon. The really great thing about it is, there are no celebrity hosts or commentary, no 'hollywood' treatment. Of course, they had to have been interviewed for this, but all that is edited out.

The only people in this documentary are the actual astronauts that went to the moon. They just tell their stories. (all except for Armstrong, anyhow. He's not ever going to come out from hiding, I think)



It's mesmerizing, to hear the tales of these men. They're not actors playing a part. They're real people who lived these stories.
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My last 7 docs:
Darwin's Nightmare (2004) - Sauper
The war room (1993) - Hegedus & Pennebaker
My Architect: a son's journey (2003) - Kahn
Client 9: the rise and fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010) - Gibney
Woody Allen: A documentary (2011) - Weide
Cocaine Cowboys (2006) - Corben
Surviving progress (2011) - Roy

Of these, I can recommend the Woody Allen one, if you don't know anything about him and Cocaine Cowboys and Surviving progress. It's funny that Spitzer made a better impression that he created powerful enemies in high places and "they" put a hit out on him in the 3 or 4 minutes he was in "Inside Job" than they did in his own doc.

The last truly great Doc I saw was: No end in sight.

Strike that ...

The last truly great Doc I saw was: The end of Poverty?



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That's true. I forgot about Woody Allen: A Documentary. That was awesome. I think I "done good" to tape it on a 25-year-old VHS tape. It looks and sounds like a flippin' DVD!



Last documentary movie i I have watched "Man on Wire"



Sit Ubu Sit.... Good Dog
Hot Coffee - this was a great documentary about how the judicial system is just so broken and how all these stupid lawsuits affect everybody else.



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Last documentary I saw, It was “For All Mankind” . I found it far more inspiring, entertaining and educational on this subject.
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