Favorite Documentaries

Tell Your Children (better known as Reefer Madness)

A propaganda film on the dangers of marijuana, that is fun to watch while high on marijuana ... OOPS!

The musical is fun too.

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Calling it a documentary is outrageous. Who are you, Michael Moore?

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I'd say erroneous and possibly ridiculous, but not quite outrageous.

You dork You know full well I called it a propaganda film.

Hey Mark F, as a teacher, do you use documentary films as part of your lesson plan?

if so, what have you shown, or which subjects/grade do you teach, perhaps i could reccomend a few for you.

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"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo.

Saw Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) by Banksy the other day. It was really cool. If you like Banksy's street art you should definitely check this one out, although the main subject for the film isn't Banksy himself but Thierry Guetta a.k.a. Mr Brain Wash.

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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

But does that necessarily mean it's a documentary?

Yeah, just a bizarre story. Kinda sad too, I thought. Thierry, while an interesting story for a film (Banksy was definitely right about that one), obviously had some mental problems. Guess it may not really matter though, since the guy literally, became a millionaire overnight. Hope he didn't piss it all away.

Catfish is just about as freaky of a story as one might want to watch if you're at all interested in who you talk to online. I thought it was terrific and terrifying.

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The Decade of Destruction (Adrian Cowell, 1990)

Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl, 1938)
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris, 1997)

+1 to Grizzly Man

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Trailers and Reviews

Something was lacking in that other similiar posted thread so here's some from my personal collection. Should be something here for any one. Hope to see you add some good ones:

Agronomist
Aileen: Life And Death Of A Serial Killer
Aristided and the Ebdless Revolution
Battle Of Algiers
Beyond The Mat
Bigger Stronger Faster
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary
Bowling For Colombine
Born Into Brothels
Brandon Teena Story
Capitalism: A Love Story
Capturing The Friedmans
Children Underground
Cocaine Cowboys
Cocaine Cowboys 2
Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
Control Room
Crazy Love
Death In Gaza
Deliver Us From Evil
The Devil Came On horseback
Dogtown
Emerald Cowboy
El Che
The Fall Of Fujimori
Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenype 9/11
Favela Rising
Fearless: David Blane
The Fog Of War
4 Little Girls
Genesis
Ghosts Of Cite Soleil
Ghosts Of Rwanda
Giuliano Time
Gladiator Days: Story Of A Prison Murder
Grizzly Man
Gunner Palace
Hate.com
Hearts And Minds
Hotel Terminus
The Iceman Interviews ( 1991 )
The Iceman: Confessions Of A Mafia Hitman ( part 1 - 1992 )
The Iceman: Confessions Of A Mafia Hitman ( part 2 - 2001 )
An Inconvenient Truth
Inside Deep Throat
Jenin
Jim Brown: All American
Jonestown
Koyaanisqatsi
La Sierra
Manda Bala
Murderball
Naqoyyatsi
Untouchable: Godfather Or Snitch
Nanking
One Day In September
Night And Fog
Notorious
Operation Thunderbolt
Paradise Lost
Paeadise Lost 2
Peace One Day
Porn Star
Powaqqatsi
The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair
Promise
Redacted
Red Trousers: The Life Of The Hong Kong Stuntmen
Riding Giants
The Road To Guantanamo
Sicko
Sophie Scholl
The Sorrow And The Pity
Standard Operating ProcedureStevie
Stoked
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
Taxi To The Dark Side
Terror's Advocate
The Thin Blue Line
The Times Of Harvey Milk
The Two Escobars
Uncle Sadaam
The Untold Story Of Emmet Louis Till
Verdict On Auschwitz
A Very British Gangster
Waco
War Photographer
Weather Underground
Why We Fight
Winter Soldier
Woodstock

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^ This was on a lot during my childhood, so first watched it at a really really early age and can remember it creeping me out. Amazing documentary film. Not as keen on the other two in the trilogy.

If you have an interest in an inside view of the creative process, I strongly recommend a doc called This So-Called Disaster. Marvelously personal and powerfully moving.

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I have never seen a documentary more harrowing or gut wrenching than Dying at Grace. It follows 5 cancer patients through their last dying days at a hospital in Canada. No talking heads, no interviews, just simply filming the last days of their lives. It's something I will never forget