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Topic: Documentaries worth watching  (Read 34165 times)

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Documentaries worth watching #15
My Fake Baby: Basically emotional realdolls for sad broken women. These people are very, very crazy. They walk around with realistic looking baby dolls and treat them as if they were real. It's all the attention you get walking around with a baby, without having to deal with the responsibilities of babies!



This also led me to a treasure trove of Newborn doll roleplay videos that are super weird and pathetic and kind of hard to watch. Will probably post a couple of those in the video thread.

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Documentaries worth watching #16
Quest for the Holy Foreskin :: For centuries, the relic of the Holy Foreskin was considered by believers to be the only piece of Jesus’ flesh to remain on earth after he ascended to heaven, and thus was among the most sacred relics in Christendom. Then, on New Year’s Day 1983, in a tiny village in the Italian countryside, Father Don Dario announced to his expectant flock that their beloved relic had been stolen.  New York Times writer David Farley goes on a quest to unravel the story of this mysterious crime.

http://natgeotv.com/uk/quest-for-the-holy-foreskin

My Granny the Escort :: A frank and intimate portrait of three mature British women who sell sex. How does their profession affect their family lives, and what motivates men to pay for sex with older women?

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-granny-the-escort/videos

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The Supersizers: Comedienne Sue Perkins and restaurant critic Giles Coren spend a week living in a period house, eating period food, and generally living a period lifestyle for various times in British history. It excellently combines education and entertainment. There should be a word for that...
Anyway, the whole series is on YouTube, so enjoy!

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Documentaries worth watching #18
Hell House:
A look at the "Hell House" performed annually in October by the youth members of Trinity Church (Assemblies of God) in Cedar Hill, Texas (a Dallas suburb) - seen by over 10,000 visitors each year. We see the organization and planning of the event - including auditions, construction, scripting and rehearsals - largely through the involvement of one family: a single father with 4 children (one of whom suffers from cerebral palsy) including his daughter, a cast member.



I like documentaries about crazy religious bullshit.

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Documentaries worth watching #19
Hell House is really good.

Jesus Camp is also really well done, although it is fucking terrifying.

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Documentaries worth watching #20
God Loves Uganda is the extended Jesus Camp experience.

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Documentaries worth watching #21
I don't watch too many documentaries, but I figure I'll share a few interesting science ones that I've seen.

Aftermath: Population Zero and Life After People

Both of these share the same premise, but were aired on two different channels (National Geographic and History, interestingly enough). Both of them are speculative looks at what would happen to Earth if humanity were to simply vanish without a trace, all at once. What's really fascinating to me is that for all the time that it's taken us to leave our mark on the environment through various types of industries, nature would virtually undo everything we did in a matter of a few centuries.

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

These two are pretty popular, but I figure I'll post 'em anyway. Basically, they're sort of mile-wide, inch-deep looks at a wide variety of topics about life and the universe with an emphasis on making them more accessible to the general population, keeping the actual math and science relatively simple and focusing more on what it all means. Both of them were put together by some of the most brilliant minds of their times - Carl Sagan for the original, and Neil deGrasse Tyson for the more recent, modern rendition. Regardless, they're both great shows if you have even a passing interest in astronomy and the science of the universe.

Prophets of Science Fiction

This one is a series that examines the written works of science fiction authors, such as Mary Shelley and Isaac Asimov, and shows how many of the things that they wrote about as fiction wound up becoming reality when technology caught up to them. It's not the greatest show (some of the links between author and technology are sort of tenuous), but it's still a neat show if you're into sci-fi.

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Documentaries worth watching #22
On the off chance that anyone here hasn't seen Crumb, please please do so.


Anything Errol Morris is great, too. My favorite is the Fog of War although Mr. Death is a pretty close follow up. His TV show First Person is also worth checking out - each episode focuses on a person with their own eccentric life story, whether it's a cryogenic freezing activist or a mobster lawyer. What I wouldn't give to see it rebooted.
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Documentaries worth watching #23
This is a recommendation of a more absurd, "F Plus-y" variety.

The Hidden Hand: Alien Contact and the Government Cover-Up is one of the funniest things I've seen. It's a lovely mix of crazy old men talking about alien hierarchies, people talking about their alien babies, and conspiracy theories.
 I watched it solely because of this image showing up on my Netflix feed:

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Anything Errol Morris is great, too. My favorite is the Fog of War although Mr. Death is a pretty close follow up. His TV show First Person is also worth checking out - each episode focuses on a person with their own eccentric life story, whether it's a cryogenic freezing activist or a mobster lawyer. What I wouldn't give to see it rebooted.
🍆, September 06, 2014, 02:15:02 am

First Person was a brilliant show. I got a little bit obsessed with it for a while, actually. I think 'I Dismember Mama' might be my favourite, because that guy is just so very, very earnest.

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What's really fascinating to me is that for all the time that it's taken us to leave our mark on the environment through various types of industries, nature would virtually undo everything we did in a matter of a few centuries.Locclo, September 05, 2014, 11:32:33 pm

Yeah, but it only took us one century to do all that, so we win again, Nature.

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This is a recommendation of a more absurd, "F Plus-y" variety.

The Hidden Hand: Alien Contact and the Government Cover-Up is one of the funniest things I've seen. It's a lovely mix of crazy old men talking about alien hierarchies, people talking about their alien babies, and conspiracy theories.
 I watched it solely because of this image showing up on my Netflix feed:


FattyBoBatty, September 09, 2014, 04:47:16 am
Oh man, now I have to watch this. I love all sorts of documentaries, but being fascinated with conspiracy theories makes the nusto one seem all the more appealing.  In a similar vein, 9-11: In Plane Sight is chock full of terrible science, bad graphics, and alarmist warnings of impending new world order government takeovers. It's fantastic.

On a more serious note, everyone should watch The Most Hated Family in America, the BBC2/Louis Theroux documentary about the Westboro Baptist Church and the Phelps that run it. Theroux spent three weeks in Topeka interviewing them, following them to events they were picketing, etc.. It's an utterly disgusting and entirely captivating examination of how one can simultaneously be intelligent, rational, and completely deranged.

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Documentaries worth watching #27
Would recommending The King of Kong be too mainstream? If it is, fuck you, I'm recommending it anyway.

It's a documentary on competitive arcade gaming, focusing largely on the classic games from the 80s and Donkey Kong in particular. The documentary follows the exploits of a Washington state science teacher and his efforts to get the new world-record high score in Donkey Kong. There's even the successful hotshot (mulleted) rival who seems to enjoy every advantage. It's also an interesting look at the Twin Galaxies score- and record-keeping authority and how they verify and regulate submissions for competition.
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The King of Kong is an amazing documentary because it perfectly illustrates, through the example of Billy Mitchell, that no amount of fame and power is too little to bloat a person's head.

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Grizzly Man is pretty mainstream too, but I'm still going to recommend it, just in case anybody hasn't seen it. It's excellent, and Werner Herzog's usual craziness is slightly muted.

Like everybody else in this thread, I think pretty much anything Louis Theroux makes is worth watching. Can't say the same for Marcel Theroux, although the BBC inexplicably keeps asking him to do documentaries. This one is particularly awkward: http://www.keofilms.com/production/in-search-of-wabi-sabi-with-marcel-theroux/

The first bit's here:

He looks like the hamster version of his brother, and the documentary is mostly just scenes of him confusing Buddhist monks.