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Jul '17
What are your favorite Documentarie(s)? I got inspired by Onyx's thread about documentaries to make this. I love documentaries! They can be depressing, disturbing or just plain sick - but they are never boring, that is for sure. I have seen in around a 100 in my lifetime this far. So here is what I rated 8 plus, in order:

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Beyond the Mat
Boy Interrupted
Rain in my Heart
My Amityville Horror
Night Will Fall
9/11: The Falling Man
Shoah
The Bridge
Into the Abyss
Man on Wire
Capturing the Friedmans
Deliver Us from Evil
The Thin Blue Line
The House of Suh
Witch Hunt
There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
The Imposter
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Grizzly Man
The Monday Night War: WWE Raw vs. WCW Nitro
My Flesh and Blood
UFO's Are Real
Out of the Blue
Dreamland: Area 51
UFOs: It Has Begun
Alcatraz: Search for the Truth
A Certain Kind of Death
Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
Interview with a Cannibal
Our Father the Serial Killer
Man on Bridge
Who Took Johnny
Valentine Road
The Fear of 13
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Titicut Follies
Killer Legends


What are your favorite Documentarie(s)?
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peeptoad says:
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Jul '17
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
Style Wars (1983)
A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young (2014)
Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011)
Berkeley in the Sixties (1990)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)
Birth of the Living Dead (2013)
Samsara (2011)
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Powaqqatsi (1988)
Anima Mundi (1992)
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Gymnopedie says:
#2, Reply to #1
Jul '17
I haven't seen any of those, Peep. I bought a double DVD boxset a few years ago of Koyaanisqatsi (1982) and Powaqqatsi (1988) - but i haven't seen them yet. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) has been on my watch list for a while now. emoticon
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peeptoad says:
#3, Reply to #2
Jul '17
If you like Pow and Koy then, check out Samsara and Anima Mundi as well. Mundi is also Reggio and Sam is a similar style doc. Very trippy and cool imo
Most of what I listed is based on my interests (60s counterculture etc), but those are more universal and very well filmed docs.
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Gymnopedie says:
#6, Reply to #3
Jul '17
I will check those out so. I think they are these sort of docs where you just sit back and take it in, as far as I gather from the reviews. They sound great. I think I have said before - you have great taste and your recs never disappoint emoticon
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Smerd says:
#5, Reply to #1
Jul '17
I see no Decline Of Western Civilzation. #Sad
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peeptoad says:
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Jul '17
it didn't come up on my IMDB advanced title search: FAIL
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Smerd says:
#14, Reply to #12
Jul '17
I didn't think you'd leave it out on purpose.
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Smerd says:
#4
Jul '17
The Quiet One (1948)
Titicut Follies (1967)
High School (1969)
Grey Gardens (1975)
Gates of Heaven (1978)
Demon Lover Diary (1980)
The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
Vernon, Florida (1981)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Brother's Keeper (1992)
Crumb (1994)
American Movie (1999)
Frazetta: Painting with Fire (2003)
The Century Plaza (2005)
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)
Best Worst Movie (2009)
I Am Divine (2013)
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Gymnopedie says:
#7, Reply to #4
Jul '17
I forgot about Gates of Heaven (1978) - that was a good one. Have you seen Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. ? It is from the same director, Errol Morris. Titicut Follies (1967) was really eye-opening. Grey Gardens (1975), Brother's Keeper (1992) and Crumb (1994) are ones that i have wanted to see.

Some there that look very interesting. emoticon
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Smerd says:
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I've seen all of the Morris films I could get ahold of. One of the best of the documentary directors.

Check out High School, from the same people that made Titicut Follies.

Demon Lover Diary, decades before people started filming their day to day lives for TV, this trio of friends filmed their entire experience while working on the 1977 horror film The Demon Lover. It's better than the movie itself.
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Gymnopedie says:
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Yes, he is a great director of docs, for sure. His docs are never boring.

I didn't know they were the same people that made Titicut Follies. That was areally good doc. I will make sure to watch High School today.

Thanks Smerd. That sounds terrific. Should I see the film or the doc first?
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Smerd says:
#10, Reply to #9
Jul '17
Either or. Definitely watch the movie just to see what the docu is about, though the docu is less about the making of the film but more about the people involved.
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Gymnopedie says:
#11, Reply to #10
Jul '17
Thanks, Smerd.
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iceflamez says:
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Jul '17
I love me some good documentaries.

The Impostor was such a riveting watch.

From the list you provided i own and intend to watch :

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (ppl told me that this one is extremely depressing)
Shoah
The Bridge
Into the Abyss
Deliver Us from Evil
Grizzly Man
Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
Killer Legends (watched his previous *Cropsey* and it was a fantastic watch)
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Gymnopedie says:
#15, Reply to #13
Jul '17
Do by all means, iceflamez.

You are right. The Impostor was so compelling. You wonder how he got away with it for so long.

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father - is deeply sad. I don't want to ruin it for you. It is incredible.

And all the rest are really marvellous and eye-opening. You have a lot of great entertaining docs to see here emoticon
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Gymnopedie says:
#16, Reply to #13
Jul '17
Let us know what you think when you see them.
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iceflamez says:
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Jul '17
You got it buddy.
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iceflamez says:
#18, Reply to #16
Jul '17
While we are at it, i wanna throw 2 recommendations at you :

1) Tickled https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278506/

2) Orozco the Embalmer https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0982908/

Both disturbing, the first due to the subject matter and the second is extremely graphic.
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Gymnopedie says:
#19, Reply to #18
Jul '17
Thanks I will check those out. i have heard about Orozco . Tickled sounds interesting. I will look at those tomorrow emoticon
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iceflamez says:
#20, Reply to #19
Jul '17
Go completely blind with Tickled, you will be surprised...

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