Favorite documentaries?
 

The History channel website was having a good clearence sale the other day, so I ordered a couple dvd's. Last Stand of the 300, Battle of Thermopylae, and Heroes of the Holocaust. I watched Last Stand of the 300 earlier and it was very impressive. It went into detail of everything that lead up to the battle and what happened during and after. There was a lot that I didn't know about. If you are into Greek battles or Persian military history I highly recommend this documentary. It discussed King Leonidas life, Xerxes life, the sea battle that took place during the battle and what took place before a boy could become a man.

What are your favorite documentaries or recommended documentaries?

The King of Kong

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Winged Migration has always been my favorite. Ken Burns' Civil War is another of my favorites..

New York by Ric Burns

I watched "Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride" on Hunter S Thompson this morning. It was amazing. I've been putting off reading HST for way too long.

The Flinstones.

Looking forward to 'Thrilla in Manilla' next Saturday on HBO.

Any other HST fans? He's seriously a hero

Highly recommend the doc, it's on starz on demand for those that have it.

Grizzly Man

The King of Kong
Chasing Ghosts: Beyond The Arcade
Beyond The Mat

A lot more, just the ones that were fresh in my mind.

Maher's Religulous is the last one I've seen.

I've seen the one you speak of, great documentary. I've been a fan ever since "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". Saw the movie first then read the book second. Both great in their own way, respectively.

That's a great movie, really a work of art. It's just SO chaotic. I imagine his writing is the same way, anyone who's read a lot of his have a recommendation on what I should read first?

I liked Bill Murray's comment to Depp about snapping back into his personality for the rest of your life once you take it on. I can totally understand that, he had such a great perspective.

I'd recommend reading "Fear and Loathing". I really enjoyed it, he has a visionary way words. I think Terry Gillaim did a great job bringing it to the screen. I like Terry, he's directed some good movies.

I've been thinking about picking up "The Rum Diary" another novel he wrote.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rum_Diary_(novel)

The film is set to release in 2010.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376136/

Anyone who likes "B movies" or has any interest in them, should check out "Not Quite Hollywood".

Crush would love it, I think.

"Trekkies" is both entertaining and deeply disturbing.

Anything by "Project Camelot". That's some way out shit. You Tube at your leisure.

It's disturbing but I couldn't turn it off

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Just watched "Endgame: blueprint for global enslavement" from Alex Jones on DVD.

It was very interesting!!

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Two words: Hoop Dreams.

Zeitgeist.

Take that over to DC, and watch the ruffled feathers fly!

Just got done with Bhutto on Netflix. Pretty entertaining. Its about Benazir Bhutto's life struggles and ultimate assassination. You see a lot of dead bodies but no actual kill shots fyi.

Can anyone recommend more docs? Thx.

Have you seen Dear Zachary? You can find it on Netflix, definitely a good one as long as you don't mind having your day ruined.

You seen Fog of War? A good one, particularly on the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

King of Kong was great (for any kid from the arcade generation)

Food Inc.

Inside Job

I believe Ken Burns has a Vietnam series coming out soon. I'm looking forward to that.

Yep. **** that dumb bitch.

Haven't been able to bring myself to watch this one.

Resurrect Dead is pretty entertaining if you're a conspiracy person. Watching it now. About half way through.

Agree with several already mentioned:
The Machine That Made Us
anything by Ken Burns
Food Inc
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

haven't seen a really good doc in a while. They either really pull me in or bore me to death.

What's on netflix besides King of Kong?

The union is a good one. If you like HST you should read Tom Wolfe's the electric kool-aid acid test.

American Movie with Mark Borchardt.

Well worth the 90 minutes...

The Obama Deception

I read the book "The devils knot" about this. There is a sequel made now that they are out. I can't find those movies anywhere though. It's terrible how those kids were judged.

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia- Its disturbing how entertaining this movie is.

That one is great. "I held a butchers knife to her throat and I said, you better start fryin' them eggs a little bit better. I'm sick of eating them sloppy, slimy eggs."

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends are pretty good

Before the Music Dies
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Fahrenheit 9/11
Loose Change
Ella Fitzgerald - Something to Live For

This was really good and it is fairly new...

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Just watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi on Netflix

Somehow they made a movie about a 80 year old Japanese guy who makes sushi fascinating and compelling for about 90 minutes. Recommend.

As Buck mentioned, Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles is very good. They do a good job of framing the entire documentary as a detective case that they're attempting to solve, complete with timelines, suspects, locations, etc. And the subject matter is trippy enough to keep it all interesting.

Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)? is a good one. I'd heard of the guy before but didn't know much about him. It was incredible how many songs I recognized during the film for only vaguely being aware of the guy. Here's a wiki description:

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On Netflix now. Beer Wars is about the big 3 beer companies basically trying to crush the independent craft beer industry. I'll never drink another Bud again.
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Yeah.. That was messed up.

I'd recommend you buy The Great Shark Hunt:The Gonzo Papers Vol 1. that has everything from the birth of gonzo journalism to HST's coverage of Ali vs. Spinks in '78. Fear and Loathing is included and tons of other writings.

The Donner Party is excellent.

A Toynbee Tile has appeared in downtown KC. It's at 12th & Main, in the crosswalk (west side of the intersection).

The main block of text says:

HOUSE OF HADES
ONE MAN VERSUS
AMERICAN MEDIA
IN SOCIETY 2011

Above and below it in smaller text is: WHO WILL PAY FOR ALL THEY HAVE DONE?

I'm sure it's just a copycat, but it's still cool! I'll post a picture later when I have some time.

Chasing Ghosts: Beyond The Arcade and The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters are pretty damn good got to love Billy Mitchell's I will be not be **** with attitude

Dude is such a good player too...all of those old school arcade players are. Back when games took a shit ton of skill.

I'm STILL trying to crack DK...wish I was half as good as Mitchell, Wiebe, or Hank Chien.

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles I'm not sure why but this one just hooked me. If I had to recommend only one it'd be this one. It starts slow and you really don't care at first but then it builds and sucks you in.

Best Worst Movie Just wow. At times you just feel uncomfortable knowing the fail train is running on time...

The Wild and Wonderful Whites Imagine having a one night stand and knocking up someone in this insane family.

I don't have to...

Shut Up Little Man! If you liked Resurrect Dead you'll like this. Most people will probably like this more. Stranger than fiction for sure...

Don't ask me how I forgot that one.

A must for any PJ fan.


http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...ylock-20130603

What'd you think?...

I liked both of those. High Score is a pretty good doc about Bill Carlton going after the 80M score on missile command. Special when Lit is a decent doc about pinball history and players. I liked the doc, TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball, a lot more. Tilt is a short doc about Williams Pinball and the last Pinball table they designed. The Perfect Fraudman is an attempted documentary by Dwayne Richard. It is about all the dirt on Twin Galaxies and King of Kong. Most of it is rendered moot since Walter Day doesn't own Twin Galaxies anymore. There is a doc called The Video Craze (where were you in '82?) that is in the can but hasn't been released yet.

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my favorite documentaries that I've seen in the last year or so:

The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Knuckleball
Senna (I never followed F-1 and had never heard of Senna but, this was very entertaining)

I will go with Undefeated.

Currently streaming on Netflix.

I've said it here before, but. It's pretty damned great. I watched it twice.

Oh hell...

The Imposter (also on Netflix)

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When the coach hugged the big linemen I almost teared up.