Movie Documentaries to Download?

[Tulip]

Life After People is my favourite. Pretty much hypothesises what would happen is people just disappeared.

 

[grizzlym]

The great Requiem for Detroit is on ABC2 right now.

 

[nicky]

I noticed that.

There's a 2 part doco on Murdoch on sbs demand as well which is pretty good.

 

[The Passenger]

Inside job

watching this now. head shaking and rage inducing.

 

[Caesar]

It is a brilliant film, but as with all polemics it's unwise to accept the story it presents in isolation. There is a lot of relevant stuff that is left out or underplayed because it doesn't further the filmmaker's thesis.

That isn't a bad thing - in fact it's a necessary part of making an effective documentary on an issue like this. But it does mean that it's not a complete source of information about the subject, upon which to base an opinion. Few two hour movies are.

 

[grizzlym]

Excellent HBO documentary - Bobby Fischer against the world.

Mainly about the 1972 match and the rise and dramatic fall of the great chess genius.

The old footage and interviews are great.

 

[flight23]

Excellent HBO documentary - Bobby Fischer against the world.

Mainly about the 1972 match and the rise and dramatic fall of the great chess genius.

The old footage and interviews are great.

yes one of my favorites



if you haven't seen it, good little doco, more fun than mind blowing

 

[Gasometer]

There was a two parter last weekend on 'Dday as it happens' which told the Dday landings in real time. Worth a look if you like war docos.

 

[flight23]

well made

 

[PP34]

Any recommendations for docos about the Roman Empire and the Industrial Revolution?

 

[Caesar]

The BBC recently did a documentary called Rome: Rise & Fall Of An Empire where they picked 5 or 6 key political events during the period and did an episode on each. The dramatisations used sets, costumes and actors from the HBO series Rome, so the production values were pretty high.

If you are more interested in stuff like day-to-day life, arts, culture, etc. there was a PBS documentary about 10 years ago called The Roman Empire In The First Century that was quite good.

They're probably the two I'd recommend in the first instance. Like most documentaries they just give you a very broad overview of the subject. If you find that they make you interested in one particular era or event, then there are other documentaries that provide more of a specific focus.

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

In early 1975, Donald E. Jackson—who would later become the junk-drawer auteur responsible for stuff like Hell Comes To Frogtown and Lingerie Kickboxer—began working on his first feature film, a low-budget horror movie called The Demon Lover. He and his cartoonish hustler of a partner, Jerry Younkins, hired a young filmmaker named Jeff Kreines to handle cinematography. Promised a paycheck that never materialized, Kreines headed to Michigan to start work, accompanied by his pal Mark Rance and his girlfriend Joel DeMott. As time passed—and it became clear that Jackson and Younkins were a couple of no-account hustlers with no idea how to make a movie, and no aesthetic values beyond cutting corners at every opportunity—DeMott decided to make her own movie about the making of The Demon Lover.​

Predating American Movie by decades, Demon Lover Diary has many of the same qualities, but where Mark Borchardt is likeable and pitiable, Jackson is a two-bit creep who appears to have blown off his own finger in order to finance the movie with workers’ compensation money. The production is so hopeless and haphazard that DeMott’s movie about it begins to take on a hilariously surrealistic quality, as she and Kreines (who became respected documentarians) display the kind of black humor seen in soldiers who think they’re going to die in combat. Though hard to find, Demon Lover Diary is a funny, essential document on the seamy side of independent filmmaking​

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/demon_lover_diary_rare_cult_documentary_at_cinefamily



Equal parts piss funny and deeply disturbing, a cameo by my favourite right-wing gun nut, Ted Nugent

 

[TW_Gangee]

I would recommend "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" for anyone who is interested in learning more about DMT or psychedelic drugs in general. It's hosted by Joe Rogan and you can watch it free on Youtube.

 

[PP34]

Best docos relating to significant periods in British/English history?

 

[chargers 09]

This documentary has left me astounded. I have just finished watching it and the one thing it has left me thinking is that I am thankful I live in Australia...but it has also made me think that I cant be so sure of that. Essentialy what I thought was a documentary about the legality of the Federal Taxation system in the US then takes a turn about 2/3 of the way thru and then focusses on the role of central banks. I had known for some time the Federal Reserve of America was a private institution but I didnt have the faintest idea of the power it truely wields.

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After watching that the first thing I do tomorrow is find out who controls the Federal Reserve of Australia and if it is a private bank or one of and for the people of this country.

This doco has really left me with a bitter taste in my mouth.

Video doesn't show up anymore, what is the doco called?

 

[chargers 09]

"Weight of chains" - a documentary about Yugoslavia. I've seen a few documentaries that claim Serbia was used as a scape goat for America/Nato to invade for their (and Germany's) own interests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weight_of_Chains

DO you have a link or anything for this? I've always been interested in international politics in that region, and believe somewhat that Serbia was used as a scapegoat.

 

[flight23]

 

[chargers 09]

Thanks a lot mate. What's your general spin on the issue?

 

[flight23]

not too sure, haven't really looked into it too much

went to school with a bunch of Croatians and heard some horror stories and then heard some crap, figured both sides were in that boat

 

[_Christoh_]

Video doesn't show up anymore, what is the doco called?

 

[Threadkilla]

Does anyone know where I can find the doco titled Blokes You Can Trust about The Cosmic Psychos?

The only links I have found have been fakes.

Keen to see it.

 

[flight23]

no link yet but



looks like a great doco

 

[IAMDASH]

no link yet but



looks like a great doco

It's a bloody beauty guys. I saw the premiere in Castlemaine. Anyone with an interest in the Psychos will love it

 

[Threadkilla]

Everything I've heard about the film, and trailers, sound/look great.

It's awesome hearing how some of these Oz bands i grew up with (Psychos, Tumbleweed, Meanies, Hard-Ons etc) influenced others around the globe.

 

[Gasometer]

'Rebuilding the World Trade Centre' looks promising from just viewing the first two minutes.