quick, documentaries needed!

i've been on a documentary binge over the past couple days, i've watched scratch, dark days, the corporation, everest, americanpimp and triumph of the will. im running out of ideas, and need reccomendations! (i also need to leave my house already, but thats another matter)

oh, and they can't be too obscure, cause they need to be download accesible

I liked this one a lot.

My all time favorites are Party Monster The Shockumentary and Capturing the Freidmans, both of which i once watched 3 times each in less a week.

is this one in english?

yes.

"Roger & Me" - Michael Moore - is awesome. "American Pimp" - Hughes brothers - is even better. i hear "Winged Migration" - is well worth seeing (though i haven't yet).

Anthing by Errol Morris but specifically Vernon, Florida and Mr. Death

also Nick Broomfield's other stuff is worth a laugh too... Hollywood Madame, Biggie and Tupac, Fetish

ooh biggie and tupac, goodone! i havent been able to find the kurt one tho

'Mr. Death,' 'The Thin Blue Line,' 'Gates of Heaven' -- all really good films by Errol Morris

Or, you could always watch a 13 minute short documentary I did in college called "Fanboy"

Kurt and Courtney is available at most video stores, even blockbuster.

Sometimes in the free section.

[Edited on Mar 27, 2004 by psychoholicagogo]

well ill be damned. i gotta find me a video store like that! the local blockbuster and i dont get along apprently someone rented my big fat greek wedding on my accounty and decided to never return it.

Microcosmos is a documentary about life in the average meadow, the camera gets right down to the level of the bugs where birds are giant monsters and rain is like a bombardment.
there's no narrator here, just music to accompany the visual journey, i thought it was nearly magical.

Maybe check the library even. Those places can be full of old obscure documentaries as well as new obscure ones.

hell house by george ratliff. it's a little hard to find but it is really good. it's about a haunted house that a church in texas puts on every year. however instead of goasts and monstars they show scenes of suicide, abortion, homosexuality, and anything else they deam as a sin and pressure the people who go through the hell house to give their lives to god. the film follows the 2-3 months of prepration and the opening night of the hell house. you can find it on amazon i think.

lost in la mancha is really good. there are alot of dvds that have feature lenght docs with em. 12 monkeys etc. american movie is good.

Anything by Michael Moore is great. Don't believe all the "Cool to Hate Michael Moore" backlash lately, the man is a genius. The Big One and Bowling for Columbine are brilliant and hillarious, while Roger and Me is brilliant but has less of his humor.

One Day In September



Le Chagrin et la pitié or The Sorrow and The Pity


Oh and this...

Few people know that The Highlander was a documentary...and the events happened in real time.

Holy fuck, I forgot to mention these...




This is technically a documentary-style drama.

[Edited on Mar 27, 2004 by Scopitone]

Stevie

paradise lost 1 & 2.
FREE THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE!!!

The Annabel Chong Story

These are the films I required for kids in a class I taught on "the creative treatment of actuality."

Night and Fog, Hoop Dreams, The Thin Blue Line, Harlan County USA, Salesman and General Idi Amin Dada.


[Edited on Mar 27, 2004 by Bridget]

Capturing The Friedmans

If I Should Fall from Grace With God, a really great documentary on Shane McGowan, the former lead singer of the Pogues. Watch with subtitles.

[Edited on Mar 27, 2004 by jake_lex]

What?

"MILK"

Amazing...