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Can people list some decent feature length documentarys please.

You know films such as Bowling for Columbine, Man on a Wire, Anvil: The Story of Anvil, Murderball etc.

Zeitgeist is superb. One of those internet only jobs, but it's ace. Zeitgeist 2 is good as well, but it kind of ruins it's message when it all goes a bit idealistic and Moby-like.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-594683847743189197
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912&hl=en

mostly music ones' but...

capturing the friedmans
the devil and daniel johnston
wilco I'm trying to break your heart
Dig
some kind of monster ( metallica in all their ego and not in touch with reality glory)
long way round & long way down (series but documentary)
the aristocrats (penn and teller)

Riding Giants (surfing documentary)
Dogtown & Z Boys (skateboarding documentary)
March of the Penguins (penguin documentary)
When We Were Kings (Ali vs Foreman documentary)
Buena Vista Social Club (cuban music documentary)

There was a BBC production about the mahoosive volcano at jellystone erupting, watched it on youtube and found it quite interesting.

I could think of others but they are likely more 'true stories' than documentaries.

I must get around to watching zeitgeist one time.

Dig! is very good as well.

An indie-rock documentary.

theres this very good mockumentary about living in the streets of LA, follows a few homeless african americans living in disused subways of LA, very moving, but i forget the name

Any of the documentary series by Adam Curtis are good. Particularly The Century of The Self.

I quite like The King of Kong as recommended by someone in the films thread.

Jimi Hendrix has some great footage of his famous performances as well as commentaries by those who knew him.

If you like British Sea Power they re-released Man of Aran with their own musical score on top. It's very old footage though, from the 1930s and all caption card commentary (silent movie).

yes king of kong is superb

http://www.gendernetwork.com/humansexes.html

Good six part series.

For some more music based documentary goodness check out the 3 part series The Hip Hop Years. Better still buy the book afterwards I found it all really interesting. It's not just about rap, it looks at the routes from the block party b-boy days through 80s hip hop, the daisy age and then eventually modern day rap. I think it's about 10 years old now.

Bus 174... watch this before any of the other suggestions.

Loads of good suggestions thus far, most of my favourites have been mentioned but I enjoyed...

Ramones - End Of The Century - Good film on the rise and end of the Ramones.

The Fog of War - It's a bit of a slog but Robert S. McNamara has a story to tell.

Mayor of the Sunset Strip - Really interesting story of Rodney Bingenheimer a nerdy Californian DJ who championed many big bands by playing them before anyone else Stateside.

Grizzly Man - The guy loves bears.

Biggie & Tupac - Most Nick Broomfield documentaries a decent viewing.

Threads is on Google Video. It's also awesomely bleak.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488

Also first part of The Century of the Self (think the rest is up there too)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8953172273825999151

Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke" (about Hurricane Katrina) is pretty good I seem to recall.

"Woodstock" is a good music documentary,
but I think its about 5 hours long.

I saw a pretty good one last night about steroids and stuff called Bigger, Faster, Stronger.

Shockingly it is far from an anti-doping propaganda film even being pretty pro steroids in places.  :eek: (or at least trying to have a balanced POV).

This guy makes an appearance.

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King of Kong was fantastic.

What We Still Don`t Know, in 3 parts is fantastically geeky if you`re into physics, evolution and creationism.

Someone already said "When We Were Kings". I think that's one of my favourite ever films.

"Hoop Dreams" is a good basketball doc. "Once in a Lifetime" is a good one about the New York Cosmos and football in the US in the 70s.

"Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait" is excellent for spacing out to.

Here's the volcano one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF-RKzqNtz0

Well at least the first part, the rest is easy to find.

Live Forever is not bad if you're a fan of "Britpop".

Ignore anything by Michael Moore - can't stand the bloke and a lot of his films have a very staged feel.

I liked that


fucking upsetting mind...........there but for the grace of god etc

my monkey baby is pretty good. and it's on again this sunday

Theres one that follows some firemen around on 9/11. No idea what its called but i remember it being good

what he said. fucking frightening shit from brazil favelas.

There's another Louis Theroux special on Sunday at 9pm (BBC2) about a Californian city with a crystal meth problem.

Yeah I heard about that. Should be good. I liked the one he did when he went to the Ghetto in Philidelphia and the one with the vigilantes in South Africa.

This is Spinal Tap.

Anyone seen Murderball? I've got it downloaded but not watched it. Opinions?

Murderball is good. You can only admire the attitudes of the people featured in the film. The sport is pretty good too!

Yeah I saw it last night. Didn't think it was brilliant but yeah quite good. It was interesting to see the issues surrounding disability. I did find it touching when that quadraplegic guy was talking about how he sometimes has a dream where he's flying and then he has all his limbs back and when he has the dream he doesn't want it to stop.

It was positive to see these people in wheelchairs still being so driven and aggressive. I can see how it's empowering for them.

No offence but I'm watching Zeitgeist now and I've never heard such a load of bollocks! I will watch it to the end tho. 9/11 conspiracies theories and all.

It's unbelievable - they're trying to discredit religion using astrology - WTF!!!

You might have to be of a certain era to like this but I thought it was bloody great

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00s2y91/Oil_City_Confidential_Dr_Feelgood/  :band:  :toocool:

sleep furiously - "Director Gideon Koppel transforms the ordinary into the sublime in this documentary that describes the current issues facing the Wales farming community. As the population ages, the schools face closure, and the mobile library signals a resistance to move into the 21st Century, Koppel's camera stands as a silent observer and the music of Aphex Twin washes over the viewer."

our daily bread - see how all our food is made; vegetables growing, cattle, pigs and chickens bred, slaughtered, butchered. no speaking or soundtrack - just the sounds of production. watching the cows get killed is pretty harsh but i still had a McDonalds Quarter Pounder Deluxe with Bacon just now.