Documentaries

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Not one mention of the French 911 docu? I thought this was excellent.

Fog of war and Paradise lost are both great.

[xxThe_Lebowskixx]

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[Your Mom]

I enjoyed PBS' documentary on the Mormons.

[Pete H]

Finally opened The World At War box I've had for few months.

This mammoth comes on 16 discs. I watched the first three discs yesterday and so far it seems amazing.

One important fact is that it's from 1974 when lots of the WWII participants were still alive and available for interview.
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[rpr]

Yes Men - this is by far my favorite documentary. It's about two guys who impersonate WTO officials and are invited to speak to academics and other global-business type individuals. They give insane but brilliant speeches and the response they get is unreal. They call themselves "Identity Correction Agents" (I think) where instead of stealing someone's identity to commit fraud, they correct someone's identity who's essentially perpetuating a fraud.

The Capitalist Conspiracy - It presents facts from original sources like Philip Dru, Tragedy and Hope and Norman Dodd's Hidden Agenda interview. Regardless of what you think on conspiracy theories or how the world works, reading the works of Colonel House, Carroll Quigley and the testimony of Norman Dodd present an intriguing perspective. That is, that ultra wealthy men (i.e. their foundations) have used great amounts of capital to further a Utopian dream of world peace. Early on they determined the greatest way to change society is through war, thus they infiltrated the State Dept and allegedly incited wars as a means to their noble end goal. The first President to adhere to this ideology was Wilson (essentially House himself), the second was FDR and the third was the greatest ever, George W. Bush. (see Colonel House's Philip Dru)

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Finally opened The World At War box I've had for few months.

This mammoth comes on 16 discs. I watched the first three discs yesterday and so far it seems amazing.

One important fact is that it's from 1974 when lots of the WWII participants were still alive and available for interview.
wiki

IMDB (highest score I've seen there)

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Awesome documentary. I have this on video and have watched it numerous times in addition to times I've seen it played on PBS. It definitely sets the standard for WW II documentaries. I have never seen a documentary about WW II that can compare. It really looks at he human side of the war as well as the historical side.
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[Jzo19]

wide awake --currently playing on hbo , watched this a couple nights ago at like 3am , and i loved it (probably because im an insomniac, myself) , its about a guy who is trying to figure out why he is an insomniac and if he can/want to change his sleeping habits ...

[jeffnc]

I'm really enjoying the VH1 Classic Albums series. Some of them are very interesting.

[spyderracing]

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet (saw Endless Summer and Riding Giants), but Billabong Odyssesy is a pretty awesome surf doc.

[Ikaika]

Step Into Liquid is my fave surf documentary.

Pumping Iron isn't quite a true documentary but damn its good. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]