Documentaries

[Phil Van Sexton]

Jerry Seinfeld-Comedian - Like the real life version of the Curb Your Enthusiasm pilot, but with Jerry trying to develop a new act to take on the road. It also follows an up-and-coming comedian, Orney Adams, which was equally entertaining.

I was suprised how little attention this got given the buzz for everything Seinfeld related. Maybe people were expecting a comedy and didn't appreciate this interesting documentary. There were plenty of funny parts (including the dvd commentary), just not the same kind of humor as the TV shows.

[Peter McDermott]

A few I've enjoyed lately and haven't seen mentioned:

Entertaining trash: Crackheads Gone Wild
Cultural history: Godfathers of Mondo and New York Doll
Politics/Current Events: The Power of Nightmares (3 episodes)

[Phresh]

Incident At Oglala: On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, two FBI agents were killed in a shootout with a group of Indians. Although several men were charged with killing the agents, only one, Leonard Peltier, was found guilty. This film describes the events surrounding the shootout and suggests that Peltier was unjustly convicted.

[Jeff W]

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I'm a huge fan of David Attenborough/BBC documentaries.

My favourites are Life of Mammals and The Trials Of Life, but they all are worth watching.

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On that note, I highly recommend The Blue Planet series.

[TiK]

To all in the NYC area, they're screening The Cats of Mirikitani at Cinema Village 22 E. 12th St. until 3/22.

Also for those in the Bay Area, it'll be screening at the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival on 3/17 in San Francisco and on 3/24 in San Jose. Again, I highly recommend this documentary to all.

[suzzer99]

There's a show called iconoclasts on the Sundance Channel that I highly recommend. The most recent one was Samuel L. Jackson on Bill Russell. I had no idea how cool Bill Russell is. And pretty funny too. Best quote (Bill Russel quoting his father - roughly paraphrased);


If a man asks you for $5 worth of work a day, give him $7. This causes two good things to happen:

1. They need you more than you need them.

2. If you need to, you can look any man straight in the eye and tell him to go to hell.


Love that.

[Tao_Jones]

Cocaine Cowboys was excellent...

There is a great docu on famous director Akira Kurosawa (Rashoman, 7th Samurai, Yojimbo, etc.) Kurosawa

Come to think of it, there was another excellent docu on one of my other fav directors... Kubrik

[MadScientist]

The Devil's Playground.

It's about the Amish in during their running around time before joining the church. Doesn't sound interesting, but because they haven't made an oath to their god yet, they party their asses off.
Have 1000 kid parties in their Dad's barn. He looks the other way. Drive cars, hot rods. Sell meth to get the money to party and enjoy life while they can before they joing the church...
It totally changed the way I looked at the Amish.
Also, they are completely technilogically illiterate when they first join regular society which can be funny as [censored].

http://imdb.com/title/tt0293088/

The movie poster alone is pretty [censored] cool.

[Enrico Pallazzo]

Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story the story of former middleweight champion boxer Emile Griffith.

His most notorious rival, a very macho Cuban named Benny "The Kid" Paret, taunted Griffith because of his "alleged" sexual preference before their 3rd fight with each other. Griffith then beat him to death on live TV in the 13th round. This was the first time the US public watched someone die in a boxing ring.

The film examines the circumstances and characters involved in the story.

[invisibleleadsoup]

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This site has 419 documentaries available for free, including 'Born Rich'.

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great link,thanks for that