Good documentaries

[Suzanne]

Right, let's have a thread about good documentaries for people like me who don't have TVs but like a good docu every once in a while.

I would like to start with the epic 3-part documentary All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Adam Curtis

This is the first episode entitled Love & Power from which you will be guided onto the next two:

http://youtu.be/Uz2j3BhL47c

[Suzanne]

Kinda divided about this one and not really anything new learned. Oh well. "Until The Light Takes Us" online in its entirety: http://t.co/YyWhpA4

[Suzanne]

"The Miners' Hymns" by Bill Morrison with hauntingly beautiful soundtrack by Johann Johannson now available from the BFI.

[JESCIE]

http://mubi.com/lists/thee-1000-documentaries

[JESCIE]

https://www.facebook.com/ParadiseLost3

[youmightbecancer]

Dear Zachary - A Letter To A Son About His Father 2008: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152758/
A filmmaker decides to memorialize a murdered friend when his friend's ex-girlfriend announces she is expecting his son.

Orozco the Embalmer (Orozco el embalsamador) 2001: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0982908/
An embalmer in the poorest parts of Columbia. Gritty.

Monster Road 2004: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397538/
The wildly fantastic worlds of legendary underground clay animator Bruce Bickford

[alberthgabri]

Documentaries are the face of our day to day life. So good types of documentaries films are very important in today's human life.   

[pictoresgreci]

Extract from the documentary Pluto's kingdom in Homolje, filmed in 1971 in Eastern Serbia depicts inducing state of trance and possession in order to communicate with the dead. It is still being performed once a year during the solstice.
The video is poor quality, but the sound is fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct949VnvqOs

[pictoresgreci]

The London Nobody Knows

The most wonderful film made in 1960s , depicting the last remains of late Victorian city/ the public toilets, cemetery images, gallery of people using the salvation army facilities, and the most beautiful Sefard  song at the very end.
Try reading the  'Suggs In The City' .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jju1Mx5P_OU&feature=related

[Kid37]

I watched it again on sunday: Mondo Cane from 1962. It's about the beautiful bizarre world of, yes, people all around the world and their beautifully bizarre behaviour. Very nostalgic and often funny too. (I recommend the episode on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg at night - all so true! and a short performance with Yves Klein painting a deep blue painting with nude women.)