Best documentaries?

[EconomistBR]

The best documentary IMO is Enron - The Smartest Guys In The Room, it was very informative and the director put it all together brilliantly.

My second best is: Lessons of Darkness, it's set on Kuwait just after Iraqi troops fled and set the oil fields ablaze. The images from oil fires are stunning and truly hellish.

Why we fight also very good, every American should watch this one.

So, what other documentaries are worth watching?

 

[Ramius75]

Steven hawking's universe is a good 1.

 

[.Shane.]

Just finished watching Ken Burn's "The War"... wow.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

1200 miljarder. A great documentary on government waste. The best thing is that you may download it legally.

 

[On Yer Flour]

Filmmaking-wise, Leni Riefenstahl's films, especially Triumph Of The Will, contain the best documentary footage I've ever seen. The subject matter is also fascinating, although deeply morbid.

The War is, I agree, truly awesome.

 

[RedRalph]

Yeah hate to say it, but what I've seen of Triumph of the Will is pretty spectacular film-making. "The Revolution will not be televised", about the Venezuelan coup of 02 is amazing, the whole thing was taken by chance by these two Irish film maker, they were there making a docu when it happened and you get to see a lot of the events first hand. Its on googlevideo for anyone whose interested

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

"The Revolution will not be televised", about the Venezuelan coup of 02 is amazing, the whole thing was taken by chance by these two Irish film maker, they were there making a docu when it happened and you get to see a lot of the events first hand. Its on googlevideo for anyone whose interested

Seconded...

 

[Narz]

The global dimming one by the BBC available on google video was pretty good.

 

[brennan]

Loose Change?

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Dark Side Of The Moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Moon_(documentary)

 

[Photi]

entertainment wise, 'the devil and daniel johnston' is pretty good. i also thoroughly enjoyed 'baseball' (ken burns) and 'new york city' (ray? burns). i remember watching one along time ago about the holocaust, i think it was called 'auchwitz' (sp), of all the holocaust documentaries, this is the most horrifyingly melancholy one i have see . another i liked was 'architecture of doom' about the grand nation-building vision of the nazis. and then one i recently watch which was actually a fictional documentary or better a dramatization about hitler's last days deep inside his bunker. i don't remember its name, maybe someone could help me out, but don't miss that one, it is artful and dives deep into hitler's psychosis.

'why we fight' is also a must see which although discouraging and bleak hleps to underscore the necessity of the rather bland topic of campaign finance reform and sheds light on the shortcomings of democracy or whatever it is we have in the US.

 

[Mulholland]

Why we fight also very good, every American should watch this one.

Why we Fight was an excellent documentary.

 

[Ali Zaybak]

I'm kind of partial to "An Inconvenient Truth," but it's on my mind because I just saw it last week.

 

[EconomistBR]

and then one i recently watch which was actually a fictional documentary or better a dramatization about hitler's last days deep inside his bunker. i don't remember its name, maybe someone could help me out, but don't miss that one, it is artful and dives deep into hitler's psychosis.

Is it called Der Untergang(Downfall)?? A movie based on reports from Hitler's personal secretary Traudl Junge and that shows Hitler's last week of life on the bunker.

Just finished watching Ken Burn's "The War"... wow.

Haven't watched this one yet, it's now on my "must watch" list
Stage6 doesn't have it though

 

[.Shane.]

Anything by Burns is great. Even his weak stuff ("Baseball"... hey, I love this topic but it was just TOO LONG) is darned good.

The Civil War
Jazz
Baseball

He also did some shorter ones that are awesome on Lewis and Clark and the other is on the boxer from ~1900, who's name escapes me.

 

[nonconformist]

I very much enjoyed The Fog of War (or 11 lessons to be learned from Vietnam), with Robert S. McNamara, JFK and Johnson's Secretary of Defece.

The current administration could well do with watching it.

 

[Phlegmak]

The best documentary IMO is Enron - The Smartest Guys In The Room, it was very informative and the director put it all together brilliantly.

My second best is: Lessons of Darkness, it's set on Kuwait just after Iraqi troops fled and set the oil fields ablaze. The images from oil fires are stunning and truly hellish.

Why we fight also very good, every American should watch this one.

So, what other documentaries are worth watching?

Iraq for Sale.

The Corporation.

 

[Leonel]

There was that documentary about various regions and species of earth that was produced either by the BBC or National Geographic or something.

Another was about the Earth in the future concentrating on what species might appear after humanity goes extinct. I particularly enjoyed it for it's implications for the next sentient species on Earth.

 

[warpus]

To gay the thread up a bit:

March of the Penguins

 

[stormbind]

Tribe is awsome! The presenter, Bruce Parry, shares some of my views and I'm seriously envious of his work

http://www.bbc.co.uk/tribe/

All episodes are awsome and the last episode, about the Penan in Borneo, was of special interest to me. I speak some Malay and have a deep interest in Borneo where the forests are being cut down (harming Orangutan apes and indiginous peoples). There is also an interesting juxtaposed series about members of an African tribe visiting England. They believe that a member of the Royal family is their God, and wish to tell him it is OK for him to come home.