I know we have various TV or movie threads but I think we need a documentary thread. The American Gladiators 30 for 30 was awesome. So was FDR on History Channel.
If you don't mind feeling like shit and crying, Dear Zachary on Amazon Prime is completely engaging but also gut wrenching.
My Octopus Teacher on Netflix was great, a guy is befriended by an octopus off the coast of South Africa and interacts with it every day. It's mesmerizing but not a happy ending.
Anything by Mothlight Media or Stefan Milo on Youtube. Short documentaries that are both entertaining and really though-provoking. MLM does evolutionary shorts looking at a particular characteristic that has come forward through time and the ancient progenitors that first evolved it. Stefan focuses primarily on human evolution but he also does side bits when an interesting topic arises.
Capturing the Friedmans was very good. In a kind of thoroughly revolting way. Can’t ever go wrong with Ken Burns’ stuff. The Reggie Jackson doc on Netflix was excellent. Haven’t seen the one about Yogi yet, but hearing good things.
Bro, I was just gonna mention that one....I am laying there one night with my kid and couldn't find shit on so we watched it. Amazing man, I loved it. Honestly I cried my ass off at the end...
i can’t explain how or why, but I’ve painted myself into a corner and I’m stuck watching a documentary on kimchi. initially I just wanted to know how your could fill a two-episode documentary about kimchi. Now I’m stuck.
I watched episode 1(of 3) of "Get Gotti" on Netflix. I liked it. It tells the story from both the law and Mob's point of view. On a side note, I did enjoy 'My Octopus Teacher " a lot, so thx for that.
I was thinking about watching it but the preview I saw was an interview with Andrea Giovino and just a minute of listening to her was more than enough
'Finding Kendrick Johnson' is a must see. I was so pissed off watching this film. It really is unbelievable. Some may remember the news story about a HS kid in GA 'getting stuck' in a rolled up gym mat trying to retrieve his sneakers and dying in there. See how I laugh. It wasn't even logistically possible. He was murdered. The callousness with which his family was treated and the disrespect of how is body was treated in the 'morgue' is appalling. Psssst! The son of an FBI agent was involved, so nothing to see here. This is some bullshit.
