Documentary Films
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I have recently become quite addicted to documentary films, like Bus 174, Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, Tarnation, Capturing the Friedmans, Etre et Avoir, Night & Fog, Grizzly Man, Bowling for Colombine and Fahrenheit 9/11 for my university module on Documentary Film Theory - I was wondering if anyone else has seen these films and what you thought of them, and if you had anymore documentary films you've seen that you'd recommend.
Thanks
I have recently become quite addicted to documentary films, like Bus 174, Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, Tarnation, Capturing the Friedmans, Etre et Avoir, Night & Fog, Grizzly Man, Bowling for Colombine and Fahrenheit 9/11 for my university module on Documentary Film Theory - I was wondering if anyone else has seen these films and what you thought of them, and if you had anymore documentary films you've seen that you'd recommend.
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Yes, gripping stuff.
One Day in September is good. Concerns the Munich Olympics terrorist attack - as rivetting as any thriller, and certainly worth seeing if you've seen Spielberg's Munich which followed in its wake.
That film made me sooo angry :mad:
Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa (a portrait of a young man avenging his mother's death)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (it follows attempts to track down artist Banksy)
The Staircase (it journeys through the legal labyrinth of a murder trial)
The 10th District Court: Moments of Trials (it tracks a French judge's journey through trials for a year)
Wings of Defeat (filmmaker's journey through interviews to understand why Japanese young men were willing to sign up as 'tokkotai' (kamikaze (god wind) pilots) during WWII)
Dark Days (a portrait of homeless people living in the tunnels of NYC)
The Coconut Revolution (the corporate world and guerrilla war for coconut oil)
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (a portrait of an artist who suffers from mental health issues)
Crime and Punishment (it tracks the actions of a small-town North Korean police station)
Darwin's Nightmare (it charts the effects of taking predatory fishes from Tanzania's Lake Victoria on local communities)
Capturing the Friedmans (a portrait of a screwed-up family)
Stealing a Nation (it reveals the UK and the US's actions towards the residents of the Chagos islands during the 1960s and 1970s)
Bus 174 (builds around the high-jacking of a bus in Rio de Janeiro, using live news footage and interviews of those who were there)
Jesus Camp (a portrait of a summer camp for religious nuts)
Into the Abyss (a series of interviews with a death row inmate)
Sins of My Father (the late but still notorious Colombian drug lord's impact on his family)
Senna (a look at a Formula One racing driver's rise)
A State of Mind (it tracks two young North Korean girls' preparations for the Mass Games, the world's largest choreographed gymnastics.)
Devil's Playground (a group of Amish teens in modern world)
Campaign (it follows the filmmaker's former college roommate, an aspiring politician who's aiming to enter the Japanese political system through a local election)
Chronos
Microcosmos
Baraka
Samsara
Koyaanisqatsi
Powaqqatsi
Naqoyqatsi
any of Herzog's documentaries are worth a watch - the quality varies but he always chooses interesting subjects so they're never a waste of time.
At the Death House Door - about a preacher whose job it was to spend the last hours with those about to be executed some of whom he thought at the time, and were later proven to be innocent.
American Movie - just a classic.
Lost in La Mancha - makes you realise someone up above really has it in for Terry Gilliam