Documentaries

  • This message board permanently closed on June 30th, 2020 at 4PM EDT and is no longer accepting new members.

Dana Jean

Dana Jean

Dirty Pirate Hooker, The Return
Moderator
Apr 11, 2006
53,634
236,697
The High Seas
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead -- About the National Lampoon magazine. Very interesting. Is this magazine still in circulation? I can't even begin to think it is because there is no way they could get away with this stuff today. Everyone gets their panties in a wad over everything.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Patricia A
Arcadevere

Arcadevere

Gentle Lady From Brady Hartsfield Defense Squad
Mar 3, 2016
793
3,689
Manila, Philippines
steamcommunity.com
probably my most favorite documentary series were Engineering an Empire, Big History and Haunted History

got hooked today with Hunting Hitler, Ancient Aliens, the Bigfoot (i think it was finding big foot) and GENIUS
i felt bad for Mr. Farnsworth at the previous episode


Patricia A said:
I'm watching The West series by Ken Burns. It seems like anything by Ken Burns is fantastic. The one he did about the Dust-bowl was amazing.
Click to expand...

i remember buying a Dust bowl coffee table book from a book sale for a less than one dollar in my currency. it was amazing actually


Sigmund said:


The Manila hostage crisis, officially known as the Rizal Park hostage-taking incident,[3] occurred when a disgruntled former Philippine National Police officer named Rolando Mendoza hijacked a tourist bus in Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines on August 23, 2010. The bus carried 25 people: 20 tourists, a tour guide from Hong Kong, and four local Filipinos. Mendoza claimed that he had been unfairly dismissed from his job, and demanded a fair hearing to defend himself.[4][5]

This was a total flustercluck! MEDIA was a PITA. Disaster.
Click to expand...

oh god, i remember that i was watching at my home for the live coverage of this one (covered by one of the local TV stations here)
because this one was aired from the start until it ended to a lots of shooting (probably the hostage taking lasted for half a day?)
I felt horrible because i used to play track and field and Badminton at Quirino grandstand when i was young. and the irony is, it happens after the presidential election here, and this one cause some suspicious to our National Police and some you know. . . . anomalies.
i will never forget this tragedy because it literally made me stop from finishing my book report.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Patricia A and Dana Jean
fljoe0

fljoe0

Cantre Member
Apr 5, 2008
15,859
71,642
62
120 miles S of the Pancake/Waffle line
OJ Speaks: The Hidden Tapes (2015) I think this is running on A&E

This doc is about the depositions that OJ did prior to the civil trial and some of his testimony in the civil trial. The documentary shows the tapes and has interviews with the friends and families of the victims and attorneys involved. The deposition tapes are absolutely chilling. It's textbook stalking. Of course, he denies the crimes in the depositions but he is amazingly transparent and the lies are very easy to see. Watching him justify everything and turn himself into a victim is sickening. At one point, he complains about how much more he has lost than Ron Goldman. He said, we've both lost someone we loved but I've also been financially ruined. Sickening stuff but it is a very illuminating look into the batterer and stalker personalities and how they justify their horrible actions and look at themselves as the victim.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Spideyman, Patricia A and Dana Jean
not_nadine

not_nadine

Comfortably Roont
Nov 19, 2011
29,655
139,785
Behind you
fljoe0 said:
OJ Speaks: The Hidden Tapes (2015) I think this is running on A&E

This doc is about the depositions that OJ did prior to the civil trial and some of his testimony in the civil trial. The documentary shows the tapes and has interviews with the friends and families of the victims and attorneys involved. The deposition tapes are absolutely chilling. It's textbook stalking. Of course, he denies the crimes in the depositions but he is amazingly transparent and the lies are very easy to see. Watching him justify everything and turn himself into a victim is sickening. At one point, he complains about how much more he has lost than Ron Goldman. He said, we've both lost someone we loved but I've also been financially ruined. Sickening stuff but it is a very illuminating look into the batterer and stalker personalities and how they justify their horrible actions and look at themselves as the victim.
Click to expand...

I was just coming here to post this. Watched two of them last night. I did not want to, but couldn't stop. It ran on the History channel here.


Sorry for the language, but what a sick, arrogant **** he is.

I have much respect for Fred Goldman. I do not think I could have sat there looking at him during the civil trial without.. just jumping over the table at him.

But Mr. Goldman had more dignity than that.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: Spideyman, Patricia A, Dana Jean and 1 other person
fljoe0

fljoe0

Cantre Member
Apr 5, 2008
15,859
71,642
62
120 miles S of the Pancake/Waffle line
not_nadine said:
I was just coming here to post this. Watched two of them last night. I did not want to, but couldn't stop. It ran on the History channel here.


Sorry for the language, but what a sick, arrogant **** he is.

I have much respect for Fred Goldman. I do not think I could have sat there looking at him during the civil trial without.. just jumping over the table at him.

But Mr. Goldman had more dignity than that.
Click to expand...

I saw the A&E TV show too and thought they did pretty good. I read where Marcia Clark thought they did a decent job with the TV show. She said that her and Chris Darden knew early on that they were probably not going to get a guilty verdict because of the way the jury was reacting to everything. She said the jury really seemed to be on the defense side from the outset.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Spideyman, Patricia A and Dana Jean
Dana Jean

Dana Jean

Dirty Pirate Hooker, The Return
Moderator
Apr 11, 2006
53,634
236,697
The High Seas
I watched a doc called Just Melvin, Just Evil on youtube. It's about a serial child molester/murderer who got away with the murder even though witnesses went to the police. He was never charged. And he did spend time in jail for molesting, but the sick dude molested so many kids, married mothers of little girls and had some of his own with each and as those girls got big, moved onto the next ones. He molested a handicapped girl -- sick sick sick. And he messed those kids up forever. They were all so messed up and some would molest each other. Wow. If any of you suspect someone is molesting a child, turn them in - do it anonymously, but do it.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: Spideyman, skimom2, Doc Creed and 2 others
Neesy

Neesy

#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
May 24, 2012
61,289
239,271
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Dana Jean said:
I watched a doc called Just Melvin, Just Evil on youtube. It's about a serial child molester/murderer who got away with the murder even though witnesses went to the police. He was never charged. And he did spend time in jail for molesting, but the sick dude molested so many kids, married mothers of little girls and had some of his own with each and as those girls got big, moved onto the next ones. He molested a handicapped girl -- sick sick sick. And he messed those kids up forever. They were all so messed up and some would molest each other. Wow. If any of you suspect someone is molesting a child, turn them in - do it anonymously, but do it.
Click to expand...
You are so right - years ago I had a hunch/suspicion/sick feeling about a babysitter's brother. Never had the guts to follow through - I feel bad about it now.

Child molestation is the most heinous crime in the world.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Spideyman, Patricia A, Dana Jean and 1 other person
Patricia A

Patricia A

ReMember
Jul 10, 2006
12,887
13,846
64
Puget Sound
I used to be a True Crime fan. I was raised on True Detective Magazine, but I can't do it anymore. I totally get the idea of learning how those sick fekks operate and the, for lack of a better word, fascination with how a person can get so twisted. I don't think the majority of the documentaries are bad in any way, they are lessons in humanity and the lack of it. I just lost my nerve.
I had to stop, because they literally make me sick anymore. I was reading a book about Dahmer a few years back, and how the one boy got away, and the cops brought him back. I had a panic attack right then. I felt like I was suffocating, I was shaking all over and then threw up. I cried for hours.
It's rare that I even watch made up crime dramas anymore. No stomach for it. I use to love all the Law and Order shows etc. Can hardly watch them these days.
I just wonder how it is I became so sensitive to that, but still can devour a Stephen King book, get good and scared but not freak out? I hope I never have to stop reading his books, that would be awful.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Spideyman, skimom2, Neesy and 2 others
Neesy

Neesy

#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
May 24, 2012
61,289
239,271
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Saw a documentary on the weekend on Nora Ephron. Not too bad - she was quite an independent woman for her time; I did not know she had done the screenplays for so many movies.

Meryl Streep played her in a movie (with Jack Nicholson), called Heartburn. She also wrote the screenplay for Sleepless in Seattle.

The documentary was called "Everything is Copy".
 
  • Like
Reactions: Spideyman, Dana Jean and Patricia A
skimom2

skimom2

Just moseyin' through...
Oct 9, 2013
15,683
92,168
USA
Dana Jean said:
I watched a doc called Just Melvin, Just Evil on youtube. It's about a serial child molester/murderer who got away with the murder even though witnesses went to the police. He was never charged. And he did spend time in jail for molesting, but the sick dude molested so many kids, married mothers of little girls and had some of his own with each and as those girls got big, moved onto the next ones. He molested a handicapped girl -- sick sick sick. And he messed those kids up forever. They were all so messed up and some would molest each other. Wow. If any of you suspect someone is molesting a child, turn them in - do it anonymously, but do it.
Click to expand...
And hope it does some good. It doesn't, sometimes. I had a friend in Jr. high that ALWAYS wanted sleepovers at her house. I stayed over a few times, but her dad completely freaked me out, so I finally asked my mom to say 'no' if I asked again (a kid has to save face). Turns out the dad had been molesting his daughter for years, and she was only safe when someone stayed over. My parents reported what she said, she told a counselor at school... and nothing happened because he was an officer (military). They had to go to family counseling. Big whoop. Didn't stop him. Disgusting.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Neesy, Dana Jean, Spideyman and 1 other person
skimom2

skimom2

Just moseyin' through...
Oct 9, 2013
15,683
92,168
USA
Patricia A said:
I used to be a True Crime fan. I was raised on True Detective Magazine, but I can't do it anymore. I totally get the idea of learning how those sick fekks operate and the, for lack of a better word, fascination with how a person can get so twisted. I don't think the majority of the documentaries are bad in any way, they are lessons in humanity and the lack of it. I just lost my nerve.
I had to stop, because they literally make me sick anymore. I was reading a book about Dahmer a few years back, and how the one boy got away, and the cops brought him back. I had a panic attack right then. I felt like I was suffocating, I was shaking all over and then threw up. I cried for hours.
It's rare that I even watch made up crime dramas anymore. No stomach for it. I use to love all the Law and Order shows etc. Can hardly watch them these days.
I just wonder how it is I became so sensitive to that, but still can devour a Stephen King book, get good and scared but not freak out? I hope I never have to stop reading his books, that would be awful.
Click to expand...

Hope, love, and heart. Those set his stories apart from so many others.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Neesy, Dana Jean, Spideyman and 1 other person
muskrat

muskrat

Dis-Member
Nov 8, 2010
4,518
19,564
Under your bed
From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses (2014).

All about the cinema of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), featuring lots of restored footage of great old flicks. Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Von Steinberg, many others I hadn't heard of. Doggone subtitled narration, which is a pain when you wanna see all that wild imagery. But good.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Neesy, Roho T Rooster, Tery and 3 others
Dana Jean

Dana Jean

Dirty Pirate Hooker, The Return
Moderator
Apr 11, 2006
53,634
236,697
The High Seas
The Seven Five.

Cop corruption in the 1980's Brooklyn. Honest, and hard hitting. Fascinating.

I can see how this happens. Underpaid cops risking their lives make a bust on some scum bag with bags of money. Easy to step over that line after years of feeling unappreciated.

Michael Dowd, the leader of this particular bad-cop group said something to the affect, forget hollywood, the "poor" neighborhoods are where the money is.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Neesy and Patricia A
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom