Documentaries

[morgan]

A humongous flustercuck from beginning to end.

Abso-fricken-lutely!!!

Just finished this series. I was absolutely horrified from the very beginning, but could not. stop. watching. To say I binge watched would be a gross understatement. It haunted my dreams and I watched it sometimes early in the morning or late at night when I couldn't sleep.

And Sigmund - I wholeheartedly agree with your spoiler as well!!!!

 

[fljoe0]

Matt Shepard Is A Friend Of Mine (2015)

This is an amazing job for a first time documentarian. A friend of Matt Shepard's made this documentary about his life and death. The documentary is full of home movie clips and journal entries that gives us a good view of who Matt was. A beautiful and heartbreaking documentary. Available on netflix.

 

[fljoe0]

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)

Wow. A frightening look at this strange church (cult) that includes interviews with eight (higher-up) former members. The first half is the story of L Ron Hubbard and the founding of the church and the second half is about the church's modern day activities. This is a must see documentary.

I rented the dvd from netflix; it's not available for streaming

 

[Dana Jean]

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)

Wow. A frightening look at this strange church (cult) that includes interviews with eight (higher-up) former members. The first half is the story of L Ron Hubbard and the founding of the church and the second half is about the church's modern day activities. This is a must see documentary.

I rented the dvd from netflix; it's not available for streaming

I watched this one also! It was on HBO or Showtime or one of those stations. It is always fascinating what people will put up with in the name of religion.

 

[fljoe0]

I watched this one also! It was on HBO or Showtime or one of those stations. It is always fascinating what people will put up with in the name of religion.

The whole history will L Ron Hubbard was fascinating. There is a movie with Philip Hoffman called The Master that is a fictional take on (part of) the Hubbard story. I saw the movie a couple of years ago and liked it but didn't really know the background story. Now that I've seen the documentary, I want to revisit that movie. A lot of the movie takes place on a ship just like in the doc.

 

[Dana Jean]

The whole history will L Ron Hubbard was fascinating. There is a movie with Philip Hoffman called The Master that is a fictional take on (part of) the Hubbard story. I saw the movie a couple of years ago and liked it but didn't really know the background story. Now that I've seen the documentary, I want to revisit that movie. A lot of the movie takes place on a ship just like in the doc.

The guy was nuts. Just nuts. It seems throughout history, people follow a nut and establish a religion. Weird to me.

 

[danie]

I watched this one also! It was on HBO or Showtime or one of those stations. It is always fascinating what people will put up with in the name of religion.

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)

Wow. A frightening look at this strange church (cult) that includes interviews with eight (higher-up) former members. The first half is the story of L Ron Hubbard and the founding of the church and the second half is about the church's modern day activities. This is a must see documentary.

I rented the dvd from netflix; it's not available for streaming

LOVE this SNL parody!

 

[Dana Jean]

LOVE this SNL parody!

Yes! I laughed so hard.

 

[muskrat]

Prophet's Prey by Amy Berg. Chilling account of that piece of human (?) filth Warren Jeffs. Her doc West of Memphis is great, too. Now I wanna see An Open Secret; that is, if my stomach can handle it.

Movies like this get my dander up, I tell ya.

 

[muskrat]

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)

Wow. A frightening look at this strange church (cult) that includes interviews with eight (higher-up) former members. The first half is the story of L Ron Hubbard and the founding of the church and the second half is about the church's modern day activities. This is a must see documentary.

I rented the dvd from netflix; it's not available for streaming

Just watched this'n too. Creepy as hell.

 

[fljoe0]

David Bowie: Five Years

This one is not a comprehensive overview of Bowie's career but instead, it looks at 5 different years in his career (1971, 1975, 1977, 1980 and 1983 - and it cheats a little and covers a little extra territory). Each of these years marked a change in musical direction for Bowie. It's only an hour long, so it just skims the surface of these important five years but it's still very good and it's loaded with video footage I had never seen before.

I saw this on MTV Live (I think - it was somewhere in the maze of channels on DirectTV) and I think it's playing on Hulu.

 

[AnnaMarie]

Today I watched Being Canadian. hilarious,


I even learned something...Rich Little is Canadian. I used to love watching him on Love American Style when I was little. (Ironic eh?)

And I was reminded of something. The Charlottetown Conference in 1864, when leaders from the various parts that eventually joined to become Canada all met to discuss joining, got upstaged. By a circus. Some of the politicians couldn't get rooms and had to sleep on their boats. And all the news reporters....were more interested in the circus.

No wonder our biggest export is comedians.

 

[Dana Jean]

Finding Vivian Maier -- Netflix

Super good. Anyone who loves photography will enjoy this, anyone who loves a mystery will love this. Really a well done documentary and I applaud the young man who pursued the story.

 

[Doc Creed]

Finding Vivian Maier -- Netflix

Super good. Anyone who loves photography will enjoy this, anyone who loves a mystery will love this. Really a well done documentary and I applaud the young man who pursued the story.

I watched this last year on HBO. I really enjoyed it. Fascinating woman. By the end of it I wanted to know more about her.

 

[Dana Jean]

I watched this last year on HBO. I really enjoyed it. Fascinating woman. By the end of it I wanted to know more about her.

Yes, I did too. It did sound as if she suffered some sort of trauma in her life, and it was very weird that the family was so separate from each other, all across the family!

 

[Dana Jean]

And many of her pictures were absolutely just amazing, beautiful frozen moments in time. Frozen people in time.

 

[Doc Creed]

Yes, I did too. It did sound as if she suffered some sort of trauma in her life, and it was very weird that the family was so separate from each other, all across the family!

Yeah, I know. By the midway point I didn't quite know how I felt about her ( because of certain allegations made against her) but I felt more empathy for her than judgment. What a beautiful human being. To see beauty despite the inner turmoil she faced. Do you think she had anger issues, trust issues? Didn't she like to be isolated and not have people seeing her work?

 

[Doc Creed]

And many of her pictures were absolutely just amazing, beautiful frozen moments in time. Frozen people in time.

Yeah, this is a documentary I'd like to buy and watch again. The only documentary that I own is Grey Gardens.

 

[Dana Jean]

She never allowed anyone to see her work. The only way it got known was the kid documentarian bought a box of her negatives at an auction, because after she died, her stuff just got donated or thrown away. Once he saw what he had, he started his search.

I do thnk she had major trust issues, and maybe a little rough with her kids she nannied. But I'm wondering how she kept getting jobs as a nanny if she was so mean?

She was quirky and definitely liked the darker side of life, but not shying away from moments of sweetness and tenderness in her photographs.

 

[Dana Jean]

Yeah, this is a documentary I'd like to buy and watch again. The only documentary that I own is Grey Gardens.

That is another really great documentary.