Favorite documentaries? (movies, episodes, channel, children)

[fleetiebelle]

I'm a fan of documentaries about odd competitions:
Air Guitar Nation
King of Kong (old school video games)
Spellbound (spelling bees)
Wordplay (crossword puzzles)
American Harmony (barbershop quartets)

[JPD]

Jamie Foxx Presents Thunder Soul | The True Story of Conrad Johnson & The Kashmere Stage Band

[fruitlassie]

I could list dozens and dozens...I watch a lot of them! Just a few that come to mind immediately (most should still be on Netflix):

The Imposter
The Queen of Versailles
Blackfish
Sons of Perdition
Limelight
Happy People: A Year In The Taiga
The Short Game
Lost Angels
Kings of Pastry
Klitschko (I'm not a boxing fan, but I enjoyed it anyway)

[hhwdavid]

Immigration Nation Ep.1: White Australia Policy -Part 1/4 - YouTube




The First World War - E01 - To Arms - YouTube

[User1771]

There are also plenty of fascinating documentaries on North Korea as well

[tmozer]

My current recently watched favorite on Netflix: Particle Fever. Love the science stuff, especially physics and space related. Also the Mark Twain documentary on PBS. Watched part one. Awaiting part two.

[No2Monsanto]

Originally Posted by STB93

I would like to know, does anyone have any cool favorite documentaries that they like or they enjoy? What are some of the best that you have see and would like to share?

Inequality For All
Twenty Feet From Stardom (About the lives of backup singers; won an Academy Award last year)
Food, Inc.
CNBC: Inside Harvard Business School
The Harvest: La Cosecha (About Immigrant Farm Workers)
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
Dying to Have Known (Story of a woman with cancer discovering the holistic approach to treating disease)
Trading on Thin Air
Goldman Sachs: Power and Peril
Somewhere Between (About adopted Chinese Children trying to assimilate in white America)
Lost Angels: Skid Row is My Home
Tapped (About the big business of bottled water)
Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead! (Losing weight and healing from diseases through juicing; one man's story)
The One Percent (The liberal grandson of Johnson & Johnson family talks about unfair privileges of the rich)
What's on Your Plate?
The Best Government Money Can Buy? (All about corporations and their lobbyists)
Bananas! (A Los Angeles attorney takes Dole, Inc. to court over their Guatemalan farm workers)
Nursery University (About the ever competitive world of parents in NYC getting their kids into private head start programs)

In case you hadn't noticed, Documentaries are kinda my thing. But these are really interesting!

[daylux]

Children Underground is a good one. It follows unwanted children who end up on the streets in Romania, and shows their day to day struggles.

I like the 7up series, where they follow peoples lives from childhood through adulthood. There is an American version they aired in the late 90s early 2000s I haven't been able to find that I would like to see again.

[Jess5]

Originally Posted by zugor

I rent a ton of documentaries from Netflix. Here's a list of many of the most recent ones:

Clear the Skies
Frontline: Obama's Deal
Edward R. Murrow; The Voice of America
Inequality for All
Dogs and More Dogs
Nova: Where did we come from
Fair Game
The Living Edens; Denali: Alaska's Great Wilderness
Frontline: Bigger than Enron
The One Percent
Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
Frontline: The Dark Side
Nova: Hubble's Amazing Rescue
Everest: The Death Zone
Frontline: Inside the Meltdown
Nat. Geo: Everest, Fifty Years on the Mountain
Nova: How Smart are Dogs?
A Man Among Wolves
Frontline: Breaking the Bank
Buck
Frontline: The Warning
The Life of Birds (three parter)
The Appalachians (three parter)
Wolves: A Legend Returns to Yellowstone

Upcoming on my list:

The War; A Ken Burns film (6 parter)
The Brain
Bela Flack; Throw Down your Heart
ReGeneration
Secrets of Body Language
Ebola: The Plague Fighters
Secrets of the Dead; Killer Flu
Ken Burns America: The Congress
Dealing Dogs
Yellowstone: Battle for Life
Big Dogs/Little Dogs
The Canine Connection/The Cat Conspiracy
Journalists Killed in the Line of Duty

Wow, I may have to get Netflix just for their documentaries! So, most of you watch documentaries through them? I hardly ever see any listed on my TV channels, and I have a lot of channels.

[User1771]

America the story of us is also an exellent documentary we have.