Cool documentaries.

Just watched a ken burns doc called National Parks : americas greatest idea. its on nextflix, i really enjoyed it, highly recommend it, if your into outdoorsy kind of stuff.
 
vice media on DPRK/Liberia/and the mexican cartles and mitt romney's family.

warning the liberia one has some of the worst shit humanly imaginable on it
 
Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. How often does one watch the same documentary 3 times? Not often, i've made my case.
 
I may get hate on for this, but Catfish is actually a really good documentary.

But that's coming from someone who has Catfish: The TV Show as a guilty pleasure...
 
all of the vice skateboarding documentaries called eicly laterd are awesome, especially the john cardiel one, and all of the Louis theroux documentaries that he does for the BBC are too
 
Sorry for the dub post, but I also watched a VICE documentary about north korea a couple months ago that was super interesting. Forgot the exact name but should be easy to find
 
Touching the void.

An amazing story of the will to survive.

The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
 
Check out Antics Roadshow if you like Exit

Life in a day, Gonzo, Happy, War photographer, Science of Evil. All are good and on Netflix
 


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also

The botony of desire

Vice guide to travel

national geographic- inside north Korea

microcosmos

food inc.

restrepo

gonzo

man on wire

life in a day

American- a bill hicks story

future by design

i'm thinkin that should hold you over

 
oh shit, i forgot we live in public- probably the most horrifying, weird, mindboggling documentary i have seen.

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encounters at the end of the world.

its about antartica. its on netflix and is really good. Werner Herzog who films it has a good eye for subtle humor. and is a pretty intresting guy too if you look in to his other documentries. theres this one clip of him in the middle east doing a film about the war and he gets shot when hes doing a interview and hes totaly chill and calm about it. hes liek oh guys i think iv been shot in the abdemon and just gets up and walks away. such a boss
 
Any documentary that has David Attenborough as narrator. His silky smooth and soft voice has the ability to make even the most mundane things interesting.
 
if you're into war documentaries:armadillo: video docu of a danish group of soldiers in afghanistan

restrepo: video diary/docu of a group of US soldiers holding a forward outpost in one of the most dangerous regions in afghanistan. the FOB got named 'restrepo' after one of their brothers who got killed in action ...

furthermore

hanuman airlines: through sheer coincidence 2 nepalese guys meet eachother, one is a guide/sherpa on mount everest, the other a paraglider, their two lifestories flow together and bring them the amazing plan of paragliding down mount everest to the ocean ...

Kadoma: kayaking flick, a group of 3 kayaks down the congo river when their guide gets eaten by a crocodile they are left stranded in the middle of one of the most hostile and remote regions of the world ...

 
and if you're into 'wild things''surviving alone in alaska' narrates the story of Heimo Korth who lives in a remote cabin in the middle of 19million acres of gnarly alaskan wilderness !

-> link to full docu:
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and 'happy people: a year in the taiga' - pretty similar, just check the trailer:

 
Senna. Don't know if it was mentioned but its awesome. About a formula 1 racer in the 80's I think? Super interesting.
 
A formula one racer? A?

The formula one racer you mean.

Shows you how interested you were, or how good your memory is.
 
I watched it a while ago, and it had no subtitles. I watched a documentary from the 80's which was half in spanish about a sport i knew nothing about so yeah Id say i was pretty interested lol. memory I won't disagree with you ha
 
For anyone interested in medical documentaries, here's an extremely captivatng one from the start. It's got multiple parts so its a bit lengthy. but it's worthwhile for sure and it really makes you think of how fucked up the initial ideas for surgery were in the past

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Degenerate Art was awesome.

And every time one of these threads pop up I always say the one with the bums who bomb hills on shopping carts. Never remember the name but it was awesome.
 
Cocaine Cowboys.

It's about the cocaine trade in the 80's. Interviews real drug runners, discusses the Medellin Cartel and Griselda Blanco. Pretty entertaining as well.
 
"Radioactive wolves"

It's about a wolf pack that is surviving and thriving in the areas of and surrounding Chernobyl, Ukraine. Really a great watch
 
JIro dreams of sushi is one of the best things i have seen in a while. Dude lives his life with such discipline. Fucking incredible.
 
Dont know if anyones mentioned this yet, but Louis Theroux's Westborough Baptist Church is a pretty good one. Fascinating to see how crazy these people really are

 
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