Documentaries?

[nyc-cowboy]

Next on my list, but i'll watch all anyone suggests with sincerity.....

Thats why I love Netflix - here are so many documentaries that I've never even knew existed.

As for M Moore, yes he's obviously bias but that doesn't mean some of his points aren't valid.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Thats why I love Netflix - here are so many documentaries that I've never even knew existed.

As for M Moore, yes he's obviously bias but that doesn't mean some of his points aren't valid.

I'd much rather watch a good documentary than a Hollywood flick and even some so-called indy dramas.

The world needs more documentaries.

 

[Hostile]

Very, very cool my friend.

Thank you.

I was maddest that they didn't film the one I wrote about the rest of the Wild Bunch beyond Butch and Sundance.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

If you have Netflix, the one about North Korea is really alarming.

 

[nyc-cowboy]

If you have Netflix, the one about North Korea is really alarming.

Which one - I saw one a while ago about these 2-4 guys that defected to North Korea during the war - forgot name.

As for the movies of today - IMO most are very good and thats putting it mildly.
I'm one that likes all kinds of movies and I have a hard time picking newer movies for my DVD queue.

I also do like some independent and foreign films.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Which one - I saw one a while ago about these 2-4 guys that defected to North Korea during the war - forgot name.

As for the movies of today - IMO most are very good and thats putting it mildly.
I'm one that likes all kinds of movies and I have a hard time picking newer movies for my DVD queue.

I also do like some independent and foreign films.

I like movies, too. I just really like documentaries. Man, this crude one got it right when they named it....oil industry has a terrible impact. If you don't think so, just as the Ecuadorians.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Which one - I saw one a while ago about these 2-4 guys that defected to North Korea during the war - forgot name.

As for the movies of today - IMO most are very good and thats putting it mildly.
I'm one that likes all kinds of movies and I have a hard time picking newer movies for my DVD queue.

I also do like some independent and foreign films.

Lisa Ling does the doc. Inside North Korea.

 

[BigWillie]

Dear Zachary - If you have never heard this real story, then I challenge you to watch it without a dry eye and complete anger by the end. I'm a grown man, and not ashamed to admit that is how I felt watching this. Absolutely a must watch!

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia - You may or may not remember a man named Jesco White. He was famously filmed in an old PBS documentary from the early 90's called "The Dancing Outlaw". Well, this documentary follows Jesco and his entire family from rural West Virginia. Just imagine a complete stereotypical West Virginian family, multiply that x50, and you have the family you will watch in this documentary. I am from Virginia, but I could not even help but laugh at the complete absurdity level that this people live at on a day-to-day basis. Watch this if you ever feel the need for a good laugh.

 

[MetalHead]

Lisa Ling does the doc. Inside North Korea.

Seen that one too.There is no escape from there...

 

[peplaw06]

"Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" is a GREAT one! I would highly recommend that to anyone.

Agreed... Stein is one of my favorites.

Hot Coffee was done by HBO lately, and is very good.

I'm also biased with this recommendation... The 7th Man. It's about 6-man football in Texas and focuses on Panther Creek High School. Val Kilmer narrated it.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Seen that one too.There is no escape from there...

Actually, there is escaping from there. It's just that they kill your family if you cross that land field.

I had a law professor, T.K. Seung, the most genius guy I've ever had the pleasure of taking who was from there, escaped from being part of their military. Then he became part of ours and then went to Yale after fighting in the Korean war.

Just an amazing guy; even more amazing story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._K._Seung

But when they asked the guy in the doc what happened to his family when they found out he, too, left a N. Korean military position to flee the country, his reply was, "I don't want to talk about that."

Chilling.

 

[nyc-cowboy]

I like movies, too. I just really like documentaries. Man, this crude one got it right when they named it....oil industry has a terrible impact. If you don't think so, just as the Ecuadorians.

I meant to say that the movies of today aren't very good - my bad.

As far as asking Ecuadorians - I am one : )
I was born in Brooklyn by the rest of my family, Parents, brother and sisters were born there so I know what the oil companies have done in Ecuador and thru out the Amazon.

A interesting side note - there was a docu about some missionaries that went to the Ecua Amazon but they got killed by some indians, the ppl that got killed flew out of a place called "Shellmera" - my pops worked for Shell Oil back in the 40s and worked in the jungles around Shellmera.

I remember him telling us some wild stories when I was a kid, of his days in the jungle and Shellmera, then I saw that docu - what a coincidence.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

I meant to say that the movies of today aren't very good - my bad.

As far as asking Ecuadorians - I am one : )
I was born in Brooklyn by the rest of my family, Parents, brother and sisters were born there so I know what the oil companies have done in Ecuador and thru out the Amazon.

A interesting side note - there was a docu about some missionaries that went to the Ecua Amazon but they got killed by some indians, the ppl that got killed flew out of a place called "Shellmera" - my pops worked for Shell Oil back in the 40s and worked in the jungles around Shellmera.

I remember him telling us some wild stories when I was a kid, of his days in the jungle and Shellmera, then I saw that docu - what a coincidence.

Interesting. That's why I like docs so much. It's often someone when an agenda, yeah. But the problem is people discredit them altogether because it's a documentary. These are some of the most informative tools we have. We're ruining our rainforests...our most precious resources in the name of oil and politics. Not to mention killing people with the need for our gasoline. That's a fact. This really does bring to light some truth, but as you know most Americans don't really care.

What's the name of it?

 

[rkell87]

bigger stronger faster

 

[nyc-cowboy]

Interesting. That's why I like docs so much. It's often someone when an agenda, yeah. But the problem is people discredit them altogether because it's a documentary. These are some of the most informative tools we have. We're ruining our rainforests...our most precious resources in the name of oil and politics. Not to mention killing people with the need for our gasoline. That's a fact. This really does bring to light some truth, but as you know most Americans don't really care.

What's the name of it?

I forgot the name - I'm gonna try to find it - I think I saw it on the Discovery channel or something.

A few tidbits about the Amazon Rainforest:

- As the rainforest species disappear, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases. Currently, 121 prescription drugs sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources. While 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, less that 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists.

- There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000.

- Most medicine men and shamans remaining in the Rainforests today are 70 years old or more. Each time a rainforest medicine man dies, it is as if a library has burned down.

- The Amazon Rainforest has been described as the "Lungs of our Planet" because it provides the essential environmental world service of continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen. More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest.

- More than half of the world's estimated 10 million species of plants, animals and insects live in the tropical rainforests. One-fifth of the world's fresh water is in the Amazon Basin.

- At least 80% of the developed world's diet originated in the tropical rainforest. Its bountiful gifts to the world include fruits like avocados, coconuts, figs, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, bananas, guavas, pineapples, mangos and tomatoes; vegetables including corn, potatoes, rice, winter squash and yams; spices like black pepper, cayenne, chocolate, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, sugar cane, tumeric, coffee and vanilla and nuts including Brazil nuts and cashews.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

I forgot the name - I'm gonna try to find it - I think I saw it on the Discovery channel or something.

A few tidbits about the Amazon Rainforest:

- As the rainforest species disappear, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases. Currently, 121 prescription drugs sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources. While 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, less that 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists.

- There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000.

- Most medicine men and shamans remaining in the Rainforests today are 70 years old or more. Each time a rainforest medicine man dies, it is as if a library has burned down.

- The Amazon Rainforest has been described as the "Lungs of our Planet" because it provides the essential environmental world service of continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen. More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest.

- More than half of the world's estimated 10 million species of plants, animals and insects live in the tropical rainforests. One-fifth of the world's fresh water is in the Amazon Basin.

- At least 80% of the developed world's diet originated in the tropical rainforest. Its bountiful gifts to the world include fruits like avocados, coconuts, figs, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, bananas, guavas, pineapples, mangos and tomatoes; vegetables including corn, potatoes, rice, winter squash and yams; spices like black pepper, cayenne, chocolate, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, sugar cane, tumeric, coffee and vanilla and nuts including Brazil nuts and cashews.

And big oil just takes a dump right in the middle of it.

 

[nyc-cowboy]

And big oil just takes a dump right in the middle of it.

Yup, between oil and timber - it doesn't look good.

As for that docu on North Korea that you mentioned - yes I did see that one - it was very good.

Its amazing what a closed society it is, I feel sorry for those ppl - they are brainwashed,scared and starving, with no hope in sight.

I sometimes go Youtube and go to "Journeyman pictures" - its a great outfit that does a lot of interesting docus. they had a good one on Cambodia/Kampuchia - the whole Pol Pot mess.

 

[Reality]

I just finished watching "WWII HD" which is a full color documentary of World War II created by the History Channel from vintage and many unseen footage taken during the war. What I loved is they intertwined present day people with younger, narrated versions of themselves walking you through step after step of the war.

The narrators include Rob Lowe, Amy Smart, Steve Zahn, LL Cool J, Justin Bartha, Rob Corddry, Tim DeKay, Mark Hefti, James Kyson Lee, Ron Livingston, Josh Lucas and Jason Ritter and that all do a great job taking on the role of the person they are representing.

I was never a big fan of war documentaries because most are either too monotone and boring or over embellished in some areas while skipping other areas completely.

WWII HD follows a timeline with real details that I have never seen in a WWII documentary. It covers every single island battle in the Pacific for example rather than just the ones most people have heard about. I learned a lot that I did not know.

The fact that it was all shot in color and contains a lot of never seen before footage from around the world helps keep you glued to it the entire time.

I will warn you that there is a lot of carnage and disturbing images and video.

http://www.history.com/shows/wwii-in-hd/articles/about-wwii-in-hd

-Reality

 

[nyc-cowboy]

I saw the commercial for that - got to see it.

 

[LeonDixson]

I just finished watching "WWII HD" which is a full color documentary of World War II created by the History Channel from vintage and many unseen footage taken during the war. What I loved is they intertwined present day people with younger, narrated versions of themselves walking you through step after step of the war.

The narrators include Rob Lowe, Amy Smart, Steve Zahn, LL Cool J, Justin Bartha, Rob Corddry, Tim DeKay, Mark Hefti, James Kyson Lee, Ron Livingston, Josh Lucas and Jason Ritter and that all do a great job taking on the role of the person they are representing.

I was never a big fan of war documentaries because most are either too monotone and boring or over embellished in some areas while skipping other areas completely.

WWII HD follows a timeline with real details that I have never seen in a WWII documentary. It covers every single island battle in the Pacific for example rather than just the ones most people have heard about. I learned a lot that I did not know.

The fact that it was all shot in color and contains a lot of never seen before footage from around the world helps keep you glued to it the entire time.

I will warn you that there is a lot of carnage and disturbing images and video.

http://www.history.com/shows/wwii-in-hd/articles/about-wwii-in-hd

-Reality

I like most of the WWII documentaries. The old "World at War" series was a favorite of mine. I also liked the "dog fights" series.