Favorite documentaries thread

[aria]

GRIZZLY MAN! I felt like I was high the entire time, pretty sure Timothy Treadwell was, lol.

 

[paladin]

PBS: Across The Pacific

Across the Pacific is a three-hour documentary series about one of the great milestones in aviation history: the 1935 crossing of the Pacific Ocean by a Pan American Airways flying boat known as the China Clipper.

The China Clipper’s take-off from San Francisco Bay in November 1935 was one of the most-anticipated, most-listened-to events in history to that point. Broadcast live over nine radio networks reaching millions of listeners on four continents, it was a forerunner of the rocket launches from Cape Canaveral a quarter century later. People everywhere sensed this was a pivotal moment in human history, for if the Pacific could be crossed, there would be no place on earth that could not be reached by airplane. The world would suddenly be smaller.

But as with the space program, the real drama in this story is not in the flight itself; it’s in the effort it took to reach this point. The Clipper’s maiden voyage was the culmination of eight years of explosive innovation and growth, involving hundreds of men and women, both famous and unknown. Like the NASA engineers and astronauts who would later put a man on the moon in less than a decade, these earlier aviation pioneers built new aircraft, invented new technologies and overcame innumerable obstacles. They had begun in 1927 with a single, 90-mile airmail route. Now they stood at the water’s edge, poised to vault the 8,700 miles of the mighty Pacific.

https://vpm.org/watch/articles/13582/across-the-pacific-episode-1-airborne

I would never had watched this if I hadn't read your post.
It's fascinating....many thanks

 

[RoboQB]

The Men Who Built America

 

[NorthoftheRedRiver]

 

[SumGuy]

Love this movie/documentary -- and it's free to watch now!

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

Fog of War
Under the Great White Northern Lights
The Vietnam War (Ken Burns)

 

[quickccc]

So..........you like documentaries?

My compliments to the OC for allowing us to express our thoughts and opinions on that which intrigues
us as such.

As well as hear from others on their particular Doc favs ..Very Interesting ...

 

[Runwildboys]

My compliments to the OC for allowing us to express our thoughts and opinions on that which intrigues
us as such.

As well as hear from others on their particular Doc favs ..Very Interesting ...

I'm not sure how you took my post, but it was meant as a joke, pointing out that he had a long list.

 

[quickccc]

I'm not sure how you took my post, but it was meant as a joke, pointing out that he had a long list.

yeh i believed and took as sarcasm oriented, but i really do thank the ones that bring this kind of interest point threads that
give me opportunities of expressions and a challenge to 'somehow ' collect my memory brain cells together to recall these favs regardless of genres. These kind of post become irresistable fun.

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[PJTHEDOORS]

 

[yimyammer]

I just binged this on Showtime and really enjoyed it:

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

I just binged this on Showtime and really enjoyed it:

I watched a few episodes and thought it was very good. Was somewhat surprised at the number of alumni that performed there.