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Quirky documentaries... recommendations

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

So I like a quirky documentary...I've seen a fair few but always on the look out for more...especially tonight!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Killing Pablo Escobar - iPlayer. Watched it last night. About a team of British mercenaries hired to kill Pablo.

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

Go on the iPlayer and watch some Adam Curtis - mindbending stuff.

Can't get you out of my Head was the most recent but they're all good. Hypernormalisation and Bitter Lake are masterpieces.

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By *yronMan
over a year ago

grangemouth

'9/11: The Woman Who Wasn't There'. Fascinating insight into someone who claimed to be a 9/11 survivor. Doesn't pass judgement, it allows you to do that yourself, but fascinating and bewildering in equal measures.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Killing Pablo Escobar - iPlayer. Watched it last night. About a team of British mercenaries hired to kill Pablo."

Philly D.A. - documentary series (6 episodes) on iPlayer (part of the Storyville strand).

Three Identical Strangers on Netflix.

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Operation Odessa if it’s still on Netflix.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You've probably seen but Man on Wire is an all time fave of mine.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Killing Pablo Escobar - iPlayer. Watched it last night. About a team of British mercenaries hired to kill Pablo."

The Two Pablos is also excellent.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Killing Pablo Escobar - iPlayer. Watched it last night. About a team of British mercenaries hired to kill Pablo."

Is that the one with scottish guy,a rather unsuccessful mission?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Killing Pablo Escobar - iPlayer. Watched it last night. About a team of British mercenaries hired to kill Pablo.

Philly D.A. - documentary series (6 episodes) on iPlayer (part of the Storyville strand).

Three Identical Strangers on Netflix."

Seen 3 identical, I don't have iplayer

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"You've probably seen but Man on Wire is an all time fave of mine. "

Yes

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Operation Odessa if it’s still on Netflix."

Seen it

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By *iggy5Man
over a year ago

Northamptonshire

Early Louis Theroux. All sorts of subjects.

His later stuff is good, but not quite as fun.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Not into war stuff

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire


"Killing Pablo Escobar - iPlayer. Watched it last night. About a team of British mercenaries hired to kill Pablo.

Is that the one with scottish guy,a rather unsuccessful mission?"

Yes, I watched it the other night. It’s actually quite good

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"'9/11: The Woman Who Wasn't There'. Fascinating insight into someone who claimed to be a 9/11 survivor. Doesn't pass judgement, it allows you to do that yourself, but fascinating and bewildering in equal measures."

Interesting, I can see the reasoning

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Early Louis Theroux. All sorts of subjects.

His later stuff is good, but not quite as fun."

Pretty sure I've done all of him

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I like things tbat are different, like jesus town, grey gardens, honey land, tickled

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I like things tbat are different, like jesus town, grey gardens, honey land, tickled"

Grey Gardens is great

Finding Vivian Maier ?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Go on the iPlayer and watch some Adam Curtis - mindbending stuff.

Can't get you out of my Head was the most recent but they're all good. Hypernormalisation and Bitter Lake are masterpieces."

Can you tell me a little about them?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Raft, real life social experiment.

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By *errocaWoman
over a year ago

Shropshire


"Go on the iPlayer and watch some Adam Curtis - mindbending stuff.

Can't get you out of my Head was the most recent but they're all good. Hypernormalisation and Bitter Lake are masterpieces."

Brilliant watches.. All 3

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I like things tbat are different, like jesus town, grey gardens, honey land, tickled

Grey Gardens is great

Finding Vivian Maier ?"

Now your talking

You know it!

That was wonderful the vivian maier one

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By *etcplCouple
over a year ago

Gapping Fanny

The toys/movies that define us

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"The Raft, real life social experiment."

*please hold*

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"The Raft, real life social experiment."

That looks good! It reminds me of another 2 docs, but I'll go look for this

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool


"Go on the iPlayer and watch some Adam Curtis - mindbending stuff.

Can't get you out of my Head was the most recent but they're all good. Hypernormalisation and Bitter Lake are masterpieces.

Can you tell me a little about them?"

Difficult to summarise but broadly he argues that ideas propagated by elites in business, politics, science etc come to change people's perceptions of themselves and how they behave in daily life. He also illustrates how this is counterproductive in foreign policy e.g. America training Bin Laden in Afghanistan in the name of its national security only for him to become a threat to the very same.

And if that sounds a bit dry, there is loads of cool archive footage and music

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The Raft, real life social experiment.

That looks good! It reminds me of another 2 docs, but I'll go look for this"

Ah, good.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Go on the iPlayer and watch some Adam Curtis - mindbending stuff.

Can't get you out of my Head was the most recent but they're all good. Hypernormalisation and Bitter Lake are masterpieces.

Can you tell me a little about them?

Difficult to summarise but broadly he argues that ideas propagated by elites in business, politics, science etc come to change people's perceptions of themselves and how they behave in daily life. He also illustrates how this is counterproductive in foreign policy e.g. America training Bin Laden in Afghanistan in the name of its national security only for him to become a threat to the very same.

And if that sounds a bit dry, there is loads of cool archive footage and music "

No doesn't sound dry, sounds similar to my thoughts!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"The Raft, real life social experiment.

That looks good! It reminds me of another 2 docs, but I'll go look for this

Ah, good. "

Struggling to find it in my usual places, but ive come across tree line, secret life of trees

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I watched a few interesting fictional documentaries recently that were quite interesting - No Men Allowed, about a world in which women start being able to reproduce without men, and the effect this has on society. Also The History of Time Travel, which was quite fun.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you like an insight in fashion, I loved the one about Alexander Mcqueen, kinda dark but good

Also the Dior one when Raf Simons stepped in after John Galliano.

And the September issue was good too x

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"If you like an insight in fashion, I loved the one about Alexander Mcqueen, kinda dark but good

Also the Dior one when Raf Simons stepped in after John Galliano.

And the September issue was good too x "

That sounds good, I saw the McQueen one

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I watched a few interesting fictional documentaries recently that were quite interesting - No Men Allowed, about a world in which women start being able to reproduce without men, and the effect this has on society. Also The History of Time Travel, which was quite fun. "

I'll stat a list!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Project Nim

It's about an experiment in the 1970s to raise a chimpanzee as a human. The baby chimp lived with a surrogate human family and the human mum even breastfed it.

(The the documentary "man on wire" has been mentioned in the thread, it's by the same director.)

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By *entleman JayMan
over a year ago

Wakefield


"Operation Odessa if it’s still on Netflix."

Amazing documentary.

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By *ulfilthmentMan
over a year ago

Just around the corner

Kings of Pastry about a couple of French chefs competing to become Meilleurs Ouvriers de France.

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

There's a great Storyville documentary about Jonestown that is really disturbing but good. Highly recommend.

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands

An old one but 'Dont fuck with cats' is on Netflix.

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By *mma_EvansTV/TS
over a year ago

Colchester


"So I like a quirky documentary...I've seen a fair few but always on the look out for more...especially tonight! "

Netflix, The Sons of Sam

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"An old one but 'Dont fuck with cats' is on Netflix. "

That kept me on the edge of my seat it was SO good haha

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By *mma_EvansTV/TS
over a year ago

Colchester


"'9/11: The Woman Who Wasn't There'. Fascinating insight into someone who claimed to be a 9/11 survivor. Doesn't pass judgement, it allows you to do that yourself, but fascinating and bewildering in equal measures."

Where would I find this programme? xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

- The Legend of Cocaine Island (still on Netflix)

- Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable (not on Netflix, not sure where to find it)

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By *ud and BryanCouple
over a year ago

Boston, Lincolnshire

Big Narstie Real Game of Thrones.

We're in that one!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Mole: Undercover in North Korea

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hookers, Hustlers, Pimps and their Johns

(about prostitution in 90's New York)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Circus of Books

About a jewish couple who run a gay porn store in LA

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By *ayjay218Man
over a year ago

Aberdeen

The sky series sixties, seventies eighties are good and each episode is about different things like music, television, politics, crime etc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Faces Places

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My octopus teacher.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Confederate States of America is an interest doc that looks at what may have happened had the South won the Civil War and how racist the USA was even though the North won.

Sobering but not too heavy a watch

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"The Mole: Undercover in North Korea"

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Circus of Books

About a jewish couple who run a gay porn store in LA"

O i keep forgetting about this one

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"My octopus teacher."

Seen it, quiet sexual really Lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Faces Places"

I keep thinking about jiro, not sure what my resistance is

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"An old one but 'Dont fuck with cats' is on Netflix.

That kept me on the edge of my seat it was SO good haha "

It was good, have you seen making a murderer

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"There's a great Storyville documentary about Jonestown that is really disturbing but good. Highly recommend. "

Pretty sure I've seen this

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Anyone seen the jinx? I'm following the trial

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool


"Go on the iPlayer and watch some Adam Curtis - mindbending stuff.

Can't get you out of my Head was the most recent but they're all good. Hypernormalisation and Bitter Lake are masterpieces.

Can you tell me a little about them?

Difficult to summarise but broadly he argues that ideas propagated by elites in business, politics, science etc come to change people's perceptions of themselves and how they behave in daily life. He also illustrates how this is counterproductive in foreign policy e.g. America training Bin Laden in Afghanistan in the name of its national security only for him to become a threat to the very same.

And if that sounds a bit dry, there is loads of cool archive footage and music "

Sounds interesting that

I'll give it a go

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By *uff the Boner!Man
over a year ago

SWANSEA

" My Cock, and its depraved adventures"! Is a good one too

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands


"An old one but 'Dont fuck with cats' is on Netflix.

That kept me on the edge of my seat it was SO good haha

It was good, have you seen making a murderer "

Not seen that. Is it on netflix?

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool

Confessions of a drugs mule is decent

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Anyone seen the jinx? I'm following the trial"

Yes, very good and interesting. Generally if it's an HBO documentary it's probably worth watching.

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands


"An old one but 'Dont fuck with cats' is on Netflix.

That kept me on the edge of my seat it was SO good haha

It was good, have you seen making a murderer "

Watching that now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

OJ Made in America

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By *sandssCouple
over a year ago

Reading


"The Mole: Undercover in North Korea"

Great recommendation, utterly jaw dropping story and the guy in it must have had balls of steel.

Also the Pablo Escobar one on iPlayer mentioned earlier was incredible.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West


"The Mole: Undercover in North Korea"

YES! This was bloody brilliant.

Also any Storyville programmes.

We watched the entire Michael Palin travel documentary back catalogue over the last Christmas and lockdown period - thoroughly enjoyed those too.

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By *eyondhornyMan
over a year ago

Edwardsville

The Secret History of Comics. The wonder woman episode in particular.

The exploration of BDSM and feminist themes in the original 40s Wonder Woman comics is fascinating. The creator's home life equally surprising.

On Sky.

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