Documentaries that have stuck with you.

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I remember in the early 9Os watching a documentary about 2 men who were partners, living with and ultimately dying from AIDS. Found it on YouTube and watched it again at the weekend. I've not stopped thinking about them. It's called "Silverlake life,the view from here" 😭

Also another one,again early to mid 1990s called "The dying room" about China's orphanages.

Not a documentary but the BBC three-part drama based on the true stories of victims of grooming and sexual abuse in Rochdale.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rgd5n

I felt physically sick watching it. I can't believe something so disgusting was swept under the carpet, and how little news attention it recieved 😢Those poor girls 😭

Dreams of a life, it's about Joyce Vincent. She had been dead for about two years in her London flat before she was discovered in 2006.
She was only in her thirties and had became estranged from her friends and family.
It is a very sad story.

Dear Zachary.

Rain in my heart

There are a few I’ll never forget

one is called ‘rain in my heart’ about alcoholics which is so sad and real, probs on YouTube

another is called fear of 13 which is on nextflix

and grizzly man, which is an account of a guy called Timothy treadwell who tried to live with bears and got eaten by one. It’s fascinating.

The Amy Winehouse documentary, v powerful. Making of a Murderer. So many but I can’t think of them 😂

You beat me to it!!

Shoah.

To Courtney with love. So sad about a a girl aged 16 who was dying of cancer, she also had a young child (courtney).

Lion in the house on netflix.

A Storyville one which was about a young Russian gymnast

Her father was dying of cancer and it was just so bleak

Cathy Come Home. Absolutely heart wrenching. Watched as a child and has stayed with me for 50 years. No wonder people feared Social Services 😢

Three Identical Strangers

It's about completely scandalous adoption practices that took place in the US in the name of research.

Definitely Dreams of a life. I was just thinking about Joyce Vincent yesterday.

One Day in September (?) OK can't remember the title. About the Munich Olympics and events there. Completely gripping.

John Diamond's documentary about his terminal cancer had a massive impact on me as a teenager and I still think of it often.

Also Born to Be Different, I watched it all through their lives to date.

The Dying Rooms has haunted me since I first saw it.

Desmond Wilcox, The Boy David, he had part of his face missing and was abandoned by his parents then adopted by a plastic surgeon and his wife.

Human Harvest

For Sama

The Dying Rooms, absolutely harrowing. I remember watching it with my two young children asleep in the caravan with me.
We were in Cornwall, I still have that bleak feeling with me now many years later, very powerful and sad.

Educating Yorkshire. About Mushy, the boy who had a stutter.

There was one on channel 4 about a young lad who was a heroin addict. It was so open and honest, and has stayed with me for years.

Black fish is brilliant too.

Two documentaries I remember in particular.

One was about kids in care who kept running away from wherever they were placed and some kids who kept for some reason going to the home of a couple who were heroin addicts. It was so sad because this couple were a total mess but they seemed to care about the children, in between repetitively bickering with one another while slumped on the sofa, as that was about all the mental function that seemed to be left to them when they weren't high. I remember the man on it saying to the kids 'You don't want to end up like me' - he did care in his way but it was heartbreaking that the drugs had taken everything from him an his partner.

The other was one about child protection services, in Bristol I think. There was a couple with a boy of about 4 - there was no comment on it in the voice over but it was pretty clear the couple had learning difficulties and in their case sadly it seemed they just weren't able to bring up a child. The little boy was less articulate than my DD who was 2 at the time, and even when social services took them to be observed by a psychiatrist to see how they interacted with the child the mum didn't seem to know what to do, and the dad just ignored him. The little boy didn't even sleep on a bed, so social services arranged for them to be sent one - two weeks later they came to visit to find the bed had not been put up, and the couple had also obtained a puppy, which they also didn't know what to do with and was just defecating all over the floor.

The boy was placed in temporary care for a few weeks, and when he came back he seemed much livlier and more articulate. The mum had got pregnant again, and shortly afterwards split with the father. She came to the tragic realisation that her son seemed to thrive when in someone else's care and incredibly nobly she decided it was best that he and the baby should be adopted because she saw how much better he seemed after the placement and that she wasn't able to give them what they needed. It was so sad.

A documentary about catching paedophiles but I can't remember what it was called.

A documentary about a homeless lady who was a paid carer for two children but one of them drowned in the bath under her care. It was ruled as accidental but she never got over it. The documentary is about she fell apart.

I actually saw her a few days after seeing the documentary when I was driving through London.

A documentary about men who's wives had died. At one stage there was footage of a car, covered in ice with it's hazard warning lights on. That's how one man described how he was feeling. Can't remember the name of it.

Shakespeare OnThe Estate

I wish I could see that again! I've taken this from a search

Television documentary. Follows theatre director Michael Bogdanov as he spends three weeks on an inner city estate in Ladywood, Birmingham persuading local people to rehearse and perform Shakespeare. Records the initial hostile, indifferent and suspicious reactions of the people and how their enthusiam grows. By the end of the third week, the 80 residents had rehearsed 34 extracts from Shakespeare. The plays chosen include King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet.

Totally amazing!

‘Rain in my Heart’…documentary about people suffering from alcoholism

Just seen 2 other posters mentioned same , very powerful