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.

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When the little boy was playing near that busy road 🙈

Sophie: A Murder in West Cork is very good

Oh god yes.
It was just awful, and I'm not even sure the Mum knew any of it was bad.

1979, Julie Grant 'A Change Of Sex'
transgender through to surgery there's a couple of follow up shows detailing her life. She came across as hardworking & positive even when life was tough.

Three Identical Strangers - literally playing with peoples lives, found it really sad

The Falling Man

The Last Mountain - not normally my cup of tea, but the insight into how mother and son were driven by their passion for climbing was both sad and uplifting.

Oh god yes. It was just awful, and I'm not even sure the Mum knew any of it was bad.

@ISpyCobraKai that's the worst part, she had no clue 🙈

They Shoot Horses Don’t They? Blowing the lid on the cruelty of the racing industry. Including where the Queen’s racers have been found and rescued. At one point I was sat sobbing.

There’s a documentary from the 90s, I think, maybe BBC2, which made a great impression on me, but tantalisingly, I can’t remember what it was called, and have tried to find it in vain.

It was about a young female Jewish photographer in London, who was undertaking a project to photograph elderly Jewish people who had survived the Holocaust. This one elderly man developed a bit of an obsession with her and ended up killing her. It was so shocking, and sad.

The new one on Mother Theresa on Sky is good.

I found "My Octopus Teacher" absolutely fascinating, a total eye-opener, uplifting, sad and heartwarming all at the same time. It's a unique documentary and I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't yet seen it.

Same for me, this one is heartbreaking and the lack of closure for the family is just awful.

Also The Staircase. Fascinating and captivating but upsetting.

Blackfish is incredibly well made and revealed so much stuff I had no idea went on behind the scenes. Us humans don't deserve animals 😞

This was incredible, we watched it twice in the same weekend and it was just as mesmerising both times.

I saw this too.
I'm not sure the twin in Norway was better off. She seemed much more lonely than her sister living in America

I wonder if anyone remembers this one : it was a channel four programme - sort of ‘escape to paradise’ type thing. This couple bought an island off Nicaragua and moved there hoping to make a home and then holiday lodges. She was a glamorous ex bunny girl with a youngish son and he was a bit older.

it all descended into a really bad situation with the Nicaraguans and people arriving on the island and such. The guy then got iller and iller and actually died.

it was so misguided and they were really out of their depth. Really stayed with me because he was desperate to please her and she was just so un-tuned into what was going on around her

Any horsey people remember a documentary showing a man & a woman each being given an unbroken horse? The man saw it as a battle of wills, the woman as a getting to know you sort of thing. It followed them training their horses. I think the man called his Loco & the woman called hers Sam. It was American & the woman's outcome was much better than the man's IIRC. This was possibly in the 1980s & before all the horse whisperer stuff, but she was doing something like that.

I'd love to see it again.

@bubblicious3 yes I saw that one about the porn actress. It was about 20 years ago. She was horribly abused by a guy called Max Hardcore I think? I’ve never forgotten it. She was so vulnerable at times, surrounded by men with no choice but to do what they say. Horrendous.

@bubblicious3 I totally remember it and it has haunted me for years. No one else seems to recall it. The American guy was so disgusting and abusive and the girl so young. He had anal sex with her in his office with v little warning, and framed it as part of her audition. It was bloody horrendous. She was v clearly in pain, shocked and scared.

I remember this.

"I eat too much to die, and not enough to stay alive. I'm sitting in the middle waiting"

Amazing Grace …. It documented the life of a lady called Grace for 7 years from initial diagnosis of dementia ending with her funeral. It was so sad to watch and now 25 years later I still think of it.

Have you watched the YouTube video of the 4 body language experts analysing Robert Peterson, well worth watching.

Yes! Wasn't the wife implicated in his death ? It was awful.

Re: The Staircase, would someone really commit pre-meditated murder by pushing someone down the stairs though? It seems a pretty unreliable way to kill someone. I can understand a spur of the moment kind of thing, but a lot about that case doesn't make sense to me. I do agree that the documentary was very one-sided.

Like many others, the boy whose skin fell off.

What a wonderful man.

Bloody tragic but what a bloody wonderful person. How his mum kept going...

Rip Johnny Kennedy

The boy whose skin fell off. So so sad but he is such a lovely character.