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.

Saw one on YouTube fairly recently about a man who conned everyone including his wife into thinking that he’d won the lottery. He even went as far as to make an offer on a big house with a swimming pool and let the poor owners pack up all their things to move out. I think they ended up a fair few grand out of pocket as a result. Definitely worth a watch

found it 😃

I hadn’t realised until now just how many documentaries I’ve watched. I keep thinking of more 🤣 This is quite a lighthearted one

‘I know what you weighed last summer’, about a summer camp for children living with obesity.

That one was brilliant. So was 'The Sorrow and The Pity.' If you haven' t seen it, it's about the Occupation and how people in a little French town coped (or not) with the Nazis. Brilliant range of characters emerged from this one.

A home for Maisie, either of my two could have easily become Maisie.

Unrest - it's about M.E/CFS and the truly debilitating effect it has on sufferer's quality of life.

@Aphrael I will look for that. My 11yr old has cfs, she almost died of covid last year and has been left unable to walk and sleeps 17-18 hours a day. She went from a healthy child who had never even had antibiotics to in a coma in intensive care.

Does anyone know what the documentary about 7/8 year olds in boarding school is called please? Think I’ve seen it and would like to rewatch..

@Alakazam8 the one with the girls was Britain's Youngest Boarders I think, but this looks like the same thing so maybe I've got the name wrong

There's another similar one about boys at Sunningdale somewhere.

Ahh Britain's youngest boarders... So incredibly sad, I'm still haunted by poor April.

I remember one episode of Panorama from the 80's about state v. private education. My school was one of the schools featured and I'm in a couple of group shots.

@HummingQuietly Thanks for that- I’ll have a look later to see which one it was!

Dreams of a Life about Joyce Vincent, so sad.
The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez, absolutely broke my heart.
Don’t F**k With Cats, horrifying.

Another one I remember watching was "The Girl with 8 Limbs" about a little girl born in India who had a parasitic twin attached to her. The twin had no head but 2 arms and 2 legs. She lived in some remote rural village and the people there worshipped her as they believed she was the reincarnation of a Goddess. However her parents wanted surgery for her, which is the process the documentary is following. The whole thing was really fascinating.

I've just watched the documentary regarding the bloke who told his wife he had won the lottery - he hadn't. He fooled friends and family too. (Sorry, can't remember the name of the poster who uploaded the link.)

He ended up doing a three year prison sentence for fraud. It's interesting but he's not sorry. He was upset the day he went to court but that was about it.

A psychiatrist said he would offend again. The fraud said he wouldn't and he's a different person now.

He has very few friends now and his wife has stood by him.........

That sounds good , where can I find that?

It was Lizzy1980 - thanks

I felt so sorry for the couple that thought they’d sold their house to him. How could he let it go that far???
I read an article about him recently. His wife eventually divorced him and he went on to scam another woman. He posed as a successful restauranteur and got her to fund a business venture. You’d think he’d have learnt his lesson wouldn’t you.

@Lizzy1980

Yes I agree about the couple that thought they had sold their house to him. Glad his wife divorced him. What sort of life could they have.

Does not surprise me that he scammed someone else. He won't learn any sort of lesson. The man is deranged.

There was one part that made me laugh though. It was the man they’d commissioned to make either a snooker table or a cover for the swimming pool when he discovered that the whole thing had been a con. He described him perfectly when he said ‘he’s not a millionaire……he’s a wanker!’ 🤣

I have another. I promise this will be the last one and then I’ll leave you all in peace 🤣
I absolutely love documentaries and have watched so many over the years but there are a few that have just stuck with me for one reason or another. American Hollow is about an Appalachian family. It follows their lives and is very interesting. Definitely worth a watch even if just to see the Johnny Cash lookalike preacher and the Organist running up and down the chapel aisle

Just watched a Waco siege documentary on Netflix which was very interesting. They interviewed ex cult members who are still convinced David Kuresh was the son of God.

Ask a Mortician is a very interesting, respectful and sometimes funny explanation of how bodies are prepared for a funeral and also how some high profile deaths were handled i.e. the WACO siege ended with the Armageddon scenario that they were promised because of the heavy handed approach of the government.

I'm into Nightmare Houses at the moment. Nope, nothing to do with poorly built houses etc. It's about houses where murders of strange disappearances happened. Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife and their two daughters. He is in prison and their house remains unsold to this day.