Documentaries that have stuck with you.

[LetsGoCrazyPurpleBanana]

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.

The pharmacist, netflix.
very good.. would recommend!! X

Also Found, about three Chinese American girls who were adopted by American families. They take DNA tests to see if they can find their birth parents. So incredibly sad. They were given up during the One Child Policy days (which amazingly only ended in 2016!)

For Sama was one of the most incredible documentaries ever, I'd forgotten about it until now, may rewatch thank you for the reminder

Yes I agree probably the most harrowing thin i have ever watched. That poor poor boy 😔

@Spudlet

It's imaginarily called 'The Rescue'.
I'd also recommend the book 'Thirteen lessons that saved thirteen lives' written by Jonathan Volenthan, one of the British cavers. By happy coincidence he's my son's cub/scout leader and takes groups of them caving down some of the most hideously claustrophobic routes imaginable (there's a particularly stomach churning video of one of the routes on YouTube called 'the drainpipe, goatchurch cavern). I wouldn't let my son go at all, if it wasn't for the fact that he was accompanied by Jonathan.

Black fish, a Japanese documentary called 'Fish' and The Cove.
But the one that's stuck with me the most is called 'TV junkie'.
It solely used first-person camcorder footage, with no narration, before other films were doing it - so it felt very fresh and different at the time.
Through his own personal video diaries, you see a man climb the career ladder from local news presenter to national TV anchor. Early on in the film he reveals a mild cocaine habit, which you see gradually develop into a heavier habit and then crack cocaine and heroin use. You see him go from being a happily married man, to finding out his wife is pregnant with their first child, to cheating on her with prostitutes, becoming violent and having a restraining order taken out against him - before his marriage breaks down completely.
His entire life falls apart over the course of 90 minutes.
It was SO bleak.

A couple of others I've remembered -

Terror in Moscow

The Falling Man

@Aghh The Staircase...
It HAD to be the giant bird that caused it....the science was all there but nobody took it seriously. Up until that bit was revealed at the end, I thought maybe the husband did it also..especially since as recall his first partner has died in a similar fashion.😳

On a cheerful note..a fun documentary that I watched on an aeroplane once is called
BABIES...I don't know how to do links so I've attached a photo..

Very uplifting!

Sorry...forgot the photo🙄

Two in fact, one about a man ending his life due to Motor Neurone Disease and a programme about two people that were donating their bodies to medical research, very interesting, insightful and respectful. I will never forget them.

Me too, that was heartbreaking!

There's a great Romanian documentary called Collective which I think was nominated for an Oscar a few years ago. It was on BBC Iplayer as part of the Storyville series I think - not sure if still available.
It starts with a fire in a nightclub in Bucharest where there are immediate deaths but then more deaths in hospital. Journalists uncover a scam in the provision of hygiene products to the hospitals which cause the deaths. This leads to a huge investigation into corruption on a massive scale in the health service in Romania.
Might not sound like something you would want to watch but it is absolutely fascinating. A crusading politician who wants to fix things, campaigning journalists risking their lives, the survivors of the fire who have been terribly scarred. Really highly recommend.

Storyville - Final Account

American Murder- The Family Next Door, about a lady whose husband killed her and their kids as they were getting in the way of his affair. Absolutely horrifying how those poor souls met their end.

I've just watched Suzie's story a pp mentioned here. Very sad. Re watching the boy who's skin fell off on more4. I've seen it before but it doesn't get any easier to watch. What an amazing man he was ❤️

Oh that was so well done. I had to watch it in 2 halves though, I couldn't watch all the way through.

I think Storyville do some amazing documentaries.

Missing in Plain Sight. About a family and their neighbour. So batshit crazy I've never forgotten it. Was on Netflix and well worth a watch because of the jaw dropping moments in it.

An Unreal Dream - The Michael Morton Story. It's about an innocent man who spent 25 years in prison for his wife's murder before he was exonerated by DNA. He was absolutely railroaded into prison, and it's a perfect example of the fallacy of thinking, "That could never happen to me."

Soubriquet you'd enjoy the Connie Walker podcasts/documentaries. She's a Cree journalist (you probably already know of her). They're true crime podcasts based around crimes committed against First Nations women mostly. Gripping and utterly tragic.
You can watch one of her documentaries called Finding Cleo on YouTube which is about the adoption of a First Nations child by an American family with such very sad consequences.
She has a new podcast just about to come out called Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's (residential school).

Brian's story.. it is on youtube.. some of them scenes will stay with me forever, one where he gets a flat and is dancing, i cant describe but it is just haunting

Oh my god, wasn't that brilliant? Such an unusual documentary because it was like watching it in real-time with all of the camera footage that they'd actually captured as events unfolded.

A Lion in the House about terminally ill children. So so very sad. I often think about the families who took part

The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off. Jonny Kennedy, that poor man, how he suffered.
i still recall his funeral, he wanted Queen and they played it, plus he chose his own coffin.