Page 11 | What’s the best documentary you’ve ever seen?

LovelyQuiche · 2022-12-07T20:13:06+00:00

Mine is is “The Rescue” about the Thai cave rescue where those young footballers were trapped. Totally enthralling, even though I knew the outcome already, and seeing what they had to deal with actually helped me mentally for giving birth a fortnight later. Like, if they can do that, then I can do what millions of other women do and give birth what’s yours?

Squirrelsnut · 08/12/2022 18:56

Searching for Sugarman
Supersize Me
Poor Kids: Britain which I was recommended on YouTube. Really eye-opening.

JustDanceAddict · 08/12/2022 19:15

FrownedUpon · 07/12/2022 21:15

Abducted in Plain Sight.

That was just horrific. I watched open mouthed.,

JustDanceAddict · 08/12/2022 19:16

I also got obsessed with Chernobyl after watching & then read up on it more. Absolutely horrific.

tresleches · 08/12/2022 19:22

Stuff the World, which follows amateur taxidermists preparing for the world championships. Eccentric, bizarre, fascinating, hilarious, and a bit macabre.

functioningadult · 08/12/2022 19:35

There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane really stuck with me. Awful tragedy.

Free Solo and The Dawn Wall are just fantastic. I’ve been to Yosemite and stood at the foot of El Cap and the absolutely amazing footage in both documentaries just doesn’t do the scale of it justice. For anyone who did enjoy these two, Valley Uprising which is a bit if a history of the development of climbing in Yosemite is absolutely brilliant too.

Sadbeigechildren · 08/12/2022 19:39

It was about Pablo Escobar and mainly an interview with his very hilarious friend. There are lots of documentaries about him but I've never been able to find that one again.

user764329056 · 08/12/2022 19:41

Really sad documentary about suicide at Golden Gate Bridge, can’t remember name of docu but it’s always stayed with me

Jules912 · 08/12/2022 19:41

Bowling for Columbine
9/11, not sure if it was a full length documentary or just s news piece but they caught up with some of the firefighters for the 20th anniversary and most were sick from the dust, very sad.
I really need to watch more documentaries.

DarkDarkNight · 08/12/2022 19:42

The Last Dance. I thought it was amazing, I don’t even really know a lot about basketball but can remember Jordan-mania when I was in junior school.

risefromyourgrave · 08/12/2022 19:46

user764329056 · 08/12/2022 19:41

Really sad documentary about suicide at Golden Gate Bridge, can’t remember name of docu but it’s always stayed with me

Was it The Bridge? (TW suicide) The bit where the man with long brown hair that they’ve been ‘following’ the whole film just gets up and jumps made me gasp out loud, so sudden and shocking. A heartbreaking documentary.

Sadbeigechildren · 08/12/2022 19:51

Catfish

Also the one about the girl who went to a modeling job and was abducted but no one believed her. Crazy.

Hope Frozen is heartbreaking.

If 24 hours in police custody counts the last one about the home owner who went to prison is riveting and heartbreaking.

Dear Zachary

Sadbeigechildren · 08/12/2022 19:56

Honper · 07/12/2022 23:25

The man who saved the world, about the Russian who refused to release nuclear bombs when the USSR missile detection system told him to. If he had followed the correct procedure we would all have died, back in the 1980s. He knew that and that's why he didn't do it. Turns out it was freak solar flares but the weapons detection system showed them as nuclear missiles coming from the USA. It was the height of the cold war and the USA was the only country in the world (and still is the only country in the world) to have used nuclear weapons on civilians so it was utterly plausible that that's what was happening. He got absolutely canned by the USSR in the aftermath for not doing as he was told.

Second this. Amazing guy.

Sadbeigechildren · 08/12/2022 19:59

The one about that sailing family who had to be rescued. The mum was terrified throughout and all her worst fears came true. She was a very warm person. The family sadly lost their boat. I've often wondered if they've stayed together. Their dreams didn't seem compatible.

povera · 08/12/2022 20:00

Silent Minority and the one about winterbourne scandal, both stuck with me

Sex in a cold climate - about Magdalene laundries; raised and confirmed Catholic and taught the church had absolute authority - then sat and watched that on YouTube in horror . Never really gone back to church again, I can’t get past the fact that priests and nuns could be capable of those things . Yet my own family’s warped attitude to relationships, sex and sexual and domestic violence in particular tells me that oh yes they very much would be capable of it .

Justisme · 08/12/2022 20:10

@WalkingOnSonshine my partner watched him live in South Africa!

SugarDatesandPistachios · 08/12/2022 20:12

There’s something wrong with Aunt Diane.

XenoBitch · 08/12/2022 20:33

risefromyourgrave · 08/12/2022 19:46

Was it The Bridge? (TW suicide) The bit where the man with long brown hair that they’ve been ‘following’ the whole film just gets up and jumps made me gasp out loud, so sudden and shocking. A heartbreaking documentary.

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Is one of the best documentaries I have seen too.

About the guy with the long hair, I remember his friends saying "maybe he just wanted to fly that time". Sticks with me a lot.

HollyDollyChristmas · 08/12/2022 20:55

IntentionalError · 07/12/2022 20:41

Free Solo, about a climber who took on the apparently suicidal challenge of climbing El Capitan in Yosemite on his own & without ropes. One tiny slip would have resulted in certain death.

Unbefuckinglievable.

Watched this on the flight to USA when we went to Yosemite. When you see El Capitain IRL and the enormity of it you realise how dangerous it was.

Flapjackquack · 08/12/2022 21:03

RaRaRaspoutine · 08/12/2022 13:16

Yes totally get this @BedTaker - I was obsessed too! The podcast was really fascinating (but the bit about the dogs they had to cut out made me incredibly upset).

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I agree, one of those most incredible pieces of television I’ve seen. It also helped me understand nuclear power. I want to watch it again and at the same time I don’t think I do. It was really powerful.

LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 08/12/2022 21:20

Also think was called Madness in the fast lane. People filming a traffic cops type programme and then ended up being a documentary about the twin sisters who went running back and forth across the motorway...then what followed as well. Sad.

XenoBitch · 08/12/2022 21:24

LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 08/12/2022 21:20

Also think was called Madness in the fast lane. People filming a traffic cops type programme and then ended up being a documentary about the twin sisters who went running back and forth across the motorway...then what followed as well. Sad.

I remember that one too. Was so bizarre!

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 08/12/2022 21:34

There was an excellent docu on the Yorkshire Ripper (last year?) on BBC I think.
What was captured and exposed so brilliantly was the attitude towards women of the investigating officers and detectives at that time, but particularly prostitutes and working class women.

VinoDino · 08/12/2022 21:39

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 08/12/2022 21:34

There was an excellent docu on the Yorkshire Ripper (last year?) on BBC I think.
What was captured and exposed so brilliantly was the attitude towards women of the investigating officers and detectives at that time, but particularly prostitutes and working class women.

Yes and how such articles really hindered the investigation.

VinoDino · 08/12/2022 21:39

*attitudes

HRTQueen · 08/12/2022 21:48

Fourteen Days in May is the documentary that has stayed with me the most. It follows prisoner Edward Earl Johnson on death row it’s absolutely tragic. I was 14 (as pp) I’ve never watched it again but want ds to when he is a bit older

Blackfish

Three Identical Strangers

Dreams of a Life