What’s the best documentary you’ve ever seen?

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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?

I came on to say exactly this!!!

Also "Shut up and sing" about the Dixie Chicjs and how they were turned against when they criticised Bush is a great watch.

Yes this is a very good one.

The BBC Chronicle documentaries in the late '70s-early '80s that led to the book 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail' an investigation into the bloodline of Jesus Christ and the Merovingian dynasty, and which was copied wholesale and without attribution by Dan Brown in the Da Vinci Code.

Between life and death
Rain in my heart
And a recent one ‘My Dead Body’ I though this was utterly groundbreaking not to mention heartbreaking

Love a documentary, ones that spring to mind are one about Fyre festival and how it all went wrong 😂, the tinder swindler, also like true crime ones - American murder:the family next door (but very sad and disturbing), I’m very much looking forward to Harry and Meghan one tomorrow 🙈

@VinoDino yea! I enjoyed this one as well but forget it’s name.

American Factory on Netflix is a masterpiece. It's about a glass factory that gets taken over by a Chinese company. Such a compelling insight into the heart of two very different nations.

And the keepers as well, as a practising Catholic very very difficult to watch

Can’t remember the name but one about a family sailing the world a few decades ago - Amazon prime - the woman just had a really bug for sailing and was so inspriring

So many good ones on iPlayer

Harold Shipman
Trials that shook Scotland
The Worlds End murders
The Thatcher years

Panorama on the Horizon (post office) scandal

Tell me who I am!

Completely gripping and heartbreaking. Watched it a while ago but I couldn't remember the name either, had to do some Google Fu.

Simon Schama's 'History of Britain' was excellent. And so was the original Kenneth Clark 'Civilization'.

I love art documentaries, especially by Tim Marlow, Andrew Graham Dixon, Matthew Collings and Simon Schama.

There is a documentary on alcoholism called Rain in My Heart (it's on youtube) that is gut-wrenching. And there was a French documentary about a child who wanted a sex change operation (sorry, I'm probably using the wrong language). The child was so beautiful, and the parents were so loving and concerned, that I sobbed the whole way through.

I generally find documentaries far more interesting and moving than drama and film.

I saw it at a similar age and it had the same effect on me.

I'd put it in my top 3 documentaries alongside The Boy whose skin fell off which has already been mentioned, and Shoah, about the Holocaust which I watched age 15 when Channel 4 showed it across a weekend.

Touching the Void
Free Solo

@MintChocCornetto yes that was it! Couldn't be assed Googling it myself

@Crayfishforyou was also going to say Beyond the Clouds! Never met anyone else who remembers it. A portrait of China that has probably disappeared now.

Best ever documentaries I've seen are Ken Burns Vietnam War series - just utterly stunning. And World At War. Sends shivers down my spine to hear that music and Lawrence Olivier narrating.

Omg this!! I'm a dog person but I loved this doc, it was so fantastic I watched it twice

A lion in the house. A documentary about childhood cancer. Very powerful.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lion_in_the_House

Also; For Sama. It’s about Syria. Again. Very powerful.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Sama

wiki links added for a synopsis due to upsetting topics!

The Long Shot on Netflix.
Truly mouth dropping and strangely heart warming.

My favourites are: Requiem for Detroit about the rise and fall of the city as the car industry moved out and the prairie started to grow back in the deserted suburbs.

Anything by Adam Curtis especially his recent series available on Iplayer which is called Russia 1985-1999: Trauma Zone.
Absolutely fascinating. Made with archive footage from loads of different documentaries.

I find the 7Up series fascinating.
Mix of stories and backgrounds. The passing of time is something I spend too much time thinking about (forward and backwards), so it’s right up my street!

Hilary Clinton's life story. Just titled Hilary.
She should never have tied her wagon to Clinton. I think she would have made it on her own. There was never a time that she wasn't campaigning against injustice.
And the theme music is a banger as well.

Touching the Void
9/11
One Day in September (1972 Munich Olympics)
Dear Zachary
Ken Burns, "The Dust Bowl"
American Experience, "Blackout" (NYC 1977)
30 for 30 Soccer Stories: "White, Blue and White" (Story of Argentine, Ossie Ardile's decision to leave his team, Tottenham Hotspurs during the Falkland War)

My octopus teacher is brilliant

Place marking. I love a documentary.