The best documentary you’ve seen?

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Following this thread, thanks op

My recommendation is For Sama

HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis. Love any Adam Curtis.

Seconded @funbags3 !

Just found this amazing documentary from 1975 about Jackie Kennedy's aunt and cousin living in poverty and squalor in their beachfront Hamptons mansion.

A precursor to reality tv I believe, but I can't quite decide if it was exploitation or not.

The mansion, Grey Gardens, was recently sold for approximately 20 million USD and it's amazing to see it covered with cat shit with raccoons eating sliced bread in the walls.

In the same vein, I couldn't stop watching Tiger King either. Has a similar vibe.

Depends what subject you like. The BBC’s Wonderland documentary series and also BBC doc series Storyville are usually beautifully made. BBC Horizon if you like science but production values not always as high.

And I love anything by the film maker Daniel Vernon

Bookmarking too

(Watching tab doesn't work with iPad for some reason)

@2pence It's really fantastic, isn't it?

More a clip than the whole thing. A twee Antarctic nature documentary wherein penguins were thieving cunts nicking stones from one another's nests.

Dead mums can't cry.

It's about (the lack of) maternity care in Chad. It's on youtube

@sashh

Touching the Void and Free Solo are about climbing

I also have to add, Grizzly Man. A really sad story although hilarious in places.

Virunga is the best docu I've seen on Netflix. It starts off as a documentary about a gorilla sanctuary in the Congo and then they get set upon my militia so it turns into a real time war.
Lots of sinister backstop about oil companies funding the militia for their own greedy corporate gains. It sounds heave but, trust me, its compelling.

Backstory...not backstop !

Estonia, it's about the ferry that sunk with 852 lives lost, it's interesting but also very sad.

Lots of great suggestions already. A few that have stood out for me in recent times:

Waco: American apocalypse on Netflix
Athlete A on Netflix - although warning this is very hard hitting
Four hours at the capitol - BBC - about The events of January 6th
Subnormal: A British scandal - BBC
Raising a school shooter - BBC

If you look up Storyville on Bbc there’s loads of great documentaries from around the world

Dear Zachary (available on YouTube).
And Grey Gardens but I haven't seen it for years.

@funbags3 @Davros have you seen the HBO movie on Grey Gardens with Drew Barrymore as Little Edith and Jessica Lange as Big Edie?

I have but also ages ago. I need to dig them up