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Bobbieiris · 25/02/2025 18:05

Really in the mood for some good documentaries but there are so many to choose from! I have Netflix, prime and Disney. I’m looking for some recommendations please ☺️

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Bobbieiris · 26/02/2025 10:51

All of these look great and a good mix too.. thanks guys ☺️

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Artyblartfast · 26/02/2025 22:29

Artyblartfast · 25/02/2025 18:58

Silly phone.. northern England

Northern Ireland.... Ireland...Fgs. stupid phone! 🙈

Papergirl1968 · 26/02/2025 22:39

purpleme12 · 25/02/2025 22:15

I'm watching Escape to Utopia at the minute.
iPlayer

Is it Escaping Utopia rather than Escape To Utopia? About a Christian community in New Zealand?

Artyblartfast · 26/02/2025 22:46

Oh remembered a good one on Netflix. Wild wild country!

Hallelujah2020 · 26/02/2025 22:47

Just finished The Last Mountain. Highly recommend it. Absolutely fascinating.

purpleme12 · 27/02/2025 09:03

Papergirl1968 · 26/02/2025 22:39

Is it Escaping Utopia rather than Escape To Utopia? About a Christian community in New Zealand?

Yes sorry I did mean that

OohKittens · 27/02/2025 09:09

Rain in my heart - iPlayer
14 days in May - iPlayer

purpleme12 · 27/02/2025 09:13

Also I love Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

I think that counts as a documentary?

UnderHisEeyore · 27/02/2025 09:41

I'm just starting "Toxic Town" on Netflix which is based on a true story - looks good so far.

"Dreams of a life" was so thought provoking and sad.

crosskeysgreen · 27/02/2025 13:09

OohKittens · 27/02/2025 09:09

Rain in my heart - iPlayer
14 days in May - iPlayer

Rain in my heart stayed with me for weeks after watching

redlightgreenlight123 · 27/02/2025 13:20

Gabby Petito and Into the Fire on Netflix. Also the documentary about MH370.

MarkWithaC · 27/02/2025 19:25

The one about Loaded and lad mag culture in the 90s is pretty good.

This sounds unlikely, maybe, but Gods of Snooker and Gods of Tennis. The snooker one especially is full of jaw-dropping 80s telly footage (players having a fag and a snifter while the other guy takes his turn, all the ads round the room being for booze and fags etc). Both of them talk to everyone: players, managers, promoters, journalists etc. Even if you don't think you're that into the subject matter, you will find them interesting.

Summer of Soul. Footage of a series of summer concerts in Harlem, over the same period as Woodstock (which got all the attention). They also talk to people who were there and show them the footage. Some are in tears as they see on film this event that, going by the media at the time, you wouldn't know happened. But it's also just a great, great music doc: Mavis Staples, Mahalia Jackson, BB King, a young Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, a young Nina Simone (who is FEROCIOUS), Gladys Knight and the Pips…

Nostalgia for the Light. Filmed around the Atacama desert and the observatory there. It's about both the astronomers working on the night sky/space, and people whose loved ones were disappeared and likely dumped in the area in the Pinochet years. It is astonishing. I saw it at the cinema, so a good ten years ago if not more, but it has stayed with me.

Penko25 · 27/02/2025 19:42

OohKittens · 27/02/2025 09:09

Rain in my heart - iPlayer
14 days in May - iPlayer

I agree with these, although both are upsetting.

Snooks1971 · 27/02/2025 20:28

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006pn88/arena

Hope this works - the 90s Arena docs are all on iplayer

Nugg · 27/02/2025 20:30

crosskeysgreen · 25/02/2025 18:18

Tell me who I am

Oh my God, I've just watched this

Absolutely heartbreaking

Humans can be so cruel

There should be a trigger warning on this about child sexual abuse

mnahmnah · 27/02/2025 20:35

MarkWithaC · 27/02/2025 19:25

The one about Loaded and lad mag culture in the 90s is pretty good.

This sounds unlikely, maybe, but Gods of Snooker and Gods of Tennis. The snooker one especially is full of jaw-dropping 80s telly footage (players having a fag and a snifter while the other guy takes his turn, all the ads round the room being for booze and fags etc). Both of them talk to everyone: players, managers, promoters, journalists etc. Even if you don't think you're that into the subject matter, you will find them interesting.

Summer of Soul. Footage of a series of summer concerts in Harlem, over the same period as Woodstock (which got all the attention). They also talk to people who were there and show them the footage. Some are in tears as they see on film this event that, going by the media at the time, you wouldn't know happened. But it's also just a great, great music doc: Mavis Staples, Mahalia Jackson, BB King, a young Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, a young Nina Simone (who is FEROCIOUS), Gladys Knight and the Pips…

Nostalgia for the Light. Filmed around the Atacama desert and the observatory there. It's about both the astronomers working on the night sky/space, and people whose loved ones were disappeared and likely dumped in the area in the Pinochet years. It is astonishing. I saw it at the cinema, so a good ten years ago if not more, but it has stayed with me.

Where can I watch the lad mag one please? What’s it called?

Artyblartfast · 27/02/2025 21:53

This was good too but I liked the podcast better.

Imposter: The Man Who Came Back from the Dead

MarkWithaC · 28/02/2025 08:39

mnahmnah · 27/02/2025 20:35

Where can I watch the lad mag one please? What’s it called?

Loaded: Lads, Mags and Mayhem, on iPlayer; here you are (sorry if the link is shonky; I'm not sure how you do it)https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002389y/loaded-lads-mags-and-mayhem www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002389y/loaded-lads-mags-and-mayhem]]]

TwigsAndBranches · 28/02/2025 12:48

Hallelujah2020 · 26/02/2025 10:39

The dad isn’t the most empathetic of people

I’m not sure about this. I have just finished watching the Last Mountain (purely due to the recommendation on here) and bawled my eyes out.
i think some people are just born different - the mum and son both tried to explain what climbing mountain meant to them. I think the dad is stoic and pragmatic - he knows what was inside his wife’s heart and the sons heart and that was the mountainsThe love for his daughter shone through. I can’t begin to understand it - I wish I had a quarter of their passion for something, anything in life. I think the dad knew that anyone asking them to stop climbing would essentially be killing them anyway. Some people are just like that. That’s how we have had great explorers in our history. There is a want, a need inside them that even they can’t explain.
loved seeing the daughter meet up again with Big Ibrahim - seeing the love and respect across countries and cultures.
thank you so much to whoever recommended this as I would never have watched it otherwise.
Off to watch all the other recommendations 🤣
Apologies for the essay 🙈

Hallelujah2020 · 28/02/2025 12:58

TwigsAndBranches · 28/02/2025 12:48

I’m not sure about this. I have just finished watching the Last Mountain (purely due to the recommendation on here) and bawled my eyes out.
i think some people are just born different - the mum and son both tried to explain what climbing mountain meant to them. I think the dad is stoic and pragmatic - he knows what was inside his wife’s heart and the sons heart and that was the mountainsThe love for his daughter shone through. I can’t begin to understand it - I wish I had a quarter of their passion for something, anything in life. I think the dad knew that anyone asking them to stop climbing would essentially be killing them anyway. Some people are just like that. That’s how we have had great explorers in our history. There is a want, a need inside them that even they can’t explain.
loved seeing the daughter meet up again with Big Ibrahim - seeing the love and respect across countries and cultures.
thank you so much to whoever recommended this as I would never have watched it otherwise.
Off to watch all the other recommendations 🤣
Apologies for the essay 🙈

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Do agree on some levels. I don’t think you could ever have stopped them from doing it, and doing so would be killing them anyway.

You saw that really when Tom’s girlfriend asked him not to do it.

I still didn’t warm to the dad though.

Will stay with me for a long time.

Bobbieiris · 28/02/2025 13:06

Oooo @TwigsAndBranches I’ll have to watch this now and see what I think!
I have watched tell me who I am (so upsetting…what a monster their mother was!) and scamanda…found that one entertaining (sad for those she scammed though) and so pleased she got her comeuppance!! Couldn’t believe how much effort she put into it all to pull the wool over peoples eyes….that seemed like a full time job in itself!

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crosskeysgreen · 28/02/2025 13:09

Bobbieiris · 28/02/2025 13:06

Oooo @TwigsAndBranches I’ll have to watch this now and see what I think!
I have watched tell me who I am (so upsetting…what a monster their mother was!) and scamanda…found that one entertaining (sad for those she scammed though) and so pleased she got her comeuppance!! Couldn’t believe how much effort she put into it all to pull the wool over peoples eyes….that seemed like a full time job in itself!

Watch The Perfect Wife, again on Disney. Absolutely mental, and I've seen almost every documentary going.

(Don't watch Rain in my Heart though ever)

Bobbieiris · 28/02/2025 13:12

@crosskeysgreen going to put that on now! I’m on maternity leave and at home for today , sounds interesting!

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TwigsAndBranches · 28/02/2025 13:12

Hallelujah2020 · 28/02/2025 12:58

Do agree on some levels. I don’t think you could ever have stopped them from doing it, and doing so would be killing them anyway.

You saw that really when Tom’s girlfriend asked him not to do it.

I still didn’t warm to the dad though.

Will stay with me for a long time.

I really felt for Toms girlfriend too. She called him an alien I think? In his passion and talent for climbing. Her heart broke when she asked him not to climb that last time ☹️
and his sister 😪 she admitted she was envious of his talent and drive for just one thing. She clearly adored him.

A documentary on toxic town (the Netflix drama) is on iplayer and that is very good too

TwigsAndBranches · 28/02/2025 13:16

How bad is Rain in my heart? Is it gruesome? I’m not googling any recommendations in case it gives anything away so going purely on recommendations on here for the ones I haven’t already seen.

I agree with pp about the once upon a time in Iraq/NI - how much we were gaslighted in the 80s and 90s. Patrick Kielty has a documentary (his dad was murdered during the Troubles) and that is a ‘good’ watch too

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