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Do you know any good documentaries?


Have you seen any that you enjoyed? πŸ˜ƒ

There are a lot on YouTube.

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some of my personal favourites:

tickled (easily the best doc on the competitive tickling industry to date)
tower is one of my favourite films of the century. incredibly gripping, & i love the animation style.
capturing the friedmans
grizzly man
crumb
minding the gap
sans soleil
apollo 11
american movie
they shall not grow old
earthlings


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Interesting amateur doc on a few companies that exploit college students and others to sell products with big promises of making good money. They don't mention any names, but I'm quite sure one of them is a company called Smart Circle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyCRzBt7GuY

There are a few good docs on Scientology, here's one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lu-sdniTPU

Bobby Fischer - Anything to Win

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwLM9bgE3tY

BIG BUCKS: THE PRESS YOUR LUCK SCANDAL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnMlSVS9hb4

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My favorite is this one: https://moviechat.org/tt0058578/Seven-Up
I've seen all of them except the newest one, 63 Up, which just came out.

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I saw one on Netfilx, on H.R. Giger. What a fascinating, enigmatic man!

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Remember the name? I'd like to check that out.

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Dark Star.

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Some I can recall 'off the top:'

Plant Earth
Grizzly Man
American Experience:Ruby Ridge
Cosmos (1980)
The Civil War (Ken Burns)
Cropsey
WW II in color
Planet Earth
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes

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Seven-Up
Place De La Republique
Chronicles of a Summer
Salesman

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I've only seen one - The Life and Times of Harvey Milk.

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The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)
Three Identical Strangers (2018)

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