Have you seen any that you enjoyed? π
There are a lot on YouTube.
My favourite is Baraka (1992). It's mesmerizing.
I also like
Children Full of Life (2003)
Sans Soliel (1983)
She is the Ocean (2018)
The Living Sea (1995)
Jonestown: Paradise Lost (2007)
"Apollo 11" is the best documentary I've seen in a long time. No talking heads, just restored high-definition original film from 1969, edited to form a perfectly structured film.
shareHappy People: A Year in the Taiga
shareLittle Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
Directed by Werner Herzog and follows Dieter Dengler back to Vietnam and Laos where he was the first US prisoner to ever escape a POW camp there. He is one amazing man.
Ida Amin Da Da, A Self Portrait (1975) Directed by Barbet Scheroder.
Amin himself invited Scheroder to film him in all his glory and would be comedy if he were not a monster. Watch Amin talk to animals, win swimming races against Olympic athletes, conduct maneuvers to prepare for attack on Israel with one tank, give advice on drinking and much more.
A few of my favourites from this century.
Amy
Blackfish
Bus 174
Capturing the Friedmans
Faces Places
The Gleaners & I
The Imposter
Into the Arms of Strangers
Spellbound
The Story of the Weeping Camel
To Be and to Have
Which Way Home
A few I really liked back when the Iraq War was going on: Iraq for Sale, Iraq in Fragments, Gunner Palace
shareExit Through The Gift Shop
American Movie
Those are two of my favourites
"One Strange Rock". It's about earth, the planet. Has some celebs doing some of the narrating.
It goes over the usual ground, with the so-called "Ozone Layer hole" and similar stuff. But the imagery is excellent, and their tub-thumping about "global warming" is a lot less strident and abusive than most docos that talk about that rubbish. I could almost get to start believing it, because the presentation is so courteous and civil. Note, I said "almost".
I remember years ago the big thing was acid rain but I havenβt heard it mentioned in a long time.
shareYep, they abandon any catch-word when it ceases to stir the gullible public's imagination. There's always another one in their bag of "frights". And they know the public is ever-receptive to being "frightened". Just as an audience of a movie loves "jump scares", the masses are addicted to "the next big bad thing". That's why so many people so readily and enthusiastically embrace all these fake memes. For the Great Unthinking, they provide a continual source of excitement to their lives, (as well as meaning and purpose.)
After all, if you're just one tiny infinitesimal speck of humanity in the herd, (as we all are), what better way to refute your essential pointlessness than to go on a crusade to "save the planet"? What better way to pretend that you actually matter?
It just shows how much society forgets its lessons. The Crusader syndrome, (AKA The Missionary Syndrome), has been a facet of human life for many centuries. And one feature of crusades has endured, namely, that anyone who refused to join the crusaders is roundly condemned as a heretic. Nowadays the word "heretic" is out of fashion, but terms like "Climate Change Denier" and the like are very chic.