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    Good documentaries

    Let's make a list..

    I introduce Hoop Dreams. I guess a lot of you have seen it, it's a bit older, about these two kids, trying to make it to the NBA. It's a really good documentary, a really really good one.
    In da butt.
    "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
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    Nuit Et Brouillard/Night And Fog- by Alain Resnais.

    Filmed in the 1950s, Resnais counterpoints the quiet of a deserted Auschwitz with footage from pre-war Nazi Germany.

    One of the most affecting films I've ever seen.
    Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

    ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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      Many of the IMAX films.
      Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
      "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
      He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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        Documentary films, or just documentaries? The BBC's In Our Time series is probably the best ongoing documentary I've followed - and it's on the radio: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/
        mssv.net - After Our Time - Six to Start

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          The "Ross Kemp on gangs" series is pretty interesting, this guy travels around the world trying to get in touch with dangerous street gangs. From El Salvador, South Africa, Moscow to California.
          It's candy. Surely there are more important things the NAACP could be boycotting. If the candy were shaped like a burning cross or a black man made of regular chocolate being dragged behind a truck made of white chocolate I could understand the outrage and would share it. - Drosedars

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            300.
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                Originally posted by LordShiva
                300.
                Ah yes, the documentary about how a once-respected comics' creator gets involved in the making of a film which ends up as a cross between 'A Hairdresser Too Far' and 'All Quiet On The Thracian Front' with a soupcon of 'Priscus: Catamite Of The Desert' thrown in.
                Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

                ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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                  Exactly.
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                  AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
                  AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
                  DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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                    The Patriot
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                      - The Fog of war

                      Documentary about Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, who subsequently became president of the World Bank. The documentary will combine an interview with Mr. McNamara discussing some of the tragedies and glories of the 20th Century, archival footage, documents, and an original score by Philip Glass.
                      - 24 hour party people

                      Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan), Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mondays, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda - a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70's to the early 90's, this comedy documents the vibrancy that made Mad-chester the place in the world that you would most like to be.
                      Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – Lessing

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                        This is Spinal Tap
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                        AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
                        AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
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                          An Inconvenient Truth...

                          It's 1 1/2 hours long. If you cut out the 1 hour telling us how great Al Gore is, the remaining 1/2 hour is very good.

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                            24 hour party people is a film not a docu......

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                              The Lost Red Paint People - Nova

                              strong evidence of trans-Atlantic cultural contacts dating back long before the henge and megalith cultures ringing the European coast

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