Documentaries worth Watching ?

raksrules said:
Can you list them down here ?
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1. Hoop Dreams 1994

2. The Thin Blue Line 1998

3. Roger and Me 1989

4. Waltz with Bashir 2008

5. Super Size Me 2004

6. The War Room 1993

7. The Celluloid Closet 1995

8. An Inconvenient Truth 2006

9. Trouble the Water 2008

10. Grizzly Man 2005

11. Paris Is Burning 1990

12. Bowling For Columbine 2002

13. The Fog of War 2003

14. Dark Days 2000

15. Crumb 1994

16. Bus 174 2002

17. American Drug War: The Last White Hope 2007

18. Food, Inc. 2008

19. New World Order 2009

20. Capturing the Friedmans 2003

21. Exit Through The Gift Shop 2010

22. Shut Up & Sing 2006

23. The Eyes of Tammy Faye 2000

24. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills 1996

25. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room 2005

26. Pirates of Silicon Valley 1999

27. Tarnation 2003

28. GasLand 2010

29. 2016 Obamas America

30. Farenheit 9/11 2004

31. Jesus Camp 2006

32. Standard Operating Procedure 2005

33. The Hemp Revolution 1995

34. Waiting to Inhale 2005

35. In Pot We Trust 2007

36. Taxi to the Dark Side 2007

37. Inside Job 2010

38. March of the Penguins 2005

39. Biggie and Tupac 2002

40. When We Were Kings 1996

41. Maxed Out 2006

42. Catfish 2010

43. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts 2006

44. Bigger Stronger Faster

45. Restrepo 2010

46. The End of America 2008

47. The Cove 2009

48. The Union: The Business Behind Getting High 2007

49. Super High Me 2007

50. Spellbound 2002

Be warned though, this list differs from the TV series of the same name, 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die.
 
avi said:
I am looking to watch : Helvetica

anyone seen here ?
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Yeah, seen this. The topic certainly is intriguing, and the first 30 mins or so are pretty well done. But then the movie thins out and starts to get boring, specially at the points where all you're shown are different sings (with Helvetica typeface) transitioning from one to the other.

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avi said:
I am looking to watch : Helvetica

anyone seen here ?
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Yeah, seen this. The topic certainly is intriguing, and the first 30 mins or so are pretty well done. But then the movie thins out and starts to get boring, specially at the points where all you're shown are different sings (with Helvetica typeface) transitioning from one to the other.
 
Bumping this thread to bring it to top again to receive feedback from people on documentaries they might have watched recently. Currently i am dling "Walmart - The High Cost Of Low Prices". It is a 2005 documentary, supposedly shows walmart in negative light.
 
- Steve Jobs - The Lost Interview
- BBS
- David Hockneys - Secret Knowledge
- The Golden Age of the British Sports Car - Magnificent Machines - BBC Timeshift 2012
 
Hey guys do anyone know where I can download/watch documentaries in Hindi (Genre - History, politics, leadership type etc ) ?
Specifically a lot of documentaries from History Channel (broadcasted both in hindi and english)
 
Is there any docu on Indian post-independence history/politics? (I really doubt it considering our politico climate, they get offended on even the silliest things). Comparatively, from abroad we can see docu representing every damn viewpoint.

@raksrules - Try "The World According to Monsanto", its a documentary on Mosanto - the worlds biggest GM vegetable/grain seed producer. They are changing the way food is grown and how it is affecting the farmers. Those idiots sue farmers over cross pollination too - a simple nature effect - to save their GM strains.
There is one more documentary, need to check the name about Why we have so many corn-related products like popcorn, corn syrup, cornflakes (all these are not really healthy rather due to the excess US production coming out of strong corn lobby and subsidies). Even farm animals are fed corn which is indegistable for them.
 
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^^ I recently watched this and it contains some elements of Indian politics:
- History Channel - Turning Points in history - Operation Blue Star
 
I think i have seen Food Inc, will watch King Corn.

@Others keep pouring your recommendations.[DOUBLEPOST=1372826839][/DOUBLEPOST]Tried watching "Walmart - High Cost for Low Prices" Yesterday. Switched it off after 20 Minutes. It is not like a usual documentary where there is a continuous voice over and in between sparse interviews of people. Here the entire documentary is composed of interviews which made it boring for me.

Btw anyone knows any documentaries on Illuminati ?
 
sharktale1212 said:
Is there any docu on Indian post-independence history/politics? (I really doubt it considering our politico climate, they get offended on even the silliest things). Comparatively, from abroad we can see docu representing every damn viewpoint.
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Anything by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Patwardhan

And yes they tried to censor him but he fought and won :)

When it comes to India books are better. Two that are very good are..

Bullshit quotient by Ranjeev Dubey
Accidental india by Mani Shankar Aiyar

You won't put these down once you start.
 
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