Netflix Recommendations Thread

[padman59]

The first two seasons of Sons of Anarchy is now on instant.

[wingsfan77]

I've never watched it before but I've heard nothing but good things, might have to give it a look.

[EmpireWF]

Check out Plain Clothes (1988) on Netflix Streaming. It's a fun comedy/mystery where the main character is an officer who goes undercover as a high school student to try and clear his brother of a murder charge.

Stars Arliss Howard, Diane Ladd, Suzy Amis, Abe Vigoda, George Wendt, Robert Stack, Harry Shearer, Reginald VelJohnson and others.

[Champ]

Teeth is where its at if you do a drinking game to it.

[A Tasty Burgerr]

http://www.mediafire.com/?2mx6p6wqsiawm88

there's my instant queue in a word doc if you're looking for something to watch...

[EmpireWF]

Young@Heart

A good documentary about a chorus of elderly people, singing popular songs.

Even as they are facing the end, they're having fun together and the characters are interesting.

[Nucking Futs]

9 Songs

[padman59]

9 Songs

Thinly veiled hardcore porn ftw, I suppose.

[Champ]

Anyone have any TV shows or movies I should watch?

[Mit]

TV Shows - Netflix Has: 1st season of Californication, 1st season of The League, 1st and 2nd season of Parks and Recreation, 1st season of Archer, 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th seasons of Hey Arnold, Vice Guide to Travel

Movies: Restrepo, State of Grace, Insomnia, Slingblade, The Union: Business Behind Getting High, Brothers, The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Boondock Saints

[Champ]

I went with the Skinny Giangio recommendation of Exit Through the Gift Shop. It was a good doc.

Going to try to find another documentary to watch.

[Champ]

This doc. got me into drinking Dogfish Head and smaller companies beers (had me some 3 Philosophers last night).

Watching Beer Wars right now.

[Rivers17ncsu]

I got a couple of documentaries on my list to watch, but most if not all deal with crime in some way.

[Champ]

Documentaries I plan on seeing

These two were recommended by you guys
Restrepo
Man on Wire

These were just some I found when looking through the list.

A Film Unfinished

 

This potent documentary uses a long-lost film reel to illustrate how the Nazis controlled images of Jewish life during World War II. Though the Nazis made a propaganda movie of contented Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, the missing spool exposes the truth. Director Yael Hersonski shows how the imagery was staged to distort historical knowledge and, with the aid of Jewish survivors' testimony, chronicles the horrifying reality of ghetto life.

Freakonomics

 

Several documentary directors each film a segment representing one chapter of Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's best-seller Freakonomics, which explains different elements of popular culture through economic theory and statistics. Issues include everything from cheating sumo wrestlers to whether Roe v. Wade produced a drop in crime. Filmmakers include Morgan Spurlock, Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, Eugene Jarecki, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing.

The God Who Wasn't There

 

Borrowing the lively approach of documentaries such as Fahrenheit 9/11 and Super Size Me, ex-Christian fundamentalist Brian Flemming's exposé shines an unflinching spotlight on Christianity and the existence of Christ. Flemming interviews religious experts and Christians of varying backgrounds, ultimately asserting that Jesus Christ is more than likely a fictional character based on legend and that Christian doctrine is rife with contradiction.

Very Young Girls

 

David Schisgall's startling documentary captures the heartbreaking stories of underage girls -- many as young as 13 -- who've been forced into prostitution in New York, exposing how pimps use isolation, violence and drugs to keep girls dependent. Many of the girls interviewed take part in GEMS, a shelter and mentoring program founded by activist Rachel Lloyd -- once a prostitute herself -- that helps them transition out of "the life."

I.O.U.S.A

 

With the country's debt growing out of control, Americans by and large are unaware of the looming financial crisis. This documentary examines several of the ways America can get its economy back on the right track. In addition to looking at the federal deficit and trade deficit, the film also closely explores the challenges of funding national entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

The Anderson Platoon

 

Filmmaker Pierre Schoendoerffer, a veteran of the French Indochina War, joined a platoon of American soldiers in 1966 for six weeks of search-and-destroy operations in Vietnam. This Oscar-winning documentary provides a rare outsider's behind-the-scenes view of the soldiers -- recording their lives, deaths, hopes and fears -- and observes how American culture influences their attitudes and behaviors in the midst of jungle warfare.

[Champ]

The Trails of Darryl Hunt is another movie I want to watch. Its only on DVD at the moment.

 

This poignant documentary details the story of Darryl Hunt, a black North Carolina man who spent 20 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. After the rape and murder of a young white journalist in 1984, public outcry and intense media scrutiny -- along with simmering racial tensions -- pressured officials to close the case. Hunt was quickly convicted. In 1994, DNA evidence proved his innocence, but Hunt wasn't exonerated for 10 more years.