Matt watches Documentaries

[BigBucs]

The Interrupters was good, watched that a few weeks ago. Frontline always have good shit.

For anyone interested

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/

[Rivers17ncsu]

some of these I'll definitely have to check out. Some documentaries that I've seen and enjoyed are If A Tree Falls, Dear Zachary, At The Death House Door.

[EmpireWF]

Great thread.

Allow me to add some of my favorites...

-The Thin Blue Line (1988) Errol Morris

A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTDvQ_3VaG0"]The Thin Blue Line (1988) - YouTube[/ame]



-When We Were Kings (1996) Leon Gast

A documentary of the 1974 heavyweight championship bout in Zaire between champion George Foreman and underdog challenger Muhammad Ali.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfUHYUpmTFs"]When We Were Kings Trailer - YouTube[/ame]


-The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) Rob Epstein

A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay councilor.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN_sMW_AX-o"]The Times of Harvey Milk Official Trailer - YouTube[/ame]


-Titicut Follies (1967) Frederick Wiseman

Frederick Wiseman’s no-holds-barred look at the horrors inside a prison for the criminally insane set the standard for vérité indictments, and not even a 24-year ban on public screenings stopped Wiseman from forcing accountability. Those who praise the power of the camera to effect change rightfully consider this a landmark.

----Saw this first in a film class, some of the scenes made me sick.


Can't find a trailer for it…


-Beyond the Mat (1999) Barry Blaustein

Heartfelt documentry focusing on the lives of professional wrestlers and how their sport is not fake.

Trailer provided by Video Detective

-Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) Barbara Kopple

Very often, we’re reminded of the virtues of looking honestly and openly, without judgment. And if a documentary can do this, it’s special. But there must be room for social justice, central to the impulse to pick up a camera in the first place. Barbara Kopple’s staggeringly dense record of a Kentucky coal-mine strike is the ultimate example of crusading art: a chronicle of personal pain and sacrifice as ingrained as the soot in these workers’ palms. Duke Power Company drove its employees to the brink of ruination, an existence plagued by black-lung disease, insufficient wages and squalid housing. When productivity ground to a halt, pickers found themselves targeted by armed thugs. Kopple captures it all, bringing the drama to a head while finding room for the rich local culture of bluegrass.—JR

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PfaE4R4eA4"]Harlan County USA Official Trailer - HD - YouTube[/ame]

[A Tasty Burgerr]

My favorite documentaries that I would suggest are Exit Through the Gift Shop, We Live in Public, The Union: Business Behind Getting High, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Street Fight, Capturing the Friedmans, The Parking Lot Movie, and Not Quite Hollywood

[young2rice]

Man on a Wire was pretty good as well.

[EmpireWF]

My favorite documentaries that I would suggest are Exit Through the Gift Shop, We Live in Public, The Union: Business Behind Getting High, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Street Fight, Capturing the Friedmans, The Parking Lot Movie, and Not Quite Hollywood

FUCK YEAH.

Awesome movie. You go in thinking how well could a film about a parking lot be, and it exceeds expectations.