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[gkunit20]

My favorites:

1. The Last Waltz- Film about the last concert The Band ever played. Great music, great concert scenes, great commentary. 5/5

2. No Direction Home- Not a surprise seeing as Bob Dylan is my idol. Either way, great film going very in depth into his life, along with some great concert scenes. Only drawback is its 4 hour running time. 4.5/5

[keith crime]

Thin Blue Line
Hoop Dreams

[brvheart]

Documentaries are one of my favorite genres.



1) Winged Migration

2) Spellbound

3) The Big One

4) Hoop Dreams

5) Just, Melvin: Just Evil

6) Gizzly Man

7) 20 Dates

8) Small Wonders

9) Bowling for Columbine

10) When We Were Kings

11) Night and Fog

12) Murderball

13) Waco: The Rules of Engagement

[SuitedAces21]

Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams is a great film.

[timwakefield]

The Last Waltz is the shit.

GK I know you like Dylan, so you gotta see Don't Look Back if you haven't yet. It's a documentary about his concert tour in 1965 ('66 maybe) where he is first playing electric, and it's pretty much just awesome. Dylan is hilarious and is a complete asshole to all these reporters, and there are some other great scenes of him onstage and playing backstage or in his hotel.


Other documentaries I've liked:

Winged Migration - Yeah Brvheart, this is pretty much the coolest nature movie ever made.

Roger & Me - Michael Moore's first documentary

When We Were Kings - documentary about 'The Rumble in the Jungle,' Muhammed Ali vs George Foreman in Zaire in 1974. Pretty much the best sports movie ever made. The fight itself is incredible, with Ali using the "rope-a-dope" against his heavily-favored opponent.

Best line (taken from IMDB) -

Ali: I done something new for this fight! I done rassled with a alligator! That's right, I have rassled with a alligator. I done tussled with a whale! I done handcuffed lightning, throwed thunder in jail! That's *bad*. Only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean, I make medicine sick!

[Suited_Up]

Hoop Dreams!

[brvheart]

The Last Waltz is the shit.

GK I know you like Dylan, so you gotta see Don't Look Back if you haven't yet. It's a documentary about his concert tour in 1965 ('66 maybe) where he is first playing electric, and it's pretty much just awesome. Dylan is hilarious and is a complete asshole to all these reporters, and there are some other great scenes of him onstage and playing backstage or in his hotel.
Other documentaries I've liked:

Winged Migration - Yeah Brvheart, this is pretty much the coolest nature movie ever made.

Roger & Me - Michael Moore's first documentary

When We Were Kings - documentary about 'The Rumble in the Jungle,' Muhammed Ali vs George Foreman in Zaire in 1974. Pretty much the best sports movie ever made. The fight itself is incredible, with Ali using the "rope-a-dope" against his heavily-favored opponent.

Best line (taken from IMDB) -

Ali: I done something new for this fight! I done rassled with a alligator! That's right, I have rassled with a alligator. I done tussled with a whale! I done handcuffed lightning, throwed thunder in jail! That's *bad*. Only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean, I make medicine sick!

Roger and me was very good, but I liked The Big One and Bowling for Columbine better.

[Ron_Mexico]

I agree with most on here.

Hoop Dreams was very good
Grizzly Man is very good and very disturbing
Roger and Me, I enjoyed
Bowling for Colombine: was very good
F-9/11- I liked it
When We Were Kings- very good


I also like some of the HBO specials, not documentaries so much, but very good.

The Ground Zero one about the Yanks in the WS in 2001 was good
Hitlers Pawn was interesting, concerning the 1936 games and one female highjumper.

[Jadaki]

Hoop Dreams was very good

Yea, can't remember any other ones I found as interesting.

[Mercury69]

Here's one that was very, very good and also extremely disturbing:

Capturing The Friedmans

[KDawgCometh]

if anyone hasn't seen the fog of war, then they need to right now. Robert McNamera is one of the more interesting men to have ever lived and we get great insight into what went on during the kennedy and johnson administrations

[brvheart]

if anyone hasn't seen the fog of war, then they need to right now. Robert McNamera is one of the more interesting men to have ever lived and we get great insight into what went on during the kennedy and johnson administrations

I thought is was fine. I have some problems with it, obviously... but it was infinitely better than F-9/11.

[brvheart]

Hoop Dreams is a great film.

It would have been even better if either kid actually made the NBA.

[JoeyJoJo]

It would have been even better if either kid actually made the NBA.

I don't agree with that.

[coug2828]

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

The U.S. vs. John Lennon

edit: there's a documentary i heard about that's about the Rolling Stones concert in San Francisco when the Hell's Angels were security for the show and they ended up stabbing someone or a couple someone's. can't remember the name, never saw it but heard it's really good. anyone familiar with this?

[BigDMcGee]

I love love love roger and me, it's such a personal movie. THe big one is funnier, but it reminded me of an extended version of his old TV show ( Which was great) called TV NAtion. After Far. 9/11, I kind of swore him off, and haven't seen his last two movies. 9/11 was such a shameless propaganda piece, that I really lost interest in him as a film maker.


Man on a wire is amazing, a completely fresh style of doing a documentary story.

Tyson- probably because I just saw it, but I thought it was very well made, and a very compelling story. I basically have no memories of a world without mike tyson.. when I was a kid, he was like the face of death, the unstoppable force. people forget how fast and powerful he was, because he became such a sideshow. very compelling

The trials of Henry Kissenger. This movie made me so angry.. I ended up playing poker afterward, and I was on tilt from watching this movie, and ended up losing my ass ( relatively speaking, it was only a live 2-4 o-8 game.).

Planet Earth ( not really a movie, but it pwns).

[donk4life]

This Is Spinal Tap

[GWCGWC]

Spread out among my queue:

A/K/A Tommy Chong
American Masters: Andy Warhol
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Philosophy of a Knife
Picasso: Magic, Sex, Death
Billy The Kid
War Made Easy
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
Encounters at the End of the World
Man on Wire
The Garden
Tyson
Trouble the Water
Bustin' Down the Door



huh, I guess I enjoy documentaries.

[BigDMcGee]

Spread out among my queue:

A/K/A Tommy Chong
American Masters: Andy Warhol
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Philosophy of a Knife
Picasso: Magic, Sex, Death
Billy The Kid
War Made Easy
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
Encounters at the End of the World
Man on Wire
The Garden
Tyson
Trouble the Water
Bustin' Down the Door



huh, I guess I enjoy documentaries.

I saw a great documentary during a film festival in Olympia, Called " the Mystery of Picasso, which if you have a chance, you should check out. It show Picasso making paintings in real time.. showing you the master at work. The paintings were then destroyed, so they exist only in film.


Another great documentary is A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory... it's about this woman search to find out about her uncle, who'd commited suicide after spending time at the warhol factory ( he ended up walking out into the ocean and drowning). It has lots of great interviews with members of the factory today.. and shows them just to be these petty, absurd, awful people. It's fascinating.

[brvheart]

I don't agree with that.

Who cares!? NOT ME!! You don't have to agree with every opinion that I have for me to feel cool! *runs away crying*



I understand completely why you say that, I just have a differing opinion on that particular topic.