Mike Oxsaw
12:43 Fri Jan 6
Re: If you watch one Docu this year it has to be 'Off the Rails'
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Has the inside Chernobyl doc got an iplayer index number?
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lowlife
11:38 Thu Jan 5
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On the subject of war based documentaries, McCullin is another great one.
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webby25
11:38 Thu Jan 5
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King of Kong is still up there as one of my all time favourites. Unexpectedly brilliant.
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webby25
11:36 Thu Jan 5
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Restrepo is quality. Book and photo book that go with it are also quality.
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Stepney.Ammer
11:30 Thu Jan 5
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Nice one defjam - my 30 day free trial ends tomorrow, so I'll give this a watch tonight.
Think Netflix pisses over amazon prime at the moment but if amazon starts adding more decent documentaries then I might give it another go.
Hardly watch tv now and could probably go without having freeview/sky tbh. Even great stuff like planet earth eventually shows up on Netflix.
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normannomates
11:18 Thu Jan 5
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Miike 11.07
Sounds interesting to me that.
Cheers
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Takashi Miike
11:07 Thu Jan 5
Re: If you watch one Docu this year it has to be 'Off the Rails'
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one great doc everyone should watch is Restrepo from 2010, it features photographer Tim Hetherington and his experiences taking pictures during the Afghanistan war
a year after the film's release Tim was killed by shrapnel from a mortar shell while covering the 2011 Libyan civil war
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joe royal
11:00 Thu Jan 5
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Another vote for that Chenobyle thing as well.
300 meters is the difference between life and death.
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Takashi Miike
10:29 Thu Jan 5
Re: If you watch one Docu this year it has to be 'Off the Rails'
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lowlife, no I haven't seen that yet but I'd watch the doc first. some of it is scary shit but not surprising if like me you've always be suspicious of governments
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North Bank
9:18 Thu Jan 5
Re: If you watch one Docu this year it has to be 'Off the Rails'
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I watched 13th the other day and it's rather disturbing, there are some serious flaws regarding how the USA treats incarceration of blacks and to a lesser extent the poor with plea bargaining due to the prison system largely being privatised and influencing state legislation by introducing bills through ELEC, the sentencing system is extreme and is weighted in favour of the Justice system, you wouldn't want to get nicked in the States
The only issued I had is that the narrative is very biased and selective in parts and should've had more moderate voices from the Black Movement other than those linked with Nation of Islam
Thanks for the heads up on Off The Rails D, I'll take a butchers next week
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Northern Sold
9:06 Thu Jan 5
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Can't beat the ESPN's 30 from 30 series....
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Nurse Ratched
9:00 Thu Jan 5
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'suffers from' Asperger syndrome??
Frigging cheek of it!
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lowlife
8:19 Thu Jan 5
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Miike - have you seen Snowden? Debating whether to watch that first or citizenfour.
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lowlife
8:18 Thu Jan 5
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I wasn't sure about the scientology movie - not being able to get really close to any active scientologists hampered it somewhat. Still enjoyable though.
Just spotted that 'Zero Days' is on Amazon prime - release date tomorrow. Sounds dark enough for me to consider watching.
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Takashi Miike
6:13 Thu Jan 5
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Kate Plays Christine
Citizenfour
Last Chance U
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zico
6:08 Thu Jan 5
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Excellent Defjam, I think good documentaries are my faves these days....Another couple of recommendations for anyone who likes documentaries :
Louis Theroux Documentary on Scientology.
The Fall - Sky Atlantic. Doc about Zola Budd and Mary Decker in the Olympic Final in 1984. Fascinating because at the time I was just a kid watching an Olympic Final. I didn't know all the background of the two and poor Zola was on a hiding to nothing really. Well worth a watch.
And it sounds a bit boring and probably showing I am getting old but some of the Chris Tarrant Extreme Railways series are quite fascinating. Puts Southern to shame!!!
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Bernie
5:51 Thu Jan 5
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Love a documentary recommendation thread. Cheers chaps!
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lowlife
5:43 Thu Jan 5
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Cheers for that - will check it out.
Another good documentary on Prime is Precinct Seven Five. A true tale of large scale police corruption in New York.
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peroni
5:12 Thu Jan 5
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Cheers Defjam - I'll check that out.
I really enjoyed One Killer Punch on Channel 4 recently.
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defjam
4:38 Thu Jan 5
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w4hammer 4:30 - Back at ya homez....please.
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Ilford Hammer
4:33 Thu Jan 5
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Watched 13th the other day. Very disturbing. America is such a fucked up country.
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