Fans of Documentaries

[barkley]

i'm not a sports fan but several years ago i watched 'broke' an espn documentary about the state of far too many former professional athletes who despite making tremendous amounts of money in their prime end up impoverished due to poor financial decisions and lack of planning for their own futures.

 

[LuvOrlando]

a life without pain.

Please tell me this is about acupuncture with Botox being an up and coming thing

 

[mikehn]

Octopus teacher was awesome. Im sure all the ladies have seen Tinder Swindler

 

[superme80]

i'm not a sports fan but several years ago i watched 'broke' an espn documentary about the state of far too many former professional athletes who despite making tremendous amounts of money in their prime end up impoverished due to poor financial decisions and lack of planning for their own futures.

Broke was amazing. It made me look at how preyed upon these athletes truly are. Also made me commit to teaching my kids financial literacy.

 

[rowan1813]

Another vote - For the Love of Spock (excellent!)

- Athlete A (Netflix)
- At the Heart of Gold (HBO)
Watch both because they provide different perspectives on USAG, Larry Nassar, Michigan State, and that whole mess and a half.

- They Shall Not Grow Old (Peter Jackson's WWI documentary - phenomenal!!!)
- The Century: America's Time (yes they are older, turn of the 21st century, but so well done! You can find them all now on Youtube)
- The Sixties, The Seventies, The Eighties, The Nineties, The 2000s (all of CNN's decades mini-series are very well done!)

 

[Walt's Dream]

Love documentaries. Ken Burns is so amazing at what he does. Favorites are Baseball, The Civil War, The Roosevelts, and Country Music. Also love American Experience.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

There’s a new one on Theodore Roosevelt over Memorial Day weekend on the History Channel

 

[Walt's Dream]

Thanks!

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I saw that Nightstalker thing mentioned before... it was good but gave me nightmares.

Making a Murderer was good (in my opinion), I guess it is a bit old by now though.

 

[JoanneAZ]

Lily Topples the World was wonderful! Highly recommended. Glad you mentioned it.

If you want to see more of her domino setups she has a bunch of videos on YouTube. Her channel is Hevesh5.

 

[JoanneAZ]

If you are a fan of crossword puzzles there’s an older documentary called Wordplay. It’s available for rent on Amazon Prime.

 

[barkley]

Please tell me this is about acupuncture with Botox being an up and coming thing

nope. it's about some children who are born with a condition wherein they feel NO pain. it goes into how it impacts their lives as well as those that care for them. pain in the human body lets us know something is amiss and absent it things like appendicitis, broken bones, severe infections and life threatening illnesses can go undetected.

it's a heavy subject but a fascinating watch.

Broke was amazing. It made me look at how preyed upon these athletes truly are. Also made me commit to teaching my kids financial literacy.

great documentary-i think every college athletic program should require some kind of financial literacy program or at the very least show this documentary to their athletes.

 

[sdoll]

I watched one on Prime (not sure if all movies are the same in the US) called Goodnight Sugar Babe. It's about the death of a mentally challenged woman and the cover up involved after. All involved are low income, and low education, and it's the most bleak and just heartwrenching documentary I've ever watched (and I've seen Dear Zachary).

It's a very low budget doc so some scenes are disjointed and not professional at all, but the story still needs to be told.

I watched Dear Zachary years ago and it still stakes my breath away every time I think of it.

 

[momz]

I’m following because I love documentaries too and actually prefer them over fictional movies these days. I’ve been somewhat obsessed about watching anything about Elon Musk so I watched the Return to Space doc on Netflix recently and that was good.
Another one that was good was Our Father about a fertility doctor. I’ve seen so many others but can’t think of ones that stand out right now.

I watched Our Father too. It occurred in the community where I live. What an unethical doctor!

 

[prairie_girl]

I watched Dear Zachary years ago and it still stakes my breath away every time I think of it.

I watched it a second time a few years ago, because I thought I’d understand better now that I knew the outcome..nope! It still reduced me to a sobbing mess, just like the first time.

 

[erin1715]

I’m currently watching Keep Sweet Pray and Obey on Netflix. It’s about warren jefs and the FLDS movement. It’s unbelievable.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Tonight I am watching Girl 27, listening to Patricia Douglass is just heartbreaking, really well done though.

 

[Kittyblue]

For a music one try Standing in the Shadows of Motown

 

[JoanneAZ]

If you’re interested in medicine there’s an older limited series on Netflix called Diagnosis. Each episode focuses on an individual who has an illness that has not been diagnosable by the doctors that person has seen. For each of them an article is written about them and their illness by a physician and printed in the NYT. People are encouraged to give ideas on what the illness might be.

 

[barkley]

4 part documentary series i'm in the middle of is 'watergate: blueprint for a scandal'. fascinating to hear john dean detail everything that was going on behind the scenes. cnn has another new one airing this weekend 'citizen ashe' which is about arthur ashe's contributions to tennis and human rights activism.

not a documentary but VERY enjoyable-fx's 'pistol'. may not be an entirely accurate portrayal of the formation/destruction of the sex pistols but the makeup, fashions, music brings back allot of memories.