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My fav docos are-

Desperate Man Blues, American Movie, Hearts of Darkness and Crumb

The Baseball series is quite excellent as well.

You beat me to it with When We Were Kings. It would have to be my favorite.

I like "People of the Forest" by Jane Goodall. I havn't seen it for a long time.

Bowling for Columbine is just outstanding.

James Burke's 'Connections' & 'The Day The Universe Changed' were fun to watch

When We Were Kings. Wonderful.
The Endurance - Rented "Shackleton" the very next night. (Endurance is better.)
The World At War, all 26-bajillion parts.
DNA series (PBS?), though Jim Watson creeps me out.
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Evolution series (PBS/Nova?) was good.

I do wish Discovery/Natl.Geo would drop the "WWF" feeling from their shows. We could save the budget with a superlative tax. Or FCC fines. It's obscene and indecent!

Oh, and if they get to vote for "Columbine" then I get to vote for "The Usual Suspects." It's no more a documentary than Moore's stuff, but has the similarity of being about a guy who combines current events, careful editing, and artful storytelling into scary fiction. :)

Spellbound was pretty neat, so was Winged Migration, which was nominated the year that Columbine won. Which was crap. All of Moore's films are way too slanted to be considered a documentary. I won't go so far as to say he doesn't make good films, but they can't be called documentaries. Anyway, there are some amazing shots in Migration. I have no clue how they got so close to all these birds while they were flying in formation over the Alps, but it's worth seeing just for the camerawork.

Also, there's a film called Grass, about the history of marijuana and other drugs and the legislation that control them. It's narrated by Woody Harrelson and is worth watching just to see jazz legends Cab Calloway and Gene Krupa. The shot of Krupa playing a drum solo is f-ing sweet.

What about the doc about the kids in Arkansas that got framed for murder...I think it was an HBO America Undercover project. "Paradise Lost" I think it was called. They did a follow up on it too. Trey Parker and Matt Stone were involved in promoting it I think. Really good.

Outfoxed. It's about the slant that Fox networks have, and how much of the media they control. Political, but pretty interesting.

Plots are for lazy people.

I think I've heard of your favorite Astrocloud..is that the city thats said to have had it's inhabitants ashes left like a statue of what they once were? If so I heard they found one of a boys ashes sitting with his dog...something to that sort...I'm familiar with it because I saw it on the Discovery channel a very long time ago around the time I was in 3rd grade I think. But because it was so long ago I think the facts have left my mind since then.

I guess it's not really a documentary so to speak but I love "American Movie"

Asta!!

Bowling for Columbine was good as a comedy doc

My all time favorite is the Documentary on The West Memphis 3 (there were actually two of these, the original and a follow up) about the teenagers accused of the "satanist" murders. I've watched both of them many many many times...has anyone else?

http://www.lawrence.com/events/2003/oct/27/2631/

Yup. That's what I was talking about. Those are great films.

Also, I believe the boys finally got off death row last year.

Because they executed them.

Nope, they havent been executed....(I've followed this case for years)

All the info on them is here http://www.wm3.org/live/newsevents/index.php

No shit. I could've sworn I read an article last year about the last one being executed. Must've been someone else.

I'm retarded. Sorry.

Still great documentaries though.

no problem gonad!!

They are actually all in the same facility now...but Damien is kept in solitary

Note to self: Edit the name "Damien" from all baby name books.

HBO had a documentary called "Gangbanging in Little Rock". It was fascinating, since it was a look at gang life (Bloods, Crips, you name it), but in a city you wouldn't think of being a gang related community. The fact that there were also white gangs made it all the more interesting.

Crumb
Sherman's March
Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film (amazing 13 part series)
Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

I know I should save this discussion for a different thread but, personally, I don't think that counts as a documentary.

Oh, right! Winged Migration. Not so much a story but a number of separate encounters & factoids on different migratory bird species. Excellent photography. I've never seen anything like it.

Killing Pablo, documenting the search and execution of Pablo Escobar.

Touching the Void, documenting a mountain climbing expedition gone horribly wrong somwhere in Peru.