grey ghost Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 YouTube trailers and reviews (even copy and pasted ones) are all appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grey ghost Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 Remember, the more the merrier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakspear Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 (edited) Forgotten Silver (1997), don't read about it just watch it. For those who've seen it: Edited August 31, 2014 by Breakspear 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxOfficeZ Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 (edited) I'd recommend these. Inside Job is about how the finance industry failed on so many levels during the crisis and how it doesn't care even today. (more of a quasi film-documentary). About the control of the world's food by a few corporations. Quite a scary watch that will make you feel squeamish. Dear Zachary is kinda like a true crime documentary. Trials of Life is a fantastic nature documentary, narrated by the fantastic David Attenborough. PBS Origins is pretty good too. About space. Edited August 31, 2014 by BoxOfficeZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grim22 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room The Queen of Versailles Fat Head (for free on youtube) http://youtu.be/evcNPfZlrZs And to get a sense of Wrestling history The Rise and Fall of ECW (Highly recommended, it has a 150 minute runtime and is probably one of the best documentaries that the WWE has ever done) Cheating death, Stealing life: The Eddie Guerrero story http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1cdp9z_cheating-death-stealing-life-the-eddie-guerrero-story_sport 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grey ghost Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 The Internet's Own Boy" Opening with the news of Internet "hacktivist" Aaron Swartz's untimely death at the age of 26, "The Internet's Own Boy" traces the rise and fall of a tech industry prodigy. Interviews with his friends and loved ones paint a portrait of Swartz as a martyr of freedom of information and hail his fight for the public's right to access tax-funded academic and scientific research, culminating in a personally devastating two-year Federal lawsuit.Having developed RSS technology at the age of fourteen Swartz was embraced by tech leaders at the top of their fields including Cory Doctorow and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig. Affable and baby-faced, Swartz was a frequent presenter at conferences and participated in academic pursuits at top-level universities throughout his teenage years. He established himself as a force to be reckoned with as co-founder of Reddit, one of the largest social media and news aggregator sites online to this day. Despite a profitable job offer at Conde Nast, Swartz rejected corporate culture in favor of pursuing a democratic Internet in the interest of information sharing over profit. An avid researcher who had previously accessed otherwise private databases, Swartz, acting "in the grand tradition of civil disobedience to declare... opposition to this private theft of public culture" used MIT computers to access tax-funded research that would otherwise be held privately by for-profit publishers, an incident many viewers may remember from national headlines just a few year ago. Though neither MIT nor the digital repository Swartz accessed pressed charges, a US Attorney stepped in and filed a 13-count felony charge against Swartz, threatening him with over $1 million in fines and up to 35 years of jail time. The case drew unwanted media attention to Swartz, skewing him as a hacker and pirate instead of a liberator of information and defender of civil liberties. The Swartz we meet through the film, however, is an admirable, kind-hearted young man adored by his friends, family and collaborators. Passionate about addressing societal problems and deeply influenced by World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, who chose to share the Web freely instead of for-profit, the film paints Swartz as a maligned activist, wrongly presented to the public as a criminal for his efforts to release a information to the general population. Despite the defense of his peers, these events launched Swartz into a two-year long downward spiral of withdrawal and depression. The film highlights the impact technology has on society's access to information, the amount of control for-profit entities and the government dictate over this access, and ultimately questions whether Swartz's efforts proved him to be defeated or victorious at the end of his life, though his impact on the open access movement is undeniable either way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grey ghost Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 Fog of War In this grimly compelling film, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris tackles one of his most perplexing and ambiguous subjects: former defense secretary Robert McNamara, widely identified (and in many quarters reviled) as the architect of the Vietnam War.The octogenarian McNamara, a former head of Ford Motor Co. whose government service began during World War II, is filmed via Morris's invention, the Interrotron, a device that allows interviewer and subject to look into each other's eyes while also staring directly into the camera lens. This enables the subject to maintain eye contact with the audience, and given the frequently disturbing nature of McNamara's revelations, it makes for quite an eerie viewing experience. He discusses at length the Allied campaign against Japan in WWII, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the costly, protracted conflict in Vietnam. From his musings Morris extrapolates 11 lessons, which are presented one at a time to impose film structure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luna Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 i would recommend all of these: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls070805194/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchumacherFTW Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Senna. That is all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webslinger Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Hoop Dreams. I'd have to double-check, but I believe it's the only documentary to ever receive an Oscar nomination for film editing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 (edited) Touching the Void: about a mountain climbing expedition that goes horribly wrong, and two friends who find themselves on the brink of death. The story has more twists and turns than you'd expect. The movie has a fair amount of recreations, so it's a quasi-docudrama/quasi-documentary. Exit Through the Gift Shop: a wildly entertaining documentary about street art with a shifting and possibly unreliable author (in a documentary, no less!) Directed by Banksy... or was it? The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters: another super-entertaining story about the battle for the top Donkey Kong score of all time, complete with one of the best movie villains of the 21st century and a lovable underdog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zet7g8AifJs Edited September 1, 2014 by Telemachos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Blackfish 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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