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over a year ago
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What have you watched recently and would happily recommend?
On the back of favourite movie thread. 
The last two I have seen would be: History of Make Up in Britain - 1920s episode. The time of women's liberation. Voting, chopping off hair, shortening skirts and smoking in public! The vamps and the flappers. Loved it.
And Avicii- his own autobiography in a way. His bumpy road to fame and pain of not being understood by those who surrounded him so close yet they didn't see when he started slipping away. The constant pushing, the medical problems and we get to see all the painful cracking...
Currently started Blitz Spirit by Lucy Worsley.
What have you got for me, please? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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There is an excellent couple on Sky Documentaries at the moment that have seemingly been around for a few years that I have finally jumped on
Hitsville: Story of Motown
Beatles: Eight Days a Week
There is also a reaaaally good one about Studio 54 in New York which I thought was great. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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“Bent coppers crossing the line of duty” it’s been on over the last few weeks on bbc really interesting.
A few months ago I watched “museums in quarantine” which I recommend if you like art |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Sons of Sam was mind blowing as was Nightstalker."
Nightstalker was absolutely astonishing! Need to jump on the other one you mentioned.
Netflix wise - Dont f**k with cats is pretty great! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Framing Britney Spears
Miss Americana
Don't Fuck With Cats
Fyre
Red Penguins
Honeyland
The Mole
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle
Three Identical Strangers
The documentaries shown under Storyville on BBC are normally pretty good. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Framing Britney Spears
Miss Americana
Don't Fuck With Cats
Fyre
Red Penguins
Honeyland
The Mole
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle
Three Identical Strangers
The documentaries shown under Storyville on BBC are normally pretty good."
Three Identical Strangers ! 
Their story was told so well. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Netflix wise - Dont f**k with cats is pretty great!
Is the title misleading? 
I like it.  "
Haha!
Watch the trailer, unbelievable story!
McMillions is also quite good! |
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"Sons of Sam was mind blowing as was Nightstalker.
Nightstalker was absolutely astonishing! Need to jump on the other one you mentioned.
Netflix wise - Dont f**k with cats is pretty great!"
It was one if those where I struggled to watch but couldn't stop. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Framing Britney Spears
Miss Americana
Don't Fuck With Cats
Fyre
Red Penguins
Honeyland
The Mole
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle
Three Identical Strangers
The documentaries shown under Storyville on BBC are normally pretty good.
Three Identical Strangers !
Their story was told so well. "
If you liked that you might enjoy The Wolfpack (if you haven't seen it already). |
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By (user no longer on site)
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If you into football or fan of Alex Ferguson then watch.
sir Alex Ferguson never give in
I would say this is about less football and more about his personal life.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"If you into football or fan of Alex Ferguson then watch.
sir Alex Ferguson never give in
I would say this is about less football and more about his personal life. "
Not into football but I like a great personal story. Or something history related.
On that note The English Game on Netflix might catch your eye. Based on true story. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Seaspiracy and Cowspiracy... Both pretty much confirmed my suspicions but doesn't make it any easier to watch  "
Im always bit wary of conspiracy themed movies. Or I shouldn't assume based on a title? |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
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I’ve watched a few documentaries on Artists lately. The most recent ones being about Barbara Hepworth, Lucian Freud and Goya
Good to watch if you’re into art and artists.
My absolute favourite was Everday Street which is a documentary showing the lives and work of New York street photographers. Loved it.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I’ve watched a few documentaries on Artists lately. The most recent ones being about Barbara Hepworth, Lucian Freud and Goya
Good to watch if you’re into art and artists.
My absolute favourite was Everday Street which is a documentary showing the lives and work of New York street photographers. Loved it.
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I do !
Brilliant. Thanks. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Most of the documentaries i enjoy are about either music or physics, although I did find that history of makeup 1920s episode interesting (I didn't see any of the others)
Music
Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution by Howard Goodall. He takes apart the tracks from Sgt Pepper and explains why they were so groundbreaking. Will watch any time in is on
The Art of Drumming by Steve White. I've always wanted to play the drums and this shows the mind blowing skills the best drummers have.
On Bass - Tina Weymouth (the 'on drums' and 'on guitar' episodes are also good).
Physics
Helen Czerski - From Ice to Fire
Jim Al-khalili - Precision The Measurement of all Things
Hannah Fry - Magic Numbers |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
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"I’ve watched a few documentaries on Artists lately. The most recent ones being about Barbara Hepworth, Lucian Freud and Goya
Good to watch if you’re into art and artists.
My absolute favourite was Everday Street which is a documentary showing the lives and work of New York street photographers. Loved it.
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It would help if I named the documentaries properly!
The Barbara Hepworth one was called “Hepworth”
Then “Lucian Freud : A Self Portrait”
“Goya - Visions of Flesh and Blood”
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I’ve watched a few documentaries on Artists lately. The most recent ones being about Barbara Hepworth, Lucian Freud and Goya
Good to watch if you’re into art and artists.
My absolute favourite was Everday Street which is a documentary showing the lives and work of New York street photographers. Loved it.
It would help if I named the documentaries properly!
The Barbara Hepworth one was called “Hepworth”
Then “Lucian Freud : A Self Portrait”
“Goya - Visions of Flesh and Blood”
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Thank you !
My list will cover at least 3 years of watching amongst other genres I enjoy |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Most of the documentaries i enjoy are about either music or physics, although I did find that history of makeup 1920s episode interesting (I didn't see any of the others)
Music
Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution by Howard Goodall. He takes apart the tracks from Sgt Pepper and explains why they were so groundbreaking. Will watch any time in is on
The Art of Drumming by Steve White. I've always wanted to play the drums and this shows the mind blowing skills the best drummers have.
On Bass - Tina Weymouth (the 'on drums' and 'on guitar' episodes are also good).
Physics
Helen Czerski - From Ice to Fire
Jim Al-khalili - Precision The Measurement of all Things
Hannah Fry - Magic Numbers"
How user friendly are the physics documentaries? |
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My all-time favourite documentary film is Man on Wire, about Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The film chronicles the whole daredevil adventure wonderfully, from the seed of a dream, to the audacious planning, right through to him pulling it all off. The culmination, when he actually steps out onto the wire is one of the most awe-inspiring things I've ever seen.
One's I've watched recently on TV are the Barbara Hepworth one (as mentioned already on the thread). That was good. I watched one on Sky Documentaries called I Am Alfred Hitchcock last week which I'd recommend. I remember Bob Geldof did one on W B Yeats which I really enjoyed. There was a three parter on Beethoven on the BBC last year that was well done. Mark Gatiss did a couple a while back. One on Aubrey Beardsley and one on John Minton. I enjoyed both of those. There was an interesting one called The Vow, which was on Sky Documentaries a few months ago. That was pretty terrifying, about what was basically a cult and the guy who ran it. I think they're making a second series of that. I remember seeing one called Finding Vivian Maier a few years back which I liked. Ken Burns has done some great ones over the years. I'd highly recommend the ones he did on the US Civil War, Vietnam and country music. I know he's recently done one on Hemingway which I'm looking forward to catching at some point. As someone else mentioned further up the thread. The Helen Czerski one From Ice and Fire was good. I remember she also did one of colours which was really interesting. I remember Bettany Hughes did a couple of series on the great thinkers of history a while back on Socrates, Confucius, Buddha, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Frederick Nietzsche. They were great, though to be fair if the whole series had just been Bettany pushing a trolley round Tesco I'd have watched it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Assassins is really good tells the story of the assassination Kim Jong Uns brother
The kingmaker story of Imelda Marcos’ political career in the Philippines |
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Just started watching Sons of Sam.
Our Planet, nature Attenborough
The social dilemma
Also enjoyed Alien World, an imaginary view of how things could survive in different atmospheres / worlds, adapt & evolve, although not a true documentary in that sense. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Physics
Helen Czerski - From Ice to Fire
Jim Al-khalili - Precision The Measurement of all Things
Hannah Fry - Magic Numbers
How user friendly are the physics documentaries? "
Difficult question because it's kind of my job. They were all on bbc4, so I would say they are accessible if you are interested |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Physics
Helen Czerski - From Ice to Fire
Jim Al-khalili - Precision The Measurement of all Things
Hannah Fry - Magic Numbers
How user friendly are the physics documentaries?
Difficult question because it's kind of my job. They were all on bbc4, so I would say they are accessible if you are interested "
They say you are only a good teacher if you can explain your subject in laid man terms ill definitely have a look. Thanks for pointing the channel. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Pretty much anything by Lois Theroux, I think he’s amazing at getting to the real point of things no one else wants to talk about in a totally non judgmental way. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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What I mean is, all the intelligence in the world means shite when we was pinning women to bits of wood and setting fire to them because a bunch of jealous school girls decided she was a witch |
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"Pretty much anything by Lois Theroux, I think he’s amazing at getting to the real point of things no one else wants to talk about in a totally non judgmental way. "
I watched most of his. Thanks I enjoyed Autism and Dementia ones most I think. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Saw one on the history of Motown a couple of weeks ago, it was excellent.
Ooooh. What's the title?
Hitsville-The Making of Motown "
There's another excellent Motown doc called Standing in the Shadows of Motown, all about the brilliant musicians who played on so many classic hits with no credit. |
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On par with don't fuck with cats 