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By *yronMan
over a year ago
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'9/11: The Woman Who Wasn't There'. Fascinating insight into someone who claimed to be a 9/11 survivor. Doesn't pass judgement, it allows you to do that yourself, but fascinating and bewildering in equal measures. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Killing Pablo Escobar - iPlayer. Watched it last night. About a team of British mercenaries hired to kill Pablo."
Philly D.A. - documentary series (6 episodes) on iPlayer (part of the Storyville strand).
Three Identical Strangers on Netflix. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Killing Pablo Escobar - iPlayer. Watched it last night. About a team of British mercenaries hired to kill Pablo."
Is that the one with scottish guy,a rather unsuccessful mission? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Killing Pablo Escobar - iPlayer. Watched it last night. About a team of British mercenaries hired to kill Pablo.
Philly D.A. - documentary series (6 episodes) on iPlayer (part of the Storyville strand).
Three Identical Strangers on Netflix."
Seen 3 identical, I don't have iplayer |
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"Killing Pablo Escobar - iPlayer. Watched it last night. About a team of British mercenaries hired to kill Pablo.
Is that the one with scottish guy,a rather unsuccessful mission?"
Yes, I watched it the other night. It’s actually quite good  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"'9/11: The Woman Who Wasn't There'. Fascinating insight into someone who claimed to be a 9/11 survivor. Doesn't pass judgement, it allows you to do that yourself, but fascinating and bewildering in equal measures."
Interesting, I can see the reasoning  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Go on the iPlayer and watch some Adam Curtis - mindbending stuff.
Can't get you out of my Head was the most recent but they're all good. Hypernormalisation and Bitter Lake are masterpieces."
Can you tell me a little about them? |
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By *errocaWoman
over a year ago
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"Go on the iPlayer and watch some Adam Curtis - mindbending stuff.
Can't get you out of my Head was the most recent but they're all good. Hypernormalisation and Bitter Lake are masterpieces."
Brilliant watches.. All 3 |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I like things tbat are different, like jesus town, grey gardens, honey land, tickled
Grey Gardens is great
Finding Vivian Maier ?"
Now your talking
You know it!
That was wonderful the vivian maier one |
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"Go on the iPlayer and watch some Adam Curtis - mindbending stuff.
Can't get you out of my Head was the most recent but they're all good. Hypernormalisation and Bitter Lake are masterpieces.
Can you tell me a little about them?"
Difficult to summarise but broadly he argues that ideas propagated by elites in business, politics, science etc come to change people's perceptions of themselves and how they behave in daily life. He also illustrates how this is counterproductive in foreign policy e.g. America training Bin Laden in Afghanistan in the name of its national security only for him to become a threat to the very same.
And if that sounds a bit dry, there is loads of cool archive footage and music  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Go on the iPlayer and watch some Adam Curtis - mindbending stuff.
Can't get you out of my Head was the most recent but they're all good. Hypernormalisation and Bitter Lake are masterpieces.
Can you tell me a little about them?
Difficult to summarise but broadly he argues that ideas propagated by elites in business, politics, science etc come to change people's perceptions of themselves and how they behave in daily life. He also illustrates how this is counterproductive in foreign policy e.g. America training Bin Laden in Afghanistan in the name of its national security only for him to become a threat to the very same.
And if that sounds a bit dry, there is loads of cool archive footage and music "
No doesn't sound dry, sounds similar to my thoughts! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"The Raft, real life social experiment.
That looks good! It reminds me of another 2 docs, but I'll go look for this
Ah, good. "
Struggling to find it in my usual places, but ive come across tree line, secret life of trees |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I watched a few interesting fictional documentaries recently that were quite interesting - No Men Allowed, about a world in which women start being able to reproduce without men, and the effect this has on society. Also The History of Time Travel, which was quite fun. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If you like an insight in fashion, I loved the one about Alexander Mcqueen, kinda dark but good
Also the Dior one when Raf Simons stepped in after John Galliano. 
And the September issue was good too x |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"If you like an insight in fashion, I loved the one about Alexander Mcqueen, kinda dark but good
Also the Dior one when Raf Simons stepped in after John Galliano.
And the September issue was good too x "
That sounds good, I saw the McQueen one |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I watched a few interesting fictional documentaries recently that were quite interesting - No Men Allowed, about a world in which women start being able to reproduce without men, and the effect this has on society. Also The History of Time Travel, which was quite fun. "
I'll stat a list! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Project Nim
It's about an experiment in the 1970s to raise a chimpanzee as a human. The baby chimp lived with a surrogate human family and the human mum even breastfed it.
(The the documentary "man on wire" has been mentioned in the thread, it's by the same director.)
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"'9/11: The Woman Who Wasn't There'. Fascinating insight into someone who claimed to be a 9/11 survivor. Doesn't pass judgement, it allows you to do that yourself, but fascinating and bewildering in equal measures."
Where would I find this programme? xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Confederate States of America is an interest doc that looks at what may have happened had the South won the Civil War and how racist the USA was even though the North won.
Sobering but not too heavy a watch |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"An old one but 'Dont fuck with cats' is on Netflix.
That kept me on the edge of my seat it was SO good haha "
It was good, have you seen making a murderer |
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"Go on the iPlayer and watch some Adam Curtis - mindbending stuff.
Can't get you out of my Head was the most recent but they're all good. Hypernormalisation and Bitter Lake are masterpieces.
Can you tell me a little about them?
Difficult to summarise but broadly he argues that ideas propagated by elites in business, politics, science etc come to change people's perceptions of themselves and how they behave in daily life. He also illustrates how this is counterproductive in foreign policy e.g. America training Bin Laden in Afghanistan in the name of its national security only for him to become a threat to the very same.
And if that sounds a bit dry, there is loads of cool archive footage and music "
Sounds interesting that
I'll give it a go
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By *sandssCouple
over a year ago
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"The Mole: Undercover in North Korea"
Great recommendation, utterly jaw dropping story and the guy in it must have had balls of steel.
Also the Pablo Escobar one on iPlayer mentioned earlier was incredible. |
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"The Mole: Undercover in North Korea"
YES! This was bloody brilliant.
Also any Storyville programmes.
We watched the entire Michael Palin travel documentary back catalogue over the last Christmas and lockdown period - thoroughly enjoyed those too. |
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The Secret History of Comics. The wonder woman episode in particular.
The exploration of BDSM and feminist themes in the original 40s Wonder Woman comics is fascinating. The creator's home life equally surprising.
On Sky. |
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