I'll throw this out there seeing as we're a sporting community:
Pacific Warriors (Netflix)
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A insight into the origins and stories of Pacific Island rugby teams such as Tonga, Samoa and Fiji. This documentary explores the backgrounds of a wide variety of players, past and present.
Apparently King of Kong was mostly staged... still entertaining I guess.
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"Best Worst Movie" was very entertaining look at how a cult classic movie is born. I don't know if this is still on Netflix, but it was quite interesting how Troll 2 came to life.
Also "Crumb" - If you find Robert Crumb's style of artwork and comics entertaining, this is a good look into his life and his rather eccentric brothers.
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I liked Man on Wire which is the documentary of the Frenchman who walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers in NYC. Quite entertaining. I saw JGL's The Walk and I liked it as well.
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Just finished 'soaked in bleach', about the investigation into the death of Curt Kobain. A lot of voices over the years on this subject, and this is a pretty interesting reasoning for the reopening of the case.
Edit : this is available on Netflix. If you're a Nirvana or Cobain fan, this is an interesting watch. It centres around the private investigator that Courtney hired to 'find' Kurt in the last week or so in his life. Better than 'Kurt and Courtney' and has a similar feel to other current crime docs. Not too long of a film, and doesn't overstay it's welcome.
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"Best Worst Movie" was very entertaining look at how a cult classic movie is born. I don't know if this is still on Netflix, but it was quite interesting how Troll 2 came to life.
Also "Crumb" - If you find Robert Crumb's style of artwork and comics entertaining, this is a good look into his life and his rather eccentric brothers.
I loved Crumb but that is one messed up family, I'm not sure I want to see the retrospective film his daughter makes in twenty years
For an Economic/Political Documentary I'll throw this one out:
"Ethos"
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Hosted by twice Oscar nominated actor Woody Harrelson, Ethos explores the mechanisms in our systems that work against democracy, the environment and our own personal liberty.
This isnt a 'sit-back and listen to the awesome information we have to give you' type of documentary because it does require some involvement due to the fact that while it isnt firmly entrenched in 'tinfoil hat/Major League Baseball/Batcrazy' country it does straddle the border pretty tightly.
If you eliminate some of the pretty standard conspiracy theory stuff that gets thrown your way there is still some interesting perspectives and legitimate information.
There will be instances where something will come up and you have to think to yourself:
"Okay, thats unspeakable insanity however for the sake of argument lets let that slide and see where you're taking us from here."
All I'm saying is that it does take some sorting the wheat from the chaff.
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my father-in-law just gave me a documentary called White Light Black Rain, about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and interviews survivors. It isn't going to be a happy viewing.
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With Glen Frey passing away today I'm going to recommend The History of the Eagles. I watched it a couple of months back and it was far better than I thought it would be. The politics within that band was amazing to observe. Frey was a harsh taskmaster.
With Glen Frey passing away today I'm going to recommend The History of the Eagles. I watched it a couple of months back and it was far better than I thought it would be. The politics within that band was amazing to observe. Frey was a harsh taskmaster.
I like the Eagles, I think the documentary carried on kind of long though. Maybe it was too much about the politicking going on in the group that wore on me as it went on. There were some interesting parts though for sure. As a casual fan of The Eagles, it wasn't enough to keep me engaged. Bigger fans might get more out of it though.
I just started on the Muscle Shoals documentary, but that is a bit of a long one as well and drags a bit and is all over the place with the people involved in the studio.
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman. Terrific doc on Newman's love of racing, interviews with Robert Wagner, Jay Leno, Robert Redford, etc. Very well done.
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Watched most of this on Monday night. Fantastic stuff.
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Another one I watched over Xmas was "All Together Now", it's the making of "LOVE", the Cirque du Soleil show set to The Beatles music.
It was pretty amazing. Went into the history of some of their songs, interesting interviews with Ringo and Paul, and George Martin, who produced the music for the show.
I'm not a big Beatles guy, but I really enjoyed it.
What really interested me was the contrast between how Paul and Ringo viewed it, and how Yoko and Olivia Harrison viewed it. My mom and I had just finished having a conversation about artists, and how most are interested in other people's interpretations of their art. In the doc, you see how Yoko and Olivia were very much about protecting the themes intended by John and George, and Ringo and Paul really didn't care and wanted to see what Cirque was going to do and just enjoyed it.
Also, Dhani Harrison (George's son) is literally a carbon copy of him. He looks exactly the same.
