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Originally Posted by YYC in LAX
Can anyone recommend any documentaries available on Netflix? I see there's a lot of them but a recommendation of a good one would be appreciated as I don't even know where to start. Thanks.
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Searching for Sugarman is very good. It's about an American singer called Rodriguez who was a huge success in South Africa during apartheid but popular nowhere else in the world. Because of this, there is virtually no information on him and a lot of mystique and rumour surrounding his death, so a couple of South Africans music lovers set out to investigate. Telling you more than that would spoil the movie, but it's definitely worth checking out.
Trumped is fairly interesting. It's about Donald Trump trying to build a golf course in sparsely inhabited, potentially ecologically endangered area of Scotland. It's residents, mostly poor farmers and fisherman, and environmentalists want nothing to do it. Trump, true to form, tries to strong arm everyone into getting his way. A classic David vs. Goliath story.
Brooklyn Castle is worth a watch as well. It focuses on the top ranked middle school in chess. The biggest stars in this school are not the basketball or football players, but instead the nerds on the chess team. Some of the kids around 11 and 12 years old have ranks of around 2000 (ie "expert" level, 2200 is "master"), which is pretty amazing. Most of them come from poor families and the program is put in jeopardy after the market crash in 2008 since the kids cannot afford to pay their own way to tournaments, which are most often out of state.