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Documentary recommendations

Discussion in 'General' started by Trainwreck, Mar 31, 2020.

  1. Trainwreck

    Trainwreck I could give a heck

    I love documentaries. With my weekends being pretty opened up i have time for more of them.

    I like anything from racing, to astronomy, biology, geology, technology, war, theology, aerospace, world history, etc. I like these types of films more than regular consumer films. I'm open to pretty much anything, as long as I can learn about something. I love learning. so like... not the Tiger King.

    Thanks!
     
  2. Yzasserina

    Yzasserina sound it out

    You didn't mention music, but Country Music by Ken Burns was the last documentary I've seen, and it was very good. He's done many war ones, and the cancer was one was excellent too.
     
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  3. opinion914

    opinion914 Well-Known Member

  4. baconologist

    baconologist Well-Known Member

  5. tiggen

    tiggen Things are lookin' up.

    +1 to @Yzasserina, all Ken Burns documentaries are epic. Have yet to see the country music one.

    The Fog of War

    Dust to Glory

    Happy People: a Year in the Taiga

    Faster

    The Long Way Round

    The Long Way Down

    Long Strange Trip

    The Other One

    Those are what come immediately to mind.
     
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  6. Motofun352

    Motofun352 Well-Known Member

    It's not a documentary but I've started to rewatch the Band of Brothers that I have on DVD. While I know the story line, I've forgotten many of the details.
     
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  7. I can see currahee mountain from my deck
     
  8. skidooboy

    skidooboy supermotojunkie

    the eagles documentary tells a lot about the band that you never knew. starting with Linda Ronstadt, the inner power struggles, ect... very interesting. Ski
     
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  9. R Acree

    R Acree Banned

    I have to ...Tiger King
     
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  10. E Reed

    E Reed Well-Known Member

  11. TXFZ1

    TXFZ1 Well-Known Member

    Charged, the Eduardo Garcia Story
     
  12. Smilodon

    Smilodon Wannabe

    Stumbled across "Steve McQueen: The Man and LeMans" on Amazon Prime. Lots of interesting stuff about the making of the movie.
     
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  13. cha0s#242

    cha0s#242 Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand

    Watched "THey Shall Not Grow Old" last night. Quite humbling.
     
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  14. RRP

    RRP Kinda Superbikey

    The Racing Scene - very cool old school documentary about James Garner and his Formula race season team from ‘71. ( Garner does the narration on it.)

    Winning : the Racing life of Paul Newman

    The Boys of Bonneville - super cool about the family that started it all at the Salt Flats.

    The Bonneville Project - low budget documentary on Motorcycle Performance in Wisconsin’s Bonneville efforts, but it’s people many of us know so still pretty cool.

    Out of Nothing - another Bonneville Documentary. Also pretty cool.
     
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  15. joec

    joec brace yourself

    Happy people was very cool. And winning the Paul Newnan racing one was awesome if you're a mid Atlantic guy. Those old Datsuns were killer. And tons of great footage from mid Atlantic tracks.

    There's one called last man on the Moon that's really good too.

    Exit from the giftshop if you like art. It goes places.

    Beware Mr Baker is really amazing. And there's one called fela about fela kuti that crosses over a bit. If you're into music.

    I recently saw All things must end, I think about tower records. If that's your generation its pretty cool. Tower was my generation and it's a pretty amazing story.
     
  16. Spang308

    Spang308 Well-Known Member

    I second this. Really entertaining and informative for a casual fan of the band. I may watch it again.
     
  17. tony 340

    tony 340 Well-Known Member

    The movie BLOW is a pretty good almost true story.

    Recently watched the Bob Probert story on Amazon that was also good.
     
  18. nd4spd

    nd4spd Well-Known Member

    Not a documentary necessarily but The Right Stuff is an excellent watch.
     
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  19. tzrider

    tzrider CZrider

    This was good too...

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  20. Steeltoe

    Steeltoe What's my move?

    Helvetica
    Tim's Vermeer

    Not your usual fodder. I enjoyed both.
     

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