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The Tillman Story (2010)
This documentary hints at something pretty credible and pretty disturbing. Its another film that attacks the concept of US exceptionalism in the context of foreign policy. Pat Tillman was a...
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TT3D Closer to the Edge (2011)
Total insanity, much like The Birth of Big Air (2010), these guys are breaking boundaries just to break boundaries. This is a made-for-cinema 3D documentary, narrated by Jared Leto, concerning the Isle...
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We Are Legion The Story of the Hacktivists (2012)
Anonymous, the "hactivist" group, and Lulzsec, an elite hacking subsection of the group, were born from an online board called 4chan. Its an extremely basic bulletin board website with no fancy...
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Darwin (2011)
Where is the end of the world? As far as America goes, this is at least one end of one road. An isolated community in Death Valley, California, composed of a variety of individuals ostracised by...
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Blackfish (2013)
Conspiracies seem to exist everywhere, even, or perhaps especially, at the home of fun. But its really about contradictory interests and just enough hidden information that you can believe that may be...
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Winter Soldier (1972)
Is it a huge surprise that chaotic warzones breed monsters? Or perhaps more of a surprise that once bred they are so easily ignored? Winter Soldier is the film of the "investigations" into Vietnam war...
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Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (2013)
So there is already a great documentary on Mike Tyson from 2008, just called Tyson (2008), which i have already reviewed. I was shocked at how articulate and sympathetic a character he is in that film....
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Riding Giants (2004)
Really cool film about the development, and ultimately the spirituality. of finding that "Giant Wave" to attack. Lives are dedicated, and occasionally lost, to pursuing bigger and bigger beasts, and...
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Interview With A Cannibal (2007)
"Love cannibalism"; consensual adult sexual behaviour may not get more bizarre than this. Since the ultimate self sacrifice is a part of it, the circumstances that lead to this as a possibility could...
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Bill Cunningham New York (2010)
"You see, if you don't take money, they can't tell you what to do, kid."Eccentricity doesn't come much more prolific than this. Bill Cunningham has been one of the leading New York photographers for...
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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in The House of God (2012)
There has been an idea within the Catholic church, rarely expressed, but often implied, that children are resilient and will inevitably recover from early trauma. For an organisation who's main...
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Pumping Iron (1977)
This is a documentary which would grow in significance over time as post the 1977 release date, the main star's career was launched into the stratosphere. Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno (later the...
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Talhotblonde (2009)
With thanks to @ClariciaQ for the recommendationThis is the incredible story of an internet love triangle gone as wrong as possible, resulting in one dead, one imprisoned for 18 years, and one...
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The Celluloid Closet (1995)
How well do you pick up on subtle pressure? Can you identify indirect implications? For decades characters in some films with subtly gay characteristics were identified as dangerous, ridiculed, abused...
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The 6 Best Documentaries You Can Watch Online For Free!
Some of the best documentary films ever made are available online for free right now. Not on some illegal stream or on a virus ridden piracy site but on youtube or dailymotion. This is my pick of the...
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Mitt (2014)
Access is the key to a great documentary. Greg Whiteley followed Mitt and his family through the primary campaign in 2008, won my John McCain, and the presidential campaign in 2012. He is in the room...
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Seduced and Abandoned (2013)
Alec Baldwin and James Toback (best known to me as the director of Tyson (2008) ) are talented, experienced filmmakers looking to make a new film. Not a piece of fluff, not an action blockbuster, but...
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The Endless Summer (1966)
Classic documentary from the 60s which now is remembered by many as a blissfull ode to a bygone era. Two all American boys Mike Hynson and Robert August take a gap year, before "gap years" were...
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Unforgivable Blackness (2004)
Before there was Muhammed Ali, there was Jack Johnson. Ken Burns' documentary presents James Earl Jones, Keith David, Samuel L Jackson and Alan Rickman portraying the phenomenal story of the first...
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One Night In Turin (2010)
Agh, just the thought of reliving that night is absolutely unbearable. For those too young, or too non English to have hidden behind the sofa during our only semi final exit in World Cup history, I...
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Sick The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997) (NSFW)
Bob Flanagan was a BDSM celebrity. Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as a child, he was expected to live to 7 or 8. Treatment for his condition involved removing vast amounts of thick, viscous mucus from...
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The Filth and the Fury (2000)
The heydey of the Sex Pistols was a confused period. Punk was anti-establishment and anti-wealth, but also anti-popularity. The bigger it became, the more the self-styled founders could not recognise...
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Control Room (2004)
Methods of information control and massive conflicts in interpretation come crashing together in this insiders view of the Coalition Media Center during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This battleground...
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Take Me To Pitcarin (2013)
I can't help but enjoy a personal film like this one. Julian McDonnell is a permanently, even irritatingly, cheerful 30 something with a dream. He must travel to Pitcairn Island, the home of the...
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My Beautiful Broken Brain (2014)
A painful and at times overwhelming personal portrayal resulting in a "narrative structure" for a patient to "understand her own journey". A challenge to the nature of reality through the eyes of...
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