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I know there's been several posts and topics about films and TV content , but I thought I would ask if you have come across and watched any factual informative, interesting  and entertaining documentaries. 

 

  So if you have  .................  can you please share them here and may be your views .:thumbsup:

 

So Ive just watched a recent Netflix six part documentary called   Wild Wild Country  ,  which is about a religious cult and its charismatic leader Bhagwan Shree Raineesh . 

 

Its one of the more crazier documentaries that ive watched :crazy:

 

Here's an outline …..............

 

In 1981, the followers of Indian spiritual guru—and alleged “sex cult” leader—Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh purchased a 64,000 acre ranch in the middle of Oregon. Soon, thousands of followers dressed in red were swarming into the state and constructing an entire town with everything from a pizza parlor to an airport, placing sex ads in the local newspaper, and cheering as the Bhagwan was driven around in his literal fleet of Rolls Royces. And then things got weird.

 

 

Great documentary , well worth watching . :wai:

 

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Inside Job, narrated by Matt Damon, is a very interesting and accessible explanation of how the financial crash of 2008 occurred. Be prepared to be outraged, however, when you realise that those who shafted us at the time were mostly protected such that they continue to do the same stuff now.

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35 minutes ago, Sandy Freckle said:

Anthony Bourdain - "War on Waste"..., very important doco. 
'Snowflakes chance' that any of the messages within this doco will be taken seriously by any of the powers that be within LOS

Thanks , Ive never really watched any thing Anthony Bourdain , but I'm going to check this out :thumbsup:

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28 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

Inside Job, narrated by Matt Damon, is a very interesting and accessible explanation of how the financial crash of 2008 occurred. Be prepared to be outraged, however, when you realise that those who shafted us at the time were mostly protected such that they continue to do the same stuff now.

Love documentaries on that subject , one more for my watch list :thumbsup: 

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Another interesting and some times disturbing documentary about life in a cult , this one really makes you wonder how the words ,  humans and intelligent go together . 

 

 Holy Hell ( 2016 )

 

An inside look at a West Hollywood cult formed by a charismatic teacher in the 1980s that eventually imploded.

 

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More info here at IMDB 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278464/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Once Bitten said:

Another interesting and some times disturbing documentary about life in a cult , this one really makes you wonder how the words ,  humans and intelligent go together . 

 

 Holy Hell ( 2016 )

 

An inside look at a West Hollywood cult formed by a charismatic teacher in the 1980s that eventually imploded.

 

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More info here at IMDB 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278464/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

 

 

If you like that genre, then watch Jim Jones in action:

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080832

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3156020

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One of my favorite documentaries is about Bernie Madoff and his ponzi  scheme and how he tricked people into parting with vast amounts of money .

 

Gimme some of you money and I will invest it and you'll earn a whole lot more :whistling:

 

 

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8 minutes ago, Once Bitten said:

One of my favorite documentaries is about Bernie Madoff and his ponzi  scheme and how he tricked people into parting with vast amounts of money .

 

Gimme some of you money and I will invest it and you'll earn a whole lot more :whistling:

 

 

"The Wizard of lies"

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1933667/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4

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4 minutes ago, Once Bitten said:

 A study of one of the largest business scandals in American history

 

Sounds right up my street ,  Ive watched all the ''  American Greed '' episodes so far , what an eye opener :shock1:

 

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11 seasons??????

 

Can they still keep it relevant and interesting?

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4 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

I watched that recently - while I have no sympathy for the man, I cannot believe the amount of pressure he must have been under for so many years, yet he showed no outward sign of it. 

So many lives ruined , but some say they were just greedy :crazy:

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Just watched Icarus   ( 8 on IMDb ) 

 

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When Bryan Fogel sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his story from a personal experiment into a geopolitical thriller involving dirty urine, unexplained death and Olympic Gold-exposing the biggest scandal in sports history.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6333060/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

 

 Ive never really taken much interest in the Olympics , but after watching this documentary it must be one of the biggest  sports scandal in world history :shock1:

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The Vietnam War (2017)...truly remarkable...worth watching all 10 parts...'did Richard Nixon interfere in the 1968 peace talks for his political purposes?'...looks like he did with the result of thousands of more lives lost...the bastard shoulda been publicly drawn and quartered (after due process, of course)...

 

instead he became the 37th President of the United States of America...

 

 

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Well just watched a strange head scratching documentary that kept getting weirder and weirder  

called …..........  Tickled  

 

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A story about the world of Competitive Tickling :shock1:

 

Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn't stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction. :crazy:

 

So if your into competitive tickling ( fetish  :biggrin: ) then this is for you . 

 

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278506/?

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Burden of Dreams by Les Blank that documents the filming of Werner Herzog's 'Fitzcarraldo' in the amazon jungle...

 

Herzog is talented but obviously a madman...a peruvian engineer when asked about the feasibility of manually dragging a 200 ton ship over a mountain side: 'not feasible without the loss of lives...' Herzog: 'how many lives do you estimate?...'

 

insane...

 

Les Blank did some other documentaries that were quite nice, check him out on youtube...'Always for pleasure' and 'Garlic is as good as 10 mothers'...useta see him in the supermarket in Berkeley in the 80s...

 

motto: 'meet me down on de battlefront 'cause de wild tchoupitoulas gonna stomp some rump...' and then crazed new orleans negroes appear dancing with plains indian warrior headdresses with pink tinted feathers and buckskins at Mardi Gras...both Blank and Herzog were kindred in their pursuit of bizarre images...

 

 

 

 

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gotta plug fer this one from Les Blank:

 

 

 

I was always a 'garlic head'...it's also about the hipster culinary culture in California in them days (80s)...Reagan and his minions had taken over and the dykes were emerging with political correctness...we needed to find shelter somewhere...and garlic is wholesome...

 

then later I found myself in Derby in the east midlands of England discussing garlic: 'it's good fer ye and it makes food taste good...'...'but, it's so terribly foreign?...'

 

tutsi's not in California anymore...where were my ruby slippers to tap 3 times...

 

 

 

 

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The China Hustle

 

Excellent and sad doco on the new wave chinese scam in collusion with american investment firms to defraud ordinary people 

of billions by listing shady chinese companies on the us stock market.

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Just watched a reveling documentary called …......... Voyeur

 

( Voyeur - a person who gains sexual pleasure from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity. ) 


If you deiced to watch it , stay until the end !! :biggrin:

 

I remember back when I was attending  junior school I  attempted to use the point of my compass to dig a small hole through the wood partition wall ,  inside the boys changing room , so I could peep into the adjoining girls shower and changing room . :shock1:


This guy took it to whole new level :whistling:

 

Journalism icon Gay Talese reports on Gerald Foos, the owner of a Colorado motel, who allegedly secretly watched his guests with the aid of specially designed ceiling vents, peering down from an "observation platform" he built in the motel's attic
 

 

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7588790/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

 

 

 

 

 

 

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