OT: Great Documentary Films?

[e-RICHIE]

Originally Posted by dustyrider

Finding Vivian Maier

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[reuben]

What is wrong with me? (us?)

A Sunday In Hell
Part cycling race, part art film. Classic.

[BryanE]

Jaco. The Jaco Pastorious story. Such a sad ending. Beaten to death by a bouncer at a Santana concert because he jumped on stage. And the Three Day Club. In order to join you had to stay up partying for three days.

[charliedid]

Dogtown and Z Boys

https://youtu.be/8I7FpyzyJug?si=6Gfn8JUNCcgsbsRH

[Waldo62]

The *worldwide* web provides a significantly greater range of information and opinion than you would find here.

[charliedid]

Originally Posted by Waldo62

The *worldwide* web provides a significantly greater range of information and opinion than you would find here.

Eh?

[prototoast]

The Aristocrats.

[bikerboy337]

Icarus is a must watch for any cycling fan…. Believe it’s on Netflix still…

Amazing story and won the academy award for best doc.

[rnhood]

"The Rescue"
"The Birth of a Nation"
"Man on Wire"

[novacyclist]

Originally Posted by bikerboy337

Icarus is a must watch for any cycling fan…. Believe it’s on Netflix still…

Amazing story and won the academy award for best doc.

Thanks for the rec. I've been meaning to catch this but haven't yet clicked play. Now I will.

[NHAero]

Lots of great picks here!

Meru great climbing movie
Mountain Queen - the story of Lhakpa Sherpa, the Nepali woman who has summited Everest ten times.
The Sun Queen - biography of the great solar scientist and inventor Maria Telkes
Bad Press - a Native American reporter's fight for freedom of the press within the Muscogee Nation

[gdw]

Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia on the 1936 games is one of the best sports documentaries ever made. It's rarely shown in its entirety on TV due to her ties to Hitler and the Nazis but can be found on YouTube.

[Louis]

Originally Posted by gdw

Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia on the 1936 games is one of the best sports documentaries ever made. It's rarely shown in its entirety on TV due to her ties to Hitler and the Nazis but can be found on YouTube.

Speaking of her, I suppose one could add "Triumph of the Will" to the list of notorious documentaries.

[zennmotion]

Lovers of New York (and other cities)
Martin Scorsese with Fran Lebowitz: Pretend It's a City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MClMxqD-HNA


And of course, the world history mockumentary Cunk on Earth, some of which is true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm6AOHq9OL4

[Tommasini53]

Murder Ball wheelchair rugby.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436613/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk