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SassySloth
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Anyone know any good ones to check out??

If possible embed the video or post a link.

Thanks!
Feb 16 2013 4:13PM
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Jeebus.
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Just watched a ken burns doc called National Parks : americas greatest idea. its on nextflix, i really enjoyed it, highly recommend it, if your into outdoorsy kind of stuff.
Feb 16 2013 4:15PM
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BeefiestExpert
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i liked exit through the gift shop.
Feb 16 2013 4:22PM
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howlongcanausern
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vice media on DPRK/Liberia/and the mexican cartles and mitt romney's family.

warning the liberia one has some of the worst shit humanly imaginable on it
Feb 16 2013 4:24PM
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chicken
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180 south, the city dark, the story of maths, basically any space documentary.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/
Feb 16 2013 4:27PM
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SassySloth
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Just checked out that trailer and it looks interesting. Gonna check it out!
Feb 16 2013 4:27PM
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Lt-Aldo-Raine
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Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. How often does one watch the same documentary 3 times? Not often, i've made my case.
Feb 16 2013 4:35PM
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max...
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I may get hate on for this, but Catfish is actually a really good documentary.

But that's coming from someone who has Catfish: The TV Show as a guilty pleasure...
Feb 16 2013 4:37PM
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lineskier10
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all of the vice skateboarding documentaries called eicly laterd are awesome, especially the john cardiel one, and all of the Louis theroux documentaries that he does for the BBC are too
Feb 16 2013 4:39PM
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max...
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Sorry for the dub post, but I also watched a VICE documentary about north korea a couple months ago that was super interesting. Forgot the exact name but should be easy to find
Feb 16 2013 4:39PM
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Sofakingstupid
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Touching the void.

An amazing story of the will to survive.
The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
Feb 16 2013 4:41PM
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Dwarftosser1
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Check out Antics Roadshow if you like Exit

Life in a day, Gonzo, Happy, War photographer, Science of Evil. All are good and on Netflix
Feb 16 2013 4:46PM
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Skavengers303
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also
The botony of desire
Vice guide to travel
national geographic- inside north Korea
microcosmos
food inc.
restrepo
gonzo
man on wire
life in a day
American- a bill hicks story
future by design

i'm thinkin that should hold you over


Feb 16 2013 4:56PM
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Skavengers303
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oh shit, i forgot we live in public- probably the most horrifying, weird, mindboggling documentary i have seen.


Feb 16 2013 5:03PM
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slugworth
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If you keep an open mind, you should try watching the Zeitgust films
Feb 16 2013 5:15PM
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volvotom
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I just watched "Sound City" it was directed/produced by Dave Grohl. Awesome story of "Sound City" an LA recording studio where some of the best musical albums of all time have been recorded.

http://buy.soundcitymovie.com/

available on TPB




Feb 16 2013 5:25PM
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LiquorLanch
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The Devil Came on Horseback-excellent documentary about the genocide in Sudan
Feb 16 2013 5:36PM
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prosnurfer
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encounters at the end of the world. 

 its about antartica. its on netflix and is really good. Werner Herzog who films it has a good eye for subtle humor. and is a pretty intresting guy too if you look in to his other documentries. theres this one clip of him in the middle east doing a film about the war and he gets shot when hes doing a interview and hes totaly chill and calm about it. hes liek oh guys i think iv been shot in the abdemon and just gets up and walks away. such a boss

Feb 16 2013 6:22PM
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LiquorLanch
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How has no one mentioned spinal tap? Excellent documentary
Feb 17 2013 8:30AM
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Laurent.
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Any documentary that has David Attenborough as narrator. His silky smooth and soft voice has the ability to make even the most mundane things interesting.
Feb 17 2013 8:43AM
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I_Am_Mod
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if you're into war documentaries:
armadillo: video docu of a danish group of soldiers in afghanistan
restrepo: video diary/docu of a group of US soldiers holding a forward outpost in one of the most dangerous regions in afghanistan. the FOB got named 'restrepo' after one of their brothers who got killed in action ...

furthermore
hanuman airlines: through sheer coincidence 2 nepalese guys meet eachother, one is a guide/sherpa on mount everest, the other a paraglider, their two lifestories flow together and bring them the amazing plan of paragliding down mount everest to the ocean ...

Kadoma: kayaking flick, a group of 3 kayaks down the congo river when their guide gets eaten by a crocodile they are left stranded in the middle of one of the most hostile and remote regions of the world ...


Feb 17 2013 9:36AM
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EmperorKuzco
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Any 30 for 30
Feb 17 2013 9:42AM
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I_Am_Mod
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and if you're into 'wild things'
'surviving alone in alaska' narrates the story of Heimo Korth who lives in a remote cabin in the middle of 19million acres of gnarly alaskan wilderness !
-> link to full docu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0rZn8HFmQ&feature=relmfu

and 'happy people: a year in the taiga' - pretty similar, just check the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_wnpkOVIHQ

Feb 17 2013 9:51AM
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pink_squid
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Any stoners out there should watch "Degenerate art and the culture of glass blowing" on netflix
shits crazy son




Feb 17 2013 10:00AM
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bdarb207
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Senna. Don't know if it was mentioned but its awesome. About a formula 1 racer in the 80's I think? Super interesting.
Feb 17 2013 10:11AM
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Laurent.
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A formula one racer? A?

The formula one racer you mean.

Shows you how interested you were, or how good your memory is.
Feb 17 2013 10:13AM
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corona
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it's not a documentary
Feb 17 2013 10:21AM
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I_Am_Mod
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haha, i'd have to agree with you on this one :P
Feb 17 2013 10:24AM
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bdarb207
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I watched it a while ago, and it had no subtitles. I watched a documentary from the 80's which was half in spanish about a sport i knew nothing about so yeah Id say i was pretty interested lol. memory I won't disagree with you ha
Feb 17 2013 11:56AM
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Stickity
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restrepo
Feb 17 2013 12:36PM
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LiquorLanch
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Check your meter, bro.
Feb 17 2013 1:31PM
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corona
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good try. you legitimately thought it was a documentary, now you're trying to save face.
Feb 17 2013 2:19PM
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Edward.
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For anyone interested in medical documentaries, here's an extremely captivatng one from the start. It's got multiple parts so its a bit lengthy. but it's worthwhile for sure and it really makes you think of how fucked up the initial ideas for surgery were in the past


Feb 17 2013 3:04PM
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volvotom
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lol, I must agree. He was THE man.
Feb 17 2013 3:33PM
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volvotom
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It's in Portuguese, not Spanish, and half of the dialog is in English.
Feb 17 2013 3:34PM
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987321654hgfd
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Degenerate Art was awesome.

And every time one of these threads pop up I always say the one with the bums who bomb hills on shopping carts. Never remember the name but it was awesome.
Feb 17 2013 4:17PM
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alex=
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anything on vice.com is awesome
Feb 17 2013 4:22PM
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Charlie_Kelly
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Cocaine Cowboys.

It's about the cocaine trade in the 80's. Interviews real drug runners, discusses the Medellin Cartel and Griselda Blanco. Pretty entertaining as well.
Feb 18 2013 8:24AM
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cowofawesome
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The movie wasn't from the 80's, it was made in 2010.

But it's a great documentary, OP you should check it out.
Feb 18 2013 8:57AM
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bdarb207
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Interdesting.
Feb 18 2013 9:01AM
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LiquorLanch
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Really now? Everyone knows that movie is a mockumentary
Feb 18 2013 10:35AM
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Phil-X-
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SO sick

Feb 18 2013 10:37AM
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987321654hgfd
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Well it's called Carts of Darkness and here's the whole thing


Feb 18 2013 10:53AM
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Willgum
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Thousands of free documentaries for you all to watch:

http://documentaryheaven.com/
Feb 18 2013 11:19AM
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Deluge
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"Radioactive wolves"
It's about a wolf pack that is surviving and thriving in the areas of and surrounding Chernobyl, Ukraine. Really a great watch
Feb 18 2013 12:04PM
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tightlines
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Watch alone in the wilderness or nanook of the north.
Feb 18 2013 12:16PM
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bdarb207
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JIro dreams of sushi is one of the best things i have seen in a while. Dude lives his life with such discipline. Fucking incredible.
Feb 19 2013 8:10AM
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.MintBerryCrunch
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http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/10/04/bond-documentary-everything-or-nothing/

this one is amazing and on netflix
Feb 19 2013 8:24AM
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-AM-
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Dont know if anyones mentioned this yet, but Louis Theroux's Westborough Baptist Church is a pretty good one. Fascinating to see how crazy these people really are

Feb 19 2013 10:57AM
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Merrill
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The imposter was a good one about a French man who claimed to be the missing son af a family in Texas
Feb 19 2013 11:15AM
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kebbek
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Why pyramids where built?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2jueorVahg
Feb 19 2013 11:15AM
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