this. food inc is the best food documentary out there.
king corn is another good one. sicko is a good documentary if you dont mind all the doucheyness of michael moore. if you have netflix, there are a bunch of frontline documentaries on random things like the financial crisis or BP oil spill and they are almost always excellent.
The Bridge, as someone listed above. They spent 1 year watching the golden gate bridge and trying to capture every suicide. Extremely powerful, particularly if you know someone close that killed themselves. I'll literally never see the bridge the same way again.
HoopDreams if you haven't seen it. If only to see some NBA players like Juwan Howard in the background at the McDonalds all american game. But it gives you lots of insight on just how hard it is to make it in the NBA and how the prep system chews up these inner city kids and spits them out the very second they're no longer useful.
HoopDreams if you haven't seen it. If only to see some NBA players like Juwan Howard in the background at the McDonalds all american game. But it gives you lots of insight on just how hard it is to make it in the NBA and how the prep system chews up these inner city kids and spits them out the very second they're no longer useful.
Another incredible documentary. I remember being bored by it when I was in middle school, expecting a basketball-centric storyline. However, it seems to be much more about life. It's another film that can get me emotional at times.
Anything by Louis Theroux is worth watching. 'The Most Hated Family Of America' is probable the most famous documentary he's made, if you haven't seen that, that's a pretty good place to start.
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe is a documentary film about the late American civil rights attorney William Kunstler directed by daughters Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler that premiered at the 25th Sundance Film Festival in January 2009.[1]
William Kunstler was a famous 20th-century lawyer whose clients included Martin Luther King Jr., Larry Davis, Malcolm X,[1] Phillip and Daniel Berrigan, Abbie Hoffman, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Filiberto Ojeda Ríos and Leonard Peltier. The New York Times called him "the most hated and most loved lawyer in America". Kunstler served as the negotiator for inmates at the prison uprising at Attica State Prison in New York in 1971.[2]
This film is a co-production of the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and was broadcast on the PBS television series P.O.V. in June 2010. The film was an official selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. It also received a 2008 grant from the Foundation for Jewish Culture's Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film. Arthouse Films released the film theatrically in North America in 2009.
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