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I'm always interested to watch a good documentary.  Some examples of my favorites are Fog of War, Food Inc, and, the most recent one I just watched, Hot Coffee.  A brilliant film about the misconceptions we have about civil lawsuits.  Everyone knows of the McDonalds women who was awarded 2+ million for spilling coffee on herself, right? Well this movie will show what really happened along with 2 other cases were ordinary citizens were wronged by private companies, medical profession and political operatives. 

 

 What your favorite documentaries? 

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Super size me!
Art that changed the world is very good - Simon Schama chooses 6 paintings that changed our views on art - Picasso's Guernoca, Van Gogh and his chair , Rothko, David, and cannot tremember the other two!
SHOAH (1985)
The past is never past; in bringing the Holocaust to life in his towering nine-and-a-half-hour masterpiece, director Claude Lanzmann would stick solely to the present. Shoah is composed of the reflections of Polish survivors, bystanders and, most uneasily, the perpetrators. The memories become living flesh, and an essential part of documentary filmmaking finds its apotheosis: the act of testifying. Our top choice was an obvious one. If you doubt the impact of this mightiest of movies, take time next month to catch IFC’s 25th-anniversary rerelease, an ennobling theatrical experience. We’ll leave you with a taste of the first image: A graying man sings a quiet tune on a rowboat floating downstream, his eyes lost in thought. As a 13-year-old Jewish captive, he was beloved by his SS guards for his voice.
Civilisation by Alan Clarke is still one of my favourites
Women are heroes by the french photographer JR is wonderful!
off the top of my head my favorites are: (most are human interest docs)

1. Grizzly man

2. King of Kong

3. Jesus Camp

4. Bus 174

5. American Movie

6. My brothers keeper (kind of disturbing)

7. Bowling for Columbine

8. Dark Days

9. Man on Wire

10. Catfish

11. The thin blue line

12. The tillman story

12. Hoop dreams

13.Crumb

14. Food Inc

15. Spellbound

always looking for more to watch...

King of Kong and Man on Wire are great films.  Grizzly Man was good but the guy was just too strange for me at times.

 

 1) Why We Fight; A film about the business of war in America.

 2)I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors(

http://www.nfb.ca/playlists/reel-asian-2011/viewing/i_was_child_hol...

3) Do u consider Michael Moore's films documentary's? If so

Capitalism: A Love Story

4)Sicko and all of his work.

 

Kind of off topic...

Where do people buy DVD's here( english) and fair prices?

 

 

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