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Recommended Documentaries

Srap Tasmaner October 20, 2020 at 17:00 2750 views 12 comments
What it says. Links to trailers appreciated.

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Srap Tasmaner October 20, 2020 at 17:02 #463138
Quoting Olivier5
Two tribesmen from Papua New Guinea head off on an expedition in the heart of a strange and entirely new kind of civilization: they want to explore everything, taste everything, and try everything - an absurd and wonderful marathon to discover France.


praxis October 20, 2020 at 18:07 #463147
Watched this last night on Netflix, quite fascinating.


frank October 21, 2020 at 14:49 #463434
Hippyhead October 21, 2020 at 15:17 #463450
Ooh, cool thread!

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Pop October 22, 2020 at 01:09 #463701
Pop October 22, 2020 at 01:13 #463704
Reply to praxis I couldn't believe the guy could stand back and film his octopus friend being attacked by a shark. I switched off at that point.
praxis October 22, 2020 at 01:18 #463708
Reply to Pop

I know, the relationship is definitely dramatized, but still a good story and it's informative and promotes ecology.
Nils Loc October 22, 2020 at 02:01 #463727
There are way too many documentaries to watch. :meh: Just as there are way too many KitKats to eat. Ignorance is still bliss.

The Rotten series on Netflix is incredible though there are controversies as to whether some industries are fairly portrayed.



Next time you eat a KitKat bar, remember these folks in Ivory Coast. "The Ivory Coast and Ghana are by far the two largest producers of cocoa, accounting for more than 50 percent of the worldΒ΄s cocoa.Apr 23, 2020" https://www.statista.com/statistics/263855/cocoa-bean-production-worldwide-by-region/

frank October 26, 2020 at 15:37 #465108
AlphaGo is the result of a self-learning AI project that plays the Asian board game: Go, which is believed to be the oldest board game in continuous play and is associated with nobility and human intuition. What happens when AlphaGo plays the world's Go champion?

Mayor of Simpleton November 10, 2020 at 16:26 #470478
This probably isn't what you are looking for, nor is it really a documentary, but I found it absolutely fascinating. It was not at all what I expected.

The more I watched the more the story became incredible.

Olivier5 July 02, 2021 at 08:55 #560127
For Sama is a documentary film produced and narrated by Waad Al-Kateab, and directed by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts.

When Waad was forced to leave Aleppo, Syria, she took with her hundreds of hours of footage she had filmed in the city under siege. She showed them to the BBC and they contacted a documentarist called Edward Watts to turn this material into a documentary. He worked with Waad over several years to arrive at this film.

I saw it yesterday night and now cannot get it out of my head. It's different from anything you ever saw.

Wheatley July 02, 2021 at 12:40 #560174
BBC nature