maqroll Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Watched this recently, incredibly inspirational. Made me feel a bit daft feeling sorry for myself following my cycling accident. Just came into the thread to mention this. Kevin Pearce gave a talk at our company leadership conference at the end of last year. An incredible guy, and an incredible story. I just stumbled on this doc last year, hadn't heard a word about it, and it floored me. Gut wrenching stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 added a load to my netflix watchlist, managed 2 last night - was interesting enough but IMO was a bit safe and tried to cover too much ground, theres been better documentaries about the subjects (the king of kong, indie game) and i think miyamoto is over due a documentary by now bout a Palestinian bloke living in a village on the edge of a settlement and the villagers battle to stop the settlement creeping on to their land, its very good, its all filmed through hand held cameras, that over 6 years are broken 1 by 1 for various reasons (for example 1 is shot by a sniper) he's not a filmaker he's from the village filming most of it as evidence as much as anything else so its obviously one sided but it doesnt feel overly edited or forced, some of it changed my outsider looking in not overly interested every bit as bad as each other leave them to it opinion, some of the tactics they use to disrupt their way of life / manipulation of the laws is just plain wrong (anyone who's seen it, the bits with the containers) highly recommended left on the list - the square, 20 feet from stardom, dirty wars, cutie and the boxer any more on there? ive seen gas land, food inc, black fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted March 2, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted March 2, 2015 Excellent film about the history of backing singers in popular bands. Even the presence of Sting wasn't enough to ruin it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 i saw the phil collins motown flick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Banned in India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWwM3j6sx28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Just watched this: Really great watch, Tells the story of the American Samoa football team, the lowest placed team in the FIFA world rankings, and their new Dutch coach. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 yeah its on sky movies at the moment, will give it a go when the missus isnt about watched a couple on Netflix this week - we could be king - about Philadelphia having huge cuts in education and 2 schools that were huge rivals merging, from the perspective of the football team, was ok, very football heavy rather than the education side of it which would probably have been more interesting - shenandoah - about 4 high school footballers who beat a mexican illegal immigrant to death, touched on the racism, the shutting of coal mine and the collapse of the community, the high school football, was pretty good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Banned in India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWwM3j6sx28 Banned on YouTube now too I guess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Just watched this: Really great watch, Tells the story of the American Samoa football team, the lowest placed team in the FIFA world rankings, and their new Dutch coach. Thomas Rongen! Managed New England Revolution back in the 90's, in fact I think he was our first manager. Good guy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 (edited) Middle name Duheruptha. Edited March 21, 2015 by Ingram85 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Just watched this: Really great watch, Tells the story of the American Samoa football team, the lowest placed team in the FIFA world rankings, and their new Dutch coach. Thomas Rongen! Managed New England Revolution back in the 90's, in fact I think he was our first manager. Good guy. Yeah, he seems it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdomlahor Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Just watched Louis Theroux's "Edge of Life". I don't cry at anything, but that one had me in tears (both kinds) in the final 20 minutes or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Was that the Insane peoples one? If not, I thought that was good. Watched the Trev MacDonald one one the mafia too, which was very blunt - some bad people on the streets of NYC back in the day.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gharperr Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 (edited) My favourites Dear zachary, letter to my unborn (if you havent seen, dont spoil yourself by google'ng, truly truly heartbreaking ) Insider job (about financial collapse and just the amount of freedom banks had to do whatver the f' they wanted, narrated by matt damon) Two escobars (football and cocaine) Cocaine cowboys (was the film blow based on this exact same story?, the drug part of the documentary that is...) All incredibly well known so youve probably seem them all but all incredibly interesting. Love a documentary, going to binge all the ones in this thread i think...apart from the animal documentaries. Those are tooo heartbreaking Edited March 26, 2015 by gharperr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdomlahor Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Was that the Insane peoples one? If not, I thought that was good. Watched the Trev MacDonald one one the mafia too, which was very blunt - some bad people on the streets of NYC back in the day.. Nah, it was one of the LA Stories ones which aired a while ago. That one the other night was great as well though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 (edited) Just watched Talhotblond on Netflix last night. Pretty amazing story, but the doc has some considerable flaws in execution. A better filmmaker could have turned it into an award winner. Edited March 28, 2015 by maqroll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gharperr Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 (edited) GOING CLEAR: Scientology & the Prison of Belief HBO has aired i think in america and cant wait to watch this. Hasnt been uploaded to TPB yet but apparently HBO has 160 lawyers working on this documentary for when scientology will try to sue them Edited March 30, 2015 by gharperr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) It was quite good. Louis Theroux is also doing one on the same subject for the BBC. Edited March 31, 2015 by useless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Thought Trev McDonald's on the Mafia (2 parter) was good. Pretty harrowing, some of the people on there that take killing so.. calmly? Also, they estimate 7,000 "mob" recruits are walking around NYC today, killing, extorting, intimidating etc, still considerable. Although one guy said there's no loyalty in the Mafia any more, the first person to drop others in it, reduce his own time whilst being given money and safekeeping is too much of a dangling carrot not to take. So it appears the gentlemanly agreements, codes etc don't hold much water any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 The problem with that kind of show is that the majority of people being interviewed will have left the life and tell it a certain way whilst those still in it won't say a thing Think it had some legs though, would have been better if he'd done a 4/5 parter and did a proper history of the mafia show with then the same interviews My favourite bit was probably all the different ways the bosses could say I'm not answering that whilst in court Also watched his Mississippi one and he's not as bad as I thought he would be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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