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Ask HN: What are some of your favorite documentaries?
- atldev 13y agoTruth in 24 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFwoxM1MiBw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFwoxM1MiBw) Great engineering, great strategy (underdog must take risks to beat the well-equipped adversary)
- chunky1994 13y agoI had asked the very same question about two years ago. I would say that the list is probably still pretty good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2698026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2698026
- mknits 13y agoEarthlings is by far the best documentary I have ever watched. Must watch it. Probably available on youtube and torrents.
- wallflower 13y agoI would say Jiro Dreams of Sushi while not really a documentary, more of a biography, will make you re-evaluate (if only temporarily) your life.
- jamesjguthrie 13y agoIf you'll count mockumentaries then Supervolcano, it was about the magma chamber(s) under Yellowstone Park.
- hansy 13y agoMan on Wire (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155592/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155592/) Exit Through the Gift Shop (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587707/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587707/) The King of Kong (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/)
- vermasque 13y agoSmartest Guys in the Room (about Enron) Cocaine Cowboys (about the drug boom in Miami during the 70's)
- nxn 13y agoBBC's Tiger Island: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHOxXOeCI0Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHOxXOeCI0Y I found a lot of this film incredibly interesting. But just seeing the behavior of wild tigers in the presence of humans (especially compared to what many of us have likely seen in a zoo) was incredible. The look they give to humans just screams pure murder and unexplainable hatred. Anyway, watching that documentary also made me watch other tiger related ones, of which this one ranked pretty well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LljDuIUtvbQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LljDuIUtvbQ (Operation Snow Tiger) also by BBC (and I recall correctly it is in 2 parts).
- gsands 13y agoThe Cruise. Preview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31199urdlAE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31199urdlAE
- centdev 13y agoMixtape, Inc. -- I know it's nowhere near tech related but I was involved.
- amorphous 13y agoWerner Herzog's documentaries, for example Grizzly Man, My best fiend (not sure it exist in English), Wings of Hope (That is, if you don't mind a heavy German accent which after watching quite a few I strangely enjoy now as it becomes kind of his trademark)
- cafard 13y agoEtre et Avoir, about a French elementary school teacher: http://www.amazon.com/Original-French-Version-English-Subtitles/dp/B000296E7W/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1377024757&sr=1-1&keywords=etre+et+avoir http://www.amazon.com/Original-French-Version-English-Subtit...
- mangeletti 13y agoAlbert Einstein - How I See the World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ_W3EAfp6I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ_W3EAfp6I