A good one for people who are into architecture and photography:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Acoustics:_The_Modern...
Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#512The Eagle Huntress (2016) [1] follows a Mongolian girl as she learns to hunt with an eagle and participate in male-dominated competitions.
Beautiful scenery and an impressive story. I checked the other threads and it hasn’t been mentioned. Really worth a watch.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#513The Up Series[0]. It's a series that follows a group from children from age 7 through old age, and it's still going (in theory - the creator died last year). Seeing entire lives compressed into a few hours was very impactful to me. [0]: https://www.amazon.com/The-Up-Series/dp/B074MGWDPF
The Wikipedia description may be more informative:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_(film_series)>
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#514The Mole: Undercover in North Korea
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mole:_Undercover_in_Nort...
The story is absolutely crazy, the guy is a silent hero or just crazy as well. The documentary is a emotional rollercoaster with so much strange trivia.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#515Damn this thread. All I need now is a month of crap weather to justify spending it watching all the recommendations...
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#516This documentary on the 2009 “Black Saturday” bushfires in Victoria, Australia. A real eye-opener into the devastation large fires can cause on whole communities/towns. Narrated by Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith). https://youtu.be/O9Uz8ltWOGU
The idea of Agent Smith telling me about an experience I still remember well is...discombobulating.
""Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. Fire is the cure..."
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#517American Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpuKu3F0BvY
Long, detailed going through evidence the Apollo Moon landing was a hoax.
Before sparking a discussion about the fact itself or calling me a "flat-earther" or sorts, I strongly suggest to watch it with open mind. It may not change the way you perceive the alleged Moon landing, but nonetheless challenging your thoughts and beliefs is something every curious intellectual should do.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#518My Octopus Teacher https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/05/harvard-panel...
This got a lot of on the internet, but I found it so incredibly boring.
Logically, it should be boring.
But for whatever reason it made me feel emotions about something I would have never have thought would reach me that way. I think what struck me the most personally was the relationship the maker established with his son. But plenty of others I know have reacted to it in very different (but still highly positive) ways.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#519My Octopus Teacher https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/05/harvard-panel...
I would recommend people not to watch it and instead watch this well done critique (and criticism) titled “My Octopus Teacher & Environmental Horror” by Maggie Mae. [1] I could’ve spent my time better if I’d watched this and avoided “My Octopus Teacher” altogether. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whb4unrhy44
Sorry but I really tried watching that and nothing about it made me want to either a) keep watching past the first few minutes or b) accept that she actually had a point.
Which she probably did, but certainly not to the level that I'd agree watching your suggestion would be more enriching than watching the original documentary.
In fact, now I want to watch My Octopus Teacher for the 4th time, despite all the excellent alternative suggestions in this thread!
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#520“The Century of the Self” by Adam Curtis. https://youtu.be/eJ3RzGoQC4s It goes through each decade of the 1900s and explains how Freud’s psychology and the new field of marketing completely reshaped society. For the first time in my life I feel like I understood the “why” of how things work in American society. This film is probably best if you’re age 40+ and actually remember some of the events.
https://youtu.be/x1bX3F7uTrg obligatry response whenever anything by Adam Curtis is offered up. Sorry, I'm largely of the opinion that it is (well made) boomer-aimed catastrophe porn designed to give the viewer a smug sense of having "esoteric knowledge".
Nearly anything can be parodied in such a way to apparently diminish thentarget of the parody.