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Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
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#2I really loved 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi', showing how much care and effort he puts into making it:
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#3Somm and The Imposter. Somm delves into the lives of a few guys as they study for their sommelier exam. You get to see how intense this niche of the world is. I won’t spoil anything about The Imposter, but definitely check out a trailer. It’s about a boy that goes missing and is found much later.
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#4'Shoah', by Claude Lanzmann, who passed away earlier this year after a career of excellent documentary filmmaking.
Review by Roger Ebert when it was first released: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-shoah-1985
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#5I really loved 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi', showing how much care and effort he puts into making it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772925/
That was an amazing doc!
I googled their place and some people were like "This place sux" "it's overrated"... I still wanna go though!
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#6Into Great Silence, a very intimate portrayal of life in a monastery in southern France.
" The idea for the film was proposed to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it.
They responded to Gröning 16 years later to say they were willing to permit him to shoot the movie if he was still interested. "
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#7Our Daily Bread was really fascinating for its unflinching look at food production.
101 Rent Boys about prostitutes on the Sunset strip.
Unknown Knowns was amazing.
also two old documentaries from Frontline on credit cards: “ The secret history of the credit card“ and “the card game“
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#8I really loved 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi', showing how much care and effort he puts into making it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772925/
That was an amazing doc! I googled their place and some people were like "This place sux" "it's overrated"... I still wanna go though!
I'd love to go too! Japan is definitely my favourite place I've been, for the food and culture etc.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#9I really loved 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi', showing how much care and effort he puts into making it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772925/
There was a pretty good discussion of Jiro back in 2012 on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4462539
Spoiler: there's a dark side to levels of devotion such as this.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#10Netflix: "The Farthest: Voyager in Space" (2017) - "This documentary chronicles NASA's 1977 launch of twin space probes, sent to capture images of remote planets and bear messages from Earth."