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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?
#402“How We Got to Now” tv series
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3106210/
Fascinating look into ideas that transformed our society, like glass, time keeping, sanitation, etc. takes seemingly mundane topics and explores what a mess things were like before them.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#403Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1 for any Curtis documentary. They aren't something you necessarily need to agree with to enjoy. Most of them involve him attempting to stitch together an over-arching narrative for events of our time.
Also see The Loving Trap for explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg
Haha, came here to post this. it's a short explaier about Curtis, less than favourable. It does make you laugh though:)
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#404My Octopus Teacher https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/05/harvard-panel...
I LOVE this one too. I can't believe I even cried about an octopus.
Sometimes after watching these documentaries, I feel like I know absolutely nothing!!
Here's another one I fell in love with:
Featuring Mr. T and Kinky Tail, 2 bad ass male lions did the unthinkable and unheard of as brothers as tight as a glove.
I now have mad respect for these two jungle tyrants.
Mad, mad respect.
Enjoy: https://archive.org/details/the.lions.of.sabi.sand.brothers....
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#405Fires of Kuwait - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tUzkF_Dp8M A first hand account of the firefighters who were sent to cap the oil wells that Saddam set on fire during his attempt to invade the country. Senna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aPLOQeSHrM The story of famed F1 driver. I'm not a racing fan but this one was amazing. Apollo 11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Co8Z8BQgWc Completely new footage was found of…
For a poetic treatment of the fires of Kuwait, see Lessons of Darkness by Werner Herzog: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104706/ Trailer: https://youtu.be/vMIM-ma2juo
Ive got that one on my watchlist, as well as Baraka once I find somebody with an 8k setup.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#406W1A, an honest look at the inner workings of the BBC
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#407For reasons of being very accessible and well told:
Jeremy Clarkson: Greatest Raid of All Time (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0996628/)
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#408Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fog of war is amazing.
I'd be more careful when using the word "amazing". I agree that technically it's well done, but IMO it leaves too much space to McNamara to write his own narrative. McNamara's role in the escalation of Vietnam War and the U-turn he did in the Senate hearings towards the end of his term as Secretary of Defense is something he IMO never properly tried to reflect upon...
He's still a human being and I think he showed incredible reflection. It is apparent that the events of the past still weigh on him. I came out with more respect than I had going in. The Vietnam war was a tragedy.
For a different view look at the Rumsfeld doc. Rumsfeld doesn't give a single inch but I probably wouldn't either if being asked about a still ongoing conflict.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?
#409Fires of Kuwait - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tUzkF_Dp8M A first hand account of the firefighters who were sent to cap the oil wells that Saddam set on fire during his attempt to invade the country. Senna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aPLOQeSHrM The story of famed F1 driver. I'm not a racing fan but this one was amazing. Apollo 11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Co8Z8BQgWc Completely new footage was found of…
For a poetic treatment of the fires of Kuwait, see Lessons of Darkness by Werner Herzog: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104706/ Trailer: https://youtu.be/vMIM-ma2juo
Yep, love it, too. But definitely more of an acquired taste.