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[perryfarrell]

Inside Deep Throat - 2005

On the making of the famous porn movie Deep Throat, with Linda Lovelace, and on porn in the 70s more generally and the prudes fighting it.

Crazy Love - 2007

This movie is about a crazy couple, where the guy ordered an attack on the girl that blinded her, yet they are still together after several decades.

Waco: Rules of Engagement - 1997

If you're interested what transpired in Waco, Texas when the David Karesh gang got blown up, this is a good one.

 

[TheHeretic]

Planet Earth in HD. Stunning footage that really makes you realise how beautiful and unique this planet really is.

 

[Peru]

The filmmaker sets out to document Sherman's effect on the south as a historical documentary, but recently dumped, he quickly ends up on a road trip to find a girl - visiting exes and stumbling over new ones. Amazing and funny.

 

[Baker]

If you want to laugh, Lollilove is probably the best mockumentary I've ever seen.

It was written/directed/starred by Jenna Fischer and James Gunn.

 

[Star Power]

Just sharing this website with you guys:

http://freedocumentaries.org/index.php

 

[Anasui Kishibe]

not a documentary, but more real than a documentary and absolutely must watch

 

[Barrage]

Hoop Dreams, Hoop Dreams, a thousand times Hoop Dreams.

Also, Metal: A Headbanger's Journey sucked me in( and i'm not that big a fan of the genre.)

 

[Ceres]

Wordplay - It's actually highly entertaining for a documentary about crossword puzzles.

Jesus Camp - Simply put, an amazing (and disturbing) documentary about Evangelical Christian children.

And personally, I hate all Michael Moore documentaries. He's just as bad as any extremely right wing conservative and all his documentaries are one sided arguments because he only wants to assert his stance on everything.

 

[master15]

Capturing the Friedmans - a disturbing image of suburban america disassembled for everyone to see; and the hyper reactionary community who makes true justice impossible to find. When the word "pedophile" is mentioned, is there any way to see the light? What could have been a forgettable documentary about clowns, literally turned on its head when a subject of the filmmakers movie revealed the story about how his family was torn apart. What seals the deal to make this a classic, is that during the whole process of this families trial and subsequent years of abuse, one of the sons is intensely filming every moment of family tension and arguments, creating a portrait unmatched in documentary film.

Ha, glad I'm not the only one who absolutely loved Capturing the Friedmans. Like you said it's a story full of tragedy for the family involved but like you pointed out, what makes this special was how they used the video camera almost therapeutically for trying to resolve all the turmoil surrounding the family and it's issues. Hauntingly sad.

Also few others come to mind;