Documentaries everyone should watch...

[truizm]

Name them.

BTW, has anyone seen Eugene Debs and the American movement? If so, is it good?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

1. American Waitress, New Mexico (shown on The Sundance Channel)

http://www.americanwaitress.com/the_doc.htm



AMERICAN WAITRESS, new mexico

AMERICAN WAITRESS, new mexico is a documentary feature film that examines the lives, attitudes, perceptions and experiences of waitresses. But it is not just a film about waitresses. It is a film about life, about social structures, about human nature. The film reveals the human side of this service industry through interviews with waitresses, restaurant employees and customers and explores in-depth the personal lives of four of these waitresses. We go home with them and out with them-- to tattoo parlors, bars, motorcycle shops, mountaintops, welding classes and even hunting. American Waitress, new mexico uncovers a very human dimension to these individuals and by inference, to all those among us who while in uniform, practice the art of service with a smile. Will we ever perceive our friendly food server in the same way again? Not likely.

Currently showing on Sundance Channel.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. Outfoxed, Unprecedented, Fog of War, Fahrenheit 9/11, Uncovered

that was easy.

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century

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The Last Just Man

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Dogtown and Z Boys

[EstimatedProphet]

4. Mr. Death

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192335/

Documentary about Fred Leuchter, an engineer who became an expert on execution devices and was later hired by revisionist historian Ernst Zundel to "prove" that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Leuchter published a controversial report confirming Zundel's position, which ultimately ruined his own career. Most of the footage is of Leuchter, puttering around execution facilities or chipping away at the walls of Auschwitz, but Morris also interviews various historians, associates, and neighbors.

[BigMcLargehuge]

6. yeah, that was a good one

I like all of Errol Morris' documentaries. Fred Leuchter is nuttier than squirrel shit.

[bobthedrummer]

5. "The Anderson Platoon"

Not the work of embedded "journalists", the film crew that went into the shit with these US troops in Vietnam were French.

[jmm]

7. A Perfect Candidate, Battle of San Pietro, Hearts of Darkness

A Perfect Candidate is about the Oliver North/Chuck Robb Senate race. Battle of San Pietro is about a WWII battle. Hearts of Darkness is about the making of Apocalypse Now.

[eleny]

8. Choropampa: The Price of Gold (2002)

On the Sundance Channel this month - "After a devastating mercury spill poisoned more than 900 people in the Peruvian Andes in 2000, filmmakers Ernesto Cabelles and Stephanie Boyd brought their cameras to rural Choropampa to document the villagers' struggle for health care and fair compensation."

One of the campanies involved is located in Denver.

[Kanary]

9. "A Day's Work, A Day's Pay"!!

A very moving account of the results of Clinton's welfare deform. The documentary follows about 6 people, so you get to know them and their struggle, and shows the graphic effects..... a couple of deaths, etc.

It is also uplifting, as they come together to fight for changes to the system.

Since there is so pitifully little info about what has happened to the people who got caught in Clinton's damned mess, please take every opportunity to see this one!

Anyone who can't find it, please give me a hollar. Or, a PM. :)

Kanary

[Kanary]

10. I'm also very interested in Debs..... would like to hear more.

However, I'd like to ask a question..... this is a great, GREAT topic -- why is it in the Lounge?

Would you consider reposting in GD?

More need to see this!

Thanks.....

Kanary

[faithnotgreed]

11. anything by albert & david maysles.

grey gardens (1976) - about 79 yo aunt & 57 yo cousin of jackie kennedy. they are in failing mental health and live in dilapidated mansion in east hamptons.

salesman (i think, from the 70s) - follows around bible salesman in the declining years of selling door to door.

and another one they did profiled 3 elderly isolated brothers who still lived together on their family farm in rural new york. one dies and the remaining brothers are investigated for killing him

because the brothers have kept to themselves, never married, and have lived very simply, the townspeople primarily dont know them so they go through a process of do they or do they not support the ones charged.

it was in the news. this was from maybe 1990 or so?

[mairceridwen]

12. The Times of Harvey Milk

I believe it recently came out on dvd this past summer

The part that shows the candle-lit memorial service...always makes me cry, even when I'm using it to teach

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088275/