Don't know if it's been talked about but Five Came Back is good. 3 part series about 5 great directors and their time as directors in WWII as propagandists for the USA war effort.
I couldn't get over being so far off on the time. The version on Netflix ends at 2:00, and then the last hour is he hell freezes over reunion. It all makes sense.
I feel like they are running out of ideas for good documentaries these days. Although I would watch the Waco one a few posts back.
I watched The Donner Party last night. Can't imagine the hell they went through. Amazing anyone survived. Hastings should have been hung.
Boone, you couldn't be more wrong. Last 10 years have been amazing for Doc's. The real world is awesome and I don't get all the fiction fan boys (harry potter etc).
I learned about it as a kid because my dad thought it was a funny name to use for restaurant reservations.
Stumbled onto this one while going through Netflix. Has anyone seen? I didn't learn about this topic in grade school, either.
Galapagos Affair was entertaining and interesting, but don't expect any concrete resolution. Would def recommend though. Just finished Magnus on Netflix, it was awesome. Phenomenal.
It was pretty good. The Ackmann guy is not likable at all, but it's pretty obvious HerbaLife is a pyramid scheme.
Just watched "S for Stanley" -- decent. Magnus is the best one I've watched in a long time though, still.
It's a few years old so discussion about it may have been lost in the crash but I'd recommend the Lenny Cooke documentary. It follows him through his high school career, he was ranked above Lebron and Carmelo at one time. Subsequently went undrafted outta high school and it kinda all fell apart from there.
Pretty cool seeing the HS camp vids of Carmelo and Lebron. Lenny just had zero work ethic. Dont think he was a bad kid. It just came so easy to him, too early.
Just finished Magnus and thought it was really good. I can't even comprehend that level of intelligence. I thought the programmer of chess base saying his skill, for a human, was almost statistically impossible was wild. He is as close to a computer as a human can get. Kasparov talking about how Magnus made him proud of the game was cool too since he played him to a draw at like 13 years old when he was #1
I've been watching Ken Burns' "The West" and it's outstanding. I feel like I need to re-watch it soon just because you're hit with so many amazing stories that it's easy to forget something remarkable. I never heard about the stories of the Chinese men who did the nearly impossible work of digging tunnels and planting explosives to extend the railroad through the Sierra Mountains.1,000+ of them died in the process. Whites would hitch rides out that way, promising to help extend the railroad and then they'd bail in search for gold in the mountains. That's why the Chinese started to work on the railroads, because whites were pieces of shit and they needed the help. Probably the most fucked up part of all this is that the Chinese made it possible for the whites to travel out west in mass. Once they were out there, the hatred for the Chinese ramped-up. All over the country Chinese were murdered for no reason, some were literally pushed on boats heading back to China. Unbelievable how shitty they were treated. The US actually created a law making it illegal to hire Chinese workers.
Some good throwbacks getting posted so here's another. One of the true great docs, Harlan County USA. Incredible footage and story. On youtube for free as well apparently
I like me some Ken Burns, but I had to watch the dust bowl live on PBS for a class when it came out. That was kind of painful.
Finished Magnus. He was beating guys in his teens who had been grandmaster's before he was born. That is amazing considering how many more matches they had played than him in their life. Pretty cool to see him become more self confident and social due to his success in chess of all things.
I'll check it out. The trailer annoys me though, because it's a case from 1969, and it sounds like there's a whole slew of scumbags who got off scott free. Hopefully that isn't the case.
I watched The Seven Five Saturday after Magnus and it was really good. The fact that the Domincan drug lord is free while casually admitting to murders and moving thousands of tons of blow is crazy
watched it this weekend. I also am very curious how much of it was factual. felt very much like a vegan propaganda doc. all of it could very well be true, but the shit like saying eating 1 chicken egg a day is as cancerous as smoking 5 cigarettes a day I need to see some peer reviewed shit saying that's true before I stop laughing at it. It seemed, to me and I could be really wrong, that they used a single study done by this person to try and claim that several previous studies were all wrong. Which kinda falls in line with a lot of diet-pushing people on the internet. also the narrator was a whiney bitch cocksucker and if he didn't act like such a douche it would have been more enjoyable.
also watched this one (not new, from 2015). met the main main guy Ben Masters last week at an acoustic show here. He's friends with a local-ish musician Shane Smith and lives in Austin now. Girl I was with is from San Angelo and went to prom with the guy /csb. not so cool for her kinda funny he originally had asked her to do some website developing for his ongoing documentary stuff... then National Geographic picked it up and she got booted
story: My GF has one of those Mustangs from Oregon. I think she paid like $125 for it, trained it, and is now using it in competitions where's it's competing against and beating horses that literally cost more than 100x that.
Random question that I may actually take to the podcast thread as well, but this sounds an awful lot like Sword & Scale eps 4 and 5 only with more of a church twist. Any chance this is the same ring? It's been almost 3 years since I heard those S&S eps, so I am very vague on the details.
I binged through 3 of the 4 episodes of Defiant Ones last night. Fantastic. Can't wait to watch the final one tonight. I've been waiting for Dre to hook up with Eminem.