Cool Documentaries

[Beach_Love]

I am sucking at life today. Posted this in Random only to look down and see TV and Movies. Ran to delete and someone had replied!
Anywho I got to thinking how great this forum really is and how much I'd like to share clips from an incredible documentary that not a lot of people would get to see otherwise. Watching PBS late one night I stumbled across one of the best documentaries Ive ever seen, and I love and watch a grip of them. It's about one of the wisest men to ever walk the earth. He's got long hair, wears sandals a lot, and has some crazy ideas about the meaning of life and how to find it. It's about rock climber Ron Kauk (one of the world's best) and his relationship with where he chose to spend his life, Yosemite National Park. RETURN TO BALANCE: A CLIMBER'S JOURNEY is worth watching for the climbing and spectacular scenery alone but where it KICKS ASS is listening to Ron's wisdom. He's all about the importance of maintaining a relationship with the natural world. He will say the most simple thing about something seemingly completely mundane and a minute later when what he just said sinks in YOUR MIND IS BLOWN. The two clips I linked below lack the sustained impact of the whole doc. but the imagery is breathtaking in my opinion and the second clip gives a good taste of how wise Ron K is. Im straight as an arrow but I can imagine Ron inspiring more than a few lady boners as well, he's pretty studly. http://vimeo.com/4737056 and http://vimeo.com/4750328

Another great doc is SHADOW COMPANY, narrated by Gerard Butler it's about Priv. Military Co.s ala Blackwater. http://www.shadowcompanythemovie.com/tr ... clips.html I just wish it had more on one of my few "heroes", South African "mercenary" combat helicopter pilot Neall Ellis. The word "Man" should have his picture next to it in the dictionary, LOL
One of the most amazing clips I've ever seen. "Just another day at the office" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdsiZOE-5zY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neall_Ellis and #4 on list here: http://www.cracked.com/article_19472_th ... check.html

 

[mynameisbob84]

I watched The Shark Is Still Working over the weekend (it's an extra on the new Jaws Blu-Ray and it's awesome). Lots of insight from folk who were involved in the film (Spielberg, Scheider, Dreyfuss, Gary, etc.) and plenty of talking heads from notable Jaws fans (Kevin Smith, Bryan Singer, Eli Roth, etc.).
There's some cool anecdotes in there that I never knew about like Spielberg's housekeeper finally finding out how her son died by watching Jaws (she knew he was onboard the SS Indianapolis when it sunk but had never been told most of the crew were eaten by sharks - Quint's big speech about being onboard the ship when it sank and seeing his crewmates eaten alive by sharks was all based on real events that been classified information until shortly before the film was released).
Also, the fate of the Orca (the boat from the film) is prettty sad. Spielberg bought it after the film and lent it to Universal Studios in Florida and would go there from time to time just to spend some time with the boat and reminisce. One day, he got there only to find that somebody had decided to take a hammer to it and use the timber elsewhere. Then a fan bought all the parts of the boat he could track down and rebuilt the thing. But over the years, fans would track the boat down and steal parts of it until finally there was so little of the boat left that it wasn't worth keeping and it was sold as scrap.
It's a good watch if you have a spare 90 minutes

 

[clovr]

Very nice. Somewhat related, I saw a climbing movie on Netflix that I thought was cool, it's about 2 guys trying to break the Yosemite speed climbing record: https://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/To_t ... t/70100082

 

[MiaMeow]

I love documentaries, but I lean towards watching sad ones. Some good ones I've seen lately are:

talhotblond - About an internet romance that goes very wrong.

Dear Zachary - A film-maker makes and narrates a documentary for a boy named Zachary, about his father who he never got to meet - the father was murdered by Zacharys mother before Zachary was born. Extremely sad, anger-inspiring.

The Bridge - About people who jump off the Golden Gate. Very sad.

 

[SatanJonez]

List of awesome documentaries ran by the lovely homofuck.

 

[VeronicaChaos]

I love that tumblr Frankie! Just spent wayy too long watching a bunch of them. A couple of my favorites were on her top twenty list:
How Much is Your Dead Body Worth?
The Dark Side of Porn: The Real Life Animal Farm

And I since checked out:
Animal Man Autopsy
Real Life Hannibal Lectors
Mental: A History of the Madhouse
The World's Worst Sex Change Surgeon