Ask HN: What are some of your favorite documentaries?
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Truth in 24 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFwoxM1MiBw)
Great engineering, great strategy (underdog must take risks to beat the well-equipped adversary)
I had asked the very same question about two years ago.
I would say that the list is probably still pretty good:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2698026
I would say that the list is probably still pretty good:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2698026
BBC's Tiger Island:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHOxXOeCI0Y
I found a lot of this film incredibly interesting. But just seeing the behavior of wild tigers in the presence of humans (especially compared to what many of us have likely seen in a zoo) was incredible. The look they give to humans just screams pure murder and unexplainable hatred.
Anyway, watching that documentary also made me watch other tiger related ones, of which this one ranked pretty well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LljDuIUtvbQ (Operation Snow Tiger) also by BBC (and I recall correctly it is in 2 parts).
I found a lot of this film incredibly interesting. But just seeing the behavior of wild tigers in the presence of humans (especially compared to what many of us have likely seen in a zoo) was incredible. The look they give to humans just screams pure murder and unexplainable hatred.
Anyway, watching that documentary also made me watch other tiger related ones, of which this one ranked pretty well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LljDuIUtvbQ (Operation Snow Tiger) also by BBC (and I recall correctly it is in 2 parts).
Man on Wire (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155592/)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587707/)
The King of Kong (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587707/)
The King of Kong (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/)
I would say Jiro Dreams of Sushi while not really a documentary, more of a biography, will make you re-evaluate (if only temporarily) your life.
Etre et Avoir, about a French elementary school teacher: http://www.amazon.com/Original-French-Version-English-Subtit...
Earthlings is by far the best documentary I have ever watched. Must watch it. Probably available on youtube and torrents.
Werner Herzog's documentaries, for example Grizzly Man, My best fiend (not sure it exist in English), Wings of Hope
(That is, if you don't mind a heavy German accent which after watching quite a few I strangely enjoy now as it becomes kind of his trademark)
Albert Einstein - How I See the World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ_W3EAfp6I
The Cruise. Preview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31199urdlAE
If you'll count mockumentaries then Supervolcano, it was about the magma chamber(s) under Yellowstone Park.
Smartest Guys in the Room (about Enron)
Cocaine Cowboys (about the drug boom in Miami during the 70's)
Mixtape, Inc. -- I know it's nowhere near tech related but I was involved.