What Documentaries Have You Watched Lately?

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Chancer said:
@amy43 Yes, I doubt they want the citizens to know what gets committed in their name.

The Cork football game when the army indiscriminately fired into a crowd at a football match, killing 14 including two 10 year olds. They were retaliating for an earlier PIRA assassination on their colleagues. They claimed they believed they were hiding at a football game, however it was sheer dehumanisation and pure revenge. Claims that someone fired from the crowd was nonsense, they were in armoured tanks in the middle of the field they'd just crashed through the doors. Even the British military didn't like them, they were totally uncontrollable.

Its quite fresh because England just played a game there for the first time ever, so everyone was worried it was a decision that could backfire. Fortunately both teams were respectful to the anthems and England unfortunately had to be told the history, clearly they didn't know it. Good game, Ireland won but I imagine England understood the magnitude. So they knew Ireland needed to win to let calmer heads prevail.
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@Chancer None of this I knew about, don't think it was reported on the news. Tragic and shocking. Lost for words about this.:oops:
 
Chancer said:
@amy43 Oh, you can watch 'In the name of thy father' in the UK ok, bloody Sunday is a defo no on Amazon. Michael Collins you can watch which is educational (Hollywood blockbuster) but not completely accurate, close enough.

The Wind that Shakes the Barley is one of the best movies about Kevin Barry, he was Michael Collins Co Cork equivalent and they met each other. Again a few inconsistencies like the Thomson gun they didn't have at that point, the did get it later.

Then if you want you can head to Scotland for Braveheart.
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@Chancer Thanks for the info, I would expect there to be things which were not accurate, as I have found this before, when they television a true story but change it in some places! I will look into the films you mentioned.
 
@amy43 Yes, the Irish will never forget, long long memories. They were known as Black and Tans after their mish-mash uniforms. Some claimed they were prisoners but that was untrue, they had returned from WW1 and were a law unto themselves. Its shown in the Michael Collins movie, the Brits were detested in Ireland but they were on another level. The citizens absolutely hated them with a passion, PIRA ended up making it untenable for them to stay and that event shocked the world with the sheer targeting of civilians. The Brits? Gave them medals. The Tans helped unite the whole country against them which lead to 1916 then 1920 and ultimately the RoI as we know it as today.
 
Now this is my thread. Documentaries are my jam. I rarely watch anything on TV, but I love docs. Werzer Herzog is my absolute fave director. But the latest documentary I watched was an old one. Murder On a Sunday Morning (2001). I chose that because it was made by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade of The Staircase fame. Was it an owl, after owl?? What a mad case.

I'm in the UK, but could access it on Youtube using a US VPN. And now I've discovered there are loads of interesting-looking documentaries I can watch on YT doing that which were classed as "unavailbale in your region" before. Great tip for documentary lovers outside the US.
 
Chancer said:
@amy43 Yes, the Irish will never forget, long long memories. They were known as Black and Tans after their mish-mash uniforms. Some claimed they were prisoners but that was untrue, they had returned from WW1 and were a law unto themselves. Its shown in the Michael Collins movie, the Brits were detested in Ireland but they were on another level. The citizens absolutely hated them with a passion, PIRA ended up making it untenable for them to stay and that event shocked the world with the sheer targeting of civilians. The Brits? Gave them medals. The Tans helped unite the whole country against them which lead to 1916 then 1920 and ultimately the RoI as we know it as today.
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@Chancer There is a lot of info in your post and I was not even sure what emoji to post! Shocked, sad, angry!
I am impressed at your depth of knowledge, as I had no idea about the details of any of this.
I knew that the Brits were hated in Ireland, but not about the rest.
I will have to look into this, appreciate your sharing.
 
@amy43 We don't hate the Brits, like regular people. Its the establishment that we detest. The an gorta mor (The great hunger) as we don't really call it a famine since the food was available.

While this was happening they exported food from Ireland (A green fertile island surrounded with fish). They refused Irish Catholics hunting and fishing licences, so they had to steal food. Get caught, put on a prison ship hence the huge Irish Diaspora around the world today. The food they exported was to feed their military, similar to what they did in India et al not regular British people, they sent food too Ireland (to feed the cattle.)

Other countries tried to help from all the way to the Middle-East and America etc, so they barricaded the Island and levied huge taxes on incoming food from friends around the world. Even the Indian tribe in the US after experiencing 'The trail of tears' killing a quarter of their people sent money, money they really didn't have to give. During covid the native Indian population were hit hard so the Irish were able to repay that debt to help the tribes. They thought it was a joke when they started receiving tons of donations with Irish names, then the story emerged as to why it was happening.

Look up the lyrics and song of 'The fields of Athenry'
 
I just watched a documentary this weekend called "Fly with me " on PBS. I grew up in the 60s and 70s and was always interested in women's rights but wow, stewardesses in the beginning had very few rights and belittling rules that they had to follow.
I made my stepson watch it with me because we have had some deep conversations about the women's movement of the 70s. He was shocked to learn that a woman couldn't have a credit card or order a drink alone in a bar. My mother had a credit card with my dad but it didn't have her name just Mrs 'insert husbands name '
These women dreamed of seeing the world and were willing to sacrifice whatever they had to in order for that dream to come true. Oh I forgot, women couldn't fly alone in the 60s.
It's interesting if anyone is interested in how far the world of flying has come.
 
I just watched "Secrets of the Neanderthals" on Netflix, narrated by Sir Patrick Stewart.

I'm a history nerd so it may not be for everyone, but I found it very well made and interesting.
 
I recently watched the documentary "The Bloody Hundredth" based on the historical series "Masters of the Air" from WW2 about the B-52 Bombers. The documentary was really really good, especially if you have seen the series then watch the documentary to meet some of the real guys who were portrayed by actors in the series. Love historical war documentaries & this WW2 one didn't disappoint at all!
Oh, both are on Apple TV!
 
I watched the three mile island story on Netflix. As we are hearing with Boeing, there were people warning it would happen and the folks at the top tried to say everything was fine until it was clear something was happening.
 
The Maccafee documentary by Vice was the last one. The Devil somthing or another. Darn I can't remember the name. Anyway it was filmed following the anti-virus pioneers life on the run. He's a crazy mfer! Yall check out I think it's on netflix...
 
Wait til the crime documentary comes out about the Karen Read trial. It will be longer with more twists and turns than Murdagh.

It's addicting.
 
Watch Trial 4. I think it's on Netflix? Not sure. They sent an innocent guy to prison.

There is so much corruption in Massachusetts
 
The Asunta Case. A true story set in Spain. A 12 yo girl goes missing and…
 
Chancer said:
@amy43 Me too, I literally don't watch TV programmes, but I do watch a movie occasionally. Usually something older or braindead action to sleep too. You can't beat the quality when channels were genuinely trying to outdo one another with quality.

I loved things like The West Wing (the dry humour was writing genius, plus it wasn't too heavy on the politics to take away from the characters lives.

I also loved 24 and we used to go on holiday and come back and binge on that.

Documentaries are nothing like they used to be, old quality were your reputation as a professional was everything. People would verify accuracy when/were they could.
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Doc heaven @Chancer ;)
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The Nick & Aaron Carter documentary series on Max is insane. I had no idea about any of these allegations for Nick Carter. Luckily I was more a NSYNC fan
 
Kind of in the same vein as the post above, the Max docu-series on Kevin Spacey was pretty disturbing.
 
I recently saw the documentary on HBO about the Oklahoma City bombing and Timothy McVeigh. Hard to believe its been 30 years and some of the things they brought up like the backwoods militita's and stuff like that is kinda scary. Very well done IMO
 
If you like music...the new one on Amazon Prime called 'How Music Got Free' is absolutely amazing. It's the whole story of the rise of Napster and the death of the record industry
 
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