What Documentaries Have You Watched Lately?

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I had to reply to the early posts about breaking bad, it’s recently been revealed that they loosely based it on a person who lives not too far from me!

I started watching Breaking Bad about season 4 and it was so engaging I had to stop and download the first episodes. It’s still the only series that I sat at my PC and binged on. I have always used a TV for a monitor, or at least since Windows XP was released. Anyway, it’s still the single most impressive TV series that I have watched.

I later was told to look at The Sopranos and I started, but it didn’t have the same vibe or impressive work for me. I am a big fan of mob based movies, with The Godfather being my all time favorite, so it was a surprise that I didn’t feel good about the soprano series.
 
@teresita I’m the same way, and I feel like that about the British documentaries. They do a lot of nature series but it’s the ones narrated by Attenborough that I love. For some reason I’m not as entertained by any other person.

The same problem with sports these days. I had certain people that I loved to listen to who have retired and the replacements aren’t the same. Keith Jackson was the all time best, and it’s not just my opinion. They made a series on ESPN covering the 150th anniversary of college football and had a panel of their journalists vote and he was at the top of their list also.
 
@phatboy I’m sure you’re aware they do a series about that on TV. I’m not sure if what they show is really what they claim. Being filmed doing a state or federal crime would be evidence in itself.

Now some of the most popular moonshiners are judging other folks liquor in a different series. If nothing else they ought to be making pretty good money for that.

A documentary would be different because they don’t reach a wide audience in most cases. I would be more interested in that than the entertainment shown on TV
 
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I like historical documentaries about the 50's, 60's, and 70's the best. I watch to better understand where I came from, and the forces that shaped my character and personality. I am the oldest son of a very gregarious and successful business owner. Yet these days I tend to be reclusive and not comfortable with people.

I suspect that I have a touch of Asperger's Syndrome.

My 4 cats are my adopted kids, and when I let them out (my property is next to a 450 acre woods inhabited by coyotes and at least 1 bobcat and scores of racoons and possums. My cats are almost always in before the sun sets and the nocturnal carnivores come out) Anyway when my cats are out other cats come to hang out. I take this as a sign that I am not a total ass and a decent pet parent.

Just got thru watching the CNN series 'THE 60S" - again. These are the years that shaped me... Vietnam and the draft essentially ruined my life - even without being drafted. In the last year of the draft I was number 2. I dealt with it by consuming large amounts of psychedelic substances.
 
The Rescue if you have not seen it- it is a most. Give its 20 minutes for the character development.
 
Reruns of "Homeland" (2011 to 2019) with Claire Daines. A film about allegedly the CIA and corrupt activities in the Middle East,
to Langley & the Pentagon USA. This show (first two seasons was shot on location, in my hometown.) a large city in the Carolinas,
USA, 2011, & 2012. A large cast over the 8 episodes , over 8 years. IMHO the first two or three shows 2011, 2012, 2013 were
the best ones. In my area, on "Showtime cable TV, such as AT&T U-Verse. It is allegedly fiction. Claire Danes got rich from the
series, worth allegedly now about US twenty million dollars. (imdb.com)

The series can now be purchased on DVD or watched on the internet, various ways. Other locations were in Europe, Germany, and the
Middle East, and greater Washington DC and Virginia. @Chancer
 
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@Bocanada I used to watch that one too. I have no idea why that subject has always interested me.it is quite tragic for the victims and families.
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@Bocanada and @blecher59 I agree, especially the Air Florida crash on the 14th bridge, (winter of 1982) with a Boeing 737, (From National Airport Washington DC) that
crashed in the Potomac. I remember clear as day. Tragic. Pilot error, waited too long to de-ice the wings (again) + pilot error. Also, other ones,
such as in December of 1985, a DC-8-63 crashed in Gander, Newfoundland Canada, with over 240 military service men going home for Christmas.
(no one survived). The worse one (imho) was both the Boeing 747's that crashed on the runway, in the Azores Islands, in year 1977, as one hit
another on the wrong runway. Reference #21 and #25. (this thread) a/k/a The Canary Islands (Spain). The worst loss of life by aircraft in history.

Also, the Eastern L-1011, that crashed in the Everglades, in South Florida, on autopilot, (a brand new aircraft), due to a mistaken faulty lightbulb,
in December of 1972. I was in Miami Florida, returning to see a GF, on a Eastern B727, only two weeks later, to Richmond VA, when this crash
occurred. Some survivors were saved, but, many lives were lost, again, pilot error. This magnificent aircraft can land almost on its on power.
Some survivors later died of gang green, as the knee deep water was cold, after the evacuation. There was a TV movie in the USA about this
flight. "Flight 401 from JFK to Miami" Dec 29, 1972".

Another one, that comes to mind, was the Boeing 747, that had a bomb on it, and exploded in midair, over Scotland, in December, in 1988..
I believe there were no survivors, the cause was allegedly blamed on Liberia, & a militant group. Correct me is I am wrong. The Motown group,
The Four Tops, missed the flight, as they were scheduled to be on it, but, there lives were spared. Pan Am Flight 103, over Lockerbie, Scotland.

The documentary is shown on the Smithsonian Channel on my cable TV, week nights. (in my area) of the USA.
 
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Delta L1011 said:
blecher59 said:
@Bocanada I used to watch that one too. I have no idea why that subject has always interested me.it is quite tragic for the victims and families.
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@Bocanada and @blecher59 I agree, especially the Air Florida crash on the 14th bridge, (winter of 1982) with a Boeing 737, (From National Airport Washington DC) that
crashed in the Potomac. I remember clear as day. Tragic. Pilot error, waited too long to de-ice the wings (again) + pilot error. Also, other ones,
such as in December of 1985, a DC-8-63 crashed in Gander, Newfoundland Canada, with over 240 military service men going home for Christmas.
(no one survived). The worse one (imho) was both the Boeing 747's that crashed on the runway, in the Azores Islands, in the 1970's, as one hit
another on the wrong runway. Reference #21 and #25. (this thread)

Also, the Eastern L-1011, that crashed in the Everglades, in South Florida, on autopilot, (a brand new aircraft), due to a mistaken faulty lightbulb,
in December of 1972. I was in Miami Florida, returning to see a GF, on a Eastern B727, only two weeks later, to Richmond VA, when this crash
occurred. Some survivors were saved, but, many lives were lost, again, pilot error. This magnificent aircraft can land almost on its on power.
Some survivors later died of gang green, as the knee deep water was cold, after the evacuation. There was a TV movie in the USA about this
flight. "Flight 401 from JFK to Miami" Dec 29, 1972".

Another one, that comes to mind, was the Boeing 747, that had a bomb on it, and exploded in midair, over Scotland, in December, in 1988..
I believe there were no survivors, the cause was allegedly blamed on Liberia, & a militant group. Correct me is I am wrong. The Motown group,
The Four Tops, missed the flight, as they were scheduled to be on it, but, there lives were spared. Pan Am Flight 103, over Lockerbie, Scotland.

The documentary is shown on the Smithsonian Channel on my cable TV, week nights. (in my area) of the USA.
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I remember well the crash over the 14th Street Bridge in DC. My father worked for some of those that died On that plane. And the hero, I believe his name was Lenny, who saved several people before going under in the Potomac. From what I remember, 1981 was a year of many plane crashes.
 
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Synergistic said:
This is a total shitpost but I'm almost excited for the trainwreck that is Tiger King 2. I feel like the first one brought the world together for one brief moment so we could collectively hate Carole Baskin. Maybe this one will have a similar effect. 🤣
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I didn’t know there was gonna be Tiger King 2! When does it come out? Is it going to focus on Carole…because there’s really nobody left to focus on lol.
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I haven’t seen the first one, but I have a friend that will be very happy to hear this!
 
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