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No. 228282

I have been thinking recently I'd love to have a thread where we could post documentaries. I watch a lot especially when doing stuff around the house so I can post a couple of favourites I recommend here in the OP, more in the comments if anyone is interested, and would love to find some new ones!

Interview with a Cannibal: Guy who met up with another guy online who consented to being murdered and eaten. Morbid but interesting watch. German, so subtitled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKzf-rG9JBs


Polygamy Doc: One Man, Six Wives, Twenty something kids. A guy in utah who keeps very very young wives and at the time of filming, being 40 ish, was trying to woo a 16 year old kid. (not a spoiler but he subsequently went to jail and a few wives left him, some stayed. Very interesting to watch and to look into after)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqORJHyNWJc&t=2s

A historical one for variety: The truth about hygiene etc in Versailles. Stumbled across this and left it on while doing my makeup and really liked it! Sent me down a nice historical rabbithole, not of actual history per se but of little tidbits like this about daily life and lesser known shit (literally)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWYIgqMEE2o&t=1s

Ok back to morbid. If you haven't seen this already, it's insane, a little girl, "child of rage". Another one interesting to look into what happened afterwards (she was later put through attachment therapy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9GYExnh1yU&t=71s

Abigail & Brittany Hensel, conjoined twins who are cool to watch and learn about. They recently became teachers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K57IcN9DWXo&t=719s

Another set of conjoined twins, Taty and Krista, the only time this sort of conjoinment has been observed. They essentially share a brain and nobody can imagine how they see through each other's eyes and how they're connected. Well made doc too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH4I_7CC4wg

Documentary about Juliana Whetmore, a little girl with one of the most severe cases of treacher collins the world has seen. Like the ones above, if you watch docs you've likely already seen this, but if you haven't, it is a bit hard to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjpTVYVM5wQ&t=1853s

Aaaaand one on incest and "genetic sexual attraction". Good for a shock watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPjvqIXSdM4&t=1070s

These are just some basic ones to see if anyone is interested in the thread!I fucked up posting this like three times so here goes again my bad

No. 228318

I only watch ones on Netflix ATM but I’ve recently watched the Dirty Money series and I would recommend it, along with Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story.

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I do the same, I mainly watch shock documentaries or ones that make me cringe so if that’s your sort of thing or you fancy a giggle,

40 year old virgins is about two people who go to America to meet sex therapists
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dYLF77W8y6U

A very British brothel is a family run brothel that shows it all in an almost comical light
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ho5xl

The girl who became three boys is more serious but a really bizarre case
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2w9a5y

My barbie body
https://vidoza.net/ijeu4spwc8hw.html

My granny the escort
http://putlockers.fm/watch/yd6JeMd7-my-granny-the-escort.html

A 2006 British drug trial that went wrong
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WW3gKEd-IfA

Female serial killer Joanna dennehy is a pretty shocking watch
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ofqOUnh-EAo

Life of human pups
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dViIVCg0OpQ

The secrets of the living dolls and we’re not talking Venus, this is grown men putting on rubber suits
http://coolmoviezone.info/secrets-of-the-living-dolls-2014/

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Who Took Johnny. I believe its on netflix.

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Paris is Burning is a fucking classic, but that ugly AGP prostitute was my first peak trans. Especially when it was still on YT and everyone was reeing about terfs in the comments whenever someone called him creepy.

Oh, and Black Fish was depressing, but I liked it. I used to watch a lot of documentaries, but I can't remember any of them now…

No. 228345

>>228331
I don't remember him being that creepy he just had a voice like he smoked a lot? He even argued that cutting your dick off doesn't make you happy

No. 228346

>>228331
also this person doesn't have AGP he is just some gay guy that loves modern culture of money, fame, glamour etc.

No. 228347

>>228345
>>228346
not him! i love him! i'm talking about another guy. he was a prostitute, had a horse face, and talked about wanting to be a rich white girl… i think he was featured towards the middle or the end?

No. 228350

There's already a thread for this.
>>81149

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Do people outside of the UK know/care about Louis Theroux?

No. 228375

>>228373
Yah he got big here when he covered the phelps

No. 228377

>>228373
Kind of? Mexican public TV (Canal Once, specifically) used to play his works every know and then.
Also, contributing to the topic with this Youtube channel and the last doc I saw.

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>>228347
venus xtravaganza?

i've always appreciated his panache and sass, but he had some fucked up ideas about what it is to be a woman.

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• Grey Gardens
• Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
• The Devil and Daniel Johnston
• The Impostor
• God Loves Uganda

In a way, all of the above docs are about lolcows of one description or another.

No. 228409

>>228373
Love him!

I really recommend Zoo, it's about a group of Zoophiles and one of them dies due to internal bleeding after fucking a horse. Hilariously fucked up, not suggested if you're faint of heart or love horses.

Other ones I like:
Paris is Burning
HOME
Blackfish
The Cove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSNNeu3ffzk
Carts of Darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi-f_J6hV-g

No. 228511

>>228409
OP here, I have been trying to find a place to watch Zoo for so fucking long and have never succeeded :(

>>228373
Ireland here so it doesn't really count but yeah he's big here. I like his uh, subtly catty style lmao. I never copped that he was like that until my bf pointed it out too. I feel asleep during the scientology one though even though I was super hyped for it

>>228324
I love you. I feel like our interests are identical lol

Here's a new one on furries and professional apologisers apparently but not available in my country:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_kwdyzyd6o

Not a documentary but might as well be, crazy religious girl morning routine that made me literally laugh out loud a few days ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UZ8Q2DtYec&t

Trash quality but this is about jani and bodhi, if you havent heard of them it's very munchausen-y, their mom pushes a diagnosis of schizophrenia on both her kids by enabling whack behaviour and it's angering to watch tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61GmUYCzCzU

Genie Wiley, a girl severely abused and neglected for her whole life as a teenager, left in a dark room chained to a potty, she wasn't retarded at birth but had absolutely no skills or language so they tried to see if they could teach her. This one makes me sad though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZolHCrC8E&t=5s

People who parent those very lifelike fake newborns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4_K8JTtXn0&t=90s

No. 228516

Highly recommended.

No. 228518

>>228516
Also this one.

No. 228628

Love you too anon
I think this might be the furry one
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/world-of-weird/on-demand/63311-006
The Genie case is incredibly sad, thanks for the links, going to give them a watch

No. 228694

This documentary is particularly interesting in relation to lolcows and their obsession with filming their lives. This guy became an absolute trainwreck of narcissism, drug addiction, and mental illness but didn't stop filming.

https://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/tv_junkie

Rick Kirkham got his first video camera when he was 14 years old. It became his best friend and confidant. From that point on, he began documenting every facet of his life. He got his first break in TV as a dancer on American Bandstand. A little nudge from Dick Clark to pursue a career in television, and he was on his way. He quickly rose through the ranks from local TV news to a gig as a national correspondent for Inside Edition. His girlfriend then got pregnant, and they got married. Everything was golden . . .or was it? The flip side of his life was another story, and his camera shockingly captured both with the same candor and vigor. What unfolds in TV JUNKIE is a riveting journey into the heart of darkness, where one man's fight for survival is caught on tape in an unprecedented way. A self-imposed "The Truman Show" with a dark twist, TV JUNKIE transcends one man's tragic story and becomes a harrowing reflection on a generation obsessed with celebrity and technology. Utilizing more than 3,000 hours of footage, directors Michael Cain and Matt Radecki tackle the Herculean task of editing it with intelligence, compassion, and honesty to tell this unbelievable story that is both a cautionary tale and a gripping portrait of a TV JUNKIE.

No. 228697

>>228328
who took johnny is on youtube. interesting case, but damn I feel so bad for the mother. she lost her marbles somewhere along the way, and thanks to certain professional leeches got led down a conspiracy rabbithole that just left her in more pain.

No. 228703

Beware Slenderman

Both girls have just been sentenced to psychiatric hospitalisation.

No. 228719

This is a fave of mine, a look at a female prison in Brazil. There are many stories about why those women ended up there, some really sad like moving drugs in order to get money for their children.
It's also about some beauty pageant inside the prison, and has some looks into butch lesbians.

No. 228721

I totally recommend this one if you haven't heard of it already. Basically a very ill and mentally stunted girl kills her mother only for it to be revealed that she's actually perfectly healthy and that her mom's been scamming people her whole life by forcing and convincing her daughter that she has some sort of debilitating disease (classic Munchausen by proxy).

Another one I'd recommend even though I haven't gotten around to watching it is 'The Imposter.' Apparently this family's son went missing and he turns up again after a few months- except it's not actually their son but a twenty-something year old man who looks nothing like the missing child. It's super bizarre because this man looks nothing like the kid and yet his whole family let him live with them as their son?? And the 'imposter' is now married with three kids- it's super weird.

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>>228324

more like these please! i love cringe documentaries, it's my bread and butter

life with lisa ling documentary about pickup artists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wXeyaYdwo0

the woman who wasn't there (about a woman who pretended she was a victim of 9/11):
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-woman-who-wasnt-there

short documentary on loveshy men:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ8EAwRauoM

true life: i'm an adult baby:
http://www.mtv.com/episodes/sliu3b/true-life-i-m-an-adult-baby-season-22-ep-24

No. 228815

You guys probably know about this case but, just bringing awareness based on recent events regarding one of the killers.

Both these boys were given only 8 years in secure children's homes and new names. Jon Venables ended up in possession of child porn/abusive images multiple times, arrested,and given another new name. Just this month he was back in the news for again having not only child porn but, a pedo manual. James Bulger's mom is fighting to lift his anonymity for obvious reasons. Besides that, a woman has once feared him being the father of her child without knowing his past, again proving how fucked up it is to keep his identity from the public.

I recommend reading the wiki on this case, the details about what they did to James is disturbing and puts in perspective how messed up that they got let out so early with what seemed to be with little therapy or consoling.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger

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The Up Series is a series of films (one is made every 7 years) that chronicle the lives of fourteen British children. It began in 1964 when all the participants were 7 years old and it has now gone on for nearly half a century.

Pretty interesting.

No. 228902

>>228815
This case is the worst. It happened in my home town and the shopping centre is where my family and I used to go every week. It's still something I've got really strong feelings about, as apparently one of the lads who did it lives/lived where I am living right now. It's always stayed very local and it's so fucked up considering what happened to that poor boy!

No. 228912

>>228815
Just read the details of his murder on the wiki and jesus christ, that’s fucking dark.

No. 228966

>>228815
>>228902
>>228912

This is so fucked up. How the hell does he keep getting off so easy? You'd think at this point he would be locked up forever.

No. 229514

Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home

Other docs in the series include the Tudor Home, two about the Victorian Home, and the Edwardian Home.

No. 230082

Francis Bacon doc

No. 230851

Infamous streaker Mark Roberts struck again yesterday at the Olympics. Here is a doc about him.

No. 230880

>>228511
>Not a documentary but might as well be, crazy religious girl morning routine that made me literally laugh out loud a few days ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UZ8Q2DtYec&t
anon what the fuck lmaoooo… im high af and this girl is blowing my mind, this is almost scary haha

No. 230881

>A documentary about two Australian men that traveled with their adopted son for him to be abused by men all over the world.
Very uncomfortable and infuriating.

No. 230882

One of my all time favorit documentary is the mouse Utopia.
Sadly it is not very long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM&feature=youtu.be



I really love psychology documentarys which try to understand behaviors, reason of specific acts and stuff like that.

The most evil, was interesting too. It is about mass murderer.
http://crimedocumentary.com/most-evil-season-1-2006/

No. 230893

The mysterious death of Elisa Lam whose body was found in the rooftop water tank of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles.

No. 230907

Dear Zachary, A letter of grandparents to their grandson

No. 231035

Documentary about two girls in the beauty pageant scene.
https://youtu.be/dwttqXiCE-I

Adoptive mother of 11 special needs children.
https://youtu.be/L_LmrrQG35o

Follows 2 teens in a detention center in NY.
https://youtu.be/klxB_HrtCKo

No. 231376

The Town that Caught Tourette's

No. 231389

>>>/ot/81149 old documentary thread in case you want to check some of the ones posted there

No. 255945

Old documentary about a pedophile ring

No. 272614

Challenger: a rush to launch, about the Challenger space shuttle disaster

No. 353667

I'm watching this atm and there were so many details I didn't know about. It's intense and it's making me feel ill but I'm glad that they're drawing attention to this again. This should be required viewing for teen girls tbh.

No. 353808

Has anyone watched the Bros documentary: After the screaming stops. It's unintentionally hilarious, but it was nice to see the brothers settle their differences.

No. 353889

I’m kind of fascinated with Sebastião Salgado’s work and his life in general, he has an air of mystique about him which is intriguing. I think I’m more interested in his persona than even his photos as something about his way of being resonates with my own personal experiences. It’s very humanistic and disturbing, and yet he’s not forcing his ideologies down the viewers throat or condemning individuals for inequality. It’s like all he is saying with his photographs is to simply look and acknowledge the truth of the world.

No. 354096

>>353667
i really want to watch this but i don't live in the uk or us :( everyone's going nuts about it.

No. 354098

Not sure if it's been mentioned but tickled is a really interesting documentary

No. 354099

>>354096
I don't live in the US either, I just found it online.

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No. 354224

>>354183
https://www7.putlockers.net/series/surviving-r-kelly

Can't vouch for how safe/unsafe the site is so I hope you have a good anti-virus lol.

No. 354392

>>354224
thanks!

No. 368763

Three Identical Strangers

I watched it on 123movies last night.

No. 368767

The Burning Times

About witch trails, mostly in Europe. Sad, but interesting and informative.

No. 371773

Escape from Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess

The doc is only available on Dailymotion

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ymq6a

A follow-up article

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/10/world/middleeast/princess-latifa-sheikha-dubai.html

No. 372293

Does anyone remember the pedo allegations against Michael Jackson and how they were swept under the rug?
Their resurfacing now in a new documentary coming out in match titled "Leaving Neverland", i read about this on an article and that sparked me to research the allegations,
since i was a kid when the courtcase happened and just assumed he was innocent but…


He really did molest so many boys, im horrified, he got AWAY with it and is still being celebrated, so fucked up.

What do you guys think?

No. 372294


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Request for YouTube documentaries? I’ve watched all in the OP and they’re like the only things that keep me entertained at the gym. Please and thank you!!!!

No. 380130

Moved to >>>/m/1706.



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