I love a good documentary. I watch an average of one of two a day. I thought it'd be nice if we could share/discuss what we've been watching?

 

I am about to watch 'A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley'. A sort of history of public interest in murder cases. Very Jark.

 

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The most recent one I have watched is the Merkel one you recommended. Found it to be very interesting and weirdly, quite enjoyable. Need to scour iPlayer at work for a few more as I find them quite easy to listen along to while dealing with spreadsheets full of numbers.

 

If you have any recommendations, I'm open to all but mark anything that may be a little NSFW. Might be a bit awkward being caught by the boss listening to something about teenage sex or a live autopsy.

I love watching documentaries every once in a while when they come on. The last one I watched was about Irish travellers in America, well there were two parts if I remember correctly. It was quite a good watch, all about how Irish travellers in America are such a mysterious bunch for the rest of the people that live there, how they mysteriously earn a lot of money without anyone knowing how etc. And it's in their culture that adult men can marry fourteen-year-old girls, they can have children together etc.

 

Sometimes I also like watching those kinds of documentaries that deal with people with unusual illnesses and stuff. Saw one about Tourette's Syndrome a few years ago. Also I remember one about some guy who has arms and hands like a tree! Really captivating stuff. Not for squeamish viewers might I add!

LITERALLY ANYTHING presented by Dr. Lucy Worsley is incredible. I watched A Very British Murder last night, love it. I recently rewatched Hartlot's, Housewives and Heroine's: A 17th Century History for Girls which she presented too which is very insightful and well worth a watch.

 

Currently watching The Story Of The Jews with Simon Schama too, gotta love a good BBC documentary.

LITERALLY ANYTHING presented by Dr. Lucy Worsley is incredible. I watched A Very British Murder last night, love it. I recently rewatched Hartlot's, Housewives and Heroine's: A 17th Century History for Girls which she presented too which is very insightful and well worth a watch.

 

Currently watching The Story Of The Jews with Simon Schama too, gotta love a good BBC documentary.

I'm very disappointed with Schama's new one. I find it a little self-indulgent and meandering. Disappointing.

 

As for Lucy Worsley, I find her very hit/miss/love/hate. As an historian I find her stuff a little fragmented and lacking any coherent argument but her style has such mass appeal. The murder epi last night started well but then she does her standard dressing up with utterly ridiculous role play to boot!

 

There must be so many good screen grabs you can get from her programmes *.*

I'm a sucker for all the kind of trashy BBC3 documentaries, especially Cherry Healey :wub: There haven't been many on recently though, and Cherry Healey hasn't had one for AGES.

I'm very disappointed with Schama's new one. I find it a little self-indulgent and meandering. Disappointing.

 

As for Lucy Worsley, I find her very hit/miss/love/hate. As an historian I find her stuff a little fragmented and lacking any coherent argument but her style has such mass appeal. The murder epi last night started well but then she does her standard dressing up with utterly ridiculous role play to boot!

 

There must be so many good screen grabs you can get from her programmes *.*

I saw in advance that there was going to be a lot of dressing up so I didn't bother.

 

I like to watch documentaries on geeky subjects like mathematics (Marcus du Sautoy's History of Maths was particularly good) and some science ones. I watch a lot more history documentaries than I would ever have believed likely when I was at school. History was one of my worst subjects.

I too have been watching a lot of history documentaries. Recent ones that I recall: -

 

She Wolves: England's Early Queens, a three part series based on a book by the presenter Helen Castor. This was excellent, I learnt a lot about some of the queens I didn't know much about.

 

Nelson's Caribbean Hell-Hole: An Eighteenth Century Navy Graveyard Uncovered, this was super. I knew very little about this period of history prior to this show. Presented by naval historian Sam Willis.

 

There have been others such as the Tudor series and the Hundred Years' War series.

I loved the one about Bob Monkhouse - The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse which was on BBC4 earlier in the year (think it has been shown quite a few times already actually).

 

I also recently caught up on Thumb Candy which was a documentary about computer games (the history of the first 'big' computer games in the 1980s) and featured the absolute genius Matthew Smith [creator of Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy.] Sadly he seems to have been consumed by drugs, but it was a fascinating watch.

I'm more into Nature/Wildlife documentaries, my favorites are usually by David Attenborough, but I love watching Natural History documentaries, love the Natural World series on BBC2 and other wildlife docus on the Discovery/Eden channels.

I watched 'Ten Things You Didn't Know About Tsunami's' the other day. I love natural disasters, I find them so fascinating. Until it became abundantly clear that I couldn't do it at uni I wanted to study either Seismology or Vulcanology.

I'm more into Nature/Wildlife documentaries, my favorites are usually by David Attenborough, but I love watching Natural History documentaries, love the Natural World series on BBC2 and other wildlife docus on the Discovery/Eden channels.

My grandfather babysat David Attenborough and my sister now lives a few minutes' walk from him.

"You've Been Trumped" is a great documentary from last year, looking at the impact that Donald "it's real, seriously" Trump's gold course has had on a small Scottish town, in which the townspeople have been forced out of their homes. The maker of the documentary can be a bit annoying at times, but it's a powerful tale of David vs Goliath, a film that can, and will, make you angry.

 

Part of my Film Studies degree focused on documentary film, so I studied quite a few as part of my course. Perhaps the best documentary I studied was 'Gimme Shelter', which is a stunning documentary, which is funny as I'm not the biggest fan of the band it portrays, The Rolling Stones. Although having said that, they're also the subject of one of the worst, "One Plus One" (directed by Jean-Luc Godard). The bits with RS are good, but the crap he sandwiches it with are bloody awful.

My grandfather babysat David Attenborough

That's the best CLAIM TO FAME I've seen on Buzzjack TO DATE

I don't really watch that many documentaries, but I watch the odd one now and again. I think the last one I watched was 'I'm 16 But Look 60' which was really interesting, and quite sad. It's probably the only of the 'Extraordinary People' documentaries I've watched, although dating back a while I believe I watched one about the two sisters who were joined at the head. Those type of docs interest me.

"You've Been Trumped" is a great documentary from last year, looking at the impact that Donald "it's real, seriously" Trump's gold course has had on a small Scottish town, in which the townspeople have been forced out of their homes. The maker of the documentary can be a bit annoying at times, but it's a powerful tale of David vs Goliath, a film that can, and will, make you angry.

That has been so fascinating to watch unfold in the news. I'm lucky because I fall into the ITV Grampian region so my local news update always contains the latest update or hyperbolic statement from Trump.

 

It's been hilarious to watch his objections to Off-Shore wind farms!

I love documentaries on crime and politics. I can't remember the names of most but these are probably my favourites (none are related to the UK though oooops):

 

For the Bible Tells Me So Basically about the crazies misinterpreting the Bible. Anita Bryant (fundamentalist thunderminge) gets hit in the face with a fruit pie in the opening scene. Still love it. ^_^

 

I remember watching all of this on the news as it unfolded and this documentary covers Neda Soltan before and after her death. A bit grim but very informative!

Iran Undercover: Inside the Hidden Revolution I watched this for one of my politics classes in uni and it's a really clear, (relatively) concise, and stark realisation into torture in Iran.

 

Paradise Lost - Robin Hood Hills An HBO documentary of the West Memphis Three and how they were convicted of crimes based on zero evidence. Probably one of the more notable miscarriages of justice to hit the US in recent years.

Paradise Lost - Revelations Continues on from the first and mostly covers the post-trial period and appeals.

Paradise lost - Purgatory Turns more towards who actually may have been responsible for the 1993 murders in West Memphis and documents the release of the three innocent men.

 

Documentaries that I just CAN'T DO are like ones about the Vikings or Romans or anything just really old and not interesting (to me).

The Great British Year: Winter · http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01db...sh_Year_Winter/

 

It goes beyond a nature documentary or commentary. It's a piece of art. I love the lack of any kind of human presence, it makes it all the more ethereal.

The Great British Year: Winter · http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01db...sh_Year_Winter/

 

It goes beyond a nature documentary or commentary. It's a piece of art. I love the lack of any kind of human presence, it makes it all the more ethereal.

I got more than a bit of a shock 3.26-29 into this, where they've filmed a place that's about 300m from my mum's house. How did I not hear about this?!

Stephen Fry - Out There, a two part documentary on homophobia around the world. Very harrowing.