Doctumentaries You Like
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Absolutely.
Another good one is The Lincoln Assassination narrated by Tom Beregener.
I also like almost any episode of the PBS series THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, as well as the two part Titanic documentary, THE DEATH OF A DREAM/THE TITANIC LIVES ON.
The Times of Harvey Milk is an amazing documentary.
Seconded. A masterpiece. Not only the best documentary about the Civl War, one of the best documentaries about pretty-much anything. The style and format of this series had had a big influence on a lot of documentaries made since.
Is that recent?
The Cove. More exciting that a lot of dramas! 
I don't know if Super Size Me and Religulous qualify. LOL
The World at War, from the 70s, was excellent. Nice to see the British view of World War II, as opposed to the standard American view where we won it virtually single-handedly.
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Oh. So it's not very accurate anymore, is it?
I haven't seen this episode, but Coney Island - the last time I saw it, which was last year - seemed very empty and devoid of pretty much anything except a couple of bars, a Nathan's, an aquarium, and a minor league baseball park.
Re: Documentaries You Like
- Ken Burns' The Civil War
- Ric Burns' New York: A Documentary Film
- The PBS American Experience episodes on FDR and Truman
- PBS' Benjamin Franklin
- History Channel's Founding Brothers
- WGBH's adaptation of Daniel Yergin's The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- Cane Toads: An Unusual History
Re: Documentaries You Like
- Rome: Power and Glory (1998 mini-series narrated by Peter Coyote from the Learning Channel, back when they still did educational programming), about the rise and fall of the Roman Empire
- Born Rich, 2003, by Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, about the lives of the children of the American aristocracy
- Nuestros Desaparecidos (Our Disappeared) by Juan Mandelbaum, 2003, about Argentina's Dirty War and the military junta's abuses
- Fahrenheit 9/11 and Capitalism: A Love Story by Michael Moore. You've heard of them.
- The Times of Harvey Milk, 1984, about the gay rights pioneer
- Rome: Power and Glory (1998 mini-series narrated by Peter Coyote from the Learning Channel, back when they still did educational programming), about the rise and fall of the Roman Empire
- Born Rich, 2003, by Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, about the lives of the children of the American aristocracy
- Nuestros Desaparecidos (Our Disappeared) by Juan Mandelbaum, 2003, about Argentina's Dirty War and the military junta's abuses
- Fahrenheit 9/11 and Capitalism: A Love Story by Michael Moore. You've heard of them.
- The Times of Harvey Milk, 1984, about the gay rights pioneer
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alien planet
there was another one i can't remember the name of, but it was a semi docu-drama about theories on building a colony ship to travel to another hospitable planet. i can't for the life of me remember what it's called, but if anyone else knows then please tell me.
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alien planet
there was another one i can't remember the name of, but it was a semi docu-drama about theories on building a colony ship to travel to another hospitable planet. i can't for the life of me remember what it's called, but if anyone else knows then please tell me.
Going to inevitably second Grizzly Man and throw out My Best Fiend, Herzog's documentary about Klaus Kinski.
I've liked the couple of Errol Morris documentaries I've seen - Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., The Fog of War, but especially The Thin Blue Line. Helps if we have a Philip Glass soundtrack is what I guess I'm driving at.
And now I'll nod at The Salesman and General Idi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait (which is uncomfortably funny).
Also Louis Theroux's twin documentaries about the Westboro Baptist Church are frankly addictive viewing.
I've liked the couple of Errol Morris documentaries I've seen - Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., The Fog of War, but especially The Thin Blue Line. Helps if we have a Philip Glass soundtrack is what I guess I'm driving at.
And now I'll nod at The Salesman and General Idi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait (which is uncomfortably funny).
Also Louis Theroux's twin documentaries about the Westboro Baptist Church are frankly addictive viewing.
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