Documentaries

[Danny_EFC1878]

Not a big wrestling fan but Dark Side of the Ring is very interesting

Dark Side of the Ring (TV Series 2019– ) ⭐ 8.7 | Documentary, Drama, History

1h | G

www.imdb.com

From backstage controversies to mysterious deaths and unsolved homicides, this series explores the darkest stories from the golden age of professional wrestling, and tries to find truth at the intersection of fantasy and reality.

 

[nsno-chris]

The Defiant Ones

cracking 4 part HBO documentary on Dr Dre and Jimmy Lovine, about their seperate paths in music and how they met to design and market Beats Electronics.

Some big musicians are interviewed

 

[LostLegend]

A bit niche this one!

I really enjoyed it, but fair warning it's a wee bit biased from the DnB Arena perspective. A LOT of very influencial artists like Nicky Blackmarket, LTJ Bukem, Shy FX etc. only get a passing comment. It's very much made from the more techy, jump up and commercial POV.

Worth a watch if you enjoy DnB though!

 

[No Alla Violenza]

Keith Haring: Street Art Boy on BBC2 tonight

Fantastic

 

[Zezti]

The biggest explosion in the British isles was an RAF underground munitions dump where a worker tried to remove a detonator with a brass chisel:


This guy makes really interesting short mini-documentaries.

 

[Minimeister]

Seen some really decent docs lately:

The legend of Walter Mercadu - like the Peurto Rican Russel Grant. Decent watch 7/10
The Cyntonia Brown Story - well worth the watch 8/10
Then 2 Storyville's - One about Chechyna gay people and one about the National enquirer, both 8/10ers.

 

[Death]

Anyone watch that unsolved mysteries?

 

[john jako]

Watched the titanic documentary last night on channel 5. Mental to think if they didn’t turn the ship and hit the iceberg straight on they would of been fine lol.

 

[TowerToffee]

Anyone watch that unsolved mysteries?

The Netflix series ?
If so , I thought it was excellent and episodes 3 House of Terror and 6 Missing Witness were particularly chilling .

 

[winks74]

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[Eggs]

...if you like your music, the Sky documentary Laurel Canyon is a good watch.

 

[navidson]

Been thoroughly enjoying 'I'll Be Gone In The Dark' - about one of the most prolific and interesting serial killer/rapists of modern times - "The Golden State Killer"

Produced by HBO, it's a compulsive 6 part story about the amateur sleuths who worked on the case after after the trail went cold - I think it's available on Sky Atlantic

 

[jaybx1878]

'once upon a time in Iraq' is very good on bbc iplayer

 

[Minimeister]

'once upon a time in Iraq' is very good on bbc iplayer

Been saving the one about Saddam, might watch that tonight.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Channel 4 repeated Dogging Tales the other day.

Easily the best British documentary ever made.

Sounds good. My favourite British documentaries have been....

The British Hell's Angels one from years ago when they hyped up a massive weekender and just ended up depressed on a disused boat by a canal or something along those lines.

The one about the fellas who are in "relationships" with their very expensive sex dolls. Taking them out for a drive and taking snaps to treasure the memories. Somewhat soured by the footage of them packing their beloved into shipping crates to go back to the factory and have their vaginas fixed / cleaned out.

The fella who collected roadkill to eat and claimed he was getting malicious phone calls about it. Got a Private Investigator to listen to the calls and it was clearly just him putting on a voice and calling his own phone.