Kind of a docu, Terrence Davies' Of Time and City is on iPlayer for five more days. Old but he's such a rareity.

MattyJ wrote:

Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap Fantastic documentary from Ice T that looks into what makes up hip-hop and how artists create their raps. He interviews a lot of rappers from past to present, underground to mainstream, and asks them how they feel about hip-hop, what make them start emceeing, and how they create their songs. As a fan of hip-hop I really enjoyed this, but as a documentary it is just very well put together and thought out. Ice has a great rapport with all the guys, as they clearly respect what he's done and who he is. He is able to discuss it with them as he's been there, and it comes across as guys exchanging stories rather than a documentary maker with an agenda, if that makes sense. Highly recommended.

rhyme and reason is great too if you aint seen it.

Meades and brutalism. Some of my fav shit. Last fucking month. Bastard.

I realised upon moving back here that Tokyo's maybe the most (unintentionally) brutalist city on Earth. So many deeply odd high-rises and things here.

Well, you can't have sex with it.

Give me some credit bean, give me some credit.  S'alright, you owe me a goblet of meades.

National Geographic Aryan Brotherhood
A huge missed opportunity.
The doc interviews two key members of the Aryan Brotherhood. It was interesting learning that as a gang the Aryan Brotherhood is one of the largest gangs in the U.S yet only really works within the prison system. Also it is quite elite, while many may be affiliated with the gang the amount of made members is small.
Throughout the dock we are told that it was established to protect white prisoners against the other ethnic gangs in the prison system, they do this by being the most ruthless and violent. The Neo Nazi look as a front however and the main purpose of the gang is money making.

Interviewed are reformed top enforcer, a scary looking bastard who could tell stories for days, but isn't asked. He reveals the most about the gang and is clearly itching to say more but isn't pressed by the interviewer.
Second is a native american who was one of the three founding members of the gang. He sets out to explain how it was truly a gang to protect white people in prison and is not or at least was not a racist organisation, siting close relations with hispanic gangs.

There was so much potential in this dock but it was obviously an american TV show first so had intros and outros every 15 minutes for the ad breaks and the first 15 minutes was sensationalist nonsense that didn't actually say anything. A real missed opportunity.

Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Vengeance.
Profile of a serial killer documentary.
Carl Panzram was a serial killer born around the turn of the century.
After committing a small crime as a child he was sent to reform schools where he was abused, beaten and raped. This twisted him into a completely twisted person who cared nothing for his fellow man and only lived to gain power over others.

He raped stole and killed, going in and out of prison and being abused more and more severely each time. One escape attempt left him with broken ankles legs and spine, he was thrown into solitary with no medical attention.

The only way his story was ever told is through one guard who slipped him pencil and paper to write his memoirs, in return the guard with give him a dollar or cigarettes.

The docu tells the story while also interviewing child and behavioural psychologists.


Seriously good documentary and an amazing story that would make an excellent film.

Oooh. Good work both of you. Adding some of that to the pile.

I've watched a bunch of good stuff recently, trying to remember all the names. netflix is too good on this front.

Mentioned in the TV thread, but should add it here.

Anthony bourdain places unknown.

REALLY great.

Part food, part travel, part history.

First series is 100% excellent. Goes to lots of cool and/interesting places. Beautifully shot, he interviews heaps of good sources. Just excellent. Second series fails on the unknown part. Spain, Sicily, Copenhagen. However, there's still some great eps in there. Just watched south Africa. Top notch.

Warning. Will make you want to travel and eat awesome food.

About killer whales in captivity, yeah?

Bordain just did Tokyo. Would love a brooks take on his efforts.

I almost shat at that clip near the beginning.

I'm so glad that doc cas put a few nails in the performing animal attractions coffin.

IanHamlett wrote:

I almost shat at that clip near the beginning. I'm so glad that doc cas put a few nails in the performing animal attractions coffin.

There are a few really tense moments in it.  And the power those animals have never fails to terrify/amaze.

http://youtu.be/dlN-ruKbK5w

Highly recommend this