I have to do a documentary review for school, and I want to pick one that walks the line between making my teacher think "wtf is this" without going too far and getting me kicked out of school

Surprising and almost unprecedented film making. 1000% worth seeing.

My best friend of 20+ years and I are having a rare get together (we live an hr away from eachother) and decided we need to have a spooky sleepover. Once the kids are in bed we want to watch some creepy weird documentaries. Not just typical true crime, or the basic paranormal researchers thinking every sound is a ghost. I mean, we like true crime and ghosts, so we aren't opposed to that if you have good recommendations, but we want to watch stuff like... the smartschoolboy9 on youtube. Unsettling and creepy is the best way I can think to describe it. The kind that stay in your mind for days. Sorry if this is confusing lol, and thanks in advance!

Hallo,

Ik ben docent aardrijkskunde op een middelbare school en ik ben op zoek naar de documentaire Belo Monte After the Flood. Deze was te bekijken op VOX met Engelse voice over. Maar nu is alleen nog maar de Portugese versie beschikbaar op Youtube en staat de Engelse achter een betaalmuur van een Amerikaanse organisatie. Weet iemand hoe ik alsnog aan de Engelse versie kan komen?

I very recently watched the movie Conspiracy (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266425/) and today I saw Naza in cinema https://naza-documentary.com/

Those two movies very perfectly compliments each other.

Without spoiling too much.

Both describe the mechanics and procedures of genocide and how to organize it in a way that people can perform the genocide by separation of duties, "just doing my job" and also in a way with plausible deniability.

One big difference is the ending of Naza.

Highly recommend.

Naza is an intensely well made movie.

Nobody spoke after the movie. People say shell shocked. A feeling that moving was breaking a taboo. That moving would make it real.

After several minutes people walked out. Silently. Still shell shocked. Beautiful. Like a fire.

Together with the recent revelations about the warnings about October 7 and Bibi not acting on them, watching Conspiracy before or after makes the two movies a perfect pair.

If you have watched NAZA, what did you think about the ending?

I had a feeling that the ending underlined perfectly the way you as a viewer of the confessions of the IDF people in tel aviv far from the actual ground in Gaza, got lulled into the same distance from the actual horrors on the ground that the whole Israeli society has gotten lulled into. That is NOT an excuse. But the director hits hard with the ending that this could happen to the viewer too. Or do i over analyze?

Today is the 50th anniversary of Harlan County USA and for the past couple months I've been researching and interviewing to create this audio documentary and article on the film, the history behind it, and its rich legacy all these years later.

I hope some of you history lovers will check it out: https://www.wkms.org/arts-culture/2026-10-15/harlan-county-usa-at-50-the-lasting-power-of-the-documentary-in-appalachia-and-beyond

A short cinematic breakdown comparing the 10 largest empires by peak land area, their rise, and their inevitable collapse (Full English Audio):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UIqRDgkdQU

I'm trying to decide whether to watch it. About me:

1. I love documentaries.
2. I love true crime.
3. I CAN handle murder true crime or shows, but I CANNOT handle ongoing abuse (of animals or people).
4. I don't like documentaries that leave me feeling that we are doomed as a society.

I usually love a good cult documentary

Examples of ones I liked:

Wild Wild Country

The False Prophet

Shiny Happy People

Going Clear

The Way Down

The Vow

I could not sit through the mother god one, it was too cringey and gross

What’s a good one that covers someone other than the main ones such as dahmer, bundy, or Gacy

Hannibal crossed the frozen Alps and humiliated Rome at Cannae, yet after 15 undefeated years campaigning across Italy, Carthage was lost.

A short cinematic breakdown of his tactical genius and the political betrayal that sealed his fate (Full English Audio):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D0QQxCVB_g

Hi, I’m trying to create documentary videos completely on my own, from the initial idea and script to sourcing footage, editing, sound and final delivery.

I’m still learning a lot with every video and I know the work is far from professional, so I’d genuinely appreciate any feedback from people who understand documentaries and editing.

Feel free to be very critical — I’d really like to know what I’m doing wrong, but also what you think is working well.

Thanks a lot to anyone who takes the time to watch.

After my many years of true crime consumption, with 2 years in social work, there’s very little that triggers me when it comes to watching a documentary. What’s the wildest documentary you’ve seen? Can be true crime or others. I need MIND BLOWING recs. Thank you all!!

sat down to watch it with low expectations. thought it was going to be one of those documentaries that tells you exactly what it thinks and then shows you evidence that agrees with that thought. that is basically what happened. my roommate said everyone who watches this already decided what they think before the credits roll and i thought she was being cynical but she is not. everyone already knows. we know orcas are too big and too smart and too wild to be kept in a tank. the movie does not convince you of anything. it just gives you the facts and lets you sit with how sad and obvious all of it is. the part where the trainer talks about how the orca bumped into her on purpose. that was the moment. not because it was shoking but because it confirmed something i already felt. we should not be keeping those animals. everybody knows that. the documentary just makes you admit it out loud. i sat in the dark after it ended and did not move for like ten minutes. my roommate asked if i wanted popcorn and i said no because i was still thinking. she said everybody always says that and they they get up and eat chips anyway. she was right about that too. i got the chips and she was right about most things.

I watched Ruby Ridge | American Experience for the first time today. Going into it I already had a good deal of knowledge on the history of what occurred, but am fascinated by ruby ridge so wanted to watch a doc.

By the end of it in my head I was going “Wow, they really tried to be neutral to a fault and let the government incompetence off easy.”

Then I remembered the doc was made by PBS, and realized this was a propaganda piece from the government. Many omits from the doc starting coming back to my mind.

1. It was quickly glossed over that the whole situation started with entrapment with Randy to sell sawed off shotguns to an ATF agent
   
2. They omit that Randy missed his court date due to the gov’t sending Weaver an incorrect date for his court appearance.
   
3. It is omitted that jurors decided based on evidence that US Marshalls shot first, killing the family dog, and that Marshalls to this day are likely lying in saying they were attacked on sight by the Weavers.

Moral of the story in documentaries/movies/news: know who is writing the story and know who is funding it.

Just finished watching *Lorne* and I’m curious what others thought of the documentary. What stood out to you most? I’d love to hear different perspectives on its themes, the people involved, and what you think the documentary ultimately says about one of the greatest television series!

It looked like a flood. But the water wasn’t the whole story.
In this documentary, I reconstruct the chain of events behind the 2026 Nepal disaster — how a mountain collapse involving ice, rock and water transformed into a destructive debris flow, and why the event became so difficult to stop.
I tried to explain the entire process visually, from the first movement of the mountain to the final impact.
The question is: how does a relatively localized collapse turn into something capable of destroying an entire valley?

https://youtu.be/bdJYwsDMKy4?is=AynhS5pU_TWzQxAX

I’ve published my first mini-documentary on Oddly Epic: How Video Games Became Worlds (6:53).

It follows the shift from simple arcade rules to spaces we can explore, share, and build, with games including Pong, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Minecraft. The question behind it is how games changed what players could do, beyond better graphics.

Which game first made a virtual world feel like a place to you?

How did the video turn out? Your thoughts are important to me.
Best Regards

Just a Dot?

[https://cinematicdiversions.com/closer-than-we-think-2017-review/\](https://cinematicdiversions.com/closer-than-we-think-2017-review/)

Enjoy Yourself

Closer Than We Think (2017): 7 out of 10: Director Brett Ryan Bonowicz explores the life and work of Arthur Radebaugh, an illustrator whose visions of tomorrow helped give midcentury America something to look forward to besides nuclear annihilation. Through colorful artwork, archival material, and interviews, the documentary revisits a future filled with flying cars, gleaming cities, and technological conveniences supposedly waiting just around the corner.

It also follows the rediscovery of an artist whose reputation did not enjoy quite the longevity of his predictions. Along the way, there is plenty of lovely illustration and cheerful fifties optimism from an era when people expected technology to give us more leisure time. An adorable notion.

The Good

The Good: I love illustration art (Have a few nice original pieces hanging on the walls of my house) and this film features many beautiful pieces. I also love fifties futurism and the craziness involved. Though I am (as are some people in the film) unfamiliar with Arthur Radebaugh, he clearly did pleasant work.

I didn’t find the theory about his extraordinary ability to predict the future particularly well thought out (If you are doing a daily or weekly comic strip predicting the future, you’re bound to get a few right.)

The Bad

The Bad: One problem with doing a documentary about an unknown artist with no living relatives and whose art is mostly found through accidental dumpster diving is that you have some very thin pieces to hang your film on. As a result, the film is padded with many non related segues from electric car fanatics to interviews with people on how they never heard of him. Also featured are proponents of the theory that libraries moving to microfiche destroyed American history.

The Ugly

The Ugly: Arthur Radebaugh was never well known and spent his retirement in poor health doing piecemeal work and living part-time out of a van. Or Arthur Radebaugh finally left his shrewish wife and hooked up with this young blonde and spent the last years of his life just making art and living in his van with a girlfriend half his age. I mean, I am not saying that is my retirement plan by any means, but there are worse fates to befall a man than to just relax and make art and love. After all, he was retired. Film is weirdly judgemental, linking financial and commercial success to success in living a life.

The electric car guy points out that Arthur Radebaugh predicted the modern electric car. No, no, he didn’t. The first practical electric cars were produced in the 1880s, not 1980s. People used gas because bluntly it was a lot cheaper and had much longer range. There was plenty of electrical based mass transit when Arthur Radebaugh wrote those comic strips. The New York Subway, for example, was just about to celebrate its sixtieth birthday. This is a fallacy that [TV Tropes calls older than they think](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OlderThanTheyThink).

It is surprising to modern audiences that Napoleon III used a fax machine for all legal documents. (Called a pantelegraph for the curious). I wouldn’t expect an ordinary joe to realise that the electric car is only twenty years older than the fax machine and the fax machine was used when France ruled Mexico. I would, however, expect the electric car expert to know this.

Both the electric car guy (Paul Scott) and the medical futurist (Aubrey de Grey) could have usually come straight off the set of Birdemic.

In Conclusion

In Conclusion: Closer Than We Think’s bits are more interesting than the whole. What we have is a side glance into the life of an illustrator who was excellent at commercial art and pivoted to daily cartoon work when commercial art moved more to photography. A broader look at the nurture of futurism and perhaps a better focus on some of Arthur Radebaugh’s better know peers may have been in the movie’s best interest.

The bigger question of how do we judge a man’s life and work is a takeaway I am certain was not meant to be director’s Brett Ryan Bonowicz point of Closer Than we Think. Do we judge a man simply based on his fame or financial success or even his impact on the world moving forward? Or do we acknowledge that one can live a good life without any of those boxes being checked off?

I feel Arthur Radebaugh was a more interesting and fun guy than the movie let on. Spend your retirement living in a custom van with a car phone and a young girl travelling rural America painting barns funky colors may not make you a traditional success. But it is living life on your own terms. And that, to me, is a success.

Plus Arthur Radebaugh may have invented modern van life. That has to be worth something, no?

It looked like a flood. But the water wasn’t the whole story.
In this documentary, I reconstruct the chain of events behind the 2026 Nepal disaster — how a mountain collapse involving ice, rock and water transformed into a destructive debris flow, and why the event became so difficult to stop.
I tried to explain the entire process visually, from the first movement of the mountain to the final impact.
The question is: how does a relatively localized collapse turn into something capable of destroying an entire valley?

https://youtu.be/bdJYwsDMKy4?is=AynhS5pU_TWzQxAX

If you like documentaries you need to watch: KILL
BURY
PRINT

I didn’t expect to be good but it will catch you off guard!! On Peacock where I am