I have found this extremely good documentary on the Tree People as they where called at Newbury bypass in 1996. http://documentarylovers.net/wars-british-tree-people/ If anyone else has any good documentary links please add
That 3 hour show re the british mathematician who spent 7 years working on and solving "Thermi"s last theorum" >>> totallt , and i do mean totally blew me away ! and any doc (they do exist !) on the now late > great Richard Fyneman !!!
There is a great documentary from the states called DARK DAYS. It is about the people that live in the tunnels in the subway in New York. A great watch good sound track to it. Sad but an amazing true story. An hour an 20 mins so a bit of a long one but well worth it if you can find it.
if they could be found on comp. (these docs that sound interesting , they could be downloaded ,yeah?? >>>soz re wrong name of clever fella re his ,until now unsolved theorum, what was (if i may) astounding was the fella who solved it , he was like " quietly pleased " NOT jumping up and down and shouting out the bleedin window , he was a total study of understatment , so typical of great Englishmen, just like "it was nothing really " it totally makes the show !.
Ace idea for a thread. I love documentaries and will try and think of some. A guy I have worked for in Spain worked on World In Action years ago and has v interesting stories of working in Vietnam in the war and sneakin across the border into South Africa under apartheid.
Dean, I was about to post that Dean put a thread up about this on the tlb v2 then realised it was you who put this thread up! Anyway, you know mine. . . . A303 HIGHWAY TO THE SUN (BBC4 self shot) "Fascinating and strangely wonderful" (Daily Telegraph) on Vimeo A303 Highway to the Sun
My two favourite documentaries are 'Taxidermy: Stuff the world', and 'requiem for detroit'. The first follows the entrants of a taxidermy competition, i know it sounds dull, but it really is one of the best bits of film making i've seen. It's quite sad, they're fairly tragic people, but it's also extremely funny in places. The second looks at the decline of detroit and more widely the plight of post-industrial america. A lot of it's filmed with those 'urban explorer' type guys and they go in and look loads of really historic buildings in ruins, the sight of the very first production line in the ford factory, stuff like that, loads of old decaying gothic style buildings. Because the work's gone, the city population has contracted by millions over the last 3 or 4 decades and unlike britain, they don't need the space so there's literally whole blocks and neighbourhoods sitting derelict. Really interesting program. ;D
best one I have seen in years is "ping pong" which is about six people preparing for and entering the veteran world table tennis championships in Inner Mongolia (China). they are all over 80 and the oldest is 100. it is an absolutely amazing and fantastic film and the best advert for getting off your backside and DOING SOMETHING that I have ever seen. it came out in the last year and I expect it to win awards.
or if u can locate it on comp . the 3 hour doc . ages ago re Kennedy"s assasination which must have proved to 99% there were 6 gunmen at that shooting , it was so well reserched /presented, total pro . journalism!
