Professor Burgan, your equanimity is admirable.
Recommended Documentaries
Recommended Docs
This is a topic where you can say which documentary has really impressed you, and why people should see it. Can be a recent one or an all-time favourite. Can't be your own though, sorry...
Praise the work of others, not your own. If you want to beat the drum for your own documentary, please don't do it here. Professionals have their own Shameless Self-Promotion topic.
We also have a Documentary Films topic for our Professionals where the debate is private and possibly more controversial. This topic here is for recommendations to the documentary-interested public.
It comes with the territory.
Meanwhile, another great offer from Doc Alliance – a clutch of films streaming for free by French master filmmaker Nicolas Philibert – including the celebrated ”Etre et Avoir”
http://dafilms.com/event/125-retrospective-of-nicolas-philibert/
Re: Jake van Vuuren's post on Thu 30 May 2013: View thread
interesting list. are those actually your favorites, or ones you think are important for reasons other than watchability or enjoyment?
I am seeking recommendations/suggestions for biographical (better) or autobiographical documentaries about people in a SCIENTIFIC discipline.
Perfect suggestions would be films made by other people about a scientist after their death. ((Astronauts, Engineers, Mathematicians, Physicists, Chemists, etc...))
Many of the Richard Fyneman docs.
This one for starters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzg1CU8t9nw
Don't forget Tana Tuva:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5Pgmx2WCsY
Which, if you are not careful, will lead you to Genghis Blues.