The Oath is brilliant. Laura Poitras is fearless. So bummed she was not nominated.
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.
Thu 21 Apr 2011
Edited Sat 23 Apr 2011 by John Burgan
Here is what will probably be Tim Hertherington's last film (he just died while shooting a project in Libya). Harrowing and poignant.
Docalliance has a wide range of docs online (legally, unlike many portals), some to download at small cost or even free, others streamed:
From April 18 to May 2, you can watch five unique, multiply awarded documentary films by Polish director Marcel ÅoziÅ„ski for free. Enjoy the best of the past twenty years of a filmmaker who is “trying to influence the reality around him while following the outcome with openness”.
Re: John Burgan's post on Mon 18 Apr 2011: View thread
Heart-breaking, but great work. Any plans to do a feature length doc on this subject?
Tue 10 May 2011
Edited Tue 10 May 2011 by John Burgan
Academy-Award nominated filmmaker (and long time member of The D-Word) James Longley (IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS) has made his 2002 documentary GAZA STRIP available for free online in its entirety:
great little film about the Salton Sea and the strange community that used to surround it and what's left of it.