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Interesting Documentaries

I saw a doco about the writer and activist Alice Walker at the Mardi Gras film festival earlier this year - Beauty in Truth. I saw her speak at the Sydney Writer's festival as well. She's had a fascinating life and had some interesting things to say. Worth a watch.
 
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The Andy Warhol documentaries - movie in 2 parts, they have been screening on the ABC are very interesting
 
It's a little while ago now... but did anyone else here get as obsessed as I did about the story of Tania Head (real name Alicia Esteve Head)? She feigned being a survivor of the World Trade Centre terrorist attacks... and went so far with it that she became the President of a support organisation called "The World Trade Centre Survivors' Network".

There is a documentary (played on TV from time to time, and available on iTunes) called "The Woman Who Wasn't There". There is also a book of the same title Robin Gaby Fisher and Angelo J Guglielmo Jr. (the filmmaker).

There was also a BBC special on this story, and you can find it in full on YouTube by searching "9/11 Faker".
 
I watched one today about a close personal friendship Pope John Paul II allegedly had with a married woman throughout his papacy and the Vatican's attempts to erase it from the history books since he died. The documentary didn't suggest it went as far as being sexual, but it was an interesting look into his personal life all the same.

It's called "The Secret Letters of Pope John Paul II" and aired on the BBC as part of its Panorama program if anyone's interested.
 
I recently watched Approaching the Elephant. It follows the first year of a new 'free school' in New Jersey. There were no formal classes, the kids decided what they wanted to do each day and made the school rules by democratic vote. It was like Lord of the Flies sometimes, but the kids were intelligent little buggers. It was interesting to watch them test the adults and show up their idealism vs the reality of having to be the grown up and set some boundaries.

 
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This was on, repeat, last night. It is BRILLIANT.

Worth catching up on, it is awesome. This brilliant Belgian lady goes to UK to teach sex ed.
She is amazing and charismatic. She finds out how backward the rest of the world is.
The doco raises a very real issue, kids, especially boys on average have all seen porn by 11, common earlier, a lot by 8.
And, that is the sex ed they get if you don't counteract with reality.
So boys are growing up thinking it is OK to behave as porn illustrates, they get a fantasy created by old men.
In general they pick up crap, rough sex, and all kinds of stupid ways to behave.

This show is so awesome, kids really appreciate learning. We need female produced, and gentler porn, all kids get is male perspectives and fetishes.


Sex In Class


9Life, 10:30pm, Mon, 7 Mar 2016, 60 minutes

ON NOW REPEAT

Practical sex education by Belgian educator Goedele Liekens, who takes the angst out of sex and replaces it with much healthier attitudes among fifteen and sixteen year old students.

Goedele Liekens

United Kingdom, English, Documentary, Education
 
Thanks Oddjob. Some good ones there. I've seen a few of them and there's a few I want to see.

I watched a good one recently called Walking the Camino - Six Ways to Santiago. It follows six people doing the pilgrimage and what it means to them, and a bit of history of the walk itself. I know someone who's done the walk so I thought I'd watch it. It looks like an amazing experience.

 
Just finished Making a Murderer.

Crossing Manitowoc off the Places to Visit Before I Spend the Rest of My Life In Jail List.
 
The History of China, on SBS has been really interesting, last instalment next week.
I had no idea how awful the Brits were, how they forced opium on China.
 
...I've been watching 'Billion Dollar Wreck' on Foxtel... I've seen about 5 episodes of an 8 parts series I believe... it is soooooo slow and tedious... they have obviously stretched what footage and story content that they had to make it 8 episodes long to accrue more money for themselves when it could've probably fit into a 2 hour stand alone documentary... I'm so disappointed in this show yet I still have 3 episodes to watch to see what ends up happening... I'm at the point now where I'm just going to fast forward to the end of the 3 remaining episodes so as not to listen to all the 'padding' throughout the episode... they better find the Treasure that they are seeking by the 8th episode or I'll go mental!... I so hate it when they stretch things out like this... it takes away the fascination that you started with and as to why you started watching it... talk about 'disappointment city'... so sad really... damn!... 3 episodes to go... cheers.
 
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The History of China, on SBS has been really interesting, last instalment next week.
I had no idea how awful the Brits were, how they forced opium on China.
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That's really sad about the British doing that to China.

I love documentaries and wish I had foxtel as the History Channel have some awesome ones.

Whenever I dogsit for my mate that has foxtel, I make sure to take full advantage of watching the shows available.
 
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YES!
That history channel is sooooooooo tempting, but I have vowed to avoid pay tv if I can, I watch far too much tv already, freebies are good though my sister's...
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My flatmate and I have been discussing whether to get foxtel as we both love documentaries and shows like Games of Thrones, Wentworth for example.


Thank feck Gogglebox and Masterchef is available free to Air.
 
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My flatmate and I have been discussing whether to get foxtel as we both love documentaries and shows like Games of Thrones, Wentworth for example.


Thank feck Gogglebox and Masterchef is available free to Air.
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...about 4 years ago we got Foxtel because TV reception was shit where I live and we now get crystal clear TV through Foxtel... just recently they upgraded our area and we get clear TV through normal means now... the thing is... there are so many great shows on Foxtel and I could never give them up now... especially on the History channel... once you get hooked on the many shows on Foxtel it would be hard to get rid of it lol!... the one thing that I do like about Foxtel is that if you happen to miss a show it is usually repeated the next day which is really handy at times... just thought that I'd let you know... cheers.
 
Mr Stickyfingers said:
...about 4 years ago we got Foxtel because TV reception was shit where I live and we now get crystal clear TV through Foxtel... just recently they upgraded our area and we get clear TV through normal means now... the thing is... there are so many great shows on Foxtel and I could never give them up now... especially on the History channel... once you get hooked on the many shows on Foxtel it would be hard to get rid of it lol!... the one thing that I do like about Foxtel is that if you happen to miss a show it is usually repeated the next day which is really handy at times... just thought that I'd let you know... cheers.
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Thanks Mr S for the headsup about Foxtel and the programming. Yes I do know that Foxtel repeat certain shows the next day as I mentioned in my earlier post, I occasionally dogsit for my mate who has Foxtel and I swear, I always feel depressed having to come home, sans Foxtel.

If I stay home tonight, I might check if there are any good docos on.
 
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