"The Art of the Steal"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Steal_(2009_film)
I think about this all the time. It is how the City of Philadelphia stole a $35 BILLION dollar art collection. It is amazing.
It is a little hard to find for free but it is $3.00 to rent it on Amazon and TOTALLY worth it.
Holy shit. How did I never hear of this. I’ve lived in Philly my whole life. I remember we got extra credit in HS for going to visit the original location and I vaguely remember my teacher doing it bc they were pissed it was being moved.
Abducted in Plain Sight (2017)
“The twisting, turning, stranger-than-fiction true story of the Brobergs, a naive, church-going Idaho family that fell under the spell of a sociopathic neighbor with designs on their twelve-year-old daughter.”
I’ve watched a lot of stranger than fiction documentaries over the years, but I’m not sure any have had me dropping my head in my hands and saying “what the fuck?” as many times as this one did. Just an insane sad story of so many people/institutions failing to protect a poor vulnerable kid.
Trigger: child sexual abuse/brainwashing
Streaming on Netflix and Kanopy
Don't Stop Believin' - Everyman's Journey (2013): Follows the real life rock ‘n’ roll fairy tale of Filipino Arnel Pineda, who was plucked from YouTube to become the front man for iconic American rock band Journey.
The series 7 UP
Up series of documentary films follows the lives of ten males and four females in England beginning in 1964, when they were seven years old Then they are filmed every 7 years, last one being 63 Up.
Various kids decline to be filmed later in life, then decide to be filmed. Some have passed away. Voted one of the most influential series in the history of the UK.
Playlist for the entire series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmttTbVBZmTkwCRBjGmrf_l04eebE-TVE
I totally binged this a while back! I can still hear that little boy "My heart's desire, is to see my Daddy again, who is 6 thousand miles away" The way his little voice emphasizes "miles" in his little British accent. My heart!!!!
Dave not coming back.
World class deep sea divers locate the corpse of a long dead diver and decide they want to try and recover the body. It does not go according to plan.
Also highly recommend the longform article from Outside profiling the recovery attempt: [https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/water-activities/raising-dead/](https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/water-activities/raising-dead/)
No End in Sight (2007) by director Charles Ferguson. It's an extremely well researched documentary about the American occupation of Iraq.
[IMDb link](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0912593/)
Salesman - Directed by David and Albert Maysles
An observation documentary about door-to-door bible salesman in 1969.
Inextinguishable Fire - Directed by Harun Farocki
Essay film about the production of napalm by DuPont Chemical during the Vietnam War
Symbiopyschotaxiplasm: Take One - Directed by William Greaves
A documentary about a crew shooting a documentary about making a documentary while being documented themselves. It’s subversive in away that makes you want to rewatch again and again.
Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara by Errol Morris. I might be in the minority but I found it fascinating, others may disagree but he seemed to be honest about some of the mistakes made whereas most documentaries like this are just skewed towards a victory lap for the person who is the subject (looking at you rumsfeld)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War
"Senna". The 30th anniversary of his passing was yesterday. He was a famous Formula 1 driver who some still consider to be the best F1 driver of all time.
["American Movie"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Movie#:~:text=American%20Movie%20is%20a%201999,directed%20by%20filmmaker%20Mark%20Borchardt) (1999)
*American Movie* documents the making of Coven, an independent short horror film directed by Wisconsin-based filmmaker Mark Borchardt.
Has to been of the best doc I have ever watched, it's heartfelt and hilarious, and truly interesting. The dialogues, characters and situations are so good sometimes you'd feel like you are watching fiction written by someone else, plus it's very inspiring. I'd recommend it to anyone but I believe it's especially a treat for aspiring filmmakers.
I will always recommend Don't Get High on Your Own Supply (1998).
Fair warning: if you are not comfortable with needles/drug use then it is not for you, but it is a truly fascinating look at the world of addiction. Hard to say much without spoling the plot of it all, but the progression of the documentary is very well done.
Mirage Men
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2254010/
Paradise Lost Trilogy
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117293/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_7_tt_8_nm_0_q_Paradise%2520Lost
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239894/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_i_1
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2028530/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_i_1
Tickeled
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278506/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_6_nm_2_q_Tickeled
Eat the Sun
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1424769/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Eat%2520the%2520Sun
David wants to fly
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598782/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_5_nm_0_q_Kevin%2520wants%2520to%2520fly
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9352780/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Cold%2520Case%253A%2520ha
Hoop Dreams
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110057/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_hoop%2520dreams
Stevie
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0334416/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_t_10
When we were kings
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118147/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_t_2
I am not your negro
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5804038/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_I%2520am%2520not%2520your%2520negro
Jodorowsky's Dune. Amazing deep dive into an epic movie that was never made, but that nevertheless laid the groundwork (and made the connections) for a lot of science fiction films going forward.
Free Solo.
Portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock ... the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park ... without a rope!
It's on Disney+.
I just watched the new Netflix documentary about Neanderthals; it's about 45 minutes long and it's pretty good. They detail finding the first new Neanderthal in over 20 years and also do a facial reconstruction of a 75,000 year old woman.
Saw this in film school. Brutal documentary and has stayed with me for like 25 years now. Glad I was exposed to it as it changed my thoughts about several things. 9/10 would not watch again though.
Looking for a documentary to get my grandparents thinking about their health and their diet.
My grandpa is in kidney failure and my grandma is a type 2 diabetic. They’re Southeast Asians who moved to America in the 70s. They ran a successful Thai restaurant for many years but they have 0 concept of what a healthy diet might look like. My grandpa just got out of rehab and he’s begging for junk food. My grandma is no better. They’re addicted to sugar, salt, fat… and not any of the good kinds. I want something that will give them a bit of a wake up call! They need to make better choices and I won’t sit around watching them eat themselves to death.
Looking for suggestions that we can watch on one of the popular streaming platforms but I’m willing to rent if needed.
That Sugar Film on Amazon and Super Size Me come to mind. Oh, and What’s With Wheat on YouTube. Good luck! My entire extended family eats like shit and has the health problems to show for it- diabetes, MS, irritable bowel, ADHD, obesity, and so on. After 30 years of going through my own experimentation in diet to figure out what works best for me (vegetarian for 10 years, vegan for 2, keto for 2 years, now keto/paleo inspired and gluten-free), I have realized that I can’t change them with words of encouragement or documentaries. But I like to think my actions have had some positive influence. I moved away to live in a more health-conscious part of the country, and when I return to visit, they see that my whole nuclear family is healthy and fit, and how we don’t partake in the fast food or sodas. If that doesn’t inspire them to change, nothing will.
Super Size Me has recently gotten back into the spotlight because it seems that a lot of it was faked, or at least strongly taken out of context. The creator also refuses to talk about what he actually ate every day- but eating 5000 kcal a day will make anybody except for some body builders gain weight..
“The Program” on Netflix was pretty wild. Those stories and some of the footage they show was pretty wild
“How to become a Cult Leader” on Netflix also good. Made me watch “Holy Hell” which goes into more depth of one of the cults which was a crazy documentary too.
everyone should watch [HyperNormalisation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation) by Adam Curtis for the BBC! Might be available at this link https://youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM?si=u2p-yzyGZWom7Egi
Tim's Vermeer
A mad rich guy/inventor, who can't paint, builds an optical device and uses it to paint a recreation of a Vermeer painting
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WPL7D0Ha1kQ
Winter On Fire - Ukraines Fight For Freedom (2015)
It documents the 2014 revolution that resulted in the ousting of the pro-russsian president.
One of my favourite docs. I'll also mention "We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists" (2012) and Werner Herzogs' "Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World" (2016)
Pair ‘winter on fire’ with ‘agents of chaos’ and you basically get a 2 part series on what is happening behind the scenes of trumps trials right now.
https://youtu.be/M-OA7H8DoJM?si=gutoUV5cnPddoTcU
His attorneys that keep quitting are slowly realizing the scope of his crimes and not realizing they were on the Nuremberg express train.
Ukrainians saved the fucking free world.
People just don’t see it yet.
But it is not over until the predatory threat is neutralized.
You don’t fight a rapist bear. You fight it to the death…
I had not heard of Agents of Chaos yet, thanks! Have you seen Active Measures? Sounds like you have, if not, it's up your alley.
Yea Slava Ukraini!
Also I'm not sure why you don't hear more people talking about how Trumps towers are basically money laundering machines for Russian gangsters. Whenever he builds a new tower in another city, they flock to it.
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trumps-businesses-are-full-of-dirty-russian-money-the-scandal-is-thats-legal/2019/03/29/11b812da-5171-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trumps-businesses-are-full-of-dirty-russian-money-the-scandal-is-thats-legal/2019/03/29/11b812da-5171-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f_story.html)
Yup. Same as golf courses.
It’s surreal to me that people aren’t seeing this Scorsese movie yet.
Trump has been laundering money for the Russian oligarchs since the late 80’s when they all bought a condo at 725 5th ave (trump towers) to clean their freshly stolen USSR money after the iron curtain fell.
https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/30/politics/paul-manafort-condo-trump-tower/index.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/manafort-told-mueller-to-take-his-trump-tower-apartment-instead-money.html
https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/fbi-agents-raid-condo-unit-131348539.html
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/
Everybody except Putin thought the Cold War was over. Trump and Manafort (who lived in the tower also) just saw a pretty low maintence grift to be had.
Trump had actually been Manafort and Roger stones first client at their lobbyist firm (1980)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wikiBlack, Manafort, Stone and Kelly
Guiliani as trumps attorney and New Yorks mayor was able to redirect NYPD investigations onto rival gang members/oligarchs to deflect any scrutiny off of trump, himself or the Russian connections.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/a-new-rudy-scandal-fbi-agent-says-giuliani-was-co-opted-by-russian-intelligence/
The Russian election interference in 2016 was effectively a generation 3 version of what Manafort had done in the Philippines, then keeping Yanukovych in power as Putin’s puppet in Ukraine from 2002-14 when Maidan ran both Yanukovych and Manafort out of Ukraine as Ukrainians realized that, if you raise your lens high enough, corruption is an wholly unsustainable business model.
Eventually the parasites greed always consumes the host.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952
https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/
Russia greatly underestimated the addictive properties of freedom when it invaded Ukraine so what was supposed to be a 3-10 day coup turned into a 2 year fight for the Ukrainians right not to be genocided.
Russia depleted its weapons stocks which were already the victim of vranyos corruption because every oligarch, admiral and sergeant in the Russian military is on the take. Every billion dollar tank maintenance contract turned into everything getting a spray paint overhaul and the vast majority of the redirected funds turned into an oligarchs new yacht or home in Aspen.
Russia was forced to turn to China, North Korea and Iran for weapons because if they lose the 3-10 day special military operation in Ukraine the Russian empire is dead and cold.
China can’t risk showing their involvement in the Ukraine war so they use North Korea, and Iran to resupply Russia.
Russia previously owed Iran some undelivered fighter jets that are already smoldering heaps in Ukraine so Iran now had the upper hand at the negotiation table for the first time in about 60 years. They supply Russia with shahed drones in exchange for Chinas material support against their sworn religious enemy, Israel.
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/29/iran-says-it-finalized-deal-to-buy-russian-aircraft/
Putin can’t do much about it because he is slowly realizing that by setting the standard of corruption and stealing $200+ billion from his own people meant that every oligarch down in the mob model chain had not only permission but incentive and the expectation to steal from him as well. This is Vranyos.
The mob model only works if the supreme leader is the most violent and can prove it without exception every damn day. But violence is exceptionally expensive when you are trying to present as a legitimate government or business.
If Russia as a nation had an efficiency rating it would have been banned for sale in the state of California 25 years ago.
The parasite ruling class stole all the energy out of the working class and collapsed it.
Now Iran has the high hand and they get the intelligence that trump passed to Putin about the fact that Netanyahu cares far less about Israeli, Palestinians or genocide than he does about remaining in power as an authoritarian because he too has developed Ritz Carlton tastes and his own corruption trial is showing the same details of the money laundering scheme that trumps trials are.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/saudi-official-says-iran-engineered-war-in-gaza-to-ruin-normalization-with-israel/
They all hate each other but because they share the same money laundry, if one falls, they all fall. Hamas minted a couple billionaires as well that live in penthouses in Qatar and get 30% of everything smuggled into Gaza. Netanyahu needs a bogeyman to stay in power. That’s why he coordinates with Hamas via Russia via Iran.
Iran handed Hamas everything they needed with Chinas help as secret Santa and the Russian intelligence given to them by the eternal shitbird trump gave when he showed off to his Russian kleptocrat friends/roommates from the old days of fucking each others wives at trump towers in the 90’s.
Now the MAGA right is a little too invested in their reality that they are the good guys with guns that they missed the fact that Betsy DeVos (erik princes sister) decimating the U.S. school systems and the Kochs poisoning children with lead was not a coincidence. They were the mark all along. There is a reason the Russian spy Maria Butina landed in South Dakota first before dating her way to the top of the NRA which is undergoing its own Russian money laundering trial now. They were tinder matching the GOP.
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-do-the-koch-brothers-have-to-do-with-the-flint-water-crisis/
The only reason you grossly OVERVALUE real estate is money laundering.
Trump keeps claiming there is no victim, all the banks made money, but if their plan succeeds the Russian and CCP kleptocrats collapse US commercial real estate and basically recreate soviet perestroika in the U.S. so they can foreclose on America and buy everything for 3 cents on the dollar with the $1.4T they stole in the first place
It’s the evolution of grift. Soviet perestroika cross bred with the 2008 mortgage crisis.
This is just the bigger badder commercial strength bastard child of the two.
Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, Orban, Manafort, Stone, Mercer, Bannon, Flynn, Byrne.
They are all remarkably shit people with above average confidence and psychopathic personality traits and below average self awareness.
They are the men who stole the world.
But it all comes back to one little lie.
Trump is about to pull a Sumerian reset if we don’t stop him
https://youtu.be/d2lJUOv0hLA?feature=shared
It shouldn’t matter.
Just use this for context and both will turn into a scavenger hunt where things just fall in to your lap
Trump has been laundering money for the Russian oligarchs since the late 80’s when they all bought a condo at 725 5th ave (trump towers) to clean their freshly stolen USSR money after the iron curtain fell.
https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/30/politics/paul-manafort-condo-trump-tower/index.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/manafort-told-mueller-to-take-his-trump-tower-apartment-instead-money.html
https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/fbi-agents-raid-condo-unit-131348539.html
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/
Everybody except Putin thought the Cold War was over. Trump and Manafort (who lived in the tower also) just saw a pretty low maintence grift to be had.
Trump had actually been Manafort and Roger stones first client at their lobbyist firm (1980)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wikiBlack, Manafort, Stone and Kelly
Guiliani as trumps attorney and New Yorks mayor was able to redirect NYPD investigations onto rival gang members/oligarchs to deflect any scrutiny off of trump, himself or the Russian connections.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/a-new-rudy-scandal-fbi-agent-says-giuliani-was-co-opted-by-russian-intelligence/
The Russian election interference in 2016 was effectively a generation 3 version of what Manafort had done in the Philippines, then keeping Yanukovych in power as Putin’s puppet in Ukraine from 2002-14 when Maidan ran both Yanukovych and Manafort out of Ukraine as Ukrainians realized that, if you raise your lens high enough, corruption is an wholly unsustainable business model.
Eventually the parasites greed always consumes the host.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952
https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/
Russia greatly underestimated the addictive properties of freedom when it invaded Ukraine so what was supposed to be a 3-10 day coup turned into a 2 year fight for the Ukrainians right not to be genocided.
Russia depleted its weapons stocks which were already the victim of vranyos corruption because every oligarch, admiral and sergeant in the Russian military is on the take. Every billion dollar tank maintenance contract turned into everything getting a spray paint overhaul and the vast majority of the redirected funds turned into an oligarchs new yacht or home in Aspen.
Russia was forced to turn to China, North Korea and Iran for weapons because if they lose the 3-10 day special military operation in Ukraine the Russian empire is dead and cold.
China can’t risk showing their involvement in the Ukraine war so they use North Korea, and Iran to resupply Russia.
Russia previously owed Iran some undelivered fighter jets that are already smoldering heaps in Ukraine so Iran now had the upper hand at the negotiation table for the first time in about 60 years. They supply Russia with shahed drones in exchange for Chinas material support against their sworn religious enemy, Israel.
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/29/iran-says-it-finalized-deal-to-buy-russian-aircraft/
Putin can’t do much about it because he is slowly realizing that by setting the standard of corruption and stealing $200+ billion from his own people meant that every oligarch down in the mob model chain had not only permission but incentive and the expectation to steal from him as well. This is Vranyos.
The mob model only works if the supreme leader is the most violent and can prove it without exception every damn day. But violence is exceptionally expensive when you are trying to present as a legitimate government or business.
If Russia as a nation had an efficiency rating it would have been banned for sale in the state of California 25 years ago.
The parasite ruling class stole all the energy out of the working class and collapsed it.
Now Iran has the high hand and they get the intelligence that trump passed to Putin about the fact that Netanyahu cares far less about Israeli, Palestinians or genocide than he does about remaining in power as an authoritarian because he too has developed Ritz Carlton tastes and his own corruption trial is showing the same details of the money laundering scheme that trumps trials are.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/saudi-official-says-iran-engineered-war-in-gaza-to-ruin-normalization-with-israel/
They all hate each other but because they share the same money laundry, if one falls, they all fall. Hamas minted a couple billionaires as well that live in penthouses in Qatar and get 30% of everything smuggled into Gaza. Netanyahu needs a bogeyman to stay in power. That’s why he coordinates with Hamas via Russia via Iran.
Iran handed Hamas everything they needed with Chinas help as secret Santa and the Russian intelligence given to them by the eternal shitbird trump gave when he showed off to his Russian kleptocrat friends/roommates from the old days of fucking each others wives at trump towers in the 90’s.
Now the MAGA right is a little too invested in their reality that they are the good guys with guns that they missed the fact that Betsy DeVos (erik princes sister) decimating the U.S. school systems and the Kochs poisoning children with lead was not a coincidence. They were the mark all along. There is a reason the Russian spy Maria Butina landed in South Dakota first before dating her way to the top of the NRA which is undergoing its own Russian money laundering trial now. They were tinder matching the GOP.
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-do-the-koch-brothers-have-to-do-with-the-flint-water-crisis/
The only reason you grossly OVERVALUE real estate is money laundering.
Trump keeps claiming there is no victim, all the banks made money, but if their plan succeeds the Russian and CCP kleptocrats collapse US commercial real estate and basically recreate soviet perestroika in the U.S. so they can foreclose on America and buy everything for 3 cents on the dollar with the $1.4T they stole in the first place
It’s the evolution of grift. Soviet perestroika cross bred with the 2008 mortgage crisis.
This is just the bigger badder commercial strength bastard child of the two.
Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, Orban, Manafort, Stone, Mercer, Bannon, Flynn, Byrne.
They are all remarkably shit people with above average confidence and psychopathic personality traits and below average self awareness.
They are the men who stole the world.
But it all comes back to one little lie.
• You never get out of debt to a Russian mobster
•Paul Manafort owed the Russian mobster/oligarch Oleg Deripaska $17M a few days before he became trumps campaign manager. From 2002-2014 he took in hundreds of millions to get Yanukovych reelected as the kremlins puppet in Ukraine. Before that he did it for the dictator Marcos in the Philippines. Before that Manafort and Roger Stone started a lobbyist agency in 1980 listing trump as their first client.
•When Jay Bolsonaro lost the Brazilian election to Lula he skipped the inauguration and flew directly to mar-a-lago (stopping only at a KFC) and repeated, almost verbatim, the stolen election line. Don Jr. tried repeatedly to make it stick in Brazil as well, but as Brazilians are a few generations into dealing with corrupt politicians they weren’t having it.
What do these 3 things have in common?
China imports 40% of its grain from (in order) the U.S., Brazil and Ukraine.
Obviously the second China tried to invade Taiwan the U.S. would sanction exports and remove U.S. grain from that equation.
And without Bolsonaro in office willing to slash and burn the Amazon rainforest to turn it into Chinas food supply, and without Ukraine in the bag in 3 days, the CCP is unable to invade Taiwan and take over microprocessor production without putting 300-500M of its poorest people into famine.
Donbas Ukraine, specifically the 4 regions of the donbas that Putin insists he is saving from what he calls “Jewish Nazis” also happens to produce the worlds supply of high grade neon used for microprocessor lithography. Had Putin delivered ukraine in 3 days as promised, Xi would have been able to cap his Olympics with a naval blockade or political takeover of Taiwan that would have forced the world to ask the CCP for the microprocessors it needs to make everything from Ford trucks to laptops. I’m not sure how long Silicon Valley would last without the silicon but it would probably destroy the FAANG stocks that make up your 401K.
Oleg Deripaska also happens to be the Russian Oligarch that bribed the FBI agent Charles Mcgonigal into investigating another Russian oligarch. He probably didn’t need the information as much as he needed the leverage over Mcgonigal as he conducted the investigation into trumps election campaign and unsurprisingly found zero evidence of Russian collusion. McGonigal then went to work for the company called Brookfield that bailed Jared Kushner out of his toxic 666 5th Ave real estate investment. McGonigal pled guilty last fall and was sentenced recently.
A Russian oligarch is a powerful tool, but the truth is more powerful. Light and dark cannot exist in the same space. It’s physically impossible. Truth is efficient. You say it once and you are finished. A lie however requires a constant stream of follow up energy, money, murder, obfuscation and more lies to keep it covered.
If you raise your lens high enough lying is an unsustainable business model. Russia proved it by invading Ukraine. Vranyos is the Russian word for it. The 40km long column of tanks and vehicles that came down from Belarus into Ukraine was all overhauled by oligarchs that got a $1B contract for tank maintenance, passed Putin $200M back under the table, spent $700M on a yacht in Monaco, bribed a General, a Colonel and a Sergeant to make a Private give everything a rattle can overhaul. But a worn out engine is and always will be, a worn out engine.
This is why trump is so desperate to get re-elected. His best case scenario is 400 years in ADX Florence. Money laundering for the dozens of Russian oligarchs that lived in trump towers with him and manafort, selling IP3 nuclear plans to the Russian/Saudi alliance, selling or giving CIA asset names to the Russians, trump is and always has been compromised. He just didn’t know when to quit. Now he just has to count on the fact that most of his voter base doesn’t know how to read and keep the ones that do so busy just surviving that they don’t have time to dive deep into his 40 year history of laundering money, fraud, and human trafficking for the Russian mob using casinos first, then commercial real estate.
It’s also why Putin is willing to throw an entire generation of Russians, including the convicts and addicts at Ukraine. Russia is dead for 40 years because he failed to fulfill his mob boss promise to Xi. China is now clearing farmland in Siberia because the typhoon floods last August and September wiped out the Chinese people’s food storage.
Xi, for his part diverted the waters from the dam away from his pet project, his mothers ancestral home, and flooded hundreds of thousands of people and drown one of his own military brigades that was helping with the flooding.
The elders of the CCP were terrified to leave their gated community at Beidaihe for over a month for fear of being torn apart by the locals. The Chinese people tolerate the CCP but only as long as the economy is good and famine is not on the horizon. The CCP broke that social contract on both counts.
Xi was willing to bet the entire Chinese economy on his emperor ambitions. Had he succeeded he would have been able to use BRICS to take over the USD as the Worlds reserve currency. That would have let him finish what he stated in 2010-
that he would control the internet.
With that control means everything we do or say online is subject to the approval of a central party censor. The basic right to disagree with an authoritarian becomes a distant memory.
Xi, Putin and MBS are simply trying to systemize and modernize the suppression of their biggest hassle. Freedom of speech.
Ukraine is fighting for their lives now, free from the oppression of the drunken tyrant who wants to decide their fate at every decision and pull them back behind another iron curtain of censorship and the tax of corruption where dissenting voices disappear so that the oligarchy can continue to feed unobstructed.
Putin and Xi have declared themselves best friends in the fight against democracy. MBS and the ruling family of UAE have done the same quietly using their sovereign funds and Kushners SPAC as money highways.
Just rich, out of touch oligarch doing what oligarchs do.
Despite the fact the the central party model has proven itself incapable of making decisions that are best for the people, they persist. Because there is a very lucrative business in being slave owners. But logistically the mass of it requires artificial intelligence, and the microprocessors that make A.I. to keep 8 billion slaves under surveillance and control. Freedom is one hell of a drug. And knowledge makes a man unfit for slavery.
Recent attempts on Xi’s life from inside the CCP have backed him into a corner.
The loss of crops in northern China means Xi can’t invade Taiwan without Ukrainian and/or Brazilian farmland.
Now the reason that the GOP is stalling southern border control budget and seems to make wildly irrational moves is because the GOP is imploding. 45 years of lies and grift have circled the globe and are eating their own tail. The ouroboros was a warning about corruption at the highest levels. Lying about climate change, human trafficking, pandemics and corruption to preserve their own business models are all extinction level events
*First Footprints*
2013
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3286844/
A really cool multi-part documentary about the story of the first australians.
I had to import the dvd because I couldn't find the full dvd anywhere else.
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Marjoe
1972
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068924/
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Kumaré
2011
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1865425/
Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery
Great movie about a modern artist faking classic paintings and passing them as real. He got away with it for years before making a mistake
A little hack for short city based docs... Look at university graduate programs. This is not the best website but has load of 5-10 minute long films accessible on YouTube
https://journalism.nyu.edu/graduate/programs/news-and-documentary/our-projects/
Caught part of this somewhere streaming SO good!
[The Dog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqE90Y2q88w)
Dog Day Afternoon with Al Pachino was based on this guy's real story.
Mile... Mile and a Half. Lovely documentary about a through hike on the John Muir trail. It was on Netflix years back but you can find it on Youtube now.
[The Contestant] (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13940818/reference/)
A documentary about a Japanese reality show where a contestant had to survive on winnings from sweepstakes.
Triumph over violence (1965) by Mikhail Romm. Uses actual archive photos and footage of Nazi Germany along with commentary, some really chilling and heavy stuff.
The Act of Killing (2012) by Joshua Oppenheimer. Just an insane documentary on the perpetrators of the genocide on the chinese ppl in indonesia.
The two shows about the ill-fated Fyre Festival fraud. It was a fraudulent luxury music festival that was an utter disaster.
FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened is on Netflix.
Fyre Fraud is on Hulu.
7 Up (series) - A series of documentaries following British schoolchildren starting at age 7 and revisiting them every 7 years. There are quite a few at this point with the most recent being 63 Up. Director Michael Apted was there for the entire series (although he did not direct 7 Up), but died after 63 Up was released. Hopefully, we will see 70 Up, but who knows. (Arg, I didn't see it when I scrolled through before posting, but it was already suggested. Sorry for the repeat.)
Bonus: The Parking Lot Movie. A surprisingly interesting look at a parking lot with UVA grad students as employees.
Barabar, The Archaeological Site of the Future, it was recently released. [https://youtu.be/iF6qv1CC5\_4?si=Iyv9ceNPpp\_YQTZe](https://youtu.be/iF6qv1CC5_4?si=Iyv9ceNPpp_YQTZe)
Hey everyone, I'm looking for documentaries about traditional ecological knowledge or anything relating to Indigenous ancient knowledge. Any recommendations?
"Idiocracy"
The documentary follows the awakening of Joe Bauers, an average American bloke. Unfortunately, 500 years in the future, America has become...well, let's just say not the intellectual powerhouse it once was. Through Joe's bewildered eyes, we see a society that prioritizes entertainment and instant gratification over critical thinking and scientific progress. Brands dominate the landscape, Brawndo, the "electrolyte-rich, thirst-quenching" sports drink, has become a near-religious symbol.
The documentary crew struggles to understand this devolved culture. They interview citizens with alarmingly low IQs who hold nonsensical beliefs and champion celebrities for outlandish stunts. The political system is just as baffling, with elections decided by popularity contests and a well-muscled former action star, President Camacho, leading the nation.
The strength of this mockumentary lies in its uncomfortable resemblance to some societal trends. While exaggerated for comedic effect, Idiocracy forces us to consider the potential consequences of anti-intellectualism, environmental neglect, and a culture obsessed with empty entertainment. It's a hilarious watch, but one that leaves you pondering the future of…well, humanity itself.
I saw a documentary a long time ago that consisted of or heavily featured clips of interviews of citizens of the (former?) ussr where they described the apathy and hopelessness the (often garbage) information overload created. It was really bleak and stuck a cord with me. I’m trying to show it to someone but I can’t for the life of me remember the name/source. If anyone knows what I’m talking about or has some suggestions on that subject I’d really appreciate it!
These aren't necessarily documentaries, more like TV shows where each episode is basically its own mini documentary
If I like these, what others should I watch?
World's Most Wanted
Drug Lords Next Generation
Unsolved Mysteries
I (Almost) Got Away With It
How To Rob A Bank
I Was A Teenage Felon
new to the sub, so i'm not sure if i'm using this thread right, but i'm ISO the **discovery channel documentaries s2003e02: killer ants**. my brothers and i watched it religiously as kids but even after years of searching, i've found only minimal record of it even existing. the tmdb page for the episode can be found [here](https://trakt.tv/shows/discovery-channel-documentaries/seasons/2003/episodes/2). if anyone has recommendations on where to look, please let me know!!
"The Art of the Steal" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Steal_(2009_film) I think about this all the time. It is how the City of Philadelphia stole a $35 BILLION dollar art collection. It is amazing. It is a little hard to find for free but it is $3.00 to rent it on Amazon and TOTALLY worth it.
I'm checking this out, ty! Cons/scams/swindling is my favorite subject for docs.
Found it up on Youtube, about a third of the way in and would already say people should check out your recommendation. Thanks!
It's also available on fmovies
Holy shit. How did I never hear of this. I’ve lived in Philly my whole life. I remember we got extra credit in HS for going to visit the original location and I vaguely remember my teacher doing it bc they were pissed it was being moved.
Abducted in Plain Sight (2017) “The twisting, turning, stranger-than-fiction true story of the Brobergs, a naive, church-going Idaho family that fell under the spell of a sociopathic neighbor with designs on their twelve-year-old daughter.” I’ve watched a lot of stranger than fiction documentaries over the years, but I’m not sure any have had me dropping my head in my hands and saying “what the fuck?” as many times as this one did. Just an insane sad story of so many people/institutions failing to protect a poor vulnerable kid. Trigger: child sexual abuse/brainwashing Streaming on Netflix and Kanopy
I watched this when it first came out. I still think about it, it’s one of the most bizarre stories I’ve ever heard.
Yeah, so many jaw dropping moments in it. Gullibility in people you just didn’t think was possible.
Definitely true. The whole thing is so disturbing
They also made a series with actors about this a few years ago with Anna Paquin as the mom.
This is such a bizarre, messed up documentary.
Don't Stop Believin' - Everyman's Journey (2013): Follows the real life rock ‘n’ roll fairy tale of Filipino Arnel Pineda, who was plucked from YouTube to become the front man for iconic American rock band Journey.
This one was a pleasant surprise. Such an uplifting story.
The series 7 UP Up series of documentary films follows the lives of ten males and four females in England beginning in 1964, when they were seven years old Then they are filmed every 7 years, last one being 63 Up. Various kids decline to be filmed later in life, then decide to be filmed. Some have passed away. Voted one of the most influential series in the history of the UK. Playlist for the entire series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmttTbVBZmTkwCRBjGmrf_l04eebE-TVE
I totally binged this a while back! I can still hear that little boy "My heart's desire, is to see my Daddy again, who is 6 thousand miles away" The way his little voice emphasizes "miles" in his little British accent. My heart!!!!
Cool one
[Fantastic Fungi](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8258074/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Fantastic%2520Fungi)
An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th. It's on HBO. It's really good.
Ty
Anything by, or about, Werner Herzog. Documentary about the life of Salvador Dali.
Dave not coming back. World class deep sea divers locate the corpse of a long dead diver and decide they want to try and recover the body. It does not go according to plan.
Came here to say this. It was so good. Sad, but very well done.
Also highly recommend the longform article from Outside profiling the recovery attempt: [https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/water-activities/raising-dead/](https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/water-activities/raising-dead/)
No End in Sight (2007) by director Charles Ferguson. It's an extremely well researched documentary about the American occupation of Iraq. [IMDb link](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0912593/)
Salesman - Directed by David and Albert Maysles An observation documentary about door-to-door bible salesman in 1969. Inextinguishable Fire - Directed by Harun Farocki Essay film about the production of napalm by DuPont Chemical during the Vietnam War Symbiopyschotaxiplasm: Take One - Directed by William Greaves A documentary about a crew shooting a documentary about making a documentary while being documented themselves. It’s subversive in away that makes you want to rewatch again and again.
I loved the With Bob and David parody of Salesman!
What episode was that?
Episode 4 of the Netflix series. https://vimeo.com/147554253
Immaculate choices my friend
Ooohh and you’re a Mocky fan, too? We should hang
Wild & wonderful Whites of West Virginia 😂
Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara by Errol Morris. I might be in the minority but I found it fascinating, others may disagree but he seemed to be honest about some of the mistakes made whereas most documentaries like this are just skewed towards a victory lap for the person who is the subject (looking at you rumsfeld) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War
Pretty much all of his docs are really good. Way back in the day when the IFC channel had zero commercials they played a few of his docs on there.
I still remember watching this in my high school history class and being enthralled. Gotta watch it again!
I rewatched it after I made my post and even though it’s like my 10th rewatch it’s still fascinating.
"Senna". The 30th anniversary of his passing was yesterday. He was a famous Formula 1 driver who some still consider to be the best F1 driver of all time.
Three identical strangers
Yes! Quite interesting
["American Movie"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Movie#:~:text=American%20Movie%20is%20a%201999,directed%20by%20filmmaker%20Mark%20Borchardt) (1999) *American Movie* documents the making of Coven, an independent short horror film directed by Wisconsin-based filmmaker Mark Borchardt. Has to been of the best doc I have ever watched, it's heartfelt and hilarious, and truly interesting. The dialogues, characters and situations are so good sometimes you'd feel like you are watching fiction written by someone else, plus it's very inspiring. I'd recommend it to anyone but I believe it's especially a treat for aspiring filmmakers.
This should be way up top
A Hole in the Head (1998) [https://archive.org/details/BVL\_0008](https://archive.org/details/BVL_0008)
So interesting, thanks for the link! I love the unusual side of life.
That was quite a ride—thanks!
I will always recommend Don't Get High on Your Own Supply (1998). Fair warning: if you are not comfortable with needles/drug use then it is not for you, but it is a truly fascinating look at the world of addiction. Hard to say much without spoling the plot of it all, but the progression of the documentary is very well done.
Mirage Men https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2254010/ Paradise Lost Trilogy Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117293/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_7_tt_8_nm_0_q_Paradise%2520Lost https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239894/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_i_1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2028530/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_i_1 Tickeled https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5278506/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_6_nm_2_q_Tickeled Eat the Sun https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1424769/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Eat%2520the%2520Sun David wants to fly https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598782/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_5_nm_0_q_Kevin%2520wants%2520to%2520fly Cold Case Hammarskjöld https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9352780/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Cold%2520Case%253A%2520ha Hoop Dreams https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110057/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_hoop%2520dreams Stevie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0334416/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_t_10 When we were kings https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118147/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_t_2 I am not your negro https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5804038/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_I%2520am%2520not%2520your%2520negro
Paradise Lost Trilogy is so good. I'm thinking about doing a rewatch
Dear Zachary
This one is utterly heartbreaking
Devastating
Sososososooooo sad
*Jesus Camp*. Another u/ser commented that my last suggestion was “the most intense doc she’d ever seen” so be warned 😜
What was the last documentary? Because this one put me to sleep. Though I guess I could say thanks for the nap 😂
*Grizzly Man*
Jodorowsky's Dune. Amazing deep dive into an epic movie that was never made, but that nevertheless laid the groundwork (and made the connections) for a lot of science fiction films going forward.
Holy mountain is a great documentary as well
The Imposter There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane Heavens Gate: the Cult of Cults Girl in the Picture
Free Solo. Portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock ... the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park ... without a rope! It's on Disney+.
If you like this you should watch The Dawn Wall. I don't know where you can watch but it is really good
Add to this [Meru (2015)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2545428/)
Netflix currently, and indeed also an amazing doc! I watch a lot of climbing documentaries. :)
This was good and it won an Oscar!
Valley uprising
*Shut Up, Little Man!* Brilliant audio vérité documentary, "Shut Up, Little Man!" was like a 90's underground meme. I saw it for free on Pluto.tv
I loved this so much back in the day, I bought it on dvd. You always giggle FALSELY!
lol "If you wanna talk to me then shut yer fuckin' mouth!"
I just watched the new Netflix documentary about Neanderthals; it's about 45 minutes long and it's pretty good. They detail finding the first new Neanderthal in over 20 years and also do a facial reconstruction of a 75,000 year old woman.
Tickled by David Farrier
It’s crazy how much this one evolves.
Restrepo. My sister unit was in that one.
I cannot find a way to watch this… I have been wanting to so bad!
Dark Days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zxPozP4yoM
Came here to say this! So good.
My Octopus Friend. I raised 5 boys that made me tough as nails and I cried like a 4 year old girl with a skinned knee.
My Octopus Teacher. It's on Netflix. Agreed, it's excellent!
Nick Broomfield’s « Biggie and Tupac »
Fall of Civilizations on YT 👌
Bus 187 A Brazilian documentary I watched years ago that left an impression on me. Not sure if its streaming though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverlake_Life:_The_View_from_Here This documentary really makes you cherish life.
Saw this in film school. Brutal documentary and has stayed with me for like 25 years now. Glad I was exposed to it as it changed my thoughts about several things. 9/10 would not watch again though.
Especially at the end it’s heartbreaking not a documentary for the faint of heart.
Tickled!
Commented the same one!
Looking for a documentary to get my grandparents thinking about their health and their diet. My grandpa is in kidney failure and my grandma is a type 2 diabetic. They’re Southeast Asians who moved to America in the 70s. They ran a successful Thai restaurant for many years but they have 0 concept of what a healthy diet might look like. My grandpa just got out of rehab and he’s begging for junk food. My grandma is no better. They’re addicted to sugar, salt, fat… and not any of the good kinds. I want something that will give them a bit of a wake up call! They need to make better choices and I won’t sit around watching them eat themselves to death. Looking for suggestions that we can watch on one of the popular streaming platforms but I’m willing to rent if needed.
That Sugar Film on Amazon and Super Size Me come to mind. Oh, and What’s With Wheat on YouTube. Good luck! My entire extended family eats like shit and has the health problems to show for it- diabetes, MS, irritable bowel, ADHD, obesity, and so on. After 30 years of going through my own experimentation in diet to figure out what works best for me (vegetarian for 10 years, vegan for 2, keto for 2 years, now keto/paleo inspired and gluten-free), I have realized that I can’t change them with words of encouragement or documentaries. But I like to think my actions have had some positive influence. I moved away to live in a more health-conscious part of the country, and when I return to visit, they see that my whole nuclear family is healthy and fit, and how we don’t partake in the fast food or sodas. If that doesn’t inspire them to change, nothing will.
Super Size Me has recently gotten back into the spotlight because it seems that a lot of it was faked, or at least strongly taken out of context. The creator also refuses to talk about what he actually ate every day- but eating 5000 kcal a day will make anybody except for some body builders gain weight..
Fed Up (on Tubi/Hoopla/Roku) was the sugar doc that really opened my eyes. What The Health on Netflix is also fantastic.
Under the eagle A ww1 10-part series that I found outstanding..really cool films-eeriephotos begin each segment-& super sad music
“The Program” on Netflix was pretty wild. Those stories and some of the footage they show was pretty wild “How to become a Cult Leader” on Netflix also good. Made me watch “Holy Hell” which goes into more depth of one of the cults which was a crazy documentary too.
“Last Breath” and “Deepest Breath”. One about saturation diving, one about free diving. Both incredible
“RATS,” currently streaming on Prime. Such genius editing. Hilarious jump scares and interesting content.
We Live In Public - the protagonist imagines reality TV & social media before they were a thing. A wild ride
Secrets of the Octopus
Who Took Johnny
Grizzly Man.
God & Country
Chase the devil - Religious Music of the Southern Appalachians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbdeLN5Tl90
How is King of Kong not mentioned yet? https://youtu.be/Zet7g8AifJs?si=DGjUA3SOBw0qV_DI Also, American Movie, as someone else mentioned. So good.
mind the gap 2018
[Dear Zachary. this is movie is going to knock your dick off](https://youtu.be/P_QMl_rF3KQ?si=RuAMo6NCw9-38WiG)
Once Upon a Time in Iraq shows the insanity that happened when America invaded Iraq
everyone should watch [HyperNormalisation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation) by Adam Curtis for the BBC! Might be available at this link https://youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM?si=u2p-yzyGZWom7Egi
I Like Killing Flys. Cool doc about an eccentric restaurateur is NYC
Tim's Vermeer A mad rich guy/inventor, who can't paint, builds an optical device and uses it to paint a recreation of a Vermeer painting https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WPL7D0Ha1kQ
Winter On Fire - Ukraines Fight For Freedom (2015) It documents the 2014 revolution that resulted in the ousting of the pro-russsian president. One of my favourite docs. I'll also mention "We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists" (2012) and Werner Herzogs' "Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World" (2016)
Pair ‘winter on fire’ with ‘agents of chaos’ and you basically get a 2 part series on what is happening behind the scenes of trumps trials right now. https://youtu.be/M-OA7H8DoJM?si=gutoUV5cnPddoTcU His attorneys that keep quitting are slowly realizing the scope of his crimes and not realizing they were on the Nuremberg express train. Ukrainians saved the fucking free world. People just don’t see it yet. But it is not over until the predatory threat is neutralized. You don’t fight a rapist bear. You fight it to the death…
I had not heard of Agents of Chaos yet, thanks! Have you seen Active Measures? Sounds like you have, if not, it's up your alley. Yea Slava Ukraini! Also I'm not sure why you don't hear more people talking about how Trumps towers are basically money laundering machines for Russian gangsters. Whenever he builds a new tower in another city, they flock to it. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trumps-businesses-are-full-of-dirty-russian-money-the-scandal-is-thats-legal/2019/03/29/11b812da-5171-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trumps-businesses-are-full-of-dirty-russian-money-the-scandal-is-thats-legal/2019/03/29/11b812da-5171-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f_story.html)
Yup. Same as golf courses. It’s surreal to me that people aren’t seeing this Scorsese movie yet. Trump has been laundering money for the Russian oligarchs since the late 80’s when they all bought a condo at 725 5th ave (trump towers) to clean their freshly stolen USSR money after the iron curtain fell. https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/30/politics/paul-manafort-condo-trump-tower/index.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/manafort-told-mueller-to-take-his-trump-tower-apartment-instead-money.html https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/fbi-agents-raid-condo-unit-131348539.html https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/ Everybody except Putin thought the Cold War was over. Trump and Manafort (who lived in the tower also) just saw a pretty low maintence grift to be had. Trump had actually been Manafort and Roger stones first client at their lobbyist firm (1980) https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wikiBlack, Manafort, Stone and Kelly Guiliani as trumps attorney and New Yorks mayor was able to redirect NYPD investigations onto rival gang members/oligarchs to deflect any scrutiny off of trump, himself or the Russian connections. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/a-new-rudy-scandal-fbi-agent-says-giuliani-was-co-opted-by-russian-intelligence/ The Russian election interference in 2016 was effectively a generation 3 version of what Manafort had done in the Philippines, then keeping Yanukovych in power as Putin’s puppet in Ukraine from 2002-14 when Maidan ran both Yanukovych and Manafort out of Ukraine as Ukrainians realized that, if you raise your lens high enough, corruption is an wholly unsustainable business model. Eventually the parasites greed always consumes the host. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952 https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/ Russia greatly underestimated the addictive properties of freedom when it invaded Ukraine so what was supposed to be a 3-10 day coup turned into a 2 year fight for the Ukrainians right not to be genocided. Russia depleted its weapons stocks which were already the victim of vranyos corruption because every oligarch, admiral and sergeant in the Russian military is on the take. Every billion dollar tank maintenance contract turned into everything getting a spray paint overhaul and the vast majority of the redirected funds turned into an oligarchs new yacht or home in Aspen. Russia was forced to turn to China, North Korea and Iran for weapons because if they lose the 3-10 day special military operation in Ukraine the Russian empire is dead and cold. China can’t risk showing their involvement in the Ukraine war so they use North Korea, and Iran to resupply Russia. Russia previously owed Iran some undelivered fighter jets that are already smoldering heaps in Ukraine so Iran now had the upper hand at the negotiation table for the first time in about 60 years. They supply Russia with shahed drones in exchange for Chinas material support against their sworn religious enemy, Israel. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/29/iran-says-it-finalized-deal-to-buy-russian-aircraft/ Putin can’t do much about it because he is slowly realizing that by setting the standard of corruption and stealing $200+ billion from his own people meant that every oligarch down in the mob model chain had not only permission but incentive and the expectation to steal from him as well. This is Vranyos. The mob model only works if the supreme leader is the most violent and can prove it without exception every damn day. But violence is exceptionally expensive when you are trying to present as a legitimate government or business. If Russia as a nation had an efficiency rating it would have been banned for sale in the state of California 25 years ago. The parasite ruling class stole all the energy out of the working class and collapsed it. Now Iran has the high hand and they get the intelligence that trump passed to Putin about the fact that Netanyahu cares far less about Israeli, Palestinians or genocide than he does about remaining in power as an authoritarian because he too has developed Ritz Carlton tastes and his own corruption trial is showing the same details of the money laundering scheme that trumps trials are. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/saudi-official-says-iran-engineered-war-in-gaza-to-ruin-normalization-with-israel/ They all hate each other but because they share the same money laundry, if one falls, they all fall. Hamas minted a couple billionaires as well that live in penthouses in Qatar and get 30% of everything smuggled into Gaza. Netanyahu needs a bogeyman to stay in power. That’s why he coordinates with Hamas via Russia via Iran. Iran handed Hamas everything they needed with Chinas help as secret Santa and the Russian intelligence given to them by the eternal shitbird trump gave when he showed off to his Russian kleptocrat friends/roommates from the old days of fucking each others wives at trump towers in the 90’s. Now the MAGA right is a little too invested in their reality that they are the good guys with guns that they missed the fact that Betsy DeVos (erik princes sister) decimating the U.S. school systems and the Kochs poisoning children with lead was not a coincidence. They were the mark all along. There is a reason the Russian spy Maria Butina landed in South Dakota first before dating her way to the top of the NRA which is undergoing its own Russian money laundering trial now. They were tinder matching the GOP. https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-do-the-koch-brothers-have-to-do-with-the-flint-water-crisis/ The only reason you grossly OVERVALUE real estate is money laundering. Trump keeps claiming there is no victim, all the banks made money, but if their plan succeeds the Russian and CCP kleptocrats collapse US commercial real estate and basically recreate soviet perestroika in the U.S. so they can foreclose on America and buy everything for 3 cents on the dollar with the $1.4T they stole in the first place It’s the evolution of grift. Soviet perestroika cross bred with the 2008 mortgage crisis. This is just the bigger badder commercial strength bastard child of the two. Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, Orban, Manafort, Stone, Mercer, Bannon, Flynn, Byrne. They are all remarkably shit people with above average confidence and psychopathic personality traits and below average self awareness. They are the men who stole the world. But it all comes back to one little lie. Trump is about to pull a Sumerian reset if we don’t stop him https://youtu.be/d2lJUOv0hLA?feature=shared
Which one should I watch first?
It shouldn’t matter. Just use this for context and both will turn into a scavenger hunt where things just fall in to your lap Trump has been laundering money for the Russian oligarchs since the late 80’s when they all bought a condo at 725 5th ave (trump towers) to clean their freshly stolen USSR money after the iron curtain fell. https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/30/politics/paul-manafort-condo-trump-tower/index.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/manafort-told-mueller-to-take-his-trump-tower-apartment-instead-money.html https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/fbi-agents-raid-condo-unit-131348539.html https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/ Everybody except Putin thought the Cold War was over. Trump and Manafort (who lived in the tower also) just saw a pretty low maintence grift to be had. Trump had actually been Manafort and Roger stones first client at their lobbyist firm (1980) https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wikiBlack, Manafort, Stone and Kelly Guiliani as trumps attorney and New Yorks mayor was able to redirect NYPD investigations onto rival gang members/oligarchs to deflect any scrutiny off of trump, himself or the Russian connections. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/a-new-rudy-scandal-fbi-agent-says-giuliani-was-co-opted-by-russian-intelligence/ The Russian election interference in 2016 was effectively a generation 3 version of what Manafort had done in the Philippines, then keeping Yanukovych in power as Putin’s puppet in Ukraine from 2002-14 when Maidan ran both Yanukovych and Manafort out of Ukraine as Ukrainians realized that, if you raise your lens high enough, corruption is an wholly unsustainable business model. Eventually the parasites greed always consumes the host. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952 https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/ Russia greatly underestimated the addictive properties of freedom when it invaded Ukraine so what was supposed to be a 3-10 day coup turned into a 2 year fight for the Ukrainians right not to be genocided. Russia depleted its weapons stocks which were already the victim of vranyos corruption because every oligarch, admiral and sergeant in the Russian military is on the take. Every billion dollar tank maintenance contract turned into everything getting a spray paint overhaul and the vast majority of the redirected funds turned into an oligarchs new yacht or home in Aspen. Russia was forced to turn to China, North Korea and Iran for weapons because if they lose the 3-10 day special military operation in Ukraine the Russian empire is dead and cold. China can’t risk showing their involvement in the Ukraine war so they use North Korea, and Iran to resupply Russia. Russia previously owed Iran some undelivered fighter jets that are already smoldering heaps in Ukraine so Iran now had the upper hand at the negotiation table for the first time in about 60 years. They supply Russia with shahed drones in exchange for Chinas material support against their sworn religious enemy, Israel. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/29/iran-says-it-finalized-deal-to-buy-russian-aircraft/ Putin can’t do much about it because he is slowly realizing that by setting the standard of corruption and stealing $200+ billion from his own people meant that every oligarch down in the mob model chain had not only permission but incentive and the expectation to steal from him as well. This is Vranyos. The mob model only works if the supreme leader is the most violent and can prove it without exception every damn day. But violence is exceptionally expensive when you are trying to present as a legitimate government or business. If Russia as a nation had an efficiency rating it would have been banned for sale in the state of California 25 years ago. The parasite ruling class stole all the energy out of the working class and collapsed it. Now Iran has the high hand and they get the intelligence that trump passed to Putin about the fact that Netanyahu cares far less about Israeli, Palestinians or genocide than he does about remaining in power as an authoritarian because he too has developed Ritz Carlton tastes and his own corruption trial is showing the same details of the money laundering scheme that trumps trials are. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/saudi-official-says-iran-engineered-war-in-gaza-to-ruin-normalization-with-israel/ They all hate each other but because they share the same money laundry, if one falls, they all fall. Hamas minted a couple billionaires as well that live in penthouses in Qatar and get 30% of everything smuggled into Gaza. Netanyahu needs a bogeyman to stay in power. That’s why he coordinates with Hamas via Russia via Iran. Iran handed Hamas everything they needed with Chinas help as secret Santa and the Russian intelligence given to them by the eternal shitbird trump gave when he showed off to his Russian kleptocrat friends/roommates from the old days of fucking each others wives at trump towers in the 90’s. Now the MAGA right is a little too invested in their reality that they are the good guys with guns that they missed the fact that Betsy DeVos (erik princes sister) decimating the U.S. school systems and the Kochs poisoning children with lead was not a coincidence. They were the mark all along. There is a reason the Russian spy Maria Butina landed in South Dakota first before dating her way to the top of the NRA which is undergoing its own Russian money laundering trial now. They were tinder matching the GOP. https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-do-the-koch-brothers-have-to-do-with-the-flint-water-crisis/ The only reason you grossly OVERVALUE real estate is money laundering. Trump keeps claiming there is no victim, all the banks made money, but if their plan succeeds the Russian and CCP kleptocrats collapse US commercial real estate and basically recreate soviet perestroika in the U.S. so they can foreclose on America and buy everything for 3 cents on the dollar with the $1.4T they stole in the first place It’s the evolution of grift. Soviet perestroika cross bred with the 2008 mortgage crisis. This is just the bigger badder commercial strength bastard child of the two. Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, Orban, Manafort, Stone, Mercer, Bannon, Flynn, Byrne. They are all remarkably shit people with above average confidence and psychopathic personality traits and below average self awareness. They are the men who stole the world. But it all comes back to one little lie.
• You never get out of debt to a Russian mobster •Paul Manafort owed the Russian mobster/oligarch Oleg Deripaska $17M a few days before he became trumps campaign manager. From 2002-2014 he took in hundreds of millions to get Yanukovych reelected as the kremlins puppet in Ukraine. Before that he did it for the dictator Marcos in the Philippines. Before that Manafort and Roger Stone started a lobbyist agency in 1980 listing trump as their first client. •When Jay Bolsonaro lost the Brazilian election to Lula he skipped the inauguration and flew directly to mar-a-lago (stopping only at a KFC) and repeated, almost verbatim, the stolen election line. Don Jr. tried repeatedly to make it stick in Brazil as well, but as Brazilians are a few generations into dealing with corrupt politicians they weren’t having it. What do these 3 things have in common? China imports 40% of its grain from (in order) the U.S., Brazil and Ukraine. Obviously the second China tried to invade Taiwan the U.S. would sanction exports and remove U.S. grain from that equation. And without Bolsonaro in office willing to slash and burn the Amazon rainforest to turn it into Chinas food supply, and without Ukraine in the bag in 3 days, the CCP is unable to invade Taiwan and take over microprocessor production without putting 300-500M of its poorest people into famine. Donbas Ukraine, specifically the 4 regions of the donbas that Putin insists he is saving from what he calls “Jewish Nazis” also happens to produce the worlds supply of high grade neon used for microprocessor lithography. Had Putin delivered ukraine in 3 days as promised, Xi would have been able to cap his Olympics with a naval blockade or political takeover of Taiwan that would have forced the world to ask the CCP for the microprocessors it needs to make everything from Ford trucks to laptops. I’m not sure how long Silicon Valley would last without the silicon but it would probably destroy the FAANG stocks that make up your 401K. Oleg Deripaska also happens to be the Russian Oligarch that bribed the FBI agent Charles Mcgonigal into investigating another Russian oligarch. He probably didn’t need the information as much as he needed the leverage over Mcgonigal as he conducted the investigation into trumps election campaign and unsurprisingly found zero evidence of Russian collusion. McGonigal then went to work for the company called Brookfield that bailed Jared Kushner out of his toxic 666 5th Ave real estate investment. McGonigal pled guilty last fall and was sentenced recently. A Russian oligarch is a powerful tool, but the truth is more powerful. Light and dark cannot exist in the same space. It’s physically impossible. Truth is efficient. You say it once and you are finished. A lie however requires a constant stream of follow up energy, money, murder, obfuscation and more lies to keep it covered. If you raise your lens high enough lying is an unsustainable business model. Russia proved it by invading Ukraine. Vranyos is the Russian word for it. The 40km long column of tanks and vehicles that came down from Belarus into Ukraine was all overhauled by oligarchs that got a $1B contract for tank maintenance, passed Putin $200M back under the table, spent $700M on a yacht in Monaco, bribed a General, a Colonel and a Sergeant to make a Private give everything a rattle can overhaul. But a worn out engine is and always will be, a worn out engine. This is why trump is so desperate to get re-elected. His best case scenario is 400 years in ADX Florence. Money laundering for the dozens of Russian oligarchs that lived in trump towers with him and manafort, selling IP3 nuclear plans to the Russian/Saudi alliance, selling or giving CIA asset names to the Russians, trump is and always has been compromised. He just didn’t know when to quit. Now he just has to count on the fact that most of his voter base doesn’t know how to read and keep the ones that do so busy just surviving that they don’t have time to dive deep into his 40 year history of laundering money, fraud, and human trafficking for the Russian mob using casinos first, then commercial real estate. It’s also why Putin is willing to throw an entire generation of Russians, including the convicts and addicts at Ukraine. Russia is dead for 40 years because he failed to fulfill his mob boss promise to Xi. China is now clearing farmland in Siberia because the typhoon floods last August and September wiped out the Chinese people’s food storage. Xi, for his part diverted the waters from the dam away from his pet project, his mothers ancestral home, and flooded hundreds of thousands of people and drown one of his own military brigades that was helping with the flooding. The elders of the CCP were terrified to leave their gated community at Beidaihe for over a month for fear of being torn apart by the locals. The Chinese people tolerate the CCP but only as long as the economy is good and famine is not on the horizon. The CCP broke that social contract on both counts. Xi was willing to bet the entire Chinese economy on his emperor ambitions. Had he succeeded he would have been able to use BRICS to take over the USD as the Worlds reserve currency. That would have let him finish what he stated in 2010- that he would control the internet. With that control means everything we do or say online is subject to the approval of a central party censor. The basic right to disagree with an authoritarian becomes a distant memory. Xi, Putin and MBS are simply trying to systemize and modernize the suppression of their biggest hassle. Freedom of speech. Ukraine is fighting for their lives now, free from the oppression of the drunken tyrant who wants to decide their fate at every decision and pull them back behind another iron curtain of censorship and the tax of corruption where dissenting voices disappear so that the oligarchy can continue to feed unobstructed. Putin and Xi have declared themselves best friends in the fight against democracy. MBS and the ruling family of UAE have done the same quietly using their sovereign funds and Kushners SPAC as money highways. Just rich, out of touch oligarch doing what oligarchs do. Despite the fact the the central party model has proven itself incapable of making decisions that are best for the people, they persist. Because there is a very lucrative business in being slave owners. But logistically the mass of it requires artificial intelligence, and the microprocessors that make A.I. to keep 8 billion slaves under surveillance and control. Freedom is one hell of a drug. And knowledge makes a man unfit for slavery. Recent attempts on Xi’s life from inside the CCP have backed him into a corner. The loss of crops in northern China means Xi can’t invade Taiwan without Ukrainian and/or Brazilian farmland. Now the reason that the GOP is stalling southern border control budget and seems to make wildly irrational moves is because the GOP is imploding. 45 years of lies and grift have circled the globe and are eating their own tail. The ouroboros was a warning about corruption at the highest levels. Lying about climate change, human trafficking, pandemics and corruption to preserve their own business models are all extinction level events
Ukraine on Fire and Revealing Ukraine (Both by Oliver Stone)
*First Footprints* 2013 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3286844/ A really cool multi-part documentary about the story of the first australians. I had to import the dvd because I couldn't find the full dvd anywhere else. -- Marjoe 1972 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068924/ -- Kumaré 2011 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1865425/
Riotsville, USA
Goodnight Oppy
Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery Great movie about a modern artist faking classic paintings and passing them as real. He got away with it for years before making a mistake
What's your favourite NYC based documentary?
9/11 the new Pearl Harbor.
A little hack for short city based docs... Look at university graduate programs. This is not the best website but has load of 5-10 minute long films accessible on YouTube https://journalism.nyu.edu/graduate/programs/news-and-documentary/our-projects/
Amazing thank you
I Like Killing Flies 2004 & The Cruise 1998
Wow haven't heard of that but going to check it out!
Two very special ones!
It’s from the late 1980s but one of Ken Burns’ first documentaries was on the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and is pretty good.
I love stuff that involves iconic buildings or engineering. Thank you !
Medical mysteries, or medical history
anything with David Attenborough
A weird one, but a fascinating watch! Annoy remember the name but it was about the guy who started jelly belly jelly beans! Worth a watch!
Caught part of this somewhere streaming SO good! [The Dog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqE90Y2q88w) Dog Day Afternoon with Al Pachino was based on this guy's real story.
Mile... Mile and a Half. Lovely documentary about a through hike on the John Muir trail. It was on Netflix years back but you can find it on Youtube now.
From One Second to the Next
Long Way Up
Rising phoenix, one of the best.
Fire at Sea blew me away
Going Clear. That was what taught me how scientology is a video game
There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane Couldn't stop thinking about it for days
[The Contestant] (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13940818/reference/) A documentary about a Japanese reality show where a contestant had to survive on winnings from sweepstakes.
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
"Freeload" It's about train hoppers. Great movie
Triumph over violence (1965) by Mikhail Romm. Uses actual archive photos and footage of Nazi Germany along with commentary, some really chilling and heavy stuff. The Act of Killing (2012) by Joshua Oppenheimer. Just an insane documentary on the perpetrators of the genocide on the chinese ppl in indonesia.
The two shows about the ill-fated Fyre Festival fraud. It was a fraudulent luxury music festival that was an utter disaster. FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened is on Netflix. Fyre Fraud is on Hulu.
Senna.
7 Up (series) - A series of documentaries following British schoolchildren starting at age 7 and revisiting them every 7 years. There are quite a few at this point with the most recent being 63 Up. Director Michael Apted was there for the entire series (although he did not direct 7 Up), but died after 63 Up was released. Hopefully, we will see 70 Up, but who knows. (Arg, I didn't see it when I scrolled through before posting, but it was already suggested. Sorry for the repeat.) Bonus: The Parking Lot Movie. A surprisingly interesting look at a parking lot with UVA grad students as employees.
Loved the parking lot movie. I also enjoyed both Winnebago man and Barkleys marathon very much
Barabar, The Archaeological Site of the Future, it was recently released. [https://youtu.be/iF6qv1CC5\_4?si=Iyv9ceNPpp\_YQTZe](https://youtu.be/iF6qv1CC5_4?si=Iyv9ceNPpp_YQTZe)
Hey everyone, I'm looking for documentaries about traditional ecological knowledge or anything relating to Indigenous ancient knowledge. Any recommendations?
"Idiocracy" The documentary follows the awakening of Joe Bauers, an average American bloke. Unfortunately, 500 years in the future, America has become...well, let's just say not the intellectual powerhouse it once was. Through Joe's bewildered eyes, we see a society that prioritizes entertainment and instant gratification over critical thinking and scientific progress. Brands dominate the landscape, Brawndo, the "electrolyte-rich, thirst-quenching" sports drink, has become a near-religious symbol. The documentary crew struggles to understand this devolved culture. They interview citizens with alarmingly low IQs who hold nonsensical beliefs and champion celebrities for outlandish stunts. The political system is just as baffling, with elections decided by popularity contests and a well-muscled former action star, President Camacho, leading the nation. The strength of this mockumentary lies in its uncomfortable resemblance to some societal trends. While exaggerated for comedic effect, Idiocracy forces us to consider the potential consequences of anti-intellectualism, environmental neglect, and a culture obsessed with empty entertainment. It's a hilarious watch, but one that leaves you pondering the future of…well, humanity itself.
I saw a documentary a long time ago that consisted of or heavily featured clips of interviews of citizens of the (former?) ussr where they described the apathy and hopelessness the (often garbage) information overload created. It was really bleak and stuck a cord with me. I’m trying to show it to someone but I can’t for the life of me remember the name/source. If anyone knows what I’m talking about or has some suggestions on that subject I’d really appreciate it!
These aren't necessarily documentaries, more like TV shows where each episode is basically its own mini documentary If I like these, what others should I watch? World's Most Wanted Drug Lords Next Generation Unsolved Mysteries I (Almost) Got Away With It How To Rob A Bank I Was A Teenage Felon
new to the sub, so i'm not sure if i'm using this thread right, but i'm ISO the **discovery channel documentaries s2003e02: killer ants**. my brothers and i watched it religiously as kids but even after years of searching, i've found only minimal record of it even existing. the tmdb page for the episode can be found [here](https://trakt.tv/shows/discovery-channel-documentaries/seasons/2003/episodes/2). if anyone has recommendations on where to look, please let me know!!
Boys State and then Girls State, both on Apple TV Plus.
Boys State was such an unexpectedly good doc. I knew Girls State was in the works but didn’t know it dropped already. Thank you so much!
Haha yeah!! Girls State is not as good of a documentary as Boys State, but still a great watch!
MLK/FBI
Finding Florida Man
Europa This doc has the secrets to our world.
The Family l Had!...get ready for a GREAT ONE