Documentary Thread

[Forest Cat]

The Great Buster - A Celebration

It's about Buster Keaton's life and career, very interesting.

The Great Buster (2018) - IMDb

The Great Buster: Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. With Peter Bogdanovich, Dick Cavett, Frank Capra, Jim Curtis. Documentary on the life and works of comic genius Buster Keaton, directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

www.imdb.com

 

[Forest Cat]

The Food That Built America - Cookie Wars

Watching it right now, it's a series about the history of different food brands in the US, it's very interesting.

"The Food That Built America" Cookie Wars (TV Episode 2021) - IMDb

Cookie Wars: Directed by Elle Schneider. With Jessica Harris, Yohuru Williams, Libby O'Connell, Adam Richman. A business partnership gone wrong leads Adolphus Green to create one of the most iconic cookie and cracker companies in history, and it revolutionizes packaging.

www.imdb.com

 

[LadyS]

Just finished watching "Ariel Phenomenon". It's about the UFO incident in Zimbabwe in '94 in which dozens of school children encountered a UFO and supposed alien beings during recess. Worth a watch if you are a skeptic of UFOs and aliens in general. The warning message the beings communicated to the children about the dangers of our advanced technology on our environment and the human race .. Can't really deny how true that is at least. Good watch.

 

[Crossbreed]

The warning message the beings communicated to the children about the dangers of our advanced technology on our environment and the human race ..

Amish aliens...!?
(Also, isn't their vehicle an advanced technology??

)

 

[Metalhead]

Now this is one documentary that is worth sitting through for four and a half hours.

 

[LadyS]

Amish aliens...!?
(Also, isn't their vehicle an advanced technology??

)

I'm guessing they mean that currently humans haven't found a way to advance our technology without destroying our environment and ourselves. Also keeping in mind this is what the young children relayed.. young rural kids who didn't have the full knowledge and vocabulary to express what was probably communicated to them, thus the message sounding more rudimentary. But still made sense to me.

 

[Metalhead]

Now this is an intense documentary. 9 1/2 hours well spent. I finished watching it a couple of hours ago. I went from anger to sadness to astonishment, often all at the same time. This is probably the single greatest documentary I have ever seen.

 

[Judge]

I just watched a docu-drama presented by the National Geographic Channel titled "A Small Light".

I thought it was excellent. It followed the events of Miep and Jan Gies, a couple who were friends to Miep's employer Mr. Otto Frank and his family. They were Jews and former German citizens, forced into hiding as they were unable to leave the country fleeing the Nazis in 1940. Miep and Jan Gies hid the Franks and other persons in the attic of the building she worked in for two years before they were discovered by the Nazis.

It was Miep Gies who made sure that after the war, the diary of Otto Frank's daughter Anne was returned to him.

Unlike all the other presentations of those living in the secret annex, this story focused on Miep and Jan Gies, who risked their lives to save Jews, particularly the children. Equally it was a harrowing portrayal of everyday life of citizens living under a forced occupation by a totalitarian state.

Watch A Small Light TV Show - Streaming Online | Nat Geo TV

Watch full episodes of A Small Light online. Get sneak peeks and free episodes all on Nat Geo TV.

www.nationalgeographic.com