Documentaries

[open face surgery]

Watched that last year and enjoyed it for want of a better term. Love Parts Unknown but that documentary, and all the shit with Asia Argento brought a serious bleakness to it.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Finished The Anarchists today. Worth a watch. Maybe a bit long at 6 episodes, but a pretty crazy story nonetheless and a good insight into the mindset of (a lot of) these crypto, etc., bros.

[Caomhaoin]

Sir Alec Ferguson one from last year. Incredible what he achieved with Aberdeen, maybe more impressive than his Man U stuff. Very well made, and would be enjoyable for any soccer fan.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Anyone check Adam Curtis's new one, TraumaZone? Collapse of the Soviet Union through 90s Russia, all BBC archive footage without his usual narration, just subtitles. I think it's fantastic, really fucked up.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

No, hadn't heard about it. Nice one, will watch that over lunch today.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Up on the iPlayer, also a few people have all the episodes up on YouTube. You'll be doing well to get through all 7 hours over lunch alright though 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

If I chew every mouthful a hundred times? 

Right, no, won't get through all that today so, but I've a DL of the complete season already on the way here.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I think it's fantastic, really fucked up.

Да, me too. Only ended up getting through the first ep over lunch, but yeah, excellent viewing for anyone interested in Russia. Or humans.

[Kailash]

watched Escape from Kabul airport recently on iplayer
it's a tough watch with a few scenes that will stick in the mind 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Excellent documentary about Escher:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNjUR1Nn710

Still slowly working my way through those seven episodes of Adam Curtis' TraumaZone. On to episode six next. A compellingly surreal slog.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched the whole Ancient Apocalypse documentary series from Graham Hancock that's on Netflix. Entertaining. Just annoying that he says "proof of" and "proves" all the time. He'd be taken much more seriously if he replaced them with "evidence for" and "suggests". But then, genuine science hasn't really done a good job of getting people thinking in these kind of hypothetical rather than dogmatic terms either, so I can't really hold that against him too much. Anyway, very entertaining, and loads of interesting places in it.

[astfgyl]

Watched the whole Ancient Apocalypse documentary series from Graham Hancock that's on Netflix. Entertaining. Just annoying that he says "proof of" and "proves" all the time. He'd be taken much more seriously if he replaced them with "evidence for" and "suggests". But then, genuine science hasn't really done a good job of getting people thinking in these kind of hypothetical rather than dogmatic terms either, so I can't really hold that against him too much. Anyway, very entertaining, and loads of interesting places in it.

Yeah it's definitely more food for thought than proof of anything. Love that unknown ancient history stuff though and would watch it all day long without necessarily buying anything he's saying but just for the wonder

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Yup, same.

[Carnage]

Pretty much every theory he's put forward has been debunked for decades, but people are lapping it up nonetheless. Baffling.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

It's entertaining and no one else is proposing anything similar for a broad public. There was David Graeber's last book; people would have lapped that up as a TV series too, still would.