Documentaries

[Carnage]

Interesting watch, I'd only heard about the Games recently. They predate the Olympics, apparently.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73hip3pz0Xs

This is one of the craziest stories I have ever heard. Like a Gogol story come to life (a reference that makes sense if you watch it).

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched Moonage Daydream last night. Interesting watch. I think enjoyment of it will be closely tied to how big a Bowie fan you are. Not a "normal" documentary at all, reckon it'd be a struggle for someone not into him already. Unless they're really into arty documentaries in general.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Watched that recent Ch4 doc about Andrew Tate last night. It's like the dark psycho reflection of the one they did on Brand recently.

[astfgyl]

Watched that recent Ch4 doc about Andrew Tate last night. It's like the dark psycho reflection of the one they did on Brand recently.

Thought he'd had his flash in the pan tbh. Never even see the cunt on twitter these days

[Mooncat]

Watched that recent Ch4 doc about Andrew Tate last night. It's like the dark psycho reflection of the one they did on Brand recently.

What was the purpose of the doc? Bio? Or more of a critical look at him?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Bit of both. CH4 had been making a documentary on him up to the time he got arrested. All the footage from that initially planned doc, plus plenty of other earlier stuff, has been woven through with the stories of those accusing him of various levels of physical and sexual abuse in the UK and Romania. His and their legal teams all interviewed. Interviews with three of his, let's say "students" also feature throughout, plus a bit of the Tate-mania stuff, accounts from teachers of pre- and early-teen boys, etc.

[astfgyl]

Bit of both. CH4 had been making a documentary on him up to the time he got arrested. All the footage from that initially planned doc, plus plenty of other earlier stuff, has been woven through with the stories of those accusing him of various levels of physical and sexual abuse in the UK and Romania. His and their legal teams all interviewed. Interviews with three of his, let's say "students" also feature throughout, plus a bit of the Tate-mania stuff, accounts from teachers of pre- and early-teen boys, etc.

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[Carnage]

Shoo the cat off the keyboard, lad.

[astfgyl]

Shoo the cat off the keyboard, lad.

Shitty oul phone screen kept acting the cunt

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

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

Watched this first ep just now, great doc. I know in episode 3 he goes to Ireland and talks, via translator, with one of if not the last epic bards in the Irish tradition, to get an idea for the mnemotechniques used for learning and recalling vast lengths of text, as would have been done with the Iliad for the first few hundred years of its existence.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The Act of Killing

This is a fairly off the wall and messed up documentary about members of Indonesian gangster death squads unofficially charged with executing communist suspects en masse in the 60s.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

New Al Jazeera Investigative Unit report on the events of October 7th:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0atzea-mPY

I've seen a load of their iUnit documentaries over the years and found them very interesting. But yeah, it is Al Jazeera, so anywhere you feel some salt needs adding, by all means reach for the shaker.

Then also saw that they've just broadcast, in two parts, a documentary which I've been trying to find to stream or DL for months now: Praying for Armageddon, about Christian fundamentalists in the US and globally, many of whom are Christian Zionists literally praying for the end times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhT7oyDlBIk

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhT7oyDlBIk

This is compelling and or harrowing. That Christian fundamentalism (believers in literal meaning of the bible mythological prophecies) has such a grip on geopolitics in the Middle East is one of the most obvious symptoms of just how rife "even" the West is with irrational, quasi-medieval ideology. Folk need to open their eyes a little more to the level of influence involved. I've also recently seen the Christian dimension of Irish nationalism expanding into places I hadn't seen it before. Don't know how it doesn't get more alarm bells ringing tbh.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Just watched the second part. One of the most frightening things I've ever seen.

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