Favourite/best documentary film..?

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    There's soooo many. Legendary Nights The Tale of Gatti vs. Ward is incredible
    Vice Dark Side of The Ring Chris Benoit Part 1 and 2
    Ken Burns Civil War
    Hitman Hart Wrestling With Shadows

    And just tons of stuff out there on youtube that are basically like short documentaries/profile videos. My interest is usually sports, music, history, geography and occasion animals/nature.
     
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    Senna

    Virunga

    The Last Dance

    Free Solo

    13th

    Bowling for Columbine

    Hoop Dreams

    Man on Wire
     
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    Senna / The Last Dance are both outstanding.

    The biggest compliment I can pay them is that I’m not that bothered about F1 or basketball, but I was absolutely gripped by both.
     
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    Free solo - for me one of the greatest sporting achievements ever a must watch!
     
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    Exterminate All The Brutes.
     
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    The one I mean does have narration etc and starts before 9/11 with two French filmmakers making a documentary about a rookie firefighter. They were the ones who got the only footage of the first plane hitting, and they’re in the towers when the first one falls. Both survive
     
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    9/11 Naudet Brothers Doc. You must see it.
    For all mankind - Apollo missions.
    It's no joke living in Barnsley.
     
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    Don't **** with cats
    The last dance
    Wild Wild Country
    Lost Highways - Foo Fighters
    Searching for Sugarman
    Frank Sidebottom - Being Frank
    My Octopus Teacher
    Alex Ferguson - Never Give In
    Man on a wire
    Class Action Park (Gotta watch the Action Park comedy before it first)
    Evil Genius
    Tiger King
    24 hour party people (Does that count !!)
     
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    Kes looked like a documentary film abart many of us on here growing up
     
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    Best documentary I saw was with Brian Cox. It was on the BBC. All about quantum mechanics and parallel universes. Can't remember the title because I missed the opening credits but I was transfixed after that.
     
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    That's the one I've got on DVD. It's an uncomfortable watch, but a brilliant documentary and the footage from inside the building is haunting.

    I've seen two versions of it, as I think the DVD version is an updated one, which includes a follow-up. The first one I saw covered the story of the priest inside the building, and commented that he became the first casualty of 9/11. I'm not 100% sure without checking, but the later version didn't cover him to the same extent, so I think they edited some of the original documentary in the update.

    They Shall Not Grow Old is another incredibly powerful documentary.

    Night Will Fall was chilling, as it tells the story of the unfinished & unreleased (until now) documentary from the BEF team who liberated some of the German concentration camps. It includes some really harrowing footage, and I imagine the actual documentary, which has had some limited releases previously would be equally, if not more, hard-hitting to watch.

    Just to lighten the tone, given that all the above cover very sombre subjects, but This Is Spinal Tap should get an honorary mention in the category, despite it being a spoof. It's one of the greatest films of all time, even if its more mockumentary in nature.
     
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    Most been mentioned on here. Netflix has ithe genre down at the minute.

    Mormon Murders, Bikram and Murder By The Coast are good new ones

    No one had mentioned Diego Maradona yet though - outstanding
     
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    The best I've ever seen. Incredible piece of filmmaking that completely changed my perspective and opinions.

    I'd add Ken Burns epic Vietnam War series, The Defiant Ones about Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine, and OJ Simpson: Made I'm America for its all round social commentary on race in the US.
     
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    Blackfish is superb
    Love anything by Attenborough and Theroux
    Tiger King is also a must watch series

    Football wise the amazon specials on Spurs and City are really good too as is the Sunderland one
     
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