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forgot to mention the devil and daniel johnston

this too!!.

and on that note, here's some great music documentaries!

spending an evening with saddle creek

blind melon: letters from a porcupine

pearl jam: single video theory (making of Yield)

red hot chili peppers: funky monks (making of BSSM)

until the light takes us (documentary about the black metal scene in norway during the 1990s)

you're gunna miss me (pretty rad flick about how roky erikson got fucked by the system)

another state of mind (following the 1982 social distortion / youth brigade tour, both on and off stage. there's some pretty rad footage of them crashing at the dischord house while going thru d.c.. shit goes down.)

the decline of western civilization 1 & 2, both documenting punk in the 80s.

i think i'll stop here.

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a couple i haven't seen mentioned:

God Grew Tired of Us (about the lost boys from sudan)

The Devil Came on Horseback (a former marine's documentation of the conflict in Darfur)

Herb & Dorothy (two average people in NYC who amassed one of the biggest modern art collections ever)

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also, this is a book not a movie but it is extremely well written and researched

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_%28book%29

I could not back this any harder. One of the best investigative pieces I've ever read.

seriously, I've tried looking for other books about columbine but this is just the best out there. everything just sucks in comparison

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Tim Hetherington, the guy who co-directed Restrepo, was recently killed during the fighting in Libya.

I like Hitchens, but I hated the editing in Collision. Would've loved to have seen prolonged debate scenes.

I like watching documenteries, but there's probably 8-10 on here that I have yet to see (and will have to check out now).

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I could not back this any harder. One of the best investigative pieces I've ever read.

seriously, I've tried looking for other books about columbine but this is just the best out there. everything just sucks in comparison

For real. The amount of research he did is insane. The details he was able to get from survivors made reading this incredibly difficult in spots. The way he flipped back and forth between the details of the shooting and the rest of the story worked so well. It allowed for the conflict to build and then he'd effortlessly release. It was the written equivalent of a post-rock song.

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damn like a million in here i need to check out.

saw restrepo and liked it. was told about a north korean one that is good. are a lot of these on netflix streaming?

need to check them out when i get home. i keep getting recommended some parking lot movie on netflix. not sure what it is about but it might be a documentary.

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I really dug:

God Grew Tired of Us - Sudanese refugees taken to the USA. It's amazing to see them adapt to the technology and things we all take for granted and then try to cope with the American "rat race"

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father - the most emotionally draining movie I have ever seen.

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