Documentary Recommendations – Page 2

Documentary Recommendation: The Donut King (2020)

12/09/2024

Documentary Recommendations

donuts, food

This is a great documentary because it has everything a documentary should have: realistic hardships, capitalistic successes, millionaire status excess, historical lessons about Cambodia, and the evolution of the donut industry also known to be contributing to the obesity in the United States, but they sure are tasty. The Donut King is written by Alice…
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Documentary Recommendation: Enemies of the State (2020)

11/29/2024

Documentary Recommendations

fbi, news, Politics, united-states

Enemies of the State is a documentary by Sonia Kennebeck about a former intelligence analyst, Matt DeHart, that claims the FBI made him the pariah for taking CIA confidential documents. He was arrested for alleged sex crimes in Tennessee and says he was interrogated and tortured by the FBI for the sensitive information he possessed.…
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Documentary Recommendation: kid 90 (2021)

11/02/2024

Documentary Recommendations, Hulu Recommendations

Documentary, film, film-review, found-footage, Movies

Kid 90 is a documentary about being growing up in Hollywood during the 80s and 90s. Much of it includes past footage by Soleil Moon Frye made with her handheld camera of herself and friends as she was growing up while living in Hollywood and New York City. Being that I grew up during the…
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Documentary Recommendation: The China Hu$tle (2017)

08/25/2024

Documentary Recommendations

This is a great documentary about how un-regulation on Wall Street causes the lack of protection of U.S. citizens regarding their well-earned money. The China Hu$tle goes in depth into the corruption of Chinese companies using the American stock market as a way to increase their greedy profits. Dan David and Jon Carnes were two…
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TV Show Recommendation: Dark Side of Comedy (2022-)

06/22/2024

Comedy, Documentary Recommendations

Quite surprisingly these documentary episodes about famous comedians and comediennes past and near past were better than I imagined in the way they were portrayed and brutally honest with their path and the not so surprising end to their comedic reign. While I haven’t watched all of them, I watched enough to recommend this TV…
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Documentary Recommendation: MoviePass, MovieCrash (2024)

06/16/2024

Documentary Recommendations, HBO Recommendations

Just like movie rental stores, it seems likely that movie theatres might become a thing of the near past due to COVID and all the streaming services. Similar replaces similar and that includes the entertainment industry. Back in 2007 when movie theatres were still all the rage, Stacy Spikes and Hamet Watt were the creators…
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TV Series Recommendation: Spacey Unmasked (2024-)

05/19/2024

Documentary Recommendations, HBO Recommendations, Hollywood

featured, featured, kevin-spacey, Movies, news

When the allegations about Kevin Spacey first came out, my initial thought was why did Anthony Rapp wait so long to shed light on the now clearly predatory personality that is Kevin Spacey Fowler. But for those who are truly victims and then survivors of whatever kind of violations one is forced to go through,…
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Documentary Recommendation: Beanie Mania (2021)

01/25/2024

Documentary Recommendations, HBO Recommendations

This is a wacky documentary because it highlights the charmed suburban life of the women that helped start the Beanie Babies craze and the rest that followed that weren’t so lucky. This obsession among collectors had all the elements of buying and selling the next cash cow and that’s what happened. When it came to…
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Documentary Recommendation: David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived (2023)

12/09/2023

Documentary Recommendations

If you want to see a documentary where the person doesn’t feel sorry for himself and faces the reality he’s been given, David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived, would be it. David Holmes had a bright future as a stunt double and one of his films catapulted his Hollywood career and that was Harry Potter.…
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Documentary Recommendation: Blindsided (2023)

12/09/2023

Documentary Recommendations, Hollywood, Sports

Many of us watched the movie adaptation of the book about Michael Oher and the Tuohy family called The Blind Side. We watched Sandra Bullock earn an Oscar for her role as the “adoptive mother” of Michael Oher. While movies take creative liberties to make them better for screen adaptation, this movie took great liberties…
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Documentary Recommendation: God Forbid: A Sex Scandal that Brought Down a Dynasty (2022)

12/02/2023

Documentary Recommendations, Hulu Recommendations

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Netflix Docuseries Recommendation: Muscles & Mayhem (2023)

07/09/2023

Documentary Recommendations, Netflix Recommendations

For anyone that grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, you probably remember the show or heard of American Gladiators. This reality show before reality shows popped up all over the place and social media wasn’t even on the radar of people’s minds became a hit show for children and their parents. I don’t know…
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Documentary Recommendation: Pennywise: The Story of IT (2021)

04/08/2023

Documentary Recommendations, Movie Roles

As many people who are into reading Stephen King and watching his movies, this documentary is worth watching. I still think the original two-part TV series is better than the two movies recently made. While I liked the special effects from the movies, I thought the casting choices and acting overall from the characters as…
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