Documentary Recommendations – Page 4

Documentary Recommendation: Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (2009)

08/30/2021

Documentary Recommendations

This documentary is an older one about movies but worth the watch especially if you are a horror movie fan. From Nosferatu to Leatherface to Jigsaw, NIghtmares in Red, White and Blue highlights the evolution of the American horror film (just as the one sheet says). In most every movie, there are unintended consequences and…
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Documentary Recommendation: Val (2021)

08/30/2021

Documentary Recommendations

“It’s important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it’s a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.” -Val Kilmer- For sake of time and because Val Kilmer does a…
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TV Documentary Recommendation: Hemingway (2021)

04/09/2021

Documentary Recommendations, Writers

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” -Ernest hemingway I recommend you see this three part documentary film playing on PBS. if you a writer, alcoholic, suicidal, contradictory, or any combination I just listed. Ernest Hemingway is about as influential on writers as is Edgar Allan…
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TV Series Recommendation: Lincoln: Divided We Stand (2021)

03/25/2021

Documentary Recommendations, History, US History

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. -Abraham Lincoln- This six part series started on February 21st and ended on March 21st this year. It begins with Abraham Lincoln as…
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Documentary Recommendation: Made You Look: A True Story about Fake Art (2020)

03/13/2021

Documentary Recommendations, Netflix Recommendations

What does Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko have in common besides being abstract expressionist painters? Their paintings were all bought by the Knoedler gallery in New York by Ann Freedman and sold for millions of dollars. The only problem was they were fake paintings that led to the discovery of…
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Netflix TV-Docuseries Recommendation: Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer (2021)

02/13/2021

Documentary Recommendations, Netflix Recommendations

“While anger and hate are two things some people can cope with, I cannot. My anger and hate grow to a level that I cannot live comfortably with it.” -Richard Ramirez- There are some spoilers in this review! Richard Ramirez Case 101 Richard Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas in 1960 and influenced by…
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Documentary Recommendation: Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020)

12/22/2020

Amazon Recommendations, Documentary Recommendations

If something doesn’t capture my attention within the first few minutes, I take it out of my queue and watch something else. Two hours and 10 minutes later, I was watching the last remaining minutes of this documentary. Malcolm McDowell was speaking about his experience during Caligula. There is great commentary throughout Skin: A History…
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Documentary Recommendation: Who Put the Klan into Ku Klux Klan (2018)

12/10/2020

Amazon Recommendations, Documentary Recommendations

This documentary explores the origins of the Klan and how it connects with immigrants from Scotland. Neil Oliver researches the Deep South in the United States as he ties the past with the present. The focus is obviously on the racial divisions between the North and South. He starts with mid-1800s and works his way…
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Documentary Recommendation: Sour Grapes (2016)

11/14/2020

Documentary Recommendations

This documentary directed by Reuben Atlas and Jerry Rothwell is all the more intriguing in the fact that Rudy Kurniawan was released from prison on November 6, 2020. He is supposed to be sent back to Indonesia, but Sour Grapes focuses on his life in Arcadia, California as a counterfeiter of fine and rare wines…
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Netflix Recommendation: Whose Vote Counts, Explained (2020)

10/09/2020

Documentary Recommendations, Netflix Recommendations

This three-part docuseries covers origins of voting in America, cost factors in running for any office, and gerrymandering that occurs for whoever is in control of the senate. This year people seem more motivated on how the election in the U.S. will turn out. They are invested, in other words, they are flocking to the…
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Netflix TV Docuseries Recommendation: Challenger: The Final Flight (2020)

09/28/2020

Documentary Recommendations, Netflix Recommendations, Space

Time has a way of making things seem distant in some ways, but in other ways there isn’t that much change. When the Challenger exploded in 1986, I had no idea I’d see a space shuttle much later in life when the Endeavour was retired at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. I’m much…
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Netflix Recommendation: The Speed Cubers (2020)

09/19/2020

Documentary Recommendations, Netflix Recommendations

These kinds of documentaries can either be a hit or a miss, but this one is a complete hit. It deals with the competition of putting together Rubix cubes at record speeds. In 2019 the World Cube Association was held in Melbourne, Australia. The cubing competition was stiff and two of the competitors couldn’t have…
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Documentary Recommendation: The Gits (2005)

08/25/2020

Amazon Recommendations, Documentary Recommendations

Lyrics from by Mia Zapata “You apologize and I accept it all on faith but still you do not try to push away your old mistakes.” Producers: Ronnie Pontiac, Jessy Bender, Danny Goldberg, and Tamra Spivey Director: Kerri O’Kane Rating: TV-14 Running Time: one hour and 22 minutes When Mia Zapata was murdered in 1993,…
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