Documentaries

Expedition: Bismarck is a 2002 documentary film produced for the Discovery Channel by Andrew Wight and James Cameron, directed by James Cameron and Gary Johnstone, and narrated by Lance Henriksen. The film follows an underwater expedition to the German Battleship Bismarck and digitally reconstructs events that led up to the ship's sinking during World War II

Director James Cameron returns to the site of the 1912 wreck of the RMS Titanic, aboard the Russian research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh with a team of history and marine experts, and his friend Bill Paxton. Cameron and the crew document the interiors and exteriors of the wreckage using 3D technology designed for the documentary.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2075327

Another good DW documentary showing us that the catastrophe is already upon us and it's just the begining.

"Ecumenopolis" tells the story of Istanbul on a neoliberal course to destruction. The film takes a look at the city on a macro level and through the eyes of experts, going from the tops of mushrooming skyscrapers to the depths of the railway tunnel under the Bosphorous strait; from the historic neighborhoods in the south to the forests in the north; from isolated islands of poverty to the villas of the rich.

Interesting analysis of how fox news operates in the states and what can be done about it

Throughout its history, mixed martial arts have served as a refuge for people disillusioned and confounded by the world at large. People who just want to find some measure of escape within the honesty of primal combat, even if only for a few hours on a Saturday night. It’s no accident that the sport has become so massively popular in such a lonely time.

In 2010, Danish director Mads Brugger received an email from a stranger who had seen a documentary he had made about North Korea. He asked if Mads would be interested in making a new film about his quest to become a member of his local North Korean 'friendship' association in Denmark to enable him to travel to Pyongyang undercover. There are Korean Friendship Associations (KFA) in countries around the world, and their members, bizarrely, are devoted to the glorification of the world's last totalitarian communist dictatorship.

In the summer of 2017, in the Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale, over 300 tenants living across 12 apartment buildings went on rent strike to protest a wave of rent increases that would have displaced members of their community. Through months of organizing and a series of escalating actions, working-class people took on the biggest corporate landlord in their neighbourhood… and won. In an age where gentrification is rapidly transforming the nature and demographics of working-class neighbourhoods in cities across the world, pushing out poorer tenants, people on fixed incomes, immigrant communities and other long-term residents, the story of the Parkdale rent strike offers an important and practical lesson on how we can organize with our neighbours to fight back.

Truth be told, it's a heavyweight documentary that mix history, psychology and crime. It's not easy to follow, but with a strong attention over the mental health care, the Netflix documentary becomes to me, a fine piece of work. What do you think?

A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.

A satirical look at colonization and the relations between Aboriginal Australians and Australians of European descent.

Alternative Y**Tube link here: https://youtu.be/NqcFg4z6EYY