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Holy smoke, Soundtrack is a real work of art and history. I think I might have to put it above No Other Land as best of the year.I’ve seen 4 of the 5 Oscars docs. Still need to see Soundtrack to a Coup.
All of these are heavy, disturbing, important, and well done. I’d rank them:
No Other Land
Sugarcane
Black Box Diaries
Porcelain War
Holy smoke, Soundtrack is a real work of art and history. I think I might have to put it above No Other Land as best of the year.
The caveat is you should be very awake and engaged when you watch. It throws a lot of players at you from Khruhschev to Louis Armstrong to Eisenhower to Maya Angelou to John Foster Dulles (and his brother) to Dizzy Gillespie and Malcolm X and dozens more.
Dense as fuck. Dense as an annotated tome of a modernist or postmodernist classic, but on film, and with a ton of style.
With this one and Dahomey (which wasn’t nominated), that’s a couple of really compelling, creative, and important docs.
And it includes this absolute ripper of Nina Simone doing Dylan better than Dylan:
My list of historical documentaries that I liked is so long and so many and are so utterly devoid of any merit to anyone but myself, that I would hesitate to make any recommendation. But one that I can unhesitatingly recommend against seeing is "The Sorrow and the Pity." I viewed it in what was then the Business School auditorium just a few years after it was released. I sat through the entire 4 hrs and 25 mins. I can still taste how increasingly angry I got every time some fancy pant Brit was interviewed and this snooty Brit would respond in French rather than English and I would still have to read the grainy white captions. If I had actually wanted to hear an endless line of people speaking French, I would have spent more time in the language labs in the basement of Dye Hall.I am very big on Historical Documentaries. Should there be a separate thread for that genre? Thoughts?
Yep! Reading the IMDB summary was enough for me. I have never been on a cruise, in large part because I feared exactly what was depicted in the "Poop Cruise." When I first read your post, I wondered if the "Poop Cruise" was some sort of satirical docoumentary about Scientology that I might enjoy. Wouldn't have thought it, but the actual "Poop Cruise" sounds worse than the guilty pleasure I had first imagined it to be.I absolutely would not recommend Poop Cruise on Netflix.
Half-hour documentary focusing on the music and cultural traditions of a unique community of North Carolinians, now settled in Darrington, Washington. Released through Southern Educational Communications Association (SECA), PMN and Eastern Educational Network (EEN), 1979. Fully funded by NEA.
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Tarheels of the Northwest | Folkstreams
Half-hour documentary focusing on the music and cultural traditions of a unique community of North Carolinians, now settled in Darrington, Washington .…www.folkstreams.net
Half-hour documentary focusing on the music and cultural traditions of a unique community of North Carolinians, now settled in Darrington, Washington. Released through Southern Educational Communications Association (SECA), PMN and Eastern Educational Network (EEN), 1979. Fully funded by NEA.
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Tarheels of the Northwest | Folkstreams
Half-hour documentary focusing on the music and cultural traditions of a unique community of North Carolinians, now settled in Darrington, Washington .…www.folkstreams.net