documentaries
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Death of Yugoslavia (1995) – BBC
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A fresh and detailed Balkan-conflict account audio-visually narrated in such a perfect crew-cut way that´s bound to blow any Ken Burns away.
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The Weight of Memory (March 1973 – Onward) The Vietnam War: 01×10 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novack
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The White Christmas nightmare ending of a 30-year war that ironically led to Vietnam´s own “Vietnam”—and the final episode of this historical masterpiece.
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A Disrespectful Loyalty (May 1970-March 1973) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×09 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Oft-repeated bravery tends to lose its influence, but sacrificing one’s blood-earned trophies while Death keeps girding the biggest nothing in history does not.
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The History of the World (April 1969-May 1970) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×08 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Life preservation bears the brunt of an honor that stutters. All parents must be killed in order to break free from a Vietnamised Nixonian low.
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The Veneer of Civilization (June 1968-May 1969) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×07 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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The shit-sandwich has gotten big enough to feed everyone not hungry twice—but Nixon, Kissinger and the Saigon cowboys are all doing just fine.
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Things Fall Apart (January-June 1969) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×06 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Got offended by Tet, got let down by Lyndon, got sick from a reality that cannot be smelled through television…and now Dick is coming.
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This is What We Do (July-December 1967)The Vietnam War (2017): 01×05 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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A war with no front is a body-count war that can only be won after the crossover point of dehumanization that Stalin-statistics promise.
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Resolve (January 1966-June 1967) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×04 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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There is no point in wondering if your son has fallen face down in the bony lunar dust or not: they will let you know.
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The River Styx (January 1964-December 1965) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×03 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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You´ll get lots more of this coup shit because reelection is the root of all evil in your Kennedy-less rolling thunder of a world.
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The Doors: When You’re Strange (2009) – Tom DiCillo
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Mr. DiCillo embarks on a moral expedition into the Johnny-depths of the collective unconsciousness to debunk derogatory assumptions short-changing the Doors/Morrison phenomenon.
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Riding the Tiger (1961-1963) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×02 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Doc-decker Kenn and his proficient cut-crew vigorously but slow-motionly zoomIng in and out of the Burning lotus position that made everyone uncomfortable.
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Crumb (1994) – Terry Zwigoff
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So you think your family is weird? Brace yourself for the real deal. Unforgettable documentary showing more involvement than the genre ever intended to have.
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker´s Apocalypse (1991) – Fax Bah
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Eleanor Coppola´s heart is really where this film-of-a-film is coming from. It domestically follows her husband´s dive into the spreading jungle darkness.
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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills (1996) – Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky
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Lebenseinschlagende Hautnah-Doku welche unfassbar dramatischen Realitätsbezug gegen aberwitzige Soapperformances stellt.
Aus ‚Laid back‘- Interesse wird bewegende Kriminalverfolgung wird körperanspannender Trieb aus Neugier und Gerechtigkeitsverfolgung.
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Hearts and Minds (1974) – Peter Davies
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A sweaty collage of participant-perspectives circling down the drain of an exhausted conflict that Americans so tip-of-the-iceberg-ly deemed too long.
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Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002) – Peter Mettler
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A traveling documentary that trips itself into worlds of abrasive escapism, social warp and the terrified hope that sense can be made out of life.
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Kurt & Courtney (1998) – Nick Broomfield
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Far-out, paranoid conspiracy theory trip forced into an almost planted veracity that entertains but carries itself with bad taste and disrespect for the dead.
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First Kill (2001) – Coco Schrijber
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The terrible intrusion of war shared and explained by the time-anchored hearts & minds of interviewees who are displaying acute withdrawal symptoms on camera.
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Victory at Sea (1952-1953) – NBC
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An astounding set of newsreel-like pieces set in a frantic world-creating pace covering large-scale naval conflicts with nothing but grace and respect.
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Cocaine Cowboys (2006) – Billy Corben
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A perfect documentary that is put together by guide-listening the direct architects of the subject matter instead of architecting them directly into something else.
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Paradise Lost (1996-2011) – Documentary Trilogy
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A must-absorb exculpatory HBO documentary tryptic that saved the lives and reputations of half of the six direct victims of this multi-slayered crime.