This ^ it's a few years old, but I really liked it. Very shocking.

Agreed on Gates of Heaven and Errol Morris docs (esp. Vernon Florida, The Thin Blue Line, Fast Cheap & Out of Control)... though probably not the kind of thing the OP is looking for.

More along those lines, I'd suggest Crumb (the best documentary I've ever seen), American Movie, The King of Kong, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Confessions of a Superhero, Grizzly Man, Cinemania.

I would highly recommend Capturing the Friedmans, very strange and disturbing, it's about a family in suburban NJ falling apart after the father is busted for child porn, and then a mass hysteria arises around the computer classes he was teaching to local kids, everyone making insane allegations that he and his son had been secretly raping these kids week after week (and forcing them to play "Naked Leapfrog", among other things). I'm also a huge fan of Werner Herzog's docs, particularly The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner and Little Dieter Needs to Fly, and Les Blanc's Burden of Dreams on the making of Herzog's movie Fitzcarraldo.

Probably the strangest documentary I've seen is The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, about a possibly psychotic Japanese WWII veteran who hunts down former military officers and screams at them and even physically attacks them for allegedly killing officers from his old unit. The same director did another one called Extreme Private Eros where he follows his ex-girlfriend around with a camera for several years, even recording her giving birth by herself.

Grizzly Man.....major lulz at the end

Survivorman. It's a TV show, but it's perhaps the closest thing to real survival-documentary out there (none of that Man v. Wild bullshit).

^ this

Super Size Me.

i liked this movie
it was pretty disgusting but good
i dont think i went near a mcdicks for almost a year after watching it

My school requires us to watch this in health class.

Same with my school.

Super High Me was actually pretty funny, not so much educational though. I have a documentary on The Clash that was filmed as a movie, it's called Rude Boy, truly awesome documentary/film.

The one where the guy lives with bears for like a year, then the bears well...you can figure it out yourself.

Red Cell

Classified top secret by the Navy and banished by the Department of Defense, "Red Cell" is the true account of a unit the government denies ever existed! Staffed by members of the Navy's top secret SEAL Team Six, Red Cell used their special skills to carry out successful terrorist attacks against American military bases, assets, and personnel worldwide.



* Admiral Ace Lyons, creator of the Red CELL program explains its objectives.
* Commander Richard Marcinko, founder of SEAL Team Six, and first CO of Red Cell discusses intimate details of Red Cell's successes and failure.
* A Red Cell Operator exposes operations and how Red Cell was designed as a cover for other covert programs

I watched it on youtube last year but I looked for it and it has been taken off. If you can find it, well worth a watch. Since they had to video tape all their actions when testing naval base security for when they presented their reports (and legal reasons), there is plenty of actual footage of some of the shit they pulled.

A damn interesting look at this team.

Thank you man - It was a fucking fantastic film!

This Is Spın̈al Tap

Aye, a good documentary. You can get it off piratebay.

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills
Paradise Lost II: Revelations

These are both good films. Not a big fan of the soundtrack, as I fucking hate Metallica, but otherwise solid. This also happened not too far from where I live. And yes, the people here really ARE like that.

Slow Century if you're indie enough

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Century

American Movie and Dark Days are both very excellent.

The Century of the Self (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8953172273825999151)

Best. Documentary. Evar.

Jupiter's Wife. It's about a skitzo homeless lady and her dogs.

Zeitgeist; Open your mind

'Zeitgeist, The Movie' and 'Zeitgeist: Addendum' were created as Not-for-Profit expressions
to communicate what the author felt were highly important social understandings which
most humans are generally not aware of. The first film focuses on suppressed
historical & modern information about currently dominant social institutions, while
also exploring what could be in store for humanity if the power structures at large continue
their patterns of self-interest, corruption, and consolidation.

The second film, Zeitgeist: Addendum, attempts to locate the root causes
of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution. This solution is not
based on politics, morality, laws, or any other "establishment" notions of human affairs,
but rather on a modern, non-superstitious based understanding of what we are
and how we align with nature, to which we are a part. The work advocates
a new social system which is updated to present day knowledge, highly influenced
by the life long work of Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project.

Guess I can provide links ..

Dark Days http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4615469295729142806

Earthlings
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7584730387826688635

Surplus
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-648006371350113726

Baraka
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4637096215205595301

The corporation
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=192012118972057552

Jesus Camp
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3929535037535102662



Just a few interesting ones ..