Joined Netflix.... what to rent?

[NC_Nate]

Need some Ideas...looking along the lines of Uncovered (own it), and Outfoxed (on it's way)

I enjoy documentaries

any recommendations would be appreciated..

Thanks :toast:

Nate

[drhilarius]

1. Have you seen "Supersize me"?

[NC_Nate]

4. Yeah I have...

and I haven't ate at McDonalds since...:puke:

*edit* And I've seen all the Michael Moore Films too

[KitchenWitch]

10. Sorry I missed that you have seen all of MMs films

Try "Hoop Dreams"

and welcome to DU :hi:

[KitchenWitch]

2. Bowling for Columbine

[jayctravis]

3. They have a ton!

Netflix is great. After you rate movies, it will suggest other similar ones to you.

My friend said BUSH'S BRAIN is good.

[alittlelark]

5. 'A Grave for Fireflies' not a Doc. in the true sense

it is an old Anime about 2 orphans in Japan during WW2.

I GUARANTEE it is worth your time. It is beautiful and magical. The whole family (we have 8+10 year old kids) watched it... they are still asking questions. I wish I had discovered it years ago.

[LoZoccolo]

6. /Run Lola Run/

It's not a documentary, but I was very impressed by this today.

I think this might be a four-movie week for me too, if I return it tommorow! You'll start knowing what I'm talking about, trying to get six movies in one week by watching them as soon as you get them (most I've had is four though).

[rwenos]

7. Chinatown

A thinly-veiled documentary about corruption in Los Angeles in the 1930's. Jack Nicholson's best movie.

[NC_Nate]

8. WOW

I am always amazed at how fast you get replies here....

Keep them coming...

(I bookmarked this page)

[barbaraann]

9. Groundhog Day, Manchurian Candidate (original)

also The Sound of Music for inspiration on resisting fascism.

Oh, and The Music Man and Bedazzled (with Dudley Moore).

[NC_Nate]

12. Groundhog Day ...

I grew up in Punxsutawney..
Home of the Groundhog.. and now home of the Highjacking Toddlers:shrug:


Great movie though...(it wasn't filmed in PA, but rather Woodstock, IL):eyes:

[Merusault]

11. "Capturing the Freidmans"

It's a great documentary. Kind of disturbing; it's about a father and son accused of sodomy against boys in Long Island. But it's fascinating, and if you enjoy documentaries, I can't recommend it enough.

[sherilocks]

21. Ditto on Capturing the Friedmans

I ordered it just out of curiousity, had never heard of it before. I watched the entire documentary and all its commentary straight through, something I almost never do.

[yurbud]

13. Double bill: the Battle of Algiers and Red Dawn

the best insight into the insurgency in Iraq.

[yurbud]

14. the director of Sideways brilliant and much funnier CITIZEN RUTH

For some reason, most people weren't interested in a satire that pointed out the similarities between pro-choice and pro-life activists. Best glue sniffing role for Laura Dern ever.

[njdemocrat106]

15. Got Beverly Hills Cop the other day

Hadn't seen it in ages. Still funny, and a good story to boot. (At least in my opinion, anyway).

[SemperEadem]

16. hmmm 3 come to mind

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Hildago

Lost in Translation...

[Clark2008]

17. Clockwork Orange

Not a member of Netflix, but I've been transfixed by my new DVD of that for days.

It was made when I was one? No fucking way!

[morgan2]

18. DC 9/11

[rman]

19. dunno if they have all of these

Orwell rolls in his grave
"Meticulously tracing the process by which media has distorted and often dismissed actual news events..."
www.orwellrollsinhisgrave.com

The Corporation
"The corporation created unprecedented wealth. But at what cost? The
remorseless rationale of "externalities" - as Milton Friedman explains: the unintended consequences of a transaction between two parties on a third - is responsible for countless cases of illness, death, poverty, pollution, exploitation and lies."
www.thecorporation.com

Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
"...the riveting story about the battle for the Presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in America."
www.unprecedented.org

Manufacturing consent: Chomsky and the media (book & docu)
www.zmag.org/chomsky/mc
www.chomsky.info

Control Room
http://www.noujaimfilms.com/

Gunner Palace
http://www.gunnerpalace.com/

Stupidity (2003) with Chomsky, M Moore
http://www.trailervision.com/trailer.php?id=143

"Weapons of Mass Deception"
http://www.wmdthefilm.com/mambo/index.php

The power of nightmares: the rise of the politics of fear
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/3755686.stm

http://www.carryitforward.org/film.html
(on Paul Wellstone)

Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties
http://www.publicinterestpictures.org/unconstitutional/
http://www.aclu.org/unconstitutional/

Independent Media In A Time Of War
http://demandmedia.net/story/2003/11/19/185147/13

Constructing Public Opinion
How Politicians and the Media Misrepresent the Public
http://www.mediaed.org/videos/CommercialismPoliticsAndMedia/ConstructingPublicOpinion

[sherilocks]

22. Control Room

is a great, but infuriating, documentary. I got it from my local rental store, recommended by the clerk when I returned the Hunting of the President 2004, also good.

[NC_Nate]

23. Any one see

Orwell Rolls In His Grave ?

[tkmorris]

20. Baraka

Not a political documentary quite, in fact it doesn't neatly fit into any genre but it is fantastic.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005M91K/103-2887512-2018201?v=glance

[Camaro]

24. Netflix and a DVD Burner =

Never leave home again :)

I have tried Wal-Mart's and Blockbuster's service but Netflix is the best by far.

[Liberal In Texas]

25. Outfoxed.

Netflix has a pretty good "weird" selection as well.

You have to look for it over the hype of what they want you to rent.

[Camaro]

26. Just a few classics that I know they have

They Live
Smokey and the Bandit
A Space Oddessy 2001