Odd Documentary Recs

[Free_Salato_Blue]

I just saw a doc on Pivot channel - Vanishing of the Bees
About the colony collapse of bee hives through out America. Though one point was interesting about having to import bees just to pollinate crops.
http://www.vanishingbees.com/trailer/

 

[cricket3]

I'm just in the middle of it but I'm going to go ahead and recommend An Honest Liar.

 

[ky8335]

Confessions of a Superhero is pretty good. I'ts about a few terrible actors who moved to Los Angeles and have to work as street performers posing with tourists while dressed in costumes. Some are just delusional (Superman) but the guy in the Batman costume is insane.

 

[KingOfBBN]

Confessions of a Superhero is pretty good. I'ts about a few terrible actors who moved to Los Angeles and have to work as street performers posing with tourists while dressed in costumes. Some are just delusional (Superman) but the guy in the Batman costume is insane.

I was downtown when Batman started to do karate on a construction worker who got pissed at Batman for using their porta potty. Then when Batman got arrested, he kicked out the window of the cop car.

Those guys are usually very creepy and then get hostile if other guys dress as same character.

 

[2blue4u]

I'm watching a Hulu Plus series called "The Unknown War." It is World War II from the Russian perspective. We only get WWII from the West's perspective in the media.. Russia took Germany down much more so than did the Western Armies. Hitler's goal was not just to conquer Russia. He planned to annihilate most of the Russian people.

It's definitely an interesting perspective. Horrifying really. The numbers alone are staggering, and when you start to imagine the scenarios that produced those numbers, it's mind blowing.

Here's a few numbers. Russia solders killed: 11 mil.. Civilians killed: between 7 mil and 20 mil. USA soldiers killed: 400,000. Civilians killed: 0.

The distance between Moscow and Berlin is about the same as that separating New York City and Atlanta. Imagine twenty million people being violently killed between those two American cities in four years. The Eastern Front in the war wound like a serpent from Sevastopol on the Black Sea to Leningrad on the Baltic. Including the twists, bulges and turns of the line of battle at the height of German penetration, November 1942, the line would have stretched from Baltimore to Cheyenne, Wyoming. In place of Leningrad, can you fathom Chicago under bitter siege and constant shelling for 900 days? Is it possible for us to mentally picture thousands of dead bodies lying on the frozen streets between Lake Shore Drive and Evanston? Could we endure seeing a million people die, mostly from starvation, during the Chicago siege or begin to fathom our own citizens engaging in cannibalism for profit? At the same time of the Chicago siege think of Cincinnati becoming a battleground such as Stalingrad where not a single structure was left habitable and several hundred thousand soldiers killed each other in the process of leveling the city. Mentally switch names such as Smolensk, Karkov, Minsk, Kiev and Rostov for American cities and picture them destroyed and silenced. If such images are possible for us to even conceive, we can begin to understand why Americans refer to the conflict as World War Two, but the Russians universally refer to it as the Great Patriotic War.

 

[UKBrassowTipIN]

Can go wrong with "the wild and wonderful whites of West Virginia"

Also the "jinx, the life and deaths of Robert durst"

 

[2blue4u]

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

 

[ThroughBlue]

Zeitgeist

 

[ky8335]

Also, "Up for Grabs". It's about the guys that sued each other over Barry Bonds homerun record breaking ball.

 

[Free_Salato_Blue]

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