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Best Documentary Ever Made
World at War back in the early 70s. Watching it for the third time and it seems to get better.
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06-23-2012, 08:30 PM
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06-23-2012, 10:55 PM
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06-25-2012, 10:45 AM
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07-01-2012, 11:31 AM
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j/k One of my favorites recently is called "Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas". You can watch it on Netflix. Another good one was "Pulling John", about an arm-wrestling champion, also on Netflix. But the best I ever saw was "Hoop Dreams". |
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07-01-2012, 11:33 AM
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Ken Burns' Civil War.
Period.
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07-01-2012, 12:34 PM
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not counting series, my mind went to a couple of eccentric features..herzog's "little dieter needs to fly" and the maysles' "grey gardens".
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07-02-2012, 09:52 PM
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Ken Burns' baseball from the early 1990s.
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07-03-2012, 05:29 AM
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 But World At War, even though I haven't seen it in eons, is right there too.
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07-03-2012, 07:50 AM
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I love The Civil War and it's very well done, but I don't think it's on the level with World at War as far as quality goes. I can see why some enjoy it more, but IMO it's not as "impressive" a work as WaW.
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07-03-2012, 09:34 PM
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Happy that Military History channel is running a World at War marathon, excellent.
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07-03-2012, 09:59 PM
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BTW, does anyone else love the history channel guys who do the civil war shows and have the civil war era beards? Everyone who covers history should have a commensurate hairstyle. Revolutionary war guys should wear wigs. I teach Latin and my hair is going the way of Julius Caesar, so I'm doing my part.
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07-03-2012, 10:18 PM
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07-03-2012, 10:40 PM
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The " Civil War" is great and David McCullough is great. But David McCullough is not Laurence Olivier. This is how the English language was meant to be spoken.
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