Ask HN: Please recommend some good documentaries to watch

Posted by brogrammer2 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @06:48AM
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Re:Ask HN: Please recommend some good documentaries to watch by runningdev on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @10:35AM (#13867775)

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5275828/

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Re:Ask HN: Please recommend some good documentaries to watch by airbreather on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:21AM (#13866544)

Anything by Adam Curtis

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Re:Ask HN: Please recommend some good documentaries to watch by brogrammer2 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:31AM (#13866580)

Thanks, I liked The Century of the self which was, as I just found out, made by Adam Curtis ..

will definitely check out his other stuff ...

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Re:Ask HN: Please recommend some good documentaries to watch by robin_reala on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:21AM (#13866541)

In general? Any specific subjects?

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Re:Ask HN: Please recommend some good documentaries to watch by brogrammer2 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:28AM (#13866573)

Any subject would do I guess, I loved The Inside Job and some works from David Attenborough ..

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Re:Ask HN: Please recommend some good documentaries to watch by mattbgates on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:44AM (#13866655)

Anything by Alan Watts.

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Re:Ask HN: Please recommend some good documentaries to watch by CuriouslyC on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @08:38AM (#13866981)

Alan is an amazing speaker, but he tends to ramble a bit. I would suggest reading "On the taboo against knowing who you are" as a fairly tight (~150 page) condensation of his ideas.

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Re:Ask HN: Please recommend some good documentaries to watch by mattbgates on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:46PM (#13870291)

Haha.. I have to admit, I can only take him in small doses. What he says is wonderful and it does make sense, but it can be intense. Definitely need some time to pause or just "digest" some of the things he is saying.

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