Ask HN: Documentaries you watched in 2022 and recommend to watch?

Posted by t0bia_s on Thursday December 29, 2022 @06:19AM
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I would like to know, what documentaries you watched in 2022 and recommend to watch? Could be released any time.

My list (sort by personal rating, yet recommended to watch): The Century of the Self (2002) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self

The World at War (1973) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_War

The Death of Yugoslavia (1996) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Yugoslavia

State of Control (2022) https://player.vimeo.com/video/769876604

What Is a Woman? (2022) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_a_Woman%3F

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Re:Ask HN: Documentaries you watched in 2022 and recommend t... by mindcrime on Thursday December 29, 2022 @06:31AM (#34171617)

A Trip to Infinity - https://www.netflix.com/watch/81273453

And not a documentary, more of a biopic, but the Ramanujan movie "The Man Who Knew Infinity" was pretty good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity

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Re:Ask HN: Documentaries you watched in 2022 and recommend t... by graderjs on Thursday December 29, 2022 @06:36AM (#34171641)

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Re:Ask HN: Documentaries you watched in 2022 and recommend t... by idiocrat on Thursday December 29, 2022 @07:10AM (#34171853)

These are my all-time favorites. Sorry if not fitting your "watched in 2022" criteria.

Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072742/

Thank You For Not Breeding (10+ years ago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abDpktpk7Is

The Atomic Cafe (1982) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083590/

Born Rich (2003) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342143/

Bonus documentaries (reality projections):

Idiocracy (2006) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

Koyaanisqatsi(1982) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/

Brazil (1985) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/

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Re:Ask HN: Documentaries you watched in 2022 and recommend t... by pasdechance on Friday December 30, 2022 @07:43AM (#34184491)

Koyaanisqatsi: haven't seen someone mention that in forever

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Re:Ask HN: Documentaries you watched in 2022 and recommend t... by m_ke on Thursday December 29, 2022 @07:43AM (#34172057)

Adam Curtis - Can't get you out of my head

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Re:Ask HN: Documentaries you watched in 2022 and recommend t... by t0bia_s on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:56AM (#34173905)

I watched right after Century of Self. It was a little bit hard to find connections between different stories in parallel storytelling.

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Re:Ask HN: Documentaries you watched in 2022 and recommend t... by willmeyers on Thursday December 29, 2022 @09:29AM (#34172883)

For All Mankind (1989) https://www.criterion.com/films/599-for-all-mankind

This was one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. Even if you don't care for the Apollo missions, it's just so well done it deserves a watch. It's less than an hour and a half.

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Re:Ask HN: Documentaries you watched in 2022 and recommend t... by t0bia_s on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:58AM (#34173935)

I saw it in cinema on film festival. Great documentary indeed.

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Re:Ask HN: Documentaries you watched in 2022 and recommend t... by pasdechance on Friday December 30, 2022 @06:48AM (#34184178)

'The Century of Self' is great. All of Adam Curtis' documentaries are awesome.

I also watched that Matt Walsh thing. A little vomit-inducing, but a great example of manipulative documentary techniques ("experts," scary music, "gotchya" ambush interviews).

I usually consume a number of documentaries, but this year I think I only watched...

Frozen Planet II

Fake Famous (2021) https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/788610-fake-famous

Do YouTube documentaries count?

'Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins' https://yewtu.be/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw and 'Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs' https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g by Folding Ideas were great.

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Re:Ask HN: Documentaries you watched in 2022 and recommend t... by sfusato on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @11:27AM (#34340256)

The Untold History of the United States (2012): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1494191/

10 episodes, ~1 hour each

Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.

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