What is a good documentary you enjoyed? :)

Hiya I am new here and documentaries are one of my few distractions that work when I'm not feeling too bad. I am just wondering if you have any that you have seen recently that you would recommend!

Recently I have enjoyed "Pop Star Academy" on Netflix, showing the making of a global girl group using K-pop's training system.

I have also been rewatching Louis Theroux documentaries as he has some of my favourites. I quite enjoyed "Mothers on the Edge" about mothers who developed psychosis or other mental illnesses post giving birth.

Next I'm going to watch "The Rescue" about the rescue mission to save the twelve boys plus their coach from a flooded cave in Thailand.

Thank you so much if you have any recommendations!

Lol I like watching ones about dinosaurs, so I watched Walking with Dinosaurs recently both new version and old, but it might not be your type of thing!

I like watching the entertainment and music documentaries.

Lately I've been watching documentaries on places like Kensington ave., the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and so forth.

Here's one:

I really want to recommend "Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project".

https://recorderfilm.com/
"Marion Stokes was secretly recording television twenty-four hours a day for thirty years. It started in 1979 with the Iranian Hostage Crisis at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012 while the Sandy Hook massacre played on television as Marion passed away. In between, Marion recorded on 70,000 VHS tapes, capturing revolutions, lies, wars, triumphs, catastrophes, bloopers, talk shows, and commercials that tell us who we were, and show how television shaped the world of today.

Her work was crazy but it was also genius"


Available to watch here

Interesting. Things like songs from random commercials will pop into my head from time to time. I have to wonder if she captured any of them on tape.

There is one in particular from an Outer Limits ad that I can't seem to find; it was likely just purpose-made and so only lives on in my head.

I really enjoyed the movie "Hotline". The 2014 one. It's about people having conversations on various types of hotlines and people needing that human connection.