Documentaries you've seen you still think about to this day

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Not sure if anyone has already mentioned this, but Abducted in Plain Sight (Netflix). I was literally saying wtaf?! Every few minutes.
Briefly, a family's daughter was abused by a neighbour, the parents knew and let it continue. When the girl's father confessed that he had given this neighbour a blowjob, I nearly fell over. Plus the girl's mum seemed to be in love with this neighbour. Absolute insanity.
 
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Maiyo2020 said:
Not sure if anyone has already mentioned this, but Abducted in Plain Sight (Netflix). I was literally saying wtaf?! Every few minutes.
Briefly, a family's daughter was abused by a neighbour, the parents knew and let it continue. When the girl's father confessed that he had given this neighbour a blowjob, I nearly fell over. Plus the girl's mum seemed to be in love with this neighbour. Absolute insanity.
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That’s still one of the craziest documentaries I’ve seen!
 
I haven’t gone far through this thread but did anyone watch the Mummification of Alan Billis? I think it was a ch4 one a few years back. He was a taxi driver who donated his body for modern day mummification and it followed his journey right from interviews with him and his wife prior to his death and the mummification process. It was incredible , I’ve tried to find it a few times to rewatch but no luck plenty of articles online about it though . Amazing man
 
Maiyo2020 said:
Not sure if anyone has already mentioned this, but Abducted in Plain Sight (Netflix). I was literally saying wtaf?! Every few minutes.
Briefly, a family's daughter was abused by a neighbour, the parents knew and let it continue. When the girl's father confessed that he had given this neighbour a blowjob, I nearly fell over. Plus the girl's mum seemed to be in love with this neighbour. Absolute insanity.
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Yes I was the same. Constantly saying wtaf. When he said about the blow job I was so shocked.
 
Its_Me said:
I’ve seen this as well it’s was very sad but quite strange from memory as in it didn’t all add up. Wasn’t the father of the children defending her but the toxicology report said she had been drinking? I’ll have to watch it again.

I watched Louis Theroux drinking to oblivion last night after I saw it mentioned here. I felt so sad for Joe and I found him on Instagram he recently relapsed and had been trying to raise funds to go into detox again 🙁
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I have just finished watching it thanks to this thread. That is so sad about Joe.
 
Ive watched a few of these - I do watch quality TV however I have seen fat girls and their feeders and the man with the 60st testicles.

The one with the reborn dolls stuck in my head, where the granny got one made of her grandson (using one of his old baby pics) because her daughter dared to emigrate after recovering from cancer. That woman was awful!

The most batshit I’ve seen is Cat Dancers on channel 4, about a couple (thrupple??) who toured around with all kinds of cats including tigers etc. It was so dark! Nobody else seems to remember it.
 
I remember watching Dallas Wein(?) who got electrocuted and lost his face. They grafted skin on to cover his skull and he looked like a Gary Oldman character. He ended up having a face transplant.
And a woman who had a face transplant after a chimpanzee mauled her face off.
 
A BBC3 documentary called "My Big Decision" where teenage girls would be given information to help them make a "decision" about things like binge drinking, underage sex, pregnancy or having plastic surgery. I particularly remember it for a very sad episode where a 12- or 13-year-old girl was desperate for breast implants; she had huge hang-ups about her appearance which seemed to be based around not accepting herself as a mixed race Black girl and was sent to various activities designed to boost her confidence. But overall I found it shocking. I don't think it's right to treat something like that with such obviously harmful consequences as a "decision" to be made by the child that is equally valid either way

I also vividly remember a documentary about a sexual health clinic where a stout, no-nonsense nurse in her 50s told the interviewer that patients would regularly ask her out after she'd examined them! Why they think she'd accept after that is beyond me ...
 
Miss_noseyparker67 said:
Not a documentary but the abuse & murder of the 4 year old Daniel Pelka which was all over the news in 2012. It absolutely broke my heart that not one person did anything to help that little boy. I still tear up when I picture his beautiful little face 😥
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i so agree, it was one of most heartbreaking cases I’ve ever read about. It’s one that will always stay with me x
 
ShoeGal said:
I can't believe no one has mentioned the very highbrow

MONKEY BABIES: Channel 4 documentary where people dressed their pet monkeys up as babies and took them to the shops

and

FAT GIRLS AND FEEDERS: documentary about larger ladies whose partners (feeders) encouraged their very unhealthy eating habits by buying them sh1t and literally feeding it to them. One woman had got so large she could no longer leave the house.

Quality TV. Anyone remember these?!
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Fat Girls & Feeders! If memory serves me right, one of the partners was really controlling and she was basically trapped?
 
ShoeGal said:
I can't believe no one has mentioned the very highbrow

MONKEY BABIES: Channel 4 documentary where people dressed their pet monkeys up as babies and took them to the shops

and

FAT GIRLS AND FEEDERS: documentary about larger ladies whose partners (feeders) encouraged their very unhealthy eating habits by buying them sh1t and literally feeding it to them. One woman had got so large she could no longer leave the house.

Quality TV. Anyone remember these?!
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Unicorn_Poop said:
Fat Girls & Feeders! If memory serves me right, one of the partners was really controlling and she was basically trapped?
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I remember this one as well. Surely that’s abuse!
 
Unicorn_Poop said:
Fat Girls & Feeders! If memory serves me right, one of the partners was really controlling and she was basically trapped?
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You've summed the fetish up. Nearly every person is into feedism is abusive or want a lifestyle where they have no responsibilities and can hide away from life all day.

Dienna(?) The 8 year old anorexic and Naomi from I'm a child anorexic have really stuck in my. Dienna seemed to relapse as soon as she left (not surprising) and Naomi was so entrenched by have eating disorder that recovery seems near impossible for her.

There was an episode of underage and pregnant, the girl was 13/14 and baby daddy was 18+. Would love to see where she is now and her thoughts on that relationships. In fact most of the girls were with older males which if happened today many questions would be raised.

Then Tamsin from the world's strictest parents, she went to a gay couple in the US who kept her longer and travelled back home with her. One of her parents was dying and she was addicted to bubble/mkat/drone. She reminded me of my young self.
 
Uhohno said:
Then Tamsin from the world's strictest parents, she went to a gay couple in the US who kept her longer and travelled back home with her. One of her parents was dying and she was addicted to bubble/mkat/drone. She reminded me of my young self.
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I remember her! I wonder how she’s doing, okay I hope. What I liked about that show is that they genuinely seemed to have changed when they went back home (though it could be just for the benefit of the cameras of course).
 
Born to be Different - a documentary following children with a variety of different conditions and disabilities.

Girls Alone? - a documentary where they put a group of 10 year old girls who had never met in a house for the weekend to fend for themselves. I always remember one called Sherry leaving early and another girl called Chaz who fell of a chair. 😂
 
There are some fantastic docus on the new Sky Documentary channel (heaven for me). So far my favourite has been Southern Rites, about a town in the Deep South where the high school had a racially segregated prom.

There are some excellent ones on iPlayer too, 24 Deadly hours in America is fantastic - it won a bafta I believe. I also like the Life And Death Row series on there.
 
Pagger said:
Girls Alone? - a documentary where they put a group of 10 year old girls who had never met in a house for the weekend to fend for themselves. I always remember one called Sherry leaving early and another girl called Chaz who fell of a chair. 😂
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Was that this one?

 
Toffee finger said:
One I just thought of was about 7ish years ago. A group of youngsters who had been in trouble with police/school etc were given job opportunities. They all shared a house but each had a different job to go to. One guy worked with a butcher and he really turned himself around, I wonder how he is doing now.
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It wasn't Jon Watts was it? Very successful chef now if its the same man!
 
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