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

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Three Identical Strangers is amazing.
The Dying Rooms and Bulgaria’s abandoned children are fantastic documentaries but so so sad about orphanages in China and Bulgaria. These are both on YouTube.
Also in Youtube is a 90s documentary Black Tar Heroin about a group of teenagers and young adults who they follow through their addiction to heroin. It’s amazingly filmed and just stays with you.
I’d really recommend all of these films. I’ve seen them multiple times.
 
I recall a documentary in the mid-80s about a young stage musician who'd spent years in an institution after being sent there as a child for arson. His stage name was Jonny Oddball. That might have been the name of the documentary but I'm not sure. It included footage of him as a child talking about his destructive acts, as well as interviews with him as an adult. I found it quite haunting.
 
‘ bedlam channel 4 .... people with severe mental health, always wonder how they are now and where they are.
And years ago I watched a doc on channel 4 about a little girl and her mum from India- her mum said her child was god like and bled from her palms and head . The whole village saw her as god like.
the doctor in charge concluded the mother had munchenhausen and was pacing blood from herself onto her child

I felt so sorry for the child and to this day have never seen any updates on what happened to either of them .
 
There was a documentary on bbc3 years ago like a 6 part series and it was children who had mental health issues in a facility and it had them talking about themselves etc, and just showing you what they got up too. It was heartbreaking wish I could watch it again and I hope they are happier now.
Another one was about these drug addicts in Liverpool one woman was shutting in the bath where she was so cracked out of it and her toilet had broke. Think it was filmed early 2000s one woman was called Virginia she was heavily pregnant and injecting heroin. Then it showed her prostitutint herself at 9 months pregnant.
I googled her last year she’s still on drugs now roaming around. ☹️
 
bookworm1403 said:
It honestly plays on me still - I was horrified all the way through & just felt so much sympathy for those poor children who must've been so scared
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Also the way he said he didn’t want children - That poor little boy that survived hearing that. He is practically (from what I saw) being brought up by his aunt! Can anyone make a thread about this in tv/films I can’t seem to make one.
 
Larson Croft said:
I think she had an argument with her husband before they left camp and she had a drinking/dope problem. Her body was hella bloated! I was not ready for that photo of her.
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Good theory. I felt like the husband knew more than he was letting on. Maybe he didn't want to believe she had been drinking that day to aliviate his own guilt in whatever happened. Definitely a sad story. Also interesting that the parents of the other children involved wouldn't take part.
 
BigBrenda said:
There was a documentary on bbc3 years ago like a 6 part series and it was children who had mental health issues in a facility and it had them talking about themselves etc, and just showing you what they got up too. It was heartbreaking wish I could watch it again and I hope they are happier now.
Another one was about these drug addicts in Liverpool one woman was shutting in the bath where she was so cracked out of it and her toilet had broke. Think it was filmed early 2000s one woman was called Virginia she was heavily pregnant and injecting heroin. Then it showed her prostitutint herself at 9 months pregnant.
I googled her last year she’s still on drugs now roaming around. ☹️
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The main woman in the Liverpool one was in the news for something else recently, robbing or soliciting or something, can’t remember, and in the comments section someone posted a link to her old, inactive Facebook profile with pics of her pre addiction. Was absolutely heartbreaking as she was healthy, attractive and seemed to have family and friends.
 
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