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

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Stacey Dooley did a documentary on missing Indigenous girls and women in Canada. Talks about how the Canadian justice system failed them and still to this day they aren’t taken seriously. She confronts one white woman who is being completely racist and touches on the ‘schools’ that Native children were forced to attend and lost all their identity. Shows about how still today nobody really takes the community and it’s problems seriously and girls are even vulnerable at community events as their boyfriends sometimes encourage them to go on the game. Utterly shameful that in this day and age that these people are being forgotten and these women aren’t having justice.

Does anyone know what happened to the women from Sex Drugs and Murder, the doc based in Holbeck? I know one lady got clean after her partner died but then fell back into drugs sadly
 
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littlepup said:
Has anyone mentioned Mommy dead and dearest? Worst case of Munchausen’s by proxy I've ever heard of let alone the way it panned out.
Should have been self defence imo
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I came on to say this one, also agree about self defence but think the involvement of her boyfriend and the planning swayed it. I imagine she is very troubled but seems to be doing okay in prison actually.

There was a series of about 3 documentaries channel 5 did about 2 years ago on women that were stalked and killed by their ex boyfriends. Each case should have had more intervention from the police because all of them had previous cautions for similar behaviour with other girlfriends, really felt like their deaths could have been avoided. Stalking really does need more focus as its only getting worse IMO. All 3 stuck with me.

Unsolved on BBC, there's about three, three episode documentaries about unsolved murder/missing people cases.

Dreams of a life haunts me to this day, can't comprehend it.

One I love to re watch every couple of years was about Liverpool and tanning, appearance etc. I think it was called Beautiful Liverpool, Jersey shore of England. Its on YouTube.
 
MaxieMoo said:
So many people mentioning a child of our time. Was this years ago or more recent? I need to watch this.
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It started in 2000, following the lives of children born at the turn of the millennium. They did follow up programmes every few years to see how they were all getting on. It's an absolutely brilliant series and well worth a watch. My eldest was born in 2000 so I felt a real connection with it and was very upset at the news Parys had died.
 
littlepup said:
Has anyone mentioned Mommy dead and dearest? Worst case of Munchausen’s by proxy I've ever heard of let alone the way it panned out.
Should have been self defence imo
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Yes! I have watched/read a lot about this case. There was a limited series made of it called The Act, Joey King plays Gypsy Rose and Patricia Arquette plays her mother Dee Dee. It was really good. I think if Gypsy herself had killed her mother, it would’ve been considered as self-defence, but the involvement of the online boyfriend and the planning didn’t help. I felt so sorry for her, she went from one prison to another, but at least now she is free from her mother and will go on to have a life of her own once released.
 
Buzzbee said:
Yes! I have watched/read a lot about this case. There was a limited series made of it called The Act, Joey King plays Gypsy Rose and Patricia Arquette plays her mother Dee Dee. It was really good. I think if Gypsy herself had killed her mother, it would’ve been considered as self-defence, but the involvement of the online boyfriend and the planning didn’t help. I felt so sorry for her, she went from one prison to another, but at least now she is free from her mother and will go on to have a life of her own once released.
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Yes I agree with you & the other poster that it’s the boyfriend’s involvement that’s the issue else there could have been some kind of case for it being justifiable rather than calculated revenge.

another documentary series I’ve mentioned on here before is ‘active shooter’ about situation is in America with mass shootings. I often revel in morbid fascination at some murder stories but this series it just unbelievable, heart breakingly sad. And terrifying.
The responder to the the Pulse nightclub shooting who describes wading in blood and seeing body after body for hours upon hours and it’s just absolutely destroyed them and as a consequence their family is so sobering. The wife says she lost her husband that day. He walked out her husband and came back a totally broken man. I wonder if he’s healing, though I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s taken his own life either
 
In the most recent series of Unsolved Mysteries there's an episode about a womans body that was found in a hotel in Oslo, she was down as being called Jennifer Fairgate but they could never identify her and her death is really dodgy. A journalist is still trying to find out who she was, I think its likely she was a spy/involved in that sort of thing. Her clothes had all the labels cut out, so strange.
 
I remember watching a documentary on I think Strangeways prison, where this bloke was on the hospital wing to be observed for killing her ex. He was so cold reading a newspaper about himself and saying he hated her and then he loved her. Think it was Jonathan Vass. Then a couple of years later the murder of Jane Clough and realising he’d murdered her. 😢 that poor woman.
 
Ok these aren’t really documentaries but can anyone remember a show called The Family on channel 4 about 10 years ago? The first series was a white family from Kent I think and the second series was an Asian family, they just had cameras in every room of their house and we just randomly watched their day to day life? Sounds so boring but it was brilliant.

I also loved the series Holiday Showdown on ITV. They’d have 2 families, one would go on something like a posh safari in Africa and the second family would join them, then the second family picked the next holiday for everyone and it’d be like a week in Benidorm or something 🤣 there was always so many arguments!
 
Helpmeout said:
Ok these aren’t really documentaries but can anyone remember a show called The Family on channel 4 about 10 years ago? The first series was a white family from Kent I think and the second series was an Asian family, they just had cameras in every room of their house and we just randomly watched their day to day life? Sounds so boring but it was brilliant.

I also loved the series Holiday Showdown on ITV. They’d have 2 families, one would go on something like a posh safari in Africa and the second family would join them, then the second family picked the next holiday for everyone and it’d be like a week in Benidorm or something 🤣 there was always so many arguments!
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Ooh I loved the family. That’s a blast from the past.
Holiday showdown when you go on the holiday of your nightmare. I remember the children in one family pulled up the children in the other family of being rude and disrespectful to their parents.
 
I can't remember what it was called but there was a documentary on tv years ago about how unwanted babies in, I think it was in Romania? were just dumped and basically left to rot in an orphanage. The handful of nurses cared for them the best they could, but healthy children were just sat, silently rocking, in a vegetative state through no stimulation, interaction or love. It broke my heart. It must have been on about 20yrs ago because I was only a teen myself.

Another one that comes to mind was about street children in India. Where little boys are taken and fed drugs and forced into prostitution for a little bit of money or more drugs. It may have been called bus boys. My memory is shocking lately. It showed the bus drivers picking them up, then going to an area with beds in it in the open. Really disturbing. A woman and a man were trying to help some of them to get off the streets but many were too damaged and addicted. Horrific.
 
Helpmeout said:
I also loved the series Holiday Showdown on ITV. They’d have 2 families, one would go on something like a posh safari in Africa and the second family would join them, then the second family picked the next holiday for everyone and it’d be like a week in Benidorm or something 🤣 there was always so many arguments!
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Yes!!! Loved that. It was lovely when one family managed to see the benefit on simple pleasures or another had their eyes totally opened to another culture.... but just awful when some were so ungrateful and unwilling or unable to open their minds. ‘Don’t like that old foreign junk’ is just as dreadful as the snobbery.

In a similar, not quite documentary vein, the recent channel 5 show where they took people off benefits and gave them a lump sum was absolutely brilliant. Highly recommend it!
 
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