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

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Samf2020 said:
Part documentary part film on Joyce Carol Vincent who died and was in her flat for years before anyone found her still haunts me.
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I saw that. It was very well made but incredibly sad.

Something similar happening to me is one of my biggest fears, as my family was made-up of much older relatives who are now all dead and it's only a few of us left now, with some of us really not getting along with each other just to make it worse.

One I just remembered was about The Long Island Serial Killer.

There was a lady called Shannan Gilbert who's remains were found on the island and it was sad enough but years later her sister, who suffered from severe mental health problems murdered her mother and is now in prison. Shannan's mum fought really hard to try and get answers and justice for what happened to Shannan, as Shannan was a sex worker so the attitude of the authorities towards her death was not great.

Makes me distressed at how cruel life can be towards some.
 
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MaxieMoo said:
Reminds me of a documentary I saw some years back about a young guy who went missing on the Isle of wight. Last seen on a night out then never seen again. If i recall they were trying to review lots of old footage and stuff of cctv in the area. The poor Mother was just bereft.
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did you ever watch Britain's Missing Young People? It was so sad. There was a young girl from Glasgow that went missing and was seen jumping from a bridge. She was the same age as me. I still think about her and how horrible it must be for her and the other families
 
petitspois said:
Can anyone remember a Louis Theroux about 20 (!) years ago where he followed a British woman trying to make it in the US porn industry? She ended up as a warm up girl, giving blow jobs before the camera started. One scene stuck with me - she met some sort of honcho guy for an audition and they were talking then he just started having sex with her without any discussion at all.
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I've had to come out of long-term lurking to say this film was exactly what came to my mind when I saw this thread!

I can't remember what it was called but it was on Channel 4 and I've never forgotten it because it was so disturbing. At the time I didn't have a problem with porn but it was this documentary that really changed my mind.

I remember the guy you were talking about called himself 'Max Hardcore'. She went to his house and had to stand there, naked, waiting for him. He then just came in, went behind her and started having sex with her and you could tell how shocked and upset she was. There were all his minders in the room too.
Then he was trying to talk her into doing some things she wasn't comfortable with and started off cajoling and sweet-talking her but when she still wasn't sure he switched to intimidating and threatening her. The film-maker had to step in in the end and get her out of there.
 
Just remembered another documentary that I watched a few years ago now
"Welcome to the Strangest Hotel" it
It was set in Foxs Hotel, in Minehead
The staff all had various special needs such as downs syndrome ,where they were trained for jobs in hospitality I.e catering, housekeeping etc.
Thought at the time it was such a good idea
 
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Think it was called 16 Acres is what lead me onto thinking about the various conspiracy theories about 9/11 (won't go into that though here but is a little bit I think I talked about in the conspiracies thread I think it was)
 
There's a few classics here!

The Damien Nettles one on bbc 3 a few years ago was good, I always got the impression that its one of those where they know with 99% certainty who did it (the drug dealer) but just cant pin it on him, and he's dead.

Holiday showdown was an absolute classic, one that sticks out in my mind is one with a quite hip mixed race family, the mum of whom is originally from Jamaica, and they have to go to Dollywood with some bloody awful woman who is a massive Dolly Parton fan. The jamaican family are bored rigid and piss about all day and the Dolly parton woman absolutely blows her top at them, iirc the kick off all takes place at a green screen attraction where you get digitally inserted into a dolly parton video which just made it even funnier. Did anyone ever see it? I've never found the full episode online.

Dogging Tales and My Reborn Baby are other great ones, I\ve heard sooo many people talk about the porn star buying the island thing on CHannel 4 but I don't think I saw it at the time i'd love to watch it now.
 
Weston14 said:
There's a few classics here!

The Damien Nettles one on bbc 3 a few years ago was good, I always got the impression that its one of those where they know with 99% certainty who did it (the drug dealer) but just cant pin it on him, and he's dead.

Holiday showdown was an absolute classic, one that sticks out in my mind is one with a quite hip mixed race family, the mum of whom is originally from Jamaica, and they have to go to Dollywood with some bloody awful woman who is a massive Dolly Parton fan. The jamaican family are bored rigid and piss about all day and the Dolly parton woman absolutely blows her top at them, iirc the kick off all takes place at a green screen attraction where you get digitally inserted into a dolly parton video which just made it even funnier. Did anyone ever see it? I've never found the full episode online.

Dogging Tales and My Reborn Baby are other great ones, I\ve heard sooo many people talk about the porn star buying the island thing on CHannel 4 but I don't think I saw it at the time i'd love to watch it now.
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No Going Back with Janique isn't available anywhere. I think someone said her children have objected somehow. Quite rightly given the content.
 
When I was younger there was a TV show called 999 with Newsreader Michael Burke, it was about unusual life-threatening incidents that happened that people survived (not sure if anyone in the UK remembers this!? was on in the 90's!)

There was two distinct episodes that have stayed with me all these years. 1 - a girl with long hair went swimming and her hair got caught/tangled in the swimming pool pump and she couldn't come up for air.

And another, where someone driving their car had a bottle of coke and it accidentally rolled under the break peddle and they couldn't break.

To this day I go swimming with my long hair plaited and in the tightest bun, and I never drive with any bottles of drink.

That show scarred me for life! lol
 
I remember these and also there was one where a boy got his shoe laces stuck in the escalator and now I can’t use them 🙈QUOTE="180922, post: 3050687, member: 5051"]
When I was younger there was a TV show called 999 with Newsreader Michael Burke, it was about unusual life-threatening incidents that happened that people survived (not sure if anyone in the UK remembers this!? was on in the 90's!)

There was two distinct episodes that have stayed with me all these years. 1 - a girl with long hair went swimming and her hair got caught/tangled in the swimming pool pump and she couldn't come up for air.

And another, where someone driving their car had a bottle of coke and it accidentally rolled under the break peddle and they couldn't break.

To this day I go swimming with my long hair plaited and in the tightest bun, and I never drive with any bottles of drink.

That show scarred me for life! lol
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Ok so I've done more digging on the Jayne Gaskin thing and it turns out there's an even weirder posttext to this story...

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"The Gaskin's - Jane, Phillip and their two sons had bought Lime Cay from Tsokos for $240,000. They were an obnoxious crew, cutting mangrove, driving off the indigenous people, hiring armed guards on the beach, vandalizing hawksbill turtle nests, firing on a boat of MARENA officials (the Nicaraguan Environmental Agency).

Phillip did all the work on the island, and did not seem in the best of health. Jane had an affair with the cook, then fired him when she learned he was sleeping with another of the servants. There was a revenge kidnapping, a boat exploded in a gasoline fire, arrests and releases, a murky criminal case in which no one, finally, suffered any severe consequences, except the burned boys ... weeks later, Philip suffered a severe illness and died in Bluefields in a taxi with Jane, just minutes from the hospital.

No autopsy, no burial in a cemetery - Philip was buried on an island in Bluefields Bay, which was occupied by a gringo raising tropical snakes for export and with whom Jane was having an affair. Months later, a British man appeared in Bluefields, who represented himself as Philip Gaskin, looking for his wife and children ... no one knows who the first Philip was, at least no one on the streets of Pearl Lagoon or the beach of Set Net Point."

So it turns out that the Phillip Gaskin we saw in the documentary might not have been the real Philip Gaskin after all? There seems to be some pictures from around the time supporting this claim: https://www.shutterstock.com/editor...on-an-island-lime-cay-near-nicaragua-9031865a
 
Weston14 said:
Ok so I've done more digging on the Jayne Gaskin thing and it turns out there's an even weirder posttext to this story...

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"The Gaskin's - Jane, Phillip and their two sons had bought Lime Cay from Tsokos for $240,000. They were an obnoxious crew, cutting mangrove, driving off the indigenous people, hiring armed guards on the beach, vandalizing hawksbill turtle nests, firing on a boat of MARENA officials (the Nicaraguan Environmental Agency).

Phillip did all the work on the island, and did not seem in the best of health. Jane had an affair with the cook, then fired him when she learned he was sleeping with another of the servants. There was a revenge kidnapping, a boat exploded in a gasoline fire, arrests and releases, a murky criminal case in which no one, finally, suffered any severe consequences, except the burned boys ... weeks later, Philip suffered a severe illness and died in Bluefields in a taxi with Jane, just minutes from the hospital.

No autopsy, no burial in a cemetery - Philip was buried on an island in Bluefields Bay, which was occupied by a gringo raising tropical snakes for export and with whom Jane was having an affair. Months later, a British man appeared in Bluefields, who represented himself as Philip Gaskin, looking for his wife and children ... no one knows who the first Philip was, at least no one on the streets of Pearl Lagoon or the beach of Set Net Point."

So it turns out that the Phillip Gaskin we saw in the documentary might not have been the real Philip Gaskin after all? There seems to be some pictures from around the time supporting this claim: https://www.shutterstock.com/editor...on-an-island-lime-cay-near-nicaragua-9031865a
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OMG! from memory, I thought the man she was with wasn't the father of the kids and died of a severe asthma attack (or complications from). Who was that man in the show then? I find this fascinating. Remember the scene of her walking topless on the beach with her boyfriend (whilst still married)?
 
Weston14 said:
Holiday showdown was an absolute classic, one that sticks out in my mind is one with a quite hip mixed race family, the mum of whom is originally from Jamaica, and they have to go to Dollywood with some bloody awful woman who is a massive Dolly Parton fan. The jamaican family are bored rigid and piss about all day and the Dolly parton woman absolutely blows her top at them, iirc the kick off all takes place at a green screen attraction where you get digitally inserted into a dolly parton video which just made it even funnier. Did anyone ever see it? I've never found the full episode online.
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Holiday Showdon was the best!!!!!! There are loads of old episodes on YouTube (awful quality) but not sure I've seen that one on there!
 
petitspois said:
OMG! from memory, I thought the man she was with wasn't the father of the kids and died of a severe asthma attack (or complications from). Who was that man in the show then? I find this fascinating. Remember the scene of her walking topless on the beach with her boyfriend (whilst still married)?
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"The story had a further sting in the tail when it turned out Philip was an impostor who had changed his name by deed poll and assumed paternity of the children. The real Philip Gaskin was alive and well in Bournemouth."

So it sounds to me like the man who died in the programme was a second husband who had taken on the name of the first one and the real father of the children was (and may still be) alive and well. How very strange. It might be that we never know who the second husband was.
 
LouSV said:
The Bridge
A 2006 documentary film about the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and the people who jump from it , this film recorded 23 suicides and it still haunts me to this day
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OMG I remember bring so disturbed by this. If I remember right, there was a man who was telling his mum/best friend how he was planning to jump (he’d been suicidal for ages) and she told him to laminate his details and put them in his pocket so they could identify his body if he did decide to jump. I remember screaming at the tv going ‘no, get him some help so it doesn’t come to that’. It was shocking.

I think he did jump in the end - very very tragic. It’s never left me.
 
Weston14 said:
"The story had a further sting in the tail when it turned out Philip was an impostor who had changed his name by deed poll and assumed paternity of the children. The real Philip Gaskin was alive and well in Bournemouth."

So it sounds to me like the man who died in the programme was a second husband who had taken on the name of the first one and the real father of the children was (and may still be) alive and well. How very strange. It might be that we never know who the second husband was.
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bloody hell. I need time to digest this!!!! O M G!!!!!!!!
 
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