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

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Carry On! said:
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.
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It was called Hardcore and it's available to watch on YouTube.
Really sad and disturbing
 
180922 said:
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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I remember this show! I watched it all the time and it scarred me for life too.

I'll never forget the episode where that school boy had a javelin thrown through his neck :oops: I was terrified of doing javelin in PE after watching that. Some of the stories were so outrageous they could have been made up. Glad they only told us stories where everyone survived.
 
180922 said:
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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I remember both of those! It really stressed me out going swimming afterwards. I already thought I was fairly careful about bottles in the car but I once ended up with a bottle of fruit shoot under the brake. Fortunately it crumpled when I pressed my foot down harder. I take even more care now though!
 
I always find myself watching air crash investigation /mayday. There’s just something about seeing the reenactments and the step by step investigation. I’ve watched to much that if there’s an aviation accident I’m pretty good at guessing the cause based on the news articles 🤦🏼‍♀️
My favourite episode is the Hudson River landing-I don’t think many people realise just how difficult a water landing is. Or the one about United Airlines 232.
 
I remember a documentary about drug abuse. It was presented by the filmmaker, probably in his 50s who was a recovered drug addict. He was living with his mum who was so pleased he had finally managed to recover and had probably been clean about 3 years if I remember correctly. The documentary was about him talking to addicts and through the course of filming it he started taking it again and was in the midst of addiction by the end. It was heartbreaking.

I cried for a week after seeing Dear Zachary. I honestly wish I hadn't seen it. It was devastating. Even now I'm welling up thinking about it.
 
180922 said:
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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I loved this! The episode that sticks in my head was someone falling out their window and impaling themselves on the metal gate spikes below. I used to think about it every time I saw gates with spiky bits.
 
BustySinclair said:
No idea why I remember it but there was a documentary about a really young mum (maybe like 13?) called Kizzy. I wonder how she’s doing now :) does anyone else remember?
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I remember that one and wondered the same! Tbh I find these documentaries more shocking now that when I watched them first time round. About 10% of the girls in my year were pregnant by the time we left school and a few were pregnant in year 9/10 so it didn’t really shock me at the time. I think because at that age you feel like you know everything already, now it’s scary to think about if I had a baby at that age they would be 14 themselves now!
 
FOD's missing hairbands said:
I remember a documentary about drug abuse. It was presented by the filmmaker, probably in his 50s who was a recovered drug addict. He was living with his mum who was so pleased he had finally managed to recover and had probably been clean about 3 years if I remember correctly. The documentary was about him talking to addicts and through the course of filming it he started taking it again and was in the midst of addiction by the end. It was heartbreaking.

I cried for a week after seeing Dear Zachary. I honestly wish I hadn't seen it. It was devastating. Even now I'm welling up thinking about it.
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I'd be really interested to watch the one about drug abuse if anyone can remember the title please?
 
SpiceWeasel said:
I remember that one and wondered the same! Tbh I find these documentaries more shocking now that when I watched them first time round. About 10% of the girls in my year were pregnant by the time we left school and a few were pregnant in year 9/10 so it didn’t really shock me at the time. I think because at that age you feel like you know everything already, now it’s scary to think about if I had a baby at that age they would be 14 themselves now!
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Agreed! Looking back shows how young they really were. They were babies themselves :(
 
SpiceWeasel said:
I remember that one and wondered the same! Tbh I find these documentaries more shocking now that when I watched them first time round. About 10% of the girls in my year were pregnant by the time we left school and a few were pregnant in year 9/10 so it didn’t really shock me at the time. I think because at that age you feel like you know everything already, now it’s scary to think about if I had a baby at that age they would be 14 themselves now!
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When I was 15, 2 girls in my class left school when they became pregnant. One of them became a grandmother at 31 when her daughter had a baby at 16. We're both 41 now and she has a ten year old grandchild. My neighbour is 41 and has a 6 month old baby. It's shocking when you think about it.
 
I remember a documentary from few years back, Exposure Please don’t take my child, it took me several attempts to watch. I was an emotional wreck from start to finish
 
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