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

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DCICassieStuart said:
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.
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Just wow! There is a girl who was the year below me at school who had her first baby at 15 and now has six children by six fathers (lovely) I facebook stalk her occasionally and was thinking I reckon it's only a matter of time before her eldest procreates! She'll be 27/28 now I wonder what the record is for youngest grandmother.
 
Chunkeylaydee said:
I remember watching a documentary called Padding green. We loved it. Think it was on BBC3 in the early days.
There was a woman called Jackie who told her story of when she was Jason and how she was a prostitute on the streets round there to save for surgery.
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My mum used to watch Paddington Green in the late 90s/ early 2000s. Think it was before bbc3 but a late night on bbc2 sort of thing. No idea why she let me watch it 😂

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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yes! I remember the dad in the second one shouting to his wife ‘cup of tea!!’ Which became a catchphrase in our house
 
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Castaway 2000- They sent a group of people (families and singles) to live on an island in Scotland for a year as a social experiment and to build a community.

I can't remember the name, but probably about 15 years ago I watched a documentary about the religious conflicts in Ireland and it always stuck with me. I just remember the last shot was of them filming down a road and all the houses had been burnt and damaged.
 
Poldypoldy said:
My mum used to watch Paddington Green in the late 90s/ early 2000s. Think it was before bbc3 but a late night on bbc2 sort of thing. No idea why she let me watch it 😂



yes! I remember the dad in the second one shouting to his wife ‘cup of tea!!’ Which became a catchphrase in our house
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Yes!!! I really enjoyed the family.
 
Nosey21 said:
Castaway 2000- They sent a group of people (families and singles) to live on an island in Scotland for a year as a social experiment and to build a community.

I can't remember the name, but probably about 15 years ago I watched a documentary about the religious conflicts in Ireland and it always stuck with me. I just remember the last shot was of them filming down a road and all the houses had been burnt and damaged.
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I remember Castaway. Ben Fogle was on it
 
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 remember this very clearly and like you, it affected me hugely. That poor poor boy.

Showing my age now, but way waaaaay back in the 80s and 90s there was a series of documentaries about a lady called Julia Grant who was trying to get a sex change so that she could live as a woman. It was absolutely ground breaking at the time and the struggle she had to have a sex change and live the way she wanted to was epic. She passed away in 2019 but she was truly inspirational.
 
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Dizzy said:
I remember this very clearly and like you, it affected me hugely. That poor poor boy.

Showing my age now, but way waaaaay back in the 80s and 90s there was a series of documentaries about a lady called Julia Grant who was trying to get a sex change so that she could live as a woman. It was absolutely ground breaking at the time and the struggle she had to have a sex change and live the way she wanted to was epic. She passed away in 2019 but she was truly inspirational.
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Julia appeared on Four In a Bed several years ago. I’m afraid she didn't come across very well at all.
 
I love this thread I’ve been trying to watch those that have been mentioned and I’ve not seen. Watched Rain in My Heart a couple of days ago, so sad. There was no help for Toni really since she couldn’t even admit she had a problem. She was in a right old mess bless her soul.

Also watched the first episode of The Forgotten West Memphis 3 last night. Great documentary I love the bald guy from the FBI that features on it he was on a documentary investigating the Jon Benet Ramsey murder....Also a good watch, not sure where I saw that now maybe Sky Crime or Netflix.
 
Sorry if this is has been mentioned but it’s such a long thread!

It wasn’t a documentary as such but I remember a programme about young couples who thought they were ready for a baby and they got lent an actual baby by families for a week to see how they got on. WTAF???

Again not a documentary but based on real life and really shocked me - “I, Daniel Blake”. One of the best films I’ve ever seen.
 
Not a doc but a tv movie based on real events. For years i have had this memory of watching something about a man who killed people in acid, he got caught due to a gallstone not dissolving.
I wasnt even sure if it was real, watched a youtube video today about the acid killer and i finally know what i remember watching!
Although looking at the year it was on tv im not sure why i was watching that at 13!
 
Web30 said:
Not a doc but a tv movie based on real events. For years i have had this memory of watching something about a man who killed people in acid, he got caught due to a gallstone not dissolving.
I wasnt even sure if it was real, watched a youtube video today about the acid killer and i finally know what i remember watching!
Although looking at the year it was on tv im not sure why i was watching that at 13!
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John George Haigh aka 'The acid bath killer'
I knew it the minute you said acid.
If I remember correctly, it was the body of Mrs Durand Deacon that caught him out because of her gallstones.
He firmly believed that if there was no body, then he'd literally get away with murder.
 
I remember another it was about teen mums. This girl was 12/13 and wanted to be a mum! She had sex once with a boy begins the bike sheds and got pregnant. I can’t remember her name she was blonde and just kept literally reproducing. Her mum looked after the two kids she had by 16 and she’d got pregnant again on a night out. By 17 she had 3 kids.
 
I remember watching in the 90s about Dao and Duan. They were orphaned Siamese Twins and it was all about their separation. I wasn’t very old at all watching it as I was born in ‘91. I would love to watch it again to see if what I remember from it is right in my mind. Unfortunately I can’t find much about it, or even them, online.
 
AutumnSpring said:
Sorry if this is has been mentioned but it’s such a long thread!

It wasn’t a documentary as such but I remember a programme about young couples who thought they were ready for a baby and they got lent an actual baby by families for a week to see how they got on. WTAF???
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I remember something like this where they got a baby then a toddler then an older child. My friend’s toddler was part of it. She was literally through the wall if needed watching on a screen. Her son was fine. She was pretty chilled too x
 
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