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

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Happyvalley said:
I recently watched Accused: A Mother on Trial on BBC iplayer. It’s a true crime series about a woman from Alaska who concealed her pregnancy and left her newborn in a park who sadly died. There was a lot more to the story and I found it a really interesting watch and have thought about it ever since.
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Thanks so much for that recommendation, I’m going to watch it on Xmas Eve with a hot chocolate.
 
Happyvalley said:
I recently watched Accused: A Mother on Trial on BBC iplayer. It’s a true crime series about a woman from Alaska who concealed her pregnancy and left her newborn in a park who sadly died. There was a lot more to the story and I found it a really interesting watch and have thought about it ever since.
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l‘ve just added that to my Watch list, thank you.
i can’t watch all the YouTube things as my Youngest uses my acount to watch her LOL Dolls unboxing etc ...and then there’s me with my rape and murder docus 🤣
 
I highly recommend this documentary on Netflix, it’s so heartwarming. It’s a boy who had autism so his parents communicated with him through Disney movies, I did cry!
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champagnemami99 said:
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BBC Three - Stacey Dooley, Investigates, Sex in Strange Places: Turkey

Stacey Dooley begins her journey by meeting sex workers in troubled Turkey.
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This not available anywhere and I am so bewildered why that is the case as I am dying to re-watch it!
I will NEVER forget this. Stacey Dolley investigates: Sex in Strange Places: Turkey.

I remember just being in absolute shock about the norms across the young boys she interviewed. For example, they would have sex with male prostitutes dressed as women (as biological women would not have casual sex) but still held very strong homophobic views. Also, as there is ZERO sex education, a woman said on her wedding night, her new husband tried to penetrate her belly button!


I really do wonder why the BBC took this down, it was totally credible and she spoke to a lot of people. I understand that this would of course offend and upset Turkish Nationals, however alot of exposes and documentaris will warrant this reaction also. Freedom of speech/ journalism?
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I love all Stacey dooley documentaries, this one in Turkey was shocking! How they got quite aggressive with her wnen she was standing outside one of the buildings I remember.

One that always sticks with me is a recent series, searching for missing family members by police and family. 2 in particular was an older Middle aged lady that had bi polar was found by a lake passed away in her purple coat after going for a walk, and another was when a dad had gone missing and he had enough of life but they found him alive in a shed if I remember correctly. Both hit very close to home for me and I cried so much watching these.
 
CostaChat said:
I love all Stacey dooley documentaries, this one in Turkey was shocking! How they got quite aggressive with her wnen she was standing outside one of the buildings I remember.

One that always sticks with me is a recent series, searching for missing family members by police and family. 2 in particular was an older Middle aged lady that had bi polar was found by a lake passed away in her purple coat after going for a walk, and another was when a dad had gone missing and he had enough of life but they found him alive in a shed if I remember correctly. Both hit very close to home for me and I cried so much watching these.
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I remember both of those. So sad when the lady was found dead. My heart was in my mouth the for the entire search of the man. I've had a very close family member take their own life and I just knew exactly how they would be feeling. Hope the man is in a better head space now.
 
Happyvalley said:
I recently watched Accused: A Mother on Trial on BBC iplayer. It’s a true crime series about a woman from Alaska who concealed her pregnancy and left her newborn in a park who sadly died. There was a lot more to the story and I found it a really interesting watch and have thought about it ever since.
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i’ve just finished this and I have so many unanswered questions! Surely her ex husband was involved. With that blood loss how did she manage to get up and drive to the park with zero blood left in the car. And where was her husband during the 45 mins he’s not accounted for. Why did she protect him?
 
MissTeddy said:
i’ve just finished this and I have so many unanswered questions! Surely her ex husband was involved. With that blood loss how did she manage to get up and drive to the park with zero blood left in the car. And where was her husband during the 45 mins he’s not accounted for. Why did she protect him?
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I know, so much just didn’t sit right with me. I felt sorry for her until she met the new guy and married him without telling him what had happened. I found that so manipulative.
 
I’m showing my age here but when I was a really small child there was a documentary on the second World War, it had (to me) terrifyingly dramatic intro music. Anyway, I saw a bit of it once which was footage of bodies from a concentration camp being pushed into furnaces and it traumatised me! Honestly, even now I feel sick thinking about it and it haunted me for years (rightly so as it was so horrific) . I never told my parents but it has never left me.
 
Happyvalley said:
I know, so much just didn’t sit right with me. I felt sorry for her until she met the new guy and married him without telling him what had happened. I found that so manipulative.
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Incredible that she didn’t tell him until AFTER they married. Did it say what happened to her first daughter - the one that she already had with Kennard.
 
MissTeddy said:
i’ve just finished this and I have so many unanswered questions! Surely her ex husband was involved. With that blood loss how did she manage to get up and drive to the park with zero blood left in the car. And where was her husband during the 45 mins he’s not accounted for. Why did she protect him?
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I watched this and had the same question! She drove the baby to the park while bleeding and didn’t get a single drop in her car?

I felt really sorry for her in the first part when her friends were talking about how badly he treated her. But I lost sympathy once she had a new baby while still on trial TBH 😳 and then she never once mentioned her first daughter or what happened to her. It’s like she just moved on. Her friend that was being interviewed seemed such a good friend to have on your side!
 
MissTeddy said:
Incredible that she didn’t tell him until AFTER they married. Did it say what happened to her first daughter - the one that she already had with Kennard.
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No another thing I didn’t get, no mention of her first child. And also I wondered about the father of the baby she abandoned and his side of it all.

truffletrot said:
I watched this and had the same question! She drove the baby to the park while bleeding and didn’t get a single drop in her car?

I felt really sorry for her in the first part when her friends were talking about how badly he treated her. But I lost sympathy once she had a new baby while still on trial TBH 😳 and then she never once mentioned her first daughter or what happened to her. It’s like she just moved on. Her friend that was being interviewed seemed such a good friend to have on your side!
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Yep I was the same, soon as she got pregnant and moved on my eyes rolled hard at that and sympathy was gone. She had good people on her side, the only way she got through it and got that sentence i think.
 
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned them yet but I find the Seconds from Disaster and Air Traffic Investigation documentaries fascinating - lots of them have been smuggled onto youtube. They spend the first part of the episodes explaining what happened and then rewind time to explain why it happened and then what health and safety guidelines were put in place to stop it happening agan. Sometimes it is a fault that was always going to lead to a disaster, sometimes it is a single error and sometimes it is the most horrific line of dominoes that could have easily been prevented in so many ways with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight.


The one that has stuck in my mind the most, for years, is the 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision. You can watch it here but the breakdown is as follows (I don't know anyone IRL who finds this sort of thing even slightly interesting so I'm taking a full opportunity to talk about it now)...

- One cargo plane taking off from Italy and one passenger plane taking off from Russia had a total of 71 people between them. The passenger plane contains 45 children on a school trip that only took that plane because they had missed their real flight as well as a mother and her two children who are visiting their father who works abroad.
- Over a section of Switzerland air space there needs to be two air traffic controllers at one time. One person to guide the planes that are taking off and landing and one to guide the planes that are flying through. They are at two seperate consoles facing away from each other. As there are no planes scheduled to land (late at night) one of them goes off for an illegal break leaving Peter Nielsen as the only ATC in charge.
- A company comes in to do maintenance on the radar and communication equipment, putting everything into back-up mode.
- A delayed plane needs to land in their airspace so Nielsen attempts to phone another control centre to take over. While attempting to phone he doesn't notice that both the previous planes have now entered his airspace at the same altitude.
- The back-up mode for the phones is faulty and he is unable to phone to pass the plane off to another centre.
- The back-up mode for the radar is also faulty and does not give him an audio or visual warning about the impending crash.
- An ATC in another airspace notices that the planes are on a collision course but protocol says he can't contact the planes in another ATC's airspace so he phones Nielsen 11 times but, as the phone is faulty, he can't get through.
- The TCAS warning system on both planes sets off. It tells the cargo plane to descend and the passenger plane to climb.
- 43 seconds before a collision Nielsen notices and tells the passenger plane to descend and the cargo plane to climb.
- In every country in Europe except Russia the pilot must obey TCAS. In Russia the pilot must obey the ATC.
- The cargo plane obeys TCAS and descends. The passenger plane obeys Nielsen and descends. They are now flying at the same altitude again.
- Nielsen tells the passenger plane that the cargo plane is approaching from their 2 o'clock position.
- It is actually approaching from their 10 o'clock position. They are looking out of the wrong window and by the time they see it they try to pull up but it is too late. The planes collide over Germany, killing everyone.
- 18 months later tha father who was waiting for his wife and two young children stabs Nielsen to death. He serves two years in prison and returns home where he is given a medal and a ceremony from his local government for doing so.
 
@AnderbeauJohnson have you watched Disasters that Changed Britain? They’re on the History channel and have lots of evidence on how disasters such as KingsCross and Piper Alpha came about (usually shoddy practices or out of date safety regs). They’re fascinating although do make you angry at how many lives are lost through the pursuit of saving cash and cutting corners here and there.

I used to watch Air Crash Investigation a lot until I realised that all my vivid dreams of being in a plane crash must be connected 😭
 
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