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

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Chateau Marmont said:
I was just randomly remembering Josie Cunningham, she of bragging she'd abort her baby to go on Big Brother and scheming to sell tickets to a live online birth fame - and the documentary she did about being the most hated woman in Britain in the mid 2010s. It fascinated me that anyone would choose to live this way but I found her "manager" worse than her, the way he kept it all going. Then she popped up again defending her "work" as a "pay pig" - someone who can charge men money to humilate them I think - and just felt the media should stop fuelling her via appearances on Loose Women and such.

In all I found her a very sad figure and can only hope that she's calmed down since I've heard heard about her in ages.
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Five kids by the age of 30 and then there's this delightful story
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Josie Cunningham has started a sexual relationship with her step-son

Josie Cunningham has admitted she has begun a sexual relationship with her step-son despite giving birth to his father's baby in October.
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Vloggerfam said:
Life is toff. A documentary about a posh family, was so funny. Occasionally wonder what they are all upto now
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was that the one where they were living in some kind of crumbling manor house that they had no money to do up? If so (for some reason) we watched it in an AS history class :LOL:
 
Candycrush said:
Five kids by the age of 30 and then there's this delightful story
www.dailymail.co.uk

Josie Cunningham has started a sexual relationship with her step-son

Josie Cunningham has admitted she has begun a sexual relationship with her step-son despite giving birth to his father's baby in October.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
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I remember her mum saying she was "proud" of her daughter because of how she'd survived childhood bullying but considering how supremely messed up Josie is I don't think you can call her a survivor in any sense.

She is a desperately sad indictment of the worst things about modern life in the 21st century. I feel so sorry for her children.
 
Love this thread, got some of these to watch now.
Just watched Accused: a mother on trial. I'm not sure what I think really I'm a bit conflicted however the bit where the man heard the baby crying but couldn't see her and thought he had imagined it so walked off, broke my heart a little. She must have been so cold and hungry and if only he had found her, poor poor baby.
I wonder what happened to her older daughter too. Her mum seems nice but her new baby lives with her, so without her parents too. The new husband seems lovely but obviously away with the army a lot.
 
Sunshinegal said:
Love this thread, got some of these to watch now.
Just watched Accused: a mother on trial. I'm not sure what I think really I'm a bit conflicted however the bit where the man heard the baby crying but couldn't see her and thought he had imagined it so walked off, broke my heart a little. She must have been so cold and hungry and if only he had found her, poor poor baby.
I wonder what happened to her older daughter too. Her mum seems nice but her new baby lives with her, so without her parents too. The new husband seems lovely but obviously away with the army a lot.
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I was left with a lot of questions. i believe if this trial had taken place in the UK then the ex-husband wouldn't have been allowed to just disappear with so many aspects lacking clarity. E.g. the absence of any blood in her car, the gap in his timeline for example.
 
Probably really late to the party here but I’ve been binging 5 Mistakes That Caught A Killer on my5 (channel 5‘s online on demand service) and they have suchhhh a good catalogue of documentaries for anyone wanting to get stuck into something, IMO :)
 
AnderbeauJohnson said:
I saw a 9/11 documentary years ago and one story really stuck with me but unfortunatly I can't remember the names of the people involved. I've googled them a few times but can't find the story again so I don't mean any disrespect at all by giving them codenames or forgetting which tower they were in.


Worker #1 and Worker #2 were making their way down the stairwell from a floor fairly close to the impact zone, both were men. They met someone who had badly injured legs and couldn't walk by himself so they decided to help him down, each under one of his arms. They got to a low floor number (less than 10, I think maybe floor 3 or 5) and the injured man needed to take a break. He collapsed and told the workers to leave without him but they refused. Five minutes passed and he still couldn't get up. Worker #1 took Worker #2 to the side and said that they couldn't stay anymore and urgently needed to leave. Worker #2 refused and said he would wait only five more minutes and then leave. Worker #1 left and started moving quickly out of the tower. About 90 seconds after he got clear from the site it collapsed and the two other men died.


I don't think Worker #1 did anything wrong - depending on the tower he had been helping this man downstairs for 50 -90ish minutes and, even if the injured man had been able to start moving again, he was going so slowly all three would have died. I really hope he doesn't suffer from survivor's guilt but I wouldn't be surprised. It must be such an awful situation to know that you left someone behind, even though you had to do so to survive.
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I remember this documentary well, as there were a few stories in it that stuck with me. It was just called "The Twin Towers", I think.
The injured man was Victor Wald, the worker who died was Harry Ramos. The man who survived was called Hong Zhu.

Another person in that documentary that I remember, was a woman who ran down the stairs from a high floor and out of the towers in her stilettos. She kept them afterwards and showed them in the documentary.

There was also the story of Brian Clark and Stanley Premnaith. That is one of the more famous 9/11 survivor stories. One thing I remembered from Brian's story was him passing a "heavy-set woman and a tall, young man" on the stairs and they told him they were going to try to get up on the roof, and asked him to go with them. He said no and carried on down the stairs. The door to the roof was locked so they probably died as they weren't with Brian and Stanley when they escaped. I felt really sad for them.
 
Sweetcorn said:
I used to watch documentaries with my mum on tv when I was quite young and I loved it haha.

One that I watched (sorry if it’s been mentioned) that I always think about is the one called ‘The Girl Who Never Ate’ and it was about a 7 year old little girl called Tia McCarthy who just wouldn’t eat and had never eaten in her life! She was born with oesophageal atresia (when the stomach and oesophagus aren’t connected properly). She got it repaired as a newborn and there should have been no lasting side effects of the condition and she should have been able to eat and live her life without any problems. They did tests to make sure she could swallow etc and they always came back fine so there was no physical reason as to why she didn’t eat. It wasn’t that she couldn’t eat, it was that she didn’t eat. She was fitted with a gastrostomy feeding tube as a young child! An article I was just reading says that she apparently had ‘perception disorder and autistic tendencies’ but that there was ‘no medical reason why Tia couldn’t eat food’. At the time health care professionals were completely baffled by her and had no idea what was ‘wrong’ with her... sounds to me like she had some serious sensory issues that weren’t being properly addressed and treated sensitivity. Apparently she never ate, ever! So I just wonder what her mother did when introducing solids... did she just not do it?

The family ended up going to Austria to some specialist unit to try and get her to eat. The way they approached it was to starve her for 3 weeks!!!! which would basically FORCE her to eat which is a horrible way to get a child with sensory issues to eat. It didn’t work and she just started to get thinner and thinner. I mean of course it didn’t work, it was a horrible way to introduce food to a child with obvious sensory issues. Like I said, I don’t think they were even focusing on the sensory issues stuff or if they were, it was not being managed effectively.... maybe it wasn’t well understood back then?

In the doc she started licking foods and sipping water. I always wondered if her sensory issues were addressed properly and if she started eating. I just googled her and searched her Instagram. She says she’s better now but she doesn’t look well... she was such a beautiful little girl. Perhaps not having proper nutrition when she was growing has affected her growth and body changes (although she looks to have grown very tall).

This photo is from 2014 - she was 15
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How sad for the poor girl.

I’ve got a cousin who doesn’t eat hot food. She will only eat cold food. She’s a completely”normal” 30 year old woman working in London with a great social life, she just has never eaten hot food since a child. Nobody really knows why, her mother is actually a Headteacher so knew loads about child development but I guess just never pushed the issue. My cousin used to eat marmite and cheese sandwiches while we tucked into our Christmas dinner. At my wedding she ate bread rolls!
 
I remember watching a programme about children up for adoption on channel 4. It really touched me and focused on 4 siblings ( I think it was a girl and three boys) who were looking for a forever home and I always wonder if they managed to stay together or not. They had been through a tough time and came across as such lovely children.
 
I remember one of the channels (may have been 4 or 5 but could have also been one of the BBCs) showed a Dispatch on China and the Uighur stuff which was filmed undercover, especially how their facial recognition cameras work and what the government officials think (I remember one of them called the Uighur population less than 2nd class citizens or something along those lines). They also mentioned how their houses have QR codes which show who should be living in that specific house when they do random checks.

Left such a massive impression on me because it's beyond just talking about the horrible 're-education camps', the entire population there is basically living in one huge camp of varying degrees.
 
Psycho - Kill me if you can (Channel 4).

Two boys addicted to an internet chat room. There, they develop a close friendship, meet in real life, and hit it off. What happens next is more shocking and extraordinary than anything you could ever imagine.

link to the documentary, well worth a watch:

 
Peter Griffin said:
Psycho - Kill me if you can (Channel 4).

Two boys addicted to an internet chat room. There, they develop a close friendship, meet in real life, and hit it off. What happens next is more shocking and extraordinary than anything you could ever imagine.

link to the documentary, well worth a watch:

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I think this is the same story as a film that was made about it: uwantme2killhim? Worth a watch if you haven't seen it.
 
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Peter Griffin said:
Psycho - Kill me if you can (Channel 4).

Two boys addicted to an internet chat room. There, they develop a close friendship, meet in real life, and hit it off. What happens next is more shocking and extraordinary than anything you could ever imagine.

link to the documentary, well worth a watch:

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Wow just watched this! Unbelievable!
 
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I recently watched The Family the 1970s documentary about a family from Reading, UK. It’s on YouTube. I found it fascinating both for the time period comparing it to today and just seeing how other people live. I remember them filming a lot of scenes in the kitchen and sometimes they would be sitting on a table that was in a space between the sink and another part of the kitchen. Turns out that table was actually the top for a hidden bathtub, in the kitchen! That honestly blew my mind when I saw that. I never realized it was a bathtub until one of the family members said “can everyone please get out of the kitchen. I’d like to take a bath” 😂 She then lifted up the worktop part to reveal a whole bathtub
 
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