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

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TeaAndYoutube said:
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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I saw this! didn't it strike you how much older and haggard everyone looked compared to comparable ages today? life was obviously so much harder
 
emm said:
I saw this! didn't it strike you how much older and haggard everyone looked compared to comparable ages today? life was obviously so much harder
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I was hooked on it immediately. Yea, the documentary said the parents were 39 but they looked at least 10 years older. Even the teenagers looked to be mid 20s at least.

I liked the mum of the family. I found out that right before the Dad died it was revealed that he had an affair with his daughter in law (Gary’s wife, Karen was her name?) and the paternity of one of Gary and Karen’s 4 kids was in doubt and thought to be the result of the affair. Not sure when the affair happened but Karen was 16 or 17 when she married Gary who was also a teenager. I liked Karen but she seemed a bit easily led and I didn’t like how the family treated her. Now I want to watch it again
 
GiftedNotFree said:
Right now I’m watching the channel 4 3 part series called “undercover police: hunting pa*dophiles” and omg, it’s so disturbing. I feel sick and I’m only on episode one 🤮. It’s a hard watch and definitely a trigger warning for anyone that has suffered abuse.
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I watched this last night. Almost turned it off. Felt so sick throughout! Just highlights the kind of world we live in 😔
 
GiftedNotFree said:
Right now I’m watching the channel 4 3 part series called “undercover police: hunting pa*dophiles” and omg, it’s so disturbing. I feel sick and I’m only on episode one 🤮. It’s a hard watch and definitely a trigger warning for anyone that has suffered abuse.
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I'm glad someone has mentioned this, I expected a new thread about it. I watch so many crime documentaries but nothing has shocked me the way this did. Just how blase the two men were shocked me to the core. Could someone start a thread on it?
 
I mentioned this on another thread but I was really shocked at how much detail they went into about what was in the videos and photos. Particularly the woman who was grading the videos towards the end, even though the images were blurred the description was way more explicit than we needed. The title alone was sickening enough let alone the additional detail.

It was a tough watch but the police are doing an amazing job with it. I couldn’t do it myself, I hope they get lots of support as it must be so hard.
 
A documentary called Dreams of a Life on Netflix. About a woman called Joyce Vincent who died and lay undiscovered in her flat for over a year. It was so sad that nobody had noticed she was missing, and the story itself was horrific, but the documentary really humanised her and gave her an identity rather than just that horror headline. They spoke to her old friends and people she had lost touch with who were all devastated about what happened to her.
I think about it, and her, all the time.
 
A documentary on Discovery about a young boy called Novemthree who had a huge tumour growing out of his face. He was taken to another country for surgery but they grew back and he died. It was on about 15 years ago and I remember crying so much.
 
A documentary on YouTube called ‘The boy who lived before’ about a young boy who swore he lived before in a different part of the country. He talked about a house a dog a garden a path way to a beach another ‘mum’ . Then they ended up driving to this part of the country to try and see if they could find what he was explaining and they found a house identical to how he remembered when he ‘lived before’ was fascinating.
 
marisa9 said:
A documentary called Dreams of a Life on Netflix. About a woman called Joyce Vincent who died and lay undiscovered in her flat for over a year. It was so sad that nobody had noticed she was missing, and the story itself was horrific, but the documentary really humanised her and gave her an identity rather than just that horror headline. They spoke to her old friends and people she had lost touch with who were all devastated about what happened to her.
I think about it, and her, all the time.
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I looked on Netflix (UK) for this last night and it looks like they’ve taken it off 😩. It sounds really interesting and sad, I’ll have a look on YouTube.
 
GiftedNotFree said:
Right now I’m watching the channel 4 3 part series called “undercover police: hunting pa*dophiles” and omg, it’s so disturbing. I feel sick and I’m only on episode one 🤮. It’s a hard watch and definitely a trigger warning for anyone that has suffered abuse.
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I couldn’t watch that. Someone I know was talking about it and I was like “nope.” No chance.
 
Has anyone mentioned Child Of Our Time? I can’t scan through 29 pages looking for it. It was fronted by Prof Robert Winston and followed children born in 2000. It was an amazing series - part reality TV and part science TV. They did loads on child development and showed the children participating in experiments (nothing scary! One good one was dressing the babies as the opposite sex and seeing how they were treated differently).

I loved it so much and got so invested in the children and their families. Was genuinely really emotional watching the final update last year, seeing these babies I’d followed literally since birth as young adults.
 
maytoseptember said:
Has anyone mentioned Child Of Our Time? I can’t scan through 29 pages looking for it. It was fronted by Prof Robert Winston and followed children born in 2000. It was an amazing series - part reality TV and part science TV. They did loads on child development and showed the children participating in experiments (nothing scary! One good one was dressing the babies as the opposite sex and seeing how they were treated differently).

I loved it so much and got so invested in the children and their families. Was genuinely really emotional watching the final update last year, seeing these babies I’d followed literally since birth as young adults.
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I used to love that when it popped up. Wish you could see it all again somewhere.
 
GiftedNotFree said:
I looked on Netflix (UK) for this last night and it looks like they’ve taken it off 😩. It sounds really interesting and sad, I’ll have a look on YouTube.
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Hopefully you can find it! It is sad and I was so shocked that this could happen, but she sounded like a wonderful person and I think the documentary was really sensitively done, it didn't focus too much on her sad death.
 
Justwatching said:
There is a 2 parter, tonight and tomorrow Channel 5 at 9pm about Shannon Matthews, I often think about her and how she's coped with that horrific time and the fact her own mother orchestrated it 😑
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this was really one of the most bizarre cases ever. just saw an ad for it and will be watching too, I wonder how much they focus on the impact on her
 
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