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

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I remember watching it on the Motorway Cops programme and was just gobsmacked (hate that expression but can think of nothing else to adequately describe my reaction). How those women survived and had the strength to fight the way they did after being hit by fast moving vehicles is beyond me.
Then the twin with less significant injuries went on to stab a man to death just a couple of days after the accident.
 
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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I have been thinking about her today, I was saddened to learn that she had died. She was a real character.
 
I watched recently ''Murdered for being different'' on BBC Iplayer. The murder of 20yr old Sophie Lancaster who along with her boyfriend were savagely attacked in a park in 2007, her boyfriend Robert survived but sadly Sophie didn't. It was quite a graphic programme in regards to the attack and such a sad watch. What made me watch it was the current storyline playing out in Coronation Street at the moment and I had never seen this documentary. I had heard of this though many years ago and remembered the story. Poor, poor girl and her boyfriend also :(
 
Tinkerbell cat said:
I watched recently ''Murdered for being different'' on BBC Iplayer. The murder of 20yr old Sophie Lancaster who along with her boyfriend were savagely attacked in a park in 2007, her boyfriend Robert survived but sadly Sophie didn't. It was quite a graphic programme in regards to the attack and such a sad watch. What made me watch it was the current storyline playing out in Coronation Street at the moment and I had never seen this documentary. I had heard of this though many years ago and remembered the story. Poor, poor girl and her boyfriend also :(
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The mother did an amazing job of changing the law around hate crime, to recognise that Sophie was killed because of her adherence to a subculture and that was targeted in the same way as homophobic or racist attacks.
 
YellowLadybird said:
The mother did an amazing job of changing the law around hate crime, to recognise that Sophie was killed because of her adherence to a subculture and that was targeted in the same way as homophobic or racist attacks.
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Amazing woman. And rightly so. Absolutely disgusting and barbaric behaviour to attack someone just because they perhaps dress different or look different to what they might consider the norm. Evil little scumbags.
 
BigBrenda said:
Sorry just looked at her on Facebook and yeah one did sadly die of cot death at 9 months but her other 6 kids are thriving. She’s done really well for herself and the kids. Wow
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Hi I m Courtney the person you are on about and thanks for your comment yes me and my kids are all doing just fine my eldest being a manager at 19 not bad hey don’t mean to brag well yeah I do all the people that doubted me I done it and my kids are all doing amazing even my daughter passing her driving test yesterday and not to add buying her own home just wow x
 
courts85 said:
Hi I m Courtney the person you are on about and thanks for your comment yes me and my kids are all doing just fine my eldest being a manager at 19 not bad hey don’t mean to brag well yeah I do all the people that doubted me I done it and my kids are all doing amazing even my daughter passing her driving test yesterday and not to add buying her own home just wow x
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How fantastic, good for you and your family - all the luck in the world to you guys 😀👍❤️
 
courts85 said:
Hi I m Courtney the person you are on about and thanks for your comment yes me and my kids are all doing just fine my eldest being a manager at 19 not bad hey don’t mean to brag well yeah I do all the people that doubted me I done it and my kids are all doing amazing even my daughter passing her driving test yesterday and not to add buying her own home just wow x
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Hello Courtney really glad to hear it. You should be proud really happy for you all x
 
Slightly different as it was a docu-drama but I still think about The Day Britain Stopped. It was shown in 2003 when I was 14 and the 'climax' stayed with me. I don't fly anymore, but when I used to get on a plane it would be this I would think of - not 9/11.
 
discokebab said:
Slightly different as it was a docu-drama but I still think about The Day Britain Stopped. It was shown in 2003 when I was 14 and the 'climax' stayed with me. I don't fly anymore, but when I used to get on a plane it would be this I would think of - not 9/11.
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I always think of this too, I would have been around the same age and it was really affecting. There was another similar docu-drama style one about a bioterrorist starting a small pox pandemic which also really stuck with me, I kept thinking of it so much when covid was starting!
 
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