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

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CLittleworld said:
This is thread goals !
I always wonder about people Iv seen I follow so many on Instagram but there’s so many I don’t !
The girls with anorexia on the Louis Theroux program and also the mums from the mental health unit

Charlotte and her boyfriend think it was Lance from love and drugs on the street on iplayer there was also a young girl and a few others
The girl called Paige was in the news found dead not so long ago and she was one who had started to turn her life around but she had lost custody permanently 😢

another bbc3 one I can’t think of the name but was about legal sex work in Holborn in Leeds so many girls on there id love to see leading a happier life !
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I had no idea that Paige passed away. How sad, obviously I don’t know her but feel gutted for her and her family.
 
Lolarose19 said:
I just remembered another I watched last year. I think it's called identical strangers? It was about three teenagers who met by chance at university and turned out to be identical triplets. They had been separated by adoption as part of a phychological experiment. They had been placed into homes of high class, middle class and lower class families yet all lived identical lifestyles. They ended up having their own restaurant until sadly one of the brother killed themselves.
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yes I watched that! They were Jewish? It made me feel so sad for ages after and also very freaked out that not that long ago these experiments were allowed to happen. All three men were lovely and had lovely wives.
 
That man who had neurofibromatosis who used to be on channel 4 all the time. I think he did voice overs between programmes too.

A woman called Mandy from the UK who's legs grew strangely and they never knew what it was. She seemed like a lovely lady .

I remember Terri , too.
 
Lolarose19 said:
Alex life fast forward has always stayed with me.
Also dreams of a life about Joyce Vincent. She died in her flat but her remains were not discovered until three years later. Her heating and her television were still on and she had been wrapping Christmas presents when she died. Yet nobody realised
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That’s the one that stayed with me. She was only discovered because after 3 years her bank account was finally depleted so her bills couldn’t be paid. If she was wrapping presents she obviously had people in her life who she cared about but they didn’t notice.:(
 
Kim Mild said:
That man who had neurofibromatosis who used to be on channel 4 all the time. I think he did voice overs between programmes too.

A woman called Mandy from the UK who's legs grew strangely and they never knew what it was. She seemed like a lovely lady .

I remember Terri , too.
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I saw the one about the guy with NF- he also did one with his brother who has a rare condition (think it was a memory problem). He didn’t come across as a nice guy at all, kept making snide comments to his brother.
 
What about the documentary about the bloke with scrotal elephantiasis? He's testicles had grown so big, that they practically disabled him.

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He was trying to crowd fund surgery (USA), but wasn't close. When a surgeon offered to operate for free.

The operation was a success.

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But the poor man died 11 months later, aged just 50, after a complication with diabetes. So sad.
 
Lolarose19 said:
I just remembered another I watched last year. I think it's called identical strangers? It was about three teenagers who met by chance at university and turned out to be identical triplets. They had been separated by adoption as part of a phychological experiment. They had been placed into homes of high class, middle class and lower class families yet all lived identical lifestyles. They ended up having their own restaurant until sadly one of the brother killed themselves.

One more and then I will stop!

The imposter.. A French man somehow managed to trick a Texas family that he was their missing son?! He had a French accent, different eye colour etc.. He went to the levels of getting the same tattoo as the boy. He only stopped when he realised that the family had possibly had a part in their missing son/brothers death and that's why they accepted this guy as their son. It turned out the French man was wanted in other countries for also stealing the identity of missing kids. At the time of the documentary film they had been digging the garden of the family home to see if the family had been involved. I'm not sure of the outcome.
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Oh yes, I remember the twins documentary. It was really interesting.

I'd love to watch the doc about the French guy. Can you remember what it's called?
 
HockyRorror said:
I watched this! It was very sad especially the drugs part. Glad to hear he is doing okay.
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Yes, he moved back to the place where his lovely mum lived, his father was an absolute piece of tit, his desertion and treatment of his mother clearly really messed him up.
I started to follow him on Insta but he posts quite a lot of throwbacks to his porn career....it was a bit much on a Tuesday morning as I casually opened my insta to see Johnny Agassi masturbating in the shower.
 
EvieBaby said:
The French lady on Louis theroux's drinking to oblivion. She was lovely but very close to death the doctors warned if she continued but she didn't seem to care. I'd love to know how things turned out for her. The new Louis Theroux 4 part series was good as that caught up with quite a few past guests!
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Yes! Didn’t she have a horrible boyfriend?

I think a lot about the young guy from that same episode from Brighton I think? He had been doing well but the ‘No Context Louis Theroux’ IG page shared something say he’d relapsed - but the story has gone now. Sad, he’d really looked to be doing well for a while.
 
I watched a documentary called protecting our children. It’s filmed in Bristol based on social workers. You get too see the lives of families who are being investigated by the social workers, some of the lives the children live are so sad! All of them ended up in care & it was so interesting but heartbreaking to watch at the same time.

I haven’t stopped thinking about them. The ‘parents’ are a absolute disgrace! It’s a 3 part documentary, if you want to watch it the first episode is on daily motion and the other two are on YouTube. It’s sad but so worth the watch!
 
Trolleydollycoffeelover said:
All the cast of the 7 Up documentaries- think this concept for a docuseries is/was absolutely brilliant.
The kids from Educating Yorkshire (2013 I think)- they’d have all left school by now and I wonder if they managed to get jobs/ further education etc?
Bit of a light hearted one but there was a reality show on T4 in 2001 called Model Behaviour and one of its main stars was a pretty young girl who was trying to be a model from a poor background- she could barely read and write (when they gave her her contract she could barely write her name), never really travelled outside her own city and was overwhelmed when they sent her to Ireland as it was her first time on a plane. I’d love to know if she made it big.
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I love the 7 up docs. What a brilliant idea for a TV series,
 
The one documentary that stays with me is from years ago- I reckon I must have been around 8 years old maybe? So reckon 1991/92 time.
But there was this documentary and I think it was called the Street Kids of Brazil, or something like that. It was about these children who lived on the streets, mostly near sewers. They had no family and had to fend for themselves- I don’t remember much, I just remember being this little girl watching it and not understanding why their parents didn’t want them and why they lived outside. It upset me that much I begged my mum to take down the address of the charity they showed on the screen at the end and I remember giving some of my pocket money to them. Iv often thought about that documentary although I can’t find any trace of it at all when Iv tried to google it. It must have been a bbc documentary or a channel 4 as there wasn’t many channels around then.
The most recent documentary that had me in tears and really made me sit up was Once upon a time in Iraq- bbc.
I can’t tell you how amazing it was-How utterly thought provoking it was. To see a beautiful country be tested by so many things, and the beautiful people of the country to be tested and torn apart by evil and suffering. It took my breath away. The things they have endured is haunting, the tales they tell just etch deep into your soul. I cried for every single one of them, it just shows that there are no winners in war, that evil is everywhere and that we must all try and do the right thing. The saddest parts were the stories of how children suffered and how they are the ones that ultimately pay the highest price. At times I couldn’t listen to their stories.The things that children’s eyes should not see and what they shouldn’t be a part of, it’s truly harrowing at times.
There is a part in the doc where a lady is being interviewed. She helped some Iraqi men Escape from Isis and she won a medal for it, and she says in the documentary ‘Without love, the whole world will be killing each other’ and by God it’s true.
It made me realise how lucky I am to be born where I was and that my young eyes never saw such horrors and that I had a childhood.
one documentary similar to this is the channel 4 documentary ‘For Sama’ again the contrast of innocent lives living alongside such evil and violence. Heartbreaking xxx
 
Upintheair83 said:
The one documentary that stays with me is from years ago- I reckon I must have been around 8 years old maybe? So reckon 1991/92 time.
But there was this documentary and I think it was called the Street Kids of Brazil, or something like that. It was about these children who lived on the streets, mostly near sewers. They had no family and had to fend for themselves- I don’t remember much, I just remember being this little girl watching it and not understanding why their parents didn’t want them and why they lived outside. It upset me that much I begged my mum to take down the address of the charity they showed on the screen at the end and I remember giving some of my pocket money to them. Iv often thought about that documentary although I can’t find any trace of it at all when Iv tried to google it. It must have been a bbc documentary or a channel 4 as there wasn’t many channels around then.
The most recent documentary that had me in tears and really made me sit up was Once upon a time in Iraq- bbc.
I can’t tell you how amazing it was-How utterly thought provoking it was. To see a beautiful country be tested by so many things, and the beautiful people of the country to be tested and torn apart by evil and suffering. It took my breath away. The things they have endured is haunting, the tales they tell just etch deep into your soul. I cried for every single one of them, it just shows that there are no winners in war, that evil is everywhere and that we must all try and do the right thing. The saddest parts were the stories of how children suffered and how they are the ones that ultimately pay the highest price. At times I couldn’t listen to their stories.The things that children’s eyes should not see and what they shouldn’t be a part of, it’s truly harrowing at times.
There is a part in the doc where a lady is being interviewed. She helped some Iraqi men Escape from Isis and she won a medal for it, and she says in the documentary ‘Without love, the whole world will be killing each other’ and by God it’s true.
It made me realise how lucky I am to be born where I was and that my young eyes never saw such horrors and that I had a childhood.
one documentary similar to this is the channel 4 documentary ‘For Sama’ again the contrast of innocent lives living alongside such evil and violence. Heartbreaking xxx
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For Sama had me sobbing. When the parents came to the hospital and took their sons body and carried him away. Utterly devastating.
 
MaxieMoo said:
For Sama had me sobbing. When the parents came to the hospital and took their sons body and carried him away. Utterly devastating.
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Me too. It was heartbreaking. I just Couldn’t believe the horrors. We see the footage on the news etc, but when you see something like that it’s just another level. I just cried and cried about it, it’s just so sad that all this suffering exists in the world and those poor babies who get caught up in it. Just beyond comprehension xx
 
I love a good documentary so I have found my people here

I think about Child of Our Time a lot apparently there was an episode in March the last one but I missed it and can’t find it anywhere!

also like many of us I think a lot about the people featured in a Louis Theroux docs - what I like is there seems to be a duty of care from him and his team and they stay In Touch
 
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