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

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Babouska said:
Swansea Lovestory on vice on YouTube. Have watched it many times and still shocks me everytime. I think Cornelius, his sister and father have all since past.
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Awful story. Cornelius and Amy were both from such chaotic families that it was almost inevitable that they would fall into addiction.

Cornelius' father Sean passed away from years of drink and drug abuse and then his sister Libby committed suicide. Cornelius was doing really well, he was clean, got married to a lovely woman and they had three beautiful children, he had everything going for him and then dropped dead 2 years ago of a massive heart attack. Absolutely tragic after he'd managed to turn his life around. His wife and children are doing as well as can be expected.

Amy has turned her life around, she is clean and doing well, and had a baby only a few weeks ago. She received a lot of abuse from doing the documentary and has done incredibly well to get herself to the place where she is now. I hope things will keep on looking up for her.
 
Comewhinewithme said:
What was that about?
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It is about the murder of Lynette White, a sex worker in Cardiff in the late 1980s, and the terrible miscarriage of justice that followed.

It tells the story of the prejudiced attitudes of the time, the racism, the police brutality and the human consequence of a totally botched police investigation that was little more than a witch-hunt.

Just very powerful and sad, though you are also left with huge admiration for the way such a marginalised community pulled together to campaign for those wrongly convicted.
 
Its_Me said:
Has anyone seen the soft white underbelly documentaries on YouTube? They are short interviews done by a photographer with people living on Skid Row in Los Angeles; homeless, prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts, alcoholics, gangsters etc he really gets them to open up and tell their story of how they got to where they are. Some of them are absolutely heartbreaking and have been failed by their parents, the system and everyone around them their whole lives.
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I've seen a few of these.

Also, they're not documentaries as such, but there are a plethora of YT channels based on filming in and around Kensington, Philadelphia. It used to be a great neighbourhood apparently but is now extremely rundown with a large homeless population and is the drug capital of the US thanks to heroin/fentanyl.

Some of the channels on first glance seem a bit, I don't know...I feel a bit iffy watching them as they are filming people without their consent (it is someone driving around with a camera pointing at addicts nodding out on the streets etc).

But one of the channels AML Films (or something like that) seems to get more involved, interviewing people and helping them reconnect with their families and stuff. They also do community posts asking for help if they can't find someone.
 
- Channel 4 show from about 2001/2001 which I think was called "Lost"? Pairs were taken to somewhere in the world - they weren't told where (and might even have been blindfolded etc. I can't exactly remember). They had to work out where they were and make their way back home or to some arranged location. I think they had basic supplies and money etc. One episode they were dumped somewhere in rural South America, another somewhere in Russia (there were more). Not exactly holiday destinations. I think I remember it so well because I'm sure 9/11 happened either during the series run or just afterwards, and there were no more series after that to my knowledge.

- A documentary about the Taliban in Afghanistan that was broadcast only a few months before either 9/11 or the start of the "War on Terror". Made by a female journalist who had Afghan parent(s). It focussed on the treatment of women under the regime. (Just looked it up - it's a Dispatches called "Beneath The Veil" presented by Saira Shah from 2001).

-"Cold Valley" about the Lewis Clarke Valley murders in Idaho.

-"Edge Of Madness" about schizophrenia. It's from 1996. It's not too harrowing - for the most part the patients seem to have responded well to medication and are living independently, one of them is still an in-patient but is allowed home at weekends. I was very upset to learn from the comments one of the women (Janey) had died. I often think of Barry who was 30 at the time of filming and what happened to him. His Mum seemed so lovely and obviously found it hard to cope with him, and was worried about the future.

It's on YouTube in 3 parts, the first of which is here;



Small bonus: it's someone's VHS recording so you get a load of mid-90s TV adverts. Olay was still called Oil of Ulay!!!
 
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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omg I have just looked up the one about triplets, I cant believe I've never seen it before!
 
HockyRorror said:
I have two. I’m also wondering if anyone else saw these two documentaries:

The first one was a 2011 BBC Three documentary about the youngest and only woman (at the time) to receive an ASBO for drunken behaviour and who had been barred from every from pub in Britain. Her name is Laura Hall. The documentary was really sad. She was only 21 at the time but addicted to alcohol. It showed her trying to overcome it and also documented her downfalls. I often wonder about her and how she is doing now. There’s nothing from a google search and I feel it’s completely intrusive and overboard looking around on Facebook. The only thing I could find was an interview about the making of the programme: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2011/01/laura-hall-battle-with-booze.shtml

The other one was also a BBC Three documentary from 2009. It was about a 16 year old gay school boy called Tony who had left home and was living by himself whilst trying to find his non-immediate family. It was so sad watching him navigate through a world when he was just a disadvantaged child. Again, I would love to know how he is doing now, almost a decade later.

Am I the only weirdo who still thinks of things like this years after they’ve been on TV? Does anyone else have any? Or could anyone shed some light on either of the two people above? 🙏🏽
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Sorry to quote my OP but if anyone is interested in watching I have found the first documentary here (I had to sign up to watch but used a fake email):

Would still love to know if everything turned out okay for her
 
HockyRorror said:
Sorry to quote my OP but if anyone is interested in watching I have found the first documentary here (I had to sign up to watch but used a fake email):

Would still love to know if everything turned out okay for her
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I remember this documentary, I was floored at how much she was able to drink, really sad
 
A few months back, I watched a documentary about the sinking of the Costa Concordia ... it was so hard-hitting it gave me nightmares. There were so many things that made me cry (quite literally, I was crying all throughout but couldn't tear myself away), but the worst was when they loaded up the last lifeboat with people and they all cheered; then someone on the lifeboat told them to be quiet because if they cared to look back, they would see those who were left behind (I'm paraphrasing here).

I started watching a documentary tonight about the Diamond Princess cruise ship's voyage just as Covid-19 hit. I had to stop watching as I felt sick at the obnoxious passengers' behaviour towards the poor crew who were obviously doing their absolute best given the circumstances. In reading the reviews at IMDB, I think I've seen enough.
 
1001 others said:
I started watching a documentary tonight about the Diamond Princess cruise ship's voyage just as Covid-19 hit. I had to stop watching as I felt sick at the obnoxious passengers' behaviour towards the poor crew who were obviously doing their absolute best given the circumstances. In reading the reviews at IMDB, I think I've seen enough.
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This reminds me of the documentary Sherpa, which is very interesting, sad and also you'll again feel disgusted with the obnoxious behaviour of some of the tourists. After many Sherpas had been killed by an avalanche and the dangerous conditions, the tourists start demanding that they are still taken on their climb because they'd paid for it, and includes quotes along the lines of - I'm American! I know terrorism! And these Sherpas are terrorists! All because they didn't want to risk their lives and had just seen their pals being killed.
 
I've got loads that I think of often:

There was one where the Women's Institute did some campaigning to legalise brothels. I'll never forget these old dears visiting a sex shop and one of them saying "Oh look, an arse midget!" or something to that effect 😂

My Last Summer broke my heart. I always think of the guy who used to work on cruise ships who died alone in his flat. I wonder how the lady with MS fared.

The BBC Leeds street sex worker doc sticks in my mind for one reason- one of the girls saying that she gets paid £2000 a pop to eat a curry, smoke some crack and tit on this dude... I hope she's ok.

Secret Eaters - should have been called 'secret drinkers'. There was a guy who put cream in his cereal instead of milk and wondered why he was overweight 🤷‍♀️

Abducted in Plain Sight- many WTF moments and made me angry. Parents should have been prosecuted for neglect. people this naïve should not have kids. That guy who shagged all of them saw them coming a mile off.

Similarly WTF, the Fyre Festival. The bit with the water...

The Week the Landlords Moved In - If you fancy shouting at your telly, I highly recommend it. I'm glad I was able to buy my own house.

Hot Girls Wanted - I still think about that horrible website and the girls that were lured to make videos for it.

The Family- I still think about meals in terms of 'little hungry or big hungry'

1900's house - from about 1999 where a family lived like they were Victorians for a few months. That poor maid of all work they hired!
 
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Millennial Pink said:
I've got loads that I think of often:

There was one where the Women's Institute did some campaigning to legalise brothels. I'll never forget these old dears visiting a sex shop and one of them saying "Oh look, an arse midget!" or something to that effect 😂

My Last Summer broke my heart. I always think of the guy who used to work on cruise ships who died alone in his flat. I wonder how the lady with MS fared.

The BBC Leeds street sex worker doc sticks in my mind for one reason- one of the girls saying that she gets paid £2000 a pop to eat a curry, smoke some crack and tit on this dude... I hope she's ok.

Secret Eaters - should have been called 'secret drinkers'. There was a guy who put cream in his cereal instead of milk and wondered why he was overweight 🤷‍♀️

Abducted in Plain Sight- many WTF moments and made me angry. Parents should have been prosecuted for neglect. people this naïve should not have kids. That guy who shagged all of them saw them coming a mile off.

Similarly WTF, the Fyre Festival. The bit with the water...

The Week the Landlords Moved In - If you fancy shouting at your telly, I highly recommend it. I'm glad I was able to buy my own house.

Hot Girls Wanted - I still think about that horrible website and the girls that were lured to make videos for it.

The Family- I still think about meals in terms of 'little hungry or big hungry'

1900's house - from about 1999 where a family lived like they were Victorians for a few months. That poor maid of all work they hired!
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have watched almost all of these, Secret Eaters was insane, also the host was so rude and patronising. Abducted in Plain sight was just unbelievable, the fact it happened not once but twice. 100% agree those parents should have been prosecuted
 
I've just watched The Phantom on Netflix. Worth a watch if any of you are interested in miscarriages of justice. It's frightening to think of how many innocent people are wrongly sentenced to death in the US. It should be abolished.
 
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