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

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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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Definitely not the only weirdo 😄 I remember the documentary about Tony, really sad, and I have wondered how he’s doing now too.
 
345cn345 said:
I remember Children’s Hospital on BBC . I’m sure the little boys name was Aaron . It has stayed with me all this time too.
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That's right- thank you ❤️❤️ I just did some searching and found an archived Radio Times. It went out in the evenings in 1998 and must have been repeated in the mornings in 1999. He was in Birmingham's Children's Hospital.

What a chance but lovely thing it is for us both to be on here remembering after all this time.
 
I came along to post 'Jonny Kennedy: The boy whose skin fell off', but I see lots of you have mentioned it already. I absolutely bawled my eyes out the first time I watched it and have cried anytime I've watched it since.

Does anyone know where it's available to watch at the moment? It used to be on YouTube, but doesn't seemed to be on there anymore.

@BashmentLady, where can you see 'Dreams of a Life'? I remember watching that on YouTube as well, but it's no longer available there.
 
DCICassieStuart said:
I came along to post 'Jonny Kennedy: The boy whose skin fell off', but I see lots of you have mentioned it already. I absolutely bawled my eyes out the first time I watched it and have cried anytime I've watched it since.

Does anyone know where it's available to watch at the moment? It used to be on YouTube, but doesn't seemed to be on there anymore.

@BashmentLady, where can you see 'Dreams of a Life'? I remember watching that on YouTube as well, but it's no longer available there.
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Johnny Kennedy might be on All 4 as one of the Channel 4 channels aired it fairly recently
 
ItsEmmie said:
Not a documentary but Emily Hayward on YouTube. I followed all her videos until she passed away and both me and my mum cried a lot when she did die. Think it was watching her go from fit and healthy to slurring and getting ‘slow’ and almost being in denial about it...her next video was her wife talking about her passing it was so sudden. She still pops into my head quite often, I follow her wife on Instagram, she has a baby now and bought a house. She would be so proud.

Also, the recent Rob Burrows one, never heard of him but I cried and cried and cried at that!
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She and her wife Aisha were a beautiful couple, just adorable. Broke my heart that they could have had such a wonderful future together.

Emily was so fighting fit before her diagnosis, cancer is a bleeping bastard. So cruel. Brave girl. 😔❤️

HockyRorror said:
Johnny Kennedy might be on All 4 as one of the Channel 4 channels aired it fairly recently
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Yep, I rewatched it a couple of months back and made my fella take his eyes off his mobile to watch it. I cried all over again.

I'd have loved to have had Johnny as a friend. He was a beautiful and witty personality. May he rest in peace.

klb92 said:
BBC’s Abused By My Girlfriend really stuck with me. The bodycam footage of him was just heartbreaking
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That was shocking and a story that really should be told more to take away the stigma for men suffering domestic abuse.

I hope Alex has met someone kind and deserving of him.
 
sosied said:
BBC did a documentary called love me love my face. It was about a lovely guy who was born with a facial deformity, he had a girlfriend who really seemed to love him. Would love to know if they are still together.
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Jono Lancaster and Laura. I'm friends with him on Facebook. He's a LOVELY man. He does so much for Treacher Collins, visiting kids around the world, raising awareness.

Sadly he split with Laura. I was gutted to find that out. They made a great couple.

It's actually Joni's birthday today. ❤
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MalletsMallet said:
That's right- thank you ❤️❤️ I just did some searching and found an archived Radio Times. It went out in the evenings in 1998 and must have been repeated in the mornings in 1999. He was in Birmingham's Children's Hospital.

What a chance but lovely thing it is for us both to be on here remembering after all this time.
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I’ve been thinking about the fact that we’re on this forum remembering one particular little boy from a tv documentary which focussed on lots different children 21 + years ago ... I have tried to do some googling to see if Aaron is remembered anywhere else online but haven’t found anything. I can only imagine that it would indeed bring some comfort to his loved ones that all this time later, strangers still remember their wee boy who left the world so young.
 
“Silverlake Life: The View from Here” It follows a couple both diagnosed with AIDS and a lot of it is shot from their perspective. It’s very sad but really beautiful too. It’s stuck with me since I watched it because it makes you think about how many others died in the same circumstances and how tragic that is.

Also there’s a mini documentary by Werner Herzog called “From One Second to the Next” and it’s about texting and driving. It’s harrowing and I do think it should be mandatory viewing for teenagers.

I think both of these are on YouTube.
 
Baby beauty queens which was on BBC3 - The Sasha Bennington girl, the Mum was insistent she got famous from pagents. I believe she had her own show for a bit. I think she went into boxing or something but I’ll never forget how sad it was that her Mum made her do dance routines in random restaurants with people watching as she believed “You never know who could scout you” I wonder what happened to her and her own mental health...😔
 
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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O my goodness - the street children doc immediately came to mind for me! I was a young mum at that time and I felt so sad for those children. I remember a beautiful young woman and a young boy who was responsible for his toddler brother . I hope life worked out for them, I still think of them.
 
gingerteacup said:
Baby beauty queens which was on BBC3 - The Sasha Bennington girl, the Mum was insistent she got famous from pagents. I believe she had her own show for a bit. I think she went into boxing or something but I’ll never forget how sad it was that her Mum made her do dance routines in random restaurants with people watching as she believed “You never know who could scout you” I wonder what happened to her and her own mental health...😔
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Her mum did an article a few years back saying she wishes she hadn't pushed her into pageants and she couldn't have carried on spending what she did.
I came across Sasha on Instagram. She's engaged to a man she appears to have met at work when she was on Flybe Cabin Crew and they had a baby boy in lockdown.
Up until 2016 she was working as a model and dating a different man but she looks happy and content now.
The baby is such a lovely little smiler 😊
 
One that sticks with me was based in a Bulgarian orphanage - toddlers were left to sit on the potty all day and they literally hosed the kids down to wash them.
There was a teenage boy who was eventually moved, but the whole thing just broke my heart. It was eye-opening to watch.

Protecting our kids was a difficult one too.
 
The One Life documentary called To Courtney, With Love I think it was early 2000. It was about a teenager who had cancer and was a young mum (13 I think) Her sister documented her life on her video camera up until she died it was so sad I thought about her for ages after I watched it.
 
I love documentaries, so will definitely check out some mentioned on here.

Blackfish definitely stuck with me.
Louis Theroux America's Most Hated Family.
There's another Louis series recently - one was about End of Life care and another about Polygamy. Both fascinating.
A Mockumentary by Simon Amstel called Carnage is brilliant too.
 
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