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

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Girlinabubble said:
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.
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I can’t remember exactly what it was called can you? Xx
 
Haven't read the whole thread, but hopefully someone else mentions this one!

No going back on channel 4 the one where an ex playboy bunny and her partner and family bought under dodgy grounds an island in the nicaraguan mosquito coast. It was very controversial the islands that locals used to use where claimed by someone then sold off. She was obsessed with having a pink boat and pink hottub. The island was near a drug smuggling route and one night they were all kidnapped and taken out to sea. The husband died, possibly related to the kidnapping as iirc it was pneumonia. The woman was sleeping with various other people while the husband was alive who were helping build it. Then she went off with a snake farmer.

The series was repeated many times but not this episode. I did look up the ex playboy bunny on Facebook (Jayne something) and she had built a house but it's been up for sale for decades - and still is today. Her son's seemed to have left and live in the UK.

BuzzFeed did an article in 2014 (although lots of it was probably lifted elsewhere.

www.buzzfeed.com

Murder And Manifest Destiny On The Mosquito Coast

<b>Fifteen years ago, a mysterious Greek entrepreneur bought and resold a series of tiny islands off the coast of Nicaragua, setting off a bizarre and tragic chain of events that included a reality-TV sensation and allegations of an insidious murder plot.</b> The ensuing chaos brought to light a...
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Yel said:
Haven't read the whole thread, but hopefully someone else mentions this one!

No going back on channel 4 the one where an ex playboy bunny and her partner and family bought under dodgy grounds an island in the nicaraguan mosquito coast. It was very controversial the islands that locals used to use where claimed by someone then sold off. She was obsessed with having a pink boat and pink hottub. The island was near a drug smuggling route and one night they were all kidnapped and taken out to sea. The husband died, possibly related to the kidnapping as iirc it was pneumonia. The woman was sleeping with various other people while the husband was alive who were helping build it. Then she went off with a snake farmer.

The series was repeated many times but not this episode. I did look up the ex playboy bunny on Facebook (Jayne something) and she had built a house but it's been up for sale for decades - and still is today. Her son's seemed to have left and live in the UK.

BuzzFeed did an article in 2014 (although lots of it was probably lifted elsewhere.

www.buzzfeed.com

Murder And Manifest Destiny On The Mosquito Coast

<b>Fifteen years ago, a mysterious Greek entrepreneur bought and resold a series of tiny islands off the coast of Nicaragua, setting off a bizarre and tragic chain of events that included a reality-TV sensation and allegations of an insidious murder plot.</b> The ensuing chaos brought to light a...
www.buzzfeed.com www.buzzfeed.com
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Yes!!! I mentioned this one. It stayed with me for ages. I remember going to work the next day and saying ‘did you see...?’ And practically the whole place said straight away ‘no going back’
 
Lori Hoogewind - I survived a 200lb tumour. Just to make everyone aware, this is a VERY graphic video:




Also, Dede Koswara - Half man, half tree. He had surgery to remove warts which looked like tree bark all over his body, but were particularly bad on his feet and hands. Sadly he has passed away since.
 
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LittleLottieLoo said:
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.
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This is on YouTube a 20/20 documentary and its absolutely appalling 😔 the orphans are just completely catatonic from lack of interaction.
 
DCICassieStuart said:
Lori Hoogewind - I survived a 200lb tumour. Just to make everyone aware, this is a VERY graphic video:




Also, Dede Koswara - Half man, half tree. He had surgery to remove warts which looked like tree bark all over his body, but were particularly bad on his feet and hands. Sadly he has passed away since.
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She has the same disease as I have.(Tumors like this are extremely rare) Seeing this makes me so sad. It shows that there is something really wrong with health care in some countries.
 
Sazie1 said:
She has the same disease as I have.(Tumors like this are extremely rare) Seeing this makes me so sad. It shows that there is something really wrong with health care in some countries.
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In the US it really seems to be a case of only the wealthy having good healthcare because it's so expensive.

My husband's cousin lived in the States for a few years. His girlfriend had to ring an ambulance in the middle of the night for him when he woke up in absolutely agony. They both thought he was having a heart attack.
It turned out to be his gall bladder. He was in hospital for about a week and the bills came to something like $45,000!
He was very lucky that the company he was working for at the time paid his health insurance and that covered it.

He had a good job and a decent wage but he wouldn't have been able to come up with $45,000 just like that.

I do hope yours isn't anywhere as severe as Lori's.

They did a catch up with her a few years later. I remember watching it on tv at the time. I can't find it anywhere online.
Anyway, she was doing great and said she'd never be able to thank Dr McKinnon enough for what he'd done for her.
 
DCICassieStuart said:
In the US it really seems to be a case of only the wealthy having good healthcare because it's so expensive.

My husband's cousin lived in the States for a few years. His girlfriend had to ring an ambulance in the middle of the night for him when he woke up in absolutely agony. They both thought he was having a heart attack.
It turned out to be his gall bladder. He was in hospital for about a week and the bills came to something like $45,000!
He was very lucky that the company he was working for at the time paid his health insurance and that covered it.

He had a good job and a decent wage but he wouldn't have been able to come up with $45,000 just like that.

I do hope yours isn't anywhere as severe as Lori's.

They did a catch up with her a few years later. I remember watching it on tv at the time. I can't find it anywhere online.
Anyway, she was doing great and said she'd never be able to thank Dr McKinnon enough for what he'd done for her.
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I heared things like this before. That only a visit to a hospital was already a couple of 1000 dollar.
mine is luckily a mild case. I have lots of health problems, but I can live a normal life.
 
It’s been mentioned on here a few times already, but the Joyce Vincent documentary just broke my heart.
whoever she was wrapping Christmas presents for either didn’t know or care enough to check in on her, which is just so sad. I’ve never understood how she could have gone from such a popular young girl (as evidenced by her ex speaking about her), to being invisible.
I’ve recently emigrated on my own, with no friends or family on this side of the world, and I know that there’d be a search party out for me within days if I stopped answering my phone/going to work. The thought that she lay there undiscovered for such a long time is devastating. Really stuck with me when I watched it, and it would seem still does to this day!
 
Did anyone watch the one a few years ago about families that had taken their kids out of school and were raising them with no rules, they made their own decisions? Feral families I think.
There was one family where one of the children wanted to return to school, 'ok' the parents said 'it's all about them making their own choices'. Then proceeded to go on at the child about 'smelling all school-y' and turning their noses up, basically doing what they could to put them off the idea.
It really wasn't about what the kids wanted at all but what the parents were trying to instil in them and it was really quite sad. The one that went back to school lasted about a week.
Another of the children who was a teenager couldn't read or write but the Mum was just 'Oh he'll have other skills'
I wonder how those kids are coping now and will in the future.
 



I've struggled with eating disorders for my whole life, and I remember watching 'I'm a Child Anorexic' on BBC 3 when I was a teenager. I remember being appalled at the 'treatment' offered in Rhodes Farm, the clinic featured in the documentary. At the time, I guess people thought this was a reasonable approach and you must be 'strict' and matronly when dealing with eating disorder sufferers but thank god that attitude is changing now.

The woman who started it isn't qualified in the slightest to deal with complicated psychiatric problems and it shows. Stuff like telling a child who relapsed that she 'failed again', referring to the children with anorexia as 'you people' and feeding them an incredibly questionable diet of M&S ready meals. Some of the staff seem to almost mock the thought patterns of very ill children, scolding them and laughing about their behaviours. And fine, the clinic treated the anorexia physically (children did gain weight), but it seems that little to no thought was given to treating the children's mental health/physiological issues. As someone who recovered from anorexia, I can tell you all it's not that I didn't want to eat, it's that I couldn't.. there was a mental block stopping me from consuming food.

As far as I know, the Rhodes Farm was acquired by Care UK a few years back (A group with several private mental hospitals) and ran it to a good standard, following a more compassionate, 'whole recovery' (mind and body) approach.
 
bunnyboo said:



I've struggled with eating disorders for my whole life, and I remember watching 'I'm a Child Anorexic' on BBC 3 when I was a teenager. I remember being appalled at the 'treatment' offered in Rhodes Farm, the clinic featured in the documentary. At the time, I guess people thought this was a reasonable approach and you must be 'strict' and matronly when dealing with eating disorder sufferers but thank god that attitude is changing now.

The woman who started it isn't qualified in the slightest to deal with complicated psychiatric problems and it shows. Stuff like telling a child who relapsed that she 'failed again', referring to the children with anorexia as 'you people' and feeding them an incredibly questionable diet of M&S ready meals. Some of the staff seem to almost mock the thought patterns of very ill children, scolding them and laughing about their behaviours. And fine, the clinic treated the anorexia physically (children did gain weight), but it seems that little to no thought was given to treating the children's mental health/physiological issues. As someone who recovered from anorexia, I can tell you all it's not that I didn't want to eat, it's that I couldn't.. there was a mental block stopping me from consuming food.

As far as I know, the Rhodes Farm was acquired by Care UK a few years back (A group with several private mental hospitals) and ran it to a good standard, following a more compassionate, 'whole recovery' (mind and body) approach.
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I remember Rhodes Farm - the woman that ran it was on TV quite a bit years ago wasn't she?
 
Ohhhh love this thread I live for documentaries! Definitely resonate with a few already mentioned including The Khalif Browder Story, Trials of Gabriel Hernandez and the Story of Joyce Carol Vincent I thought about those a lot after I saw them. Loved Paddington Green too.

And OMG sex drugs and murder when she said she’s got a punter who likes her to dump on him and he buys her a curry and crack to make her go. I’ve NEVER recovered from that 🤢 Sorry for the graphic details. She was a very sad case though I felt very sorry for her.

I remember a documentary years ago, I was very young myself when it was on but it was about a young girl who was abused by her parents and they filmed it all I think they found the tapes in the loft and in one she was suspended from the ceiling and abused. I was never able to get the image out of my head and I often wonder what happened to her 😞

Child of Rage about a psychopathic little girl who openly spoke about wanting to kill people is another one that always sticks out in my mind. She was such a pretty little thing with beautiful eyes but had a very dark mind.
 
petitspois said:
I remember Rhodes Farm - the woman that ran it was on TV quite a bit years ago wasn't she?
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Yeah. Whenever BBC/Channel 4 etc needed a soundbite from a 'professional' on childhood eating disorders, she'd be front of the line. There were quite a few documentaries centred around the clinic too; I'm a child anorexic, I'm a boy anorexic and Dana: The 8 year old anorexic.
 
Its_Me said:
And OMG sex drugs and murder when she said she’s got a punter who likes her to dump on him and he buys her a curry and crack to make her go. I’ve NEVER recovered from that 🤢 Sorry for the graphic details. She was a very sad case though I felt very sorry for her.
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I remember that very well, and rewatching it now. The cycle of drug abuse is so distressing, and seeing the poor girls rattling and their skin going so bad. That lassie as well, Sammie Jo, I'd love to hear if she's doing well. She had a very magnetic personality but was being pimped and didn't seem to see it despite being probably the most street wise of all the interviewees.
 
There was a BBC documentary called Clowns which was amazing, it showed the real life (often quite sad and miserable) of Clowns. I remember a guy still in his clown outfit just sitting at the pub with a pint and a fag I think, lamenting the fact his daughter had got pregnant underage. Very bleak but humorous.




Then also another amazing one was about Tim Hetherington, a war photographer. God I fell in love with him and still think about it often!
 
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