Good documentaries

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'Alone in the Wilderness' was really good.

About a guy who decides to buy some land in the middle of Alaska and build himself a house and live up there alone in solitary.

For the American's it plays on PBS quite a bit, for others it can be found online if you know where to look.
 
And in the same vein, 'Happy People: A Year in the Taiga' is another belting docco. All about surviving year to year in Siberia, in a town so remote they hardly have any contact with the outside world.
 

Watched a fairly life changing doc last night called Fat, Sick and Dying. Admittedly I'm none of those things but I don't eat nearly enough veg and he went 60 whole days eating nothing, simply juicing fruit and veg. Incredible story. I've just bought a juicer.

 
CahillsCornerFlag said:
Watched a fairly life changing doc last night called Fat, Sick and Dying. Admittedly I'm none of those things but I don't eat nearly enough veg and he went 60 whole days eating nothing, simply juicing fruit and veg. Incredible story. I've just bought a juicer.

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Is Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead an exemplary real-life story of a crazy, successful salesman who happened to inspire other people to change their lives, or is it a commercial for the Reboot juice fast? Cross tries to make his film a little bit of both, which is a shame.
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@Tramps_mate I watched it in conjuction with another health programme (the name of which I forget) and unless Cross makes money from me buying a juicer and veg I doubt he's going to benefit financially from me. The science is there, you don't have to give him any money for the juice detox to work.
 

Basil Fawlty said:
Really enjoyed this. It's a good 2 and a half hours but if you're interested in finding out more on the Middle East and it's relationship with the West it's well worth a watch
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Yes, decent documentary. The early analysis on the American connection to the House of Saud and their export of Wahhibism away from their own borders was interesting and ironic. The central point that the west was seeing things in terms of a struggle of values between good and evil/enlightenment/backwardness though rang a bit hollow. The west aren't in this for ideological reason they're in it for continued control over oil and whatever other mineral deposits they can get their hands on via plaint client states.
 
davek said:
Yes, decent documentary. The early analysis on the American connection to the House of Saud and their export of Wahhibism away from their own borders was interesting and ironic. The central point that the west was seeing things in terms of a struggle of values between good and evil/enlightenment/backwardness though rang a bit hollow. The west aren't in this for ideological reason they're in it for continued control over oil and whatever other mineral deposits they can get their hands on via plaint client states.
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You're right mate, but at least superficially, Bush etc., have attempted to dress it up in these terms in order to garner support, or at least apathy, from the masses.

 

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