JFF: What's Your Favorite Documentary

Waiting For Superman
Food Inc
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

Anything Dave Attenborough narrates...I'm there!!

I love Waiting for Superman and lots of the food documentaries, but Miss Representation is my favorite!

We watch a lot of documentaries in our family, and I use excerpts in my classroom, too.

F.L.O.W.: For the Love of Water. Excellent movie about this precious resource and how corporations what to make water a commodity.

I saw a great one recently, entitled, "There's something wrong with Aunt Diane." Spellbinding and tragic.

Also, a Ken Burns documentary on the Dust Bowl. Don't know the exact title. Amazing.

Good question. Thanks.

I'm a total documentary buff. I don't know about favorite but just finished:

"the men who built America"

....about Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, JP Morgan, and Ford. Seriously interesting history. Never realized how interwoven their work and industry was and that they were all contemporaries, rivals and at times allies. No strong slant towards a political view- gave a real honest look at early American capitalism, both for its positives to create such huge strides in progress and its downsides of greed and poor working conditions. So well done! and while I would not have guessed it was going to be supper interesting, it really was. I think it was made by the History Channel.

Ken Burns' "The National Parks: America's Best Idea". I am finding more documentary type shows to watch during nap time, as they help my little boy drift off to dream land ... ;)

Jane, the men who built America were actually the slaves...

My favorite is Tuskegee Airmen

Babies and An Inconvenient Truth.

I really enjoyed "God Forgot About Us"...it really moved me and challenged me as a believer in America vs believers in third world countries.

We don't watch much TV/movies but anything by Ken Burns is well received in our house. His documentaries are always well done, accessible and so touching as he works hard to keep the human connection, especially at the every man level. I particularly love "The War" and "The Civil War. "

Apocalypse
Zeitgeist
The Unbelievers
Night and Fog
For All Mankind

The last one I watched was Stephen Fry's The Secret Lives of the Manic Depressive on Utube. Revealing, insightful, helpful.

Military documentaries - How to Fold a Flag, Coming Home, Seal Team Six and the like. Netflix has a huge section of this. Its my guilty pleasure!

I love the series VICE on HBO. It really puts into perspective the how easy life is here (in the USA) for most of us.