{"id":18352,"date":"2022-01-07T20:47:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=18352"},"modified":"2022-01-08T11:32:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T16:32:34","slug":"documentaries-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/documentaries-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an update to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/documentaries-5\/\">this<\/a> list. I&#8217;m listing both movie documentaries and TV documentaries here.<\/p>\n<p>Best of the best<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Battle Over Citizen Kane<\/li>\n<li>Bowling for Columbine<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/capitalism-a-love-story\/\">Capitalism: A Love Story<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Corporation<\/li>\n<li>Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner<\/li>\n<li>Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/fahrenheit-11-9\/\">Fahrenheit 11\/9<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Fog of War<\/li>\n<li>Guns, Germs and Steel<\/li>\n<li>An Inconvenient Truth<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/jane\/\">Jane<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lost in La Mancha<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/planet-earth-season-1\/\">Planet Earth<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/planet-earth-ii\/\">Planet Earth II<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Roger &amp; Me<\/li>\n<li>Walking with Cavemen<\/li>\n<li>Walking with Dinosaurs<\/li>\n<li>Walking with Prehistoric Beasts<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/where-to-invade-next\/\">Where to Invade Next<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Runner ups<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Behind the Planet of the Apes<\/li>\n<li>The Big One<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/the-captains\/\">The Captains<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/chaos-on-the-bridge\/\">Chaos on the Bridge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/early-march-reviews\/\">Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/dian-fossey-secrets-in-the-mist\/\">Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Grizzly Man<\/li>\n<li>Jane Goodall\u2019s Wild Chimpanzees<\/li>\n<li>Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D<\/li>\n<li>March of the Penguins<\/li>\n<li>Nature: A Conversation with Koko<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/the-one-percent\/\">The One Per Cent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/other-tv-shows-ive-watched-lately\/\">Penn &amp; Teller: BS!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/project-nim\/\">Project Nim<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Slacker Uprising<\/li>\n<li>Space Station 3D<\/li>\n<li>Spellbound<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/star-trek-the-captains-summit\/\">Star Trek: The Captain\u2019s Summit<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Trekkies<\/li>\n<li>TV Nation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honourable mention<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/the-institute\/\">The Institute<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Seeing-the-World-in-a-New-Way Movies<\/h2>\n<p>These films are sometimes lumped in with documentaries, but they are quite different. They have no dialogue or story &#8212; it&#8217;s all about following the visuals as they show you the world in a way you&#8217;ve never seen it before.<\/p>\n<p>Best of the best<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baraka<\/li>\n<li>Koyaanisqatsi<\/li>\n<li>Powaqqatsi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Runner up<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/samsara\/\">Samsara<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honourable mention<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Naqoyqatsi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Comedy Specials<\/h2>\n<p>Again, these are sometimes lumped in with documentaries but are clearly different.<\/p>\n<p>The only 2 I&#8217;ve seen lately<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/garfunkel-and-oates-trying-to-be-special\/\">Garfunkel and Oates: Trying to Be Special<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/nick-offerman-american-ham\/\">Nick Offerman: American Ham<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an update to this list. I&#8217;m listing both movie documentaries and TV documentaries here. Best of the best The Battle Over Citizen Kane Bowling for Columbine Capitalism: A Love Story The Corporation Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner Fahrenheit 9\/11 Fahrenheit 11\/9 The Fog of War Guns, Germs and Steel An Inconvenient Truth Jane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[43,42,6,11],"class_list":["post-18352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-documentaries","tag-lists","tag-movie","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18395,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352\/revisions\/18395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}