Documentaries

As I posted on Facebook, I've been watching a lot of documentaries lately, the queue is full right now. Here's a list of what I've watched recently, all of which can be streamed instantly in your Netflix queue if you so desire.

Saint of 9/11 A documentary about Mychal Judge, the chaplain for the NYC firefighters, who was victim 1 of 9/11. He was quite the character, an alcoholic and there's some controversy about his sexuality. The interviews are funny, touching, and inspirational.

My Flesh and Blood A documentary about Susan Tom, who has 13 kids, 11 of which are adopted, all of which have disabilities. Warning: Some of these children have gone through horrifying experiences, for example there's a young girl who was fully burned by a propane stove. When I initially started watching it I wasn't sure if I was going to make it through the whole thing. This documentary makes you feel extremely lucky to be alive.

The Parking Lot Movie Love, love, love this documentary. These guys are awesome, they kept cracking me up. They're all extremely intelligent, and most become devoted to the job to the point of completely losing it.

We Live In Public Trailer link is NSFW, and the documentary has a whole lot of naked in it. Similar to the Stanford Prison experiments, as someone noted in the comments of the trailer. It covers Josh Harris's different projects, Quiet- an underground bunker he built, with 100 people living in it for 30 days, he supplied food, water, guns, drugs, whatever they wanted they got, the catch was there were cameras everywhere, and I mean, everywhere. The shower was a sphere in the middle of a room (on camera), the bathrooms had cameras in them, and every persons pod had a tv and camera. There was no place to go if you needed to take a crap, get naked, have sex, whatever, it was all recorded and the people in Quiet could watch any of the channels they wanted. As you can guess, people went balls out crazy. He also did We Live In Public with his girlfriend which was the first apartment to be rigged up with surveillance cameras in every corner of the house and a million microphones that streamed live, 24 hours a day on the internet. Totally Orwellian, the sociology aspect of it kept me watching.

Capturing the Friedmans Documentary about a family who was dealing with a father and son who were charged with child molestation.  It's done in a way that has the viewer decide whether they are guilty or not.  I watched this movie initially on HBO, when it came out, and then again this week to see if I could get a better perspective on the case. Extremely interesting, but hard to watch at some times when the actual charges are being discussed. Some of the people who he was accused of molesting say he did, others say nothing ever happened.

I think I'm a documentary junkie..