Category: Documentaries
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Darwin’s Nightmare (2004)
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Read more: Darwin’s Nightmare (2004)When the free market is law, abandon all hope. Darwin’s Nightmare, Hubert Sauper’s new documentary, is so punishing in its bleakness, in fact, that it acts as a white flag for all further endeavors
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Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple
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Read more: Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s TempleJim Jones — preacher, con man, pervert, and, ultimately, instigator of mass murder/suicide — is not the sort of man I fear as I close my eyes.
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Sharkwater (2006)
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Read more: Sharkwater (2006)Tigers are killed for their penises so that pathologically insecure gentlemen might tap into some mystical power of seduction…
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Army of Shadows (1969)
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Read more: Army of Shadows (1969)On its surface, this is a precise examination of the French Resistance, shot in a documentary style on location.
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Russian Ark (2002)
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Read more: Russian Ark (2002)95 minute unbroken shot Russian film. Breathtaking Beauty. The Results? Empty theaters, indifference, deathly silence.
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The Summit (2012)
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Read more: The Summit (2012)Here we have yet another mountain climbing documentary where on August of 2008, 25 dare-devils headed for the summit, but 11 climbers never came back, meeting their death on a mountain, nicknamed The Savage Mountain, also known as K2. Here at Ruthless, our fascination and disdain for born-rich fools who pollute our beautiful mountains with…
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The Ghost Army (2013)
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Read more: The Ghost Army (2013)The Ghost Army is an amazing documentary that vividly shows how WWII was a complete and total effort from every corner of American and Allied creativity. Surely, as has been unanimously proclaimed, this was “The Greatest Generation”, and I am still learning every day just how great they were.
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Into the Abyss
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Read more: Into the AbyssA documentary by Werner Herzog “The fact that a believer is happier than a Skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober man.”-George Bernard Shaw This documentary centers on death row inmates in Huntsville, Texas, the state that leads the nation in executions, no…
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Happy People
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Read more: Happy PeopleA documentary by Werner Herzog I just finished watching the 9-part series: Alaska: The Last Frontier and it was great. This series showcases the lives of the second and third generation Kilchers, who for decades have been homesteaders on the rugged Alaskan frontier. These people are impressive and quite hard-core as they fish, hunt, drive cattle,…
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Grizzly Man
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Read more: Grizzly ManI have a deal with God. I leave him alone, and he leaves me alone. The same goes for bears.