Pls give a reason as to why you like it

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    “Who killed the electric car?” A fascinating look at the EV1 — an electric car developed by GM in the early 90s and leased to customers in California. The customers then had to give it back when the lease was over… so that GM could crush them all into little pieces and pretend the car never existed. It will make you angry.

    Second choice would be “Hands on a Hardbody” about a radio station giving away a truck in East Texas. It’s a great time capsule of its time and place. Both sad and funny.

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    I really liked Behind the Curve. A crew follows around some flat earthers to see how they got into it and what it’s like living your life believing the Earth is flat. All of them talk about the friendship and comradery of the group more than why they believe the earth is flat. In fact, one of the members explains that if he was given definitive proof the Earth wasn’t flat, he’d still pretend it was because he wouldn’t want to lose his friends.

    It really shows how people who hold extreme views often hold them because it gives them a group to be a part of. You’ll never be able to get someone to leave an extremist organization without giving them another group to be a part of.

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      This sounds WILD!

      The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia 2009 1h 26m

      A year in the life of the White family, well known for Jesco White, the star of the “Dancing Outlaw” documentary.

      Sex and nudity: Moderate

      Violence and gore: Severe

      Profanity: Severe

      Alcohol, drugs and smoking: Severe

      Frightening and intense scenes: Moderate

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    Action Park

    Supposedly there is another one that doesn’t make it sound quite so awesome and emphasizes more for balance purposes the negligence and corruption that killed a bunch of people aspect. But many people who were around at the time seem to like this one.

    Also, “Kunuk Uncovered” from Documentary Now on Netflix.

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        Not the same documentary, as far as I know, but the same park

        There are other more professional ones on the same park but this video is by far the best I’ve seen in terms of getting to the heart of things

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    The private life of plants, by David Attenborough. I love it because it shows plants living at our speed (timelapses) with clear explanation and interesting facts. The soundtrack is nice and weird with a lot of synths, which is different from the normal orchestral backing. Also I love David :)

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    The “Alone in the Wilderness” videos by Dick Proenekke. Middle-aged guy gives up on the rat race and heads to a remote spot in Alaska, builds a cabin, chills there for 30-years.

    The man is amazing. Using hand tools he packed in by himself, he builds a nice cabin, hunts and fishes, all that. Dick needs a spoon or a table or a shelf? He makes one. He makes everything he needs.

    No video has ever brought me such peace as listening to the narrator.

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      This started my love for watching folk build cabins by themselves, I must have seen a hundred by now!

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      I started watching it because the guy was making a spoon for himself and I thought it was so cool that he was so self sufficient

      Then I turned on one of the episodes and we was going into his HOUSE that he made for himself, mucking around with the door and trying to make a good way of doing the hinges

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    Ghenghis Blues

    American musician with a short wave radio hears Mongolian music for the first time and it changes his life.

    He goes on a trip 1/2 way around the world to discover it in person.

    Oh, and he’s blind.

    https://youtu.be/-_xlbCq0WTw

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    An Honest Liar.

    World-renowned magician and escape artist James “the Amazing” Randi dedicates his life to exposing fake psychics and others who claim paranormal powers, while keeping a secret of his own that takes up the latter portion of the Documentary.

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    Searching for Sugar Man

    It’s like a modern fairytale. An aging Latino day labourer from detroit with an assumed failed 1970’s music career is unearthed to be utterly successful in South Africa without knowing it. And the music is great.

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    Dear Zachary - the most uniquely produced and one of the most heart-wrenching docs I’ve ever seen.

    Once Upon a Time in Iraq - Interviews with Iraqis, describing the war with their own eyes.

    The Corporation - if everyone watched this perhaps people would be more concerned about Big Cor’prit than Big Guv’mint.