You Boys in Green Homepage YBIG Shop
Forum Home Forum Home : Other Forums : Whatever!
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Documentaries on the web
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Documentaries on the web

 Post Reply Post Reply Page  123 21>
Author
Message
The Count View Drop Down
Paul McGrath
Paul McGrath


Joined: 06 Feb 2007
Location: Romania
Status: Offline
Points: 17177
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Count Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: Documentaries on the web
    Posted: 17 Jul 2010 at 9:30am
any good documentary recommendations?

just watched the cove there that bhob posted earlier Clap

Originally posted by bhob bhob wrote:

Watched it online here
http://tvshack.cc/movies/The_Cove__2009_/a:107960/



Back to Top
RogerMilla View Drop Down
Moderator Group
Moderator Group
Avatar
#TEAMJAVIER #ENGANCHE

Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Location: Delaney Park
Status: Offline
Points: 34858
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote RogerMilla Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jul 2010 at 10:29am
enron the smartest guys in the room
bowling for columbine
small change
The first time the Devil made me do it. The second time I did it on my own.
Back to Top
Newryrep View Drop Down
Paul McGrath
Paul McGrath
Avatar
Just can't get enough of lists

Joined: 14 Jan 2009
Status: Online
Points: 15238
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Newryrep Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jul 2010 at 1:10pm

One about a german mountaining expedition in the 30's to be the first to climb the mattterhorn by a certain route.  Stunning and heartbreaking at the same time

'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te
Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941
Back to Top
The Count View Drop Down
Paul McGrath
Paul McGrath


Joined: 06 Feb 2007
Location: Romania
Status: Offline
Points: 17177
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Count Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jul 2010 at 5:27pm
Originally posted by Newryrep Newryrep wrote:

One about a german mountaining expedition in the 30's to be the first to climb the mattterhorn by a certain route.  Stunning and heartbreaking at the same time



whats the name of it newryrep? Thumbs%20Up
Back to Top
Saint Tom View Drop Down
Jack Charlton
Jack Charlton


Joined: 03 Jan 2009
Location: Ireland
Status: Offline
Points: 9979
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Saint Tom Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Jul 2010 at 3:46am
iran and the west (three parts), made by the bbc is the dogs bollox. interviews with at leats five us presidents, and all of iran past and present leaders.
 
also, dipatches on the 4od website is very good, also try unreported world
My destination inchicore my next stop being kilmainham
Where patriots and super saints are the topics of conversation
Back to Top
Newryrep View Drop Down
Paul McGrath
Paul McGrath
Avatar
Just can't get enough of lists

Joined: 14 Jan 2009
Status: Online
Points: 15238
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Newryrep Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Jul 2010 at 7:59am
Originally posted by The Count The Count wrote:

Originally posted by Newryrep Newryrep wrote:

One about a german mountaining expedition in the 30's to be the first to climb the mattterhorn by a certain route.  Stunning and heartbreaking at the same time



whats the name of it newryrep? Thumbs%20Up
 
Count its called The Beckoning Silence see below its also on You Tube in various parts.
 
Can only repeat stunning documentry and heartbreaking at the same time..
 

Last night on television: The Beckoning Silence (Channel 4)

 

By Patricia Wynn Davies
Published: 12:01AM BST 23 Oct 2007

Comments

By Patricia Wynn Davies

For all the many documentaries about courageous individuals who undertake hazardous adventures that turn into feats of harrowing endurance, it’s still hard to understand why certain people take such enormous risks, with the result that the Himalayas and the Alps, for example, are littered with corpses.

In The Beckoning Silence, the first in an Edge of Endurance season on Channel 4, climber Joe Simpson set off to recount the story of one of those tragedies, one it turned out he was particularly well-attuned to tell. We started by reference to the now famous accident Simpson had in the Andes at age 25, when climbing partner Simon Yates was forced to cut Simpson’s rope, sending him hurtling hundreds of feet into a crevasse – the disaster recounted in Simpson’s book Touching the Void and, especially nail-bitingly, in Kevin Macdonald’s film. Here, the main focus was the horrific experience, told in dramatic reconstruction, of a young German climber called Toni Kurz, who with three colleagues came to grief on the treacherous, sunless North Face of the Eiger in 1936. Or should I say the main one of a number of focuses, for Simpson was clearly determined to confront several topics at once.

One concerned the brooding, frightening but hypnotic power of the North Face, one of the most unforgiving terrains on the planet, and how the smallest change in circumstance can doom the best of men. Another was the similarity between Kurz’s tragic end and Simpson’s own near-death experience – Kurz died hanging on the end of a rope. “I am finished,” he had called out in a clear voice when he realised he would never come within reach of his rescue party a mere 50ft below. He had dangled on his rope for two days and two nights. Another subject was the difference between Simpson’s attitude to climbing after his accident and now. That meant a lot of strands for director Louise Osmond to keep under control, along with scenes on the mountain in which Simpson, with the aid of a helicopter at one point, retraced the nerve-wracking challenges that Kurz and his team had faced. The several layers certainly took this film out of the realms of the standard endurance documentary. It took its time in building up a head of tension, it wasn’t Touching the Void mark two, but it was ambitious and reflective.

That mountaineering is an unfathomable business was clear from the outset, when Simpson revealed that it was Kurz’s agonising death that inspired him to take up climbing in the first place – “because he never gave up, right to the end”.

Mountaineering was life-enhancing and life-defining. But in fact, Simpson’s views began to change some time back, with the misgivings he expressed in the book of The Beckoning Silence, published in 2002. Writing about his passion, he told us, had convinced him that it was also killing too many people, and now the passion was gone. Like other spent passions, I suppose, he now viewed it as “completely illogical”. Climbing was “not justifiable by any rational terms”, which is about as much as anyone can say

'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te
Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941
Back to Top
The Count View Drop Down
Paul McGrath
Paul McGrath


Joined: 06 Feb 2007
Location: Romania
Status: Offline
Points: 17177
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Count Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Jul 2010 at 3:51pm
good stuff lads, will have a look at these this week Thumbs%20Up
Back to Top
Gouldinho09 View Drop Down
Jack Charlton
Jack Charlton


Joined: 29 May 2009
Location: Neutral Zone
Status: Offline
Points: 7158
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Gouldinho09 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Jul 2010 at 6:52pm
Cant find a link but Cocaine Cowboys is one of the greatest documentaries ever made. Its about the original people that imported cocaine into Miami and then the whole U.S. They talk to pretty much all the major players that imported it except for Griselda Blanco who was the Queen of Cocaine from in the 80s and 90s. There is a lad in it called Rivi who is interviewed from prison. He was the biggest hitman in Miami during the drug wars. He is ridiculously cool as well

There is another one call Cocaine Cowboys 2 which is about when Griselda Blanco went to prison and some black guy from the hood who was just street dealing hooked up with her and became one of the biggest dealers in the U.S.

The 1st one is a much watch documentary. Its real life Scarface stuff. The money they were making in such a short space of time was astronomical.

There are downloads all over the gaff but cant find streams
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Cowboys



Edited by Gouldinho09 - 18 Jul 2010 at 6:57pm

Back to Top
The Count View Drop Down
Paul McGrath
Paul McGrath


Joined: 06 Feb 2007
Location: Romania
Status: Offline
Points: 17177
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Count Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Jul 2010 at 4:13am
Thumbs%20Up good man gouldy, will check that out

keep them coming lads
Back to Top
Max Power View Drop Down
Jack Charlton
Jack Charlton
Avatar
A.K.A. Mod Powers

Joined: 15 Sep 2008
Location: Poznan/Gdansk
Status: Offline
Points: 9965
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Max Power Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Jul 2010 at 7:16am

Super Size Me Thumbs%20Up

It will turn you off McDonalds food for at least an hour and a half
Back to Top
magnumpi View Drop Down
Liam Brady
Liam Brady
Avatar

Joined: 20 Apr 2009
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 1537
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote magnumpi Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Jul 2010 at 8:29am
Originally posted by Newryrep Newryrep wrote:

One about a german mountaining expedition in the 30's to be the first to climb the mattterhorn by a certain route.  Stunning and heartbreaking at the same time

 
just sat and watched this on youtube now.  amazing.
Back to Top
Newryrep View Drop Down
Paul McGrath
Paul McGrath
Avatar
Just can't get enough of lists

Joined: 14 Jan 2009
Status: Online
Points: 15238
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Newryrep Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Jul 2010 at 2:16pm
Originally posted by magnumpi magnumpi wrote:

Originally posted by Newryrep Newryrep wrote:

One about a german mountaining expedition in the 30's to be the first to climb the mattterhorn by a certain route.  Stunning and heartbreaking at the same time

 
just sat and watched this on youtube now.  amazing.
 
glad you enjoyed it
'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te
Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941
Back to Top
The Count View Drop Down
Paul McGrath
Paul McGrath


Joined: 06 Feb 2007
Location: Romania
Status: Offline
Points: 17177
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Count Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Jul 2010 at 3:56pm
Originally posted by Newryrep Newryrep wrote:

Count its called The Beckoning Silence see below its also on You Tube in various parts.
 
Can only repeat stunning documentry and heartbreaking at the same time..
 

Last night on television: The Beckoning Silence (Channel 4)

 

By Patricia Wynn Davies
Published: 12:01AM BST 23 Oct 2007

Comments

By Patricia Wynn Davies

For all the many documentaries about courageous individuals who undertake hazardous adventures that turn into feats of harrowing endurance, it’s still hard to understand why certain people take such enormous risks, with the result that the Himalayas and the Alps, for example, are littered with corpses.

In The Beckoning Silence, the first in an Edge of Endurance season on Channel 4, climber Joe Simpson set off to recount the story of one of those tragedies, one it turned out he was particularly well-attuned to tell. We started by reference to the now famous accident Simpson had in the Andes at age 25, when climbing partner Simon Yates was forced to cut Simpson’s rope, sending him hurtling hundreds of feet into a crevasse – the disaster recounted in Simpson’s book Touching the Void and, especially nail-bitingly, in Kevin Macdonald’s film. Here, the main focus was the horrific experience, told in dramatic reconstruction, of a young German climber called Toni Kurz, who with three colleagues came to grief on the treacherous, sunless North Face of the Eiger in 1936. Or should I say the main one of a number of focuses, for Simpson was clearly determined to confront several topics at once.

One concerned the brooding, frightening but hypnotic power of the North Face, one of the most unforgiving terrains on the planet, and how the smallest change in circumstance can doom the best of men. Another was the similarity between Kurz’s tragic end and Simpson’s own near-death experience – Kurz died hanging on the end of a rope. “I am finished,” he had called out in a clear voice when he realised he would never come within reach of his rescue party a mere 50ft below. He had dangled on his rope for two days and two nights. Another subject was the difference between Simpson’s attitude to climbing after his accident and now. That meant a lot of strands for director Louise Osmond to keep under control, along with scenes on the mountain in which Simpson, with the aid of a helicopter at one point, retraced the nerve-wracking challenges that Kurz and his team had faced. The several layers certainly took this film out of the realms of the standard endurance documentary. It took its time in building up a head of tension, it wasn’t Touching the Void mark two, but it was ambitious and reflective.

That mountaineering is an unfathomable business was clear from the outset, when Simpson revealed that it was Kurz’s agonising death that inspired him to take up climbing in the first place – “because he never gave up, right to the end”.

Mountaineering was life-enhancing and life-defining. But in fact, Simpson’s views began to change some time back, with the misgivings he expressed in the book of The Beckoning Silence, published in 2002. Writing about his passion, he told us, had convinced him that it was also killing too many people, and now the passion was gone. Like other spent passions, I suppose, he now viewed it as “completely illogical”. Climbing was “not justifiable by any rational terms”, which is about as much as anyone can say



just watched that there newryrep, absolute quality stuff Clap have never seen 'into the void' either so must give that a bash
Back to Top
The Count View Drop Down
Paul McGrath
Paul McGrath


Joined: 06 Feb 2007
Location: Romania
Status: Offline
Points: 17177
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Count Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Jul 2010 at 4:05pm
Originally posted by Saint Tom Saint Tom wrote:

iran and the west (three parts), made by the bbc is the dogs bollox. interviews with at leats five us presidents, and all of iran past and present leaders.
 
also, dipatches on the 4od website is very good, also try unreported world


up next tomThumbs%20Up
Back to Top
devondudley View Drop Down
Liam Brady
Liam Brady
Avatar

Joined: 30 Oct 2009
Status: Offline
Points: 1398
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote devondudley Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Jul 2010 at 5:51pm
capturing the freidmans
 
anvil
 
king of kong
 
all really good ones
But fumble in a greasy till

And add the halfpence to the pence

And pray to shivering prayer, until

You have dried the marrow from the bone.

W. B. Yeats, September 1913
Back to Top
Percy View Drop Down
Ray Houghton
Ray Houghton
Avatar

Joined: 26 Mar 2007
Location: Saint Pierre
Status: Offline
Points: 3050
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Percy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Jul 2010 at 12:50pm
watched the cove last night... those  japanese dont give a bollix about anything... shocking what theyre doin.Thumbs%20Down
MERRY CHRISTMAS

@IrishPercy
Back to Top
barcabhoy View Drop Down
500 Club la la la
500 Club la la la


Joined: 07 Jun 2009
Location: Spain
Status: Offline
Points: 626
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote barcabhoy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Jul 2010 at 1:17pm
Enough documentaries here to keep you very busy. Gouldy's cocaine cowboys is there.
http://documentaryheaven.com/
For these games, you must keep a cold heart no, a warm heart and a cold mind no, head! So you must have a warm heart and (pause)a cold head.
Back to Top
The Count View Drop Down
Paul McGrath
Paul McGrath


Joined: 06 Feb 2007
Location: Romania
Status: Offline
Points: 17177
Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Count Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Jul 2010 at 3:20pm
will get into the 2nd part of iran and the west tonight..... cocaine cowboys tomorrowClap
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  123 21>
  Share Topic   

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down

Forum Software by Web Wiz Forums® version 12.00
Copyright ©2001-2018 Web Wiz Ltd.