Essential Documentary Thread

[NotaPAWG]

Manufactured Landscapes, one of my favorite documentaries. There isn't much narration because the director didn't want to tell you what to think, and instead draw your own conclusion. The visuals, and photography is amazing.

"Manufactured Landscapes is the striking documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky.

Internationally acclaimed for his large scale photographs ofmanufactured landscapes - quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams - Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization's materials and debris.

The film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country's massive industrial revolution.

With breathtaking sequences, such as the opening tracking shot through an almost endless factory, the filmmakers also extend the narratives of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste.

In the spirit of such environmentally enlightening sleeper-hit as An Inconvenient Truth,Manufactured Landscapes powerfully shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it, without simplistic judgments or reductive resolutions."

Trailer



Full movie here

http://www.ovguide.com/manufactured-landscapes-9202a8c04000641f8000000005aa267d

 

[OmegaK2099]

 

[mortuus est]

Any doc's out there about weak people that will never make it in life?

 

[mortuus est]

oooooooooooooooo i like this

 

[BobbyBooshay]

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[Scientific Playa]

 

[151_Pr00f]

In America, the rich are getting richer. Isn't that great? Doesn't that mean there's lots more wealth to go round? Or is it good news for the rich but very bad news for the poor?

740 Park Avenue, Manhattan, is one of the most exclusive addresses in the world, home to some of the richest Americans, the 1% of the 1%. Ten minutes to the north, across the Harlem River, is the other Park Avenue, in the South Bronx. Here, unemployment runs at 19% and half the population need food stamps.

The American Dream of equal opportunities and hard work says you can be born in the Bronx and end up at 740. But is that dream still true? The film argues the super-rich haven't just bought the exclusive addresses – they've bought the whole system and the'’re running it for themselves.

 

[Remote]

Is that fluoride documentary legit, though?

They say the amount of fluoride in water is something like 5 parts per million.
Is that even enough to have a devastating impact?

 

[theworldismine13]

 

[Serious]

Any doc's out there about weak people that will never make it in life?

you'll be looking for something along the lines of inequality...


The one @151_Pr00f posted is a good example of that....

here's a good channel to subscribe too:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5McHEvkqTK4wovjv5ChLgg

 

[mortuus est]

you'll be looking for something along the lines of inequality...


The one @151_Pr00f posted is a good example of that....

here's a good channel to subscribe too:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5McHEvkqTK4wovjv5ChLgg

thanks checking thiz now

also looking for some inequality doc's around the 70/80/90's era or even before that

 

[Serious]

thanks checking thiz now

also looking for some inequality doc's around the 70/80/90's era or even before that

Here's one you might really enjoy. It's a tail of two families who struggle to make it in America, they literally try to all the right things, still are never able to fully get on their feet. They started documenting them in like the 1980's then released an update on everyone's situation literally a couple months ago. It's some sad shyt, watching generational poverty tbh...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/two-american-families/

 

[mortuus est]

Here's one you might really enjoy. It's a tail of two families who struggle to make it in America, they literally try to all the right things, still are never able to fully get on their feet. They started documenting them in like the 1980's then released an update on everyone's situation literally a couple months ago. It's some sad shyt, watching generational poverty tbh...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/two-american-families/

man this is scary, the cycle never ends, im watching this now and know family that are going through the same thing

 

[Serious]

man this is scary, the cycle never ends, im watching this now and know family that are going through the same thing

Yeah man I wish I had a solution, aside from trying to encourage families coming from generational poverty the importance of formal education. The sad part is how these people literally get taken advantage of the by the system or other external forces, when all they want to do is peacefully coexist, and willing contribute to society. Fixing inequality isn't a simple task per se.

 

[OmegaK2099]

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