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What's the most fascinating documentary you've ever watched and why did it captivate you? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 2 months ago by merari42 to c/asklemmy

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For me it's gotta be something from ARTE (the French/German culture television channel). Either it's the one about Chodorowskis weird Dune project or the three-part series about the history of racism. Both were extremely well-made documentaries.

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[–] jqubed 5 points 2 months ago

It’s hard to pick just one, but I’ve always enjoyed June 17th, 1994 by Brett Morgen and it’s one I rarely see mentioned in these contexts. There’s no narrator, it’s basically entirely archival news/sports footage from the day, but has a lot of footage that wasn’t actually broadcast, with hosts and reporters talking to producers, trying to decide what to do next. I worked in local TV news for about 10 years, so those segments were very familiar to me and really resonated with me seeing not only the events, but also the quick decisions of trying to figure out how to present those events and particularly how to tell people about what became the dominant news story of the day.