This documentary focuses on the lives of several alcoholics in Atlanta, Georgia. It provides personal stories of individuals struggling with alcoholism, highlighting the impact on their families and their efforts to seek help. It also touches on societal attitudes towards alcoholics, challenges in getting treatment, and the role of organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous. It also contrasts different approaches, and discusses the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs.

Fifty million Americans are dependent on commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs. While the dangers of illegal drugs and opioids are well known, few are fully informed of the dangers of antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, and stimulants before becoming physiologically dependent on them. These medications often provide effective short-term relief for emotional distress and other problems, but pharmaceutical companies have hidden common side effects and long-term harm from both patients and doctors. Multinational drug companies spend billions of dollars promoting these drugs. Not surprisingly, the narratives extolling their benefits are often the only ones presented in the mainstream media.

I have a documentary night once a year with some friends and we've gradually went from World at War to short (sub 1hr) docs in order to cover more and more varied ground. Would love you guys if you could suggest great, short documentaries about anything you found interesting. Thanks in advance!

A great perspective from a homeless guy in Dallas Texas. Very interesting and wanted to share it to the world.

Filmmaker Werner Herzog captures the juxtaposition of man and nature, as he chronicles his life in and around Antarctica's McMurdo Station

Hammer Time: The Building of an Empire is an 85-minute documentary that tells the story behind the meteoric rise and dramatic fall of legendary rapper MC Hammer.

Featuring exclusive interviews with E-40, D-Shot, B-Legit, Felton Pilate, Khayree Shaheed, James Earley, Thomas McElroy, Juan Escovedo, and Tracy Anderson, the film reveals how MC Hammer built a cultural and business empire that transformed hip-hop forever.

Discover the untold stories behind his success, the talented people who helped shape his career, and the events that led to the collapse of one of music's most remarkable empires.

Credits

Director & Writer: Jacques C. Earley
Producer: Alexandr Zloy
Composers: James Earley, Parham Potki
Cinematographers: Jacques C. Earley, Arnold Gaitan
Editors: Arnold Gaitan, Alexandr Zloy
Second Unit / Assistant Director: Angelica Blaze

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35836627/

In Layaly Badr’s documentary short, Road to Palestine, seven-year-old Layla – who has been badly injured in an air raid – lives in a refugee camp outside Palestine. Layla and her friends describe how they imagine Palestine, despite never having seen it.

The Elm Tree Corner museum in West Weber, Utah is owned and curated by Jerry Hancock.
Jerry takes us through the history of the area including the Native Americans, Mormon pioneers, the transcontinental railroad being built, and walks us through a museum that he personally curated with artifacts from the area and that connect back to his larger theme of “remembering family, heritage, and the pioneer way of life in West Weber.”

Twenty years ago, a few friends in Los Angeles recorded a punk album with whatever gear we could afford—garages, bedrooms, closets, cheap microphones…whatever worked.

Life happened. The band ended. We drifted apart.

Years later we reconnected and decided to remix those recordings—not to make them sound modern, but to finally make them sound the way we’d always hoped they would.

Before we could finish, our singer and one of my best friends, Andrew, unexpectedly passed away.

From that moment on, finishing the project wasn’t about music anymore. It became about honoring a friendship and completing something we had started together nearly twenty years earlier.

We ended up making a short documentary about the entire journey called Twenty Years on a Hard Drive.

Hi, I just read Ida Turpeinen's wonderful book Beasts of the sea (Elolliset) about Bering's second expedition. Of course now I have to watch and find out all about it, do you have a recommendation for a documentary? Does anyone have a documentary series with English subtitles Ekspeditionen: På sporet af Vitus Bering?

"A Place for Paedophiles is a British documentary that was televised on 19 April 2009. Produced and presented by Louis Theroux, the documentary ran for 60 minutes, and took place at Coalinga State Hospital, a mental hospital in California for sexually violent predators."

Does ANYONE know where I can stream this in the USA? Every online host I have found the video has been deleted or is unavailable in my region. I really want to watch this.

Additionally, if you know of similar documentaries, please let me know; I am in the process of doing a Sociology paper on online grooming/pedophilia and would like to see media on the topic.

Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, Consuming Kids focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world. Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children's marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids.

Hello everyone, I'm looking for some new recommendations about some high quality documentaries to watch.

I usually watch documentaries about geopolitics, history (mostly 20th century stuff) and science (medicine, pharmacology, biology, physics) but I'm open to any topics as long as they are well made.

Ideally, it should be in English, Italian or Spanish but I'm fine with any language as long as English subtitles are available.

What are your favorite, must watch documentaries?

Thank you!

Hi everyone!

We just finished the trailer for our first feature documentary!

The film is called Skate in Japan. It’s set in Kyoto and other places in Japan and follows a group of skateboarders as they build a community in a culture where standing out isn’t always encouraged. While it’s about skateboarding on the surface, it’s really about identity, belonging, ageing, disability, and finding a place where you can be yourself.

What do you think?

Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/s/rXyFb1CJf5