I love documentaries. They are informative and capture
humanity in a brilliant way. I make a lot of lists as since my time is
precious. Here is a list of documentaries I recommend. Some I have seen and
some were recommended to me.
Premise: “A documentary that chronicles the life of young
college professor Angela Davis, and how her social activism implicates her in a
botched kidnapping attempt that ends with a shootout, four dead, and her name
on the FBI's 10 most wanted list.”
Premise: “Americans
put a lot of stake in how they’re all about the frontier and that they have the
frontier spirit. All of that is kind of in the history books now. But there is
a group of individuals in America, and they still have that innate sense of
going somewhere where it’s a bit rough and making a go of it. And that’s kind
of what Ian Cox is doing. He was a small-time hustler operating out of Rumbek
in Sudan. For about three or four years, he had an electronics shop in the
middle of South Sudan – a place called Rumbek, probably the shittiest place in
the world to do business. His friend Tim had a Land Cruiser in Juba that he
needed to sell. And with his mailing list, Cox advertised it and sold it. And
then from there, one of the biggest armed security companies in South Sudan
contacted him to provide 11 new Land Cruisers for a project they were just
starting, which he did. And then it’s flowed on from there.”
Venus and Serena (2013)
Premise: I highly
recommend this one. It explores beauty and aging through the stories of the
original supermodels: women, now between 50-80. Their images defined beauty at
the time which I found very different to how beauty is defined currently. They
discuss how they have reassessed and redefined their own sense of beauty as
they have aged.
A parting question: Anyone heard of the documentary 7
African Countries? If so, please send a link in the comment section for me. Happy Viewing until Part II!
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