Top Documentaries

I want to give props to a website called TopDocumentaryFilms.com .They host links to literally hundreds of documentary films on a wide variety of topics. Now, I typically gravitate to the ones regarding the current economic mess and the shift of our government to authoritarian rule (no matter which puppet is charge), but I do watch films on other topics too.

So, now a list of recommendations (I'll do this from time to time).

Top 10 Documentaries for Mr. Jefro Today

10. The Beauty of Maps

Documentary series looking at maps in incredible detail to highlight their artistic attributions and reveal the stories that they tell.

09. Bukowski: Born Into This

Director John Dullaghan’s biographical documentary about infamous poet Charles Bukowski is as much a touching portrait of the author as it is an exposé of his sordid lifestyle.

08. Bruce Lee – A Warrior’s Journey

Bruce Lee was inarguably the greatest martial arts star of his generation, and his intense on-screen charisma and astounding fighting skills make him the standard by which other martial arts heroes are measured.

07. Beyond Treason

Department of Defense documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act expose the horrific underworld of the "disposable army" mentality and the government funded experimentation upon US citizens conducted without their knowledge or consent.

06. A World Without Water

As less and less water is available, you have yet another problem being added and that is the problem of privatization. There are companies now saying ‘why don’t we bottle it, mine it, divert it, sell it, commodify it.’ Every day 3900 children die as a result of insufficient or unclean water supplies.

05. Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs

Pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. Focusing on the industry’s marketing practices, media scholars and health professionals help viewers understand the ways in which direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising glamorizes and normalizes the use of prescription medication.

04. American Hardcore

The history of hardcore punk–the tougher, faster, and more politically minded stepchild of the ’70s punk movement that arose in the ’80s–is examined in exuberant detail in Paul Rachman’s documentary.

03. Big Brother, Big Business

Every day technologies are being used to monitor Americans with unprecedented scrutiny – from driving habits to workplace surveillance. Shoppers and diners are observed and analyzed; Internet searches are monitored and used as evidence in court. It is big business that collects most of the data about us. But increasingly, it’s the government that’s using it.

02. Totally Bill Hicks

A celebration of the comedy of Bill Hicks. The film is structured around the different strains of comedy in the Hicks stand-up, sampling the best of his confrontational performance.

01. American Drug War: The Last White Hope

35 years after Nixon started the war on drugs, we have over one million non-violent drug offenders living behind bars. The War on Drugs has become the longest and most costly war in American history, the question has become, how much more can the country endure?

Let me know if you liked or disliked any of these. I don't know how often I'll do this. I have no affiliation to the site, but I sure do enjoy the hell out of it.

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