Winnebago Man

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Ok people. This is officially the funniest video I've EVER seen on youtube.

Basically about a guy who is trying to film an infomercial for the new 1989 Winnebago line, but is having a bit of an off day. They even made a documentary about this years later; click here to see the trailer.

If you haven't seen this, you HAVE to watch. I literally cried for 7.5 minutes.

I'm having trouble rating this because it isn't a true documentary. My instinct tells me to give this one a 10/10, but I should probably play that one down a bit due to the fact that this is just a short youtube clip essentially about nothing. So here it is. The Definitive Winnebago Man.

9+/10

EDIT: found the link to download the documentary

The Show

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Yea boyz, it's Da Show. A documentary about the culture of hip-hop. Through interviews with some of hip-hops biggest names, the film makers attempt to find out why it has become so popular.

This doc has so many great interviews with the biggest and best Hip Hop artists. Biggie, Snoop, Dre, Method Man and Redman are just a few. Check this shit out.

Manufacturing Dissent

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Made by a Canadian, Manufacturing Dissent takes a look at the life and work of this popular walrus. Whenever I saw a Michael Moore documentary I had the uneasy feeling that I couldn't trust everything I saw and heard. I didn't know why, but now I do.


1. He is a liar, and his films are full of lies
For example, in his first film Roger and Me, the whole movie is about him unsuccessfully trying to get an interview with Roger Smith of Ford Motor Company. In reality, he had two filmed interviews that he decided not to include in the film.

2. He is a hypocrite
Everyone knows the Michael Moore style documentary: chase guys down and make them look guilty. A Canadian lady chases Michael down trying to get an interview for at least a few months in this film and is never given an interview.

3. He is whack in many other ways.
Former friends, co-workers, and even my boy Ralph Nader appear in this film to give their two cents on this nutjob of a man.

It was always about him, rather than the movement. Everyone wanted to hold Michael up there as the savior of the left, when he wasn't trying to save the left, he was just trying to create an image for himself.

-Guy that worked with Michael on Roger and Me

8.5/10

Jimi Hendrix: The Uncut Story

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Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player of all time. If anyone questions me with any Steve Vai, John Petrucci, or Joe Satriani bullshit you'll go down in flames. This documentary features some complete versions of Jimi's best live performances. Rock stars, family members, and girlfriends are just a few of the people interviewed in this piece of art. Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney all flocked to see Jimi during his early years. Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones introduced Jimi at his first concert in America.

People don't realize how much happened musically from 1966 to 1970. The Beatles reinvented themselves three times then broke up, Flower Power and the Summer of Love came and went, Cream formed and broke up, Woodstock happened, heavy rock/metal was born, and Jimi Hendrix's rise to stardom happened just as quickly as his death. What has happened since 2006? Nothing.

This is a pretty raw documentary, almost as raw as Hendrix's guitar playing. I think it says a lot about not only Hendrix, or the music scene in the late 60's, but what living in the United States was like back then.

8.9/10

This Film is Not Yet Rated

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IFC-produced, this baloney is all about how movie ratings are decided. In 1968 the American film industry decided to give itself ratings voluntarily out of fear that the government would step in to censor. So the MPAA was created and they made the ratings you see today: G, PG, PG13, R, or NC17. You almost never see the NC17 because nobody wants that rating for their movie. It means no kids 17 or under allowed even if they are with their parents. The reason these ratings are so important, is that an NC17 rating is harder to sell. Movie studios won't release films with this rating, so films have to be changed to fit milder ratings. So even though the ratings are voluntary and don't mean anything, they have a massive impact on the production of films. The ratings are decided by mysterious people in a closed room. Usually graphic violence will get you an R but the NC17 is reserved for gay shit and sex that looks interesting. Interviews with directors, writers, actors etc., many of whom have been fucked with by this rating system. The MPAA is bullshit.

8.7/10

Inside The Meltdown

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I had to watch this documentary for my Business and Government class and it was actually really good. It was released by PBS in February of 2009, and the report summarizes the events leading up to and shortly after the financial crisis of 2008. It describes the key players and their roles, as well as the important financial tools that helped make this recession the largest one since the Great Depression.

8.5/10

WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception

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Danny Schechter, who is one of America’s most prolific media critics. Schechter says he “self-embedded” himself in his living room to monitor media coverage, by fastidiously tracking the TV coverage on a daily basis. He wrote thousands of words daily about the coverage for Mediachannel.org, the world’s largest online media issues network, and then collected his columns, blogs and articles in a recently published book, EMBEDDED: Weapons of Mass Deception (Prometheus Books) . He has continued his one-man investigation with WMD, a two-hour indie non-fiction film that asks the questions that his media colleagues refused to confront before, during and after the war. Featuring footage from inside Iraq, and inside the media, WMD tracks the media war through February 2004. Awesome documentary, learned a lot.

8/10

Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land

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Israel receives 16 million dollars of foreign aid from the US each day. Peace, Propaganda gives an understanding of how ignorance and support is maintained in America. An important documentary if there ever was one. Concise as fuck at 79 minutes.

9/10