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Grimmest documentaries you've seen

Started by Hank Venture, July 08, 2012, 03:17:55 AM

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Moribunderast

FOR SAMA - Jesus fuck. I don't know why I subjected myself to this only a day after watching Rewind. FOR SAMA received rave reviews when it came out and it is definitely a very good, important, powerful documentary but it is relentless in showing you the absolute worst violence of war. The whole thing is shot from within Aleppo during the Syrian Civil War - it's fucking brutal and absolutely infuriating when you know the people responsible for the violence are still in power.

imitationleather

That Silent Minority documentary is absolutely fucking horrific.

BlodwynPig

Quote from: imitationleather on May 13, 2020, 04:13:01 PM
That Silent Minority documentary is absolutely fucking horrific.

I thought it was uplifting. That guy in charge of beechwood probably had a massive impact on changing that landscape?

BlodwynPig



Cuntbeaks


Hank the Rapper

"The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off", on Channel 4 at 10:00PM tonight.

Saw it on first broadcast, seem to remember it as quite life-affirming at the time. The poor little cunt's wincing and sobbing as his dressings were changed left an impression on me, though.

MortSahlFan

Quote from: Cuntbeaks on May 16, 2020, 04:04:08 PM
Possibly the best documentary ever, the gift that keeps giving.
It was just on TCM and is available on-demand.

Glebe

Was gonna give this it's own thread, but it's pretty upsetting so I've stuck it in here were at least people know what they're in for:

The Baby Stealers - BBC Africa Eye documentary.

Forgive the flippancy of the term, but that left me so bummed out when I watched it yesterday that I couldn't sleep last night. Fucking hell. I wish the informant had of just grabbed the poor baby and legged it. I feel ashamed to be human in this fucked up world.

cheesebot

Quote from: monkfromhavana on March 14, 2013, 05:06:36 PM
Not sure if its already been mentioned but at the weekend my mates were talking about a documentary about krokodil, which is apparently a moonshine variant of heroin very popular in shitty parts of Russia. Once you're on it you've generally got a year before you die/or you basically become unable to function as a human being. It's called Crocodil because it basically turns your skin scaly like a reptile, before it starts eating away at your flesh. One person on the documentary had an arm..well you can see the bone so much flesh has been eaten away. There is also footage of one guy having his leg sawn off without anaesthetic.


Almost sounds like fun.


phes


MortSahlFan


dredd

The Slave Circle (Direct Marketing Devil Corp. Documentary)
Just watched this - I've been involved in one of these outfits (working on an exit plan). This is the reality of those 100% commission sales jobs that get advertised vaguely as "brand ambassador", "sales assistant" or "direct marketing".

Retinend


peanutbutter

Harlan County USA is absolutely brimming with hope compared to the director's other film about a union strike; I saw the two back to back so I can't really comment on how Harlan County USA came across by itself.


Gotta be ten years since I saw the Hunt for Britains Paedophiles, is it worth a rewatch to verify it was as grim as I thought?

imitationleather

Quote from: peanutbutter on April 08, 2021, 07:42:47 PM
Gotta be ten years since I saw the Hunt for Britains Paedophiles, is it worth a rewatch to verify it was as grim as I thought?

It still holds up as a really excellent documentary.

What is so stark and different from docs these days about it is the cold and detached way it's presented. Also the level of gruesome detail it goes into would be pretty much unthinkable for a terrestrial TV documentary these days, I think.

That Julian Levine guy is one of the biggest cunts I have ever seen.

Also there's a similar one from the same period called Police Protecting Children that is worth a watch.

I've seen two documentaries recently about men* who agreed to be filmed for the last few months before they committed suicide. Grim viewing but I did feel empathy for them both.

*one was a dance teacher with a wasting disease, the other a Greenwich Village activist from the early 70s disillusioned with the failure of the revolution.

Retinend

Quote from: imitationleather on April 09, 2021, 12:11:39 AM
It still holds up as a really excellent documentary.That Julian Levine guy is one of the biggest cunts I have ever seen.

Just when I thought he was bad enough for being an utter pedo, he starts coming out with all that pompous libertarian verbiage[nb]in precisely the correct old boy accent for it[/nb] about the state violating his "natural" rights in searching through his mountains of child porn and rape memorabilia.

El Unicornio, mang

Quote from: peanutbutter on April 08, 2021, 07:42:47 PM


Gotta be ten years since I saw the Hunt for Britains Paedophiles, is it worth a rewatch to verify it was as grim as I thought?

Yeah, as imitationleather said it's a really excellent documentary, utterly riveting and the sentences given at the end were pitiful. I'm surprised at how much is shown though, one that particular sticks in my mind is video of a 5-year old being raped by a man with the title "me slamming my daughter" and only the private parts hidden by a black bar. Also the one whose Dad took her to France to star in a gang bang porno (and wanked himself off as he watched it being made) on the promise that she'd get a pony (which she never did). I'm sure it provided a lot of paedophiles with material and I'm conflicted as to whether it was necessary, but I guess they wanted people to know how severe it is. I know police get a lot of flak but the officers doing this, having to sit through hours and hours of this stuff every day with little ever being done, are heroes.

Also, the bloke who got arrested when some builders found a tape with kiddie porn in his house. Is it normal for workmen to just start watching peoples videos while working on a place??

Incidentally, Levine's mate Keith Romig has a load of highly-rated books about Leytonstone and Walthamstow on amazon so is probably doing alright for himself.

The full 3-hour series is available here. Just be warned, if you haven't seen it before, it's very graphic and upsetting.
***DEFFO NSFW***
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2i11al

Retinend

#830
"I don't think a young kid should be drawing stuff like that" says one of the investigators. A particularly chilling quote.

edit: oh, and the poor poor woman who has hated sex all her adult life since having been abused by Levine as a very young girl, and even when the police are there to share the evidence they have of Levine grooming her via the telephone, she is too ashamed to say a word to confirm or deny it. But her tears speak volumes.

popcorn

Quote from: El Unicornio, mang on May 06, 2021, 02:36:09 PM
Yeah, as imitationleather said it's a really excellent documentary, utterly riveting and the sentences given at the end were pitiful.

Ooh, sounds like a good watch

QuoteI'm surprised at how much is shown though, one that particular sticks in my mind is video of a 5-year old being raped by a man with the title "me slamming my daughter" and only the private parts hidden by a black bar.

Jesus Christ! Fuck that, I'm not sure I'd be able to get over it.

El Unicornio, mang

Yeah, might be best to err on the side of caution and not watch it, it does stay with you.

Hand Solo

Just to raise spirits (pun intended) the previously mentioned and unavailable documentary The Wet House is now on YouTube in various iterations.

jobotic

Quote from: El Unicornio, mang on May 06, 2021, 03:49:32 PM
Yeah, might be best to err on the side of caution and not watch it, it does stay with you.

Yes I think that's what I'll do. Just reading the wikipedia entry for that Australian child rapist/murderer had me shook up for weeks.

badaids

Quote from: peanutbutter on April 08, 2021, 07:42:47 PM



Gotta be ten years since I saw the Hunt for Britains Paedophiles, is it worth a rewatch to verify it was as grim as I thought?

It's a brilliant documentary, but it's horrible affecting. It took me ages to get my head round it, and the anger for the likes of Levine. It's easier going on a rewatch, but I've become a parent since the first watch  and so it's horrible on a totally different level. Definitely the grimmest documentary I've ever seen.

Cuellar

I think it probably is THE grimmest documentary.

imitationleather

Quote from: El Unicornio, mang on May 06, 2021, 02:36:09 PM
Incidentally, Levine's mate Keith Romig has a load of highly-rated books about Leytonstone and Walthamstow on amazon so is probably doing alright for himself.

A few years back I did some Googling about him and found Levine posting on a forum. Not this forum, though. His writing was a load of stream of consciousness Freeman of the Land stuff about how discriminated against he is and how society is broken. The worst thing about him is that he clearly doesn't think he's committed any crime at all. He no doubt genuinely believes the children he raped wanted to do it. Just a really disgusting specimen. I'm not a "string 'em up" type at all but my word with people like him I can see why some are.

I've tried to find the posts since but I think they must have been posted on one of the 99% of message boards now in Internet Heaven.

jobotic

Bet he's a scamdemic covid denier.

El Unicornio, mang

Quote from: imitationleather on May 06, 2021, 07:27:53 PM
A few years back I did some Googling about him and found Levine posting on a forum. Not this forum, though. His writing was a load of stream of consciousness Freeman of the Land stuff about how discriminated against he is and how society is broken.

Doesn't surprise me, he comes across very much like this in the documentary. I'm sure he's still rationalising it in his own mind.

There's also this newspaper article from the 1980s featuring Levine and co. bragging about their exploits which beggars belief

https://spotlightonabuse.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/notw080680.jpg