American Movie (orgers, if you haven’t seen this – RENT IT! Hilarious!)
Stevie
Hoop Dreams
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
Roger & Me (before Michael Moore married himself)
Truth Or Dare (image-saving editing or no, this was a good movie)
Capturing The Freidmans (I’ve only seen part of it, can’t wait to see it all)

I’m really looking forward to watching what others suggest!

The Maysles Brothers' Grey Gardens is, in my opinion, the best documentary ever.

When We Were Kings

The documentary of Muhammad Ali's fight with George Foreman. The famous 'Rumble In The Jungle'

John's Not Mad - a BBC documentary about a 16 year old Scottish boy who has Tourette's Syndrome.

"Mum you're a slut!"
"Fuck Off!" - shouted at the top of his voice in a public library.
"You stupid cunt!" - said to his teacher who dropped some soil from a potted plant.

ConsciousContact said:

Inside Bjork.

The Panama Deception -- about the US invasion of Panama to capture Noriega, and the senseless, unreported slaughter of innocent Panamanians. It was shocking to learn the United States also is in the mass-grave business.

I only wish I could remember the name of this documentary, perhaps someone knows the name.

It was about these transient transvestits/transexuals and one of them becomes converted to Christianity and marries a woman and lives a straight lifestyle. He cut off his ties with his former friends because they were living sinful lives. By the end of the story the man is dying and he realizes that he allowed his guilt to dictate his life and that admits that he regretted ever leaving the life he had to live the life he knew wasn't right for him. It was very compelling and very sad.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

You aren't thinking about Southern Comfort, are you? That was a really amazing documentary. I bawled all the way through it.

I love documentaries, and have seen a million, most of the names of which I've forgotten. Perhaps my fav:

Der Lauf Der Dinge

Anxiety said:

That doesn't sound right. I'll have to ask my friend. It was absolutely heartbreaking.

I saw Mr. Rogers go to the crayon factory with Mr. McFeeley once, and I really found that to be interesting.

Bowling For Columbine
Roger And Me
Capturing The Freidmans
Hated: GG Allin And The Murder Junkies
Crumb
Sick--Bob Flanagan, Super Masochist
Winged Migration
The Fire This Time

Hoop Dreams was incredible

Oooh, Winged Migration was nice. Good call.

I'm trying to remember the name of a documentary I saw at a Women's Film Festival--it was really informative and emotionally wrenching. It was about abortion before it was legal in this country, and they interviewed women who'd had illegal abortions, men and women whose mothers/sisters/wives/girlfriends died of illegal abortions, doctors, policemen, etc.

Bowling For Columbine
Style Wars
Crumb

Another awesome documentary, and I wish I could remember the name of it, was one I saw a few years back where a woman would walk down a busy city street and when some asshole construction worker would catcall her, she'd whip out a camcorder from under her jacket and start interviewing them about why they felt it was necessary to harass her. It was pretty powerful, not to mention it was fucking hilarious watching those lunkheads squirm.

The Thin Blue Line

Anxiety said:

Hmmm, that might "Killing Us Softly", by Jean Kilbourne. I think she's the one who did that, she did a series showing how the media encourages violence against women.

ConsciousContact said:

OMG! I forgot all about that. For some reason, they made us watch that show in our Life Studies class at school. I mean - can you imagine a load of 14 year olds being made to watch that shit? It was like manna from Heaven. In fact, I'm beginning to think that my school was a little odd, whenever I think back.

AnotherLoverToo said:

Naw, that's not the title though it might be the filmmaker...I think the word "War" was in the title...time to hit up ol' Uncle Google...

theVelvetRoper said:

OMG that was one of my FAVORITE "Picture-Picture" moments!!

I thought it said never seen. To which I would answer Ken Burns "Baseball". I need to own this.

jillybean said:

I've been seeing this ad on the subway and meaning to investigate. I have no clue what it's about. The ad doesn't give much away.

Another one by Ken Burns.
A MUST see.

UptownDeb said:

This film is about a father-son who were convicted of sexually abusing young boys that they taught computer classes to in the basement of their home. The father is dead, but the son is still in prison. The guy who made the film points out a few things about the evidence/trial that questions whether or not they were guilty, though, but also shows the confessions and evidence of what they did.

A few of the victims of the Freidmans took out a full page ad before the Oscars, directed at the Oscar committee, to protest awarding the film an Oscar. They're angry at the way it was all presented, and that the younger Freidman is using the film to file for an appeal.

Capturing the Friedmans was deep. I saw it at the movies and it messed me up for days...I recently rented the DVD and got to watch the extra material, and now I'm just convinced that however dysfunctional my family may be, it can always be more of a nightmare...

I haven't seen enough to have a favorite. I liked them all, and they all were good.

Crumb (he's crazy!)
Paris is Burning (vogue!)
Party Monster (amazingly interesting)
Bowling for Columbine (no comment needed)

And that's all I can think of...

CarrieMpls said:

Oh. I also saw Kurt and Courtney. But that was just weird.