39 pounds of love

and

young at heart

two very wonderful and inspirational docs! check them out <3

I saw Food, Inc. recently as well as OutFoxed (as recommended by YOU Alicia!). Food, Inc. was fantastic! As a new attorney who took Media Law in law school, I was fascinated with their discussion, though brief, on the Veggie Liable Laws and how this affects the information the public receives about their food. Most of all, the documentary has me COMPLETELY against GMOs and for so many different reasons. Even my husband, who is not a vegan or an environmentalist or active in any way, is mad about GMOs now. 

Other than that I saw How the State Got Their Shapes, which is a fun little History Channel special. 

Thank-You Soooo much for recommending the Doc on NYC!!

It is one of my favorite cities in the World, I am always intrigued to learn more about how New York became the Metropolis it is today.

I am going to see the Doc "DIRT" on Sunday, in Toronto, so I don't know how it is yet... but it looks interesting and VERY informative! The movie is being screened all over North America, will follow-up after, to let everyone know more about it.

Check-out the movie trailer and screening schedule:  http://dirtthemovie.org/

Has anyone already seen DIRT?

I too love NY and its history. I love the lower east side, so much history there. I highly recommend the Tenement museum located on Orchard St.  The tour guides are great, really fascinating stuff!

(Of course, its also right around the corner from Babycakes!!)

Now i am going to have to go and find all these documentarys from the new york one, to dirt. I have seen food inc and that really made me open my eyes. I need to get people to watch that especially my boyfriend who is still eating and loves meat.  I was able to persuade him that at home when i cook (he doesnt cook) that he will eat what ever i make.

My favorite documentary of all time is Ice Blink.  The Martin family's story of their life sailing around the world.  They show it on PBS and I watch it every time, it never gets old...  I want to buy the DVD for my dad's xmas gift.

My husband and i did the same thing. Once we started watching the series we were hooked. Such amazing historic photos. I was actually sad when we finally watched the last DVD. We had spent SO many hours on the couch listening to Ric Burns and watching those old black and white images that it was hard to imagine that the next night there would be no New York episode to watch. Thanks for relating to my strange love for the New York series. 

We also watched them and they are fascinating.  The most recent doc. I saw that really caught my attention was a PBS one covering depression and mental illness and the stigma and how difficult it is to manage and how it's not an exact science so meds wreak absolute havoc....it really showcased how people who deal with this are truly suffering.  I also love the series of documentaries.......I think they are called "Behind The Lens...."

"A Conversation With Koko".  It's a tad old, but it's part of the Nature series and a great little doc.  I'm a science teacher and I show it to my kids every year, it's that good.  It's one of the few science movies I show where EVERY single kid is engaged, and we're talking high school students!

Nice to know about this. I love NYC, thought Id never leave it. But it never leaves me. I will watch!

My fav doc at the moment 180 Degrees South. Beautiful in its mind boggling cinemetography, its custom soundtrack, its settings, it's mission and its supercool subjects (cast) and crew. Reviews the trek made by 2 dudes in 1964 who drove to Patagonia from CA, surfing and climbing along the way. The guys later became the founders of Patagonia and North Face outerwear, but now have devoted themselves to conserving the land, plants, wild animals, and people who are losing their lives to modern development in Patagonia, Chile. www.180south.com

Yes! I saw "Babies" a couple of weeks ago - beautiful, honest, enlightening and quite inspiring. Watch it and let us know what you think! 

Pale Male by Nature about the red-tailed hawk who lives in NYC. I see someone else is making one about him called The Legend of Pale Male.

Oh and Food, Inc. is a must see for anyone who is concerned about what they eat!

I love a good documentary. Will have to check out New York. Two of my favorites are "Devil's Playground" and "The Loss of Nameless Things." Devil's Playground is about Amish kids when they take that break from Amish life at 16 and just do whatever they want until they decide, or decide not, to rejoin the church. It's fascinating and engaging. "The Loss of Nameless Things" is about a playwright and founder of a theater company, Oakley Hall, who survived a tragic fall from a bridge in 1978, that left him permanently changed. A play he had written just before the fall was produced 25 years later, which is when the filmmaker began his work. It's an amazing story. Haunting and tragic but hopeful and beautiful at the same time. In both cases I feel the filmmakers got lucky with their subjects and the stories they set out to unearth or follow. It's enriching to watch them.

I watched 'Babies' as well just last week, and it was so adorable!! And so eye-opening to see how other people in different countries raise their children. Besides that one, I watched 'The Cove', which is one of the most soul-splitting and sickening documentaries ever made. If you've never heard of it (it's fairly famous, but not a household name), its a documentary about the slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan. What is so sad about the killing is that most of the dolphins they slaughter are just washed back out to sea. They do it out of spite. The rest of the meat is sold, sometimes to schools for children to eat, and sometimes labeled as another kind of seafood. This is INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS. Dolphin meat contains LETHAL amounts of mercury, and people are eating it without realizing it! Some of the men who kill the dolphins say it's part of their culture, but if you ask any other Japanese, they say they have never heard of such a thing, and that it must be stopped. They just don't know. It's one of the most amazing documentaries I've ever seen, because the crew risked so much to sneak in the filming. They implanted hidden cameras and everything, which takes guts. Now some of them can never return to Japan. PLEASE WATCH THIS DOCUMENTARY. Tell everyone you know to watch it. It's heartbreaking, but motivates you at the same time.

I recently watched "The Beautiful Truth" which is a great documentary about a doctor who essentially found a cure for cancer in the 20's.  That cure?  Well part of it is clean vegan living.  It was incredibly interesting.  His daughter continues his legacy despite continual harrassment from government, companies, doctors,etc.  I ended up buying the book she wrote and it really is amazing.  It's a great watch.  I also watched the history of baseball on PBS and I loved it!  They did such a great job giving credit to the African-American players who, in my opinion, are key players in the history and constancy of baseball as the American past time.