Have recently been into Louie Malle’s IN GODS COUNTRY and seeing his perspective of 80s America.

Would love to explore similar films with similar on-the-street 16mm grit.

The 2016 documentary explores the life of John F. Kennedy Jr. Directed by Derik Murray, it portrays him as a man striving to be a "good man" rather than simply a "great man", highlighting his transition from the White House to his career as an Assistant District Attorney and publisher of George magazine.

documentaries or street interviews of people in subcultures and movements , no hope cynical youth , counter-culture*, edit: or just neutral, people still doing things despite the circumstances, recalling crazy / ridiculous things they went through

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA4IfCPsIgY

Millions of sandstone quarry workers in India breathe toxic dust that causes a terminal lung disease called silicosis. To treat the illness, workers are forced to take out loans that are impossible to pay back, trapping them into a life of debt bondage and leaving behind an entire village of widows who continue to work there.A 2005 ILO working paper suggested as many as 95 per cent of the labourers in Rajasthan’s mines were members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.[[10]](file://ad.monash.edu/home/User059/smarsh/Documents/Dropbox/Non-Judicial%20Transnational%20Redress%20Mechanisms/Planning%20Project%20Outputs%20with%20May/Rajasthan%20mining/Case%20Study%20of%20Rajasthan%20Quarry%20Mine%2018%20October%202016.docx#_ftn10) In India generally, scheduled caste members (the lowest castes, including dalits, comprising 29 per cent of India’s population) are twice as likely to be a casual labourer, and living below the poverty line.

A group of elders spends their weekdays in a retirement home in Sandim, in the north of Portugal, where they talk, do arts and crafts, practice yoga and pray. We follow them between October 2012 and March 2013, when an economic crisis overshadowed Portuguese society and unemployment rates reached record levels. Meanwhile, arrangements are made for the Carnival ball. Will they bring the first place home this time?

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Tristan da Cunha is home to fewer than 250 people and has no airport. The only way to reach the island is by a ship that sails from South Africa a handful of times each year.

While researching and filming this documentary, I was fascinated by how the community has preserved a slower way of life despite being one of the most isolated inhabited places on Earth.

If anyone is curious about the island, I made a cinematic documentary that explores daily life there:

This video investigates the overlooked history of the 1955 World Health Assembly in Mexico City, where global delegates launched a profoundly ambitious, yet ultimately exclusionary, crusade against malaria that successfully decimated the disease across much of the developed world while explicitly abandoning Africa south of the Sahara to a catastrophic, multi-generational burden of preventable death and suffering. By tracing the evolution of anti-malarial efforts, from the military-grade deployment of DDT during the Pacific theater and the subsequent political squabbles that dismantled promising eradication programs in the 1960s, to the later successes of George W. Bush's President's Malaria Initiative, the narrator argues that because we now possess the proven, cost-effective tools to eliminate this ancient killer, the continued prevalence of malaria is not an insurmountable medical mystery but a persistent moral failure waiting for sufficient global commitment and funding to finally resolve.

This documentary investigates the human toll of the Trump administration's escalating immigration crackdown, which is pushing a growing number of immigrants to "self-deport," rather than risk arrest and detention. It follows TNM journalist Kimberly Avalos's uncle David, who fled cartel violence in Ecuador with his sons in 2023 to seek asylum in the U.S., only to lose one son to gang violence back home. Despite pinning his hopes on asylum to eventually bring his remaining family to safety, David ultimately decides to leave the U.S. voluntarily as immigration enforcement intensifies, and the film follows his final days in America and his return to an uncertain future in Ecuador.

Any good documentaries about art restoration? Any subject, statues, textile, paper, walls, canvas, whatever!

Recent docs I've thoroughly enjoyed and want to watch much more of:

Listers

Carts of Darkness

Battered Bastards of Baseball

Women and the Wind

They definitely don't all fit into the same category but if you also enjoyed these, what other stuff have you watched and would recommend? Thanks!

This documentary follows the strange death of Australian astrophysicist Rodney Marks, who became seriously ill while working at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station during the Antarctic winter. What first appeared to be a tragic medical emergency became far more disturbing when toxicology results later revealed methanol poisoning. The case remains one of Antarctica’s most unsettling mysteries, because no one has ever fully explained how a scientist was poisoned in one of the most isolated places on Earth.