this movie is truly fascinating to me. the case against the friedmans lacks physical evidence, and the director (jarecki) seems to genuinely believe that jesse friedman is innocent. for a lot of the film it seems jarecki is presenting the case that both arnold friedman and jesse are innocent, but then in the last 30 or so minutes he kind of puts the brakes on arnold’s innocence. but never puts the brakes on jesse’s innocence.

i have to imagine he made the film because he truly thought jesse was being railroaded, as david friedman (the eldest brother) seems to believe. but i sadly don’t see any inherent reason to believe that besides jesse being mild mannered in an interview setting. everything points to him being, at the very least complicit to something inappropriate happening. was the inappropriate thing that happened several “gamified” rapes of young boys who showed no physical signs of rape when being picked up by parents? students who then re-enrolled in the classes? that seems extremely far fetched. jarecki makes it very clear that many of these accusations were made via inappropriate hypnosis techniques. but that does not change the fact that arnold was an actual pedophile running a private computer school out of his basement.

i don’t know if the case against jesse is a clear example of him being a victim of hysteria, because to me it does seem that jesse was justifiably questioned. the fact of the matter is, and an investigator says it in the film, there is a dearth of physical evidence. the case is built upon victim testimony that is totally questionable in terms of hypnosis based interviewing techniques. but ultimately none of that matters, because the friedman’s pled guilty. even if they regretted it, they went to a court of law and under oath admitted to sodomizing and molesting boys in their basement while running the computer school. i genuinely cannot stop thinking about this film and i need to hear other people’s thoughts

Description Summary for the video: Dear Zachary is about the life and death of Andrew Bagby told by the filmmaker and close friend Kurt Kuenne who made this to memorialize him. A deeply personal documentary made with genuine love and pain that you will never forget. It is a film like no other.

My Review:

This review contains spoilers.

I had heard about this for years and mainly heard that there was a twist. I figured the twist would be Shirley wasn't the killer and that the killer was one of the friends being interviewed during production. Course once I heard even the beginning of Shirley's answers, behavior, and the evidence against her I knew she committed the crime.

So I watched it and as I was watching it I suddenly thought to myself "Is Zachary dead" and I said it can't be because how and why would they finish this documentary as that would be very sad. I at first thought maybe he had an unknown disease that cut his life short or died in some tragic accident. Then another thought came to me. Where is Shirley? I got a bad feeling. Then when she was allowed out, I remember saying "Wait, what if she kills him?"

I study Criminology and I've had a long standing beef with Canadian investigations and their justice system. So the fact it's Canada didn't surprise me. Who are these judges anyway? So Shirley had every red flag behavior known to man. The most dangerous type of offender has a history of stalking. Andrew was overkilled. She was obsessive. I even remember saying early on, when she first left the I LOVE YOU message to Zachary is sounded phony, creepy, and with no warmth of any kind or sincerity.

Her psychiatrist posting her bail. I'm just going to point out the obvious. They were sleeping together. Very unprofessional behavior and I've never heard of a shrink bailing out a patient being accused of murder. Appalling.

It was a little hard to follow at the beginning, but it got better as it progressed. Zachary's blood is on that judge's hands and anyone involved with her release. Here in America, she'd have never been released.

What are your thoughts on this documentary?

2/5 Rating

I was really excited for Netflix’s The Dinosaurs. I grew up on Walking with Dinosaurs (1999), so I was primed for more dino content. I expected new things since we have expanded our prehistoric knowledge since 1999. I expected deep evolutionary explanations and theories of how they lived. Thats not what I got.

I’ll start with the pacing. The documentary bounces back and forth between reptiles and dinosaurs with no clear logic to the order. You’ll be following one animal, one era, one idea — and then suddenly you’re somewhere else entirely with no explanation of how you got there. It never establishes a timeline or a thread to follow. The last episode especially feels rushed/lazy. It feel like they got their budget pulled and crammed 4 episodes into one.

The first episode spends significant time on pre-dinosaur reptiles, which is fine — that context matters. But the documentary never explains the fundamental difference between reptiles and dinosaurs, which is a serious problem when both are sharing equal screen time. This isn’t a brief mention of reptiles before moving on. They are a major focus, and the documentary constantly shifts back and forth between the two with no explanation of what separates them or why that distinction matters. The viewer is just expected to keep up.

Another example of the lack of scientific explanation is when the “First egg of its kind” is introduced. This is one of the more major oversights. This should be quite a big focus on a show exploring the lives and evolution of dinosaurs. Yes, there are still many unanswered questions surrounding evolution, but they don’t even make an attempt to explain it. I understand that it’s not a documentary on evolution, but when talking about dinosaurs, it’s pretty important. They don’t even have a short segment talking about evolution at all.

The only positive takeaways from this documentary are the visuals and the fact that Morgan Freeman is the narrator. It’s always cool to see dinosaurs no matter what and it might contain the highest quality adaptation of dinosaurs so that is a plus.

Because of all of this, I might consider it to be the worst documentary I have ever seen. I didn’t learn anything. I simply watched high quality cgi dinosaurs fight and partake in speculative behaviors. There is an extreme lack of scientific explanation that makes this seem like more of a commercial for dinosaurs rather than a educational documentary. That may be perfect for some people. Everyone likes the occasional mindless watch, and it’s perfect for that.

TL, DR: ABC News Studio had an opportunity to tell an impactful cult story with many layers, but wasted it by releasing a sanitized documentation that left everyone disappointed.

I always found it fascinating how certain people can create a community of devotees to live a completely different life than what their society deemed normal. Cult followers are often viewed as brainwashed people but if you think about it, we are all born into a society with a set of norms and socio-economic hierarchies we are groomed to accept without question. It must require courage, if not desperation, for people to refuse societal indoctrination and decide to become pioneers for something completely different. Any successful social revolution or organized religion has started as a cult. So what makes people who are brave enough to challenge societal norms, end up submitting to manipulative cult leaders? This fascination alone is why I would watch any documentary about cults and I don’t expect all of them to be masterpieces like “Wild Wild Country”. So even though I never heard of Bishop, aka Nature Boy, before, I pressed play as soon as “The Cult of Nature Boy” popped up on my Hulu feed.

In the first episode of the four part documentary, I was already pretty bothered. This episode is supposed to be the set up. A few of the followers talk about how they first saw Nature Boy’s videos and decided to join. There are so many cuts between talks, with extreme use of music and tropical scenery footage and a lot of commentary from Chantelle Coleman, the doc titled as “internet detective”. Chantelle Coleman probably provided much better commentary than the ones the doc repetitively used, as she runs a YouTube Channel “The Tea” where she exposes the pitfalls of the conscious community and has a lot of videos about Nature Boy. But she never joined the cult. They cut Velvet’s sentence after she described her first in person interaction with Nature Boy “When he first opened his mouth, was when my world got dark.” with music and B-roll as if this was some kind of a teaser and went on to introduce Chantelle Coleman. The documentary never explains how Nature Boy started, who his first followers were and how he managed the finances at the beginning, and you never find out what Velvet was talking about. Because I ended up with more questions after the documentary, I had to look up Nature Boy and got mildly enraged when I found out how much the documentary left out.

David Peisner, in his investigative Rolling Stone article “Eco-Radical, Singer, Criminal, Cult Leader: Inside Carbon Nation” does a much better job at documenting who Nature Boy is, how he started and the deaths he caused (allegedly). It’s a 50 min read/listen work that was published in Feb 2025. So the documentary has no excuse to leave out so much vital information when it was already available a year ago. There is also a Youtube series by Hood Horrors named “THE RISE AND FALL OF NATURE BOY “ELIGIO BISHOP”. The first episode was published a year ago but received an influx of views and comments from those who were disgruntled by Hulu’s work. One of the comments said “I’m here because the new Hulu Doc is definitely missing a lot of context and transparency! Thank you for going into depth Black Cults rarely get the spotlight they deserve to let our people know cult indoctrination isn’t solely a “white” experience”. So if you haven’t seen this documentary, don’t bother.

The documentary that felt much more like a teaser saga, left out a lot of important facts. I will try to list some of them. Nature Boy started making videos while he was already in the US around the disenfranchising of the Black Men. Which was a real issue. Initially he was suggesting that they should move back to Africa but later claimed Africa was too dangerous and South America was a better alternative to get sun exposure and become smarter by melanation. After his videos gained some support, he moved to Honduras with two of his first followers and made content inviting people. The cult was revolving around making music and content that was used as marketing. Some of the followers became micro celebrities with their music and had devotees who were not living with them but still sending money to show their loyalty. Dixon, aka Tru, who was in the documentary, was getting a monthly disability check from the VA that was going into the cult’s pool. They were constantly online and had multiple accounts that had to support each other, livestream and market their livestyle which later evolved into a spirituality based online reality show with drama as that gained them more views. Velvet was going on livestreams and marketing the ideology. Her father joined a live stream and asked Bishop why he slapped her and later with his wife, popped in real life during their their livestream unannounced when the crew took the baby, their granddaughter, to a clinic in Mexico. After Nature Boy’s arrest, Velvet and Soular who both participated in the documentary, tried to reestablish the Carbon Nation as the two of them being leaders but it didn’t work out. They also had a child before Bishop’s trial. Both Tru and Soular went online and defended Bishop and claimed he will come out. A 59-year-old member of the cult, Magdalena Sevilla stopped taking her heart medication and was found dead in her tent due to heart failure. Nature Boy has changed many names and landed at 3GOD by the end. He has been going online from prison and still has many devoted followers online.

Apart from everything I listed, this documentary had the opportunity to shine light into the ever growing Black Conscious Community in social media. It could talk about COINTELPRO, as the members and their leader repeatedly blamed criticism or prosecution on a conspiracy against “the rise of a black messiah”. Of course Bishop is no messiah, but COINTELPRO was a very real FBI counter-intelligence program that illegally worked on surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations that were challenging the status-quo. For many years they mainly focused on wiretapping, discrediting and threatening Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and The Black Panther Party. This was not solely a Republican or Democratic party issue like Nixon’s Watergate scandal. It was (and probably still is) a bipartisan establishment misuse of Federal Intelligence to disrupt Civil Rights movements and leftists by any means necessary. With the internet and social media, these covert but very systemic infringement of Black Americans’ rights has become more of a public knowledge. And it wasn’t an issue of the past as new videos of police brutality against Black Americans were going viral (and did they ever stop?). This was a prime societal environment for cults to emerge. Disillusioned, disenfranchised Black youth wanting to leave the system that kept failing them. This is how Nature Boy got the online attention and cult following. He was not solving any problems, but offering an alternative. He was able to get away with his abusive behavior by repackaging it as a tool to deprogram against the evil system. He wasn’t particularly good, but he was talking about the evils that are left out by mainstream media and his garnishings were getting away with the unspoken half truths he openly shared. The documentary shallowly showed a police shooting video that was briefly shared while an ex member was talking about systemic racism which felt like a small detail that didn’t need more than a couple seconds

Overall, ABC News Studios did a very bad job with this documentary they marketed as “A raw and unfiltered look inside a modern cult”. It felt raw at times like a rough cut, I will give them that. But they did a pretty bad job at exposing the cult and its founding members who were probably also guilty on multiple accounts so it’s bold of them to call it unfiltered. They could feature at least one of the three wives who still remain very loyal to Bishop and constantly talk about him online to have an objective documentation of Bishop’s indoctrination. They kept using footage of Chantelle Coleman talking about Nature Boy to jump between timelines instead of letting ex members talk about it or use the footage from the very much broadcasted cult activities. If it gives anyone a feeling of conclusion in the end, it’s probably because Bishop ended up in prison. But even that part was told in a way that would leave the curious mind of a cult documentary enthusiast with more questions. The editing especially lost credibility when in the third episode they abruptly cut Jenaé talking about how she developed feelings for Bishop and have her say “and then Covid struck” off camera, followed by a title suggesting the date Tuesday March 17, 2020 with eerie music to add a news segment from ABC’s Good Morning America about the spike of Covid. I understand adding a news segment to establish a situation at a certain date but this was particularly bad because for a split second before it changed to a Covid related title, you could see a photo of George Floyd who was murdered on May 25th by a cop who sat on his neck for 9 and a half minutes. I had to stop the video and read what was written next to his photo. “GEORGE FLOYD’S SISTER SPEAKS OUT. GROWING OUTRAGE OVER BROTHER’S DEATH WHILE IN POLICE CUSTODY”. I had to rewind again to see the date they posted. Yeah, it clearly said March 17. They didn’t have to put a false date as a title if they desperately wanted to add an ABC News Studio production. And again, who cares if it’s not necessarily distorting the truth? But here you are watching a documentary about a black man rising as a cult leader against systemic racism and you see an insert of a wrongly dated news segment with George Floyd’s photo on it. That 9 minute video of George Floyd’s death ignited global Black Lives Matter protests which some news segments called “riots”. Curfews, arrests, Trump’s reactions… Once again, at their own mess, they failed to address the political climate that was very much linked to the rise of Nature Boy.

How Russia is Turning Schools Into War Machines

Mr. Nobody Against Putin: a documentary about how Russian schools become ideological barracks and how ordinary people help turn childhood into raw material for war.

“Commanders don’t win wars. It begins with teachers.” - Vladimir Putin

Russia’s war against Ukraine does not begin with drones.

It begins with assemblies, patriotic lessons, staged ceremonies, obedient staff, frightened adults, and children taught to confuse militarism with virtue.

It begins with early childhood indoctrination.

That is what makes the story told by Mr. Nobody Against Putin so devastating.

As someone born in Russia, raised in the shadow of that culture for 12 years, and shaped by the fact that my mother chose to leave and take me with her to United States while my father chose to stay in Russia and conform, I recognized the atmosphere immediately.

I recognized the moral suffocation.

I recognized the perpetual unfounded guilt trip.

I recognized that texture of life inside a society that teaches people to live in lies and call that realism.

This documentary shows both truths at once: the pressure of the system and the reality that conscience is still possible inside it.

And that second truth is exactly why the first one cannot be treated as an excuse.

FULL REVIEW HERE: https://open.substack.com/pub/ilya0x/p/how-russia-is-turning-schools-into?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Summary of the video (submission statement): The discovery of the mutilated body of a mentally challenged young mother begins a journey into madness that is so unbelievable the mastermind behind the crime ultimately got away with murder. This is the case of Vera Jo Reigle.

I'd like to discuss this extremely disturbing documentary from 2020 called Goodnight, Sugar Babe: The Killing of Vera Jo Reigle. This documentary barely discussed Vera Jo and instead they interviewed very disturbed people who were complicit in the crime. Most of them evaded prosecution so this not only was an extremely distressing documentary but it was infuriating. Has anyone seen this and what did you think of it?

Shannon's interrogation on YT, the uncensored version, is one of the most disturbing interrogations I ever seen. How was she not in prison? She orchestrated the whole thing. This docu gave me nightmares. Very strange case and one of the most vicious crimes you can ever learn about. The documentary should have focused on the victim but it was a secondary topic. I was mortified and horrified by this documentary. I was actually reading reviews of it and this is the true crime community being traumatized. That's when you know you have one twisted film. This is the worst case of human depravity.

A quiet, immersive look into the daily routine of an elderly couple who have spent their entire lives in a remote rural settlement. Filmed entirely in 4K, this observational documentary captures authentic rural traditions that are slowly disappearing—from harvesting walnuts with a classic red vehicle and baking traditional stone-ground flatbread to beekeeping and preparing sun-dried fruit leather. No narration overload, just a pure, peaceful window into a self-sustaining, slow-paced lifestyle.

A quiet, immersive look into the daily routine of a master leather artisan with decades of experience. Filmed entirely in 4K, this observational documentary captures traditional handcrafted techniques—from cutting thick hide and hand-stitching with waxed thread to edge finishing and shaping timeless leather goods. No narration overload, just a pure, peaceful window into the patient, meticulous world of traditional craftsmanship.

This documentary covers the dark and unknown side of Japan that most travel vlogs completely ignore. From Japan's loneliness epidemic and hikikomori who never leave their rooms, to host clubs, maid cafes, yakuza culture, and creepy urban legends that are not legends at all. Everything is connected to show how modern Japan is quietly breaking from within — despite appearing perfect on the surface. Would love honest feedback from this community.

CORNERED is a 15-minute short documentary following Andy Burrows, a Belfast man who steps into a Lisburn boxing gym every week—not to fight an opponent, but to manage his own mental health struggles. The film explores how routine, physical discipline, and the brutal honesty of the ring serve as a tool for mental resilience and self-discovery.

Few days back a friend dragged me to a private screening at Prithvi Theatre for this film called VOY: The Unheard Story of Women’s Blind Football, and I honestly didn’t know what to expect.

What surprised me first was how it doesn’t treat blind football like something obvious. The film actually sits with the confusion what the sport even is, how it works, how players, coaches, and the NGO behind it are all figuring it out in real time. It’s not presented as a finished, polished system. It’s messy, evolving, and very human.

And that’s what really stayed.

It’s not one of those “look how inspiring this is” kind of docs. No dramatic pushing, no emotional manipulation. It just observes how the players adapt, how trust is built through sound, how the NGO is navigating awareness, structure, and legitimacy for something most people don’t even know exists.

There’s a quiet honesty to it. You’re not told how to feel, which somehow makes you feel more.

Also, the sound design is insane. You start realizing the game isn’t about seeing at all it’s about listening. Calls, footsteps, the ball… you begin to experience the space differently, almost like you’re learning how to watch again.

By the end, it’s not just about the sport. It’s about how something new finds its place in the world with people figuring it out as they go.

Didn’t expect to sit with it this long after. But yeah… still thinking about it.

Got to know they are doing another private screening along with PFM (pune film movement) in Pune couple of weeks later. If you're in Pune I will highly recommend you to not miss this screening.

Check out their instagram @voy_film for the details.

Presented by Roman historian Dr. Brahm Kleinman, explores the historical context and the dramatic events surrounding Julius Caesar's decision to cross the Rubicon river in 49 BCE, effectively sparking a civil war that helped end the Roman Republic.

It talks about the crisis of 49BCE, crossing of Rubicon, and covers popular myths vs reality.

Dr. Brahm Kleinman traces Julius Caesar’s early life and rise through the chaos of the late Roman Republic. Born around 100 BCE into a senatorial family that claimed descent from Aeneas and Venus, Caesar came of age during the civil war between Marius and Sulla, surviving purges and a period of exile. 

Kleinman also discusses Caesar’s election as Rome’s chief priest, and how Caesar cultivated a populist reputation. He examines how and why Caesar formed an alliance with Pompey and Crassus.

So as much as some of the bar customers in this backwater Western Australian Town made me very uncomfortable(especially when placing yourself in the shoes of the two Finnish girls), it also strangely made me laugh at how bizarre these people were. I do feel like the overly sexualized and rude behaviors can be common in many small rural towns across the world that are living in poverty.... but there's just something about these people that are so bizarre lmao

From their t-shirts ("I fucked a goat" - "it's not a beer belly, its a grain liquor facility"), to their mannerisms and rude comments.... it was just quite an experience, and I'm sure these women felt the same way. These people for the most part were trash and they acted like it. The Canman seemed like a decent dude, but he's also just an old poor drunk whose car apparently smells so bad that one of the girls puked a lot because of it.

Now, some of these guys(and women) literally behaved like they gave absolutely zero fucks about anyone or anything. They stated horrible things with zero shame. I was just jaw-dropped at how they say such absurd uncomfortable things without even thinking about it at all. They didn't look like they felt bad for anything they say either. It's like it's just normal to them. How can such a high concentration of assholes all be in one place?? We all know how some trailer trash people behave, but I still think a majority of them are better than this...

I've considered doing an Australia/SE Asia trip at some point in my life, but I sure as shit know where I won't be stopping by at... Coolgardie... shocking I know right...? Hope those girls learned something from their 1.5month bar tending job at the great hotel coolgardie. Travel safely people.

It's somehow an interesting watch, despite it basically being about bar regulars in the middle of nowhere. 7/10.

Very well produced documentary about the lives of factory workers and those in the peripheries (landlords for example). Really hits home.

The main focus is regarding those who work in the factories. The working conditions are pretty tough, pay is low and they are working away from home and their families, with all the issues that come with l that, such as estrangement, unappreciative family members who cut them off from their kids, spend the money they work so hard for frivolously etc. it also highlights the gender gap in Vietnam where women are often given less importance than men.

It also features other people who are indirectly involved such as a hair dresser, to whom factory workers often open up to about their troubles, and a landlord who despite "living it up" drinking with friends and going to KTV bars with female hostesses is clearly very concerned about losing his livelihood as AI replaces workers (an issue the factory workers are also very worried about too as they would be forced back into farming in their rural hometowns).

It's quite an emotional watch and brought me close to tears on a few occasions. Super recommend watching it all the way through.

This documentary covers the UAP phenomenon with real science and handles it with a rational, skeptical method. Brian Dunning hosts the show, a well-known figurehead in skeptic societies. He hosts the popular Skeptoid podcast, running since 2006. Well-known guests in this documentary include Jimmy Carter's grandson Josh Carter, Steven Novella and Mick West.

I couldn't have anticipated a better documentary that cuts through the garbage in the UFO/UAP community while simultaneously presenting fully realized solutions on how to develop a standard of evidence to prevent fake news and sensational hype. If you are fascinated by the mysterious and fantastic claims surrounding this topic and want to know if the stories have truth to them then these are the people you'd want getting to the heart of the matter. As a documentary I rate this among the best of them,10/10.

I have been a big admirer of Raphael Treza's work ever since I stumbled upon Cobra Gypsies (2015), which is freely available on YouTube. After what felt like a considerable hiatus, he has returned with Bengal Danger .

I searched for Raphael Treza on Reddit hoping he might have a presence here, but couldn't find him. So I thought that it is an opportunity for me to write about Bengal Danger and little bit of him, I hope he doesn't mind the unsolicited appreciation.

The documentary Bengal Danger by Raphael Treza is a captivating exploration of Bengal's interiors, carrying forward the intimate and unhurried filmmaking sensibility that made Cobra Gypsies so memorable. Raphael's greatest strength is his portrait work, his ability to hold the camera on a face long enough for something unguarded and deeply human to surface, and this quality is very much alive in Bengal Danger as well.

One sequence that particularly stands out is his portrayal of middle and upper-income family homes in Shantiniketan, it is quiet distinct that a less observant filmmaker might have overlooked entirely. It is the kind of detail that reminds you he is not merely documenting, but he is genuinely curious about every layer of the world he enters.

As for the central theme, the title Bengal Danger implies a focus on snake charmers and catchers — communities with hereditary knowledge of venom and its remedies — and one could argue that Raphael digresses from this premise, much as he did in Cobra Gypsies, where the cobras were more symbol than subject. The difference is that in Cobra Gypsies, the Kalbeliya's music, dance, and way of life filled the frame so richly that the digression felt intentional. In Bengal Danger, the material is thinner, and the hour-long runtime occasionally feels it.

Yet this is also where the craft deserves recognition.

True to his self-taught, improvisational method — the same instinct that once had him busking in Paris to fund a film — he weaves footage from disparate remote locations into a coherent narrative, held together by his distinctive musical sensibility and an unhurried voiceover.

The result is less a tightly argued documentary and more an immersive journey, which, depending on your expectations, can be either its limitation or its quiet charm.

For the last year, filming young people all over Los Angeles.

Skaters.

Actors.

Artists.

Entrepreneurs.

Kids trying to figure out who they're becoming.

No script. No narration. No manufactured drama.

Just real conversations, late nights, awkward moments, big dreams, bad decisions, and a look at what it's like trying to build a life in LA right now.

An experimental project, not the traditional doc format.

Part 1 of THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT is finally out.

If you're interested in documentaries, coming-of-age stories, Gen Z culture, or Los Angeles, I'd love to hear what you think.

This documentary-style video explores why MotoGP may never see another rider like Marc Márquez. Instead of focusing only on his comeback, it looks at the full combination of events that made his career almost impossible to repeat: the 70.8-degree save, the 2014 ten-race winning streak, Sepang 2015, repeated crashes, the broken arm, multiple surgeries, the Mayo Clinic bone rotation, the Honda exit, the Ducati/Gresini gamble, and the role of Álex Márquez.

The main argument is that many riders can match one part of Márquez’s story, but almost no one can collide with all of these moments in one career. His legacy is not only about speed or championships, but also about risk, pain, controversy, engineering, obsession, and a riding style that shaped an entire factory around him.

Do you think MotoGP will ever produce another rider with a career as extreme as Marc Márquez, or was he truly a one-of-one case?

Some of you already know India. Some of you don't.

This isn't a travel video trying to sell you something. India is one of those places that's almost impossible to describe in one sentence — ancient temples beside tech startups, extreme poverty beside extreme wealth, deep spirituality beside nonstop chaos.

This video tried to show it honestly in short time . Not just the beautiful parts, but also the difficult parts & the real picture somewhere in between.

Hope you find it worth watching.

Watched it on YouTube and was looking for a way to buy a dvd version from PBS.

I thought it was great. Just wondering if there was a way to get a cleaner version.

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Does anyone have a copy? I have tried for many years to find this documentary. Initially shown on the BBC on the 2nd September 2002. It’s a powerful story that I watched when I was 14.

I have tried many different types of searches, across different browsers, researched, contacted a film festivals who played it and anyone who may be attached.

The director, Luke Holland, passed away in 2020. His production company was/is called ZEF productions, for a time after his death, he had a Vimeo page with some of his documentaries available to purchase, it appears that the documentary was on there. As the director has passed away, his premium Vimeo account was closed and unless a fee is paid, you cannot access the page to purchase the documentary. I’ve reached out to Vimeo, and there’s nothing they can do without the account holder’s permission etc etc.

I’ve also reached out to his the director’s son to ask if any of his father’s work was available to be purchased, I have not received a reply on multiple occasions, it’s definitely the right person with an active X account. I have given links below.

The summary of the doc:

This very moving documentary, by Luke Holland, follows his brother Peter's fight against Myeloma, a rare form of bone marrow cancer which is incurable. The film moves between the 10 days following Peter's death and his fight against the disease from the moment of diagnosis onwards. The picture of how terminal cancer affects the sufferer and those around them is filled in with great detail and subtlety. Particularly moving is Peter's relationship to his partner Jeannette and the affect of his illness and death on his elderly parents. Valuable insights into the medical treatment of this kind of myeloma are also given

https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/7348189.much-more-than-a-life/

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gg42zefg

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/05/luke-holland-obituary

https://vintti.yle.fi/yle.fi/d-projekti/arkisto/2004/english/february04.html

This is a documentary that goes over the history of central banking, concepts of money in various forms, how the founding fathers of the United States responded to proposals of private banking within the United States and various world events involving banking around the world. The documentary also offers solutions or potential alternatives to our current form of banking.

I've watched this documentary twice. I've grown increasingly more curious of what is wrong with our economy so I felt like I'd give it a shot and was thoroughly intrigued. I've read past comments from a decade ago on how this documentary is nothing more than a conspiracy film. The reason I'm here talking about it is to genuinely get an idea of where people sit on this film. While I don't inherently agree with all accusations of the film, such as the "Rothchilds" being fully responsible for accumulation of wealth in the world, I do believe that we need to possibly give this film a more thorough review instead of just immediately dismissing it as being, and I'll quote prior comments, "antisemitic" or a "blood libel". Nowhere in the film did I catch wind of this being against Jewish people. Also, I think it's naive to dismiss the rest of the film based off of other works of the film maker or the length of the film.

So I want to get an idea of what you guys think considering it's been awhile since other posts have been made and the elephant in the room needs to be addressed (inflation running rampant). I may also post this over in an economic subreddit if you guys think it may be better suited over there. Thanks and I'll try to respond to comments accordingly.

I AM is an emotional documentary about foster care, highlighting real stories of resilience and identity. It shows that behind every case file is a human being with a voice, story, and future.

I am currently watchin Episode 2 of Abstract: The Art of Design (2017). The central figure is Tinker Hatfield, the shoe designer best known for the Air Jordan Series. It's incredibly inspiring to follow his life — to see how he stood up after setbacks, how he transformed his passion from being an athelete into designing for athletes, how he developed his cutting-edge ideas, and how he turned them into true masterpieces. What drives him, at his core, is the desire to design for others.

In the last few minutes of the episode, I realised something about myself: I'm quite different from who I used to be. I was neve really interested in documentaries, especially ones about well-known figures. I used to believe that whatever appeared on screen was just performance and editing — simply a "show".

Yes, that can still be true, but not always.

This episode felt sincere. The production team felt sincere. I was genuinely moved. Even if some parts weren't completely true, I would still be willing to be "fooled," because what I felt in that moment was real, and I wanted to appreciate it. The people in it didn't feel like distant celebrities — they felt fresh and real.

Sometimes I feel sad — I even complaint — that I haven't met a life mentor who could light my path and guide me, someone like Bill Bowerman was to Tinker Hatfield. But at the same time, I understand that meeting such a person would be miracle, just as it would be for anyone else. As the old Chinese saying goes: it is easy to find a horse that can run a thousand miles, but hard to find the one who recognises it. In a Western context, this is often expressed as the idea that everyone is a diamond in the rough, destined to shine one day — yet it is rare to find the designer who can recognise it value beneath the original surface.

What's fortunate for us in this digital era is that we have documentaries. Some mentors, with genuine kindness and a desire to help, choose to appear on screen, share their thoughts, and offer guidance draw from their experience. There are many of them — you just have to find the ones who resonate with you. Some of it may still be a kind of performance, but what they present is their ideal self — and that, too, can serve as a reference for us.

I think this is also one of the way passion is born and designs to flow.

I'm deeply grateful for Abstract: The Art of Design, for the production team and for all the people featured in it.