Anybody here a fan of documentaries?

[Tidewater]

The Pacific on Netflix is a reenactment of these stories. A must watch imo.

I saw Pacific. I did not like it as much as Band of Brothers, but it was still worth watching. I still have not seen Masters of the Air, but will this summer.
I read Sledge's book, The Old Breed, in the staff college.

 

[Bazza]

Jesse Daniels, executive producer of “The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson,” says the source of the documentary is a box of videos given to him by one of Nicole’s sisters. He tells “Dan Abrams Live” we’ve heard so much of Brown’s story, except from Nicole, herself. And this documentary addresses that. The film premieres Saturday night on Lifetime.

 

[jthomas666]

When is a documentary not a documentary?

When it's made by Dinesh D’Souza.

Salem Apologizes, Retracts Dinesh D’Souza’s Debunked Election Fraud Movie ‘2000 Mules’

Dinesh D'Souza's movie amplifying Donald Trump's debunked claims of election fraud in 2020 election was retracted by the film's producer.

www.mediaite.com

Dinesh D’Souza’s movie that sought to prove former President Donald Trump’s fantasy that the 2020 election was stolen from him by widespread fraud has been debunked time and time again. Now, years after its release, its executive producer is retracting the film entirely.

Following the 2020 election, D’Souza released 2000 Mules as an attempt to justify Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden. Trump famously held a screening of the movie at his Mar-a-Lago estate and MAGA supporters promoted the film during it’s release in May 2022.

The film was produced by Salem Media Group, a conservative radio juggernaut that airs the likes of Sebastian Gorka and Charlie Kirk.

In a new statement, Salem apologized for the film and said it would cease distributing it. The move came after a man featured in the movie sued Salem for defamation.

 

[NationalTitles18]

When is a documentary not a documentary?

When it's made by Dinesh D’Souza.

Salem Apologizes, Retracts Dinesh D’Souza’s Debunked Election Fraud Movie ‘2000 Mules’

Dinesh D'Souza's movie amplifying Donald Trump's debunked claims of election fraud in 2020 election was retracted by the film's producer.

www.mediaite.com

That was/is propaganda made in the style of a documentary.

 

[Bamaro]

A very good 3 part series from the History Channel and Doris Kerns Goodman now available on Freevee

 

[DzynKingRTR]

A very good 3 part series from the History Channel and Doris Kerns Goodman now available on Freevee

Wow, the history channel actual showing history. No aliens or ghosts or alien ghosts?

 

[TexasBama]

I've been watching Hilter and the Nazis: Evil on Trial on Netflix. Its backdrop is the Nuremberg Trial, and ties the progress of Nazism and the war with the trial testimony. Pretty interesting.

I did not know that Paulus (German general that surrendered Stalingrad) was a prosection witness at Nuremberg.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

I've been watching Hilter and rhe Nazis: Evil on Trial on Netflix. Its backdrop is the Nuremberg Trial, and ties the progress of Nazism and the war with the trial testimony. Pretty interesting.

I did not know that Paulus (German general that surrendered Stalingrad) was a prosection witness at Nuremberg.

My criminal law professor in law school, Clint McGee, had been a prosecutor there. He had a lot of interesting tales. He's the one who named Roy Moore "Fruit Salad"...

 

[Bamaro]

Wow, the history channel actual showing history. No aliens or ghosts or alien ghosts?

Their "........ Built America" series is very good too.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

I saw Pacific. I did not like it as much as Band of Brothers, but it was still worth watching. I still have not seen Masters of the Air, but will this summer.
I read Sledge's book, The Old Breed, in the staff college.

Agree on The Pacific. Band of Brothers followed the same guys from training through to the end of the war. By the end, you felt as if you knew them.

The Pacific followed four different storylines, so it was necessarily choppier, and you didn't get to know the men as well.

With The Old Breed is a great book. I was lucky enough to meet Sledge at a book signing in Birmingham years ago and have a signed copy.

 

[Tidewater]

Agree on The Pacific. Band of Brothers followed the same guys from training through to the end of the war. By the end, you felt as if you knew them.

The Pacific followed four different storylines, so it was necessarily choppier, and you didn't get to know the men as well.

With The Old Breed is a great book. I was lucky enough to meet Sledge at a book signing in Birmingham years ago and have a signed copy.

To study different techniques for inuring soldiers to suffering and to build unit cohesion, we read With the Old Breed as well as Soldiers of Destruction, about the SS Totenkopf Division. The SSTK sent soldiers to the concentration camps for a year before joining the tactical unit in the field, to get them habituated to being around suffering and death.

Two very different techniques. The USMC's program was to push young men physically to the limits, so that, once they pass through it, they feel indestructible. Sprinkle in a bit of devil-may-care machismo, and a heaping helping of unit history ("Marines were the greatest thing since sliced bread and you recruits are standing on the shoulders of giants"), and voila, cohesive unit. The Army very rarely does that, especially not any more, only in specialized units (Airborne, Rangers, Green Berets).

 

[crimsonaudio]

Just finished watching Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) this evening - highly recommended.

"The creative geniuses behind album art for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Paul McCartney. Conjurers of impossible visuals, Hipgnosis were at the white-hot center of the maddest, funniest, and most creative era in the history of popular music."

 

[Bazza]

Fantastic series!

Three-Part Series LIFE AT THE WATERHOLE Premieres Wednesdays, May 19-June 2, 2021

PBS, in partnership with the BBC Studios Natural History Unit, announced today the premiere of LIFE AT THE WATERHOLE, a new three-part series that explores the daily drama of African wildlife at a unique waterhole rigged with partially submerged and weather-proofed cameras in Tanzania.

www.pbs.org

 

[cbi1972]

This video (filmed, I would guess, in the 1980s) has interviews with veterans including Eugene Sledge. He's okay for an Auburn man.
Peleliu was a tough nut to crack. 9,000 Japanese soldiers and only 19 taken prisoner.

I read Sledge's With The Old Breed for a history elective in college and developed new respect for what those men endured.

 

[AWRTR]

I read Sledge's With The Old Breed for a history elective in college and developed new respect for what those men endured.

With the old breed is one of my favorite books I’ve ever read. I watched the pacific because his story was in it.

 

[AWRTR]

Agree on The Pacific. Band of Brothers followed the same guys from training through to the end of the war. By the end, you felt as if you knew them.

The Pacific followed four different storylines, so it was necessarily choppier, and you didn't get to know the men as well.

With The Old Breed is a great book. I was lucky enough to meet Sledge at a book signing in Birmingham years ago and have a signed copy.

I would love to have met him and get a copy signed. I’m jealous. He was such a good writer.