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rxtales
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I really enjoy Documentaries, especially about different countries and was wondering what you guys recommend.
Dancing_Doll
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This is one of my favourites. I found it very inspiring.

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God Grew Tired Of Us (2006) chronicles the arduous journey of three young Southern Sudanese men, John Bul Dau, Daniel Pach and Panther Bior, to the United States where they strive for a brighter future. As young boys in the 1980s, they had walked a thousand miles to escape their war-ridden homeland, and then had to make another arduous journey to escape Ethiopia.

During the five years they walked in search of safety, thousands died from starvation, dehydration, bomb raids and genocidal murder. Finally, they found relative safety in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp. In 2001, 3,600 lost boys, including John, Daniel and Panther, were invited by the United States to live in America. The three boys uproot their lives and once again embark on a journey, leaving behind thousands of other refugees who, in the course of their traumatic odyssey, have become their adopted extended family. They must now learn to adapt to the shock of being thrust into the economically intense culture of the United States, learning new customs, adapting to new and strange foods, coping with the ordeal of getting, and keeping a job, or multiple jobs, while never forgetting the loved ones they left behind in Africa. They dedicate themselves to doing whatever they can to help those they left behind in Kakuma, and to discovering the fate of their parents and family.

God Grew Tired Of Us was produced, written and directed by Christopher Quinn, executive produced by Brad Pitt and narrated by Nicole Kidman. The title of the documentary is a quote from John Dau discussing the despair he and other Sudanese felt during the civil war.

At the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, the film won both the "Grand Jury Prize: Documentary" and the "Audience Award" in the "Independent Film Competition: Documentary" category.
Butterfly
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I watch a lot of BBC and PBS docs, and I'd have to say "Planet Earth", which you've most likely already seen, is by far one of my favs.

"Tribe" series (BBC/Discovery), Bruce Parry visits and lives with a number of different remote tribes of peoples, learning their customs and ways of life.

"The Thin Blue Line" (about a murdered police officer in Dallas and the corrupt system there and how they went about the investigatioin accusing a young kid of the crime)

"The Cove" (definitely not for the faint of heart, while I didn't really agree with how the activists here exposed the atrocities going on there, it was a damn sobering piece to watch. I realize that whale and dolphin meat is one of their food sources, but man, just horrendous the wasteful and thoughtless way they go about obtaining it...yeah like I said, not for the faint of heart and it has stuck with me since I watched it at the beginning of this year.)

Just watched this one earlier this year too; "Unmistaken Child" PBS doc that follows a Buddhist Monk who was sent to bring the child reincarnate of a deceased Lama to live in a monastery and train.

Those are a few of my favorites off the top of my head.
thepainter
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For starters, pretty much every documentary made by Werner Herzog. His most known one is probably "Grizzly man": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427312/
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