Documentary

The following is a list of documentary films and television series recommended by /tv/. [=WIP/Feel free to contribute=]

Ecology
''Generally regarded as nature porn, and much like porn, it is ALWAYS better in HD. Click the mute button and put on some Yanni if you don't feel like getting lectured on why human beings are evil and the rest of the animal kingdom are the victims in this space opera called planet Earth. The following is a list of nature documentaries worth checking out. Sir David Frederick Attenborough is always related.''

Planet Earth (or the child-sized Disney version, Earth), which is a rerelease in HD of edited footage from the obsolete series The Blue Planet.

The "Life" series, by Attenborough, of which The Life of Mammals (2002) is the pick of the litter.

South Pacific (also known as Wild Pacific in America, and redubbed with narration by Mike "I'm a Bear" Rowe himself, who honestly did a pretty damn decent job for a redub of a series that was already in english. Seriously, Discovery Channel, what the fuck?)

Nature's Great Events (also known as Nature's Most Amazing Events in America, also redubbed but this time it's highly recommended the original narration by BBC's Attenborough be obtained in lieu of the less eloquent Discovery counterpart.)

Galapagos, narrated by Tilda "Ice Cold Queen Bitch" Swinton. It does a good job at making you feel like shit for being part of the human race, while stunning you with beautiful landscape imagery that seems like some distant world unlike ours.

Life, narrated by Attenborough, sadly isn't worth checking out if you've already seen his earlier stuff. It seems BBC got lazy and reedited yet again the same HD footage we got from TBP and PE. To add insult to injury, Discovery Channel decided it would be appropriate to redub the narration, this time with none other than fuckin' Oprah. Suffice it to say, she went back to bribing bored housewives with more gas-guzzling minivans than she could fit under her studio seats.

Astronomy
Cosmos, by Carl Sagan. This shouldn't need a synopsis. Hell, it shouldn't even be on this list, you should have already watched it 10 times over and surrendered your ethereal being to captain the starship of the imagination.

Journey to the Edge of the Universe, extremely underrated, underground, and underradar'd. Supposedly even better if you toke prior to hitting Play.

IMAX's Cosmic Voyage, pretty good amount of theory with some nice visuals. Entry level stuff, really.

Alien Planet, narrated by Dr. Cox himself, John C. McGinley. Speculation and CGIfest about what life in other habitable planets might look and behave like. Pretty darn entertaining.

The Universe, a History Channel (I know, right?) series, now in it's fifth season. It includes a lot of dumbed down theory, a lot of people talking, and a lot of reused CGI. It lost its momentum sometime during the second season, and by now it has regressed into full speculation mode, like the rest of that channel's non-reality show lineup.

General Interest
Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore's best.

Supersize Me, something about how eating greasy fast food and NOTHING BUT will turn you into a hambeast. Thanks for the sage advice, guy!

King of Kong, docu about a couple of nolife neckbeards from old /v/ trying to one-up each other.

The Bridge, about a series of suicides on the Golden Bridge. GRIMDARK AS FUCK.

Religulous, 90 minutes of Bill Maher ruining honest people's lives by shoving faith-shattering uncertainties down their fat gobs. Real fuckin' classy, fuckface.