re: What are some lesser-known documentaries that you have liked or found interesting?

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What are some lesser-known documentaries that you have liked or found interesting?

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I don't know if it qualifies as "lesser known" but I really enjoyed the mini-series documentary Chernobyl about the Soviet nuclear plant meltdown in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

I worked in Kiev, Ukraine off and on from 2004 to 2010 and hearing the locals tell stories about what they were told and how the government hid the disaster from them was eye opening.

Fittest on Earth on Netflix, it's an in depth look at a Cross Fit games, think there are a couple variations of it during different years as well.

There is a pretty good short on one on Youtube/Netflix Art of Design about Tinker Hatfield, the designer of Jordan and some other famous Nike shoes.

No problem.... Makes you think twice about ever being in the woods alone again.

I Like Killing Flies. Available on Netflix when they started streaming 12 years ago. Available here now.

Edit: I broke the rules. Link is to youtube. Great food documentary though

Touching the Void - Youtube
One of the wildest survival stories ever. "

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Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death. The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both men. Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to base camp consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him. Miraculously, Simpson had survived the fall, but crippled, starving, and severely frostbitten was trapped in a deep crevasse.

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Storm Over Everest - Youtube

Really well done documovie about the deadly event on Everest in 96. Might be my favorite documentary. The movie segments really capture the absolute hell of the situation. The survivors recount the trip up the mountain and their fight to survive

Pulling John - about arm wrestling
Tim’s Vermeer - a guy goes all out to recreate a famous Vermeer painting

The Long Green Line

It's about a high school cross country team with a legendary coach. We found it forever ago when I was in high school and we'd watch it once a year as a team. It's a cool story.

Fist full of quarters was awesome

Joe Newman story was insane

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