I'm watching a series on American National Parks.

A brilliant portrayal of beauty, dedication, sacrifice, and human greed.

Maybe that production team can do a series on Australia's natural wonders.

See; The National Parks, America's Best Idea
A film by Ken Burns
A production of florentine films and WETA television
824 minutes long by ABC - five disc box set

What great documentaries have you seen? There is a series on SBS on a
variety of documentary topics.

documentries are intresting
but all have a bias..[adgenda]

i specificly enjoy moc-umentries
[the great pretenders..with 'proof'..[of this or that]

like steven dawkins...about life the uni-verse and everything
that promise much...but deliver little

like an sbs doco..'the secret life of chaos'
that was filled with great promise
[...'weather/economic crashes and science gone wrong']

it premises that design dont 'need' a designer
that things like the belson affect[pattern formation]

claiming that...'self organisation...
and evolution as an algorythem..[governed by simple rules...]explains everything...lol

anyhow i like big ideas[abc]

i recall a promise....''next week the topic is
'what is life force'...[upon watching it it was simply as 'easy'
as complexity ...complexity...complexity

never the less
its great enter/taint-ment
or is that just info-tainment
or just another.. mock.u.meant-wry

i have watched so much
let know so little

take the latest..ch 7 midday movie
on for the 3 rd time since being made in 2007
[just in time for that swine/bird/human flue mutantant
to be declared a pandemic by the un...

so australia's govt order
for vacinne went active..

and we now..got wharehouses of the out of date sttuff
still siting in wharehouses...too toxic too dump

[that has to be by design]
or recall the jfk doco's...[so many]

yet none talk about the chafeurs shooting him[se you tube clip]
or that policeman..who dropped his bike to run to a drain..
*under the grassy knowle

none show him with the back of his head blown off
[ie the EXIT wound]

anyhow truth is not found on film
its a joke really

let alone those sustaining the lie of evolution

Dear Aquarius,

I enjoy watching all sorts of documentaries from historical - like the recent one's on World War II. Ones dealing with people's ancestry - "Who Do You Think You Are?" Another that will be shown on Friday,(Showcase) - "Big River Man," the story of long-distance swimming champion Martin Strel and his navigator Mathew Mohlke. Having swum the Yangtze, Mississippi and Danube rivers, 55 year old Martin will be shown making his bid to swim the Amazon. Should be interesting.

There's also of course the flavour of the month at present -
"Go Back To Where You Came From," where ordinary Australians embark on a 25-day journey retracing the footsteps of refugees and asylum seekers. I enjoy travel docs and also "French Food Safari," on SBS.

I like most, probably the ones OUG dislikes the most.
While most do not fit great history ww1 and 2 all wars all history.
Hooked on the less expensive bush tucker man, and while aged never miss a Leland brothers, common touch.
Politics sure always Labor in power and such.
Union ones, lock out is the best I recall .
Nothing better than a good doco.

Belly before the Leylands there was Vince ? I can't recall his last name, probably Italian. His format was the lay back Leyland type travelogue showing fauna and flora of interest as he travelled around Australia.From memory he was on just before the wrestling at midday on Saturdays.

OUG re the bias comment in doco's, absolutely, particularly if the environment is the subject. Early on, doco's on WWII never gave credit to the axis powers and their achievements, a sort of Hogans Heroes approach to the subject matter. But a few years ago I viewed a series where the Allies shortcomings were the focus and the theme was that the axis was just overwhelmed by numbers. Amazingly I was barracking for the Germans by the time that the second Arden rolled around in the doco.

Dear SOG,

I guess there's a certain amount of bias in just about anything.
Have you ever watched any of John Pilger's films? I used to like
his work but after a while he seems to be pushing such an anti-American barrow. I suppose it all comes down to whose version
of things one finds acceptable. I know even history is often
questionable - depending whose version you're reading. The historian can establish that an act took place on a certain day, but this, by
historical standards, constitutes only chronology or "factology."
The moment the historian begins to look critically at motivation, circumstances, context, or any other considerations, the product becomes unacceptable for one or another camp of readers.

The best documentary that I've seen recently was in the cinema about
the causes of the recent global financial crisis and American bankers.
It left me gob-smacked. I can't remember the films name. I'll have to Google it and let you know later or perhaps you've seen it?