# Documentary Recommendations
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documentary-recommendations/637365
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 10, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documentary-recommendations/637365 "2012-10-10T23:26:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2013, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documentary-recommendations/637365/81 "2013-05-01T07:22:55Z")
Errol Morris’s [The Thin Blue Line](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Blue_Line_(film))
It’s a disillusioning reminder that the US Justice system is all too human. And for the victim, well you just have to see the film first and Google his name second.
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### Author:  [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documentary-recommendations/637365/82 "2014-12-27T16:22:49Z")
Bump for: [Spinning Plates (2012) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2014351/)
Streaming on Netflix. Got dusty throughout the movie.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documentary-recommendations/637365/83 "2014-12-27T17:34:19Z")
> [@pancakes3](#):
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> Bump for: [Spinning Plates (2012) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2014351/)
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> Streaming on Netflix. Got dusty throughout the movie.
Spinning Plates is the documentary he links to, folks. It’s about restaurant owners and their circumstances.
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/documentary-recommendations/637365/84 "2014-12-27T21:02:25Z")
> [@Rollo\_Tomasi](#):
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> **Exit through the Gift Shop** (Banksy, 2010): About Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in L.A., who is obsessed with street art (particularly the work of the famously elusive Banksy) and who eventually becomes a famous street artist himself, even though his work is sniffed at by some for its commercial aspect. There’s been some controversy over whether this is actually a documentary or just some kind of elaborate mockumentary-like commentary on modern art, but it’s a good time either way.
Since this thread was bumped, I’ll take the opportunity to recommend the recent HBO documentary, _ **Banksy Does New York.** _ It chronicles a month where each day Banksy ‘unveiled’ a new piece of art at different places in the city. He would post clues to the location online and fans would rush to find it before it got vandalized, covered up, or removed. The art pieces themselves were sometimes interesting on their own, sometimes not, but the interaction between the people and the art was fascinating, which is of course the point of the project and the focus of the documentary.
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