# Recommend Netflix streaming documentaries **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 27, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-netflix-streaming-documentaries/587002 "2011-06-27T05:21:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speak_to_me_Maddie)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-netflix-streaming-documentaries/587002/41 "2011-06-29T17:05:21Z")
Okay. So I just watched **The Parking Lot Movie**. Ugh. What a bunch self-righteous, pretentious, hateful pricks. I really hated the guys in that film. They are the worst people in the world. Don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with dropping out of the rat race, taking life slow, being a “b-type”, or spending one’s life in contemplation. I have friends and family members who live this way, and I’ve been there myself at a time in my life. But these guys were just lazy jerks. Just plain assholes with chips on their shoulders, no better than the stuck up frat folk they were so obsessed with insulting. A bunch of cowardly, selfish, shits. What a waste of humanity. Probably not the picture the filmmaker was trying to paint, but that’s what I got from it. The film making was pretty poor too. There was no story here, just “look how cool these hipsters are”. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-netflix-streaming-documentaries/587002/42 "2011-06-30T15:17:46Z")
+1 for **Wordplay** “In the mean time and in between time I’m gunna be who I am, a pre-Mecca Malcolm playin’ Scrabble.” I found **Man of Wire** to be insufferable, having a vision is great but he needs to stop acting like he’s curing Cancer. And his girlfriend creeped me right out, it felt like his shit was a cult. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-netflix-streaming-documentaries/587002/43 "2011-06-30T15:40:13Z")
**I Like Killing Flies** - Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi isn’t as much of a stretch as I once thought. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-netflix-streaming-documentaries/587002/44 "2011-07-05T15:25:31Z")
> [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](#): > > Of a specific sort. I’m interested in documentaries about unusual people or people in unusual situations. I’ve recently watched **Darkon** (people who play a long running LARP game), **I Think We’re Alone Now** (people obsessed with 80’s singer Tiffany), **Dear Zachary** (about a murdered child), and **Confessions of a Superhero** (Hollywood street performers). > > I greatly enjoyed _Darkon_ and _I Think We’re Alone Now_. _Dear Zachary_ was very good, but I’m not looking for crime stories really, and _Confessions of a Superhero_ had the sort of content I am after, but it was poorly made (boring). > > Suggest titles you have seen that are similar, bonus if you know if they are Netflix Instant available. > > thanks I’ve been part of Darkon for 12 years (I’m actually a founding member of Laconia, the country the movie was about), and we generally feel that Darkon the Movie mischaracterized us as a bunch of socially retarded basement dwellers. A few of us are, but a good 95% of us aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-netflix-streaming-documentaries/587002/45 "2011-07-06T00:18:56Z")
> [@Speak\_to\_me\_Maddie](#): > > Okay. So I just watched **The Parking Lot Movie**. Ugh. What a bunch self-righteous, pretentious, hateful pricks. I really hated the guys in that film. They are the worst people in the world. Yeah, I had the same reaction. It’s a movie in which nothing happens and nothing is said. The only point of interest is the sense of this meaningless job become a social lynchpin for a group of people. If the people on display weren’t so crappy, I might care. The best doc I’ve seen on Netflix is **In the Realms of the Unreal**. It’s about “outsider artist” Henry Darger. Darger spent most of the free time of his whole life locked in his small, one-room apartment writing a 15,000 page novel, its unfinished sequal, and producing dozens of huge, vibrant collage-and-watercolor illustrations. Darger was almost certainly a high-functioning autistic man with possible other mental health complications. He lived a profoundly lonely, painful life and responded by creating a massive, rambling work that intersperses childhood glee with horrific violence. It is fairly clear that Darger had an exceedingly difficult time interacting with the world, and instead spent as much time as possible escaping into his imagination. He spent years teaching himself unusual artistic techniques to better externalize his fantasy world. The movie isn’t flawless (there’s some animation work that looks a little clumsy and amateurish) but it’s a great portrait of the man and his art and stays interesting. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-netflix-streaming-documentaries/587002/46 "2011-07-06T00:22:28Z")
> [@typoink](#): > > The best doc I’ve seen on Netflix is **In the Realms of the Unreal**. It’s about “outsider artist” Henry Darger. Is that back on streaming? I had it on my queue for a while and then it went away before I got around to watching it. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-netflix-streaming-documentaries/587002/47 "2011-07-06T05:59:48Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > Is that back on streaming? I had it on my queue for a while and then it went away before I got around to watching it. Not streaming as of July 6, 2011. ---
**Author:** ![jeredc1983](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@jeredc1983](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeredc1983)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-netflix-streaming-documentaries/587002/48 "2011-07-06T06:08:58Z")
Brothers Keeper - its up now and it is very good. Heartwarming, sad, a whole bunch of emotions wrapped into one movie. If any of you watch it, tell me what you think. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-netflix-streaming-documentaries/587002.md?page=2)