Lou Cypher
The Tokin' White Guy
By dark mean the subject matter isnt necessarily happy or positive. The documentary may be able to end on a happy note, but for the most part the topic being documented isn't what many would call "Cheerful".
I understand a lot of people don't like having stuff like that thrown in their faces, but I love a good fucked up documentary. Something about it makes me just unable to stop watching. True Crime documentaries are huge these days too. I was hoping to look up some docs i may not have seen yet. Name off some of your favorite Dark documentaries. Maybe give a little backstory to them too. If they're available on one of the major streaming services, let folks know so they may look into it.
Capturing the Friedmans
Its currently available on hulu and i beleive amazon prime. Documentary is about about a family somewhere in New York i believe. The director was originally doing a short film on party clowns. While seeing different clowns he comes to find out one of these clowns has a father and younger brother convicted of child molestation. The family also has a huge archive of home videos. A lot of them taking place during the trial and a bit before. The way it was all presented was awesome but the longer it goes the sicker you feel about the people.
Dope Sick Love (HBO Max)
Documentary follows 2 different couples in New York. All 4 people struggle with addiction and you watch how these people live day to day, how they make their money, their health issues, and more. Its very sad what the people are willing to put themselves through.
God Knows Where I Am (Netflix)
Documentary is based off of these journals that were found in this couple summer home. At some point during the summer, a mentally ill woman had broken in and lived in the attic of the home and nobody knew about her despite there being neighbors that lived in the area year round. The woman lived without electricity or heat and survived off of apples that grew on the tree in the backyard. As the months went by, winter started to come and the woman eventually froze to death. Journaling everything. As the documentary continues you learn more about who she really was and some of her story for how she became that way.
Three Identical Strangers
This doc was fucking CRAZY. 3 Brothers (Identical Triplets) get put up for adoption. Instead of being placed in the same home, the adoption agency separates the children. They all grow up and begin college and miraculously find eachother. They all knew they were adopted but none of them knew why or who their birth parents were or none of that. After connecting they begin to look into who their parents were and why they were adopted and separated, and the reason for it happening is just fucking insane and i dont want to spoil it. Amazing doc though.
Will list more as i think of them gotta pretend to do some work real quick.
I understand a lot of people don't like having stuff like that thrown in their faces, but I love a good fucked up documentary. Something about it makes me just unable to stop watching. True Crime documentaries are huge these days too. I was hoping to look up some docs i may not have seen yet. Name off some of your favorite Dark documentaries. Maybe give a little backstory to them too. If they're available on one of the major streaming services, let folks know so they may look into it.
Capturing the Friedmans
Its currently available on hulu and i beleive amazon prime. Documentary is about about a family somewhere in New York i believe. The director was originally doing a short film on party clowns. While seeing different clowns he comes to find out one of these clowns has a father and younger brother convicted of child molestation. The family also has a huge archive of home videos. A lot of them taking place during the trial and a bit before. The way it was all presented was awesome but the longer it goes the sicker you feel about the people.
Dope Sick Love (HBO Max)
Documentary follows 2 different couples in New York. All 4 people struggle with addiction and you watch how these people live day to day, how they make their money, their health issues, and more. Its very sad what the people are willing to put themselves through.
God Knows Where I Am (Netflix)
Documentary is based off of these journals that were found in this couple summer home. At some point during the summer, a mentally ill woman had broken in and lived in the attic of the home and nobody knew about her despite there being neighbors that lived in the area year round. The woman lived without electricity or heat and survived off of apples that grew on the tree in the backyard. As the months went by, winter started to come and the woman eventually froze to death. Journaling everything. As the documentary continues you learn more about who she really was and some of her story for how she became that way.
Three Identical Strangers
This doc was fucking CRAZY. 3 Brothers (Identical Triplets) get put up for adoption. Instead of being placed in the same home, the adoption agency separates the children. They all grow up and begin college and miraculously find eachother. They all knew they were adopted but none of them knew why or who their birth parents were or none of that. After connecting they begin to look into who their parents were and why they were adopted and separated, and the reason for it happening is just fucking insane and i dont want to spoil it. Amazing doc though.
Will list more as i think of them gotta pretend to do some work real quick.
