{"id":15476,"date":"2011-09-07T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T07:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15476"},"modified":"2011-09-07T11:28:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T09:28:32","slug":"50-must-see-documentaries-as-per-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/07\/50-must-see-documentaries-as-per-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"50 must-see documentaries as per New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/11\/09\/fifty-must-see-documentaries\">Kottke.org<\/a> I came across the <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/29\/the-one-must-see-documentary\/\">New York Times recommendation of 50 must-see documentaries<\/a>. \u00a0Looking through the list, I see only a few that I&#8217;ve seen. \u00a0The rest should provide me with a few hours of entertainment and learning. \u00a0To make things slightly more useful, I&#8217;ve created a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/list\/O67FvyVDQw0\/\">public list on IMDb<\/a>, in which I&#8217;ve put all the recommended movies in the order that they were recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Which ones have you seen and which ones do you recommend I start with?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: There were quite a few critical comments to the article, suggesting even more documentaries that should have made the list but didn&#8217;t. \u00a0I decided to keep the original list intact and created an additional list &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/list\/1z6cNDmGtLw\/\">Must-see documentaries<\/a>. I&#8217;ve put most of the suggestions from the comments into this list and I will keep updating it with other documentaries which I get recommendations for.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Via Kottke.org I came across the New York Times recommendation of 50 must-see documentaries. \u00a0Looking through the list, I see only a few that I&#8217;ve seen. \u00a0The rest should provide me with a few hours of entertainment and learning. \u00a0To make things slightly more useful, I&#8217;ve created a new public list on IMDb, in which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/07\/50-must-see-documentaries-as-per-new-york-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">50 must-see documentaries as per New York Times<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[1214],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies","tag-recommendations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25166,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/09\/167-free-documentaries\/","url_meta":{"origin":15476,"position":0},"title":"167 free documentaries","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"For those of you with too much time on your hands, here is a nice collection of free documentaries available on YouTube. \u00a0Let me know in the comments what's your top 5. \u00a0You don't have to stick to this list, by the way.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11951,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/29\/district-9\/","url_meta":{"origin":15476,"position":1},"title":"District 9","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I couple of days ago I went to see \"District 9\".\u00a0 I've been waiting for the movie and finally it hit the Cyprus cinemas.\u00a0\u00a0 I've seen the trailer and heard a lot of people spreading good word of a mouth about the film, but wanted to see it for myself.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;5 stars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"5 stars","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/movies\/movie-reviews\/5-stars\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"District 9","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/district_9.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9298,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/02\/canadian-bacon\/","url_meta":{"origin":15476,"position":2},"title":"Canadian Bacon","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 2, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"After watching Michael Moore's documentaries (\"Bowling for Colombine\" and \"Farhenheit 9\/11\") I got interested in his earlier work. \"Canadian Bacon\" is the only film so far I managed to get my hands on. 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