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[alchemist]

It's a fascinating period of history. There are over a hundred Civil War veterans buried in Australia. One that I like to visit every now and then, is buried in Bowral. Started as a lumberjack in Canada, went to America and enlisted in 1861 in the 4th Maine Infantry, then later served with the 19th Maine Infantry. He took part in many of the most famous battles (some of his battle honours are on a plaque at the base of his gave, below). He finally ended up living in Australia, as a hermit in the Southern Highlands...

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those were some huge battles... First Battle of Bull Run is the first major battle of the war... Antietam, Gettysburg, Wilderness etc.

thanks

 

[Lewis]

Loved all the "last chance u" series

I second this, didn't even know the rules of American football, one of my favourite series.

 

[rainman]

Seeing as we are probably all fucked and going to have to stay home forever more what’s a good documentary? I can’t stand the Marvel blockbuster shit I’d rather watch a documentary so yeah give us some tips…

Here are some ones I enjoy:

Sherpa
Vice’s guide to Warlords
Vices guide to North Korea
Almazan Kitchen if you want to relax

also it can be anything from a Louise Theroux thing to David Attenborough to a YouTube cooking show…

I’ve got trillions of others but I want to hear yours..

Sherpa was interesting
You should see the movie Everest very good

 

[rainman]

If you like jazz, Ken burns, PBS 10 part series is the best doco ive watched.

They did a blues one aswell but the Jazz one is the best.

Most ken burns stuff is first class

 

[rainman]

Ken Burns' "The Civil War" is quite possibly the best documentary I have ever watched... I love history and studying wars from ancient times through to the present but I was never really interested in the US... more Australia, Europe and Middle East centric

but this documentary is 9 parts long and examines everything from the causes to the battles to the personalities to the average soldiers to the human cost to the legacies etc.

One of if not the best series I have ever watched the way they use still photography you would be amazed

 

[rainman]

It's a fascinating period of history. There are over a hundred Civil War veterans buried in Australia. One that I like to visit every now and then, is buried in Bowral. Started as a lumberjack in Canada, went to America and enlisted in 1861 in the 4th Maine Infantry, then later served with the 19th Maine Infantry. He took part in many of the most famous battles (some of his battle honours are on a plaque at the base of his gave, below). He finally ended up living in Australia, as a hermit in the Southern Highlands...

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Wow the list of battles is incredible
Amazing how he survived

 

[rainman]

70’s a bit early for me, but the 80’s any weekend, plenty weekdays (Wed’s always a big night) you could go to any of dozens of pubs or clubs throughout Sydney and see Australias’s top bands and plenty of internationals too.

Oil’s, Chisel, Mentals, Angels, Tatts, INXS (I mean fuck me, INXS we’re the Wed night house band at Sefton Hotel way into the 2nd album of their career). All of them and more up close and sweaty.

I could walk into just about any of the big hotels and clubs in Sydney these days, walk into the fucking pokies room and tell you that’s where I seen Oils or Angels etc etc. That’s what they did to the live venues, turn them into paupers casinos.

Absolute tragedy.

Anyway, I hijacked the thread, should be one for this subject which I might start one day, but for now back to the documentary.

HaHa you must remember the sundowner by the sound of that

 

[alchemist]

One of if not the best series I have ever watched the way they use still photography you would be amazed

I am amazed that there are still so many photos from the American Civil War period

 

[rainman]

I am amazed that there are still so many photos from the American Civil War period

They would have millions
Did you see the glass house made from old photo plates in the series

 

[alchemist]

They would have millions
Did you see the glass house made from old photo plates in the series

I don't remember... but I will go back and have a look

 

[MatstaDogg]

Anyone watched the Anthony Bourdain documentary?

 

[craigo]

The octopus teacher on Netflix

 

[Weak Gutted Dog]

The octopus teacher on Netflix

X 10000.

So good.

“My Octopus Teacher”

 

[jof]

This is a really entertaining and quirky doco I saw recently. Like Mad Max on meth.

Scrapper

Off the grid on a live military bombing range, defiant desert dwellers risk life and limb scrapping the impact areas for lucrative military metals from exploded and unexploded cluster bombs, target vehicles and brass from attack helicopter Gattling guns. Ride shotgun into an adrenalized world of aluminum fever, crystal meth, survival and redemption.

 

[Greenmachine121]

 

[N4TE]

Love these sorts of socks will give it a watch

 

[Greenmachine121]

New 9/11 doco on Netflix is good

turning point it’s called

 

[Bulldog Wrestler]

I've been watching this crime documentary series lately. Enjoyed it so far.

 

[alchemist]

a change of pace

"Good Ol' Freda" --> she was 'The Beatles' secretary

 

[dogluvver]

Paradise Lost. A really good documentary with heaps of Metallica music.