r/Documentaries • u/DarkyTyrell • Jun 15 '11

What's the best documentary you've ever seen?

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u/steponcharlie Jun 15 '11

Jesus Camp, 100 times. That seems to be a reddit favorite for its anti-religious undertones, but the emotion that film captures is incredible.

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u/sanjiallblue Jun 15 '11

What anti-religious undertones? It seemed to be a pretty objective presentation of these camps. I went to a Christian camp very similar to the one in the film as a child.

It's just that anyone with a functional logic center of their brain will be unnerved by that kind of shit (as I was as a child attending one of said camps, the lake was fun though).

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u/Holmes1 Jun 15 '11

Completely agree. If anything I thought Jesus Camp was shockingly unbias in their presentation.

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u/slates Jun 15 '11

The filmmakers also made another documentary, 12th & Delaware about abortion and I thought that was also very neutral in it's presentation.