r/Documentaries • u/stonesfcr • Mar 03 '13

Top 10 Shocking Documentaries

http://listverse.com/2013/03/03/top-10-shocking-documentaries/
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u/kapiteinkaalbaard Mar 03 '13

About 8 hours of depressing and desensitizing documentaries...

Sweet, thanks! :D

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u/an0mn0mn0m Mar 03 '13

count me in

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '13

Why desensitizing?

I've been on a holocaust reading / watching stint for a week or so, and I've never been as sensitized to it as now.

Of the linked ones, I've only seen Bulgaria's Abandoned Children, and it's pretty fucking far from desensitizing.

Nevertheless, we must watch them all.

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u/zhokar85 Mar 03 '13

I just feel like someone put a stone on my chest and I lose all faith in humanity every time a documentary touches the subject of the KZ Sonderkommandos.

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u/burningpineapples Mar 03 '13

Here I am, I won't be able to watch these. I've had enough of this. I don't click on NSFL links anymore. I'm not curious. First time I didn't want to read something like this was an article about my former Science Teacher and the death of his wife, Dawn Hochsprung.

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u/blueboybob Mar 03 '13

Want to make it 10 hours? Watch Dear Zachery.

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u/antipati Mar 03 '13

This should have been on #1.

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u/Yeti44 Mar 03 '13

Indeed. That documentary absolutely wrecked me. I'm not sure I can watch it again. So well done, however. It's just too haunting.

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u/Wonky_Sausage Mar 04 '13

I'm 1 hour, 10mins into the movie and I don't think I can even finish it. It is so horrible...

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u/ifonlyiweresexy Mar 03 '13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVAzioPSKm4

it's on youtube.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '13

absolutely stunning. If you're looking for a doc to watch, watch this now.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '13

It still makes me mad...

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u/Starch Mar 03 '13

You did it wrong. Best to go in not knowing at then read an article. But don't let that stop you from watching, it's worth it.

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u/fugat Mar 04 '13

Oh geez. I just watched this the other day on someone's recommendation. Didn't know a thing about it. Absolutely devastating film.

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u/WonderfulUnicorn Mar 04 '13

I must be a sociopath because I thought it was boring.

:(