- Zeitgeist I and II (and soon to be III)
- The Corporation
- ANYTHING by Michael Moore!!!

Titicut Follies. I've never seen it, but it sounds interesting. Maybe it's just the fact that it was banned in the USA.

Teenage Tourettes Camp

Here's a documentary that I saw in college as part of a class on the history of film: The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes. It doesn't show anything you probably haven't already seen on CSI but here it's real. It's a silent film and only clocks in at 30 minutes or so. You probably can't find it on dvd, but maybe you can. Check with NetFlicks.

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Religulous - About how hypocritical religion can be towards others with different thoughts about life, the universe and everything.

Jesus Camp - Quite orthodox summer camp for religious people. It's quite freaky

Both are worth watching, even if you're religious.

Toolmaker

I watched religulous in the theaters and though it was an excellent documentary, quite funny. Jesus camp actually frightened me.

Thanks for the suggestions thus far.

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The Most Hated Family in America is pretty interesting, as is Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends (but that series is less relevant here).

You can view all of The Most Hated Family in America here. I just watched it. I was familiar with the Westboro Baptist Church already, but it's really interesting to see how it operates internally. Theroux was respectful throughout the whole process, but the Church members consistently derided him every time he asked a legitimate question. The ending was the most peculiar as the young girl described all the pain she went through as a child while simultaneously trying to justify her sacrifices.

After having watched it all, one characteristic that every Church member had in common was a monumental ego. Every single member seemed to take great enjoyment in the failure of the world (at least as they see it), and the reason for this enjoyment eventually I realized was because it made them feel better about their beliefs and what they do. I think Theroux was spot on when he asked the girl at the end if the reason she laughed at the prospect of his going to hell was because it made her feel more confident that she wasn't going to hell.

Another vote for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.

Also, No End In Sight is a fantastic documentary on the mess in Iraq due to endless administrative bungling of the aftermath of the American invasion.

Taxi to the Dark Side
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Night and Fog

Here's one I saw on PBS last year that I liked a lot: Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

I saw 'pumping iron' the other day (first time), been meaning to for years
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076578/
whilst not strictly a documentry as such

youll see that arnie can actually act