recent HBO documentaries

[JMT]

HBO cranks out some of the best original programming.

i watched the "9 Innings from Ground Zero" tonight. just like the "Curse of the Bambino" it was very, very well made. very touching in parts too. the HBO sports team really knows how to make a great production. no matter what the topic, i never miss one of these anymore.

i also caught one on HBO recently called "Chernobyl Heart." all about the health problems of kids born after the nuclear meltdown in 1986, and how it continues today. so sad. one of the most emotional shows ive seen in a long time. there is an entire generation over there being born with massive genetic, physical and mental illnesses. and the newborn infants are usually abandoned. watch it and you will be moved.

anyone see either of these?

[endymion]

Man JMT, if you have a Tivo then it has almost the same taste profile in its memory as mine does.

That Chernobyl documentary was intense, the kid with the brain fully formed but outside the skull left me sad for DAYS after seeing that. You ever see the one that HBO showed about the Nord Ost theater hostage crisis?

Oh and holy crap, you MUST see "Death In Gaza". That one is intense. English videojournalist documentarian goes into Gaza to document the lives of the people living there. Ends up getting shot by the Israeli army. His producers took his footage and finished his documentary for him but now the ending is about him getting killed, which his team has on video. I saw that on Sunday just before the American military killed an al Arabiya videojournalist in Iraq on camera. Kind of eerie and sad to see that right after I watched the Gaza documentary.

[JMT]

that was one of the worst kids they showed, the one with the external brain. so sad. also sad how a lot of the kids with heart problems could be saved by surgeries that are common in the US, but the $300 heart valve seal is a small fortune and the local doctors arent skilled enough so they all die waiting.

i saw a snippet of the Gaza one, but i was on the way out the door so never saw the whole thing. hopefully they will show it again.

i never heard about the Nord Ost crisis show. when did you first see it? well i hope to catch a replay sometime based on your suggestion.

[endymion]

Netflix is the answer. The "documentaries" section in Netflix is highly cool. They have stuff like "Osama", the one that won all of those awards even though hardly anybody saw it. I have a whole bunch of interesting documentary stuff scattered in my Netflix queue among the entertainment.

We have become the people who we used to make fun of when we were younger. Guys who sit around talking about documentaries. Eeek.

[V. Barbarino]

I've seen a simular doc about chernoble, and I must say, "MOVE THE FUCK AWAY FROM THERE!!!" Whether you are poor near there, or poor away from there, it doesn't make any sense.
so I don't understand why people still live in that zone of radiation.

[endymion]

Originally Posted by The

... so I don't understand why people still live in that zone of radiation.

Because the zone of radiation is their entire country. There is nowhere for them to go. The baby with the fully developed external brain was in Minsk, not Chernobyl.

[JMT]

90% of Belarus is contaminated.

i agree Saleen. it looked like they are either too stubborn or old to care, too poor, and their governments lied to them for decades. but its the children who are paying the worst price.

[cutchemist]

Haven't watched TV in years but i was always a fan of HBO specials...ever since "If these wall could talk"....

It's hard for me to believe that these people can't abandon the danger zone (but that' probably b/c my heart doesn't want to believe it)

[obby]

Originally Posted by JMT

HBO cranks out some of the best original programming.

i watched the "9 Innings from Ground Zero" tonight. just like the "Curse of the Bambino" it was very, very well made. very touching in parts too. the HBO sports team really knows how to make a great production. no matter what the topic, i never miss one of these anymore.

i also caught one on HBO recently called "Chernobyl Heart." all about the health problems of kids born after the nuclear meltdown in 1986, and how it continues today. so sad. one of the most emotional shows ive seen in a long time. there is an entire generation over there being born with massive genetic, physical and mental illnesses. and the newborn infants are usually abandoned. watch it and you will be moved.

anyone see either of these?

I saw the Chernobyl Heart documentary and it truly broke my own heart. As much as I wanted to change the channel I was somehow overwelemed to keep watching. The International Children's Heart Foundation has gained my respect a great deal. I have already made a donation to thier foundation and hope that other do too. I am also sending some old electronics such as TV's and radios that I have which is one of the things that the kids where requesting. My family has always made yearly donations to certain cancer societies based here in the US benefiting those in the US. It is now my turn to help expand our donations abroad in hope that it will help those who do not have the same benefits and lives that
we here in the US take for granted. My heart goes out to
all the children, parents, doctors and volunteers at both the International Children's Heart Foundation in Belarus and the Chernobyl Children's Project International.

FYI: Only 20% of the infants born in Belarus are born healthy!!!!!!

If you are interested in donting.........

http://babyheart.org/index.php

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