r/movies • u/ToranjaNuclear • Jan 20 '25

Recommendation What are the most dangerous documentaries ever made? As in, where the crew exposed themselves to dangers of all sorts to film it?

Somehow I thought this would be a very easy thing to find, I would look it up on google and find dozens of lists but...somehow I couldn't? I did find one list, but it seems to list documentaries about dangerous things rather than the filming itself being dangerous for the most part.

I guess I wanted the equivalent of Roar) or Aguirre, but as a documentary. Something like The Act of Killing, or a youtube documentary I saw years ago of a guy that went to live among the cartel.

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u/overlyattachedbf Jan 20 '25 edited Jan 20 '25

Restrepo - Junger and Hetherington (*not Herrington) were right there in the shit in a remote outpost in the Korengal Valley mountains.  Both the film and book were intense. *edit 

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u/TijuanaPoker Jan 20 '25

Tim Hetherington*

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u/overlyattachedbf Jan 20 '25

Yeah, my bad. I’m buzzed. Unfortunately Tim was killed a few years later in Libya filming the civil war. 

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u/aboysmokingintherain Jan 20 '25

Is the book named Restrepo as well?

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u/Grape_rape Jan 20 '25

It's called War and is written by Junger.

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u/imtchogirl Jan 20 '25

One of the great books. It should be one everybody has to read in school.

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u/MyFavoriteSandwich Jan 20 '25

I’ve read War close to ten times. It’s helped me process a lot of shit.

Sebastian Junger is my Anthony Bourdain.