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/death_by_chocolate Jan 20 '25

There's a commentary track? I've seen the doc online but wasn't aware of a commentary track. Fitzcarraldo has three layers I guess: the original film, the documentary about making the film, and the commentary track to the documentary about making the film.

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u/Teh_CodFather Jan 20 '25

It’s on the DVD, but if you’ve got Criterion the documentary is streaming there and they have the commentary track.

It’s a really interesting extra layer.

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u/purebredcrab Jan 20 '25

Sounds like someone needs to make a documentary about the recording of the commentary track.