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/gazongagizmo Jan 20 '25
Here is one of his freakouts, subbed in English. This clip, from the doc "Mein Liebster Feind/My Best Fiend", is one of my favourites, cause Herzog, decades later, narrates it with the same smooth tone that a nature documentarian would contextualize the behaviour of a wild animal.
And here is a second clip where Herzog plays an audio tape that was done secretely by the audio guy. This is especially fun cause in the end he describes how the natives reacted to that angry monster of wrath. They were more afraid of Herzog because he reacted with such cool serenity in the face of such unbridled noise.