#netflix documentaries

[chaneajoyyy]

Y’all I just finished Unknown Number: The High School Catfish and EYE am SHOCKED by the whole thing!!

[stupid-introvert-kid]

elisa lam

I know that people are probably still into looking up elisa lam’s blogs so here is the link: https://nouvelle-nouveau.tumblr.com/archive 

Thanks to that one girl who gave me the link :P

[codingcoffeequeen]

Netflix Documentaries You Should Totally Watch When You Are Procrastinating

Hey guys, it’s me, Isabella-- your resident Netflix watcher. I have been watching Netflix documentaries for ages now mainly because I like to expand my knowledge and learn things and hear new perspectives. So, I decided to make a nice little list of documentaries I have watched and enjoyed or have led me to a new perspective on things... And I described each of them in 10 words or less. Whenever you want to binge watch something, give one of these a try:

13th -- Eye-opening account about the prison system and incarceration rates.

She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry -- Retelling of the buried story of the women’s liberation movement.

Sustainable -- Important documentary about sustainability and its effects on everyone.

The Vietnam War -- War through the eyes of those who lived through it.

Happy Valley -- Aftermath of child molestation case at Penn State.

30 for 30: Survive and Advance -- All about Jim Valvano, his  championship team, and cancer battle.

Blackfish -- Inside look into animal captivity and its effects.

The Hunting Ground -- Documentary about college rape, its victims, and universities’ actions.

Fastball -- An analysis about baseball’s most popular pitch.

Vanishing of the Bees -- A look into colony collapse disorder and its causes.

Detropia -- The collapse of the American Dream in Detroit.

How To Survive A Plague -- About the early AIDs epidemic and its activists.

After Tiller -- All about abortion and its many perspectives.

The Central Park Five -- Story about 5 innocent teens who were incarcerated.

The Invisible War -- Untold stories of sexually assaulted women in the military.

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson -- Story of the inspiring black gay rights activist.

Without Bias -- Basketball star who dies from a drug-induced heart attack.

Making A Murderer -- DNA exoneree gets tried again for murder.

Happy -- A documentary searching for what makes people happy.

Long Shot -- Larry David helps a man avoid a jail sentence.

My Beautiful Broken Brain -- One woman’s journey to relearn after a stroke.

The Wolfpack -- Isolated siblings recreate films.

What Happened, Miss Simone? -- The story of singer/activist Nina Simone.

Finders Keepers -- Man loses leg and wants it back.

The Witness -- A look into the Kitty Genovese story.

Abducted in Plain Sight -- Daughter gets abducted TWICE (!!!).

Tower -- Story of the 1996 University of Texas shooting.

The Square -- A look at the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

The Look of Silence -- Family confronts those who killed their brother.

Audrie & Daisy -- Effects of sexual assault on two high school girls.

(#codingcoffeequeen | masterposts)

[mythicalbeastnation]

“I watch Netflix documentaries, ask me anything. I’m gonna do that on Reddit later.” [x]

[thatbadcass]

anyone watching Netflix’s Evil Genius??? The episodic documentary about this woman Marjorie Diehl Armstrong and her involvement in these crazy ass crimes dude this is so fucking good so far please tell me you guys are watching this!!?!?

[legittreeandmoon]

"because the truth is that I can always bring my past with me, but I can never go back. You've got to leave yourself behind."

Lady Gaga - 'Five Foot Two'

[innmyhumbleopinion]

Gaga: Five Foot Two | Movie Review

Here’s my review on the newest Netflix documentary about Lady Gaga entitled, “Gaga: Five Foot Two”.

Would love to hear what you guys thought about the doc!

[marigoldwitch]

The Confession Tapes

Okay, I’m on the final episode (I promise this is my last post about this lol) and I just want to talk about a few things.

There is no right way to react to a traumatic situation

Yes, a lot of people do tend to react similarly to traumatic events. A lot of people cry, get depressed, and get angry. Those are all valid feelings. But guess what, some people don’t cry, don’t cave into themselves with depression and some people don’t get angry. Or they do feel all these feelings but they’re taught (especially if you’re a man and you’re feeling sad or depressed) that you need to hide those feelings and pretend that you’re okay.

I can recall the day I found out my grandpa (and his girlfriend) were murdered. Everyone around me was crying. My mom (it was her father) fell to the floor sobbing. My dad was so angry, he started yelling (at no one really, he was just mad) my older brother was in tears. But me, I was in shock. I couldn’t cry. I held my mom and tried to calm her. I didn’t feel much anger in the moment, I was sad but my body couldn’t express the emotion. I was 15 years old.

We don’t all express emotions the same. We don’t all react the same. We don’t all behave the same.

If you tell someone they did something, long enough, they’ll start to believe it

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” - Vladimir Lenin

Hold someone in a room for 16+ hours and tell them that they’ll go to jail forever unless you tell them what they want to hear, eventually they’re gonna breakdown and give in. 

This is especially true for episode 3 of the show. Dude was told (by interrogators) that he did it but didn’t remember because he was blackout drunk. They lied to him about the evidence they found (which was later proved that it wasn’t even connected to him, by dna testing, at all) and they implanted information into his head while holding him for hours and hours and hours.

Eye witnesses are NOT evidence

Especially if your eye witness (again episode 3) is someone with their own criminal record of fraud. Umm, me’s think she’s lyin’.

Always always always ask for a lawyer

Even if you can’t afford one, you have the right to have one. Even if you’re not being placed under arrest or being charged, at that moment, ask for one anyways. IT IS YOUR RIGHT (at least here in the US)

Never ever answer questions without a lawyer present. Asking for one doesn’t not make you look guilty. And if you’re being questioned and they say “if you ask for a lawyer, then we’ll know you’re guilty.” Ignore them. They don’t know shit. They just want to be able to manipulate you into a confession (whether you did it or not). 

Ask to leave

If you are not being charged or arrested they can’t legally hold you. They have nothing. First you can ask to leave. And if they decline, you ask “are you charging me?” and if they say “no” then you reply “then I can leave.”

You insist that you want to leave NOW! and if they won’t let you, you tell them that you refuse to answer anymore questions until you speak to a lawyer.

Don’t ever agree to a meeting without your lawyer. Don’t ever agree to any test without your lawyer. Basically, you pay these people for a reason, so don’t do anything without talking to your lawyer first.

Okay, that’s it. I just needed to get that off my chest. I really hate lazy detective work. And all of these cases seem like either lazy detectives or tunnel vision. Cops should know that they should follow EVERY lead. Not just choose one and force it, especially when evidence tells a different story.