What's the most fascinating documentary you've ever watched and why did it captivate you? (lemmy.world)

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For me it's gotta be something from ARTE (the French/German culture television channel). Either it's the one about Chodorowskis weird Dune project or the three-part series about the history of racism. Both were extremely well-made documentaries.

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[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

For me it was a short YouTube doc about pagpag. Granted I haven't seen many docs but this one sorta hit home as we were very poor growing up but we were fortunate enough to not be this poor.

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

It's pagpag it means brush off.

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Woops looks like autocorrect got me and I was to sleepy to notice.

[-] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

It can also mean "shake off" as in you just shake off the dirt sticking on the food before eating it.

Of course that's not really what's being done, but it's a simplified description of what pagpag is.

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