20 Of The Most Wild Real-Life Documentaries To Ever Make It Onto Our Screens
Are you looking for something interesting to watch when the working day is done? Well, documentaries have seen something of a surge in recent years. Those of you with Netflix or cable will no doubt have scrolled through a flood of them in these cooped up times. And this list is filled with the most out-there docs you’ll ever see. From lost legs to imposters and tickling competitions, these 20 are so crazy you won’t believe they are real! Just remember: there may just be a few spoilers ahead...
20. Cinemania – 2002
Fancy yourself as something of a movie buff? It’s likely that you have nothing on the people featured in this startling documentary. No, the folk featured in the acclaimed Cinemania really take movie fandom to a new level. The bizarre doc follows the lives of five obsessed moviegoers in New York City, who over the course of a year travel across the metropolis watching up to five flicks a day. At the time of writing, it also has an impressive 86 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The five obsessives all have their own particular quirks and interests, of course. Among their number is a guy who can quote the running time of all every single movies he has seen. And there’s another who maintains a specialized diet that means he won’t need a bathroom break during a film. But arguably the most obsessive is a woman called Roberta Hill. She keeps memorabilia from every motion picture she’s ever watched and is even known to attack ushers who tear too much off her ticket stubs!
19. Three Identical Strangers – 2018
The Netflix documentary Three Identical Strangers created a lot of buzz upon its release back in 2018. Critics and audiences alike adored the eerie tale, and it has earned a lofty 97 percent rating from 183 critics on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of publishing. It follows the story of three male identical triplets – Robert Shafran, Edward Galland and David Kellman – who were split at birth and subsequently adopted by three separate families.
In remarkable circumstances, the brothers find out about each other when Shafran is mistaken for Galland upon arrival at a New York community college. The boys realize they are identical brothers who have been adopted and eventually find out a shocking, almost Truman Show-like secret. The three were actually separated as part of a scientific experiment on the development of identical siblings in different socioeconomic conditions.
