Most traumatic documentary you have seen on telly.

[User6179]

Cant remember the name of the doc on animal cruelty but the bit that sticks in my mind is a monkey is strapped into a machine that cracks its skull repeatedly against a hard object in research of brain injuries , a dog is also skinned alive and a few clips of halal slaughter houses which are quite bad.
I don't think I could watch that doc again and would recommend not watching it .

 

[User16390]

I guess Earthlings had the most profound effect on me. My son stayed over for Christmas dinner a few years and and I told him about it, he was taking the mick saying I was a lightweight or something along those lines, so I I challenged him to watch it before Christmas dinner, whilst I was in the kitchen I heard silence from him as he watched it, no smart arse remarks and when I announced dinner was ready he declined the turkey.

Not that it lasted for long, he loves his steak and still eats everyone out of house and home


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibuQ-J04eLQ

 

[buggi]

I've never seen it but apparently The Cove is heart breaking.

 

[mickle]

The one in about 1981 which brought to my attention the subject of FGM.

 

[buggi]

I posted the one about the animals being skinned alive. Still affects me to this day. I can't get the images out of my head, particularly the one of the dogs still alive and moving around after.

 

[tfg71]

We watched blackfish last night, one place we did not go to and had no interest in was seaworld. Orcas are stunning creatures and I have watched a lot of docs etc on them. Would love to see them in the wild. One of the worst tv shows for us is supervet as the guy is a genius however when they show the animals getting put too sleep not a dry eye in our house.

 

[User16390]

I posted the one about the animals being skinned alive. Still affects me to this day. I can't get the images out of my head, particularly the one of the dogs still alive and moving around after.

This was shown in Earthlings. I can unashamedly say I sat there and cried when I watched the reality of what we do to animals for our pleasure, entertainment and consumption.

 

[Brandane]

Anything to do with Pan Am 103 / Lockerbie.
I was in Strathclyde Police at the time, and finished my early shift at 2pm. Went for a Christmas drink with the rest of my shift, as the next day was our last days off before Christmas. The Christmas drink lasted longer than planned, so about 10pm someone phoned our office (pre mobile phones) to see if the backshift wanted to join those of us still standing. That was when we were told about PA 103, and that the backshift had all been sent down to Lockerbie. They got back to Greenock the next night, having done a 30+ hour shift. The stories that came out over the following months and years were truly horrific, and the lasting effects on some of the Officers who were at Lockerbie were also quite disturbing.

As a side note, the young Detective Constable who found the fragment from the timing device lodged in the baggage container was one Graham Cairns. He was on the same intake as me in October 1982 and we went through the horrors of initial training together. His find did no harm to his career, rising through the ranks to Chief Superintendent.

 

[ianrauk]

Anything to do with Pan Am 103 / Lockerbie.
I was in Strathclyde Police at the time, and finished my early shift at 2pm. Went for a Christmas drink with the rest of my shift, as the next day was our last days off before Christmas. The Christmas drink lasted longer than planned, so about 10pm someone phoned our office (pre mobile phones) to see if the backshift wanted to join those of us still standing. That was when we were told about PA 103, and that the backshift had all been sent down to Lockerbie. They got back to Greenock the next night, having done a 30+ hour shift. The stories that came out over the following months and years were truly horrific, and the lasting effects on some of the Officers who were at Lockerbie were also quite disturbing.

As a side note, the young Detective Constable who found the fragment from the timing device lodged in the baggage container was one Graham Cairns. He was on the same intake as me in October 1982 and we went through the horrors of initial training together. His find did no harm to his career, rising through the ranks to Chief Superintendent.

A work colleague died on that flight.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Anything involving animals or humans giving birth

 

[buggi]

This was shown in Earthlings. I can unashamedly say I sat there and cried when I watched the reality of what we do to animals for our pleasure, entertainment and consumption.

I didn't sleep for days. And that's no exaggeration. I felt sick to my stomach and still do today. All I can think of is its happening right now.

 

[ColinJ]

Watching World At War when I was a youngster left a huge impression.

Same here ...

I watched the one about the concentration camps with my father. I was completely stunned and very upset. He suddenly announced that he had helped liberate one of those camps and that one of his tasks was to use a mechanical digger to dig the mass graves and then bulldoze thousands of corpses into them. I spent an hour listening to horrific story after horrific story about his wartime experiences. I always found him a bit stern, but understood him better after that conversation.

 

[Brandane]

A work colleague died on that flight.

Sorry to hear that.
In 2004 I was working as a passenger profiler for US Airways at Glasgow when I had occasion to check the travel documents of one Mrs Miazga. She was very pro security, and told me that her daughter Suzanne was one of the victims of PA 103. I found talking to her about it very emotional.
On a recent documentary about Lockerbie, it showed Mrs Miazga. In the interim period she has been widowed, and began a relationship with a former Lockerbie ambulanceman. This was the ambulanceman who walked out of the ambulance station immediately after the aircraft came down on Lockerbie, and he found Suzanne Miazga lying on the steps of the ambulance station. There was nothing he could do for Suzanne. He and Mrs Miazga are now married and living in America.

 

[User16390]

Anything to do with Pan Am 103 / Lockerbie.
I was in Strathclyde Police at the time, and finished my early shift at 2pm. Went for a Christmas drink with the rest of my shift, as the next day was our last days off before Christmas. The Christmas drink lasted longer than planned, so about 10pm someone phoned our office (pre mobile phones) to see if the backshift wanted to join those of us still standing. That was when we were told about PA 103, and that the backshift had all been sent down to Lockerbie. They got back to Greenock the next night, having done a 30+ hour shift. The stories that came out over the following months and years were truly horrific, and the lasting effects on some of the Officers who were at Lockerbie were also quite disturbing.

As a side note, the young Detective Constable who found the fragment from the timing device lodged in the baggage container was one Graham Cairns. He was on the same intake as me in October 1982 and we went through the horrors of initial training together. His find did no harm to his career, rising through the ranks to Chief Superintendent.

Total respect for the professionalism of your colleagues and all those involved in having to deal with the tragedy that was Pan Am 103/ Lockerbie

 

[Mrs M]

The World at War was on every Sunday when I was a kid.
The holocaust was very upsetting to learn about.