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Baseball (1994)
EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY DESPITE THE ERRORS
When it first aired, there was supposedly something like 2 dozen factual errors that were later corrected in time for the video and later dvd release. The only things I didn't like was that it focused heavily on 3 teams far more than any other. Red Sox, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Yankees. It skips from the '67 Series to the '69 Series, then it glosses over the next few years until the 1975 series. And it took all of their info on Ty Cobb on Al Stump's now debunked biography of Cobb. David Okrent, who features heavily in this also appears much later in a documentary about Tigers' legends and he admits that much of what we knew about Cobb was either overblown or outright false thanks to the biography by Charles Leerhsen (A Terrible Beauty) that was actually researched. Apart from those the documentary is another gem in Ken Burns' belt and I watch it every year at the start of the baseball season and again around World Series time.
Depp V Heard (2023)
After watching it a 2nd time, I changed my vote.
I still maintain that this documentary tried so hard to help Amber but in the end it wound up proving absolutely nothing but maintaining that social media (specifically tiktok) was at fault. Any harassment that Amber Heard has suffered during and after the trial is absolutely wrong. Yes, she lied, but to threaten her is absolutely stupid and plain wrong in every way. Depp won as he deserved and Heard betrayed abuse victims who stood by her throughout until this trial. But both did some pretty reprehensible stuff to eachother. Going into this I had my biases towards Depp but I believe the documentary was simply trying to be as fair as possible and cut thru the vitriol as much as possible. Fact of the matter is that the public at large held a much different opinion of Amber before the trial than they did during and after. Depp lost work and so much income because of the allegations she made that he abused her. Now, all those companies went to him hat in hand begging him to be in their movies again after telling him to go pound sand. Amber lost work after the trial but she's still getting work. I love that the "smoking gun" at the end that proved Johnny abused her too turned into an unprovable an unsubstantiated nothing burger. That said, she doesn't deserve the hate spewed against her. Johnny is an actor and musician. Not your best friend or family member you're defending. So much needless emotion came out of this and none of us are blameless.