i just watched a really cool documentary called dark days about a group of homeless people that live in new york's subway. it was really enjoyable. i really enjoy documentarys and find myself drawn to them more and more. but it was really really good. what makes it even better is knowing how they made it...here, the director had no previous filming experience whatsoever. he just moved to new york, and felt like learning more about homeless people, and found out about these people in the tunnel, and decided to just hang out with them a lot. he lived with/hung out with them for about 3 months when someone finally said "we should make a movie about this." the director said, why not?, and set out on the mission. went to a camera store and basically had the employees choose a camera for him, had about 2 guys helping him and all the homeless guys were the filming crew. they filmed for a couple years and it took a while to finally get it made, and then they used all the money to get the guys off the streets and get their lives straightened out and into homes and stuff.
so, i loved it, you should check it out.