As an alternative if you have suggestions for documentary sources please do share them.
Mine would be United States of Secrets by PBS Frontline.
LEMMiNO is also great! One of the best documentary makers ever!
The Ken Burns documentary series on the Vietnam War is excellent. Probably the best documentary I’ve seen.
That one was really outstanding. I’ve seen it twice completely.
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Wow, thank you for the list sir! this list… is totally hidden gem for me who’s know nothing about many documentary movies.
Koyaanisqatsi, while not a traditional documentary, is a truly fascinating time capsule featuring a great soundtrack from Phillip Glass. It’s all images/video with no dialog or voiceover. It’s a unique experience (especially in an altered state of mind)
Sick Around the World, a PBS Frontline documentary, is a good one for Americans. Comparing healthcare systems in multiple countries.
Adam Curtis, HyperNormalisation (2016)
‘It argues that governments, financiers, and technological utopians have, since the 1970s, given up on the complex “real world” and built a simpler “fake world” run by corporations and kept stable by politicians.’
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Dick Proenneke - Alone in the Wilderness
This isn’t so much a documentary as it is a video blog, but it’s so worth it.
Recorded back in the late 1960s it is a self documented story of one man moving to remote Alaska and building a cabin/homestead in that untamed wilderness.
I cannot recommend this enough. It’s thoughtful, peaceful, and heartwarming.
Dirty Wars is a 2013 American documentary film about American foreign policies and war crimes. It was the first time that I heard about their manipulations, wars and assassinations.
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Second this, it’s amazing. I also like: Food inc PBS circus History of the bbs Brick city
- Dominion
- Cowspiracy
- What the Health
- The Game Changers
- Forks Over Knives
- That Sugar Film
Plenty of others, but there’s a theme here.
I’m surprised not to see this one anywhere on the list:
Planet Earth
And I saw one recommendation, and want to second:
Free Solo
Planet Earth is just an absolutely stunning visual spectacle showcasing nature at it’s most beautiful. And Free Solo had me glued to my seat like no other documentary that I’ve ever watched. Alex Honnold’s brain is just wired differently, so he has no fear rock climbing without a harness or a rope up an insanely difficult vertical climb of El Capitan.
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
New fear unlocked
I recently watched, “Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone” and greatly enjoyed it.
It’s about what it was like to live in the Soviet Union at the end of communism and then the end of democracy. The story is entirely told with footage from the time.
I’d like to also recommend my two favorite documentaries about labor unions, Harlan County, USA and American Dream.
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Fed Up
Good way to know how truly messed the food industry is because of the lobbying from the sugar industry
