What’s the most interesting documentary you’ve ever watched?

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AmandaYVR · Accepted Answer

Wow, such a good question. My mind is immediately shuffling through about a hundred, but how do I slow it down, how do I choose. So many.
Ok, let me pick a top few. One of my favourite topics is culture and sociology. And how technology is changing us.

Surviving Progress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGyU6MEstjU

Featured many interviews with today's scholars on the subject. Most of my favourite quotes were from Ronald Wright, author, A Short History of Progress.
"In defining progress, I think it’s very important to make a distinction between good progress and bad progress. Things progress in that they change. Both in nature and in human society, there appears to be a clear trend towards increasing complexity as change proceeds. We tend to delude ourselves that these changes always result in prudence from a human point of view."
"Most of the structure of the human brain predates mammals, prior the last 50,000 years.
Between the fall of the Roman Empire and Columbus sailing, it took 13 centuries to add 200
million people to the world’s population. Now it takes only three years. We’ve only been living in civilization, as near as we can tell, for the last 5000 years at the most, which is less than.2% of our evolutionary history. The rest of the 98% of the time we have been hunters and gatherers. Since then, culture has taken off and become completely detached from the face of natural evolution. So we are running 21st century software on hardware that hasn’t updated for 50,000 years, and therein lies the problem. Our human nature is back in the hunting and gathering stage, whereas our knowledge, our ability to do harm and good to ourselves and others, has grown all out of proportion."
"Faith in progress has become a kind of religious faith, a sort of fundamentalism, rather like the market fundamentalism that has just recently crashed and burned. The idea that you can let markets rip is a delusion, just as the idea that you can let technology rip, and it will solve the problems created by itself in a slightly earlier phase."
"Things that start out seeming like progress, they’re very seductive, it seems like there’s no downside. But when they reach a certain scale, they turn out to be dead ends. Or traps. Progress traps. They seem to provide benefits in the short term but actually lead to disaster. (Like driving a hundred mammoths off a cliff – they’d made too much progress.)"

Deluged By Data

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2pT7yhYnYA

Life After Digital

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmFgGHhBh1U

Swiped: Hooking Up In The Digital Age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzGEwFM18gE

This one I haven't seen, but it also looks good.
Documentary 68 / Dating in the age of social media, texting, hanging out and hooking up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac3dnVAWBfc

PinkMichae · Accepted Answer

It was this documentary about a man who claims he's been abducted by aliens several times. It show pics and video of supposive aliens visiting him and being attacked by like men in black telling him to keep quiet. He tore his acl which was gonna require surgery but a few days before surgery he was abducted and brought back. His wife noticed he was walking normal without his device he needed. He has wound Mark's running down his leg. He called the surgeon to say his knee is better and she thought he was scared of the surgery because its impossible for his leg to be better without surgery. So he went in to show them and let them take scans and it show his leg was fixed. The docs couldn't explain how that was possible or what the wound Mark's were.

Regardless it was a very interesting.

jennifer_bloom · Accepted Answer

This is tough because any documentary that isn't about politics is fascinating to me - I used to love the fifth estate which was about crime conspiracies - I think they had one story where some guy committed a crime against his wife and then pretended to be the victim and they exposed him after the media supported him under dishonest views of him. I also like to watch documentaries about nature - I remember in high school the discovery channel had 2 weeks on sharks where all they did was discuss different aspects of this animal.

StylesbyDR · Accepted Answer

Not sure if this could be considered a documentary but it sure feels like one. Right now Jefree Star and Shane Dawson are doing a collaboration on a makeup pallet. Throughout this journey Shane Dawson is recording an entire series of the process, from design, choosing colors, and so on. At the same time however he is diving into who Jefree Star is, his past, what he actually does to make money, everything. To me its the most interesting thing I've seen, and at 1 hr episodes it feels more indepth than any documentary.

Jaximus-Lion · Accepted Answer

I saw a decumentary about under water live and how they have as called fish heaven where are almost all kind of fish swim to and livr there for a while. I don't remember what was it called but they had some under water currents they fallow to end there, and the whole thing was just amazing and fascinated. I wish i knew what was the name of it, I would love to watch it again.
How about you? Have you watched some intresting decumentary?

WintersDaughter · Answer

Oh man, you got me thinking real hard now lol

I watched one on how animals choose mates for some reason, it was super weird.

I watched one on human development in the womb. That was real interesting actually. I have a link if ya wanna watch, it's a little over an hour.

I think my favorite one was the one I saw about space and the universe. Space is so cooooooool!! :)

What about you?

StephenCF · Answer

Any 1999 Columbine massacre documentary (especially the docu-drama episode on “Zero Hour”) 🔫💣📺

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

It was about these two mentally handicap people who got together and i forget the name but it was remarkable how they took care of each other and it was sad in the end i think one of them passed.

loveslongnails · Answer

I've seen too many to pick a best one. Most recently though, I loved "One Strange Rock", narrated by Will Smith. I also love the old Jacques Cousteau documentaries on oceans. He predicted global warming LONG before anyone took it seriously, because he see the damage being done to the oceans way back in the 70's. He looks like a genius now, huh?

Grond21 · Answer

Sweet Suicide. It was a documentary about sugar and how it affects the human body. Also how there are politics surrounding it and is use in society.

A close second would have to be Suicide Killers. A fascinating documentary into the mentality of terrorists. I found it more interesting than I anticipated.

davidst123 · Answer

our planet... watching what we are doing to this plane, really breaks my heart... the scene when the walrus fall off the cliff... soo sad...

BirdFan360 · Answer

My friend showed me The Red Pill. Yep, It messed me up. Was interesting tho.

ridingthelightning · Answer

I really enjoyed the Metallica documentary, Some Kind of Monster. They are my favourite band of all time but it was really interesting to see all the tensions and stress they went through while making St Anger.

TheFlak38 · Answer

Star Wars Legacy Revealed.

rose_lynnn · Answer

I dont remember what it was called, but it was about the amazing different things that happen on earth including the weather in some places and how the environment can act

abc3643 · Answer

Mondo Cane

coachTanthony · Answer

Start Up. com

WhiteShoulder · Answer

One about the Revolutionary War. Also one about the Homestead steel strike, but that’s cause I liked the song at the end.

gothgirl997 · Answer

Yesterday I watched a very interesting documentary about Maya Angelou's life, that I recommend to everyone I think it was called "and still I rose" or something like that

Nadim171 · Answer

A documentary series called holy war, targeting conflicts between Christians and muslims since the middle ages to today's terrorist groups

burnseta · Answer

it would probably be one of the alien documentary on the history channel that i watched while i was sick

wankiam · Answer

hypernormalisation... that sugar film... and something i was watching a couple of days ago about the flouridation of water

ABoyNamedSue · Answer

‘The Dawn Wall’ followed up by ‘Free Solo’. Two sensational Climbing and life stories. Also ‘city of ghosts’ that follows the underground rebel militia that combats the tyrant lead regime in Syria.

ECityGirl89 · Answer

Documentary about Gypsy Rose, Jeffrey Dahmer, and I Am Elizabeth Smart.

Sevenpointfive · Answer

the 'internet's own boy' or 'three identical strangers'

AlexBlack007 · Answer

Unacknowledged and Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers

Ms_Facesitter · Answer

One about training, martial arts, mental strength. Very inspiring.

JKingOff · Answer

The exorcism of Emily Rose. Supposedly based on a true story.

_SOARER_ · Answer

Its an esoteric documentary thats hard to find Its called "We defeated the wrong, enemy"

sheepdip · Answer

There was a newish Bigfoot one I remember watching. That was really good. Also saw one on the Nuremberg trials.

Bismarck_96 · Answer

I’m mostly into conspiracy or historical Documentaries last one I’ve watched was the Hindenburg disaster

korey182 · Answer

i don't really like them, but probably something about Mars or space🌎

Barnipitus · Answer

The one where the sexy old guy was telling everyone about their massive seafood menu.

nuberu17 · Answer

The dawn wall... by redbull.. i dont even like climbing but it made me love it the hole doc length

SkipStop · Answer

The Red Pill Documentary

Anonymous · Answer

It was called "The Arrivals" and it was a very freaky documentary

the_sinner · Answer

Jack ma's documentary was really inspiring.

flyingbird · Answer

Air crash investigation

markscott · Answer

I don't know, there have been so many good ones.

5yrup · Answer

the one about the russian jesus

UncleRooster · Answer

The Green River Killer

Jersey2 · Answer

Ken Burns on the Civil War.

analyzingall · Answer

American Circumcision

Deathraider · Answer

Cosmos by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

nickisnick1988 · Answer

Alone in the Wilderness

cheer4life_xo · Answer

Hot Girls Wanted and I Am Jane Doe are very sad

Napoly_Lover · Answer

Through the Wormhole by Morgan Freeman

Jltakk · Answer

Zeitgeist, probably. Spinal Tap, definitely.

Twenty2 · Answer

Twenty2-the great! It was very good.

SamirahD22 · Answer

The documentary on Jim jones

AngelAimée · Answer

Our planet

thelightprince55 · Answer

That has to be Ted bundy

LouisWon · Answer

Formula 1 watch on Netflix

Benjamin6699 · Answer

The devil and daniel johnston

KieranByrne · Answer

People!

October808 · Answer

Life After People

COMMODOREII · Answer

Earth by Disney

Furuok · Answer

Oak island

TheDarkAngel21 · Answer

Dark net

ask4any · Answer

Wyatt Earp

HawkeGrey76 · Answer

Any WWI or WWII one

Reality1996 · Answer

I am jane doe

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