PickVidsBest Documentaries & storytelling Videos
The 202 Documentaries & storytelling videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 4 introductory, 0 intermediate, 198 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a documentary. What they share is that the people and the sequence of events are put back before anyone argues. Channels you will keep seeing include Tom Scott, Mark Rober, BobbyBroccoli.
Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush - creative common licence
Code Rush is a 2000 PBS documentary following Netscape engineers during the year they open-sourced the browser as Mozilla.
Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History
A feature-length Defunctland documentary on the history of Disney's FastPass and FastPass+ expedited queue systems.
Neuromancer (BBC radio play adaptation ) William Gibson
The BBC radio play adaptation of William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, running about two hours.
Free to Play
Valve's feature-length documentary following three professional gamers competing in the first Dota 2 International tournament for a million dollar prize.
The Great Wave - Part 1
The first part of a long series documenting Dave Bull's Tokyo woodblock workshop as it produces a reproduction of Hokusai's The Great Wave.
Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest – Fools & Dreamers (Full Documentary)
Fools & Dreamers is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve in New Zealand, where botanist Hugh Wilson let gorse grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate native forest.
Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea | KQED Truly CA
A KQED Truly CA documentary narrated by John Waters about the Salton Sea, a once-glamorous California vacation spot now home to an eccentric community.
The End of Suburbia - 52 minute documentary on peak oil
A 52-minute short version of the documentary The End of Suburbia, about peak oil and the end of cheap energy.
A NEW Trace! The FULL MH370 Story, so Far..
Mentour Pilot's 56-minute account of the MH370 disappearance and what is now known, including the WSPR radio tracking technique and other sensing methods.
Riding through Iran on a small motorcycle as British person.
Ed March rides a Honda C90 through Iran on his journey from Malaysia to the UK, showing the country and its people.
13TH | FULL FEATURE | Netflix
Ava DuVernay's Oscar-nominated documentary on how the history of racial inequality in the US, from slavery through the 13th Amendment's exception clause, drives mass incarceration.
BBS The Documentary: Episode 1 of 8: BAUD (The Beginning)
The first episode of Jason Scott's eight-part BBS documentary, covering the predecessors and beginnings of the dial-up bulletin board system.
James Burke Legend Connections 1 The Trigger Effect
The first episode of James Burke's Connections series, 'The Trigger Effect', explores how modern society depends on interlinked technological systems and how quickly it breaks down when they fail, starting with a power blackout.
Talking Funny - HBO
An HBO special in which Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Ricky Gervais and Louis CK discuss the craft of stand-up comedy.
Smelting Iron in Africa (A DEMONSTRATION)
A 105-minute film of a West African smith family in Burkina Faso smelting iron from ore, from making charcoal and building the kiln to forging tools.
The Vanishing of Flight 370
LEMMiNO's 25-minute documentary on the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Britain peak power demand (from BBC TV series: Britain from Above)
A clip from the BBC series Britain from Above showing UK peak power demand.
Surviving in the Siberian Wilderness for 70 Years (Full Length)
A VICE documentary that visits Agafia Lykova, last surviving member of the Lykov family of Old Believers who fled into the Siberian taiga in 1936.
War - Part Two: Anybody's Son Will Do (1 of 6)
An episode of Gwynne Dyer's 1983 documentary series War, about how military basic training turns recruits into soldiers.
RAT POISON AND BRANDY: THE 1904 ST. LOUIS OLYMPIC MARATHON.
Jon Bois tells the story of the 1904 St.
Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier? | Op-Docs
A New York Times Op-Docs short in which actors perform a real legal deposition transcript.
Money as Debt I - Revised Edition 2009 (Full Movie)
An animated documentary by Paul Grignon explaining how modern money is created through bank lending as debt.
Money as Debt - Full Documentary
Paul Grignon's animated documentary presenting his view of how banks create money as debt and why that system requires continuous growth.
The Kennedy Assassination: Inside the Book Depository
A 98-minute LEMMiNO video reconstructing what happened inside the Texas School Book Depository before, during, and after the Kennedy assassination.