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.
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | full movie (2014)
The full documentary 'The Internet's Own Boy' about programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, with interviews with family, friends and internet figures.
Oswald Acted Alone: JFK Assassination Solved (Part 1 of 2)
The first part of a long two-part video series by historian Sean Munger arguing, with citations, that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy and acted alone.
Chernobyl 3828
A Ukrainian documentary about the liquidators who cleaned radioactive debris off the Chernobyl reactor roof in two-minute shifts.
The Company that Broke Canada
BobbyBroccoli documentary on the rise of Nortel Networks, once the dominant Canadian telecom giant, during the dot-com era.
Kedi - Full Length Documentary
Kedi is a feature documentary following seven street cats of Istanbul and the people who care for them.
Chai Jing's review: Under the Dome – Investigating China’s Smog 柴静雾霾调查：穹顶之下 (full translation)
Chai Jing's 104-minute documentary on China's smog, with full English subtitles.
Birth of BASIC
A Dartmouth-produced documentary on how professors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz, with a group of undergraduates, invented the BASIC language.
The Untold Story of Online Gaming on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis | XBAND
A one-hour documentary on XBAND, the 1994 modem network for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.
What a Japanese Moving Company in Tokyo is like
A day-in-the-life video following a move between apartments in Tokyo using a Japanese moving company.
THE MARS UNDERGROUND [HD] Full Movie
A documentary following Robert Zubrin and the Mars Society as they push the Mars Direct plan for sending humans to Mars using current technology and local resources.
Watching This Video Disqualifies You From Jury Duty for Life
CGP Grey explains jury nullification, a juror's power to acquit despite the law, and why mentioning it can get you struck from jury selection.
Errol Morris interviews mob lawyer Murray Richman - 1/3
Part one of Errol Morris's First Person interview with Murray Richman, a New York lawyer who defends mob figures.
Glitter Bomb 1.0 vs Porch Pirates
Mark Rober builds a glitter-bomb booby-trapped package to take revenge on porch pirates, filming the thieves' reactions.
SHIPBREAKERS | Would you risk your life dismantling the world’s largest ships just to survive? | NFB
An NFB documentary about the shipbreaking yards of Alang, India, where about 40,000 people dismantle huge ships by hand in dangerous conditions.
Miniatur Wunderland *** official video *** largest model railway / railroad of the world
The official tour video of Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, the world's largest model railway.
America's Nerve Gas Arsenal
A 1973 NBC News documentary on the US nerve gas arsenal, covering leaks in Okinawa, a Utah test that killed thousands of sheep, and the long-term hazards of storage sites.
Who Killed Captain Alex: Uganda's First Action Movie (English Subtitles & Video Joker) - Wakaliwood
Who Killed Captain Alex is Uganda's first action movie, made for under $200 by Nabwana IGG in Wakaliga.
The Secrets Of Cornwall - Part 1 - Communications
A documentary on how Cornwall became a hub for the world's communications, from the first transatlantic radio signal to modern undersea fibre cables.
Black Wednesday (BBC 1997)
A 1997 BBC documentary on Black Wednesday in 1992, when sterling was forced out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism.
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence (2017)
A BBC documentary on Francis Bacon, the loud, hard-drinking British painter, drawing on people who knew him.
The KGB, the Computer, and Me.
A WGBH/NOVA re-enactment of Clifford Stoll's hunt for KGB-linked hacker Markus Hess, based on his book The Cuckoo's Egg.
How Music Works 1 - Melody - Part 1
The first part of a four-part Channel 4 (UK) documentary series presented by Howard Goodall, this episode covers melody and why tunes affect us so deeply.
The ascent of Alex Honnold
A CBS News (60 Minutes) profile of free solo climber Alex Honnold, who scales sheer rock faces without ropes.
Dan Deacon - Bromst - In The Studio
A Pitchfork TV documentary following Dan Deacon in Montana as he finishes his album Bromst.