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.
Internet of food: Arduino-based, urban aquaponics in Oakland
A short documentary about Eric Maundu's Arduino-controlled aquaponics setup in West Oakland, where contaminated soil rules out ordinary farming.
Fred Dibnah How to climb a chimney overhang at 50+
Footage of British steeplejack Fred Dibnah climbing a chimney overhang at over fifty years old, without a harness.
Four Horsemen - Feature Documentary - Official Version
An independent feature documentary in which 23 economists, advisers and financiers discuss how the financial system works and what a more just economic model might look like.
Major Brian Shul, USAF (Ret.) SR-71 Blackbird 'Speed Check'
Retired Major Brian Shul tells the story of a ground speed check with LA Center while flying the SR-71 Blackbird.
It's Quieter in the Twilight | Trailer | SF48
Trailer for the documentary It's Quieter in the Twilight, shown at the Boston SciFi Film Festival.
Fred Dibnah laddering a chimney (Part 1)
Fred Dibnah, the English steeplejack, shows how ladders are fixed up the outside of a tall brick mill chimney.
Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly
A Motherboard documentary episode from Nebraska about farmers and mechanics fighting manufacturers like John Deere over access to the diagnostic software needed to repair modern tractors.
Part One: The Evergreen Equity Council
The first of three short films by Mike Nayna about Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying's experience at Evergreen State College, focusing on the Equity Council and the controversy around it.
Regreening the desert with John D. Liu | VPRO Documentary | 2012
A VPRO documentary following ecologist and cameraman John D.
Secret Billionaire: The Chuck Feeney Story
An RTE documentary on Chuck Feeney, the Atlantic Philanthropies founder who secretly gave away his fortune.
Inside Job (2010 Full Documentary Movie)
The full 2010 documentary Inside Job, directed by Charles Ferguson, examines the causes of the 2008 global financial crisis.
The Engines That Came In From The Cold - And how The NK-33/RD-180 Came To The USA
A Channel 4 Equinox documentary on the NK-33 engines built for the Soviet N1 moon rocket and how they ended up in the USA.
The Dolphin House
Atrocity Guide covers the 1965 dolphin experiments of Dr.
Ben Marking's Fake BBC Nuclear Attack Broadcast (Full Resolution, Uncut, Unedited)
A 56-minute fake BBC nuclear attack news broadcast originally made by Ben Marking, re-uploaded in full resolution.
Who's faster around London: a taxi driver or a GPS?
Tom Scott races a London black-cab driver who has memorized The Knowledge against a phone GPS across the city, comparing local expertise to navigation software.
How to Become TripAdvisor’s #1 Fake Restaurant
VICE's Oobah Butler spends eight months using fake reviews to push a nonexistent restaurant, The Shed at Dulwich, to number one on TripAdvisor in London.
Everything Is A Remix (Full Film)
Kirby Ferguson's film argues that creativity is built from copying, transforming and combining existing works, examining music, film and technology.
Quants | The Alchemists of Wall Street | VPRO documentary
A VPRO documentary on quantitative analysts who designed the mathematical models and high-speed trading systems behind modern finance.
The man who faked human cloning
BobbyBroccoli's first of two long documentaries about Hwang Woo-suk, the South Korean scientist who faked human cloning results.
GOG: Preserving Gaming's Past & Future
A /noclip documentary on GOG, covering how it finds and re-releases classic games and pushes DRM-free releases.
Rockafire Explosion Documentary
A 2008 documentary by Brett Whitcomb about the Rock-afire Explosion, the animatronic band built for ShowBiz Pizza Place restaurants.
[4k, 60 fps] A Trip Through New York City in 1911
Footage shot in New York City in 1911 by a Swedish film company, upscaled to 4K and 60 fps with neural networks and optionally colorized.
The Man With The Seven Second Memory
A documentary on Clive Wearing, a renowned musician whose brain was damaged by a virus in 1985, leaving him with a memory spanning only about seven seconds.
Final Warning Limits to Growth
A documentary on the 1972 Club of Rome study Limits to Growth, which questioned the pursuit of endless economic growth.