PickVidsBest Media, journalism & propaganda Videos
The 334 Media, journalism & propaganda videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 2 intermediate, 330 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a commentary. What they share is that something that already happened gets one reading. Channels you will keep seeing include LastWeekTonight, Innuendo Studios, CNN.
In Search Of A Flat Earth
Dan Olson's 76-minute essay on flat earth belief, built around a hike to a lake to test earth's curvature.
The Century of the Self (Full Adam Curtis Documentary)
Adam Curtis' multi-part documentary on how Freud's ideas and Edward Bernays' public relations shaped consumer culture and political control.
The Loving Trap
A three-minute parody of Adam Curtis's documentary style, assembled from archive footage with his typical narration and leaps of logic.
The Century of the Self - Part 1: "Happiness Machines"
The first part of Adam Curtis' documentary series on Sigmund Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays, who invented public relations.
This Is What Winning Looks Like (Full Length)
Ben Anderson's VICE documentary shows embedded reporting on Afghan security forces and US Marines in Helmand during the troop drawdown, exposing incompetence, drug abuse and corruption.
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance
A feature-length documentary on how the City of London and Britain's overseas territories built a global web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions after the empire declined.
Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins
Dan Olson of Folding Ideas investigates the Mikkelsen Twins and the ghostwritten-audiobook passive-income course industry, even playing along with the scheme.
May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications
Seven-minute footage of Fred Rogers testifying before a US Senate subcommittee in 1969 to defend federal funding for the new Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Seattle is Dying | A KOMO News Documentary
A one-hour 2019 KOMO News documentary hosted by Eric Johnson on Seattle's homelessness and drug crisis, with interviews and looks at proposed solutions including a drug court program in Rhode Island.
Sinclair Broadcast Group: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner of US local TV stations, and how it injects political content and scripted must-run segments into local news.
Everything is a Remix (Original Series)
Kirby Ferguson's video essay series arguing that creativity is built on copying, transforming and combining existing work.
Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.
A People Make Games follow-up investigation into Roblox, built on stories from players and creators after the channel's first video.
Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
Dan Olson's roughly two-hour video essay critiques NFTs, cryptocurrency, and Web3, covering their technical, economic, and ideological flaws.
DEF CON 26 - Svea, Suggy, Till - Inside the Fake Science Factory
A DEF CON 26 talk by investigative journalists and hackers on the fake science industry, with bogus conferences and predatory journals that give studies false credibility.
Net Neutrality: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's 13-minute Last Week Tonight segment explains the 2014 net neutrality fight over cable companies creating unequal internet speeds.
HyperNormalisation 2016
Adam Curtis's 2016 BBC documentary HyperNormalisation, about 160 minutes long.
Civil Forfeiture: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on civil asset forfeiture, the process by which police can seize property they suspect is tied to crime.
Tobacco: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on how tobacco companies sustain profits by pushing sales overseas.
David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #122
Lex Fridman interviews Navy pilot David Fravor, a primary witness of the 2004 Tic Tac UFO encounter, about the sighting, military aviation and aerospace engineering.
Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment explains how data brokers collect and sell personal information, including a stunt in which his team bought data to identify members of Congress.
FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
A documentary on the last day the New York Times was printed with linotype machines in 1978, following the process from the newsroom to the press.
The Great Global Warming Swindle Full Movie
A 2007 Channel 4 documentary by Martin Durkin arguing that human-caused global warming is overstated or a scam.
The Lottery: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on state lotteries.
Canceling | ContraPoints
A long video essay by Natalie Wynn of ContraPoints on cancel culture, drawing on her own experience of being pile-on targeted by other leftists.