I’m pretty open to all varieties as long as the narrators voice isn’t terrible.
Try this, it’s great.
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The Volunteers. It’s an documentary about the war in syria. It’s brutal and heartbreaking.
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Slavoj Žižek’s documentaries “The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology” and “The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema”
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Sut Jhally’s documentaries “Dreamworlds II” and “Dreamworlds III”
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“Our Consumer Society” and “How The Internet Was Stolen” by Then & Now on YouTube
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Noam Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent”
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Michael Parenti’s lecture “The Darker Myths of Empire: Heart of Darkness Series” on YouTube
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Adam Curtis documentary “Century Of The Self” (4 hours length)
Please don’t recommend people zizek, that guy’s a total cryptofash.
His documentaries from the past are valuable and have no issues. I consider him fine upto the Zizek-Peterson debate. With the Ukraine conflict he picked the wrong side, and I do not like him from that point onwards. Funnily, I was one of the first persons on grad who pointed it out for discussion.
I consider him fine upto the Zizek-Peterson debate
That’s when you noticed the guy was fucked up. He’s been spouting shit long before you noticed that “oh this guy actually sucks” It would be like if you said “oh no Vaush used to be good until he started NATO simping” my brother he was always a pedo-nazi you just didn’t see it because he was saying shit you agreed with. How much you agree with someone is the single worst metric you can use for trustworthiness.
It was just not me though. Plenty socialists have liked his old documentaries. And they are a good way to convey ideas. Infact, Bayarea on r/sino praised his work and said Zizek’s works were one of the things that sparked his brain, arguably the best socialist tuber we ever had. And Bayarea’s recommendation was what led me to check Zizek’s works.
I don’t know what to say. Good for you that you got something positive out of it, but who knows what kind of damage they’ve done as well.
I recommend you check Bayarea’s archived videos, many of them are on Hopper Marxist on YouTube, to know his level. Bayarea and Hakim were more or less equal, Bayarea a bit more popular and based (dunked on BadEmpanada and Vaush a lot), until he was doxxed last year and went private.
Uh oh, what did badempanada do…?
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I am honestly very disappointed by documentaries in general. Rarely do I find them informative enough or not biased. They are generally made for the masses who know 0 (or even less than that?) about a subject.
If your goal is to education, I suggest a book or a course. Now, for motivation and just “time wasters”, they are fine.
The only documentary I watched and enjoyed was alphaGo. It was nice feeling the stress of the match and seeing how they handled it, the setups and whatnot.
DW Documentary https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW39zufHfsuGgpLviKh297Q
This is perfect! I can’t wait. Do you have a favorite?
Here are some that I enjoyed:
Mongolia: Rise and fall of an empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRipDEuuiyg
Betrayal and brainwashing: North Korea and the defector influencers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjeBPn03n_o
Unbridled greed and growth - Challenging global corporations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wip-HzeXBU
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I really liked “small brained american” travelling from Ireland to Japan (on a motorcycle). It starts slow and kind of boring in the UK but the later parts are so good. Less commentary, just showing life. He is visiting “dangerous” countries like Ukraine, Iraq and Myanmar, but focussing on the normal people’s everyday lifes, while being a “small brained american”.
The whole playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfY1ilUy0PimHk3jKFuX01G7tXlj0dGPf&si=5Obpko3wMZZKlJQS
This one is kinda like a documentary. The Marcus House channel spends most of its time documenting the latest developments in the design, construction, and testing of the SpaceX Starship.
It’s a really interesting show. To make it into a “single documentary” one could watch every episode. But that documentary would be super fucking long.
House talks about various little design problems and solutions. There’s sort of a spy briefing feel to it, in a subtle way, because SpaceX doesn’t share all the informaron about what’s going on, so he speculates about what certain observed things means. They’ve got drones and pod-mounted cameras watching the place in Texas where they’re building out the facility. The facility is really interesting too. They’re basically building a factory to mass produce the biggest rocket ever.
If you think Musk is a tech bro asshole narcissist baby I literally don’t care. Just go watch something else. Incidentally zero of the show is about Musk but you can’t mention anything even related to Elon Musk without a chorus of hate so can we please just skip it this time? It’s a cool show about engineering and construction.
You could have left out that last paragraph and nobody would have bat an eye.
The only videos that YouTube manages to convince me to watch are by clickspring. So satisfying to watch metal being machined, and much to learn too.
I LOVE this one
I love this one
PBS NOVA is great. That playlist has 20 documentaries on it about a range of topics, most just under an hour long, one that is just under two hours long.
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The BBC made an excellent documentary on pig butchering scams:
https://pi.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=bW4wYV0V-5s
I knew someone who was a victim of one of these scams from 2019 - 2023
Edit: Sorry, you specifically said youtube. Cringe Link O’Chest moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW4wYV0V-5s
And I also commented twice. Ugh, what a train wreck.
Ha! And I can still read it even after you deleted it. How embarrassing /s
We mere mortals can never truly delete anything on Lemmy!
I thought you said:
The BBC made and excellent documentary on pig butchering screams
I was like fuck 😳
Rest assured, there’s a documentary for that too…
You can watch Dominion on YouTube here
Lmao but fr I wish that scam had a different name, one that makes it a bit more apparent how the scam works. I get the idea of the hog being fattened and slaughtered, but that’s way too metaphorical imo
Oh that’s funny. I thought pig butchering scams involved, somehow, shenanigans around the business of literally butchering pigs. Geez
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q6Fzbgs_Lg
Aaron created RSS, and was an early developer of Reddit. A visionary of accessible information and information technology.
Since his death, the direction the internet has gone has been in ways that he would very much be taking issue with.
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Radiohead - Meeting People is Easy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhblCCLXh3g
The World’s End: The Making Of ‘Day Of The Dead’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKTl51U8HVk
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The Fog of War w robert mcnamara. A fascinating and honest telling of the vietnam war from one of its main architects. In it, the guy basically admins to committing war crimes. Not big on history/war documentaries, but this is one that really made an impact on me and changed the way I see the world. Not depressing or gory, at least I didn’t think it was.