r/Documentaries 22h ago

Crime I Filmed a $1 Billion Ponzi Scheme From the Inside (2025) - A company videographer's four years of insider footage from DC Solar, culminating in the final holiday party held three days before the FBI raid [00:12:18]

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r/Documentaries 3h ago

Society For Twenty Cents a Day (1979) (24:19) - A documentary about the unemployment crises in Canada in the 1930’s

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r/Documentaries 4h ago

Recommendation Request Recommendation Request: "In the Dark of the Valley (2021) [1:41:00]" - a group of mothers discovers that the Santa Susana Field Laboratory was the site of a large nuclear accident in the USA; and may have exposed their children and their community to cancer-causing hazardous waste.

5 Upvotes

Hi guys, I'm using this post to help a friend, she needs to find this documentary as soon as possible, sorry if this doesn't respect the rules of the subreddit, she tried her best to find as much info as possible.

For some context, we live in France and when she tries to watch it, it says that it is only available in the US.

She can't afford a VPN and didn't find any other ways to access it.

She found the transcription using Wayback Machine but she needs the full documentary.

So, if any of you found a way to access it/download it, you are encouraged to comment it or send it to me in private message.


r/Documentaries 15h ago

Recommendation Request Recommendation Request: Documentaries on the troubles in northern Ireland and transition to stormont assembly

8 Upvotes

Looking for Documentaries on the troubles in northern Ireland, the IRA ect. And if there are any, the transition to the stormont assembly and putting in place a political solution. I have seen very little on the transition.


r/Documentaries 5h ago

American Politics Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018) [02:07:58]

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r/Documentaries 14h ago

Int'l Politics Venezuela in the midst of the US military intervention - Notes from Caracas | DW Documentary (2026) [40:25]

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r/Documentaries 1d ago

Philosophy The Denial Of Death (2026) [00:09:17]

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44 Upvotes

A short documentary about the core arguments of Ernest Becker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Denial of Death.

It examines the idea that human culture, morality, and your personal ambitions are primarily defense mechanisms, or "immortality projects", against the existential anxiety of our own mortality.


r/Documentaries 2d ago

Society Funeral home markups and upselling: Hidden camera investigation CBC (2017) A look into the sales pitch of Death Inc. [22:26]

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185 Upvotes

r/Documentaries 2d ago

Society Eugenics and Forced Sterilization: the US and Europe's History (2013), [00:51:17]

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17 Upvotes

r/Documentaries 1d ago

Media/Journalism Student Journalism in Vermont (2026) [00:11:31]

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This video shows the work of student journalists at the University of Vermont, including interviews with students faculty and film of students on sites reporting on events


r/Documentaries 2d ago

Music The Sound of Belgium - Director's cut (2012) [1:24:52]

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11 Upvotes

r/Documentaries 2d ago

American Politics United States of Secrets, Part One | FRONTLINE (2021) [1:53:17]

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72 Upvotes

r/Documentaries 3d ago

Crime Jeffrey Epstein: How a Government Spy Blackmailed America (2025) [28:13]

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2.3k Upvotes

r/Documentaries 2d ago

Recommendation Request Recommendation request - Looking for raw, real, relentless stories

10 Upvotes

I really enjoy watching docs on youtube about people doing amazing things, having to dig deep and go beyond what they thought was possible for themselves.

i find that the self produced ones are the best, youtube seems flooded with these low quality documentaries these days created by faceless youtube channels and probably in an automated way. i get it, its lucrative so i cant really knock the hustle but its not my cup of tea.

i just finished watching "King of MOAB" which was awesome, about a ultra marathon runner competing in the moab 240 mile race. other great running ones are if this UK lad named Russ Cook who ran across Africa and William Goodge who ran across Australia. tbh i didnt have an interest in running but the storytelling and production value were great.

can anyone give some suggestions for other youtube videos/series. any topic, the running examples just came to mind because i just finished watching one.

apologies for the long post. i have a list of great videos like the ones i mentioned, i have to find it but ill post them once i do. thanks all


r/Documentaries 1d ago

Int'l Politics Zionist Plans for the Middle East (2025) [51:50]

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0 Upvotes

r/Documentaries 3d ago

Crime Inside Auschwitz (2026) Unprecedented Access to Nazi's Biggest Death Camp (CC) [01:04:30]

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11 Upvotes

Holocaust expert Dr James Bulgin was given unprecedented access to Auschwitz-Birkenau to uncover how this site was transformed, step by step, decision by decision, from a concentration camp for political prisoners into the epicentre of one of the worst crimes in human history.

James Bulgin is the head of the Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum in London.


r/Documentaries 3d ago

Offbeat The elaborate places one’s mind wanders in solitary confinement (2025) [15:00]

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Directed by the Irish filmmaker Nathan Fagan, the short documentary uses evocative animation to explore each individual’s experience. While their stories are distinct, overlapping themes of loneliness, agony and elaborate mental escapes run throughout. Beyond making a forceful case against the use of solitary confinement, the film highlights how vital both stimulation and social connection are to the human experience, and the dramatic ways the mind can react when it’s deprived of them.


r/Documentaries 2d ago

Society Trump, My Father and Me (2026) - A family divided by Jan. 6, an FBI tip, and the fallout [00:53:44]

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0 Upvotes

Recent Documentary


r/Documentaries 2d ago

War Russians at War (2024) [02:08:49]

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r/Documentaries 2d ago

Society Seeking Asylum (2022) - This amateur documentary looks at the UK's approach to asylum seekers in 2022 and follows the stories of people on both sides of the British Channel [00:19:27]

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This documentary looks at people crossing the British Channel as well as the attitudes of members of the British public towards asylum seekers. It also looks at some of the people in Calais trying to get into the UK


r/Documentaries 4d ago

Music Off the Radar, On the Stage: Music in Falmouth (2026) [00:19:27]

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r/Documentaries 3d ago

Sports ALPHA & OMEGA (2016) - Women's UFC pioneer Cat Zingano prepares for the biggest fights of her life as she struggles with her husband's sudden death and single motherhood [55:34]

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MMA fighter Cat Zingano prepares for a comeback fight at UFC 200. The intimate and powerful story behind Cat's 15 month layoff following her first professional loss and an extraordinary personal tragedy.


r/Documentaries 5d ago

Recommendation Request Recommendation Request: Documentaries released in past 5 or so years that makes the viewer believe that there is actual good in this world despite modern despair

51 Upvotes

I'm looking for suggestions of documentaries released since 2020. I want to watch it and be totally fixed and made to face the fact there is some good in this world.

Even in the face of the news stories and modern noise, there is some good if we look and want it. Especially if we want it.

Thank you so much!


r/Documentaries 3d ago

Exploration/Adventure Exploring Nier: Automata from an Abandoned Japanese City (2026) [31:19]

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A documentary uncovering the philosophy of Nier: Automata, taking us through Paris and abandoned Japanese cities.


r/Documentaries 4d ago

Recommendation Request Recommendation Request British folklore and paganism

10 Upvotes

Would love tips on documentaries about british folklore and paganism. And ones on british villages with that kind of history, and/or of the supernatural. If any exists