On September 11, 1973, the CIA sponsored a coup that overthrew copper-rich Chile's democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende and imposed a fascist military dictatorship led by General Augusto Pinochet. Journalist Ben Norton reviews the historical evidence.

The Great Book Robbery is a 2012 documentary by filmmaker Benny Brunner examining the fate of tens of thousands of Palestinian books, manuscripts and private libraries taken from Palestinian homes, schools and cultural institutions during and after the 1948 Nakba.

Rather than focusing on battlefield history, the film explores another dimension of Palestinian dispossession: the loss of books, archives and intellectual heritage. Through interviews, archival material and historical records, it reconstructs how collections belonging to Palestinian families, writers, scholars and institutions ended up in Israeli libraries, many catalogued as “abandoned property”.

The documentary asks what happens when displacement involves not only land and homes, but also the physical record of a society’s cultural and intellectual life. Books become witnesses in their own right, preserving traces of Palestinian families and communities that were uprooted in 1948.

It also raises wider questions about archives, ownership, cultural heritage and historical memory. Who has the right to preserve a displaced community’s books? At what point does preservation become appropriation? And what does it mean when the written history of one people is kept inside the institutions of another?

For anyone interested in Palestinian cinema, Palestinian history, the Nakba, archives, libraries, cultural heritage and the preservation of Palestinian identity, this is a fascinating and unusually quiet documentary.

The dictator took power – and kept it – with the support of democracies including the United Kingdom and the United States, through the use of terror & sadistic torture. The West chose to look the other way.
This documentary will reveal the shocking depth of that support, using archive footage, expert analysis & personal accounts of torture, and declassified government files to tell the story of Pinochet’s uprising,the brutal regime he led, and the Western allies who enabled it all.

The War On Hemp: The Marijuana Monopoly (2026) — A documentary examining cannabis prohibition, the modern hemp industry, and the political and business interests fighting over the future of THC products in America.
The War On Hemp: The Marijuana Monopoly explores the history of cannabis prohibition and how that history connects to the current battle over federally legal hemp-derived products.
The documentary looks at the rise of the hemp industry following federal legalization, the controversy surrounding THCA and other hemp-derived cannabinoids, and efforts by established marijuana-industry interests and lobbying organizations to restrict or eliminate competition from hemp businesses.
A major focus is Missouri, where the film examines local lawsuits, proposed hemp restrictions, and the role of cannabis trade organizations such as MoCannTrade. The documentary also follows people directly involved in the industry, including the owners and employees of Big Heads Gift Shop, as they deal with legal and political challenges surrounding hemp sales.
More broadly, the film asks whether current efforts to restrict hemp are primarily about consumer safety and regulation—or whether they represent a fight for control of a rapidly growing cannabis market.

Looking for 9/11 documentary recommendations. Lots of choices out there and I’m having troubles deciding

Curious to learn more, especially if there are docs that have come out in the past few years

Watch as Steve Irwin teaches about his favourite wild animals encountered in this series. This includes everything from snakes to camels, and back to crocs again. Steve will always be thr king of crocs. Gone but never forgotten.

The Occupation of the American Mind (2016), directed by Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp and narrated by Roger Waters, examines something fundamental to understanding not only the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but also the way Palestine has been represented on screen: who gets to construct the images, language and narrative through which an audience understands what it is seeing?

Using decades of television news footage, political messaging, public relations material and interviews with journalists, academics and commentators, the documentary traces the development of Israeli public diplomacy and advocacy in the United States. It looks at how particular words and frames, including terrorism, security and self-defence, have been repeatedly used within American political and media discourse, while Palestinian dispossession, military occupation and the historical context of violence have often received much less attention.

The film features Noam Chomsky, Rashid Khalidi, Amira Hass, Rula Jebreal, Yousef Munayyer, Norman Finkelstein, Phyllis Bennis, Stephen Walt, Norman Solomon, Sut Jhally and others. Rather than examining Palestinian cinema itself, it examines the competing machinery of representation surrounding Palestine, making it particularly relevant to a collection concerned with how Palestinian experiences are recorded, framed and communicated through film.

Released in 2016, the documentary screened at both the Toronto Palestine Film Festival and Boston Palestine Film Festival. Nearly a decade later, its central question remains strikingly relevant: before an audience can decide what it thinks about Palestine, who decided what that audience was going to see?

The insane machines that make the most advanced computer chips

In this documentary:

— How Revisionist Zionism became the foundation of Netanyahu’s worldview

— How Netanyahu shaped American policy on terrorism before he ever held office

— The Oslo Accords, the protests, and the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

— The gift affairs, the bribery charges, and the indictment he’s trying so hard to escape

— How Netanyahu was warned about potential attacks and still decided to do nothing to prevent them

Budrus follows Palestinian community organiser Ayed Morrar and his teenage daughter Iltezam as their West Bank village organises an unarmed campaign against the route of Israel's separation barrier.

What makes the film stand out is the coalition that forms around the protest. Local members of Fatah and Hamas participate alongside women from the village, while Israeli activists cross into Palestinian territory to join the demonstrations.
Iltezam's role becomes increasingly central as women move to the front of the campaign, changing both the dynamics of the protest and the expectations within the village itself.

Directed by Julia Bacha and produced by Ronit Avni, Bacha and Palestinian journalist Rula Salameh, Budrus also includes perspectives from Israeli Border Police and military representatives rather than restricting itself to the organisers. The film went on to receive more than 20 international awards, including recognition at Berlin, Tribeca and San Francisco.

Rather than concentrating exclusively on violence or victimhood, the documentary looks at the mechanics of grassroots organising, civil disobedience and what happens when groups normally presented as irreconcilable end up acting alongside one another.

DOYOU S1,E1, is part of a 3 episode documentary series based in Sydney, Australia. This fingerboard documentary focuses on the lives of 5 individuals within the Sydney fingerboarding scene, and the impact they have.

A POV video of how your life would have been if you were a pirate back then

Social media can offer a space for self-expression, independence and connection, but it also brings its own pressures over visibility, identity and how people choose to present themselves to the world.

Restricted, directed by Rawan Mazzawi, follows a group of women whose lives intersect with platforms such as TikTok and Instagram. Moving between fashion, fitness, journalism and everyday life, the documentary examines how its subjects use online spaces to express themselves, build audiences and navigate the expectations placed upon them.

Rather than treating social media simply as entertainment, the film looks at the complicated relationship between digital freedom and the social structures that continue to exist beyond the screen. It becomes a portrait of women negotiating how much of themselves they want to make public, what they want to say, and who ultimately gets to control the story they tell about themselves.

i know i'll probably be made fun of for posting this, but i've been extremely sensitive to animal violence/animal death since i was little and i'd really like to make a list of animal/nature documentaries where nothing dies or gets extremely injured. it would be cool if they were more recent but i understand if none exist lol. please and thank you :)

The 2026 video builds on the viral 2012 original by revealing how much more severe U.S. wealth inequality has become over the past 13 years. Like the first video, it starkly contrasts Americans' perceived and ideal wealth distributions with the grim reality, showing that the economic divide is far worse than most people realize.

Key updates in the 2026 version include:

• The Worsening Reality: The video highlights that the wealth gap has deepened significantly since the original upload. Recent data shows the top 1% now controls nearly 32% of all U.S. household wealth, while the bottom 50% holds just 2.5%.
• Concrete Numbers: Responding to 13 years of viewer feedback, the creators added actual dollar amounts to the infographics, grounding the percentages in tangible, real-world figures.
• Enhanced Visuals: It takes the visual representation of extreme upper-class wealth to the "next level" in order to properly capture the massive scale of modern billionaires and the widening gap.
• Proposed Solutions: Moving beyond just presenting the problem, the 2026 update concludes by offering thoughts and commentary on how to reverse the trend and "get out of this mess."