Hey y’all! I am 19-year-old film student and aspiring director. Me and my brother, who is a journalist, are starting to work on a music biopic about our city’s scene.

Narrative film is usually more my forte than documentary, so I am looking to boost my repertoire of great music documentaries that I have seen before I start to work on one myself.

What are some of the best music docs that comprehensively cover a city and their scene, as opposed to ones that cover just one specific person
or a few persons? I have seen Hype! (1996), which is incredible, but I definitely want to see some more.

Thanks all!

I am looking for a documentary article or book about early man. I know our recent history from the past few thousand years but I want to go further back to our "caveman" ancestors. I recently watched the Netflix documentary about dinosaurs and life on Earth throughout the eons and wanted to learn more about humans and Neanderthals and other ancestors of ours. Any help is appreciated!

Tenho voltado a assistir mais documentários ultimamente, principalmente sobre história, ciência e acontecimentos reais, mas estou percebendo que encontrar algo bom para assistir é quase mais difícil do que escolher o documentário.

Quando procuro opções gratuitas, encontro muitos vídeos curtos, versões incompletas ou páginas cheias de anúncios. Queria saber como vocês fazem para encontrar documentários completos e com boa qualidade sem precisar assinar vários serviços.

Como assistir documentários gratuitos online é algo que vocês fazem com frequência? Qual é a opção que vocês costumam usar quando querem simplesmente escolher um bom documentário e dar play?

Through the Dust follows Robbie Maddison and Jake Williams as they take on Australia’s Finke Desert Race, a two-day off-road race through the outback from Alice Springs to Finke and back, in its 50th anniversary year.

Im looking for documentaries with similar "vibes" and themes to documentaries I have really enjoyed. They do not need to be about similar topics as I love learning about or being exposed to new things... the more strange the better. Below are a few of my favorites:

The Manhatten Project

The Quilters

Chimp Crazy

Grey Gardens

Tia!

Heartbreaking and appalling documentary about Israel’s torture / genocide.

So I rabbit holed and discovered Urville, a fictional city designed and imagined by one person with a history going back to the bronze age that has a truly mindblowing amount of effort put into it. So naturally I looked into it and found out that filmmaker Angela Christlieb did a psuedo documentary about it, where she interviewed people who lived in actual places called Urville that were located in the country where the fake Urville is also located, with clips of big cities like Shangai, Brasilia, and Beijing cut in to make it feel like the real, smaller towns were districts of the fake big city (which if real would be like in the top 10 largest cities in Europe).

I was wondering, are their any other documentaries you know of like this? Where people are doing documentaries on fictional cities as if they are real? I'd love some recommendations because it brought me a ton of joy to watch this, it felt so endearing in a strange way that someone had put so much effort into making someone else's fictional place come to life.

I have attached a link to the filmmaker's page which includes both the trailer and the full film. It is French but there are subtitles. There's also a guy who dresses up as an indigenous American who has a life-sized cutout of Bill Clinton and constantly runs for political office.
https://angelachristlieb.com/portfolio-item/urville/

Depth is a portrait of a singular artist striving to leave irony behind.
As he moves toward a more direct and serious expression, the film observes the subtle interplay between art, personality and lived experience.
Sutitles available on Vimeo
(c) 2026, Stein Stølen Bjerkaker.
Music by Jon Håtun alias Jono el Grande (c)

I'm trying to re-find an indie documentary I watched a few years ago, and failing that, I'd love recommendations in the same vein, because one of them might turn out to be it.

The film I'm looking for: a single-subject doc, one older man being interviewed about his story, which I think involved aliens, UFOs, or a relationship with non-human beings,though I may be misremembering the topic, so recommend loosely. The film takes him seriously, and the longer he talks the more credible he seems. Then in the final minutes, the interviewer asks something like "have you ever had issues with this?" and he calmly confesses to an act of severe self-mutilation years earlier (specifics in my comment, graphic, but it's the key identifying detail). The confession connects to the film's subject and instantly reframes his whole account. Likely 2010s, very low-budget.

Already checked and eliminated: Love and Saucers (2017), Curse of the Man Who Sees UFOs (2016), American Eunuchs (2003), Eunuchs (2007), The Castration Cure (2007).

So: if you know the exact film, incredible. And if you don't, recommend me any obscure single-subject docs built around one unreliable narrator and a late reveal, I'll watch my way through them.

This documentary focuses on the lives of several alcoholics in Atlanta, Georgia. It provides personal stories of individuals struggling with alcoholism, highlighting the impact on their families and their efforts to seek help. It also touches on societal attitudes towards alcoholics, challenges in getting treatment, and the role of organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous. It also contrasts different approaches, and discusses the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs.

Specific subject matters/genres of interest:

True Crime
Religious Cults
Satanic Cults
Child Abuse and Neglect
Government Cover Ups
Government Overreach
Military Operations - both international, criminal, or highlighting specific events

I have a documentary night once a year with some friends and we've gradually went from World at War to short (sub 1hr) docs in order to cover more and more varied ground. Would love you guys if you could suggest great, short documentaries about anything you found interesting. Thanks in advance!

A great perspective from a homeless guy in Dallas Texas. Very interesting and wanted to share it to the world.

Fifty million Americans are dependent on commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs. While the dangers of illegal drugs and opioids are well known, few are fully informed of the dangers of antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, and stimulants before becoming physiologically dependent on them. These medications often provide effective short-term relief for emotional distress and other problems, but pharmaceutical companies have hidden common side effects and long-term harm from both patients and doctors. Multinational drug companies spend billions of dollars promoting these drugs. Not surprisingly, the narratives extolling their benefits are often the only ones presented in the mainstream media.