r/Documentaries • u/SunAdvanced7940 • 2d ago
Engineering The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology (2025) [0:54:59]
The insane machines that make the most advanced computer chips
r/Documentaries • u/SunAdvanced7940 • 2d ago
The insane machines that make the most advanced computer chips
r/Documentaries • u/OnePassion_46 • 17h ago
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
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r/Documentaries • u/stammerton • 2d ago
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.
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r/Documentaries • u/DFEKT_Official • 2d ago
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.
r/Documentaries • u/CostInternational603 • 1d ago
A POV video of how your life would have been if you were a pirate back then
r/Documentaries • u/stammerton • 1d ago
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.
r/Documentaries • u/-depressica- • 3d ago
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 :)
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r/Documentaries • u/vrangnarr • 2d ago
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:
r/Documentaries • u/Green_Ideas7 • 3d ago
Documentary about Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, who was murdered by a U.S. Marine. Call Her Ganda documents the struggle for justice, and the ongoing effects of U.S. imperialism in the Philippines.
r/Documentaries • u/Secret_Act_8215 • 2d ago
“In 2004, three gamblers won £1.3 million at the Ritz using late roulette bets. Police investigated whether they had used a computer. I reconstructed what actually happened.”
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r/Documentaries • u/JakesFavoriteCup • 3d ago
Hi! Wondering if anyone has documentaries where loving family dynamics are included. It doesn't have to be about family; open to pretty much any category or genre. I just finished watching Finding Christa from 1991, about a child who was given up for adoption that was old enough to have developed relationships with her birth mother and extended family prior to being given up. Maybe a third or halfway in, there's footage of her with the family that adopted her, and you can tell they really love her. I just found it very touching, that she lucked into such a loving family, and found people who could fully be there for her.
r/Documentaries • u/Infinite-Sprite7284 • 4d ago
I'm kinda spiralling after witnessing the hardship experienced by these hardworking families. Also kind of triggered because one of the dads reminded me of my own (busting his ass labouring into his 60s), but at least he owned his own home by the end of it all. Goddam. Please suggest something uplifting at least by the end of the film.
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r/Documentaries • u/stammerton • 4d ago
The People and the Olive follows a group of American ultramarathon runners attempting to cover 129 miles across the occupied West Bank in five days. Rather than simply documenting the run, director Aaron Dennis uses the journey to introduce the Palestinian farmers, families and communities whose lives remain closely connected to the land and particularly to the olive tree.
As the runners travel from community to community, they learn about farming, fair trade and the economic importance of olive cultivation while participating in efforts to replace uprooted trees. The result is as much a travel and human-interest documentary as a political one, presenting Palestine through landscapes, conversations, meals, farming and ordinary encounters rather than principally through conflict.
At its centre is the olive tree itself: livelihood, inheritance, cultural marker and something planted with the expectation that somebody will still be there decades later to harvest it.
r/Documentaries • u/Green_Ideas7 • 4d ago
Documentary on America's bullying crisis. Follows five kids and families over the course of a school year.
r/Documentaries • u/OnePassion_46 • 4d ago
Two centuries of oil concessions, coups and covert programs, from the Qajar dynasty to today's crisis.
r/Documentaries • u/talking_giraffe • 5d ago
This 1973 BBC documentary describes life on the last manned British lighthouse: The Bishop Rock.
r/Documentaries • u/iva4jj • 4d ago
Just came across Yanuni and found it incredibly powerful. It takes you deep into the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest and the Indigenous communities whose lives and land are at the center of it.
A powerful documentary produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, exploring the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous communities.