I’m pretty open to all varieties as long as the narrators voice isn’t terrible.
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English9•8 months ago
PBS is pretty much constantly putting out high quality documentaries https://youtube.com/@frontline
I liked their videos on Uvalde, North Korea, and 20 Days in Mariupol
- chunkystyles ( @chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ) English8•8 months ago
Any of Dan Olson’s videos will fit the bill, probably.
Here’s two of his best, in my opinion.
- Mario_Dies.wav ( @LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 7•8 months ago
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.
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 3•8 months ago
I thought you said:
The BBC made and excellent documentary on pig butchering screams
I was like fuck 😳
- Mario_Dies.wav ( @LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•8 months ago
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
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 3•8 months ago
Oh that’s funny. I thought pig butchering scams involved, somehow, shenanigans around the business of literally butchering pigs. Geez
Ha! And I can still read it even after you deleted it. How embarrassing /s
- Mario_Dies.wav ( @LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•8 months ago
We mere mortals can never truly delete anything on Lemmy!
- LiveLM ( @LiveLM@lemmy.zip ) English6•8 months ago
Brian Deer’s 2004 documentary “MMR: What they didn’t tell you”
It’s an investigation on basically the father of Anti-vax sentiment/misinformation, uploaded to YouTube by Brian himself. - fr0g ( @fr0g@feddit.de ) 4•8 months ago
DW Documentary https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW39zufHfsuGgpLviKh297Q
This is perfect! I can’t wait. Do you have a favorite?
- fr0g ( @fr0g@feddit.de ) 3•8 months ago
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
- beSyl ( @beSyl@slrpnk.net ) 2•8 months ago
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 education, I suggest a book or a course. Now, for motivation and just “time wasters”, they are fine.
The one 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.
- ivanafterall ( @ivanafterall@kbin.social ) 2•8 months ago
But it’s not a “narrator” style documentary.
- makeasnek ( @makeasnek@lemmy.ml ) English2•8 months ago
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.
- SmokeInFog ( @SmokeInFog@midwest.social ) English2•8 months ago
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.
- Saigonauticon ( @Saigonauticon@voltage.vn ) English2•8 months ago
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.
- makeasnek ( @makeasnek@lemmy.ml ) English1•8 months ago
Citizenfour documentary on edward snowden. Great if you’re interested in or curious about privacy/spying/technology. Not great if you aren’t.
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 1•8 months ago
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.
- disheveledWallaby ( @disheveledWallaby@lemmy.ml ) 1•8 months ago
Everything from the chanel -> History Time. Pete Kelly is an awesome story teller and works really hard on making in depth historical documentaries, some three hours long.
- Cwilliams ( @Cwilliams@beehaw.org ) 1•8 months ago
Veratasium is cool, but they are a little bit more YouTuber-y than PBS
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 1•8 months ago