I’m pretty open to all varieties as long as the narrators voice isn’t terrible.
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q6Fzbgs_Lg
Aaron created RSS, and was an early developer of Reddit. A visionary of accessible information and information technology.
Since his death, the direction the internet has gone has been in ways that he would very much be taking issue with.
Any of Dan Olson’s videos will fit the bill, probably.
Here’s two of his best, in my opinion.
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.Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
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Slavoj Žižek’s documentaries “The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology” and “The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema”
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Sut Jhally’s documentaries “Dreamworlds II” and “Dreamworlds III”
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“Our Consumer Society” and “How The Internet Was Stolen” by Then & Now on YouTube
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Noam Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent”
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Michael Parenti’s lecture “The Darker Myths of Empire: Heart of Darkness Series” on YouTube
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Adam Curtis documentary “Century Of The Self” (4 hours length)
Please don’t recommend people zizek, that guy’s a total cryptofash.
His documentaries from the past are valuable and have no issues. I consider him fine upto the Zizek-Peterson debate. With the Ukraine conflict he picked the wrong side, and I do not like him from that point onwards. Funnily, I was one of the first persons on grad who pointed it out for discussion.
I consider him fine upto the Zizek-Peterson debate
That’s when you noticed the guy was fucked up. He’s been spouting shit long before you noticed that “oh this guy actually sucks” It would be like if you said “oh no Vaush used to be good until he started NATO simping” my brother he was always a pedo-nazi you just didn’t see it.
It was just not me though. Plenty socialists have liked his old documentaries. And they are a good way to convey ideas. Infact, Bayarea on r/sino praised his work and said Zizek’s works were one of the things that sparked his brain, arguably the best socialist tuber we ever had. And Bayarea’s recommendation was what led me to check Zizek’s works.
I don’t know what to say. Good for you that you got something positive out of it, but who knows what kind of damage they’ve done as well.
I recommend you check Bayarea’s archived videos, many of them are on Hopper Marxist on YouTube, to know his level. Bayarea and Hakim were more or less equal, Bayarea a bit more popular and based (dunked on BadEmpanada and Vaush a lot), until he was doxxed last year and went private.
Uh oh, what did badempanada do…?
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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
The Century of the Self, a multi-part series on the Genesis of contemporary US Public Relations and propaganda, politics and the godfather of it all, Edward Bernays.
Watched it once 20 years ago and still think of it in reference to many broken business, government and political approaches.
Link to part 1 below from bot.
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Radiohead - Meeting People is Easy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhblCCLXh3g
The World’s End: The Making Of ‘Day Of The Dead’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKTl51U8HVk
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.
I thought you said:
The BBC made and excellent documentary on pig butchering screams
I was like fuck 😳
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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
Oh that’s funny. I thought pig butchering scams involved, somehow, shenanigans around the business of literally butchering pigs. Geez
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.
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.
Good bot
DW Documentary https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW39zufHfsuGgpLviKh297Q
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.
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.
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.
