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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.
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I really liked "small brained american" travelling from Ireland to Japan (on a motorcycle). It starts slow and kind of boring in the UK but the later parts are so good. Less commentary, just showing life. He is visiting "dangerous" countries like Ukraine, Iraq and Myanmar, but focussing on the normal people's everyday lifes, while being a "small brained american".
The whole playlist:
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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.
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
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.
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.
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
Veratasium is cool, but they are a little bit more YouTuber-y than PBS
The Volunteers. It's an documentary about the war in syria. It's brutal and heartbreaking.
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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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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.
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 π³
Rest assured, there's a documentary for that too...
You can watch Dominion on YouTube here
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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 thatβs funny. I thought pig butchering scams involved, somehow, shenanigans around the business of literally butchering pigs. Geez
Try this, it's great.
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Citizenfour documentary on edward snowden. Great if you're interested in or curious about privacy/spying/technology. Not great if you aren't.
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.