PickVidsBest Documentaries & storytelling Videos
The 202 Documentaries & storytelling videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 4 introductory, 0 intermediate, 198 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a documentary. What they share is that the people and the sequence of events are put back before anyone argues. Channels you will keep seeing include Tom Scott, Mark Rober, BobbyBroccoli.
I.O.U.S.A.: Byte-Sized - The 30 Minute Version
A 30-minute condensed version of the documentary I.O.U.S.A., which examines the growing US national debt and its consequences.
I can't ride a bike. How fast can Mike Boyd teach me?
Tom Scott, who never learned to ride a bike, gets lessons from Mike Boyd, a YouTuber known for learning skills quickly.
Why the World’s Best Mathematicians Are Hoarding Chalk
A short Great Big Story piece about Hagoromo, a Japanese chalk brand so prized that mathematicians stockpiled it, with some reportedly dealing it on the side.
Flash Mob Gone Wrong | Tom Scott | Ignite
Tom Scott's Ignite London talk about a flash mob that went very wrong.
Asking Hunter-Gatherers Life's Toughest Questions
A travel vlogger asks the leader of the Hadza hunter-gatherers in Tanzania some big life questions just before a baboon hunt.
Bike Thief 2012
Casey Neistat's social experiment in New York City where he tries to 'steal' his own bike with various tools, showing how little stops passers-by from helping.
How to Make a $1500 Sandwich in Only 6 Months
A man spends six months and $1500 making a chicken sandwich entirely from scratch: growing vegetables, making salt from seawater, milking a cow for cheese, grinding wheat, collecting honey and killing a chicken.
The Superhuman World of Wim Hof: The Iceman
A VICE documentary profiling Wim Hof, the Iceman, covering his feats of cold endurance, his breathing and meditation method, and scientific studies of his control over his autonomic and immune systems.
Glitterbomb Trap Catches Phone Scammer (who gets arrested)
Mark Rober sets up elaborate glitter-bomb traps to go after phone scammers, working his way up their chain of command, and ends with a scammer being arrested.
Doing Time Doing Vipassana - Full official version
A documentary about Vipassana meditation in India's Tihar Prison, led by Kiran Bedi, the prison's Inspector General.
Glitter Bomb 2.0 vs Porch Pirates
Mark Rober spends eleven months building and testing a glitter bomb package with GPS and cameras to get back at porch pirates who steal parcels.
No Béarla Series 1, Episode 1.
The first episode of the Irish TV series No Bearla, in which native Irish speaker Manchan Magan travels around Ireland trying to get by using only Irish.
Kia Boys Documentary (A Story of Teenage Car Theft)
A Milwaukee vlogger follows teenagers known as the Kia Boys who steal Kia and Hyundai cars after a security flaw went viral on social media.
Future Shock Documentary (1972)
The 1972 documentary based on Alvin Toffler's book Future Shock, narrated by Orson Welles.
[60 fps] A Trip Through Paris, France in late 1890s / Un voyage à travers Paris, 1890
Denis Shiryaev's neural-network-upscaled, colorized 60 fps version of film footage shot in Paris between 1896 and 1900.
Glitterbomb 3.0 vs. Porch Pirates
Mark Rober builds a third-generation glitter bomb trap and films it catching package thieves, with phone trackers and fart spray included.
The Truth Behind Calorie Labels
Casey Neistat's short New York Times op-doc investigating how accurate restaurant and packaged-food calorie labels really are.
People who remember every second of their life | 60 Minutes Australia
A 60 Minutes Australia segment on people with highly superior autobiographical memory, who can recall the details of any day of their lives.
The Most Dangerous Stretch of Water in the World: The Strid at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire
Tom Scott visits the Strid at Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire, a deceptively narrow stretch of river with dangerous currents.
Making an international standard cup of tea
Tom Scott follows the ISO 3103 / BS 6008 standard to make an international standard cup of tea, using specialist tasting equipment.
A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie
IBM's record-setting stop-motion film made by moving individual carbon monoxide molecules with a scanning tunneling microscope, illustrating atomic-scale memory research.
The city of golf carts
Tom Scott visits Peachtree City, Georgia, which has about a hundred miles of dedicated golf cart paths that serve as an alternative to driving.
Running out of Time | Documentary on Holistic Management
A 47-minute documentary on Allan Savory and how he used Holistic Management to restore degraded land in Zimbabwe.
15. The Nabataeans - The Last Days Of Petra
A two-hour episode of Fall of Civilizations on the Nabataeans, from humble desert traders to masters of Petra, and what finally brought down their empire.