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.
Walt Disney's E.P.C.O.T film (1966)
The 1966 film Walt Disney recorded weeks before his death, laying out his plans for the Florida Project and especially EPCOT, a planned city of the future.
BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino | Switzerland Tourism
The 1957 BBC Panorama April Fools' hoax report showing a Swiss family harvesting spaghetti from trees, republished by Switzerland Tourism.
UTOPIA | Omeleto
A short Australian dystopian film in which a man returns home to find citizens fining each other for infractions via a government app, with cameras everywhere.
HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis HD Full [2016] [Subs]
Adam Curtis's 2016 BBC documentary argues that since the 1970s governments, financiers and technologists have retreated into a simplified fake world.
The Sackler Family – A Secretive Billion Dollar Opioid Empire
A ColdFusion documentary on the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, tracing their role in the opioid crisis that has killed over 200,000 people.
Appalachian English
An excerpt from the documentary Mountain Talk on Appalachian English.
High School Debate at 350 wpm - Wired
A Wired short on competitive high school policy debate, where students speak at around 350 words per minute.
Last Witness to President Abraham Lincoln Assassination I've Got A Secret
A 1956 episode clip of the game show I've Got a Secret in which 95-year-old Samuel J.
Ice Age 1978 Leonard Nimoy
A 1978 documentary hosted by Leonard Nimoy about the coming ice age, reposted with a framing that contrasts it with today's climate science.
Shagged by a rare parrot | Last Chance To See - BBC
A clip from BBC's Last Chance to See in which Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine meet Sirocco, a kakapo, who famously tries to mate with Carwardine's head.
Horror Short Film “Slaughterbots” | ALTER
Slaughterbots, a short dystopian film in which swarms of small autonomous drones are programmed to kill targets matching a profile.
Cask Test - 1978
Archival 1978 Sandia footage testing shipping containers for spent nuclear fuel, including trucks ramming walls, a locomotive hitting a truck-borne cask and a rocket-propelled train crash, plus a fire test.
Horizon: Richard Feynman - No Ordinary Genius (full version)
The 1993 BBC Horizon documentary on Richard Feynman, using interviews with colleagues and Feynman's own storytelling.
HyperNormalisation explained by Adam Curtis
A 30-minute edit of a conversation between Adam Curtis and Russell Brand in which Curtis explains HyperNormalisation and his ideas on individualism, power and real change.
A Meditation On The Speed Limit
A three-minute student film from Campus MovieFest showing drivers in every lane holding exactly the speed limit on an Atlanta-area interstate and the traffic jam that results.
Interview With An 87 Year Old Farmer (1929)
Short archival film footage of an 87-year-old farmer interviewed in 1929, born in 1842, talking about life and change.
The Exploding Whale: An infamous moment in Oregon history creates a strangely beloved icon
A KATU News re-edit from remastered 4K footage of the 1970 Oregon incident in which officials blew up a beached whale and showered the beach with blubber.
Boston bomb scare suspects press conference about Hair.
Press conference footage in which the suspects in the 2007 Boston Mooninite bomb scare answer questions about 1960s and 1970s hairstyles.
This library has every book ever published.
Tom Scott visits the British Library, a UK legal deposit library that receives a copy of everything published, and discusses storing so much material, including the web archive.
How to steal a bike in NYC
A 2006 video showing a man openly cutting the lock and stealing a bike in New York City while passersby, including police, ignore him.
Sean Brock And Anthony Bourdain Eat At The Waffle House
A short clip from Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown in which he and chef Sean Brock end a long night of drinking at a Charleston Waffle House.
Bike Lanes by Casey Neistat
Casey Neistat's early viral short in which he gets ticketed for not using a bike lane in New York, then shows how often the lanes are blocked by cars and other obstacles.
Hunter S. Thompson meets a Hell's Angel, 1967 | CBC
A 1967 CBC clip in which Hunter S.
Young Elon Musk featured in documentary about millionaires (1999)
A short 1999 documentary clip about millionaires featuring a young Elon Musk, including footage of him taking delivery of an expensive car.