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.
Joshua Bell's 'Stop and Hear the Music' metro experiment | The Washington Post
Washington Post video of the experiment in which violinist Joshua Bell played incognito at a D.C.
David Foster Wallace unedited interview (2003)
The full unedited 2003 ZDF television interview with David Foster Wallace, running about an hour and a half.
Cessna 172 pilot with no training, no hours, only flight simulator experience. Takeoff and landing
A man with no flight instruction and only desktop flight simulator experience attempts to take off and land a Cessna 172, with a commercial airline instructor aboard who gives no help.
Plane Crash Boeing 727 - HD Crash Test
Footage of a crash test of a Boeing 727 deliberately crashed in the Mexican desert, shown from multiple angles inside and outside.
Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul (서울의 평양 시민들)
A documentary on North Korean defectors in Seoul and the South Korean intelligence service (NIS, formerly KCIA), including accusations of shady dealings.
Watch How This Blind Man Uses Echo Location To Ride a Bike
A short Inside Edition segment on Daniel Kish, a blind man who uses tongue clicks as human sonar to ride a bicycle through city traffic.
Cuba's Underground Gaming Network
Cloth Map documents Havana's SNET, a community-built private network that Cubans created because internet prices were high.
The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86
A short Atlantic documentary on Cleveland's 1986 Balloonfest, when 1.5 million balloons were released at once and the attempt went badly wrong.
旷野青春 | 隐形防线（英文字幕版）
A Chinese state-TV-produced documentary segment, with English subtitles, about virus sample collection in the field, including scientists collecting live bats.
The Disappearing American Dialect of North Carolina
A short Great Big Story piece on the Ocracoke Brogue, or Hoi Toider dialect, spoken on North Carolina's Outer Banks, which developed through centuries of isolation and traces back to the 1600s.