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GeekyDad
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This guy has a great channel of very analytical reviews of various airplane incidents and disasters (and near disasters). He's a long-time (currently active) commercial pilot, and though I know nothing about and had no prior interest in aviation, I've been hooked on his videos for the past month or two. He came up in my recommended with a video regarding the Miracle on the Hudson landing (which inspired me to watch the movie Sully, which was a vacant, meaningless story compared to his analysis of the occurrence). Very good stuff, presenting tons of technical nerd stuff in a very interesting manner.
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Soltype
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This is the stuff I'm looking for, nice and dry.
Loved every second of this six-part series! From 2022.
More intense than many movies these days. From 2021
"Ahoy" makes THE best documentaries about video games! Just perfection
Never knew there was a doc on Polybius.
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GeekyDad
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My all-time favorite writer. I grew up gobbling his books like candy. Will definitely check this out.
Here is a great example. I'm watching it right now, actually.
Grildon Tundy
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Loved every second of this six-part series! From 2022.
More intense than many movies these days. From 2021
"Ahoy" makes THE best documentaries about video games! Just perfection
Do you know of any channels similar to Ahoy? Also curious why he went a whole year without a new video and then dropped the XCOM doc 3 weeks ago
clarky
Gold Member
Fun fact i used to live in Thailand and a few of my pals are in this (not the main crew but nearer the front of the caves on support). Probably would have got involved myself but I was offshore at the time. I was based on an Island call Koh Tao, big diving community and a lot of the gear used came from our dive shops. You can see one of my pals gets the whiskey out after the last man makes it.
Great film highly recommended.
thegame983
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Touching the Void
Capturing the Friedmans
West of Memphis
Are my favs
Capturing the Friedmans
West of Memphis
Are my favs
clarky
Gold Member
Think the OP was asking for new doc's
GladiusFrog
Member
All steak, no sizzle.
Despite the trailer, The Documentary is strictly archived footage from the BBC and subtitles. No voice narration, or soundtrack.
Best Documentary I've seen this year. you can find all 7 parts on the youtubes.
Despite the trailer, The Documentary is strictly archived footage from the BBC and subtitles. No voice narration, or soundtrack.
Best Documentary I've seen this year. you can find all 7 parts on the youtubes.
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone a Adam Curtis Documentary (2022)
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BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
The Nightmare (2015)
Take a deep dive into the chilling medical condition of sleep paralysis through the bedtime trials and tribulations of eight vastly different people.
kanjobazooie
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Ballthyrm
Member
Here is 3 about a great man.
I really liked Muhammad Ali by Ken Burns.
I had seen When We Were Kings which is also a great doc.
Another good one about him is The Trials of Muhammad Ali
I really liked Muhammad Ali by Ken Burns.
I had seen When We Were Kings which is also a great doc.
Another good one about him is The Trials of Muhammad Ali
BigDeadFreak
Member
Adam Curtis has done some great documentaries. I thought The Century of The Self was the best one but most of them are pretty good.
GeekyDad
Member
Was searching for a doc that focused on that (after having seen the movie 13 Lives). Thanks!
Baradox
Neo Member
Unfortunately not. There are many people on YouTube who make interesting documentaries, but none come close to the quality of Ahoy. The guy developed his own style and perfected it. But anyway you can check out these Youtubers:
- Gaming Historian
- Josh Strife Plays
- NeverKnowsBest
- Whitelight
- Noah Caldwell Gervais
- My Life in Gaming
- Mauler (long documentaries about movies)
- Oneshorteye (documentaries about speedrunning old adventure games)
- summonigsault (speedrun documentaries)
- Internethistorian.....just funny!!!
Hope you will find some entertainig videos
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Grildon Tundy
Member
Thanks man!Unfortunately not. There are many people on YouTube who make interesting documentaries, but none come close to the quality of Ahoy. The guy developed his own style and perfected it. But anyway you can check out these Youtubers:
- Gaming Historian
- Josh Strife Plays
- NeverKnowsBest
- Whitelight
- Noah Caldwell Gervais
- My Life in Gaming
- Mauler (long documentaries about movies)
- Oneshorteye (documentaries about speedrunning old adventure games)
- summonigsault (speedrun documentaries)
- Internethistorian.....just funny!!!
Hope you will find some entertainig videos
Ballthyrm
Member
Unfortunately not. There are many people on YouTube who make interesting documentaries, but none come close to the quality of Ahoy. The guy developed his own style and perfected it. But anyway you can check out these Youtubers:
- Gaming Historian
- Josh Strife Plays
- NeverKnowsBest
- Whitelight
- Noah Caldwell Gervais
- My Life in Gaming
- Mauler (long documentaries about movies)
- Oneshorteye (documentaries about speedrunning old adventure games)
- summonigsault (speedrun documentaries)
- Internethistorian.....just funny!!!
Hope you will find some entertainig videos
If you like documentary style youtubers, there is a few I would recommend.
These are more engineering oriented but the quality is really outstanding.
Putonahappyface
Member
I've been watching all three seasons of Vice's Dark Side of the Ring on All 4. This was one of the worst episode's.
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StreetsofBeige
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Not a new movie, but Free Solo is a great movie. If anyone hasnt seen it, it's a about a climber scaling a giant cliff with no gear. My hands were sweating watching this. The guy is batshit crazy (in a lteral sense since he's odd in personality and mannerisms), but insane at the skill and strength.
Mr1999
Gold Member
I remember one documentary not too long ago that I found fascinating. The documentary was about people who had traumatic brain injuries. They brought in these people with their families for tests to see if they would be able to communicate but not through conventional methods like speaking or sign language, they were unable to do any of this, so you would have a lot of families who thought their loved one was "not there".
Researchers would hook up probes to their head and ask them questions, for example, one of the questions was "Are you in pain?", they would then ask the person to think of playing tennis for a "NO" and something else for "YES", can't remember exactly what the questions were. Just seeing the parents reaction was great, they came into this thinking their kid was a vegetable only to walk out ecstatic knowing that he/she was lucid. Their reaction was that of someone who had won the lottery, it was very moving. Sadly not all had similar outcomes.
Never seen anything like it to be honest, believe the researchers were out of the UK, it was a UK documentary. If I can remember the name I'll let you know.
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Insane Metal
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I enjoyed Meltdown on Netflix (about that accident in a nuclear power plant in the US in the 70s.).