A Curated list of Awesome Documentaries

I remember myself as a child waiting every Sunday for the newspaper that my father would buy, which was accompanied by a DVD with a new documentary. I have a huge collection of those DVDs (Do you still remember those plastic disks with a small hole in the middle, that stored data?). Those documentaries were mostly about nature and history, but occasionally were also about science and engineering. I have always loved watching documentaries, because it’s a way to learn new things in a narrative way. It’s actual knowledge or facts encapsulated in a story.

Now that I am a bit older, my taste in documentary genres has changed (although I still enjoy some nature documentaries from time to time). After I recently watched the documentary “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley” from HBO (listed below) I decided to compile a list of various great documentaries (in my humble opinion) that I believe are worth watching.

Money and Economics

Documentaries about money, economics and some fraudulent business.

• Inequality for All
• Dirty Money
• The China Hustle
• Inside Job
• Betting On Zero

Technology

• Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
• Citizenfour
• Codebreaker
• The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms
• AlphaGo
• Machine Learning: Living in the Age of AI

Health, Food and Safety

• Rotten
• The Bleeding edge
• Food, Inc
• The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

Society

• The American Meme
• Samsara
• Human Flow
• Life in a day

Fashion Industry

• True Cost

Science

• The Farthest

Free documentaries

An official YouTube channel with free documentaries that I totally recommend you to check out is DW Documentary https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW39zufHfsuGgpLviKh297Q

I have also created an “awesome documentaries” list at GitHub here, which is based on the “awesome” GitHub trend (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome ) that I totally recommend you to check out, especially if your are working in a tech-related field.

Feel free to use the comments section to make a suggestion and/or contact me at karadalex {at} gmail {dot} com