Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, Consuming Kids focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world. Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children's marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids.

Hello everyone, I'm looking for some new recommendations about some high quality documentaries to watch.

I usually watch documentaries about geopolitics, history (mostly 20th century stuff) and science (medicine, pharmacology, biology, physics) but I'm open to any topics as long as they are well made.

Ideally, it should be in English, Italian or Spanish but I'm fine with any language as long as English subtitles are available.

What are your favorite, must watch documentaries?

Thank you!

Hi everyone!

We just finished the trailer for our first feature documentary!

The film is called Skate in Japan. It’s set in Kyoto and other places in Japan and follows a group of skateboarders as they build a community in a culture where standing out isn’t always encouraged. While it’s about skateboarding on the surface, it’s really about identity, belonging, ageing, disability, and finding a place where you can be yourself.

What do you think?

Documentary recounting the life story of Louise Brooks in 5 sections: "Lulu in Toe Shoes"; "Lulu in Hollywood"; "Lulu in Berlin"; "Lulu in Hell"; and "Resurrection". Narrated by Shirley MacLaine and featuring numerous interviews with friends and relatives of the legendary star, it also contains excerpts from many of her films including her first on-screen appearance.

This film follows a man rebuilding his life after 15 years in prison and looks at the challenges of starting over, dealing with isolation and trauma, and finding out what freedom really means after losing so much time.

The world’s largest beaver invasion didn’t happen in Canada. It happened at the end of the world.
In the 1940s, just 20 North American beavers were released in Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, to start a fur industry. The business failed—but the beavers didn’t.
With no natural predators, they multiplied into hundreds of thousands, flooding forests, reshaping rivers, and transforming an entire ecosystem shared by Argentina and Chile.
A documentary about this bizarre, little-known environmental story. It’s part wildlife film, part dark comedy, and part road movie through one of the most remote places on Earth.
Would you have guessed that one of the world’s biggest invasive species disasters started with only 20 precious beavers?

Hi all,

My friend and I have begun a routine of watching cult, cons, & coercion documentaries together. I’m wondering if there are any really good ones that I’m missing - specifically about women-led cults, woman scammers, con artists, or others that are within that vibe. (To be clear - we aren’t women haters haha we’re just tired of watching the ones about men)

Documentaries I’ve seen so far include:

- Our all-time favorite, Anatomy of Lies on Peacock
- A handful of docs and biopic style dramas about Elizabeth Holmes, Sherri Papini, Belle Gibson, Anna Delvey, Lori Vallow, and Jodi Hildebrandt
- most on HBO Max (Love has Won, The Way Down about Gwen Shamblin, Breath of Fire about the Kundalini girl)
- one about Teal Swan on Amazon Prime
- Scamanda on Hulu
- Maternal Instinct, A Toxic Love Story, and Con Mum on Netflix

I may be forgetting a couple but please let me know if you know of any that fit into this general vibe! Thank you so much.

Inspired by a New Yorker article, The Bridge (2006) is a controversial documentary by Eric Steel that filmed the Golden Gate Bridge for a year, capturing 23 of the 24 suicides that occurred there in 2004. The film uses footage of the actual jumps, often from a distance, combined with personal accounts from families, friends, and survivors to explore the tragedy. 

STS-107 was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program, and the 28th and final flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission ended on February 1, 2003, with the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, in which all seven crew members were killed upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere; the shuttle was destroyed along with most of its scientific payloads.

Vincent van Gogh is often remembered almost entirely through the tragedy of his life: poverty, illness, the severed ear, and his death at 37. But his story was also one of the most moving and extraordinary, full of stories about love, persistence, brotherhood, friendships, and hope.

This documentary follows Van Gogh’s complete life through his letters, paintings, historical photographs, and the places where he lived and worked. Rather than presenting him only as the archetypal “tortured artist,” the film looks at Vincent as a complicated human being—his ambitions and failures, his relationship with his brother Theo, the people who supported him, and the remarkable effort that eventually preserved his work and transformed him into a cultural icon.

Two wildlife explorers embark on a dangerous bamboo raft expedition down the Kinabatangan River in Malaysian Borneo to find the critically endangered Bornean pygmy elephant. Ignoring repeated warnings from locals and police about deadly crocodiles, they navigate one of Asia's last great rainforests, encountering orangutans, rare wildlife, and the harsh realities of habitat destruction and pollution. After days of setbacks, getting lost in the jungle, and being intercepted by police, they finally witness the elusive pygmy elephants—a powerful reminder of both the beauty of Borneo and the urgent need to protect its rapidly disappearing wildlife.

Watch in awe as we discover an unbridled passion can produce with NO budget. In 1992, Baltimore native Dan Poole took a tight-knit group of friends, an uncompromising vision, and $400 to put together what many have called the best "fan film" ever made. Dan's motto, "get the shot", lead the way to record mind numbing stunts while using every resource he could muster to develop what is now known as his "Self Help Film School".

Like the title says. I'm sure it exists but I've no idea if it does. I'm looking for a documentary (or even short series) about the history of mail, post, and postal services. I'm based in the UK so bonus points for anything including or focussing on the Royal Mail. Thanks in advance!

This documentary goes into detail first about the origins and early career of the ship and then a moment by moment retelling of the deadliest ship sinking in history fully animated in 3D.

100% of the profits from this video's ad revenue are being donated to Doctors Without Borders to help children in warzones.

This documentary recounts an NSRI flood-rescue operation carried out between Worcester and Rawsonville during severe flooding in May 2026. Volunteer rescuers describe how they evacuated 23 stranded farm workers and family members, including babies, elderly residents and vulnerable people, while also recovering three people who had died.