I enjoy watching documentaries, and decided to start a thread here to share English-language documentaries that I watch. YouTube is full of great videos, but it is a dark labyrinth of videos waiting to be discovered.

Most of the English-language documentaries/interviews/lectures that I watch are related to (a) the origin and structure of the universe, (b) the origin of life on Earth, and (c) history, culture, or politics.

The following are most of last week's videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD1q8KQCXCE

This video is an archaeological perspective providing a brief history of Spanish colonization of the Maya and how linguists have decoded the Maya writing system.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoReJQ-rJYo

"Origins: Earth is Born" is about the atmospheric and chemical compositions of early Earth that gave rise to the origin of life on Earth. The narrator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson. See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z4gISBuDVU.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyK5SG9rwWI

A documentary on Albert Eistein's life and ideas, which led me to the next video...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd0y25j1FhA

"Traveling through Time" presents Einstein's theory of space time.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STr9NtF6fco

Conan O'Brien interviews a biographer of Richard Nixon. I didn't realize how strange and complicated Nixon was.

Edited 11/29/2015 04:47:59

Thank you... I thought I watched every documentary on this bloody marble.

cooooooooooooooooooooooooool i will enjoy with these, thank you
i hope you'll all be in church on sunday

Edited 11/29/2015 04:40:04

I like watching documentaries about crackpot conspiracies. I like the new insight on things. When you can think really crazy things like that in connected manners, it can really make you think and i like that. I of course don't believe 4/5 of it, but just the food for thought is great.

i don't know if these are on youtube, but it is must see material

Cosmos:a space time odyssey (niel degrassse tyson - 13 episode)

Brother in blood: the lions of sabi sand

The Unbelievers is also nice if you like Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss

It's not a Documentary persay but an nice five minute historical clip

https://youtu.be/IdR2Iktffaw

If you like documentaries, you'll probably like Adam Ruins Everything. It's a very good show.

Edited 11/30/2015 00:44:02

"Going Clear" was really good, all about Scientology. I think it's on HBO Go still if you have access to that