Recently found out about Toxic Puzzle, a doc about how a guy, searching through cultural medicines for cancer cures, switched to finding causes & help against ALS & how that search led to new information about cause of Alzheimers.

Cyano-bacteria is a terror!

Vital Medical information & forward movement not pursued by pharmaceuticals (cause they can't figure out how to market it).

https://youtu.be/4WXoopIH1_o

Really shows how the world took down China

Wild Wild Country

A bit overlong (typical for Netflix), but it has that irresistible "Surely this won't get any crazier" thing going for it. It's also a bit unique among cult documentaries in that the cult leader (technically second in command I think, but the de facto leader for a time) is interviewed and is remarkably candid about everything.

I enjoy documentaries where the footage comes from people who are shooting without a very good reason to be doing so. Top picks are likely:

• Exit Through the Gift Shop
• Grizzly Man

Very different reasons I liked these. And liked is maybe the wrong word for Grizzly Man.

Would love to suggestions of similar if anybody in this thread has favs.

I love docs about civil engineering, especially bridges and dams. Modern Marvels has a couple of good episodes on the subject, told/produced in that program's typical format, including the Golden Gate Bridge and The Hoover Dam.

But my favorite is a 1997 episode of Nova called Super Bridge ( https://thetvdb.com/series/nova/episodes/1357201 ). The footage is great, the narration is great (I think its Hal Holbrook!), the storytelling is great, and it showed a great deal of stuff I didn't know I would be fascinated by, while remaining down to earth.

I love the shows about Laurel Canyon.

When we left earth, a multi part history of the space program.

Return of the scorcher

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105248/

“this film discovers an evolving bicycling renaissance, exploring bike culture and lifestyles around the world with beautiful and inspiring scenes of bike use in China, The Netherlands, Denmark, and the U.S.”

The Fire Within Werner Herzog has a more well known volcano documentary but this one is better.
He uses footage filmed by a couple who died in a pyroclastic flow (imagine Herzog saying that!) in Japan. Essentially it’s Herzog watching them watching volcanoes.

If you're looking for a documentary combined with a horror, David Farrier's Tickled makes for a great watch.

Nuclear Nightmares, a documentary about our fear of radiation:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7pqwo8

A monument to one of the most rebel writers who ever walked amongst us.

https://youtu.be/KH45SaOujK4?feature=shared

• The Magic of Mushrooms
• The Power of the Placebo

First two that come to mind.

I finished watching Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV available on HBO Max. As the title suggests, it's about the experiences that child actors had when they were working for Nickelodeon in the late 90s and early 00s. I found it very interesting and informative. Beware, it's not just about child labor...I wish it was.

I feel I must give a trigger warning. ::: spoiler It interviews many child-actors that are now adults, and they discuss first-hand experiences with predatory groomers, abuse, and resulting impact on their lives. If you have children, this documentary may be extra difficult to watch since they interview parents of the victims as well. :::

The Social Dilemma

Ironic, I know.

When animals attack. A 90s shockumentary. Or more of a TV show? It only had like 4 eps.

Space Jam. I grew up with it even if didn't knew who Michael Jordan was, he had a interesting career.