'Round Cape Horn. Its on YouTube. Guy goes aboard the last sailing ships that still sail with cargo. 6 month voyage from Germany to Australia with no rest and he manages to film a storm so bad most captains assumed the footage was rescued from the wreckage of the ship.
Oh and it's filmed in the 1930's so the equipment must have been cumbersome. It's a fantastic piece of history
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From Marks and Spencer to Marx and Engels (1988) + From Us to Me (2016)
about the lives of East German people, interviewed before and after the GDR was annexed
My Brothers and Sisters in the North (2016)
about a South Korean woman visiting the DPRK for the first time
The Gruelling Life of a Victorian Baker (2016)
about modern bakers experiencing, through historical reenactment and recreation of methods, the harsh working conditions of victorian era bakers
Fantastic Fungi (2019)
about mushrooms and fungi
The Six (2020)
about an investigation into the stories of six Chinese passengers that survived the sinking of the titanic
The Rescue (2021)
about the rescue of twelve Thai children and their mentor after they became trapped in a cave called Tham Luang Nang Non
Someone Lives Here (2023)
about a carpenter trying to build small shelters for homeless people while facing retaliation from the city government
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My octopus teacher
Bowling for Columbine
Nuit et brouillard
The Act of Killing and its Sequel The Look of Silence
Still haven't worked myself up enough to watch these. 
My Brothers and Sisters in the North. South Korean woman uses her Germany passport to visit North Korea. Visits various places around the DPRK and is really an informative look at the different lifestyles of the country. From 2016, so it's a bit dated now, but still well worth the watch.
Aim High in Creation. An Australian director makes a movie within a movie fighting against coal seam gas in her hometown by visiting the DPRK and consulting with DPRK actors and directors on how to create a revolutionary propaganda film.
I very, very much recommend this one; the Director is kind of a lib and downright disrespectful to the DPRK folks at times but she gets access to people outside the authorized touristy areas that you'll recognize from Brothers and Sisters in the North and other DPRK related vids like The Haircut. It really humanizes the North Korean people and they basically shoot the shit with her.
Somebody uploaded the whole thing on tankie.tube!
Ooh, they've got a bunch of other good vids too.
https://tankie.tube/c/praaaaaxis/videos?s=1
Lucio (2007) - before Andor, there was Lucio. Bank Robber, Forger, Anarchist, Brick Layer. Lucio Urtibia was a significant source of funding for Leftist movements across the globe through the 60's and 70's thanks to a forgery operation he ran. Even when he finally got caught, Citibank was forced to negotiate with him. You wanna know how we're gonna fund a revolution? Watch this.
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Think about hypernormalisation quite often
Incendio (1974) A short film about a skyscraper fire in South America, does a great job of explaining what went on. It really captures the toxic shag carpet and fake wood veneer ghastly aesthetic of the 70s. It starts off bad and gets worse. Pure horror. Found it when I was gong through my disasters phase. The soundtrack is disturbing and the deadpan narration really hammers home just how awful it was back then. https://youtu.be/q6oC_QX3-G4
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This counts as a documentary https://youtu.be/1ZgxeX2dCnQ Dashcon, the Tumblr convention by Internet Historian. Come on, you know you want to watch it again.
i'd rather watch a breakdown of dashcon from someone who isn't cryptofash
like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqy-KDJAUM
Yeah isn’t he a nazi
No. Fuck Internet Historian. His nazi/edgelord views bleed out too much in his content and he steals his content.
There's literally no reason to watch internet historian when he's not only a nazi as others have mentioned, but a huge plagiarist. Especially since Strange Aeons has made a much better video on the topic which has also already been linked by another commenter.
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