I’m pretty open to all varieties as long as the narrators voice isn’t terrible.

    • Cap@lemm.eeOP
      3·
      11 months ago

      Ha! And I can still read it even after you deleted it. How embarrassing /s

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      3·
      11 months ago

      I thought you said:

      The BBC made and excellent documentary on pig butchering screams

      I was like fuck 😳

      • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        11 months ago

        Lmao but fr I wish that scam had a different name, one that makes it a bit more apparent how the scam works. I get the idea of the hog being fattened and slaughtered, but that’s way too metaphorical imo

        • intensely_human@lemm.ee
          3·
          11 months ago

          Oh that’s funny. I thought pig butchering scams involved, somehow, shenanigans around the business of literally butchering pigs. Geez

  • pdxfed@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 months ago

    The Century of the Self, a multi-part series on the Genesis of contemporary US Public Relations and propaganda, politics and the godfather of it all, Edward Bernays.

    Watched it once 20 years ago and still think of it in reference to many broken business, government and political approaches.

    Link to part 1 below from bot.

  • disheveledWallaby@lemmy.ml
    2·
    11 months ago

    Everything from the chanel -> History Time. Pete Kelly is an awesome story teller and works really hard on making in depth historical documentaries, some three hours long.

  • makeasnek@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Citizenfour documentary on edward snowden. Great if you’re interested in or curious about privacy/spying/technology. Not great if you aren’t.

  • aramus@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 months ago

    I really liked “small brained american” travelling from Ireland to Japan (on a motorcycle). It starts slow and kind of boring in the UK but the later parts are so good. Less commentary, just showing life. He is visiting “dangerous” countries like Ukraine, Iraq and Myanmar, but focussing on the normal people’s everyday lifes, while being a “small brained american”.

    The whole playlist:

    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfY1ilUy0PimHk3jKFuX01G7tXlj0dGPf&si=5Obpko3wMZZKlJQS

        • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          I consider him fine upto the Zizek-Peterson debate

          That’s when you noticed the guy was fucked up. He’s been spouting shit long before you noticed that “oh this guy actually sucks” It would be like if you said “oh no Vaush used to be good until he started NATO simping” my brother he was always a pedo-nazi you just didn’t see it because he was saying shit you agreed with. How much you agree with someone is the single worst metric you can use for trustworthiness.

  • makeasnek@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    The Fog of War w robert mcnamara. A fascinating and honest telling of the vietnam war from one of its main architects. In it, the guy basically admins to committing war crimes. Not big on history/war documentaries, but this is one that really made an impact on me and changed the way I see the world. Not depressing or gory, at least I didn’t think it was.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    15·
    11 months ago

    This one is kinda like a documentary. The Marcus House channel spends most of its time documenting the latest developments in the design, construction, and testing of the SpaceX Starship.

    It’s a really interesting show. To make it into a “single documentary” one could watch every episode. But that documentary would be super fucking long.

    House talks about various little design problems and solutions. There’s sort of a spy briefing feel to it, in a subtle way, because SpaceX doesn’t share all the informaron about what’s going on, so he speculates about what certain observed things means. They’ve got drones and pod-mounted cameras watching the place in Texas where they’re building out the facility. The facility is really interesting too. They’re basically building a factory to mass produce the biggest rocket ever.

    If you think Musk is a tech bro asshole narcissist baby I literally don’t care. Just go watch something else. Incidentally zero of the show is about Musk but you can’t mention anything even related to Elon Musk without a chorus of hate so can we please just skip it this time? It’s a cool show about engineering and construction.