r/Documentaries Mar 12 '23

Society Renters In America Are Running Out Of Options (2022) - How capitalism is ruining your life: More and more Americans are ending up homeless because predatory corporations are buying up trailer parks and then maximizing their profit by raising the lot rent dramatically. [00:24:57]

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4.5k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Mar 10 '23

Society Working to Death in South Korea as a delivery driver (2022) - Drivers spend 8 hours of UNPAID time just to load their trucks before starting their actual 8-12 hour work day. [00:29:42]

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6.8k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jun 11 '21

Society Sad Case of Karen Garner (2021) Police Officers are Laughing watching The Tragic Arrest of Mrs. Karen Garner [00:17:22]

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10.2k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Nov 27 '19

Society Poverty in the USA - How the poor people survive (2019) - "Poverty is rampant in the richest country in the world. Over 40 million people in the United States live below the poverty line, twice as many as it was fifty years ago. It can happen very quickly."

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17.4k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Oct 15 '23

Society 5 Broken Cameras (2011) A Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army via recording it all on video. [01:34:00] NSFW

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3.0k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Apr 08 '23

Society We Uncovered the Corporations Bringing Back Child Labor in America (2023) [00:08:37]

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5.5k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jul 14 '19

Society Inside The Secret World of Incels (2019) - "The team behind a new BBC Three documentary, Inside The Secret World Of Incels, managed to convince three self-described incels to share their stories on camera."

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16.7k Upvotes

r/Documentaries May 07 '20

Society Britain's Sex Gangs (2016) - Thousands of children are potentially being sexually exploited by street grooming gangs. Journalist Tazeen Ahmad investigates street grooming and hears from victims and their parents, whose lives have been torn apart.

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9.9k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Dec 26 '20

Society The White Slums Of South Africa (2014) - Whites living in poverty South Africa [00:49:57]

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7.2k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Feb 09 '22

Society The suburbs are bleeing america dry (2022) - a look into restrictive zoning laws and city planning [20:59:00]

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5.5k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jul 16 '19

Society Kidless (2019): The Childfree by choice explain why parenthood and having children is not for everyone. 26 minutes

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10.7k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Aug 07 '20

Society Chinese Hunters of Texas (2020) - Donald Chen immigrated from Hubei, China, to Texas to pursue his American Dream: to own a gun. [00:07:06]

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8.1k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Mar 30 '23

Society The Killing of America (1982) - In 1981 Japan, England and West Germany with a combined population equal to the U.S. there was 6000 murders; in the USA alone there were 27,000. **Warning it contains many disturbing scenes** [01:35:09] NSFW

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2.7k Upvotes

r/Documentaries May 17 '19

Society What Really Happens After You Give Birth (2019) - New mothers reveal how unprepared they felt for the severity of postpartum physical changes. [12:08] NSFW

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9.9k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jun 28 '19

Society Child labor was widely practiced in US until a photographer showed the public what it looked like (2019)

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16.2k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Oct 06 '20

Society In Search Of A Flat Earth (2020) - best documentary I've seen explaining how Flat Earthers and Qanoners exist[1:16:16]

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8.3k Upvotes

r/Documentaries May 30 '20

Society The Dad Changing How Police Shootings Are Investigated (2018) - After police killed his son, a dad fights to get a law passed to stop them from investigating themselves.

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18.3k Upvotes

r/Documentaries May 22 '21

Society Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (2012) - In rural Kyrgyzstan men still marry their women the "old-fashioned way": by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife [00:34:23]

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5.2k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Mar 17 '21

Society The Plastic Problem (2019) - By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. It’s an environmental crisis that’s been in the making for nearly 70 years. Plastic pollution is now considered one of the largest environmental threats facing humans and animals globally [00:54:08]

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6.6k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Sep 05 '20

Society The Dad Changing How Police Shootings Are Investigated (2018) - Before Jacob Blake, police in Kenosha, WI shot and killed unarmed Michael Bell Jr. in his driveway. His father then spent years fighting to pass a law that prevented police from investigating themselves after killings. [00:12:02]

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8.5k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Dec 05 '22

Society Inside an Armed Bank Raid in Lebanon (2022) - The situation in Lebanon is so dire, that citizens are raiding banks with rifles & petrol bombs to demand their own savings. VICE News joins in in one of these operations. The footage is insane! It's like watching a movie. [00:23:04]

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4.1k Upvotes

r/Documentaries May 09 '19

Society Slaves of Dubai (2012). A documentary detailing the abysmal treatment and living conditions of migrant workers in Dubai

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9.3k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Nov 06 '17

Society How the Opioid Crisis Decimated the American Workforce - PBS Nweshour (2017)

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7.8k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jan 11 '18

Society The Corporation (2003) - A documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance. Having acquired the legal rights and protections of a person through the 14th amendment, the question arises: What kind of person is the corporation?

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9.8k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Aug 28 '18

Society The Choice is Ours (2016) The series shows an optimistic vision of the world if we apply science & technology for the benefit of all people and the environment. [1:37:20]

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10.0k Upvotes