r/Documentaries Jan 08 '20

Travel/Places Rick Steves' Iran(2014) - In light of recent events, this is a great travel documentary to have an insight on Iranian culture and religion

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9.7k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Sep 23 '16

Travel/Places The real castaway (2001) 18 year old boy decides to live on an island with his girlfriend. doesnt go as planned

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11.6k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Aug 29 '19

Travel/Places Ron's Life in Japan (1980) - A self made documentary about an American man living with his family in 1980's Japan

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8.6k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jun 16 '21

Travel/Places Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown - Berlin (2018) - An anomaly among German metropolises, Bourdain encounters an extremely accepting society teeming with unbridled creativity despite a grim history. [0:44:12]

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4.7k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jan 20 '22

Travel/Places Why Air Rage Cases Are Skyrocketing: In 2021, airlines were on track to record more cases of air rage than in the past 30 years combined. (2022) [00:13:35]

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2.2k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Dec 22 '20

Travel/Places I met a Hobo (2020) - Russian guy meets an American hobo by accident they both set on a trip through the USA by freight trains. [00:49:09]

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6.4k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Dec 17 '18

Travel/Places Visiting the coldest town in the world (2018) - In Oymiakon, a tiny village in Central Siberia - it's so cold your eyelashes freeze together and you're constantly on guard against frostbite. If it's warmer than minus 55 degrees Celsius, then it's a good day.

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r/Documentaries May 22 '18

Travel/Places I spent nearly 2 months shooting atop a moving train in The Mauritania railway - Backbone of the Sahara (2017) [12:24]

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9.2k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Aug 30 '17

Travel/Places Chernobyl: Two Days in the Exclusion Zone (2017) - Cloth Map's Drew spends a few days in one of the most irradiated—and misunderstood—places on Earth. [CC]

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9.2k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jun 18 '21

Travel/Places Flying My Drone From Cape Town to Cairo (2021) - Hitchhiking across the continent of Africa and documenting the journey via drone [00:08:44]

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3.1k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Apr 01 '21

Travel/Places Somalia: Most Dangerous Country for Tourists (2021) - Very intimate look into parts of the country never seen by tourists prod. by The People [01:07:08]

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2.1k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jan 01 '20

Travel/Places The Bridge (2006) NSFW

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2.0k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Apr 06 '15

Travel/Places The Most Insane Amusement Park Ever [13:54][Dailymotion](2013) - The story of an amusement park, Action Park, that had to be closed after two decades due to racking up countless injuries and six deaths.

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2.7k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Dec 18 '14

Travel/Places Secret State of North Korea (2014) smuggled footage of everyday life in NK.

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3.2k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Sep 01 '23

Travel/Places Why British cities make no sense (2023) [00:11:13]

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1.4k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jun 15 '19

Travel/Places How to Read More Books in the Golden Age of Content (2019) - inspiring mini-documentary on improving your book reading rate. Includes great choice of speakers and places.

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3.5k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Mar 07 '23

Travel/Places Modern ABANDONED Mall With Terrifying Sears (2022) - With our modern retail landscape rapidly changing, the malls of our past have been closing down at a shocking rate. Today we're looking inside a mall at a local scale. [00:14:53]

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1.0k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Feb 19 '23

Travel/Places How One of France's Oldest Butter Producers Makes 380 Tons Per Year (2022) [00:12:28]

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1.2k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jan 01 '17

Travel/Places TSA: The Myth of America's Airport Security (2016) - This documentary shows how badly the TSA is failing in their stated mission (53:23)

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1.9k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Sep 07 '15

Travel/Places How Dubai was Made : From Desert to Luxurious City in the World Documentary (2015)

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1.5k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Apr 19 '23

Travel/Places Africa's Cowboy Capitalists (2013) Inside a road trip to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, while dealing with bribe-happy officials and their nonsensical regulations [00:37:36]

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1.1k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Apr 07 '23

Travel/Places 156.4K Miles of Dying Towns | Abandoned (2023) - Canada’s east coast is scattered with dead and dying fishing towns. From kids on ATVs to angry caribou, Rick finds there's still plenty of life left in these remote communities. [00:43:55]

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1.0k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Jun 03 '21

Travel/Places Longhaul (2016) Documentary about Longhaul truck driving lifestyle. [01:25:24]

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1.1k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Apr 15 '21

Travel/Places My Deadly, Beautiful City (2017) - A look inside Russia's toxic northernmost city [00:11:08]

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1.8k Upvotes

r/Documentaries Sep 16 '16

Travel/Places Which Way Home (2009) - The film follows several children who are attempting to get from Mexico and Central America to the United States, on top of a train that crosses Mexico known as "La Bestia" (The Beast).

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1.3k Upvotes