TV Documentaries

[Caite-chan]

Do you watch any kind of documentaries? If so what kind do you tend to watch?

For me I tend to watch ones about WW2, or the decade ones and sometimes I'll watch animal and earth ones as well.

 

[Soaring Sid]

Oh, I do watch Documentaries occasionally. Most of the time it's about prehistoric life or spirituality, but once something about Quantum physics. I always miss those that are aired on Nat Geo, but I'd like to see some on that channel too.

 

[VisionofMilotic]

Yes, I usually watch documentaries to learn more about a subject that I am interested in like an art movement, another religion, a political situation etc. I watch biographies quite a bit, and don't mind a history program that takes me far back in time.

The documentaries I like the most are DisneyNature. While I watch documentaries mostly as helpful research for me, these docs are entertainment foremost! I get really excited when a new DisneyNature title is released. I love animals, and love to experience the wild through Disney's beautiful and lush photography and enjoy their expressive and witty narrators like Tina Fey and Meryl Streep. I also love going to see their movies because it goes to a good cause. A percentage of the proceeeds get donated to wildlife conservation efforts.

My favorite installments in the Disney Nature series are Monkey Kingdom and African Cats. I was looking forward to seeing Elephants this year in theaters, and sad that I missed out on it this Earth Day.

 

[gimmepie]

I watch a lot of documentaries. Primarily stuff about space, physics, animals and prehistory but sometimes I'll watch something about crime or ancient history or whatever else catches my interest. I don't really enjoy the modern history stuff though. I'm especially tired of ww2 documentaries because there's just so damn many that all say the same thing.

 

[Amore]

I'm one of those people whose Netflix queue is 50% documentaries yet they only watch them about twice a year 😆
The last one I watched was on the BBC, the Hubble anniversary one. Really cool to see all the pictures in 3-D (something I never realised about them), and the parts with the Space Shuttle crews fixing it were cool too.

 

[Loriania]

I like ancient history documentaries a lot. My favourite subject is ancient Egypt.

 

[pkmin3033]

I used to watch a lot of nature documentaries - I grew up watching The Natural World - but I've kinda stopped over recent years...it's not that I'm not interested any more, but I do feel like there is a lot of recycled footage in modern documentaries, and nobody will ever be able to beat Sir David Attenborough for narration. I owe my interest in nature to him, because he made a subject that sounded phenomenally dull coming from anyone else sound fascinating and exciting.

I also used to watch a lot of Time Team, back when that was a thing. It's *kind* of a documentary?

 

[headspace]

Don't watch a lot of documentaries but when I do it's usually a culture one or a conspiratorial/political documentary. Crime ones are fun to watch too sometimes because they usually string them out like a ride

 

[TheRose]

does the gaming historian on youtube count? the best one he did imo is the history of Tetris. a 1 hour masterpiece.
I'm waiting for the the final part of The Undertaker Last ride to be put on wwe network so i can watch the whole thing in one go.

 

[moon]

I'd say it counts ^^ Entertainment these days is a blur between TV, streaming and platforms like youtube.

I love any space documentary/theory show or animal/nature documentary. They're beautiful, interesting and thought provocative.

It can also be fun to watch shit like The Flat Earth; do it if haven't lol.

 

[Caite-chan]

It can also be fun to watch shit like The Flat Earth; do it if haven't lol.

Where did you watch it at? I might give it a go.

 

[moon]

Where did you watch it at? I might give it a go.

It was on Netflix :)

It's mostly ridiculing the community around flat earth youtube profiles, and their irrational relation to "science".

 

[PkmnTrainerElio]

Really been into "The UnXplained" with William Shatner, while they covered things I already know about (Centralia, Winchester House, Mothman, etc), they actually went into more detail about the subjects. Despite the fact it's a vastly different show, it reminds me of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (a horror anthology show from the 90s/Early 2000s, hosted by James Brolin and Jonathan Frakes).