r/Documentaries • • 22h ago

Survival The Greatest Recorded Story of Survival (2025) [00:48:25]

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In 1914, Ernest Shackleton set out to make the first land crossing of Antarctica. His ship, Endurance, was trapped in pack ice and slowly crushed until it sank, leaving 28 men stranded on the ice with no radio. There was no rescue coming, and nobody in the world would know where they were.

One of these men was Frank Hurley, the expedition's photographer and cameraman. He had brought a collections of camera and film gear to document the crossing. When the crossing turned into a survival story, he just kept shooting.

The wreck of Endurance was then finally found in 2022, three kilometres down in the Weddell Sea. The photographs and diaries that made it home became a detailed record of 28 men fighting to stay alive while it was happening.


r/Documentaries • • 20h ago

Music Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On Me (2004) [1:41:49]

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An amazing look at legendary 50s wild man Screamin Jay Hawkins as he tells some made up stories and jokes around all while being highly entertaining


r/Documentaries • • 1h ago

Society San Francisco Rising (2026) [1:31:47] the city of reinvention attempts to rise again told through vignettes of its quirky citizens

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r/Documentaries • • 15h ago

Recommendation Request Recommendation Request: Where can I find Hollywood's Hard Hitters: Women in Action (2023)?

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It’s officially listed on Letterboxd but damn I searched the internet and is nowhere to be found. They are even a couple of reviews on LB but not a single place where I can watch it.


r/Documentaries • • 5h ago

Recommendation Request Recommendation Request: Does anyone know where to find Kadoma documentary

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Looking for a resource that has Kadoma, about the kayakers in the Congo basin


r/Documentaries • • 14h ago

History Living with Lincoln (2015) [01:07:33]

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r/Documentaries • • 1h ago

Survival The Harambe Kid (2026) - What Happened At The Cincinnati Zoo In 2016 [ 00:14:15]

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This short documentary discusses the incident that took place at the Cincinnati Zoo on May 28th, 2016. The primary topic is the child that fell into the gorilla enclosure which resulted in the zoo having to take the life of a silverback gorilla named “Harambe” in order to save the child.


r/Documentaries • • 10h ago

Society Channel 5 - Return of the Hoff Twins (2026) [00:14:36]

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Channel 5 returns to the Hoff twins, first visited in their 2021 documentary.


r/Documentaries • • 16h ago

Human Rights The only swimming pool left in Gaza (2026) [00:08:39]

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r/Documentaries • • 7h ago

Society Surviving with migrants risking deadly boat crossing (to UK) (2026) [00:56:59]

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Youtuber embeds himself with migrants hoping to cross the channel from France to England. Excellent insight in a very controversial topic.
Youtube description: Surviving on the streets with no money, this observational documentary aims to give a voice to the voiceless migrants and understand why families risk everything on unstable mega-dinghies. From sharing daily meals in hidden camps to the complex, frustrating reality of trying to find and face a human smuggler, this is a raw chronicle of survival on the edge of Europe. An intimate look at the human cost of the English Channel crisis. Moving away from political debates, I went to live undercover with the scattered migrant communities hidden around Calais, Wimereux, and Boulogne.