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Category: Drugs
Heroin Addiction Documentary 2001. Directed by Leo Regan and originally televised in 2001, 'Cold Turkey' tells the story of Lanre Fehintola a photojournalist who experimented with heroin whilst working on a book [...]
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Category: Science
Hard as it is to swallow, cutting-edge theories are suggesting that our universe may not be the only universe. Instead, it may be just one of an infinite number of universes that make up the "multiverse." In this [...]
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Category: Religion
Hare Krishna Religous Cult Documentary. The Krishna Calling: 1980 British television, documenting the lives of the devotees who had joined the ISKCON Soho Street Hare Krishna temple. Includes a detailed look at [...]
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Category: History
In 2013 London Underground is 150 years old. The world's first underground railway is spending its anniversary year celebrating its own history. They're sending a steam train back underground, and there's a Royal [...]
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Category: History
This beautifully crafted film is an in-depth look at the witch-hunts that swept through Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to massive torture and burnings at the stake, and [...]
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Category: Mystery
Documentary on ESP - extrasensory perception. This phenomena is an unexplained mystery in science. Paranormal and supernatural parapsychology examines the limits of the human mind and the brain's capacity to know [...]
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Category: Health
A documentary that explores the practice of meditation and it's effect on the mind and body.Film Duration: 57 [...]
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Category: Biography
About the life of John Nash, mathematician. 2013 documentaryFilm Duration: 54 [...]
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Category: Religion
History Channel Documentary on how Christian, Islamic and Jewish mythology perceive the End of Times in which God will eventually defeat Satan.Film Duration: [...]
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Category: Technology
An industrial shredder is a machine used for reducing the size of all kinds of material. Industrial shredders come in many different variations and sizes. Some examples of materials that are commonly shredded [...]
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Category: Conspiracy
In this documentary the authors discuss the secret space program, what it is, who is behind it and why? Is there a human civilization living off-world with highly advanced technology and knowledge about the [...]
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Category: Mystery
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Category: Psychology
Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are both excellent sources of entertainment, but they also offer a complex and interesting dissection of a man who learned to use his own fear against criminals. Delve into the [...]
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Category: Health
In Dying To Have Known, filmmaker Steve Kroschel went on a 52-day journey to find evidence to the effectiveness of the Gerson Therapy - a long-suppressed natural cancer cure. His travels take him across [...]
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Category: Environment
Freedom Fuels, takes an in-depth look at renewable fuel sources, such as bio-diesel, ethanol and vegetable oil. It explores the interaction of the petroleum industry and alternative fuels over [...]
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Category: Environment
Poison Fire, a documentary exposing oil and gas abuses in Nigeria and featuring Friends of the Earth Nigeria volunteers, was launched with a world premiere at the prestigious International Documentary Film [...]
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Category: Society
Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, [...]
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Category: Crime
Depicts the entire life of Herman Mudgett, AKA Holmes, and his castle of horrors. Also known as the torture doctor, Holmes designed his own building, complete with torture chambers, where he [...]
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Category: Sexuality
My Penis And Everyone Else's challenges society's stereotypes of masculinity as well as getting to the heart of why men are so fixated with their members. Emotional, revelatory, and [...]
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Category: Environment
Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig's debut feature is an unflinching examination of the [...]
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Category: Health
Rachel is just 25, but already she has suffered six miscarriages. She represents the 1% of women who struggle to give birth to a live baby. She is a patient at St Mary's Hospital in London where, in Europe's [...]
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Category: Politics
IRAN (Is Not The Problem) is a feature length documentary film responding to the failure of the American mass media to provide the public with relevant and accurate information about the standoff between [...]
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Category: History
An obscure and very ancient ruin in the deep Egyptian desert is found to contain an accurate sculpture of our Milky Way galaxy as well as 23 of it's neighbors. It also shows the trajectory and ACCURATE DISTANCES [...]
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Category: Mystery
On 19 December 2005, just seconds after take off from Miami, Florida the right wing of Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 fell off due to metal fatigue and the aircraft crashed into the sea, killing 20 people.Type [...]
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What is a Documentary? The main purpose of a documentary is to document reality into mediums such as film and television in order to maintain historical records and instruct others. In recent times, many good documentaries are found online in digital production.
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There’s a depth in documentary films that leaves an indelible impression on the minds of the viewers. The subjects covered in documentaries range from generating awareness about a social practice to events in the life of a celebrity.
Watching a documentary is like going deep into the subject to find a chord that touches the viewers. A story woven around facts that pulls at the emotional strings of the people is what separates documentaries from other films.
Modern documentaries cover many genres including science, society and even sexuality. At Documentary Addict we also have the best collection of crime documentaries. Whatever genre you love - we've got all the top documentaries here. Whether you're here because you like to learn new things, enjoy educational movies, or you are just plain addicted to watching documentaries - There are literally thousands of them here to enjoy. Sit back and relax for a few hours!
The word documentary was reportedly coined by Scottish documentarian, John Grierson, around 1926. He was of the opinion that maintaining originality is better than creating fictional characters lending a real aspect to the subject.
The period from 1920s till 1970s gave documentary films a dynamic new identity with films made on different genres like romanticism, city life, camera angles and newsreels.
1920s – The Romantic Period
Made in 1922 by Robert Flaherty, Nanook of the North, showcased romanticism in documentary films, even showing how subjects would have lived 100 years back. Walter Ruttman's Berlin, Symphony of a City; Alberto Cavalcanti's Rien Que les Heures and Dziga Vertov's Man with the Movie Camera focused on people within their environment.
Kino-Pravda or cinematic truth utilized the camera angles, like stop motion and time lapse, to portray reality accurately. Depicting events that had already happened, newsreels were sometimes staged during film making.
1940s – The Propaganda Period
By the 1940s, propaganda films like Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will, had taken center stage. Interestingly, it was commissioned by Adolf Hitler. Social and environmental awareness took over film making like Frank Capra's Why We Fight.
In Britain, Grierson and other filmmakers became known as the Documentary Film Movement. Grierson, Basil Wright, Humphrey Jennings and other filmmakers combined propaganda and facts in an artistic manner with films like Drifters, Songs of Ceylon and Coal Face among others.
1950s – The Technique Period
The 1950s to 1970s brought technical aspects to film making such as portable sync sounds and the use of light with films like Lonely Boy by Pennebaker and Don't Look Back by Koenig and Kroitor.
Following Grierson's definition of documentary as creative treatment of actuality, bringing people closer to topics or issues by providing educational information or describing people in a factual manner is not an easy task. These filmmakers paved the way for modern documentaries which encapsulate various shades of subjects and treatments.
Today, documentary films have their own dedicated viewership and their number is constantly rising. The popularity of documentaries can be gauged by the fact that even mega producers like Harvey Weinstein have joined the documentary world. In the end, film making or even media as a whole, is sometimes expressing one's belief but ensure you keep your mind open and learn from the wonderful experiences that documentaries bring. We really hope you enjoy the site and come back to it regularly as you'll find it's the best place to watch documentary films online free. Remember Documentary Addict, your documentary channel for watching online documentaries free, and please leave some feedback or give us a like on Facebook. We hope you agree, this documentary heaven you see before you is certainly the best place to watch documentaries online!