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Thursday, 26 March 2020

Documentaries

Now that we’ve sufficiently zapped plenty of your brain cells to death (and may slightly have reduced productivity time during work hours) with entertainment, we feel its only responsible for us to counteract that with some knowledge. Time at home could be a chance for you to brush up on some skills, or learn a few more, or simply to build up your knowledge of useless trivia to impress people.

Documentaries: It’s not a secret that we at Enterprise love a good documentary. We featured one weekly back when we had a weekend edition. So, where did we find this repository of great documentaries? Well, you’re in luck, we break down our favorite haunts for finding good documentaries on the interwebs.

  • Top Documentary Films: This is probably our favorite online portal for documentaries. The site scours all the documentaries floating out there on various free streaming and video sites such as Youtube and Dailymotion and has these categorized by genre. Pick any topic, chances are you’ll find a documentary there.
  • Internet Archive: This is a phenomenal collection of free public domain movies, films, videos and television clips. Not only can you watch the documentaries online, you can download the clips and use them as well.
  • Snag Films: Snag Films is an online platform that allows independent filmmakers to upload their films as well providing resources for viewers who want to get involved in the causes portrayed in those films. The site also encourages visitors to “snag” the free films and embed them on their own sites.
  • PBS (Frontline and American Experience): Probably the best production house for documentaries. We have featured them several times in our documentary of the week feature and will likely continue to do so. The downside? The lack of access to their archives from Egypt. You’ll have to resort to any of the other ones we’ve listed here.
  • Streaming services: All the streaming services we noted above have documentaries and docu-series that are worth checking out. Netflix in particular has been much better at their documentaries than their other original content recently.
  • Youtube: If you’ve ever thought of something, chances are someone has already thought of it first, and uploaded something to Youtube on it. Despite being the home of some of the internet’s worst (namely, cat videos, memes and clips), Youtube doesn’t often get the credit it deserves for being educational.

Here are some of our recommendations:

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