On this list of mind expanding documentaries you will find different viewpoints, controversial opinions and even contradictory ideas. Critical thinking is recommended. I'm not a big fan of conspiracy documentaries but I do like films that challenge consensus reality and provoke us to question the everyday ideas, opinions and practices we usually take for granted.
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Watching documentaries is one of my favorite methods of self-education. If I find a documentary inspiring, I usually spend more time researching the different ideas and interesting people interviewed in the film. I hope you find these documentaries as enlightening as I did!
[1] Life In The Biosphere
Explore the wonder and interconnectedness of the biosphere through the magic of technology.
- Home
- How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth
- The Magical Forest
- Ants: Nature's Secret Power
- Mt. Everest: How It Was Made
- Mariana's Trench: The Deepest Spot On Earth
- Natural World: The Andes
- Shining Mountains: The Rockies
- Grand Canyon: How It Was Made
- The Intelligence of Plants
Learn about all the amazing things that people create with their imaginations.
- Everything Is A Remix
- The Creative Brain: How Insight Works
- Design: The New Business
- PressPausePlay: Art and Creativity in the Digital Age
- Infamy: A Graffiti Documentary
- Influencers: How Trends and Creativity Become Contagious
- RIP: A Remix Manifesto
- Design: e² – Sustainable Architecture
- The Genius Of Design
The modern school where young minds are moulded into standardized citizens by the state.
- The College Conspiracy
- Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk
- The Forbidden Education
- Default: The Student Loan Documentary
- College Inc.
- Education For A Sustainable Future
- Networked Society: The Future of Learning
- The Ultimate History Lesson With John Taylor Gatto
- The Education System in Communist China
- The War On Kids
The Internet is now the driving force behind change and innovation in the world.
- The Age of Big Data
- Resonance: Beings of Frequency
- Life In A Day
- Networked Society: On The Brink
- Us Now: Social Media and Mass Collaboration
- WikiRebels: The WikiLeaks Story
- The Virtual Revolution: The Cost of Free
- How Hackers Changed the World
We are at the dawn of a new golden age of human inventiveness.
- THRIVE: What On Earth Will It Take?
- Zeitgeist III: Moving Forward
- Paradise or Oblivion
- 2012: Time For Change
- The Crisis of Civilization
- The Collective Evolution II
- The Quickening: Awakening As One
- 2012 Crossing Over: A New Beginning
- Collapse
- The Awakening
Explore the politics of power and control and how it affects your life.
- Owned and Operated
- UnGrip
- The Power Principle
- The True Story of Che Guevara
- Earth Days
- Capitalism Is The Crisis
- WikiLeaks: The Secret Life of a Superpower
- The Putin System
- The War On Democracy
- Rise Like Lions: Occupy Wall Street and the Seeds of Revolution
The biographies of modern geniuses who pushed humanity forward.
- Isaac Newton: The Last Magician
- The Unlimited Energy of Nicola Tesla
- The Missing Secrets Of Nikola Tesla
- Richard Feynman: No Ordinary Genius
- How Albert Einstein’s Brain Worked
- The Extraordinary Genius of Albert Einstein
- Leonardo Da Vinci: The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything
War is history's oldest racket for stealing from the powerless and redistributing resources to the powerful.
- Psywar: The Real Battlefield Is Your Mind
- The Secret History of 9/11
- Robot Armies in the Future
- The Never Ending War in Afghanistan
- Shadow Company: Mercenaries In The Modern World
- Why We Fight
- The Fog Of War
- The Oil Factor: Behind The War On Terror
Learn about the financial system works and how people and societies are enslaved through debt.
- The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
- Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World
- The One Percent
- Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street
- The Last Days Of Lehman Brothers
- The Four Horsemen
- Inside Job: The Biggest Robbery In Human History
- Capitalism A Love Story
- Money and Life
Profiles of the entrepreneurs who used technology to change the world.
- The Life Of A Young Entrepreneur
- Profile: Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin
- Profile: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg
- Starting-Up in America
- Steve Jobs: One Last Thing
- Steve Jobs: The Billion Dollar Hippy
- Elon Musk: Risk Takers
- The Story of Twitter
Watch the inspiring stories of amazing athletes.
- Fearless: The Jeb Corliss Story
- Carts of Darkness
- Usain Bolt: The World's Fastest Man
- Wayne Gretzky: The Life and Times
- Mike Tyson: Beyond the Glory
- Birdmen
- The Legacy Of Michael Jordan
- We Ride: The Story of Snowboarding
Find out more about the impact of exponential growth and the approaching Singularity.
- Ray Kurzweil: The Transcendent Man
- How Robots Will Change the World
- Human 2.0
- Trance-Formation: The Future of Humanity
- The Venus Project: Future By Design
- Bionics, Transhumanism And The End Of Evolution
- The Singularity Is Near
- Car Technology Of The Future
Explore the original religious experience of mankind at the dawn of civilization.
- Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within
- Manifesting the Mind: Footprints of the Shaman
- Ancient Egypt and The Alternative Story of Mankind’s Origins
- The Hidden Knowledge of the Supernatural
- Re-Awaken: Open Your Heart, Expand Your Mind
- Shamans of the Amazon
- The Root of All Evil: The God Delusion
- Ancient Knowledge
- The Naked Truth
- Before Babel: In Search of the First Language
The fascinating history of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
- Secret Quest: The Path of the Christian Gnostics
- The Secret Gate of Eden
- Forbidden Knowledge: Lost Secrets of the Bible
- Banned From The Bible: Secrets Of The Apostles
- The Road To Armageddon
- Muhammad: The Legacy of a Prophet
- A Complete History of God
- Gnosis: The Untold History of the Bible
Expand your mind by also studying the entirely different religious worldviews of the East.
- Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds
- The Life Of The Buddha
- The Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World
- Mysteries of the Cosmic OM: Ancient Vedic Science
- Where Science and Buddhism Meet
- The Yogis of Tibet
- Taj Mahal: Secrets To Blow Your Mind
- Light at the Edge of the World: Tibetan Science of the Mind
- Myths of Mankind: The Mahabharata
- Ayurveda: The Art of Being
Learn about the basic unity of existence and the miracle of consciousness.
- Athene's Theory of Everything
- Theory of Everything: GOD, Devils, Dimensions, Dragons & The Illusion of Reality
- The God Within: Physics, Cosmology and Consciousness
- 5 Gateways: The Five Key Expansions of Consciousness
- Return to the Source: Philosophy and The Matrix
- The Holographic Universe
- DMT: The Spirit Molecule
- Kymatica
- Neuroplasticity: The Brain That Changes Itself
Indiana Jones-style explorations into the unsolved mysteries of the past.
- Alchemy: Sacred Secrets Revealed
- The Day Before Disclosure
- The Pyramid Code
- The Secret Design of the Egyptian Pyramids
- Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Dollar Bill
- Origins of the Da Vinci Code
- Forbidden Knowledge: Ancient Medical Secrets
- Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings: The New Atlantis
- Secrets in Plain Sight
Learn about how our thoughts and opinions are influenced by mass culture.
- The Century of the Self
- All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace
- The Power Of Nightmares
- Starsuckers: A Culture Obsessed By Celebrity
- Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century
- Obey: The Death of the Liberal Class
- Motivational Guru: The Story of Tony Robbins
- Bob Marley: Freedom Road
- Radiant City
Discover how the mass media and advertisers channel our irrational impulses.
- Weapons of Mass Deceptions
- Secrets of the Superbrands
- Orwell Rolls in his Grave
- The Esoteric Agenda
- Propaganda
- The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News
- Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
- Symbolism in Logos: Subliminal Messages or Ancient Archetypes
- Edward Snowden: A Truth Unveiled
- Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Explore the lives of famous artists and how art opens people's minds.
- Cosm: Alex Gray's Visionary Art
- Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop
- New Art and the Young Artists Behind It
- Salvador Dali: A Master of the Modern Era
- The Day Pictures Were Born
- Off-Book: Digital Age Creativity
- This Is Modern Art
Explore issues in health, how our bodies work and the incredible power of our brains.
- The Human Brain
- The Truth About Vitamins
- How To Live To 101
- America's Obesity Epidemic
- The War On Health
- The Beautiful Truth
- Food Inc.
- The Truth About Food
- The Living Matrix
Documentaries on the effect of drugs — legal and illegal — on the body and mind.
- The Union: The Business Behind Getting High
- The Drugging Of Our Children
- How Marijuana Affects Your Health
- Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging
- Clearing the Smoke: The Science of Cannabis
- LSD: The Beyond Within
- The War on Drugs: The Prison Industrial Complex
- Are Illegal Drugs More Dangerous Than Legal Drugs?
- The Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic
- Run From The Cure: The Rick Simpson Story
Thought-provoking documentaries on the environmental movement and the growing threats to our biosphere.
- Earthlings
- Blue Gold: World Water Wars
- Shift: Beyond the Numbers of the Climate Crisis
- All Things Are Connected
- The Fight For Amazonia
- Flow: For Love Of Water
- Here Comes the Sun
- The World According To Monsanto
- The Story of Stuff
Expand your mind by exploring our indescribably large and beautiful Cosmos.
- The Search for Planets Similar to Earth
- Cosmic Journeys : The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
- The Mystery of the Milky Way
- Fractals: The Hidden Dimension
- Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking: The Story of Everything
- Pioneer Science: Discovering Deep Space
- Carl Sagan's Cosmos
- The Strangest Things In The Universe
The history of scientific discovery and how scientific instruments expand our perception.
- The Complete History of Science
- Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell
- Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time
- Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
- The Light Fantastic
- DNA: The Secret of Life
- Parallel Universes, Alternative Timelines & Multiverse
- What Is The Higgs Boson?
- Infinity
The story of our evolution and the emergence of self-aware human beings.
- The Origin of Life
- Homo Sapiens: The Birth of Humanity
- Beyond Me
- The Global Brain
- Metanoia: A New Vision of Nature
- Birth Of A New Humanity
- Samsara
- Ape Man: Adventures in Human Evolution
- The Incredible Human Journey
- The Human Family Tree
New research is shining a spotlight on how we can improve our brains.
- How Smart Can We Get?
- The Science of Lust
- The Secret You
- What Are Dreams?
- A Virus Called Fear
- Beyond Thought (Awareness Itself)
- The Human Brain
- Superconscious Mind: How To Double Your Brain's Performance
- How Does Your Memory Work?
- Secrets of the Mind
The story of the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the modern world.
- History of the World in Two Hours
- The Industrial Revolution
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- The French Revolution
- Big Sugar
- The American Revolution
The story of the Americas and European history in the pre-modern world.
- Socrates, Aristotle and Plato
- The Medici: The Most Influencial Family In The World
- A History of Celtic Britain
- The Crusades: Victory and Defeat
- The Vikings: Voyage To America
- Copernicus and the Scientific Revolution
Become more informed about current events that are shaping the world.
- Syria: The Reckoning
- Empire: Putin's Russia
- The New Arms Race
- The Killing of Yasser Arafat
- Egypt In Crisis
- Inside Obama's Presidency
- The Untouchables: How Obama Protected Wall Street
- Behind The Rhetoric: The Real Iran
- A History of the Middle East since WWII
- Climate Wars
[31] Ancient Civilizations:
Fascination explorations into the ancient civilizations of our past.
- The Persian Empire : Most Mysterious Civilization in the Ancient World
- What The Ancients Did For Us
- What the Ancients Knew
- Egypt: Beyond the Pyramids
- Secrets of the Ancient Empires
- Graham Hancock's Quest For The Lost Civilization
- Atlantis: The Lost Continent
- Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Credits: Higher Perspective
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