The Animators Who've Spent 40 Years on a Single Film
For the last four decades, Russian animator Yuri Norstein and his wife Francheska Yarbusova have been working on one movie, an animated full-length feature film called "The...
FEATURED DOCUMENTARIES
Treeline: A Story Written in Rings
Throughout history, as entire civilizations have withered and mankind has continued to move at a breathless pace, the trees have remained. For some, these trees harbor the secrets to...
Wi-Fried?
Mobile technologies have shaped our way of life, but are they also discreetly killing us? That's the question raised by the new documentary short WI-FRIED?, a thought-provoking look at the secret dangers which may lurk in the...
Guantanamo: Blacked Out Bay
Vice News reporter Gianna Toboni is granted a rare tour of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center (GTMO) in Cuba, offering a look inside the most notorious prison in the world. Intended to home the greatest active terrorist...
Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification
This documentary explores the startling phenomenon of ocean acidification, which may soon challenge marine life on a scale not seen for tens of millions of years. The film was made...
INCENTIVE
Documentary Film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt,
in one fashion or another, to document reality. Knowledge comes in different ways through our five senses. Hearing,
watching, touching, smelling and tasting are the only doorways to the outer world. The wise men say that if something
is not truly experienced with all our five senses, the experience will be partial, not total. Therefore in a way almost
all our gained knowledge through life is partial. And maybe they are right.
If we follow that analogy, gaining knowledge through several senses simultaneously is better than through just one. So,
educating through watching educational videos, in this case documentaries, is really a total
different experience than educating only on books. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to undermine the books in any way.
Having said that, lets go and check out some great docs right here, right now. You can
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FEATURED DOCUMENTARIES
Animal Pharm: Food For Thought
Mother Nature can no longer claim total dominion over the future of evolution. Some of the planet's most commonly consumed animals are undergoing extensive genetic manipulation in laboratory settings across the globe....
Consumed
Possibly the most unthinkable story of the last million years is the rise of the modern human culture. The cities we populate and the lives that we lead. It is the environment that our children will inherit. But after a century...
Cartel Country
The Mexican cartel runs large farms that produce traditional crops and livestock, but it is their less legal produce like marijuana and other narcotics that brings in most of their profits. Narco trafficking is one of...
Marvin Gaye: His Final Hours
On his last day alive soul superstar Marvin Gaye is depressed and paranoid. He's abandoned his latest tour and is holed up at his parents' house in Los Angeles, California. His excessive drug use escalates and with it, the...
Gut Reaction
The medical community has long professed the numerous risk factors associated with an unhealthy diet. The foods we eat can play a primary role in determining our vulnerability towards many potentially life-threatening...
ESSENCE
We always have to keep in mind that a Documentary, after all, can tell lies and it can tell lies
because it lays claim to a form of veracity which fiction doesn't. Some of the documentaries are made just to
discredit some particular person, party, organization, system etc, but most of them here on TDF are non biased,
without prejudice and worth watching.
Overall at Top Documentary Films you can find thousands of stunning, eye-opening and interesting
documentaries. Choose one that suits your interest through navigation system of TDF, watch it, and tell us how it was
through comments. Go through this great collection of documentary movies, watch your favorite documentaries,
share your thoughts and enjoy TDF.