50 Documentaries That Can Boost Your Brain Better Than Years of College

Documentaries are actually not as boring as many people think. They can attract people’s attention to a serious problem, they make you think deeply about a lot of things, or at least tell you a story of someone’s life.

Bright Side chose 50 of the coolest and most memorable documentaries that will definitely teach you something new.

About the environment

• Tapped (2009)
• The Human Footprint (2007)
• The True Cost (2015)
• An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
• The Story of Stuff (2007)
• Garbage Dreams (2009)
• Flow: For Love of Water (2008)
• Life After People (2009–2011)
• The Cove (2009)

About the planet and animals

• Journey to the Edge of the Universe (2008)
• Home (2009)
• Océans (2009)
• Cosmos (2014)
• Samsara (2011)
• Microcosmos: Le peuple de l’herbe (1996)
• Blue Planet II (2017)
• Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)
• Kedi (2016)
• Le peuple migrateur (2001)

About humans

• Human (2015)
• Life in a Day (2011)
• Human Planet (2011)
• The Choice Is Ours (2015)
• The World Before Her (2012)
• That Sugar Film (2014)
• Super Size Me (2004)
• The Corporation (2003)
• What the Health (2017)
• Food, Inc. (2008)

About interesting people

• Leonardo (2003)
• The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla (1979)
• Diana: In Her Own Words (2017)
• The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo (2005)
• Senna (2010)
• Marley (2012)
• Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)
• Amy (2015)
• I Am Heath Ledger (2017)
• Franca: Chaos and Creation (2016)

• I Am Bolt (2016)

About art and creativity

• Simon Schama’s Power of Art (2006)
• Abstract: The Art of Design (2017)
• It Might Get Loud (2009)
• The September Issue (2009)
• Dior et moi (2014)
• Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
• Art & Copy (2009)
• The Genius of Design (2010)
• Objectified (2009)
• Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
• The Art of the Steal (2009)

Do you like documentaries? Are there some other documentaries you’d recommend that we haven’t mentioned in this article?