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)
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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?
Preview photo credit The World Before Her / Storyline Entertainment
