Preferably on Netflix or stream able online from content provider.
I'm open to pretty much every subject of history.

Actually, one I recently enjoyed is on YouTube,which is BBC The Normans. It was great. Multiple episodes.

The Normans - Men from the North

Hitler's Lost Sub (a PBS documentary that's viewable on Youtube, in 8 segments). Wreck diving a mystery U-boat that was discovered back in the 1990s off of New Jersey (and wasn't listed in any of the wartime ASW reports). Well worth 2 hrs of your time.

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Not being smart but you essentially asked to be given the history of mankind.
Maybe give a time period/conflict/historical topic interested in?

Kind of the point.
I wanted to learn more in general. And the best way to expand is to take bits and pieces of others passions/interests.

I'm mainly just polling everyone on what a few of their favorite documentaries are.

Always been a fan of Ken Burns' "The Civil War"
WWII in HD
Vietnam in HD
Ken Burns' "Baseball"
WWII in Color
Victory at Sea (a classic)
The Battered *******s of Baseball.
WWI Apocolypse

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I want to see this.

Here's a list of 33 documentaries that are available right now on Netflix.

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The propaganda game is nuts. Another one about best Korea is coming out that sounds interesting as well.

Jiro dreams of sushi is great.


Neither really have to do with history

Paris 1919. Great documentary.

On YouTube in 2 parts. I always forget Ho Chi Mihn was at the peace conference.

14 - Diaries of the Great War is on Netflix. I loved it, covered the accounts of soldiers on the front and people on the home front to give a great overall picture of what it was like to live through WWI.

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Hitler's Lost Sub (a PBS documentary that's viewable on Youtube, in 8 segments). Wreck diving a mystery U-boat that was discovered back in the 1990s off of New Jersey (and wasn't listed in any of the wartime ASW reports). Well worth 2 hrs of your time.

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This sounds interesting. Gonna have to watch this.

A couple of good ones:

The Spanish Civil War. Look this up. It's on YouTube even. Great documentary on a war you might not know much about, but you should.

Legacy/In Search of the Trojan War/In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great - Three great documentaries by the British Historian Michael Wood. The Trojan War one is really, really good and entertaining. Will give you great perspective on what we know about the Trojan War, what's myth, and what may be the truth hiding in the myth (for example, what was probably the Troy of the story was actually toppled by an earthquake, and the Greek God of earthquakes (Poseidon) is also the God of horses, so the story of the Trojan horse may be a metaphor for an earthquake that delivered the city to the Greeks). In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great is awesome. Wood literally walks, drives and sails Alex's route. In Iraq (this was in the 1990s), he flies over the battlefield on a US Awacs plane. In Afghanistan, he goes on foot and gets out just before the Taliban came to power.

The Day the Universe Changed - A good series on history, science and how they interact. British guy named James Burke. Funny and really good.

Also, if you have seen The Greeks, there's a British historian named Bettany Hughes on it. She's older and plumper these days, but in her younger days she used to do documentaries that were fun to watch, because, as me and a buddy said, she was "Professor Cleavage." She would do things like ride up from offscreen on a horse or talk about "thrusting their spears" into their enemies while making a motion with her hips. It was good history and entertainment at the same time.

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I learned a lot about the origins of the Normans watching this one. I knew little pre 1066 about these people.

Good thread.

Spiderman, take it to the conspiracy/fake history board.

The Fabulous Whites of West Virginia, it is basically Idiocracy the documentary

If you're into doucmentaries on pop culture, Crumb, about 60's underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and his (to put it nicely) extremely idiosyncratic family is well worth a watch.

The wild and wonderful whites of West Virginia.

HTH

Aggie Fanatic:

You be correct, I was probably flailing due to bad meth when I posted that.

Zeitgeist and inside job. Make sure you aren't suicidal before you watch these.

Crumb's a strange cat, but he can draw and do the banja. Like a natural.