Seriously, search for documentary movies or tv shows on netflix, hulu, etc. Most of it will be exploitative reality shit, a lot of it will be nonsensical liberal shit, and the rest will be semi-veiled fash shit. And maybe there will be a couple decent ones mixed in but the vast majority is worthless garbage.
I get that they're not gonna have based shit on streaming platforms but why does it have to be so bad? Even most of the nature documentaries are sensational "THESE VICIOUS ANIMALS WANT TO KILL YOU!!!!!! WATCH THEM KILL EACH OTHER FOR ENTERTAINMENT!!!!!!!!!" type trash.
First world problems, I know, but I'm stuck at home with covid so I don't have much else to do but watch shit. Can't even do anything productive because my breathing is really bad and I can't focus long enough to read. Feels bad.
Edit: thanks for all these awesome suggestions! I'm definitely going check all of these out! :rat-salute:
Have any recommendations on the rare good ones?
Untold History of the United States on Netflix is pretty decent. It's kinda lib but it's an Oliver Stone project and is very good at getting people to question their internalized propaganda. It's definitely a 'gateway drug' to socialism, so to say. Besides that, there's not any I can think of off the top of my head.
not really rare but watch The Act of Killing/The Look of Silence
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If you have HBO Max or Amazon prime watch Mann V. Ford. It’s about the Ford Motor company dumping waste on Native American land and the subsequent trial. Not liberal bullshit.
It's not a documentary but I was kind of surprised at how aggressively The Trial of the Chicago Seven took the side of the protesters and how poorly it portrayed the cops and the legal institutions. So if you like a courtroom drama it was pretty good.
If you liked this, a better documentary that goes into Bobby Seale and Fred Hampton is the PBS “Black Panthers” doc. The main leftist criticism of TC7 was that it turned the 60s radicals into libs.