The 300 Best Documentaries to Expand Consciousness

Documentaries are incredible tools for learning and expanding knowledge on important issues. Their strength lies in the fact that they demonstrate to our mind new possibilities and deepen our understanding of the world.

In the documentaries on this list you will find different points of view, controversial opinions and conflicting ideas. A critical approach is welcome! Even if you’re not a big fan of documentary filmmaking, you should give it credit. These films challenge conventional reality and make us reflect on the familiar things, opinions, and practices we usually take for granted.

Watching documentaries is one of the best methods of self-education. These films are so inspiring that you’re willing to spend your time exploring different ideas and finding interesting people who have given interviews.

We hope these documentaries are informative for you! We will be glad if you share with us your favorite documentaries (preferably with translation or Russian subtitles).

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Thanks to a little magic of modern technologies, we have the opportunity to explore the miracle of the biosphere and the interrelationship of processes occurring in it.

1. Home | "Home."

2. How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? | "How many people can live on Earth."

3. The Magical Forest | "The Magical Forest"

4. Ants: The Secret Force of Nature.

5. Mt. Everest: How It Was Made | – How the Earth Was Created: Everest

6. Mariana's Trench: The Deepest Spot On Earth | How the Earth Was Created: The Mariana Trench

7. Wild Planet: The Andes, The Dragon Ridge.

8. Shining Mountains: The Rockies | The Shining Mountains: Episode 1 – The Ancients, Episode 2 – Land of Plenty, Episode 3 – On the Edge, Episode 4 – The Future of the Wilderness

9. Grand Canyon: How It Was Made | – How the Earth Was Created: The Grand Canyon

10. The Intelligence of Plants|: The Plant Kingdom Episode 1, Episode 2 Episode 3

Just look at these wonderful things that people create thanks to their imagination.

11. Everything Is A Remix | "Everything Is A Remix"

12. The Creative Brain: How Insight Works | Creative Ability: The Inside View.

13. Teaching to See | "Amazing Nearby."

14. Design: The New Business | Design: New Business

15. PressPausePlay: Art and Creativity in the Digital Age | Press Pause Play

16. Infamy: A Graffiti Documentary | "Bad Glory"

17. Influencers: How Trends and Creativity Become Contagious |

18. RIP: A Remix Manifesto | The Remixer Manifesto: Part 1, Part 2

19. Design: e2 - Sustainable Architecture | "Design: e2 - Green Manhattan."

20. The Genius of Design | "Design Geniuses"

How the state drives young minds into standardized patterns, stamping new inhabitants.

21. The College Conspiracy.

22. Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk.

23. The Forbidden Education | "Prohibited Education"

24. Default: The Student Loan Documentary.

25. College Inc.

26. Education for a Sustainable Future.

27. Networked Society: The Future of Learning.

28. The Ultimate History Lesson With John Taylor Gatto: hour 1, hour 2, hour 3, hour 4, hour 5.

29. Education, Education. Why poverty?

30. The War on Kids.

The Internet is currently a driving force for change and innovation in the world.

31. Download: The True Story of the Internet | Download: The True Story of the Internet

32. The Age of Big Data | The Age of Big Data

33. Resonance: Beings of Frequency | Resonance: Life in an Ocean of Microwaves

34. Life in a Day | "Life in a Day"

35. Networked Society: On the Brink.

36. Us Now: Social Media and Mass Collaboration.

37. WikiRebels: The WikiLeaks Story.

38. The Virtual Revolution: The Cost of Free | - The Virtual Revolution: The Price of Freedom

39. How Hackers Changed the World.

A new civilization.40 Thrive: What On Earth Will It Take? | “Prosperity”. What will become of the Earth?: Part 1, Part 2

41. Zeitgeist III: Moving Forward | "Zeitgeist III: Moving Forward"

42. Paradise or Oblivion | "Paradise or Forgetting"

43. 2012: Time for Change.

44. The Crisis of Civilization | The Crisis of Civilization

45. The Collective Evolution II.

46. The Quickening: Awakening As One.

47. Love, Reality, and the Time of Transition.

48. Collapse | "The Collapse."

49. The Awakening.

Politics: The impact of politics on our lives.

50. Owned and Operated | "Divided and Operated".

51. UnGrip.

52. The Power Principle.

53. The True Story of Che Guevara.

54. Earth Days.

55. Capitalism is the Crisis.

56. WikiLeaks: The Secret Life of a Superpower

57. The Putin System | The Putin System.

58. The War on Democracy.

59. Rise Like Lions: Occupy Wall Street and the Seeds of Revolution

Biographies of geniuses who pushed humanity forward.

60. Isaac Newton: The Last Magician | Isaac Newton: The Last of the Magicians

61. Nikola Tesla: The Greatest Mind of All Time

62. The Unlimited Energy of Nicola Tesla | "Free Energy of Nikola Tesla"

63. The Missing Secrets of Nikola Tesla, The Lost Secrets of Nikola Tesla

64. Richard Feynman: No Ordinary Genius.

65. How Albert Einstein's Brain Worked | The Enigma of Einstein's Brain

66. The Extraordinary Genius of Albert Einstein

67. The Biography of Albert Einstein.

68. Da Vinci: Unlocking the Genius

69. "Da Vinci Archives." The shadow side of an outstanding man.”

70. Leonardo Da Vinci: The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything (Leonardo da Vinci: The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything)

War is the world’s oldest tool for redistributing resources.

71. Psywar: The Real Battlefield Is Your Mind

72. The History of World War II.

73. The Secret History of 9/11 | The Secret History: The 9/11 Tragedy

74. Robot Armies in the Future.

75. The Never Ending War in Afghanistan.

76. Shadow Company: Mercenaries in the Modern World.

77. World War II From Space | World War II A view from space”.

78. Why We Fight | "Why We Fight."

79. The Fog of War | "The Fog of War"

80. The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror

Learn more about the global financial system and how people and entire societies fall into credit slavery.

81. The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power |

82. Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis: Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis

83. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World | Series 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5

84. The One Percent.

85. Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street | Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street

86. The Last Days of Lehman Brothers.

87. The Four Horsemen | "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"

88. Inside Job: The Biggest Robbery in Human History.

89. Capitalism: A Love Story | Capitalism: A Love Story

90. Money and Life.

The stories of entrepreneurs who use technology and change the world.

91. The Life of a Young Entrepreneur.

92. Profile: Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

93. Profile: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

94. Starting-up in America.

95. The Biography of Bill Gates | "Bill Gates: A Biography"

96. Steve Jobs: One Last Thing (Steve Jobs: One Last Thing)

97. Steve Jobs: The Billion Dollar Hippy (Steve Jobs: The Billion Dollar Hippy)

98. Elon Musk: Risk Takers | "Elon Musk: Adventurer"

99. The Story of Twitter.

Watch inspiring stories about the most amazing athletes.

100. Fearless: The Jeb Corliss Story | Fearless: The Jeb Corliss Story

101. Carts of Darkness.

102. The Two Escobars.

103. Usain Bolt: The World's Fastest Man

104. Wayne Gretzky: The Life and Times.

105. When We Were Kings | "Mohamed Ali" When we were kings.”

106. Mike Tyson: Beyond the Glory

107. Birdmen.

108. The Legacy of Michael Jordan – The Legacy of Michael Jordan

109. We Ride: The Story of Snowboarding

Learn a lot about the development of technologies, their impact and the imminent achievement of the technological singularity.

110. Ray Kurzweil: The Transcendent Man | Transcendent Man Raymond Kurzweil

111. How Robots Will Change the World

112. Human 2.0: Mind Control Machine.

113. Technology of the Future.

114. Trance-Formation: The Future of Humanity.

115. The Venus Project: Future by Design |: Design of the Future

116. Bionics, Transhumanism and the End of Evolution.

117. The Singularity is Near.

118. Car Technology of the Future.

119. Powering The Future: The Energy Revolution | Energy of the Future: The Energy Revolution

A selection of films about the study of the origins of religion and the life of mankind at the dawn of civilization.

120. Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within.

121. Manifesting the Mind: Footprints of the Shaman

122. Ancient Egypt and the Alternative Story of Mankind's Origins.

123. The Hidden Knowledge of the Supernatural.

124. Re-Awaken: Open Your Heart, Expand Your Mind

125. Shamans of the Amazon.

126. The Root of All Evil: The God Delusion

127. Ancient Knowledge.

128. The Naked Truth.

129. Before Babel: In Search of the First Language.

The striking history of three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

130. Secret Quest: The Path of the Christian Gnostics

131. The Secret Gate of Eden.

132. Forbidden Knowledge: Lost Secrets of the Bible.

133. Banned from the Bible: Secrets of the Apostles.

134. The Life of Prophet Muhammad.

135. The Road to Armageddon.

136. The Most Hated Family in America.

137. Muhammad: The Legacy of a Prophet | Muhammad: The Legacy of the Prophet

138. A Complete History of God.

139. Gnosis: The Untold History of the Bible.

Expand your horizons and learn a lot about the worldview of the religions of the East.

140. Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds.

141. The Life of the Buddha | The Life of the Buddha

142. The Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World.

143. Mysteries of the Cosmic OM: Ancient Vedic Science.

144. Where Science and Buddhism Meet | Where Buddhism and Science Meet

145. The Yogis of Tibet | The Great Yogis of Tibet

146. Taj Mahal: Secrets to Blow Your Mind | Taj Mahal

147. Light at the Edge of the World: Tibetan Science of the Mind.

148. Myths of Mankind: The Mahabharata.

149. Ayurveda: The Art of Being | Ayurveda: The Art of Being

Learn a lot about the basics of existence and the wonders of consciousness.

150. Athene's Theory of Everything.

151. Theory of Everything: God, Devils, Dimensions, Dragons and the Illusion of Reality.

152. The God Within: Physics, Cosmology and Consciousness.

153. 5 Gateways: The Five Key Expansions of Consciousness

154. Return to the Source: Philosophy and the Matrix | Return to the Source: Philosophy and the Matrix

155. The Holographic Universe.

156. DMT: The Spirit Molecule| DMT: A Molecule of Spirit

157. What is Consciousness?

158. Kymatica | “Cymatics”.

159. Neuroplasticity: The Brain That Changes Itself

Exploring the mysteries of the past in the style of Indiana Jones.

160. Alchemy: Sacred Secrets Revealed.

161. The Day Before Disclosure.

162. The Secret Code of the Egyptian Pyramids.

163. The Secret Design of the Egyptian Pyramids.

164. Decoding the Past: Secrets of the Dollar Bill

165. The Lost Gods of Easter Island | The Lost Gods of Easter Island

166. Origins of the Da Vinci Code | "Opening the Da Vinci Code"

167. Forbidden Knowledge: Ancient Medical Secrets.

168. Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings: The New Atlantis

169. Secrets in Plain Sight.

Learn about how our thoughts and opinions affect popular culture.

170. The Century of the Self.

171. All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace

172. The Power of Nightmares.

173. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom | What has become of our dream of freedom”.

174. Starsuckers: A Culture Obsessed By Celebrity

175. Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century.

176. Obey: The Death of the Liberal Class.

177. Brazil: In the Shadow of the Stadiums.

178. Bob Marley: Freedom Road.

179. Radiant City.

Discover amazing facts about how media and advertising use our motives.

180. Weapons of Mass Deceptions.

181. Secrets of the Superbrands | "Secrets of Superbrands"

182. Orwell Rolls in his Grave.

183. The Century of the Self | The Age of Personality

184. The Esoteric Agenda.

185. The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News.

186. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media.

187. Symbolism in Logos: Subliminal Messages or Ancient Archetypes.

188. Edward Snowden: A Truth Unveiled

189. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Art and literature The life stories of famous artists.

190. Lord of the Rings: Facts Behind the Fiction | – The Lord of the Rings

191. Cosm: Alex Gray's Visionary Art

192. Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop | "Exit Through The Gift Shop"

193. New Art and the Young Artists Behind It.

194. Salvador Dali: A Master of the Modern Era.

195. How Art Made the World: More Human Than Human | How Art Made the World More human than man himself.”

196. The Day Pictures Were Born.

197. Guns, Germs and Steel (Guns, Germs and Steel)

198. Off-Book: Digital Age Creativity

199. This is Modern Art.

Learn about how our body works and how amazing the power of our brain is.

200. The Human Brain | "The Human Brain and Its Potential"

201. The Truth About Exercise | The Truth About Exercise

202. How To Live To 101 | How To Live To 101

203. Globesity: Fat’Globesitys New Frontier | Obesity is the scourge of the twenty-first century.

204. The War on Health.

205. The Beautiful Truth.

206. Food Inc. | Food Corporation.

207. The Truth About Food | The Truth About Food

208. Addicted to Pleasure: Sugar.

209. The Living Matrix.

210. "A harmful healthy lifestyle."

Films that make you think about the state of the environment and the growing threat to the biosphere.

211. Earthlings | "Earthlings."

212. Blue Gold: World Water Wars.

213. Tapped | "Water in a Bottle."

214. Shift: Beyond the Numbers of the Climate Crisis

215. All things are connected.

216. The Fight for Amazonia.

217. Flow: For Love of Water | - Flow: For Love of Water

218. Here Comes the Sun.

219. The World According to Monsanto | Mosanto Corporation, Creator of GMOs

220. The Story of Stuff.

Expand your horizons and enjoy the unique beauty of space.

221. The Search for Planets Similar to Earth | "Space Travel: Searching for Earth-like planets"

222. Inside the Milky Way Galaxy | "Journey through the Milky Way"

223. Cosmic Journeys: The Largest Black Holes in the Universe | "Space Travel: The Largest Black Holes in the Universe"

224. Beyond the Big Bang

225. The Mystery of the Milky Way | "Mystery of the Milky Way"

226. Fractals: The Hidden Dimension | "Fractals: The Hunt for the Hidden Dimension"

227. Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking: The Story of Everything

228. Pioneer Science: Discovering Deep Space.

229. Carl Sagan's Cosmos | "Space with Carl Sagan"

230. The Strangest Things in the Universe | "The Strangest Things in the Universe"

The history of scientific discovery and all about how our perception has changed thanks to scientific tools.

231. A Science Odyssey: Mysteries of the Universe.

232. The Quantum Revolution | "Quantum Revolution"

233. Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell | The Inner Universe: The Secret Life of the Cell

234. Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time

235. Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos | Space Odyssey.

236. The Light Fantastic | What is Light?

237. DNA: The Secret of Life.

238. Parallel Universes, Alternative Timelines & Multiverse |

239. What is the Higgs Boson?

240. Infinity | "Infinite Infinity."

All about our evolution and the emergence of self-awareness in humans.

241. The Origin of Life.

242. Homo Sapiens: The Birth of Humanity.

243. Beyond Me.

244. The Global Brain | The Global Brain.

245. Metanoia: A New Vision of Nature.

246. Birth of a New Humanity | The Birth of a New Humanity

247. Samsara | "Samsara."

248. Ape Man: Adventures in Human Evolution

249. The Incredible Human Journey | "The Journey of Man"

250. The Human Family Tree | The Bloodline of Humanity.

New research shedding light on how we can improve our brains.

251. How Smart Can We Get?

252. The Science of Lust.

253. DNA: The Secret of Life.

254. What Are Dreams?

255. A Virus Called Fear.

256. Beyond Thought (Awareness Itself)

257. The Human Brain | "The Human Brain and Its Potential"

258. Superconscious Mind: How to Double Your Brain's Performance

259. The Memory | "How Our Memory Works"

260. Secrets of the Mind.

A History of the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and the Struggle for the Modern World.

261. The Entrepreneurs Who Built America, The People Who Built America

262. History of the World in Two Hours | "A History of the World in Two Hours"

263. The Industrial Revolution | Industrial Revolution.

264. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

265. Adventure of the English Language.

266. The French Revolution | The French Revolution.

267. Big Sugar.

268. The Spanish Inquisition.

269. The American Revolution.

270. The Mexican American War.

American and European history in the premodern period.

271. America Before Columbus: The World Before and After Columbus

272. The Dark Ages | "The Dark Ages"

273. Socrates, Aristotle and Plato.

274. The Medici: The Most Influencial Family in the World

275. Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

276. History of Britain: The Myth of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion.

277. A History of Celtic Britain | "History of the Ancient Celts"

278. The Crusades: Victory and Defeat.

279. The Vikings: Voyage to America.

280. Copernicus and the Scientific Revolution.

Learn more about recent events that have affected the world.

281. Syria: The Reckoning.

282. Empire: Putin's Russia.

283. The New Arms Race.

284. The Killing of Yasser Arafat.

285. Egypt in Crisis.

286. Inside Obama's Presidency.

287. The Untouchables: How Obama Protected Wall Street

288. Behind the Rhetoric: The Real Iran.

289. A History of the Middle East since WWII.

290. Climate Wars | "Climate Wars"

Fascinating studies of ancient civilizations.

291. When God Was a Girl: When Goddesses Ruled the Heavens and Earth

292. The Persian Empire: Most Mysterious Civilization in the Ancient World

293. What The Ancients Did For Us?

294. What the Ancients Knew.

295. Egypt: Beyond the Pyramids.

296. Secrets of the Ancient Empires | Secrets of Ancient Empires

297. Constellations and Ancient Civilizations.

298. Graham Hancock's Quest for the Lost Civilization | "In Search of Lost Atlantis"

299. Atlantis: The Lost Continent.

300. Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

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Source: lifehacker.ru/2015/08/16/300-documentaries/