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Category: Documentary Recommendations

Documentary Recommendation: Sugarcane (2024)

12/27/2025

Documentary Recommendations

This is one of the most engaging and truthful documentaries I’ve watched in a long time. It doesn’t surprise me how religion once again intersects negatively within and between certain groups. These different cultural personal histories reaches beyond where there’s a lot of larger contradictions in so called justified behavior as well as painful truths
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TV Docuseries Recommendation: Glitter & Greed: The Lisa Frank Story

12/07/2025

Amazon Recommendations, Documentary Recommendations

Back when I was in grade school, it was all about Trapper Keeper and luckily, I never was interested in Lisa Frank Inc. designs. However, it’s easy to see how Lisa Frank, Inc. was once worth over 50 million dollars based on the designs created by her team. They are colorful subject matter fit for
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Documentary Recommendation: The Last Rider (2022)

12/07/2025

Documentary Recommendations, Sports

The Last Rider is a sports documentary about Greg LeMond. He’s the only American to win the Tour de France in 1986, 1989, and 1990 after the disgrace of Lance Armstrong from late 1990s to mid-2000s. The best part of this documentary covers his comeback after a shooting accident and then winning the Tour de
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TV Series Recommendation: The Story of Late Night (2021)

11/01/2025

Documentary Recommendations, TV Recommendations

If you want to learn the origin of late night, the evolution of late-night programming, and the current state of late-night programming, this documentary series covers all of the subjects and more. From Mary Kay Stearns and Steve Allen, Ernie Kovacs and Jack Parr, and bunch of hosts until Johnny Carson aired in October 1962
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Documentary Recommendation: Surviving Ohio State (2025)

09/07/2025

Documentary Recommendations, HBO Recommendations

Surviving Ohio State is an excellent documentary about a subject many people don’t want to talk about or even acknowledge exists and that is predatory medical staff preying on certain type of students. The doctor, Richard Strauss, happened to be in charge of the thousands of athletes’ welfare coming and going while they attended Ohio
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Documentary Recommendation: The Lost Sons (2021)

09/07/2025

Documentary Recommendations, HBO Recommendations

The Lost Sons is directed by Ursula Macfarlane and is one hour and 38 minutes. This is a story where the best writer couldn’t make this up without some kind of aid whether it be natural or synthetic. I say this because this story is too tragic of a story to be described any other
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Netflix Documentary: Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser (2025)

08/24/2025

Documentary Recommendations, Netflix Recommendations

diet, fitness, Health, nutrition, weight-loss

The Biggest Loser The Biggest Loser was created by David Broome and JD Roth where contestants were matched with trainers. There were three major trainers. Bob Harper appeared in all seasons. Jillian Michaels was in 15 seasons. Dolvett Quince was in six seasons. The lesser-known trainers included Kim Lyons in seasons 3 and 4, Brett
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Documentary Recommendation: RomCon Who the F**k is Jason Porter?

07/21/2025

Amazon Recommendations, Documentary Recommendations

This documentary RomCon is similar to the Tinder Swindler but just as alarming in terms of sociopathic behavior including gaslighting, lying, and cheating. Jace Peretti is actually Jason Porter, a conman that preyed on women in Canada, and was finally held accountable for his lying and fraud. Jason ingratiated himself into lives of several women
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Documentary Recommendation: The Antisocial Network (2024)

07/06/2025

Documentary Recommendations, Netflix Recommendations

Life, Mental Health, Politics, Social Media

The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem is a documentary by Arthur Jones and Giorgio Angelini about social media and how it can explode into having a life of its own. People sometimes refer to this as an unexpected consequence. Had I heard about 4chan before watching this film? Yes. Was I really invested into learning
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Documentary Recommendation: Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story (2024)

06/22/2025

Documentary Recommendations, Nature

I quite wasn’t sure what to make of this documentary because it started off as a little cheesy. While the story focuses on an otter and a man living in a remote area of Scotland called the Shetland Isles, the relationship between the two turns out to be heartwarming. Billy Mail is a man who
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Documentary Recommendation: Milli Vanilli (2023)

03/18/2025

Documentary Recommendations, Paramount Recommendations

Long before the Ashlee Simpson stage oops and she ran off in embarrassment, there was Milli Vanilli. This music duo was all appearance, and I won’t say talentless, but their own voices were not as good as the actual singers of their albums. Milli Vanilli is a documentary about the duo of Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan. The
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The Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot (2024)

03/18/2025

Documentary Recommendations, HBO Recommendations

It’s interesting how people find certain topics interesting in the fact we find subjects intriguing that we know nothing about or didn’t care to learn when younger. Cheerleading and competitions are two things I’ve never really cared too much about. I’ve never been one to research more into how cheerleading works, but people understand about
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Documentary Recommendation: The Donut King (2020)

12/09/2024

Documentary Recommendations

donuts, food

This is a great documentary because it has everything a documentary should have: realistic hardships, capitalistic successes, millionaire status excess, historical lessons about Cambodia, and the evolution of the donut industry also known to be contributing to the obesity in the United States, but they sure are tasty. The Donut King is written by Alice
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