Documentaries & storytelling Videos Recommended on Hacker News (202)

Documentaries & storytelling is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 202 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 517 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Documentaries and narratives: short documentaries, investigative features, quirky true stories, sports history storytelling, Jon Bois, oral histories, strange events and mysteries.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on The Century of the Self (Full Adam Curtis Documentary): “For the first time in my life I feel like I understood the “why” of how things work in American society.” — an HN commenter, 2022.