Even though Netflix is a fun streaming service to pass the time, it does have a negative affect on people's lives as well. Each month subscribers are paying around $10 to binge-watch television shows and films that are entertaining, but still a waste of time. Instead students should watch educational documentaries on topics related to things in their field of study or interests. This is the alternative to sitcoms and Hollywood blockbusters. Here are 13 documentaries to keep you informed and entertained.
1. Print the Legend
This documentary talks about the minds behind 3D printing machines, and how they influence our lives. It features the companies MakerBot and Formlabs, and is perfect for anyone interested in computer software, printing or innovation.
2. LEGO House: Home of the BrickĀ
This documentary explains how a 130,000 square-foot LEGO House was constructed in Billund, Denmark. The creators divided the house into four zones (ssocial, emotional, cognitive, and creative) to inspire education and innovation.
3. The Creative Brain
Learn about creativity and how the human brain operates in this psychology/marketing documentary. The creative process is explained using examples Using neuroscience and other techniques, the creative process is explained.
4. American Factory
This Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature discusses mankind's involvement with automation despite the fact that technology is replacing factory jobs. The reality of experiencing a manufacturing decline is explored.
5. Stink!
Consumers are oblivious to the hazardous chemicals and carcinogens placed within the products bought every day. The documentary examines the items containing the poison, levels of toxicity, and the potentionally health risks that can occur.
6. What the Health
Learn about the secrets to reversing and even preventing chronic diseases in this documentary. Find out the important things about your well-being that health organizations are neglecting to tell you. After all, we have the right to know.
7. After Maria
In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, two Puerto Rican women become friends while struggling to find hope for the future.
8. Teach Us All
This documentary/social-justice campaign discusses the racism and hate at Central High, an all-white school in Little Rock, Arkansas during 1957. After the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American high school students fought against discrimination and political bias sixty years prior, the story returns to Arkansas in the present day, and talks about the problems that black students are still facing today, and the continuous battle for equality in American schools and society.
9. Behind the Curve
This documentary explores the internet's re-ignition of the strange conspiracy theory about the earth being flat, and the growing flat-Earth movement. Although scientific evidence has disproved the theory for decades, the community of "philosophers", keep defending their beliefs in an ongoing and hilariously unsuccessful attempt to prove science wrong.
10. Into the Inferno
Director Werner Herzog teams up with volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer to witness volcanoes. During their journeys, they attempt to unravel the connection between human beings and the most fascinating yet dangerous structures on the Earth.
11. Chasing Coral
In this documentary, scientists, photographers, and divers go on an underwater excursion to discover the secrets behind their disappearance of Coral reefs.
11. Nobody Speaks: Trails of the Free Press
In a time where inequality is rampant, the job of the media is pushed to their limits. This documentary goes into the court case involving Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media. It seems that money is powerful enough to even silence the MSM.
13. Knock Down The House
Hear the story about how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and three other female candidates made history during the 2018 midterms elections by overcoming challenges at a young age, and eventually becoming members of the U.S Congress.
