List recommended documentaries...

[BoS]

If you have any documentary films and series on philosophy, religion, science and history, then feel free to link them below.

[CapnAwesome]

These actually don't really fall under the topics that you cover as it's about current events, but by far the best documentaries currently being made are by Vice
http://www.vice.com/video

They really show that the world is a more fucked up place than comfortable white people in the first world would like to think. Here is a good example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuSS0iiFyo

[Jackalope]

I'm currently enjoying "The Inexplicable Universe with Neil deGrasse Tyson" on Netflix.

It's a series of lectures - nothing new for someone very familiar with the topic, but interesting and entertaining nonetheless.

[vorlon13]

For those with short attention spans (me most of the time) the "How It's Made" series is fantastic. Most segments run 6 or 7 minutes.

Even with my manufacturing and defense contractor background, it is absolutely amazing to me how much of all the stuff we buy is almost entirely made by machines.

[bennyboy]

Feynman ftw!

[Minimalist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t440bxhn1qA

One of Four. The Bible Unearthed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6bBeyaRjac

Did Mohammed Exist, by Robert Spencer

[vorlon13]

Those PBS shows on King Tut and the Silver Pharaoh were fantastic.

[Cato]

The Civil War, Baseball, and Jazz by Ken Burns

The World at War by Jeremy Isaacs

[Clueless Morgan]

Watched Prom Night in Mississippi last night.

Wow.