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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

Hey all, I wanna dedicate this thread to free documentaries! If you know of any good documentaries that are online, please feel free to drop them in this thread.

nov 21, 2024, 1:15 am • 1,540 460

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

youtu.be/uPPsB7doRt0?...

may 25, 2025, 4:16 am • 4 1 • view
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qM_...

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Elizabeth! @kikutowne.bsky.social

The Sweatbox archive.org/details/Swea...

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLb7...

may 23, 2025, 3:26 am • 2 1 • view
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

youtu.be/yjpYzFtxfjU?...

mar 9, 2025, 7:01 pm • 12 2 • view
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laura @lasagnahog.bsky.social

youtu.be/EQLWayZRyJo?...

mar 9, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

In the late 1970s, residents of Love Canal, a working-class neighborhood in Niagara Falls, NY, discovered that their homes, schools and playgrounds were built on top of a former chemical waste dump, which was now leaking toxic substances & wreaking havoc on their health. youtu.be/gR4YBDzPzd0?...

mar 9, 2025, 6:58 pm • 8 3 • view
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

The shocking true story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 1924 to prove they were smart enough to get away with it. youtu.be/J9b115R-3_Q?...

mar 9, 2025, 6:55 pm • 3 0 • view
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

m.youtube.com/watch?v=QY2P...

nov 30, 2024, 9:01 pm • 12 0 • view
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

bsky.app/profile/fire...

nov 22, 2024, 7:08 pm • 11 1 • view
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DesiLady @uzmab.bsky.social

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nov 29, 2024, 1:28 am • 1 0 • view
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

At the height of the Rust Belt primaries, Frontline goes to Milwaukee where presidential candidates tap the deep-seated anxiety and insecurity that fuels tensions between American businesses and their employees. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZARQ...

nov 22, 2024, 4:53 am • 24 2 • view
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

FRONTLINE correspondent Michael Ambrosino takes a personal journey through 1990s West Bank and Gaza to explore the critical issues at the heart of the Arab-Israeli peace talks. m.youtube.com/watch?v=tKA1...

nov 22, 2024, 3:04 am • 39 5 • view
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DesiLady @uzmab.bsky.social

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nov 29, 2024, 1:28 am • 0 0 • view
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Vishanti @missdiedra.bsky.social

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nov 29, 2024, 3:46 am • 2 0 • view
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Educ8tusAll🐍 @educ8tusall.bsky.social

Same!

mar 9, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtq2...

nov 21, 2024, 2:08 am • 39 8 • view
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxSi... "Correspondent Wallace Terry, the author of ‘Bloods,’ the national bestseller on which this film is based, talks with black veterans who fought discrimination in Vietnam and who later confronted disillusionment when they came home."

nov 21, 2024, 1:36 am • 53 5 • view
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disgruntled1.bsky.social @disgruntled1.bsky.social

I'm gonna check this out. I always been a big fan of Frontline docs. Surprised I ain't ran across this one.

nov 21, 2024, 1:51 am • 9 0 • view
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Steelcitycap @steelcitycap.bsky.social

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dec 4, 2024, 1:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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Spirit Equality @spiritequality.bsky.social

That book Bloods is fire. The movie “Dead Presidents” adapted a true story recounted in that book but basically botched the story IMO

dec 3, 2024, 3:17 pm • 2 0 • view
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Spirit Equality @spiritequality.bsky.social

This Bloods documentary is great. Thanks for for posting it!

dec 3, 2024, 3:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VClQ... A chronicle of the lives and economic struggles of two families in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — one Black and one white — across more than three decades, this “knockout documentary” raises unsettling questions about the changing nature of the American economy.

nov 21, 2024, 1:21 am • 108 26 • view
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Chelle Not Shelly @mmcleonard.bsky.social

I just watched this the other day…really good!

nov 21, 2024, 3:05 am • 4 0 • view
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disgruntled1.bsky.social @disgruntled1.bsky.social

I was gonna watch this a while ago but I got my own struggles lol.

nov 21, 2024, 1:53 am • 3 0 • view
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Pandora ✨️💖✨️ @thereelpandora.bsky.social

This is a good one. Glad they did an update on the families 30+ years later

nov 21, 2024, 2:56 am • 9 0 • view
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Raven Nicole @raveforgood.bsky.social

Love this one!

nov 21, 2024, 1:23 am • 4 0 • view
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Beyond the Bedside 🚫👑 @thenurseisin.bsky.social

Adding to my watchlist.

nov 21, 2024, 3:19 am • 2 0 • view
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nikki ☔️🇵🇷 @gentlegroove.bsky.social

Frontline is great, they consistently do fantastic reporting and documentaries. The episode “the man who knew” is one that comes to mind. About John O’Neill and 9/11. youtu.be/pbXPqWGGQ5U

nov 21, 2024, 9:06 pm • 18 1 • view
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Freedom2B @freedom2b.bsky.social

Oh! John! Yes, catch up on this. Wow.

nov 22, 2024, 7:28 pm • 4 0 • view
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app

Here's what I'm watching right now, this is a Frontline special from 1991 that explores how the military dealt with training troops on racial issues: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc49...

nov 21, 2024, 1:17 am • 118 21 • view
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social

Just going to suggest a resource: Many libraries provide access to www.kanopy.com/en along with e- and audiobooks, and it's got a lot of excellent documentaries on it (the Mavis doc comes to mind!)

nov 21, 2024, 1:24 am • 56 6 • view
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The More You Know @blowen.bsky.social

And Internet Archive @archive.org. And @hoopladigital.bsky.social.

may 25, 2025, 4:55 am • 1 0 • view
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Michele 🥄💛 💙 @micheleonly1l.bsky.social

Great suggestion. Kanopy is great. Many libraries also lend Roku device that have premium streaming services on them, so documentaries on those subscription services can be free too. I love libraries!

feb 18, 2025, 11:07 am • 4 0 • view
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yeahno1980.bsky.social @yeahno1980.bsky.social

Love Kanopy!

mar 3, 2025, 2:14 am • 1 0 • view
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Ken Levy @kjlevy100.bsky.social

m.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlm...

dec 12, 2024, 2:11 am • 4 0 • view
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Dj Ripley @djripley.bsky.social

youtu.be/y9lr3-7EYHI?... 1971 the documentary about the 3 antiwar activists who broke into FBI office in Media, PA, to get docs about inteference in antiwar movement but found evidence about COINTELPRO, which they made public. Made after statute of limitations ran out so activists tell their story!

jan 15, 2025, 3:31 am • 26 3 • view
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GreenInOC @greeninoc.bsky.social

🧵/1 My Review: Infuriating, frustrating, embarrassing, interesting, timely ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Infuriating watching my fellow White people twist words & be such tender snowflakes Frustrating that our country is stuck in a Groundhog Day (the movie) loop of dealing with/denying racism

jan 17, 2025, 2:41 am • 6 0 • view
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GreenInOC @greeninoc.bsky.social

/2 Embarrassing + enraging seeing the White liberal live up to the stereotype & melt into a tender snowflake with smug pettiness Interesting learning about the 1971 riots within the military & DEOMI that began that same year as a result and continues today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense...

jan 17, 2025, 2:41 am • 4 0 • view
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GreenInOC @greeninoc.bsky.social

/3 Timely in that it made me think of Hegseth's confirmation hearing and the "Alpha male" b.s. that members of the military learning about & recognizing discrimination is new, harmful to national security (more likely to White ppl fee-fee's), and makes us weak dkshipler.medium.com/defending-mi...

jan 17, 2025, 2:41 am • 3 0 • view
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GreenInOC @greeninoc.bsky.social

/4 Hegseth's hearing & this doc both reminded me of the fact that the KKK was openly operating at Camp Pendleton in the early 1970s bsky.app/profile/gree...

jan 17, 2025, 2:41 am • 5 2 • view
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GreenInOC @greeninoc.bsky.social

/end Free the Pendleton 14 is a 5-part podcast series that "...revisits what unfolded one night in 1976 when a group of black Marines...attempting to break into a Klan meeting...ended up in the wrong room. The KKK was meeting one door away" freethependleton14.wordpress.com/2018/10/14/f...

jan 17, 2025, 2:41 am • 3 0 • view
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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social

If “free” includes someone posted it on YouTube with German subtitles and it’s still up, then here is “Finally Got the News” about the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement/League of Revolutionary Black Workers youtu.be/6hGfZBaFHwo?...

nov 21, 2024, 1:22 am • 11 0 • view
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cjbxz @cjbxz.bsky.social

Wow that was really well done. Super interesting and insightful. Crazy how much ideas and opinions haven’t changed. Thanks for sharing.

nov 22, 2024, 6:33 am • 2 0 • view
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drsjt.bsky.social @drsjt.bsky.social

I am grateful you shared this. Challenges ideas that racism is an “old problem”. Personal painful humiliations shared only to be met with indifference and denial. Faces crushed with disappointment when they realize people aren’t hearing the truth.

nov 23, 2024, 12:53 pm • 4 0 • view
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Kay, Queen [of plan] B @kaytheory.bsky.social

Harlan County, USA: Bracing documentary of a labor action among coal miners, one of the greatest of all time www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-2q...

nov 21, 2024, 1:21 am • 73 5 • view
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Kay, Queen [of plan] B @kaytheory.bsky.social

Hey since this was reposted - this doc would be a great watch right now if you are feeling burned out or intimidated by the times we're in. It's transportive and could arguably be an escapist watch, but it's also invigorating and real. Also, I think this is the most liked thing I have ever posted!

mar 9, 2025, 6:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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M. Jackmanson @cjackmanson.bsky.social

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

may 25, 2025, 4:37 am • 0 0 • view
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M. Jackmanson @cjackmanson.bsky.social

This has been topped and tailed with short by an annoying "Thatcherite Scot" but still worth reading to learn about the final defeat of the organised Left in the UK. So strange to think within my lifetime there was real independent union power in the UK youtube.com/playlist?lis...

may 25, 2025, 4:40 am • 0 1 • view
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Pfunk, the Shenanigator @gluonsrule.bsky.social

angry inuk -https://youtu.be/thzMNIBkqJM?si=Hfb-08dyI3FBJTtB

mar 9, 2025, 7:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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Melissa Lawton @mellaww.bsky.social

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Kasi @kasikool.bsky.social

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nov 23, 2024, 1:29 pm • 1 0 • view
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Nurse Julie (she/her) @julienurse12.bsky.social

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nov 23, 2024, 9:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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Suka Blyat ✌️🇺🇦🩷🇨🇦 @zoomydu.bsky.social

This is absolutely beautiful and bittersweet. www.imdb.com/title/tt1288...

dec 27, 2024, 5:37 am • 0 0 • view
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gertrudious @erinchristinebell.bsky.social

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feb 14, 2025, 5:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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@whocares876.bsky.social

Reading about these incarcerated people fighting fires in California reminded me of Slavery by Another Name: www.pbs.org/show/slavery...

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@whocares876.bsky.social

Paris Is Burning youtu.be/Zi19rYdejFs?...

nov 22, 2024, 4:16 am • 40 5 • view
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Sericite @sericite.bsky.social

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Jennisaurus Rex @jennisaurusrexx.bsky.social

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skyler 🌿 @redskiesbynight.bsky.social

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LisaSea👩‍🎤 @lisasea.bsky.social

Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social

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annyare @annyare.bsky.social

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Van Dennis @vandennis.bsky.social

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Van Dennis @vandennis.bsky.social

youtu.be/TIgK56cAjfY?...

nov 23, 2024, 12:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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Curti Son, Masters Don @oldmancurt.bsky.social

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nov 21, 2024, 1:49 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sharkhand @sharkhand.bsky.social

Former White Supremacists talk about how they left the movement. m.youtube.com/watch?v=H7DU...

dec 28, 2024, 2:39 am • 17 3 • view
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scorpiobleue @scorpiobleue.teamlh.social

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nov 27, 2024, 4:43 am • 1 0 • view
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Freckled Face Ninja @freckledfaceninja.bsky.social

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nov 27, 2024, 1:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bunny Girl Big Zam @ruffianfgc.bsky.social

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feb 18, 2025, 12:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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Kat, Thee Meme Collector @katrina9275.bsky.social

Wish we had bookmarks on here so I could come back to this later 💔

nov 21, 2024, 1:20 am • 3 0 • view
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applescruff909 @applescruff909.bsky.social

If you reply to a post with only a red pushpin emoji (📌), you can save posts and access them on this feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...

nov 21, 2024, 1:31 am • 11 2 • view
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Kat, Thee Meme Collector @katrina9275.bsky.social

Thank you!

nov 21, 2024, 2:16 am • 1 0 • view
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applescruff909 @applescruff909.bsky.social

You're very welcome.

nov 21, 2024, 2:21 am • 1 0 • view
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Birdpoof @birdpoof.bsky.social

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nov 21, 2024, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view
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25thcenturygirl @25thcenturygirl.bsky.social

The Gilded Age youtu.be/yjpYzFtxfjU?...

dec 1, 2024, 3:22 pm • 5 0 • view
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25thcenturygirl @25thcenturygirl.bsky.social

The Corporation youtu.be/dpjypnxnS4U?...

nov 21, 2024, 5:23 am • 9 1 • view
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candyunicorn.bsky.social @candyunicorn.bsky.social

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nov 23, 2024, 11:55 pm • 1 0 • view
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CBKain23 @cbkain.social

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nov 22, 2024, 5:07 am • 0 0 • view
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kika @the17thqueen.bsky.social

Another good Frontline piece, on Korea’s adoption industry 💔 youtu.be/Rz3ME8K_zW4?...

nov 21, 2024, 1:19 am • 13 0 • view
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jessie11-24.bsky.social @jessie11-24.bsky.social

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dec 1, 2024, 1:31 am • 1 0 • view
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Cupcake Redford is Neon Black @cupcakeredford.bsky.social

Check out the Baby Box. It's about a Korean pastor and his wife that cared for unwanted babies. They literally drop them in a mailbox like apparatus he built.

nov 27, 2024, 4:36 pm • 3 0 • view
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kika @the17thqueen.bsky.social

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nov 27, 2024, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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rshowl.bsky.social @rshowl.bsky.social

Just saw this yday on pbs

jan 16, 2025, 10:48 am • 1 0 • view
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Amy Gibson @amyinsd.bsky.social

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nov 30, 2024, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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elaine no thumbs @elditzy.bsky.social

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nov 22, 2024, 2:16 am • 1 0 • view
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Jen @jen.bsky.social

Always the 13th. That documentary should be played everywhere. youtu.be/krfcq5pF8u8?...

nov 21, 2024, 1:34 am • 49 8 • view
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Anella Marie Writes @anellamariewrites.bsky.social

ALWAYS. It was so eye opening.

dec 19, 2024, 4:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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Infinite Sexy Marriage @infinitesexy.bsky.social

Before Stonewall (1984): youtu.be/gUC14NAyr1A?...

feb 27, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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midnightblue46.bsky.social @midnightblue46.bsky.social

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dec 1, 2024, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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The More You Know @blowen.bsky.social

Imagine a world where docs like this were required viewing in high school. Concise, important, accurate, successes, failures, inspiration, etc. And better for short attention spans than textbooks.

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Teddy @asteroidbelt.nyc

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nov 22, 2024, 4:57 am • 0 0 • view
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xtinamal.bsky.social @xtinamal.bsky.social

The Man with the Seven Second Memory… tells the story of Clive Wearing, who lives with severe amnesia following an encephalitis infection in the 80s. youtu.be/k_P7Y0-wgos?...

nov 21, 2024, 3:20 am • 3 1 • view
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nigelswhitelip.bsky.social @nigelswhitelip.bsky.social

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nov 30, 2024, 1:33 am • 1 0 • view
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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social

A six-part series, but I don’t want any of my friends to go into the next 4(?) years without seeing this. Seriously. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

dec 15, 2024, 11:55 pm • 1 0 • view
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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social

The rise of RW extremists globally post WWI seen as an historical event, yet familiar to what we may be seeing now.

dec 15, 2024, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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rcy @rcy.sh

Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: "If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hx-...

mar 9, 2025, 6:52 pm • 2 0 • view
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Dave Ghoul @daveghoul.com

Fantastic doc on the Toynbee Tiles. youtu.be/LYTK6QicICo?...

nov 21, 2024, 1:22 am • 1 0 • view
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Regency (they/them) @dryandsweet.bsky.social

This is an excellent doc about the national medical examiner crisis. This is from 2011 and I'm sure it's much worse now. Trigger warning for death and suicide youtu.be/mhuRGam7xG0?...

nov 22, 2024, 1:18 am • 4 0 • view
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Regency (they/them) @dryandsweet.bsky.social

A really good doc about the OceanGate disaster. youtu.be/h4bYuSL8uVQ?...

nov 22, 2024, 1:21 am • 1 0 • view
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Regency (they/them) @dryandsweet.bsky.social

The loss of the El Faro, a container ship. I learned a great deal about ocean navigation and emergency management here. youtu.be/-BNDub3h2_I?...

nov 22, 2024, 1:23 am • 0 0 • view
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Regency (they/them) @dryandsweet.bsky.social

Nautical incidentd are my special interest so *handwave* Two good docs about the Deepwater Horizon tragedy youtu.be/pLqwtK297kM?... youtu.be/LYALUCIyC2o?...

nov 22, 2024, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
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Regency (they/them) @dryandsweet.bsky.social

This Gwen Shamblin documentary (the cult leader featured in HBO's the Weigh Down) TW: disordered eating, diet culture youtu.be/h5ayw21ZE6g?...

nov 22, 2024, 1:30 am • 4 0 • view
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Amy Wilson @amywilson.bsky.social

This is a good one!!

nov 22, 2024, 5:08 am • 2 0 • view
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rp-vb.bsky.social @rp-vb.bsky.social

Excellent channel! There is an update for this video! youtu.be/czGuAnjm_gU?...

nov 23, 2024, 12:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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Molly! @moll.bsky.social

Post Mortem has haunted me since I saw it when it aired. Really good recommendation!

nov 27, 2024, 7:30 am • 1 0 • view
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himham @himham.bsky.social

Has anybody posted the 13th?

jan 8, 2025, 12:19 am • 0 0 • view
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Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social

The entire The Police Tapes 1977 documentary is on YouTube youtu.be/cj8JVCkGPek?...

nov 30, 2024, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
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heathferris.bsky.social @heathferris.bsky.social

Here's a documentary about historical European martial arts. youtu.be/7DBmNVHTmNs?...

nov 30, 2024, 12:38 am • 8 2 • view
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social

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jan 15, 2025, 5:23 am • 0 0 • view
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Kay @foolishnessnfckry.bsky.social

This was a good watch youtu.be/b4-CW0ajJRg?...

nov 22, 2024, 2:29 am • 4 1 • view
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Uvuvu @saedalmadhoun19.bsky.social

👋👋👋👋

jan 11, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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Blu Quartz 💙 @bluquartz2.bsky.social

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nov 22, 2024, 2:40 am • 1 0 • view
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JoAnn Chateau @alajoann.bsky.social

#NoamChomsky on "the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few." www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZnu...

feb 10, 2025, 4:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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JoAnn Chateau @alajoann.bsky.social

How Edward Bernays re-branded #Propaganda and fine-tuned it to manipulate the masses. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPm...

feb 10, 2025, 3:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dave is frankly appalled @franklyappalled.bsky.social

youtu.be/v6-K-arVl-U?...

feb 5, 2025, 3:39 am • 1 0 • view
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Pardz AVFC 🦁 @pardzavfc.bsky.social

One of my favourites. 2 parts about the start of life on this planet. Plus it begins in mine and David Attenborough's hometown of Leicester youtu.be/bpAMofkm6ho?...

nov 21, 2024, 12:38 pm • 5 0 • view
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ellenculliton.bsky.social @ellenculliton.bsky.social

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jan 16, 2025, 11:24 am • 1 0 • view
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mollstoll.bsky.social @mollstoll.bsky.social

www.nfb.ca/film/you_are... You Are on Indian Land (about the Jay Treaty). It documents a 1969 protest by the Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) of Akwesasne, a territory that straddles the Canada–U.S. border.

mar 10, 2025, 11:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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Shalune (Usually) @shalune.bsky.social

This documentary shifted my whole understanding of poverty, crime, and systemic problems in America. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5BC...

nov 29, 2024, 2:35 am • 27 4 • view
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Dana @danakunze.bsky.social

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dec 27, 2024, 5:27 am • 0 0 • view
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Leenerella @leenerella.com

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nov 21, 2024, 1:41 am • 0 0 • view
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JazzBluesSoulGuy @36thchamber.bsky.social

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JazzBluesSoulGuy @36thchamber.bsky.social

This is an hour long documentary about Sun Ra, his life and music. Definitely worth an hour of one’s life imo. It’s called “A Joyful Noise” youtu.be/7Esmjx8eVcE?...

nov 21, 2024, 1:25 am • 23 3 • view
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EnnHaitch @ennhaitch.bsky.social

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jan 4, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
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Influenceless Influencer ( Formerly Simone) @black-mzfrizzle.blacksky.app

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The Girl Who Can't Stop Reading 📚 @cheriieephii.bsky.social

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Alma @alma-huitron.bsky.social

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com

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KG @kgxvi.bsky.social

It’s on Hulu/disney+ so not sure it counts but Changing the Game about the experience of trans high school athletes is worth a watch

mar 9, 2025, 7:01 pm • 2 0 • view
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Your Unc's OG @thurgood-shakur.blacksky.app

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nov 22, 2024, 2:22 am • 0 0 • view
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loveroflife1987.bsky.social @loveroflife1987.bsky.social

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Liz @professor-elle.bsky.social

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nov 28, 2024, 9:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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Megalodon🦈Reads📚 @megalodon70.bsky.social

I use library resource Kanopy to watch documentaries. Free with library card!

jan 18, 2025, 4:53 pm • 4 0 • view
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Marianichka @peaches342.bsky.social

Hoopla is another library resource to watch docs and read/listen to books for free!

jan 27, 2025, 12:51 am • 2 0 • view
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Uncle Space Ghost @unclespaceghost.bsky.social

The most important documentary about unionizing EVER.

nov 22, 2024, 5:07 am • 2 0 • view
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KCWC @kcwc.bsky.social

I show this in my class about Literature, Work, & the Workplace, & the students get into it.

mar 9, 2025, 7:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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Uncle Space Ghost @unclespaceghost.bsky.social

Barbara Kopple really is a master of her craft. First saw it in film school in 2008, then revisited for a podcast on it back in 2022. It has what so few films achieve: relevance in any age. (Dropping a link jic anyone is interested :) )

mar 9, 2025, 7:13 pm • 1 0 • view
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Freedom2B @freedom2b.bsky.social

YT: DW Documentaries

jan 7, 2025, 4:52 am • 0 0 • view
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Jackie Marshall @duckjackieduck.bsky.social

Vigilantes Inc

feb 15, 2025, 1:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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clinkjet.bsky.social @clinkjet.bsky.social

Palestine. youtu.be/9H9iyvWGFQ0?...

nov 22, 2024, 3:24 am • 1 0 • view
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masha @mynamesmasha.bsky.social

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nov 21, 2024, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social

Not the best quality but it's free here. One of the best docs I ever watched.

nov 21, 2024, 2:59 am • 1 0 • view
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Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social

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nov 21, 2024, 2:58 am • 0 0 • view
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Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social

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Abby @proactivebusybody.bsky.social

This is so good. On Tubi and Freevee. It’s about how the world came to learn about the jazz music of Ethiopia. Has Buena Vista Social Club vibes. Loved it!

Ethiopiques - Revolt of the Soul (2017)
nov 21, 2024, 2:00 am • 8 1 • view
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social

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jan 15, 2025, 5:22 am • 1 0 • view
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Abby @proactivebusybody.bsky.social

You’re gonna love it.

jan 15, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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prfctlyimprfct4.bsky.social @prfctlyimprfct4.bsky.social

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nov 24, 2024, 1:48 am • 0 0 • view
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Lagerwhat @lagerwhat.bsky.social

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nov 22, 2024, 5:10 am • 0 0 • view
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Lagerwhat @lagerwhat.bsky.social

Stink! is a good one. My kids watched it for chemistry class. It's about unregulated fragrances and scents in consumer products. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk6e...

nov 21, 2024, 2:07 pm • 5 0 • view
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Lagerwhat @lagerwhat.bsky.social

Note by Note: The Making of a Steinway Piano is under an hour and an easy watch with beautiful music, obviously. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rAh...

nov 21, 2024, 2:10 pm • 6 0 • view
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Lagerwhat @lagerwhat.bsky.social

WTTW, Chicago's public station, has so many good documentaries on YT! As does Minnesota's Twin Cities PBS, which released a fun doc on the First Avenue club www.youtube.com/@wttw/videos www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9if...

nov 21, 2024, 2:14 pm • 6 0 • view
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a boy named stew @carysmiller.bsky.social

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Coup Otter @therealjimsanto.bsky.social

nov 24, 2024, 1:15 am • 1 1 • view
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Erica Stanley @ericastanley.com

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nov 27, 2024, 5:48 am • 1 0 • view
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Molly! @moll.bsky.social

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nov 27, 2024, 7:45 am • 1 0 • view
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Emily @mayhemily.bsky.social

youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM?...

nov 21, 2024, 1:38 am • 10 1 • view
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Bill Schenken @wschenken.bsky.social

Woohoo!! Fellow Adam Curtis fan!

nov 21, 2024, 7:36 pm • 3 0 • view
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Emily @mayhemily.bsky.social

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nov 21, 2024, 1:29 am • 0 0 • view
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Drosera @drosera0sundew.bsky.social

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PAM_SEZ @pamsez.bsky.social

Fall of Civilizations series on YT. Each epi details the rise and fall of ancient civilizations around the world. Might be a tough subject rn 😬 but highly recommend for anyone up to it! ✌ youtube.com/@fallofcivil...

nov 22, 2024, 3:04 am • 1 0 • view
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ratchetwrench.bsky.social @ratchetwrench.bsky.social

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nov 23, 2024, 10:38 am • 1 0 • view
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ratchetwrench.bsky.social @ratchetwrench.bsky.social

There is an interesting documentary about Sudbury Schools (self-directed education) by two German filmmakers. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

nov 23, 2024, 10:37 am • 1 0 • view
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hawaiianirishman.bsky.social @hawaiianirishman.bsky.social

www.praxisfilms.org/films/my-cou...

nov 21, 2024, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social

📌 Documentaries thread

nov 21, 2024, 1:33 am • 3 0 • view
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spaceyss.bsky.social @spaceyss.bsky.social

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nov 22, 2024, 5:31 am • 1 0 • view
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Karen 🇨🇦 @karen604.bsky.social

Following so I can watch these!

nov 21, 2024, 2:14 pm • 2 1 • view
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Go Birds💚🦅 @okoyessmile.bsky.social

^^^ @obleu.bsky.social

nov 21, 2024, 4:02 am • 1 0 • view
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Obsidian Blue @obleu.bsky.social

Appreciate it

nov 21, 2024, 4:27 am • 1 0 • view
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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social

Just saw this story today, on a documentary about the oldest house in the Austin neighborhood of Clarksville, a freedom colony founded by Charles Clark in 1871.

feb 6, 2025, 4:27 am • 2 0 • view
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margie @pettywhite.bsky.social

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nov 21, 2024, 1:40 am • 0 0 • view
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Smitty's Logic @smittyslogic.bsky.social

Did you know you can get PBS Passport which includes all the Nature, Frontline, Nova, other documentaries you could ever want paying just $6 a month to PBS? It's a great deal. You sign up to do the payments and then you go to PBS and sign into passport and you got it . Lots of docs!

dec 2, 2024, 7:19 pm • 4 0 • view
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com

Bringing Down a Dictator about the youth movement that brought down Milosevic

nov 21, 2024, 1:54 am • 34 10 • view
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com

Blue Vinyl about the plastics industry with the caveat that I have not seen it in a loooong time. She funded it with the money from a cancer settlement. She did it because she originally had a kind of cancer linked to vinyl (the diagnosis got changed)

nov 21, 2024, 1:57 am • 9 0 • view
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ratchetwrench.bsky.social @ratchetwrench.bsky.social

Blue Vinyl was good! Her first documentary was called A Healthy Baby Girl, it was about her cancer (her mom was prescribed DES when she was pregnant).

nov 23, 2024, 9:31 am • 1 0 • view
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com

Through a lens darkly about Black Photography (apologies in advance there was a chunk of my life that was about documentaries and like nothing else)

nov 21, 2024, 1:59 am • 24 4 • view
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Lorde Knows @jaiyvonne.bsky.social

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nov 24, 2024, 1:51 am • 1 0 • view
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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social

I loved this one. First thing that changed my perspective on plastics.

nov 22, 2024, 5:13 am • 0 0 • view
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Katiestereo @katiestereo.bsky.social

The Corporation | Feature Documentary | in HD youtu.be/6v8e7dUwq_Q?...

nov 21, 2024, 2:01 am • 1 0 • view
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Cupcake Redford is Neon Black @cupcakeredford.bsky.social

How appropriate for these times.

nov 27, 2024, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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IgnantSkolr @ignantskolr.bsky.social

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nov 21, 2024, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
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Chela @vidadesirena.bsky.social

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dec 27, 2024, 5:38 am • 1 0 • view
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Bob @cityofbob.bsky.social

Bill Moyers. This is about segregation in Queens in the 70s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv0n...

feb 12, 2025, 5:30 pm • 6 2 • view
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Smoke On The Water @smoke-on-the-water.bsky.social

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nov 23, 2024, 9:36 am • 0 0 • view
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LA @slumbeautiful.bsky.social

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nov 22, 2024, 5:39 am • 1 0 • view
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GreenInOC @greeninoc.bsky.social

Watched the 1st time in 2001 and it changed my life. It explores modern day slavery in the cacao trade focusing in on the Ivory Coast (*note, not a fan of Prof Bales), in the making of rugs focusing in on India, and domestic labor focusing in on the USA. www.truevisiontv.com/films/slaver...

jan 16, 2025, 8:04 am • 2 0 • view
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GrumpySilverback @grumpysilverback.bsky.social

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror 13th American Factory Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey My Octopus Teacher Virunga All on Netflix.

feb 4, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jerrica B @jerricab.bsky.social

The Ghosts of Flatbush - old doc on YouTube about the Brooklyn dodgers and integration of baseball. Excellent interviews

nov 21, 2024, 3:16 am • 1 0 • view
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notgoingback2024.bsky.social @notgoingback2024.bsky.social

Great idea. I will think about it. First one already comes to mind: "Vigilantes" by Greg Palast.

dec 15, 2024, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lois King (MPH) 🇬🇧 🇬🇭 @loisemilyking.com

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nov 22, 2024, 5:15 am • 1 0 • view
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Fourmoyle 🇯🇲 @fourmoyle.bsky.social

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Fourmoyle 🇯🇲 @fourmoyle.bsky.social

There you go. www.openculture.com/free-documen...

nov 21, 2024, 4:19 am • 4 0 • view
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Pam Fulkerson @pamfulkerson.bsky.social

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nov 24, 2024, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
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Joel Humowiecki ✶✶✶✶ @thelittlehummer.bsky.social

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nov 30, 2024, 9:45 pm • 1 0 • view
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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social

This free documentary is pretty great. Taliban as it's rarely presented. Especially on women. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYL-...

dec 29, 2024, 7:17 pm • 1 1 • view
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Lisa Lisa @lisaslisa.bsky.social

By August 2024, 40,000 self-proclaimed vigilante vote-fraud hunters had already challenged the rights of 852,381 voters — with a target of 2 million before the election. Did the voters decide the 2024 election, or voter suppression? youtu.be/P_XdtAQXnGE?...

dec 27, 2024, 5:08 am • 2 0 • view
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Kit @kitmandu.bsky.social

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feb 18, 2025, 1:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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applejack @onbuzzer.bsky.social

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nov 24, 2024, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
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lostintheheartland.bsky.social @lostintheheartland.bsky.social

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nov 27, 2024, 12:40 pm • 1 0 • view
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Guillotine-curious @kingpins.bsky.social

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nov 30, 2024, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.bsky.social

Summer of Soul is so good, not TOTALLY about the struggle, but like it’s still about something.

nov 21, 2024, 1:41 am • 25 0 • view
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Bill Schenken @wschenken.bsky.social

I really enjoyed this great combination of history and music. I learned way more about Black culture than I expected... loved it. We even bought the soundtrack on vinyl!

nov 21, 2024, 7:38 pm • 4 0 • view
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pandora1177.bsky.social @pandora1177.bsky.social

This was an eye opener: youtu.be/DnPmg0R1M04?...

nov 21, 2024, 3:23 am • 9 0 • view
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Liz @professor-elle.bsky.social

This is a four-part series. It’s been a while since I watched them all, but I also recommend Part 3, There Is A Policeman Inside All Our Heads He Must Be Destroyed. I used to watch it every year with my Cultural Studies class. youtu.be/DaPeRZxfQcI?...

nov 28, 2024, 8:47 pm • 5 0 • view
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Bill Schenken @wschenken.bsky.social

I try to get everyone I can to watch it... Adam CURTIS makes a trippy documentary folks pairs as well with libations

nov 21, 2024, 7:45 pm • 2 0 • view
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pandora1177.bsky.social @pandora1177.bsky.social

Have you watched “Can’t Get You Out of My Head?”

nov 22, 2024, 4:03 am • 2 0 • view
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Bill Schenken @wschenken.bsky.social

I have! I'm ready for a rewatch... my memory of it is hazy.

nov 22, 2024, 4:10 am • 1 0 • view
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Bill Schenken @wschenken.bsky.social

And I'm not sure I completely understand the ending... I also want to see if it still hits the same way.

nov 22, 2024, 4:14 am • 1 0 • view
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serendipityfalcon.bsky.social @serendipityfalcon.bsky.social

This: has some civil rights elders denied their vote, and one white lady responsible for "challenging" tens of thousands of votes in GA. bsky.app/profile/greg...

jan 7, 2025, 4:55 am • 0 0 • view
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Leslie @rbfchampion.bsky.social

Cheers! Portland, the Strip Club Capital of America did more to humanize sw than I was expecting.

may 23, 2025, 3:38 am • 1 0 • view
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Ray El Dubya @raywilson35.bsky.social

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nov 21, 2024, 1:40 am • 1 0 • view
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Kels @ibetrying.bsky.social

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nov 22, 2024, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jill Friedman @jbfree.bsky.social

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dec 1, 2024, 2:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Jill Friedman @jbfree.bsky.social

Israelism is free (but some commercials) on Roku and Tubi.

nov 30, 2024, 9:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jill Friedman @jbfree.bsky.social

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nov 22, 2024, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
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Peggy Cooke @pedgehog.bsky.social

The National Film Board of Canada has lots of great documentaries that are free to watch online: www.nfb.ca/documentary/

feb 18, 2025, 2:26 pm • 2 0 • view
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ᴀʟ ᴅᴏʀᴀᴅᴏ @aldorado.bsky.social

The Land Where Blues Began (1979) By Alan Lomax m.youtube.com/watch?v=3eMe...

nov 21, 2024, 2:12 am • 7 0 • view
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Robin Baraybar @robinbaraybar.bsky.social

This is so good.

may 23, 2025, 3:47 am • 1 0 • view
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ᴀʟ ᴅᴏʀᴀᴅᴏ @aldorado.bsky.social

Marjoe (1972) It’s in English, ignore the description. Exposes traveling preachers and faith healers by an insider archive.org/details/Marj...

nov 21, 2024, 1:47 am • 9 4 • view
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rp-vb.bsky.social @rp-vb.bsky.social

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nov 23, 2024, 12:38 pm • 1 0 • view
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Lakshmi Hutchinson @lakshmihutchinson.bsky.social

So good.

nov 22, 2024, 5:19 am • 2 0 • view
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Mícheál de Brún @thriftonaut.bsky.social

📌 thanks!

nov 22, 2024, 8:16 am • 1 0 • view
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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social

I think about this all the time. www.pbs.org/video/chasin...

nov 21, 2024, 1:44 am • 9 0 • view
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Victrola DJ @gointocarolina.bsky.social

Couldn’t pick out one so here are 285 or so www.openculture.com/free-documen...

nov 23, 2024, 3:42 pm • 8 1 • view
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mossiba @seasaltfairy.bsky.social

another gem youtu.be/IhT7oyDlBIk

nov 21, 2024, 10:52 am • 5 0 • view
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DesiLady @uzmab.bsky.social

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nov 29, 2024, 1:31 am • 2 0 • view
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sun-dayz.bsky.social @sun-dayz.bsky.social

Thank you for this. It's hard to describe what I just watched, for how terrifying its implications are, on a global scale

dec 14, 2024, 11:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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mossiba @seasaltfairy.bsky.social

youtu.be/1scCQ6BXkGI good researchers die too early

nov 21, 2024, 10:50 am • 7 0 • view
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ellenculliton.bsky.social @ellenculliton.bsky.social

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jan 16, 2025, 11:26 am • 0 0 • view
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Bill Schenken @wschenken.bsky.social

Graeber is one of my favorite thinkers. His Anarcharist Pirate culture stories are the shit. Thanks for sharing.

nov 21, 2024, 7:51 pm • 1 0 • view
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ReJeneration @jen1word.bsky.social

Bookmarked

jan 18, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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applescruff909 @applescruff909.bsky.social

Brick By Chance and Fortune, a documentary about the history of the clay and brick industry in St. Louis. It's fascinating and it's only a little over an hour.

nov 21, 2024, 1:23 am • 4 0 • view
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lisa26hd.bsky.social @lisa26hd.bsky.social

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nov 29, 2024, 4:25 am • 1 0 • view
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AKgrrrl @akgrrrl.bsky.social

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nov 30, 2024, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Aleksei Ilídio Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social

More Americans need to know about the history of eugenics in this country. youtu.be/vmRb-0v5xfI?...

jan 25, 2025, 11:14 pm • 13 3 • view
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campylobacter @campylobacter.bsky.social

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nov 21, 2024, 1:55 am • 0 0 • view
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iyawo ogun @ayoherbalist.bsky.social

youtu.be/RxoWyGFSGuk?...

feb 10, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
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Emmanuel Todd Lopez Jr. @wholesomedeve.bsky.social

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nov 23, 2024, 2:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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Evan Tilton @emtilt.bsky.social

This is a nice documentary about the people who make mezcal. The guy who directed it is very cool, and if anyone is in Guadalajara, they should visit Mezonte for a deep dive into the culture and stories behind these spirits! vimeo.com/256222332

feb 6, 2025, 4:25 am • 2 0 • view
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Travers Supports Trans Kids! @drbaseball.bsky.social

The Times of Harvey Milk is my favourite documentary

dec 13, 2024, 6:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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PicaxPica @picaxpica.bsky.social

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nov 24, 2024, 1:14 am • 1 0 • view
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Rachel @slightlycaustic.bsky.social

Here’s a documentary about the violence of the police officers in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Its on CBC gen which has free and paid service. www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...

mar 4, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
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dSavannah @dsavannah.bsky.social

About Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, the older sibling of Long Covid. If MEcfs had been studied, so many ppl would not be suffering right now. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XOpy...

nov 22, 2024, 2:41 am • 15 1 • view
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Kylee @kylee.bsky.social

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feb 6, 2025, 11:00 am • 1 0 • view
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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social

I love this doc. It expanded my understanding of what we mean when we say "women's health." A must watch.

nov 22, 2024, 5:17 am • 4 0 • view
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dSavannah @dsavannah.bsky.social

Glad to find someone in the wild who has watched it!!!

nov 22, 2024, 4:08 pm • 3 0 • view
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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social

In fairness, I was at Sundance when they supported it and it premiered at the festival. Netflix did them dirty.

nov 22, 2024, 6:47 pm • 4 0 • view
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dSavannah @dsavannah.bsky.social

Still. You watched it.

nov 23, 2024, 1:24 am • 1 0 • view
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Lydia @elliswkim.bsky.social

RECORDER The Marion Stokes Project about the Philadelphia librarian who recorded thousands of VHS tapes of TV, creating the largest television archive. Available for free on Kanopy!

nov 30, 2024, 12:54 am • 0 0 • view