What do you love watching documentaries about?

[Pixiesgirl]

For some reason I'm on a chernobyl kick again. Would like some ideas for new subjects 😀

Ancient history. Particularly anything on the Ancient Greeks or Romans. Bettany Hughes would be my perfect dinner party guest. She'd be my DH's too, but for different reasons.

Forensics, catching killers, Titanic, 9/11, space missions, fashion history, women's history.

9/11. I've watched loads.
Also true crime.

Anything to do with the Tudors

The detriment of social media then quite it at the teenagers

Extreme weather
Volcanoes
Anything with Lucy Worsley
Anything where people go back in time and live as that time period.
The National Geographic ones where they use the latest technology to visualise ancient structures.
There used to be a demolition one my dad and I used to watch where they documented how they demolish big buildings.

I find American ones hit and miss because often the voice over irritates me much like American voices audio books, Morgan Freeman should voiceover all their shows.

The Fyre Festival documentary is the most OMG one we've seen it was a car crash in slow motion

...ISIS brides. I've watched a bunch of these on youtube.

Generally, more modern affairs/political things. I love history, but I don't love historical documentaries - I don't have faith in them, because the ones I've seen have been quite sensationalised, shallow, and even wrong. I have more faith in non-fiction written history where they have to refer to their sources.

Ooh I started a thread, bit niche and only one response https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5069139-interesting-60s70s80spossibly-90s-documentaries?reply=135074873.

History - ancient Egypt and the Pharoahs, the Plantagenets, the Wars of the Roses, the Tudors.

We re-watched those about a month ago!

I love true crime and those 24hrs in A&E/police series they do.

Channel 5 has got some documentaries about bad storms of the 20th century - many of which I experienced personally. Includes what was happening politically, musically etc that year too, so quite nostalgic really!

There's also a programme called 'Abandoned Engineering' which is quite interesting. Everything from a city that was abandoned post-Chernobyl , to tunnels in the Alps going back to WWI, to prisons, to holiday resorts, to mining islands. All over the world. Can't remember the channel, might be Yesterday, but also on UKTV Play.

https://uktvplay.co.uk/shows/abandoned-engineering/watch-online

Medical/ surgical
Forensics
Social history

Blimey. I haven't watched any of this! Although I do like a good Lucy Worsley!

@PaintMyDoor there’s a subreddit about documentaries if you’re interested. Some good stuff mentioned
https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/