280+ Free Online Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

The best you can do in your free time is watch documentaries. They are an incredible source of learning and increasing awareness towards important issues. A good documentary can inspire you, open your mind to new possibilities and deepen your understanding of the universe. So here, only for our readers, we have gathered a mega list of nearly 300 free online documentaries to fuel your savvy. Keep in mind that there are endless topics to explore, although we’ve included almost everything, you may still find something that’s not on the list. Here you’ll find different viewpoint, controversial opinion, and contradictory ideas and facts that are yet to be explored. We advise you to Think Critically.

Art and Literature

  1. Modern Masters – Pablo Picasso (59:15)
  2. People Who Invented Art (56:52)
  3. Michelangelo – The Genius (59:07)
  4. Alex Grey – Contemporary Visionary Culture (1:39:32)
  5. Moonshine – Artists after Dark (06:30)
  6. How Art Made The World – The Day Pictures Were Born (59:19)
  7. The World’s Most Expensive Paintings (58:46)
  8. How Literature Can Change Your Life (41:08)
  9. Why Read: The Importance of the Liberal Arts (56:55)
  10. The Art of Literature: Motion Typography (4:35)

Biographies

  1. Secret Life of Isaac Newton (52:53)
  2. The Missing Secrets of Nikola Tesla (46:28)
  3. How Albert Einstein’s Brain Worked (14:30)
  4. Life Story of Warren Buffet and Bill Gates (44:23)
  5. Stephen Hawking: A Personal Journey (55:21)
  6. Bruce Lee In His Own Words (19:25)
  7. Breaking the Code: Biography of Alan Turing (1:30:46)
  8. The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (1:44:33)
  9. Abraham Lincoln Biography (1:25:23)
  10. The Story Of Thomas Alva Edison (30:09)

Bizarre

  1. The Man Who Ate Himself To Death (45:02)
  2. The Girl Who’s Older Than Her Mother (23:00)
  3. The 96-Year-Old Schoolgirl (44:52)
  4. Growing Up Without A Face (44:45)
  5. The 46 Year Pregnancy (46:12)
  6. Most Bizarre Events: Paranormal Supernatural (45:03)
  7. Strange Weird Events: Bizarre Nature (39:26)
  8. The Boy Who Lived Before (46:38)
  9. Strangest Medical Conditions (5:45)

Consciousness

  1. Theory of Everything: GOD, Devils, Dimensions, Dragons, Illusion & Reality (2:49:41)
  2. Does Consciousness need a Brain? – Evidence for Reincarnation (1:24:06)
  3. The God Within: Physics, Reality, Cosmology, Consciousness (44:10)
  4. The Human Brain (1:33:50)
  5. OM Chanting Divine  (1:01:01)
  6. The Soul Travelers (5:11:27)
  7. 528Hz DNA Frequency – UNLOCK Your Codons (1:02:17)
  8. KYMATICA – Expand Your Consciousness (1:23:56)
  9. Sacred Knowledge of Vibration and the Power of Human Emotions (1:10:17)
  10. What We Still Don’t Know: “Are We Real?” (48:28)
  11. 5 Gateways: Stages of our Ascension into the Higher Paradigm (1:41:55)
  12. Beautiful Minds: The Enigma of Genius (1:30:31)
  13. The Mind after Midnight: Where Do You Go When You Go to Sleep? (1:25:41)
  14. Lucid Dreaming Secrets (48:00)
  15. DMT & The Mysteries of The Pineal Gland (23:27)

Current Events

  1. How Media Lies to Manipulate Us  (57:35)
  2. The Corporation (2:25:16)
  3. Inside Obama’s Presidency (53:41)
  4. Warning Signs in America (14:59)
  5. The Great British Navy and Today’s World (58:13)
  6. Four Horsemen – How The World Really Works (1:38:53)
  7. Inside ISIS (2:04:10)
  8. Secret Cold War (44:48)
  9. Bible Prophecy Current Events (1:03:32)
  10. Born Equal – Same Sex Marriage (1:04:20)

Design and Creativity

  1. The Creative Brain: How Insight Works (58:02)
  2. Teaching to See (37:00)
  3. The Very Best of Design and Innovation (5:14)
  4. Design the New Business (39:30)
  5. Awesome Chinese Martial Arts (48:28)
  6. Terence McKenna – Opening the Doors of Creativity (1:41:57)
  7. Raising Creativity (1:17:13)
  8. David Lynch – Meditation, Creativity, Peace (1:10:57)
  9. Genius or Madness? The Psychology of Creativity (42:19)
  10. The Secret of Drawing – Drawing by Design (55:20)

Digital Revolution

  1. Inside The Dark Web (58:57)
  2. The Age of Big Data (58:47)
  3. How Hackers Changed the World (58:20)
  4. PressPausePlay – The Digital Revolution of the Last Decade (1:21:00)
  5. The Virtual Revolution: The Cost of Free (58:55)
  6. Anonymous: How Anonymous Hackers Changed the World (58:14)
  7. How the World Wide Web just happened (25:58)
  8. Google Surprising Secrets (45:09)
  9. In Search of The Most Dangerous Town On the Internet (19:59)
  10. Deep Web (1:39:59)

Disaster

  1. Deadly Tsunamis (50:59)
  2. World’s Most Deadly Tornadoes (53:16)
  3. The Year the Earth Went Wild (1:41:04)
  4. Top Engineering Disaster (45:36)
  5. Hindenburg Disaster (46:04)
  6. The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Unveiled (44:38)
  7. The Increasing Frequency of Earth’s Natural Disasters (48:12)
  8. Oil Disaster: Deepwater Horizon (44:44)
  9. Real Truth Behind Why Planes Crash (42:54)
  10. Future Disaster (44:59)

Drugs and Crime

  1. 9/11 What Really Happened? See with your own eyes (25:17)
  2. The Secret of Easter Island (50:28)
  3. The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror (1:27:48)
  4. The Most Intelligent Serial Killer (53:35)
  5. Real Life Hannibal Lecters Serial Killer (1:00:01)
  6. Real Facts about the Cannabinoids in Cannabis (1:55:34)
  7. Terror in Mumbai (1:04:26)
  8. America’s Hardest Prisons (47:57)
  9. Hollywood’s Most Horrifying Murders (1:27:15)
  10. Do Legal Drugs Kill More People Than “Illegal Drugs” (26:59)

Economics

  1. Money And Power in North Korea: Hidden Economy (48:07)
  2. The Corporation (2:24:03)
  3. The One Percent (1:16:28)
  4. History of Economic Globalization (1:55:31)
  5. The Great Crash 1929 (58:35)
  6. Power, Money, and Wall Street (58:37)
  7. Gold in India, Russia, China (1:18:19)
  8. The Biggest Scam In The History Of Mankind: Hidden Secrets of Money (29:34)
  9. Death of Dollar (36:02)
  10. Real Value | Sustainability (1:10:36)

Entrepreneurship

  1. Inside the Google Brother’s Master Mission (25:35)
  2. Larry Ellison: Billionaire Samurai Warrior of Silicon Valley (25:06)
  3. Mark Zuckerberg: Building the Facebook Empire (45:17)
  4. Amazon.com – World Biggest Online Retaile (25:00)
  5. Steve Jobs: How a Dreamer Changed the World (25:47)
  6. Starting-Up in America (24:09)
  7. Twitter: Full Story (25:03)
  8. Elon Musk: Risk Taker (52:05)
  9. Oprah Winfrey on Career, Life and Leadership (1:04:03)
  10. Nothing to Lose – Ryan Blair (1:04:10)

Health

  1. Food Inc. (1:33:44)
  2. Farmageddon – The Truth About the Food and Dairy Industry (1:26:20)
  3. Why Are Thin People Not Fat (58:21)
  4. Low Carb Diet: Fat or Fiction? (28:36)
  5. The Truth About Sugar and Exercise (1:04:24)
  6. War on Health (1:37:41)
  7. Cancer ‘Dying to Have Known’ (1:19:00)
  8. Why Did Steve Jobs Die? (41:47)
  9. Globesity: Fat’s New Frontier (59:56)
  10. The Girl Who Survived Rabies (46:28)

History and Religion

  1. Entheogen – Awakening the Divine Within (1:09:54)
  2. The Lost Gospel of Thomas: Christian Gnostic (9:38)
  3. Manifesting the Mind: Footprints of the Shaman (2:02:28)
  4. Origins: How Life Began (52:50)
  5. The Hidden History Of The Human Race (51:20)
  6. The Root of All Evil – The God Delusion (47:52)
  7. Secret Quest The Path of the Christian Gnostics  (23:58)
  8. Muhammad – Legacy of a Prophet (1:53:50)
  9. The Road To Armageddon (1:11:36)
  10. Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (1:34:49)
  11. Mysteries Of The Bible Banned From The Bible (1:29:22)
  12. Bible Codes – The Proof of God (1:32:27)
  13. Decoding the Past – Secrets of the Dollar Bill (45:12)
  14. The Hidden Faith of The Founding Fathers (2:59:30)
  15. Gnosis – Secret Gate to Garden of Eden (1:15:54)
  16. What The Ancients Did For Us (9:49)
  17. Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World (1:14:03)
  18. The Human Family Tree (46:03)
  19. Ancient Tamil Civilization – Truths Hidden by The Indian Government (48:00)
  20. Where Science and Buddhism Meet (21:20)
  21. Symbolism in Logos: Illuminati Subliminals or Ancient Archetypes (1:04:22)
  22. Death Machines – Machines of Malice (43:51)
  23. Ancient Greeks Spartan (54:55)
  24. Ancient Greeks Golden Age (54:49)

Life On Earth

  1. Home – The true story on how we exploit nature. (1:33:17)
  2. How Many People Can Live On Planet Earth? (47:47)
  3. Planet Earth 100 Million Years In The Future – What will happen to our world? (49:52)
  4. Mount Everest: How It was Made? (44:48)
  5. Marianas Trench: The Deepest spot on Earth (43:39)
  6. Earthlings – Unforgivable Use of Nonhuman Animals (1:35:25)
  7. All Things Are Connected (35:02)
  8. Story of Stuff (21:24)
  9. The Deepest Place On Earth (44:54)
  10. Earth’s Core (50:11)

Mystery

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  1. Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Secret Revealed (43:35)
  2. Secrets of the Egyptian Pyramids (1:36:15)
  3. Secrets in Plain Sight (3:43:46)
  4. The Baby Who Smelled Like Pancakes (44:07)
  5. Vampire Skeletons Mystery (45:00)
  6. 20 Most Shocking Unsolved Crimes (1:28:56)
  7. The Bible’s Buried Secrets (1:45:43)
  8. The Secret of Easter Island (50:28)
  9. Queen Nefertiti – Greatest Mystery of Ancient Egypt (1:41:36)
  10. Voynich Code – The Worlds Most Mysterious Manuscript (50:20)

Politics

  1. Owned & Operated (1:46:06)
  2. The True Story of Che Guevara (1:30:37)
  3. Rise Like Lions – Occupy Wall Street and the Seeds of Revolution (1:37:05)
  4. The War On Democracy (1:34:01)
  5. Martin Luther: PBS Documentary (54:13)
  6. Mahatma Gandhi Biography (6:40)
  7. Hitler’s Escape (44:14)
  8. A Day in The Life of a Dictator: Portrait of Craziness in Power (1:32:33)
  9. Century of the Self (58:17)
  10. EndGame: Humanity’s Extermination (2:19:29)

Science and Technology

  1. Future Transportation Technology Will Blow Your Mind (43:00)
  2. Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds (31:00)
  3. Naked Science – Telepathy (49:53)
  4. Everything Is A Remix (36:24)
  5. Mega Structures – Burj Khalifa, Dubai (45:01)
  6. Supernatural Science – Secrets of Levitation (52:21)
  7. Neuroscience Experiments: Human Version 2.0 (47:43)
  8. Transcendent Man (1:23:39)
  9. The Illusion of Time (55:40)
  10. Quantum Theory (54:53)
  11. Japanese High Speed Bullet Train (48:31)
  12. Airbus A380 (50:08)
  13. Horizon Infinity (59:12)
  14. Telepathy (49:55)
  15. How to Build a Satellite (53:06)
  16. Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity (2:54:54)
  17. Technology and Machine of Ancient China (40:16)
  18. How Will Nanotechnology Change the World? (54:19)
  19. Renewable Energy (40:14)
  20. Way to New Energy (23:24)

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Sports

  1. Mike Tyson – Beyond the Glory (1:26:00)
  2. Carts of Darkness – Lives of the Men who Race Carts (59:34)
  3. The Beautiful Game – The Dark Side (52:05)
  4. Fearless: The Jeb Corliss Story (45:13)
  5. The Making Of Ronaldo (46:25)
  6. The Legacy Of Michael Jordan (1:47:30)
  7. NBA’s Greatest Rivalries (47:03)
  8. We Ride – The Story of Snowboarding (1:32:20)
  9. How to become a BASE Jumper in 60 Days (47:14)
  10. Undefeated: Manassas Tigers football Team (1:53:20)
  11. Football’s Most Dangerous Rivalry (44:59)

The Universe

  1. The UFO Files- Extreme Close Encounters (1:39:15)
  2. How the Universe Works (43:10)
  3. Venus: Death of a Planet (25:05)
  4. NASAs Unexplained Files (1:35:34)
  5. Alien Contact Annunaki (40:31)
  6. Alien Species – From A – Z (31:54)
  7. The Universe Beyond the Big Bang (1:30:32)
  8. Fractals – Hunting The Hidden Dimension (53:13)
  9. Secrets of a Black Hole (42:00)
  10. When Will Time End? (25:11)
  11. Nova – Newton’s Dark Secrets (51:15)
  12. The Story Behind Neil Armstrong (55:25)
  13. Is There A Multiverse? (52:50)
  14. What Happened Before the Big Bang (:20:32)
  15. The Next Big Bang (44:51)
  16. Dark Matters / Dark Energy (1:20:27)
  17. The Science of Interstellar (41:00)
  18. Suit Up – 50 Years of Spacewalks (32:33)
  19. The Universe in a Nutshell (42:13)
  20. The Year of Pluto -Humanity Closer to the Edge of the Solar System (58:33)

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War

  1. America’s Top Secret Weapons Lab DARPA (45:09)
  2. The Complete History of World War II (51:39)
  3. Hiroshima Nuclear (atomic) Bomb – USA attack on Japan in 1945 (8:32)
  4. Weapons of Mass Deception (1:38:07)
  5. The Last Days Of Osama Bin Laden (44:50)
  6. Battle of Al Khafji (49:28)
  7. Korean War in Color (1:25:05)
  8. Vietnam War (1:36:20)
  9. Submarine Warfare of World War II (1:25:52)
  10. The War of 1812 (1:54:10)

WildLife

  1. Last Day Of The Dinosaurs (56:18)
  2. Life of Lions Hunting, Fighting, Mating (1:25:55)
  3. Habitat of the Orca Killer Whales & Sea Creatures (56:19)
  4. Alligator Gar – Nightmares of Nature (44:59)
  5. The Wonderful World of Cats (1:32:05)
  6. Wild Dog Packs of the Indian Forest (47:12)
  7. Africa’s Most Dangerous Snake (58:59)
  8. Amazing Wildlife of Alaska (50:20)
  9. Patagonian Mountains – Animals at Night (59:00)
  10. The Fight For Survival – Africa Wildlife (55:13)

Miscellaneous

  1. Philosophy of Life and the Beauty of a Flower (5:11)
  2. Paradise or Oblivion (48:11)
  3. The Men Who Built America (41:05)
  4. Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk (1:56:02)
  5. Influencers – How Trends and Creativity Become Contagious (13:56)
  6. Who Killed Bob Marley Documentary (8:09)
  7. Air Crash Investigation Airbus A380 Titanic In The Sky (45:27)
  8. Money and Life (1:26:14)
  9. The Power Of Nightmares (59:01)
  10. The Da Vinci Code: The True Story (43:39)
  11. The Future of Learning, Networked Society (20:16)
  12. The Men Who Crashed the World (42:30)
  13. The Hidden Knowledge of the Supernatural (43:44)
  14. Spiritual Reality Power Of Meditation (56:33)
  15. Edward Snowden: A Truth Unveiled (42:55)
  16. How Smart Can We Get (52:01)
  17. A Virus Called Fear (20:00)
  18. Beyond Thought (1:25:32)
  19. 97% Owned (2:10:22)
  20. There’s No Tomorrow: Peak Oil, Energy, Growth & the Future (34:52)
  21. A Certain Kind Of Death (1:09:37)
  22. The Great Transformations (1:20:32)
  23. The World Without US (1:21:30)
  24. How Did Galileo Galilei Change the World Today? (54:52)
  25. Why Is The Wealth of Nations So Important? (1:09:52)
  26. Earth From Space (1:54:21)
  27. Awesome Chinese Martial Arts (48:28)
  28. The World’s First Face Transplant (48:57)
  29. Portals To Hell Are Being Opened (1:09:24)
  30. Will Humans Ever Evolve Again? (6:42)
  31. Inside Living Body (1:29:00)

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Varun Kumar

I am a professional technology and business research analyst with more than a decade of experience in the field. My main areas of expertise include software technologies, business strategies, competitive analysis, and staying up-to-date with market trends.

I hold a Master's degree in computer science from GGSIPU University. If you'd like to learn more about my latest projects and insights, please don't hesitate to reach out to me via email at [email protected].

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  • Animesh Singh says:

    Hey Varun, you know you had taken place in the list of my favorites inspirations and inspiring personalities.

    You had given so many videos that looks motivating and conscious by the topic itself, it would take more than 3 months for me to watch every video of this list, but it looks so inspiring that I would surely watch and download completely.

    I Just wanted to know that had you really watched all these lengthy videos, in the list that you had mention in your post? Are all this 280 videos really watched by you?

    I just can’t appreciate you effort fully, because you are so dedicated towards blogging. I am also a newbie blogger and I had realized how many effort, hard work, research and dedication it takes to write just one small post. And you write just so lengthy and meaning full post that it just awesome. Even though I go to school (class 9 now) and you also go to college (I guess), and how you manage the time for posting in you blog regularly and also to watch these videos, and do these research along with? I just wanted to know these.

    And also I want to see your real face and want to add you in my facebook or google+ PERSONALLY. And now I know why you are not founded in FB and G+, because you are so busy!

    Thanks,
    I am always with you!

    • Varun Kumar says:

      Hey Animesh,

      First of all, thanks dude for your precious comment. I’m glad young guys like you read this website on a regular basis. I must say, you are more mature than your age.

      I’m a college student and I like to code, research and watch real life documentary on weekends. I’ve seen all video listed under Consciousness, Biography, Digital revolution, Entrepreneurship and Science and Technology. Rests are under my “watch later” list. I run this website with my 2 friends and the things that we find inspiring and interesting is what you see in the post.

      And yes, we are not much active on Facebook or Twitter as we don’t get much time for online fun.

      Once again thanks for your kind words 🙂

      • Animesh Singh says:

        Thank you very much for your appreciations,

        You know why I visit 3rank on a regular basis? Because I get all the things that I am interested in over here.
        I love to read and know more about General Knowledge, Tech Facts, Inspiring Personalities, Cosmos and Universe, Tech and Computer and Internet Tips, Web Development guides, Graphics and IT’s stuff. And all these things are founded here. And most importantly all the post and updated regularly, so that I don’t learn any outdated stuffs.

        You really do a great job,
        Go Ahead, I’m always with you!

  • why the documentaries Paradise or Oblivion, those from ProsocialProgress/NewFutureMedia, and Zeitgeist trilogy isn’t there?

    • Varun Kumar says:

      Well, it’s almost impossible to put everyone’s favorite and all good documentaries in one list.
      Thanks for your suggestion though.