Pls give a reason as to why you like it

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I really liked Behind the Curve. A crew follows around some flat earthers to see how they got into it and what it’s like living your life believing the Earth is flat. All of them talk about the friendship and comradery of the group more than why they believe the earth is flat. In fact, one of the members explains that if he was given definitive proof the Earth wasn’t flat, he’d still pretend it was because he wouldn’t want to lose his friends.

It really shows how people who hold extreme views often hold them because it gives them a group to be a part of. You’ll never be able to get someone to leave an extremist organization without giving them another group to be a part of.

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“Who killed the electric car?” A fascinating look at the EV1 — an electric car developed by GM in the early 90s and leased to customers in California. The customers then had to give it back when the lease was over… so that GM could crush them all into little pieces and pretend the car never existed. It will make you angry.

Second choice would be “Hands on a Hardbody” about a radio station giving away a truck in East Texas. It’s a great time capsule of its time and place. Both sad and funny.

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Oh man Hands on a Hardbody is one of my favs. A true classic. I even saw it in the theater when it came out!

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The private life of plants, by David Attenborough. I love it because it shows plants living at our speed (timelapses) with clear explanation and interesting facts. The soundtrack is nice and weird with a lot of synths, which is different from the normal orchestral backing. Also I love David :)

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So happy to see someone out on the webs that also enjoyed that documentary! It’s an older one, if I’m not mistaken. I really really really enjoyed that one and it gave me a much different perspective on plant life. I still think of some of the stuff i saw on that series.

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Ngl following the life of a plant sounds ultra boring, I don’t think even Sir Attenborough can do that interesting for me.

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I get where you are coming from, but you could not be more wrong. They fix the boring part because they speed up those parts by a factor of 30000 or more. I learned so much from this series of docu’s. Also… It’s Sir Attenborough, arguably one of the best in his class. He can do it, nobody. He can do it.

Spoken by a person who is almost infinitely interested in everything, hahaha.

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You haven’t lived until you see two vines desperately trying to choke the shit out of each other in “real time” for them which is like 20x speed for us.

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An Honest Liar.

World-renowned magician and escape artist James “the Amazing” Randi dedicates his life to exposing fake psychics and others who claim paranormal powers, while keeping a secret of his own that takes up the latter portion of the Documentary.

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The “Alone in the Wilderness” videos by Dick Proenekke. Middle-aged guy gives up on the rat race and heads to a remote spot in Alaska, builds a cabin, chills there for 30-years.

The man is amazing. Using hand tools he packed in by himself, he builds a nice cabin, hunts and fishes, all that. Dick needs a spoon or a table or a shelf? He makes one. He makes everything he needs.

No video has ever brought me such peace as listening to the narrator.

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I started watching it because the guy was making a spoon for himself and I thought it was so cool that he was so self sufficient

Then I turned on one of the episodes and we was going into his HOUSE that he made for himself, mucking around with the door and trying to make a good way of doing the hinges

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This started my love for watching folk build cabins by themselves, I must have seen a hundred by now!

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He’s my hero but have you seen the one’s he narrated himself? His voice is a little funny

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