The Best Places to Watch Documentary Movies Online

It is an issue though, that so much fictitious garbage is packaged in a documentary format and made to look legit to the unsuspecting average Joe. Obviously, Moore is the all time king at implying things while still leaving a loophole to back out -”Well I never actually SAID Bush conspired with the Saudis…” sort of stuff. The power of editing is a real thing. The facts get lost -deliberately or not- in the middle sometimes.

I made a short doc about about Miss Iran of 1976 you might like. Check it out-

http://www.revver.com/video/303030/jelveh/

You might also want to try JohnLocker.com for documentaries and educational videos. It’s updated daily with some of the best documentaries I’ve seen in a while.

You should add The Internet Archive to this list. http://www.archive.org

There is a HUGE collection of media archived in this online library, that plays host to a lot of great internet features, including the Wayback Machine…..

Check it out

You should have pointed out in this article which ones of these services are free and which ain’t? I guess Joost is pay-TV?

Thanks!

I can’t believe you left out Thoughtware.TV. If you want only the best Science and Technology videos from all over the Web, that’s the first place to start:

http://www.Thoughtware.TV

Thank you so much for this. Been looking for documentaries to watch. I waste a lot of time searching on Digg, google videos, etc. I’ll just start here.

Here is my favorite documentary TV channel:

http://www.myeasytv.com/show_channel.php?id=276&name=Earth_Channel

Another good source is the CBC documentary archives

http://archives.cbc.ca/index.asp?IDLan=1

http://www.cbc.ca

The absolute best place to watch documentaries, bar none, has been Google Video. I don’t know that they are legal versions; but I have seen Helvetica, Taxi to the Darkside, Titicut Follies, Supersize Me, and other extremely prominent documentaries there. I have no idea why they were there; but they were up in high resolution. Both Taxi to the darkside and helvetica were up BEFORE they played in my town (Seattle).

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VBS has some massively overlooked stuff.

There’s a fantastic rundown of specific online films that are worth watching from around the web here, and aside from Frontline it doesn’t cover the same ground as this:

http://xcity-magazine.com/?p=125

DOCUMANTIS is the best site for watching documentaries!

http://www.chooseandwatch.com/ is far better

Thank you for the links. I love Frontline, but did not realize that the documentaries are available online.

Perfect for Documentary Lovers like me, thank you. Ill add a link for thin on mi site

Check out http://www.joiningthedots.tv., loads of great documentary at really high quality.

The BEST one is http://tvshack.net/documentaries/ (made by the tv-links guys)

http://www.documentary365.com - sorted by categories, in different languages, and including descriptions.

Here you can find documentaries from many sources on the web.

Página en Español con Documentales online muy INTERESANTES!
os la recomiendo…

Un saludo, learn Spanish with DocuTUBE.es

Yet another great site with more than 1000 documentaries is http://www.factualTV.com - all free and superb quality.

“The other similar but slightly smaller services are QuickSilverScreen (QSS)” - yeah, with almost 3000 documentaries that makes so much sense… O_o

All of this sites had interesting stuff on them, but I think you should complement the list by adding factualtv.

I found http://www.factualtv.com while surfing the other day and really liked it, it’s yet sort of a beta but they seem to make improvements everyday. I’ts a place to watch documentareis online and on-demand free of charge. If you’re in to documentaries like I am you might want to check it out. Hope you all like it and that it makes the list!

Love the list either way!

I’ve been checking out TidalTV lately — not so much for Documentary movies, but they do have some cool tv shows (National Geographic, Discovery, that sort of thing). If you’re interested (and, really, why would you be on this page if you weren’t), I’d check ‘em out.

Free documentaries at http://www.snagfilms.com While I’m not a big fan of the ads, they’ve got some interesting films, esp. the environment and animal docs. Some of the ones on your list above are good, but their pointing to google or youtube. At least lets try and respect the filmmaker.

Check my site…only top quality, new and varied documentaries…

Online Documentaries 4 U - http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/

This site is only a few months old and already more than 100 of the best documentaries to watch for free!

Online Documentaries 4 U

My site Free Online Documentary dot com has only been online for a few weeks but hopefully it’ll be one of the best places to watch documentaries soon.

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Here is the free documentaries site I like the best -in design.

I may have a little bias though, since I was the one who designed it

Also check this one out: The Documentary Log

There is one more great site for watching and previewing documentaries, and that is Top Documentary Films

You can watch Documentary in http://www.BbPcTv.com/Category-Documentary.aspx in high definition online. You can also find all your favorites TV shows online on demand anytime directly from the producers… and it is free!

A new great way to watch free documentaries online without downloading is http://www.documentary24.com

For all of your Movie needs http://www.Jisu-movies.net

Im having an extremely difficult time finding old documentaries which i need to study. Films by Fredrick Wiseman and the doco Nanook of The North. :S Any idea which would be useful for finding these?

I love to watch documentaries so these are some of the best sites that I have come across. I know there are more places out there but these are some that I have never heard of and will be checking them out so that I can see what they have to offer.

if your looking for movies you just have to look around now i found a site that was very good and i go there most often now because i was tired of the pop ups and internet explorer been taken over by other sites http://stage66movies.blogspot.com http://onlineguidetomovies.blogspot.com http://www.jisu-movies.net http://qp-movies.blogspot.com there are more but these are the ones i use the most

No VBS.TV, reallly? They have some amazing stuff.

VBS.TV

Also have a look at Free Documentaries Online.

Another great source, and it streams to iPhones seamlessly

NonFictionVideos.com

Watch movies on iPhone

There’s a fantastic rundown of specific online films that are worth watching from around the web here, and aside from Front line it doesn’t cover the same ground as this:

I really don’t see why DVD s would die anytime soon; short of creating some sort of virtual reality disc that allows you to actually be in the movie.

thanks for this post

RE Documentary “fictitious garbage”: Now that I’m older (I’m in my fifties), something my father always told me makes more and more sense with each passing year (not that I didn’t believe him when I was younger, but I didn’t understand the full import of what he was saying): “You can NEVER really know ANYTHING.” I now understand that you can try and try to suss out the “truth”, but you’re never going to REALLY know it, not for sure. Well, that should keep us all humble, huh?

The majority of the docs found above can be found in one place, use the links below.

Most of the docs found on the sites above can be found on my site.

Heyas!

Just suggesting one of my favourite documentary websites