What's the best documentary you've watched this year?

Hostages – about the 1979 Iranian revolution and the 1979–81 Iran hostage crisis. I knew a bit about the American side of this, but seeing Iranian history and context was the most interesting part. Absolutely relevant to current events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostages_(2022_TV_series) HBOMax

It was made a couple of years ago, but Defuncland's "Disney's FastPass: A complicated history" is an incredible documentary that I watched this year. You don't need to know too much about Disney for it to absorb you in.

[Defunctland]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yjZpBq1XBE

20 Days in Mariupol was devastating, and a reality check.

For me, it has been this 30-minute video on the disasters climbers faced attempting to summit K2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfO61yFgUqA

Songs of Earth > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTzJws8GbUQ&ab_channel=Stran...

An excellent, inspirational TV program telling the story of Ben Ferencz who was an appointed prosecutor for the Nuremburg Nazi war trials. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-09/the-last-living-nurem... https://benferencz.org/video/prosecuting-evil-the-extraordin...

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