Best Documentaries

I love the story of Fenn’s treasure! In 2010, a dying art dealer named Forrest Fenn hid a chest of gold and jewels in the Rocky Mountains and dared the … Read more

Corruption. Cults. Chaos. From a typewriter-wielding maniac in Aspen to Silicon Valley snake oil and New Jersey mobsters, these 7 documentaries spotlight some of the wildest scams, cover-ups, and creators … Read more

Musk funds a doc to warn us. Kurzweil wants to live forever. Kasparov flips out. A Korean Go god nearly cries after an AI makes “Move 37.” DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis … Read more

It was tough to find great documentaries on C.S. Lewis. Here are the best I’ve found so far. I’ll keep adding to them! 1) Beyond Narnia: The Real Life Of … Read more

Before Amazon and Walmart ruled the retail world, The Fuller Brush Company (founded in 1906 by Alfred Carl Fuller) built an empire—one brush at a time. And no tech giant … Read more

At just 3 feet 6 inches tall, Warwick Davis towers over Hollywood. With unforgettable roles in “Harry Potter,” “Star Wars” and “Willow”, his films have grossed an astonishing $14.5 billion. … Read more

I’m doing something different here than I usually do. The alleged murder of Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione happened December 4, 2024. And within just a couple of weeks a … Read more

Every August, kids in Heimaey, Iceland rescue pufflings (baby penguin-looking birds that mistake streetlights for the ocean). By morning, these Icelandic kids climb 200-meter cliffs and launch the fluffy chicks … Read more

You think opera’s just for powdered wigs and velvet curtains? Wrong. One guy belts arias down the hallway at 90, another stages a five-hour acid trip with no intermission. And … Read more