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10 out of 10 documentaries to make you smart again but they get progressively more niche. The Social Dilemma. The tech guys who built Instagram and Facebook explain exactly how they engineered your phones to ruin your attention span. You'll never scroll the same again. An Inconvenient Truth. This Al Gore film that mainstreamed climate change. It also won an Oscar. Blackfish. The documentary about SeaWorld and captive orcas that literally tanked the company's stock. You learn about corporate cover-ups and the actual power a documentary can have. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Thomas Piketty's 700-page economics book turned into 100 minutes. Some of his views are now contested, but it's still interesting. Icarus. Basically, a guy sets out to make a documentary about amateur cycling doping and then accidentally uncovers the entire Russian Olympic state-sponsored doping program in real time. It also won an Oscar. The Act of Killing. Indonesian death squad leaders from the 1965 genocide reenact their own murders as Hollywood scenes. This teaches you more about atrocities that actually happen than any history class. 13th. Ava DuVernay on the 13th Amendment and how American mass incarceration was engineered. The Century of the Self. Four hours on how Freud's nephew basically invented modern advertising and consumer capitalism. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. It's basically about how the smartest MBAs in America ran the biggest fraud in history. Accounting, deregulation, arrogance, all in one sitting. Examined Life. Astra Taylor walks around with eight of the biggest living philosophers, Frank West, Peter Singer, Judith Butler, they explain their entire worldview. Can't Get You Out of My Head. Curtis again. Some call the most ambitious documentary ever made. Follow for more recs.