These Are the Best Documentaries That You Can Watch Right Now

Apollo 11

Director Todd Douglas Miller commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing with this behind-the-scenes look at how the infamous scene came to be. With restored footage, talking heads, close narrative, and more storytelling techniques, Miller made this far-away land feel close to home.

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The More You Know

  • Holding a sneeze can be dangerous.
  • 9% of Americans have phobias.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
  • The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
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