New documentaries
A collection of new documentaries added to Docur. Last update January 08, 2018 @ 01:15 PM
Bill Clinton: His Life
Love him or hate him, Bill Clinton was the 42nd presidents of the United States and lasted two full terms from 1993 to 2001. This Bill Clinton documentary does exactly what it says on the tin as it covers much of his life from years in college where he spent time protes[...]
Diana: In Her Own Words
A documentary about Diana Princess of Wales which sparked controversy when it was first broadcast on Channel 4 in August 2017. Diana: In Her Own Words reveals intimate details about her relationship with Prince Charles and other members of the Royal family through interviews she recor[...]
Elvis Presley: The Last 24 Hours
An Elvis Presley documentary directed by Mike Parkinson. This Rockumentary examines the final 24 hours of the rock musicians life which over the years have been questioned time and time again. He died on August 16, 1977, in the bathroom of his mansion in Memphis, Tennessee f[...]
History of World War II: Hiroshima
A Hiroshima documentary directed by Paul Wilmshurst exploring the bombing of the Japanese city during world war 2. On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m The “Little Boy” atomic weapon was detonated over Hiroshima, it was the second artificial nuclear explosion, after the Trinity te[...]
High Chaparral
High Chaparral is a short documentary film directed by David Freid about Swedens Wild West Approach to the Syrian refugee crisis. The country will be accepting more than 160, 000 immigrants due to the Syrian war and 500 of them will have found themselves living in High[...]
Engineering Giants
In this engineering documentary series presented by comedian Tom Wrigglesworth and Rob Bell, some of the worlds biggest and most complex machines are stripped down to reveal how they work. In the first episode, a 200-tonne jumbo jet (Boeing 747) is painstakingly taken apart to be insp[...]
Attenborough and the Sea Dragon
Naturalist Sir David Attenborough is back to investigate a remarkable 200 million-year-old fossil of a giant sea dragon found off the coast of Britain. Using state of the art technology and CGI David brings the story of the fossilised ichthyosaur out of the rock and shows us what[...]
Journeys of Apollo 11 - The Conquest of the Moon
The Apollo 11 space mission changed the world forever as it was the first time humans had ever been to a body off Earth. Americans Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon on July 20th, 1969 and after a 6-hour moonwalk, they returned back to Earth. It was probably the greate[...]
Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution'
Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution': The holocaust was one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century. Conducted between 1933 and 1945 it was the systematic murder of more than 6 million people most of a Jewish background orchestrated by Adolf Hitler and the Naz[...]
Pearl Harbor - The New Evidence
Pearl Harbor was possibly the biggest disasters for the United States during World War 2 and one of the most cunning military tactics ever conducted by the Japanse. This Channel 4 Pearl Harbour documentary brings new evidence into light regarding who was actually to blame for the incident which hist[...]
Cold War
A Cold War documentary series produced by CNN covering many aspects of this era. The Cold War officially lasted between 1947 - 1991 and was a string of tensions between nuclear powers with opposing values; Capitalism to the west led by the United States and communism to the East led by the Sovi[...]
Vienna: Empire, Dynasty and Dream
Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the history of Vienna in this documentary. The largest and capital city of Austria which dominated Europe for more than 1000 years and has been home to Roman Emperors, Mozart, Hilter among many other prominent figures. Vienna is a centre for culture and play[...]
Inside Chernobyl
Independent filmmaker Adrian Musto travelled to Ukraine in 2012 to record this Chernobyl documentary, in which we see how the town of Pyrpat has fared after being abandoned more than 30 years ago. The documentary was made with essentially no budget, the cost of a plane ticket, a DSLR and a paid tour[...]
Mahatma: Life of Gandhi, 1869–1948
Mahatma: Life of Gandhi, a three-part documentary presented by Vithalbhai Jhaveri about Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was an Indian activist commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’), he was born in Porbandar, Gujarat, in North West India, on 2nd Oc[...]
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
Silk Road was dubbed as being the “Amazon of the dark web”. Operating on the Onion encryption network (Tor), Silk road conducted all kinds of criminal activity from the ability to hire a hit man, buy drugs, “hire a hacker” among thousands of other things. While the[...]
The War You Don’t See
The War You Don’t See: A powerful documentary by world-renowned journalist and investigative filmmaker John Pilger on the role that media has in War. Beginning during world war one, the film examines how propaganda has been used in ever increasingly sophisticated ways[...]
Professor Green: Is It Time to Legalise Weed?
Is it time to legalise weed? Well, this topic has been on the table for years. For decades governments in the US have treated weed as a drug with the same harmful effects of crack cocaine and Heroin from a legal perspective, however, in recent years Governors such as congressman Trey Gowdy[...]
Professor Green: Dangerous Dogs
Professor Green returns to present a documentary about dangerous and illegal dogs. There is not a week that goes by without learning about someone being seriously injured or killed by a dangerous dog; its a worrying trend which seems only to be getting worse. Often it is the case that people buy dog[...]