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Digital documentaries we find so you don’t have to. Watch, enjoy.

A COLLECTION OF HUMAN-INTEREST / Digital documentaries we find so you don't have to.
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HUMAN-INTEREST Nº 5

DIGITAL DOCUMENTARIES WE FIND SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO

Welcome to our weekly collection of visual journalism, documentary film and feature essays dedicated to people stories we're watching online. Switch to HD, put the headphones on and enjoy. 

LAST TRAIN

MATT KNARR

A filmmaker interviews people on the last train home - about what happens on the last train home.

EVERY NYT FRONT PAGE SINCE 1852

JOSH BEGLEY

Skipping through time with the Times - a visual journey

BUZKASHI BOYS

SAM FRENCH - VICE

Realising dreams coming into manhood in Afghanistan. A classic short documentary we finally watched. Well done Sam French.

THE DEVASTATING HUMAN COST OF JADE

SEEKER STORIES

A photographer reflects on the high price miners’ pay in Myanmar

THE UNHEARD STORY OF APPALACHIA’S COAL INDUSTRY

AJ+

When coal was king in America - the first part of a short documentary series. 

FITNESS GOALS: BODYBUILDING AT 80

GREAT BIG STORY

The title says it all. 

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KONYAK : TIME WAITS FOR NO WARRIOR
KONYAK : TIME WAITS FOR NO WARRIOR

These last remaining Konyak warriors are living time capsules to the past, whose stories chronicle tribal times fast-fading from the eyes of the world.

TIGER RANGERS
TIGER RANGERS

The tiger had finished eating the ranger’s dinner, a meal of nasi goreng chicken and rice, and now beast and man crouched a few metres from each other their eyes locked.  

ANTARCTICA AND US
ANTARCTICA AND US

To stay wild the Last Great Wilderness needs us to keep it that way. Antarctica has reached into our hearts and minds and tugged at our adventurous spirit ever since the Ancient Greeks hypothesised that a great southern continent Antarktos had to exist.

VAPE CARVERS
VAPE CARVERS

In Bali we find a confluence of culture where technology, art and vape intersect as a new subculture emerges. In a grungy workshop in Tampaksiring, Bali a master carver sits bare chested and cross-legged under the deathly stare of animal skulls...

THE STREET SADHUS OF RISHIKESH
THE STREET SADHUS OF RISHIKESH

As dawn rolls over the shoulders of the Himalayas each morning hundreds of devout Hindu holy men bask in sunshine and bathe in azure waters of the Ganges River. The Sadhus of Rishikesh are a striking sight. 

THE LOCH NESS HUNTER
THE LOCH NESS HUNTER

Meet the Loch Ness Hunter. In 1991 Englishman Steve Feltham sold his house and all his possessions to embark on a quest to unravel the mystery of the Loch Ness Monster. He expected to be gone for two years. Twenty-six years later and he’s still searching.

I WAS SHOT IN JOBURG
I WAS SHOT IN JOBURG

That day we met the "I Was Shot In Joburg" boys. A collective of former street kids turned artists using disposable cameras to document their surroundings in Johannesburg, South Africa. 

SECRETS OF THE SIKEREI
SECRETS OF THE SIKEREI

There's no distinction between daily life and the divine on Siberut, the largest island in the Mentawais and where we have travelled 60 kilometres upriver to meet animist jungle-dwelling shamans. 

LONGNECKS OF LOIKAW
LONGNECKS OF LOIKAW

In the mountainside villages on the outskirts of Loikaw, Myanmar live the longneck ladies of a tribe carrying on a curious tradition steeped in mystery that is now entering an uncertain future, where tourism meets tradition. 

CHOLITA WRESTLERS
CHOLITA WRESTLERS

The indigenous Bolivian women fighting stereotypes and grappling with decades of discrimination through wrestling. A night spent ringside with the Cholita Wrestlers. 

INSTAGRAM

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Daily life at Bulungula Lodge, a community-owned eco-lodge on the windswept Eastern Coast of South Africa. A place that sustains local culture and is 100 per cent owned and managed by the vibrant, traditional Nqileni village, a Xhosa community. All
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