Hostages – about the 1979 Iranian revolution and the 1979–81 Iran hostage crisis. I knew a bit about the American side of this, but seeing Iranian history and context was the most interesting part. Absolutely relevant to current events.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostages_(2022_TV_series)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostages_(2022_TV_series)</a>
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It was made a couple of years ago, but Defuncland's "Disney's FastPass: A complicated history" is an incredible documentary that I watched this year. You don't need to know too much about Disney for it to absorb you in.<p>[Defunctland]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yjZpBq1XBE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yjZpBq1XBE</a>
For me, it has been this 30-minute video on the disasters climbers faced attempting to summit K2: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfO61yFgUqA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfO61yFgUqA</a>
An excellent, inspirational TV program telling the story of Ben Ferencz who was an appointed prosecutor for the Nuremburg Nazi war trials.
<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-09/the-last-living-nuremberg-prosecutor-dies/102203444" rel="nofollow">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-09/the-last-living-nurem...</a>
<a href="https://benferencz.org/video/prosecuting-evil-the-extraordinary-world-of-ben-ferencz-trailer/" rel="nofollow">https://benferencz.org/video/prosecuting-evil-the-extraordin...</a>