Awesome Documentaries

(NSFW: Language) Parody street artist Hanksy puts his notoriety and knowledge of street art to good use in The Hundreds‘ documentary series Surplus Candy, where he takes us on a tour of the graffiti scene in various cities.

Red Bull Music talks to some of the best Japanese composers, game designers and the musicians they influenced in the amazing miniseries Diggin’ in the Carts. A must watch for video game and music fans. English captions available.

A documentary about former CIA and DIA employee Edward Snowden and the NSA scandal by award-winning journalist and filmmaker Laura Poitras. Laura is one of the first journalists to receive copies of leaked NSA files from Edward.

/DRIVE’s short interview with Davide Testi. Davide started out as a mechanic in Pagani and worked his way up to become a test driver. Now he gets to build Huayras with Horacio Pagani and his company car is a Zonda R.

(NSFW: Language) Jared Eberhardt’s two-part profile of the jaunty graphic designer and entrepreneur Aaron Draplin, co-founder of Draplin Design Co. and Field Notes. Your Pinterest board’s got nothing on his piles of junk.

The trailer for Everything Will Change, a documentary featuring two performances from The Postal Service’s reunion tour. It also contains interviews with and backstage footage of Ben Gibbard, Jimmy Tamborello and Jenny Lewis.

The New York Times sent a group of second graders to Daniel, one of the swankiest restaurants in New York City. With their tasting menu running $220 a person, will the kids embrace fine dining, or think it’s just weird?

Bregtje van der Haak and VPRO look at our collective disinterest in preserving our history, and talk to some of the organizations and people who are fighting to alleviate humanity’s amnesia. It’s 49 minutes long, but it’s a must watch.

A Netflix original, Print the Legend is a feature-length documentary about 3D printing, one of the most promising technologies today. The film is anchored on the histories of 3D printer manufacturers MakerBot and Formlabs.

Born with autism, Tim has learned to control his emotions and behavior. However, his parents are blunt and honest about his future, and everyday they fear that their son might regress. But they endure and stay happy together.

Rob W. Scribner’s short profile of John-Curtiss Paul, an air racer and warbird pilot. John flies and maintains legacy aircraft for the Warhawk Air Museum, a job that he’s well aware is a privilege, albeit a risky one.

A fascinating reverence comes through for steam locomotives in Julien Lasseur and Rustic’s short film which showcases the zeal for this mode of transport from Cleveland’s Charlie Sedgley and the Midwest Railway Preservation Society.

Gadget reseller Gizmogul gives us a peek at life in Agbogbloshie, Ghana, the world’s largest electronics dump. Parts of the junk in Agbogbloshie are sold or recycled but the rest are burned, polluting the town with toxic fumes.

Viral video maker Casey Neistat looks back at his relationship with his wife Candace, with the help of his cameras of course. The song is Talk, an original track made by Henry Hall for this video.

A documentary about cryonics, the practice of freezing the dead in the hope that they can be revived in the future. Cryonics facilities are legally classified as cemeteries. There is currently no way to safely reverse the process.

The oil boom in Williston, ND attracted so many people that even some of those who got hired couldn’t find a place to stay. When a priest turned his church into temporary housing, tensions rose between locals and the overnighters.