Philosophy & Big Ideas Documentaries

The questions that never go away, and the minds that chased them.

• Great Thinkers

Topics

• Great Philosophers documentaries
• Big Ideas & Ethics documentaries

• The ONE RULE for LIFE - Immanuel Kant's Moral Philosophy - Mark Manson (22 min, After Skool)
• Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed (1/2) (43 min, DW Documentary)
• Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed (Director's Cut) (91 min, DW Documentary)
• Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed (2/2) (43 min, DW Documentary)
• Do You Have a Free Will? (12 min, Kurzgesagt)
• The Most Controversial Problem in Philosophy (10 min, Veritasium)
• Ethics and meat consumption (32 min, DW Documentary)
• Confucius, 551 BC: Ancient China's Philosopher Who Changed The World (89 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Why Passivity Breeds Mediocrity and Mental Illness (9 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Why You Should Seek Power, Not Happiness - Nietzsche's Guide to Greatness (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Profound Meaning of Plato's Allegory of the Cave (17 min, After Skool)
• Nietzsche and Dionysus: Tragedy and the Affirmation of Life (19 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Nietzsche and Psychology: How To Become Who You Are (15 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Confucius: Ancient China's Most Influential Philosopher (89 min, Odyssey)
• Confucius: The Father Of Chinese Society | Confucius (88 min, Odyssey)
• HISTORY OF IDEAS - Wabi-sabi (9 min, The School of Life)
• PHILOSOPHY - Albert Camus (10 min, The School of Life)
• How to Escape from a Sick Society (13 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Nietzsche and Morality: The Higher Man and The Herd (14 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Plato and Pythagoras: The Minds Behind The Modern World? (54 min, Odyssey)
• A Harmless Man is NOT a Good Man - Jordan Peterson (9 min, After Skool)
• Best Insights from Alan Watts, Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk, Aristotle, Eckhart Tolle, Joe Rogan &More (9 min, After Skool)
• What Is Nothing? (16 min, Be Smart)
• PHILOSOPHY - Schopenhauer (9 min, The School of Life)
• Alain de Botton on Pessimism (39 min, The School of Life)
• The Complete History Of Ancient Philosophy: Presocratics To The Renaissance (49 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• The Wisdom of a Pessimist - Arthur Schopenhauer (22 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Why Nonconformity Cures a Sick Self and a Sick Society (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• How the "Greater Good" is Used as a Tool of Social Control (15 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Life as a Quest - The Antidote to a Wasted Existence (13 min, Academy of Ideas)
• How to Be Free in an Unfree World (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Ideal Body: How our Body Shapes our Character (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Gulag Archipelago and The Wisdom of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (11 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Plato To Pythagoras: How The Ancient Greeks Created Our World | The First World (54 min, Odyssey)
• Confucius: The Real Man Behind The Legendary Ancient Philosopher (89 min, Absolute History)
• Nietzsche and Thus Spoke Zarathustra: The Last Man and The Superman (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Fear and Social Control (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• 4 False Beliefs that Society is Built On - Dr. Bruce Lipton (17 min, After Skool)
• PHILOSOPHY: Immanuel Kant (8 min, The School of Life)
• PHILOSOPHY - Michel Foucault (8 min, The School of Life)
• PHILOSOPHY - Baruch Spinoza (9 min, The School of Life)
• Nietzsche and Nihilism - A Warning to the West (14 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Nietzsche and Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Becoming Gods (11 min, Academy of Ideas)
• 10 Years of Wisdom in 10 Minutes (10 min, After Skool)
• Can Free Will be Saved in a Deterministic Universe? (14 min, PBS Space Time)
• The Perfect Country (9 min, The School of Life)
• The Complete History Of Modern Philosophy: From Idealism To Existentialism (48 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• The Archetypal Western Path, the Last Man, and the Daimon (19 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Why Stupid People are Destroying Society - The Laws of Human Stupidity (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Why Suffering can Promote Strength and Health (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Escape Boredom - Leonardo da Vinci and a Guide to the Good Life (9 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Do We Live in a Sick Society? (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• What Would Nietzsche Think of 21st Century Society? (14 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Ideal Body: Use Your Body to Shape a Great Character (11 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Nietzsche and The Human Animal: The Domesticated and The Strong (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Nietzsche and Zapffe: Beauty, Suffering, and the Nature of Genius (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Creativity and the Pursuit of Excellence (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Introduction to Diogenes the Cynic (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Wabi Sabi - The Japanese Art of Perfect Imperfection (15 min, After Skool)
• PHILOSOPHY - David Hume (11 min, The School of Life)