The Best Big Ideas & Ethics Documentaries

Philosophy & Big Ideas - 51 free documentaries about big ideas & ethics.

Start with The ONE RULE for LIFE - Immanuel Kant's Moral Philosophy - Mark Manson (22 min, After Skool), then Money, happiness and eternal life - Greed (1/2) (43 min, DW Documentary). All 51 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on big ideas & ethics is Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.

• 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)
• 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)
• HISTORY OF IDEAS - Wabi-sabi (9 min, The School of Life)
• How to Escape from a Sick Society (13 min, Academy of Ideas)
• 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)
• Alain de Botton on Pessimism (39 min, The School of Life)
• 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)
• Fear and Social Control (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• 4 False Beliefs that Society is Built On - Dr. Bruce Lipton (17 min, After Skool)
• Nietzsche and Nihilism - A Warning to the West (14 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 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)
• The Ideal Body: Use Your Body to Shape a Great Character (11 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Creativity and the Pursuit of Excellence (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Wabi Sabi - The Japanese Art of Perfect Imperfection (15 min, After Skool)
• How to Thrive in the Battle of Life (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Nature of Nothing | Space Time (16 min, PBS Space Time)
• Is Humanity Doomed? | Carl Jung on Healing a Sick Society (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Where is the Line Between GOOD & EVIL? (10 min, After Skool)
• Why The Western Worldview Limits Human Potential (15 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Pessimism of Strength (13 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Introduction to Nihilism (14 min, Academy of Ideas)
• HISTORY OF IDEAS - Modernity (11 min, The School of Life)
• Introduction to Metaphysics (8 min, Academy of Ideas)
• How to Escape a Meaningless Life (15 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Limits of Science - A Critique of Scientism (9 min, Academy of Ideas)
• SOCIOLOGY - Auguste Comte (9 min, The School of Life)
• EASTERN PHILOSOPHY - The Love of Rocks (9 min, The School of Life)
• Introduction to Ethics (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• The Role of Ideas in History (9 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Epicurus and the Good Life (8 min, Academy of Ideas)

Top-Rated Books About Big Ideas & Ethics

1. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
2. Justice by Michael J. Sandel (3.7/5) - View on Amazon
3. The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
4. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (4.1/5) - View on Amazon