The Best Cars & Supercars Documentaries

Cars, Planes & Trains - 71 free documentaries about cars & supercars.

Start with The Dangerous Feature in Tesla's Doors (19 min, Bloomberg Originals), then Tesla Hacker: The Rogue Mechanic Taking On Tesla (19 min, VICE). All 71 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on cars & supercars is The Machine That Changed the World by James P. Womack.

• The Dangerous Feature in Tesla's Doors (19 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• Tesla Hacker: The Rogue Mechanic Taking On Tesla (19 min, VICE)
• Most Dangerous Transports: Siberian Ice Road | Mega Transports (48 min, Free Documentary)
• I Outsmarted Pro Car Thieves (25 min, Mark Rober)
• How a Formula 1 Race Car Works (23 min, Animagraffs)
• Ghostrider and Lamborghini Justice (Smoke Show: EP2) (19 min, VICE)
• The Electric Vehicle Charging Problem (20 min, Wendover Productions)
• Goodbye Bugatti W16s | Veyron & Chiron Road Trip + 300mph Secrets | Top Gear (22 min, BBC Studios)
• How Tesla Fumbled (21 min, Wendover Productions)
• The German obsession with cars (86 min, DW Documentary)
• The Future of Ferrari | Power Players (24 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• Step Inside The Bugatti-Rimac Dream Factory | Top Gear (38 min, BBC Studios)
• Red Bull Has Built A Hypercar… | Top Gear (31 min, BBC Studios)
• Made in USA - The Most expensive Luxury Camping Cars (55 min, ENDEVR)
• How an Off-Road Racing Trophy Truck Works (Baja 1000) (36 min, Animagraffs)
• £3.8m Bugatti Tourbillon: 1800hp V16 Hybrid Chiron Successor! | Top Gear (32 min, BBC Studios)
• Tesla and Elon Musk - the future of electric cars (42 min, DW Documentary)
• How a NASCAR Cup Series Race Car Works (20 min, Animagraffs)
• Jaguar's Glory Days | Full Episode | Top Gear Classic (51 min, BBC Studios)
• Jeff Bezos’ $20k Pick-Up Truck | Top Gear (18 min, BBC Studios)
• Porsche 914 Restomod – £350k, 400bhp, Manual Gearbox! | Top Gear (18 min, BBC Studios)
• One electric truck's road trip to Norway (28 min, DW Documentary)
• Engineers vs Junkyard RC Car Death Match (19 min, Mark Rober)
• Which Is The Most Dangerous Car? (12 min, Real Engineering)
• How a Manual Transmission and Clutch Works (10 min, Animagraffs)
• The Budget Car Challenge | Full Episode | Top Gear Classic (52 min, BBC Studios)
• McLaren P1 Drift Car – Mad Mike’s Rotary-Swapped ‘MadMac’! | Top Gear (21 min, BBC Studios)
• Inside the Lab That Keeps Your Car From Killing You (38 min, Be Smart)
• Fastest Cars on Earth (S12, E19) | Modern Marvels (45 min, HISTORY)
• Is Car Sharing Really Cheaper Than Car Ownership In Singapore? | Talking Point (22 min, CNA Insider)
• 1st place Mousetrap Car Ideas (14 min, Mark Rober)
• How car tires drive deforestation (28 min, DW Documentary)
• World's Most Advanced Supercars: Birth of the Automobile | Supercar Tech (48 min, Free Documentary)
• World's Biggest, Fastest Mega Cars | Ultimate Vehicles | S01 E04 (48 min, Free Documentary)
• How American Cars Got So Bad (18 min, Wendover Productions)
• The $40 Million Car Heist: Inside America’s Largest Luxury Vehicle Theft Ring (45 min, Wonder)
• Fastest Car vs. Fastest Helicopter - Which is Faster? (8 min, Real Engineering)
• World's First Car! (9 min, Veritasium)
• Truck Crashes Into Cars As Driver Mysteriously Loses Control | Accident Investigator S1 EP2 (49 min, Wonder)
• Lamborghini's 40th Anniversary | Full Episode | Top Gear Classic (51 min, BBC Studios)
• The Ultimate British Car Battle | Full Episode | Top Gear Classic (53 min, BBC Studios)
• Buying A Used Car In Singapore: What Should You Look Out For? | Talking Point (22 min, CNA Insider)
• The Illegal Jaguar Trade Network | Tigre Gente (87 min, ENDEVR)
• How Military Innovations entered the world of Supercars | Supercar Tech (48 min, Free Documentary)
• EASY Pinewood Derby Car WINS using Science!!! (16 min, Mark Rober)
• The Evolution Of Speed & Power In Motorcars| Power: Supersonic Car (50 min, Spark)
• Investigating Mysterious Fatal Car Crashes | Accident Investigator (46 min, Wonder)
• How Good Is The Porsche 911? | Full Episode | Top Gear Classic (50 min, BBC Studios)
• A Porsche 911 GT3 Pushed To Its Limits | Full Episode | Top Gear Classic (52 min, BBC Studios)
• The Car Evolution Showdown | Full Episode | Top Gear Classic (52 min, BBC Studios)
• Singapore Car Prices: Can COE System Be Fairer? | Talking Point (23 min, CNA Insider)
• World’s Biggest Car Wash: Secrets of the Giant Cleaning Machine (50 min, Free Documentary)
• How Does Rolls Royce Achieve Perfection? | The Perfectionists (44 min, Spark)
• Tesla’s Fatal Design Choice | Design vs. Reality: Why Electric Car Makers Keep Failing (39 min, Moconomy)
• The Greatest Supercars Around The World | Full Episode | Top Gear Classic (51 min, BBC Studios)
• World’s Most Surveilled City in South Korea & Escaping 20 Meter High Hanging Car (26 min, Free Documentary)
• Driving on Solar (47 min, VPRO Documentary)
• A Car Landed on Him – Then the Fireworks Started (44 min, Wonder)
• When Will Driverless Cars Hit Our Roads? | Talking Point | Full Episode | Part 1/2 (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Driverless Cars In Singapore & China: Muttons Try Robotaxis, Driving Test | Who's Driving Now? (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Inside the World’s Largest $65 Million Car Carrier (46 min, Wonder)
• How Much Money Do You Burn Idling? (9 min, Tech Ingredients)
• Car Crashed into River Needs Airlifting Out of Rapids (22 min, Wonder)
• The Race For The Future Car - VPRO documentary - 2008 (49 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Driverless Cars: Hope Or Hype? | Talking Point | Full Episode | Part 2/2 (23 min, CNA Insider)
• The end of cars - VPRO documentary - 2014 (49 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Ford's Self-Driving Car Plans, Apple's China Bet & More on Bloomberg West (Full Show - 08/16/16) (60 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• The WORST Cars To Have A Crash In! (68 min, Wonder)
• From Classics to Supercars (32 min, Moconomy)
• Will We Ever Realize The Dream Of The Flying Car? (50 min, Spark)
• Create a vehicular palette. | Jesse Sugarmann (11 min, The Art Assignment)

Top-Rated Books About Cars & Supercars

1. The Machine That Changed the World by James P. Womack - View on Amazon
2. Go Like Hell by A. J. Baime - View on Amazon
3. Insanely Great by Steven Levy - View on Amazon
4. Ford by Douglas Brinkley - View on Amazon