The Best Existentialism & Meaning Documentaries

Philosophy & Big Ideas - 20 free documentaries about existentialism & meaning.

Start with and then we'll be okay (20 min, exurb1a), then The Harder You Try, The Worse It Gets - The Philosophy of Fyodor Dostoevsky (18 min, Pursuit of Wonder). All 20 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on existentialism & meaning is At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell.

and then we'll be okay (20 min, exurb1a)
The Harder You Try, The Worse It Gets - The Philosophy of Fyodor Dostoevsky (18 min, Pursuit of Wonder)
We're the Last Humans Left (8 min, exurb1a)
Jordan Peterson & The Meaning of Life (40 min, Philosophy Tube)
Time Loop Nihilism (27 min, Jacob Geller)
What Is Kafkaesque? - The 'Philosophy' of Franz Kafka (9 min, Pursuit of Wonder)
You Will Never Do Anything Remarkable (11 min, exurb1a)
Nothing Ever Stops Existing (41 min, Jacob Geller)
Who We Really Are... When Everything Goes Wrong (24 min, Like Stories of Old)
The Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness | Fernando Pessoa (13 min, Pursuit of Wonder)
Who Is The Doomer? - Dealing With An Age Of Hopelessness (10 min, Pursuit of Wonder)
Absurdism | How to Party at the End of Meaning ☄️ (11 min, exurb1a)
Financial Nihilism! (23 min, Patrick Boyle)
How the Way You Respond to Anxiety Changes Your Life - Søren Kierkegaard on Angst (13 min, Pursuit of Wonder)
Nihilistic Aliens (29 min, Isaac Arthur)
The Absurd Mindset That Changes Everything (15 min, Pursuit of Wonder)
Nihilism Is Taking Over Modern Society. Here's Why. (14 min, Pursuit of Wonder)
Everyone is Trapped in the Absurd - On Chaos & Compassion (8 min, Pursuit of Wonder)
Kierkegaard: An Introduction (19 min, Then & Now)
Why Are Things Funny? - Absurdism & Humor (8 min, Pursuit of Wonder)

Top-Rated Books About Existentialism & Meaning

At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell (4/5) - View on Amazon
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre (3.4/5) - View on Amazon
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Emil Frankl (3.4/5) - View on Amazon
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche - View on Amazon
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard - View on Amazon