The Best Happiness & Purpose Documentaries

Spirituality & Wellness - 21 free documentaries about happiness & purpose.

Start with What is the secret of a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness (23 min, Veritasium), then How 3 Weeks In A Philippines Soup Kitchen & Orphanage Changed My Life (47 min, CNA Insider). All 21 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on happiness & purpose is Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Emil Frankl.

• What is the secret of a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness (23 min, Veritasium)
• How 3 Weeks In A Philippines Soup Kitchen & Orphanage Changed My Life | Pause With Purpose (47 min, CNA Insider)
• What makes us happier? - The formula for happiness (44 min, DW Documentary)
• Pursue Pain, Not Pleasure - Why Comfort is Crippling You (19 min, Academy of Ideas)
• How to be Completely Carefree - Teachings from Eckhart Tolle (8 min, After Skool)
• Off to Scotland - Happiness, solitude and oysters (26 min, DW Documentary)
• How Finland Became So Happy (42 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• How to Deal with Negative People - Kevin Hart & Joe Rogan (13 min, After Skool)
• How Do Wealth & Work Affect Happiness? | To Achieve Happiness - Part 1/2 (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Why You Should Strive for a Meaningful Life, Not a Happy One (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• How to Find Meaning in a Meaningless World - Written by Pursuit of Wonder (10 min, After Skool)
• The Secret to a Happy Life - Dr. Robert Waldinger (13 min, After Skool)
• How to Find a Purpose and the Psychology of the Daemon (10 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Finding Happiness in Spite of Poverty | Struggle Street (46 min, ENDEVR)
• Can These Simple Tips Improve Your Mood And Make You Happier? | Nudge (22 min, CNA Insider)
• The Impossible Search For True Happiness (92 min, Real Stories)
• 5 Philosophical Lessons to Cure Modern Burnout (10 min, The School of Life)
• Suffering and the Meaning of Life (12 min, Academy of Ideas)
• Capitalising happiness - VPRO documentary - 2015 (50 min, VPRO Documentary)
• How Do Relationships Lead To Greater Happiness? | To Achieve Happiness - Part 2/2 (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Barbara Ehrenreich on Optimism (34 min, The School of Life)

Top-Rated Books About Happiness & Purpose

1. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Emil Frankl (3.4/5) - View on Amazon
2. The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
3. Ikigai by Héctor García (4/5) - View on Amazon
4. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
5. The Book of Joy by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama - View on Amazon