The Best Megacities & Slums Documentaries

Society & Culture - 43 free documentaries about megacities & slums.

Start with White Slums of South Africa (49 min, Real Stories), then Slum Princess: India's Teen Supermodel Who Was Discovered In Mumbai Slums (47 min, CNA Insider). All 43 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on megacities & slums is Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo.

• White Slums of South Africa (49 min, Real Stories)
• Slum Princess: India's Teen Supermodel Who Was Discovered In Mumbai Slums | Limitless (47 min, CNA Insider)
• No-Go Zones | Khayelitsha, South Africa | Enter at Your Own Risk (50 min, Free Documentary)
• A Billion People Live Like This: Inside the World’s Informal Cities (83 min, ENDEVR)
• Broken America: How Cities become Slums in the Richest Country in the World (48 min, ENDEVR)
• Muscat: City Of The Past Moving Towards The Future | Magnificent Megacities (51 min, Spark)
• The Silver Screen Vs Reality: The Casablanca Conflict | Magnificent Megacities: Casablanca (52 min, Spark)
• Jakarta: How Does A City 6x Bigger Than Paris Function? | Magnificent Megacities (52 min, Spark)
• Urban foraging for food - Fresh, tasty and free (26 min, DW Documentary)
• The Fight Over Manila's Last Forests: Masungi Watershed | The Last Defenders | Philippines (48 min, CNA Insider)
• Mexico City - Life in the megalopolis (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Living Amid Graves & Bones: The Philippines' Cemetery Slums (22 min, VICE)
• Urban rats - The unknown residents of the underworld (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Nature's response to urban sprawl (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Megacity Abu Dhabi: Kingdom of the Sheikhs! (43 min, ENDEVR)
• World's New Megacities | Jakarta: City of 30 Million (52 min, Free Documentary)
• World’s Densest City | Manila: Meet The Slum Dwellers (53 min, Free Documentary)
• World's New Megacities | Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's Vertical City (52 min, Free Documentary)
• Dangerous Cities: Lagos - The Corruption Capital of Africa (52 min, Free Documentary)
• The Disturbing Truth Behind the 'Spitman' Urban Legend (23 min, VICE)
• World’s Most Dangerous Slum | Cité Soleil: Life in Hell (51 min, Free Documentary)
• Deadly Slum War | Brazil: Favela Frontlines (92 min, Free Documentary)
• Megacity London: Life between Ghettos and legendary Luxury (60 min, ENDEVR)
• Megapolis Mumbai - Between Slums and Skyscrapers (54 min, ENDEVR)
• 3+ Hours Of Facts About Ancient Megacities (210 min, Odyssey)
• Megacities' Grossest Problem? Inside The Fatberg Conundrum (46 min, Real Stories)
• How Can Urban Design Bring Us Together? Lessons from Singapore's Third Places | Metropolis - Part 1 (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Megacity Dubai: The Las Vegas of the Orient? (44 min, ENDEVR)
• How Nature Adapts To Urban Expansion (52 min, Spark)
• Volunteers Battle Fiery Infernos In World's Most Densely Populated City, Manila | No Ordinary Rescue (46 min, CNA Insider)
• World's New Megacities | Muscat: Arabia's Hidden Metropolis (51 min, Free Documentary)
• Tupamaro: Urban Guerrillas (51 min, Real Stories)
• Is Urban Mining the future? (47 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Constant Flooding, But No Clean Water? Water Safety In Jakarta, Indonesia (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Minecraft - The Game that Designed Cities | Level Up Urban Planning | Reimagining Urban Spaces (53 min, Moconomy)
• This Man Survived Being Crushed By A 4-Ton Truck | Urban Legends S1 EP2 (23 min, Wonder)
• The Man Who Coughed Up A Bullet | Urban Legends S1 EP1 (23 min, Wonder)
• 15-Minute City: Urban Planning Solution To Climate Change (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Habitation: Reinventing Housing for the Urban Age (22 min, The B1M)
• Building an Urban Railway: 30 Years of the DLR (9 min, The B1M)
• The stars of the slums (50 min, VPRO Documentary)
• The Chaos Of An Urban Warfare Operation (26 min, Wonder)
• The Bike Economy: How Amsterdam Built a Multi-Billion Dollar Urban Machine (35 min, Moconomy)

Top-Rated Books About Megacities & Slums

1. Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (4/5) - View on Amazon
2. Planet of Slums by Mike Davis - View on Amazon
3. Maximum City by Suketu Mehta - View on Amazon
4. Triumph of the City by Edward L. Glaeser (3.4/5) - View on Amazon