r/Documentaries

20,343,280 subscribers — tl;dw /r/Documentaries is reddit's main subreddit for documentaries. Please read our community rules.

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Top posts this week

The 10 highest-scored posts from the last 7 days — ranking by real score over a week naturally filters out posts that got removed shortly after posting.

Post	Score	Posted
How Comedy Drowned in a Radioactive Cesspool of Corruption (2026) [01:23:29]	1630	3d ago
The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology (2025) [0:54:59]	529	7d ago
Cold Case Killer Finally Caught After 23 Years (2026) [00:40:22]	412	4d ago
The first 9/11: How the CIA overthrew Chile's democracy (2023) [48:24]	371	5d ago
The Occupation of the American Mind (2016) - How Israeli public relations campaigns have shaped American media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [01:24:55]	364	7d ago
Flying Paper (2014) \| Palestinian children in Gaza take to the skies in pursuit of a world record [00:52:00]	314	2d ago
Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority (2006) - An introduction to the history and human reality of the Israeli occupation [01:30:00]	234	4d ago
The Great Book Robbery (2012) \| Palestinian books, libraries and cultural memory after the Nakba [00:57:00]	164	5d ago
Until When... (2004) \| Four Palestinian families living through the Second Intifada in Dheisheh Refugee Camp [01:16:00]	153	3d ago
Budrus (2009) - A Palestinian village unites across political factions, with Israeli supporters joining them, in a nonviolent campaign against the route of the separation barrier [01:21:40]	151	7d ago

Posting rules

Free Documentaries Only
Post Title Format
Post Correct Title & Description
Submission Statements Are REQUIRED
No Self-Promotion, YT Channel Promotion, or Solicitation
No Bigotry, Dehumanization, or Discrimination
No Brigading, Harassment, Trolling, Threats, False Sub Accusations, or Metadrama
Be Respectful to Others
Direct Documentary Video Links Only
No Misinformation. Source with Trustworthy Links
No File Lockers, Linkjacking, or Torrents
Do Not Delete Popular Submissions
Text Post Requirement - Recommendation Requests Only
No Reposts (3 month rule)
Moderator Discretion and Reddit Rules

Pull this with the API

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curl

curl "https://api.threadsnoop.com/v1/posts?subreddit=Documentaries&limit=25" \
  -H "x-api-key: ts_live_YOUR_KEY"

See /docs/posts for pagination, filtering with q=, and full response shape, or /docs/subreddits for the rules endpoint used above.

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