Dark Documentaries
Weird, restricted, shocking.
Includes docs on mental illness, drug abuse, fetish, and more.
Please watch at your own discretion.
Each documentary has a different spin. Some are crude, others are professional. Decide for yourself what to think of the story.
List is updated periodically!
Includes docs on mental illness, drug abuse, fetish, and more.
Please watch at your own discretion.
Each documentary has a different spin. Some are crude, others are professional. Decide for yourself what to think of the story.
List is updated periodically!
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- DirectorAlastair CookRobert DavisA look at the sub-culture of "feeders" - men who are continue feed large women to encourage them to gain more weight to the point where the women become immobile and risk their lives. Featuring interviews with both the male feeders and the women they feed.Themes: Fetish, Sexuality, Morbid Obesity, Hidden Activities
- DirectorSean DonnellyStarsKelly McCormickTiffanyJeff TurnerTwo individuals, Jeff and Kelly, claim to be in love with the 80's pop singer Tiffany.Themes: Stalking, Developmental disorder (Autism), Infatuation
- 1983– TV-MA6.9 (30)TV EpisodeDirectorMichael MierendorfStarsMichael MierendorfGloria SteinemIn this provocative documentary, 3 victims expose their often dangerous "alter" personalities, uncover long-suppressed memories of sexual, physical or emotional abuse. Through these compelling cases, the film explores the phenomenon of multiple-personal disorder.Themes: Mental Illness, Abuse
- DirectorLouise HogarthStarsDoug HitzelControversial documentary about gay men purposely contracting the AIDS virus.Themes: Fetish, Sexuality, Death
- DirectorArthur GinsbergStarsJoel CraigerKen MagidBeth ThomasSix-year-old Beth talks to a therapist about the horrific abuse she has suffered as well as the abuse she inflicts upon small animals and her own brother. This film documents her subsequent healing and recovery.Themes: Sexual abuse, Trauma
- DirectorLucifer ValentineStarsAutumn MiseryA graphic docu-drama detailing the hopeless lives of several young people addicted to heroin.Themes: Drug abuse, Sexual abuse, Death, Hidden Activities
Warning: Explicit sexual content - DirectorTodd PhillipsStarsGG AllinMerle AllinBrian Unk HunterDocumentary about notorious punk rock performer GG Allin.Themes: Abuse, Trauma, Extreme Performance Art
- DirectorTerry ZwigoffStarsRobert CrumbAline Kominsky-CrumbCharles CrumbAn intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.Themes: Fetish, Sexuality, Mental Illness, Trauma
Note: Highly recommended, even without foreknowledge of Crumb and his pen-and-ink drawings. - DirectorSasha Joseph NeulingerStarsSasha Joseph NeulingerHenry NevisonHoward NevisonDigging through the vast collection of his father's home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse passed through generations.Themes: Sexual abuse, Trauma, Hidden Activities
- DirectorAgnieszka PiotrowskaAn observation documentary about women who fall in love with large objects rather than people. They maintain to have intimate relationships with them, including comunicating with them through telepathy. The film suggests gently that this might be a psychological defence as the protagonists have suffered at the hands of people.Themes: Sexuality, Developmental disorder (Autism)
- DirectorMyles KaneJosh KouryStarsGay TaleseGerald FoosNan TaleseJournalism icon Gay Talese reports on Gerald Foos, the owner of a Colorado motel, who allegedly secretly watched his guests with the aid of specially designed ceiling vents, peering down from an "observation platform" he built in the motel's attic.Themes: Voyeurism, Sexuality, Hidden Activities
- StarsDavid MuirElizabeth VargasThirteen siblings are found captive inside a California home; what life was like inside; details on the alleged abuse.Themes: Torture, Imprisonment, Disappearance
- DirectorMurray SipleStarsMurray SipleThis documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts.
- DirectorSantiago StelleyStarsAzusa HayanoA short documentary on the famous Aokigahara Forest in Japan. The forest is known to be prone to people looking to commit suicideThemes: Suicide, Isolation
- DirectorErik StrömdahlJasmine AlakariFrida E. ElmströmStarsJasmine AlakariFrida E. ElmströmSten LevanderThere are people who don't fit into the society. By accident we came in touch with one of them, a 61 years old man who had broken all human contact 45 years ago. He never answered the phone or opened the steel-barred door. He was totally stuck inside a mental bubble. The reason was to be found far back in his childhood and youth. Would he ever get out of the bubble? We thought he might. One day we made a trip with him where he was confronted with events and people who had been crucial for his decision. The result was beyond all expectations and showed how important it is to be seen and acknowledged. And how little is needed!Themes: Isolation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z50gcWkpZ-M - 2010–201522mTV-PG5.7 (25)TV EpisodeStarsDavecatMichael SalzhauerDavecat has been married to his synthetic wife for 10 years. Meanwhile, Rachael hopes that her compulsive scab picking will stop by her wedding day.[Married to a Doll]
Themes: Sexuality, Loneliness - DirectorGrover BabcockBlue HadaeghStarsFred CorralSherwood DixonJulie WilsonUnblinking and unsettling, this documentary lays bare a mysterious process that goes on all around us - what happens to people who die with no next of kin.Themes: Death, Inheritance
Warning: Graphic content (How is this on Youtube?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErooOhzE268&t=1044s - DirectorAndrzej CelinskiHanna PolakAIDS, drug abuse, police brutality, and other social ills in post-Soviet Russia.Themes: Homelessness, Disappearance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5T_O-L5Mis - DirectorDavid FarrierDylan ReeveStarsDavid FarrierDylan ReeveDavid StarrJournalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn't stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.Go into this one blind.
- DirectorGeraldo RiveraStarsBernard CarabelloRobert F. KennedyGeraldo RiveraA shocking exposé of the deplorable conditions and abuses from the Willowbrook State School for children with intellectual disabilities.Themes: Negligence, Hidden Activities
- DirectorJonah WestonStarsRay StevensonA documentary about feral children.Themes: Negligence, Isolation, Trauma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vjZq6TS668 - StarsAllie SeverinoFrankie HolmesBrooke LawsingFollows two recovering addicts, Allie and Frankie, and their journey to take on the opioid epidemic by assisting as many addicts into recovery as they can. Also highlights the corruption and exploitation that exists in the rehab industry.Themes: Drug abuse
Note: Some of the episodes are free on YouTube, others are behind a paywall.
Here's one for free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj0yOohg8kA - 20071h 35m6.8 (152)TV MovieDirectorJane CameronGünter StampfStarsJulie BerryArmin MeiwesGünter StampfExclusive Interivew with 'The Cannibal of Rotenburg': Armin Meiwes.Themes: Cannibalism, Death
Note: Originally in German, edited and modified for English-speaking audiences in the UK.
UK TV version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpJUrZBTjeg
German TV version (no subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFS5JAHECWw - DirectorTodd AhlbergStarsRyan M. BrownJames Reed JohnsonMark KingMETH explores the rising wave of crystal methamphetamine use within the gay population. Through the reflections of a dozen gay men, we learn of the drug's allure, its promise, and why its popularity is soaring. Some of the men in the film are current users, and they share their life with us while under the constant influence of "Tina." Other interviewees are former denizens of "Tina World," who have managed to crawl back from the depths to which their addictions brought them. Throughout, METH is an unflinching look at the devastating effects of addiction to this very serious drug.Themes: Drug abuse, Sexuality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNW-ac5RZ7U - StarsPaul GiamattiCharlie OttPhil AmiconeThe Son of Sam case grew into a lifelong obsession for journalist Maury Terry, who became convinced that the murders were linked to a satanic cult.