This weekend we're watching: Free all you can watch documentaries – Daily Maverick

If you’re subscribed to a video-on-demand streaming platform like Netflix or Prime Video, it’s easy to get complacent about sourcing your content — why spend the effort looking somewhere else when you’re already paying to be entertained?  If you’re willing to do a little looking around, you’ll find the Internet is gushing with quality content that doesn’t cost a cent to watch (apart from data). Here are some useful websites and YouTube channels that provide free current documentary content.  Websites Top Documentary Films TDF started as a one-man blog in 2007, but it’s grown into a popular platform with an active community and over 3,000 documentary titles that are free to watch.  Journeyman Pictures A UK-based supplier of journalistic documentaries from all over the world. Their website lets you pick a region and time period to filter content pertaining to or made in that time and place. Their YouTube channel also sorts their shorter videos into themed playlists like climate change, space exploration, and women’s rights.  Afridocs A free streaming platform with a catalogue of about a hundred classic and new documentaries from across Africa.  Vimeo Vimeo is YouTube’s most significant video-sharing network competitor. Unlike YouTube, which profits primarily off…
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