These Are the Best Documentaries That You Can Watch Right Now

Too Funny to Fail

Not every SNL star makes it in the big leagues, though they all have comedic chops. So how does a fan favorite crash and burn? In this flick, The Dana Carvey Show is analyzed and unpacked. How did a show with an all-star cast and legendary writers fail so fantastically? Watch this documentary and find out for yourself. 

Apollo 11

Director Todd Douglas Miller commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing with this behind-the-scenes look at how the infamous scene came to be. With restored footage, talking heads, close narrative, and more storytelling techniques, Miller made this far-away land feel close to home.

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The More You Know

  • The longest wedding veil was longer than 63 football fields.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • China owns all the pandas in the world.
  • Glitter is so unique it can be used as forensic evidence if matching glitter is found at the crime scene and on the suspect since glitter often goes unnoticed by the suspect.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.