Top 10 Movies to Watch on Fancast: Documentaries

Documentaries are the ideal films to watch online. They’re educational and interesting and no one can accuse you of wasting time, because you’re learning! Here are 10 docmentaries you can watch right now for free on Fancast.

Hoop Dreams
Steve James follows two high school basketball stars on their uphill journey to make it to the big leagues, in spite of poverty, family trouble and social acclimation. Roger Ebert called it the best film of the 1990s.

Deliver Us From Evil
Amy Berg documents the case of Oliver Grady, a former priest and convicted pedophile who molested the children of his parishoners, now living freely in Ireland.

20 Dates
Myles Berkowitz films 20 of his dates to try and document the Los Angeles dating scene as well as his own neurotic schtick - and what happens when he finds The One before he’s finished all 20?

The Great American West
Reed Smoot documents just how the frontier settlement went down by using excerpts from diaries and letters. The late great Jason Robards serves as narrator.

Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
Marc Fafard directs this animated reconstruction of the prehistoric world while detailing the greatest discoveries in paleontology. Not to mention awesome 3D renderings of some monstrous thunder lizards.

Africa: The Serengeti
MCs may not be ready to take it to the Serengeti, but director George Casey is. He shows us Africa - specifically Tanzania and Kenya, where the Serengeti lies. It’s the home of the world’s largest over-land migration for its vast array of animal species, which happens twice a year. James Earl Jones provides his fantastic voice for the narration.

Australia: Land Beyond Time
David Flatman documents the landscape and wildlife of the country-continent of Australia, the world’s largest island, which hosts some extreme environmental conditions and some particularly odd creatures.

Bears
David Lickley directs this National Wildlife Federation presentation which studies the North American bears and their habitats in Alaska and within the Arctic Circle, and the struggles they face on a day-to-day basis. Find out whether or not they really are the godless killing machines that Stephen Colbert claims they are.

Ocean Oasis
Soames Sommerhays directs this study of the marine life and ecology of Mexico’s Sea of Cortez and Baja California, where ocean regions co-exist with searing deserts and snowy mountains. It’s always cool to look at manta rays.

Cosmic Voyage
Morgan Freeman, who should narrate everything, narrates this guided tour through the vastness of the cosmos, showing us black holes, supernovas and our own solar system. The film tries to figure out where humanity fits in on this grand scale while detailing some of the most advanced scientific theories to date.