We are at the beginning of a new period of learning, creativity, and innovation that has been greatly magnified. Today's technology makes education available to all people worldwide, and flexible digital learning tools allow us to individually tailor how each person learns and works.

However, the focus on innovation and continual learning must change in this new century. Because of the fast-paced nature of the digital economy and the need to continually adapt, students today must learn how to be self-directed lifelong learners.

These educational videos all offer a look at how education will develop in the twenty-first century.

Science & Nature Documentaries

1. Our Planet 

David Attenborough serves as the narrator of the Netflix documentary series, Our Planet, which covers the natural beauty of our Earth and how climate change affects all living things. The most significant environments on earth are examined in this series, along with the species that still thrive there. These habitats include Antarctica, the Arctic, jungles deserts, fresh water, coastal seas, grasslands, open oceans, and forests. The series exposes what must be maintained to safeguard the future of our planet by showcasing the world's remaining natural treasures, iconic species, and animal spectacles.

2. Human: The World Within

Explore the shared biology that many of us fail to recognize or comprehend as you take a deep dive into the cosmos that resides in every single one of us. Heart, brain, eyes, blood, tears; ‘Human” reveals not just the science behind how our bodies function, but also how what’s within that fuels every action we do outside of our body. Globally diverse individuals’ personal biographies serve as springboards for more in-depth narratives on the functioning of the body’s systems.

3. The Mind, Explained

“The Mind, Explained” stands out as a superb illustration of the new approach to absorbing information in an age where consumers’ attention spans are continually split between a range of gadgets and diversions. This docu-series keeps you engaged just long enough to pick up facts for parties and pique your interest in the phenomenal machine – your brain.  If you wish to learn more, you can do so at your own convenience because each episode, which lasts around 20 minutes, includes expert opinions and intriguing imagery.

Possibly basic or superficial knowledge. But sufficient to make the brief amount of time required worthwhile.

4. Islands of Faith

Island of Faith explores the link between religion and environmental protection in the Southeast Asian archipelago. The documentary takes the audience to seven distinct islands and explores the locals’ religious beliefs and perspectives on conservation in the context of those beliefs. Islands of Faith touches each of these cultures, their living styles, and how everything is interwoven with their various faiths, as well as the unifying motif of conservation and the environment, from the Balinese Hindu faith ceremony of Nyepi to Indonesian Muslims and Christians. Islands of Faith put forth the thought that if you have faith in a higher force, you should strive to preserve the environment sic=nce it is what is expected of you.

Art Documentaries

1. Abstract: The Art of Design

Abstract, a Netflix original documentary series, demystifies design by taking viewers inside the homes of some of the world’s best designers across all disciplines and demonstrating how a succession of choices led to the famous designs that have shaped our world. By incorporating animation and digital transformations into everyday reality and turning designers into action characters and superheroes, Abstract presents that work through portrait sessions, building tours, and crits. Modern technology is applied to the time-honored chore of describing what designers do in Abstract. The key takeaways from this docu-series are:

• Create something that communicates your goals to the world
• Designs that work are emotive
• Designs create community
• Re-write how culture is defined using your designs

2. Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art

A true narrative about the greatest art scam in American History is told in the crime film Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, which is set amid New York’s extremely wealthy, obsessive, and quick-moving art scene. In this entertaining and suspenseful tale of an $80 million inventive masquerade that almost everyone wanted to believe was authentic, controversy breaks out when an unassuming duo floods the art market with a collection of fake art, marketed for millions of dollars to the esteemed Knoedler Gallery who then traded the masterpieces to collectors and the art world elite.

3. Frida 

The stunning Julie Taymor film Frida (2002) depicts the intimate life of the surrealist Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The picture enthralls the spectator with its artistic talent, compassion, and beauty.

At the beginning of the narrative, Frida, then 18 years old, is hurt in a bus accident. Though she overcame her wounds, they caused her enormous anguish and prolonged spells of seclusion for the remainder of her life, which had a significant impact on her art, which was primarily self-portraits.

Her complex and volatile relationship with fellow artist and twice husband Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina) is depicted in the movie, as well as her liaison with exiled Russian Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky (Geoffrey Rush), as well as her ongoing health issues, amputations, miscarriages, and bisexuality.

The narrative of a remarkable person who surmounted great challenges to produce exceptional art was given life through the movie Frida.

History Documentaries

1. The Untold History of the United States

Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States is a great resource for history enthusiasts and people seeking a less political interpretation of American history than what is more often present in school textbooks.

Memories, in general, and history specifically reflect the biases of the observer. Patriotism, nationalism, partiality, and opinion are further included in the story by further repeating, teaching, and writing about the event. This docuseries does justice in making an effort to cut through all of that and show the shades of grey in addition to pure black and white.

It was the first time on television that the conventional ideas of American "altruism, compassion, and self-sacrifice" were convincingly contested in front of such a large audience. Those who are interested in the topic will find it easy to preserve interest. In fact, it might be challenging to take a little break since the pace of the visuals and information seldom slows down.

2. Battle of Britain: The Real Story

James Holland, a writer, and historian offer a new interpretation of the amazing events that occurred in the summer of 1940. He focuses on the strategies, tools, and intelligence employed by both sides and compares how Britain and Germany utilized their resources. He visits some of the few remaining Luftwaffe Aces in Germany and has access to journals that provide compelling, first-person accounts from those who participated in the conflict. The controversy over whether the Messerschmitt 109E or the Spitfire Mk1 was the superior fighter aircraft in the Battle of Britain is eventually settled by him with the help of seasoned British fighter pilots.

3. Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution

This docuseries recounts the mostly untold tale of the Cuban revolutionaries Frank Pais and Juan Antonio Echeverria. Although their names are rarely mentioned alongside those of their more well-known contemporaries, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, these young men—a schoolteacher and a student of architecture, respectively—worked largely independently from one another and were instrumental in the eventual overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar. Through rare interviews and vintage stock videos, it investigates the construction (and remaking) of the ultimate historical record while highlighting the complexity inherent in revolutions. Leading historians weigh in on the newly discovered information as Cuban revolution participants and spectators, close relatives of the men, Americans who fought with Castro and Guevara, and a former CIA agent in charge of smuggling highly classified radio equipment to the rebels share their memories of that time period.