Paranoid American

Antarctica is cited in so many interesting theories on alternate history, but how much do we really know about it? This documentary follows a full year of living and working in Antarctica, with interviews and exclusive footage never seen before.

An entire industry was created when government passed 1 Billion dollar budget to address the active shooter crisis in America. This documentary gives a detailed snapshot of what this looks like in 2025. They follow an elaborate active shooter drill, marketing conventions for the school security industry and interviews which children going through it right now.

Disney made a children's movie about MKUltra and nobody talks about it. Isaac Weishaupt from Illuminati Watcher joins us to break down Zootopia, the 2016 animated film written by a guy whose family were literally CIA agents. We get into the government-manufactured fear, the agent provocateurs, the secret lab full of drugged citizens, and why this might be the most politically layered Disney movie...

Before the iPhone, before the App Store, there was General Magic, a legendary Silicon Valley team packed with Apple veterans who tried to build the future years too early. In this review, we break down what the film gets right, what still hits hard today, and the real lesson behind one of tech’s most fascinating “almost” stories.

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Here's an unexpected documentary on our list: Riefenstahl (2024) about Leni Riefenstahl, a controversial Nazi Propagandist, Director, Actor and world renowned Photographer.

Check out our review, and we'll tell you whether or not you'll like "I Like Me"

Could you pull off an entire Christmas without buying anything made in China (or with Chinese parts)? This documentary shows a family trying to do exactly that, in what seems to be an impossible challenge.

Would you live rent-free in a mall for four years? This group of friends did, and they recorded the entire experience on camera from inception to after they got busted. It's unbelievable this happened, let alone recorded on camera.

Get ready for a deep one that we didn't expect either. Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) and The Santa Clause (1994) are two of the most accurate retellings of the Holly King and Oak King, in which Father Christmas dies, loses his magic or otherwise retires, a new younger king replaces him. Also described in much more detail in Frazer's The Golden Bough - specifically Chapter VIII titled "The Killing...

Since it's Christmas, we're focusing on more (mas) Christ related documentaries, this one called The God Who Wasn't There (2005) came out ~2 years before Zeitgeist (2007). Many of the claims made in Zeitgeist are outlined here in more detail, with a bit more angst as well. The bias is strong in this one, but are any of the claims valid despite that?

This documentary features exclusive interviews with Jussie Smollett himself, along with all of the other major players from the most surreal hate-crime hoax of recent memory. But does it go deep enough?

Did the CIA introduce salvia divinorum to the public? Objectively, yes. But why? And why did "magic mushrooms" get the most promotion, if they were both discovered at the same time? Prepare yourself for a fascinating deep dive into the origins of Salvia Divinorum, and the influence of the CIA's MK-ULTRA on psychedelics in general. You can follow Kaleb Graves and the Psychedelic Theology podcast at...

Baymax is the perfect Personal Health Care Companion. Whatever you think of this movie (or it's legit Marvel comic roots) - the real story is about Disney positioning themselves into a long term play targeting the healthcare industry.

Are ghosts real? Can Marilyn Manson music send you to hell? Is reading Aleister Crowley compatible with being a good Christian? Who is Carman? In this episode of Paranoid American Podcast, I sit back down with Allen Marcus to discuss a truly paranormal experience he hasn't been able to shake for decades. Follow Allen Marcus at: https://www.youtube.com/@UCDYzfqbXFXOvLYAB2GeMahg  https://allenmarcus...

An evergreen topic - is God real? More specifically is the historical Jesus Christ as an actual personification of God real? Like REALLY real? (No astrology or we-are-one stuff) If you saw our Zeitgeist review (here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8QB-hPXeZg) then you already know about the gnostic concept that Christ is just an astro-theological mnemonic device. This documentary takes that smal...

No matter how depressed some of us get over the Winter, it's probably not even a fraction of how bad Joyce Vincent's Christmas was, when she died alone in her apartment in 2003 and wasn't discovered until 2006.

Back to our roots - conspiracy documentaries! This is the first of probably many more Puff Daddy documentaries to come. Sean has been following this case and Puffy in general for decades, so come listen to everything this documentary claims, and what it leaves out.

"Airplanes are not tools of war. They're beautiful dreams." That's the lie at the heart of The Wind Rises. We break down Miyazaki's most controversial film, the real history Japan wants you to forget, and what the documentary "Kingdom of Dreams and Madness" reveals about the man behind Ghibli.

In this hard-hitting review, we dissect the documentary The Perfect Neighbor (2025), directed by Geeta Gandbhir, which follows the June 2023 killing of Ajike Owens in Ocala, Florida and poses powerful questions about racial bias, unchecked grievance, and the controversial application of stand-your-ground laws. We’ll walk through how the film uses body-cam and 911 footage, why critics say it plays...

Why are we building boring, simplistic buildings that barely last a century, when there are countless structures that have remained standing for thousands of years? Clearly humans are capable of more. So why are we settling for less? The documentary Architecton seeks to answer this question. More details on Architecton here: https://a24films.com/docs/architecton

We break down JFK to 9/11: Everything Is a Rich Mans Trick, the 3.5 hour documentary that connects every major conspiracy from the 20th century. Francis Conolly meticulously traces how international bankers and secret societies have profited from war since World War I, culminating in the JFK assassination where he actually names the shooters. This documentary keeps getting pulled from YouTube but...

In this off-the-rails review, we dive into the 2009 documentary “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia,” directed by Julien Nitzberg, which shadows the notorious White family of Boone County over the course of a year. From mountain dance floors to drug deals, shoot-outs to hospital beds. The film doesn’t pull punches on poverty, addiction, outlaw culture, and a dying coal-country legacy,...

This four part documentary examines the physical evidence that proves Lee Harvey Oswald could not have acted alone. With over 12 shots fired, multiple bullet holes in the street and sidewalk, and witnesses reporting shooters on the grassy knoll and overhead bridge, the lone gunman theory falls apart. Most damning is the footage showing Secret Service agents being ordered away from the presidential...

In this powerful review, we review the documentary short Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (2025), which chronicles the life of acclaimed filmmaker Brent Renaud. Brent was the first American journalist killed while covering the Russo-Ukrainian War. Join us as we explore how the film blends raw war-zone footage, personal reflections, and the haunting cost of capturing tru...