Two come to mind for me. The first is Down the Rabbit Hole. Basically, that one is a documentary type series, where the creator, Fredrik Knudsen, analyzes a topic in great detail. And I do mean great detail. The video I'm posting to represent his channel is one of his shorter videos, looking at an incident where wine in Austria was tainted by antifreeze. Referred to as the Austrian Wine Poisoning, this video clocks in at a mere 34 minutes. By comparison, his video on Deep Blue, the chess program that battled Grandmaster Gary Kasparov, clocks in at over 2 hours. That said, his videos never feel padded, and he is very careful to stick to facts, without letting personal bias show through. As he himself has put it, he is biased, but fair in his presentation.
For a more digestible series, where episodes tend to clock in at around the 20 minute mark, I also enjoy a series called What Happened? Essentially, this series (hosted by Matt McMuscles) takes a look at disasters in the entertainment industry (mostly video games, but he has covered a few movies as well, and even the rise and fall of WCW) and basically takes a look at why the disaster turned out the way it did. He's a lot less straight-laced than Fredrik Knudsen of Down the Rabbit Hole, but he also sticks to the facts quite a bit, and it can be quite interesting to see, for example, what the hell happened behind the scenes of the Super Mario Bros. movie.
