Sometimes I've had success using yandex to search, but there are some films I haven't found even there.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2025
50 points (96.3% liked)
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
57305 readers
1066 users here now
⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.
Rules • Full Version
1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy
2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote
3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs
4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others
Loot, Pillage, & Plunder
📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):
🏴☠️ Other communities
Torrenting:
Gaming:
💰 Please help cover server costs.
 |
 |
|---|---|
| Ko-fi | Liberapay |
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Independent documentaries can be, from my experience, quite hard to find and even purchase. They often have limited screenings, do not get any physical releases or to streaming services, and sometimes end up with licensing issues after some years if they've licensed music and sound for example. Maybe PTP has them, but I wouldn't bet on it.
you really are missing out staying on public. There are some Private trackers dedicated for content like this and have users who works in the film industry but are hard to join or impossible to join.
try docspedia.world and mvgroup.
You are really missing out
impossible to join
Lol yeah many of us know we are missing out but can't join any decent private trackers because they are impossible to join. The one small one I was able to join has so few users that maintaining a good ratio is literally impossible because not enough people download anything but brand-new media. Luckily they give points for keeping things alive that can be traded for ratio.
I think without the points I would have like a 0.05 ratio or something dumb while I am 24/7 seeding over 300 files. On public trackers I have 3.1TB down, 20.7TB up seeding ~600.
mvgroup
Is pretty good for docs, albeit often many releases have no more seeders.
Really obscure stuff can be a bit of needle in a haystack. Some places you can try are Archive.org, YouTube, Usenet, and bittorrent (I have good luck on Pirate Bay, but YMMV).
Although not exactly the same media I had the same feelings with public vs private trackers in the past when looking for audiobooks. I wasn't convinces that a private trackers would be any better.
Boy was I wrong, MAM was like a revelation to me and I have found everything I have wanted quickly and easily since.
I dont know how private trackers compare from movies / shows etc but if it is anything like my experience with MAM they are going to be significantly better than public.
For me its the same. Everything i was looking for that i couldn‘t find on public trackers, I found on private trackers
private trackers are the way. DigitalCore is one Im signed up for and it helps a bit with fleshing out my library.
I've had good luck with eD2K/eMule for older shtuff.
That doesn't work well automated torrent setups though.
Also, YouTube frequently is the answer for many documentaries and straight-to-video shtuff
Have you tried rutracker? While it's unlikely to have regional documentaries, they do have more niche b-movies and some documentaries.
On obscure trackers /s
Tried asking on the comm's Signal chat?
Stremio grab every addon, configure em all for realdebrid, gets most obscure things, sometimes you gotta wait a day or two for rd to dload really obscure stuff (itll tell you torrent is dloading to rd) I found some random old movies I didn't expect to be there.