{"id":18671,"date":"2026-04-04T14:48:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=18671"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:48:45","slug":"documentaries-thatll-grow-money-on-your-marketings-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/documentaries-thatll-grow-money-on-your-marketings-chest\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentaries that&#8217;ll grow money on your marketing&#8217;s chest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Admittedly I like and am inspired by the Otherworldly stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But most of the ones below are easily found on YouTube or Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Here goes:<\/p>\n<p>* Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema &#8211; I can&#8217;t even begin to count how many insights I&#8217;ve learned from this. #1 on the list for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>* Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters &#8211; especially useful if you&#8217;re worried about so-called AI or any other technology replacing you.<\/p>\n<p>* The Image Revolution &#8211; inspiration for breaking out of the box all those goo-roos you follow have you boxed in to.<\/p>\n<p>* Chris Claremont&#8217;s X-Men &#8211; great power education about World-Building, just ignore the silly girl boss propaganda in first 30 minutes, I assure you it gets better after that.<\/p>\n<p>* Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Dungeons and Dragons &#8211; more World-Building wisdom, plus brilliant lessons on design &amp; graphics&#8230; just ignore the idiotic pronoun propaganda at the end, in fact you can safely turn it off when you see it.<\/p>\n<p>* Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics &#8211; all about villains&#8230; if you like my &#8220;Villains&#8221; books, you&#8217;ll probably get a lot out of it.<\/p>\n<p>* UFOs hidden truth (the one from &#8220;New Liberty Videos&#8221; &#8211; no idea how or where to find it, I have the VHS!) &#8211; the very first documentary (from the 90s) about the clear &amp; documented historical connection between so-called &#8220;aliens&#8221; and evil spirits in the Bible&#8230; and is a template for how to do a \u201cdisguised\u201d sales pitch<\/p>\n<p>* American Scary about TV horror hosts &#8211; if you do daily emails this should be your model in many ways.<\/p>\n<p>* Stan Lee&#8217;s Mutants, Monsters &amp; Marvels &#8211; all kinds of World-Building, storytelling, &amp; branding tips in this, I could spend hours discussing it (and have&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of hours of viewing.<\/p>\n<p>But I daresay it\u2019ll be far more profitable than watching TikTok and Facebook shorts.<\/p>\n<p>More about the paid Email Players newsletter here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/alt\"><strong>www.BenSettle.com\/alt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admittedly I like and am inspired by the Otherworldly stuff. But most of the ones below are easily found on YouTube or Amazon. Here goes: * Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema &#8211; I can&#8217;t even begin to count how many insights I&#8217;ve learned from this. #1 on the list for a reason. * Phil Tippett: Mad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19,8,9,20,11,14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-building","7":"category-content-creation","8":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","9":"category-email-marketing","10":"category-fiction","11":"category-inner-game","12":"category-sales-marketing","13":"category-writing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18699,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671\/revisions\/18699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}