Genre guide
Documentary Movies on Netflix in the US
The documentary movies on Netflix in the United States today, the best of them first.
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Documentary is a wide label, and the films under it on Netflix do not share a single subject or a single method. One looks back over decades of natural history footage. Another goes to a months-long protest in Kyiv. A third works through a constitutional argument and its long aftermath. The differences are real and they show in the footage, the interviews and the structure of each film. Each takes a different route into its subject. What holds the group together is the nonfiction form and the service that carries it.
Ranked by audience score, with more weight for films that thousands have rated, the order takes in every documentary on Netflix in the United States on the day given.
Keith Scholey directs David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet. Attenborough looks back across decades of natural history footage and, from Pripyat, describes how the planet has changed. The film draws on his own record of the natural world. Evgeny Afineevsky's Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom covers months of protest in Kyiv after a trade pact with the European Union gives way to one with Russia. Cissy Jones and Catherine Ashton are among those credited. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery except as punishment for crime, and Ava DuVernay's 13th examines that exception and the systems that grew from it. The film traces convict leasing, Jim Crow, the war on drugs and mass incarceration. Jelani Cobb, Angela Davis and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. are among the voices.
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1. David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020)
1h 23m • Documentary, Drama
- IMDb 8.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 95%
- Our score 4.6/5
David Attenborough has explored every continent and recorded the natural world over more than ninety years. From Pripyat, he tells how the planet has changed.
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2. Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom (2015)
1h 38m • Documentary
- IMDb 8.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 89%
- Our score 4.3/5
Ukrainians expecting a trade pact with the European Union get one with Russia instead. Citizens wanting closer European ties occupy Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti for months.
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3. 13th (2016)
1h 40m • Documentary
- IMDb 8.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 97%
- Our score 4.5/5
The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery except as punishment for crime. The film traces how that exception led to convict leasing, Jim Crow, the war on drugs and mass incarceration.
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4. My Octopus Teacher (2020)
1h 25m • Documentary
- IMDb 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 95%
- Our score 4.4/5
After years of daily swims in the cold ocean at Africa's tip, Craig Foster meets a curious young octopus. He follows her for months, and she gradually lets him into her world.
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5. Springsteen on Broadway (2018)
2h 33m • Documentary, Music
- IMDb 8.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 96%
- Our score 4.5/5
Bruce Springsteen recounts stories from his own life and plays acoustic versions of songs he is known for in an intimate one-man show.
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6. Seaspiracy (2021)
1h 29m • Crime, Documentary
- IMDb 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 75%
- Our score 3.9/5
A filmmaker who cares about ocean life sets out to record the harm done to marine species. He examines plastic pollution, ghost nets and overfishing, and questions sustainable seafood labels.
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7. Apollo 11 (2019)
1h 33m • Documentary, History
- IMDb 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 99%
- Our score 4.5/5
In 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins fly Apollo 11 toward the Moon, aiming to land humans there for the first time. The story is told through archival footage.
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8. Cuba and the Cameraman (2017)
1h 53m • Documentary
- IMDb 8.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 100%
- Our score 4.6/5
In the 1970s a cameraman begins visiting Cuba, drawn by the social programs Fidel Castro is putting in place. He returns across forty-five years, filming Castro and three Cuban families.
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9. Virunga (2014)
1h 40m • Documentary, War
- IMDb 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 100%
- Our score 4.5/5
In eastern Congo, Virunga National Park holds the last of the mountain gorillas. A gorilla caretaker, the park's wardens and a journalist defend it from armed militia and oil exploration.
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10. Five Came Back (2017)
3h 15m • Documentary, War
- IMDb 8.2/10
- Our score 4.1/5
John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens serve in World War II. They make films to bring the truth of the war to the American people.
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11. Icarus (2017)
2h 1m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 92%
- Our score 4.3/5
Bryan Fogel, a filmmaker and amateur cyclist, sets out to expose how athletes using banned drugs escape detection. He turns to Grigory Rodchenkov of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory.
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12. The Greatest Night in Pop (2024)
1h 36m • Documentary, Music
- IMDb 7.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 98%
- Our score 4.4/5
In January 1985, a group of pop singers came together in a studio to record "We Are the World." The documentary follows the session through those who were there.
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13. John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid (2015)
1h 2m • Comedy, Documentary
- IMDb 7.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 100%
- Our score 4.5/5
John Mulaney, a former SNL writer, gives wry observations on marriage, on babies, and on the time he met Bill Clinton.
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14. Bad Boys (2014)
1h 42m • Documentary
- IMDb 8.2/10
- Our score 4.1/5
In the late 1980s and early '90s, the Detroit Pistons seemed willing to do anything for a win. That trait brought them admiration and dislike, and the name Bad Boys.
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15. The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014)
1h 20m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 100%
- Our score 4.5/5
Bing Russell, a Hollywood veteran, forms a baseball club with no major league parent. The Portland Mavericks shake up the sport and rise fast in the 1970s.
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16. Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski (2018)
1h 44m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.9/10
- Our score 4.0/5
Artists in Los Angeles discover the work of Stanisław Szukalski, a forgotten Polish sculptor who invented a language of his own. A Nazi bombing raid once destroyed all of his work.
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17. Man on Wire (2008)
1h 34m • Biography, Crime, Documentary
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 100%
- Our score 4.4/5
French tightrope walker Philippe Petit dreams of walking a wire between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. In 1974 he assembles a team to rig the illegal crossing.
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18. 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021)
1h 41m • Adventure, Documentary, Sport
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 92%
- Our score 4.2/5
In 2019, Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja sets out to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders, the peaks above 8,000 meters, in under seven months. The standing record is seven years and 310 days.
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19. Meru (2015)
1h 30m • Action, Adventure, Documentary
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 88%
- Our score 4.1/5
Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Öztürk failed to summit Meru Peak in the Indian Himalayas in 2008. They return to attempt the Shark's Fin, a 4,000-foot wall on the mountain.
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20. Stutz (2022)
1h 36m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 96%
- Our score 4.3/5
A psychiatrist and his patient, an actor, sit down for a series of conversations. They talk about their lives, their mental health and the visual exercises the psychiatrist calls The Tools.
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21. The Deepest Breath (2023)
1h 48m • Adventure, Documentary
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 84%
- Our score 4.0/5
Italian freediver Alessia Zecchini chases a world record with safety diver Stephen Keenan beside her. Japanese freediver Hanako Hirose is chasing the same depths.
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22. Rising Phoenix (2020)
1h 46m • Documentary
- IMDb 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 86%
- Our score 4.2/5
Bebe Vio lost her arms and legs to meningitis at eleven. She and fellow Paralympians such as Jonnie Peacock tell how they came to their sports and to the Paralympic Games.
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23. A Secret Love (2020)
1h 22m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 100%
- Our score 4.5/5
Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel meet in Canada in 1947 and later run an interior decorating business in Chicago. For almost seven decades their families do not know they are a couple.
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24. Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks (2010)
1h 8m • Documentary
- IMDb 8.0/10
- Our score 4.0/5
Reggie Miller's Indiana Pacers trail the New York Knicks 105-99 with moments left in Game 1 of the 1995 Eastern Conference Semifinals. In New York he is Public Enemy No. 1.
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25. Take Care of Maya (2023)
1h 43m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 93%
- Our score 4.3/5
Maya Kowalski's chronic pain is treated with ketamine. When her symptoms return, Jack Kowalski takes her to the ER, and the staff question the diagnosis and call child protective services.
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26. A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough (2026)
1h 18m • Documentary
- IMDb 8.0/10
- Our score 4.0/5
David Attenborough tells the story of a group of gorillas, beginning with his first encounter with them in the 1970s and continuing to the present day.
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27. McQueen (2018)
1h 51m • Biography, Documentary
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 99%
- Our score 4.4/5
Lee Alexander McQueen begins as a tailor and goes on to launch and oversee the label that carries his name. This documentary traces a rags-to-riches story laced with the gothic.
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28. Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020)
1h 47m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 100%
- Our score 4.4/5
In 1971, teenagers with disabilities spend the summer at Camp Jened in New York. Judith Heumann and other campers go on to campaign for accessibility legislation.
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29. The Social Dilemma (2020)
1h 34m • Documentary, Drama
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 85%
- Our score 4.0/5
Tech insiders explain how social platforms are built to hold attention. A family feels the effects: Ben's use deepens, Isla's self-esteem drops, and Cassandra has no phone of her own.
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30. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017)
1h 33m • Comedy, Documentary, Drama
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 92%
- Our score 4.2/5
Jim Carrey takes the part of Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon and stays in character off camera. Twenty years on he discusses it alongside footage from the shoot.
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31. The Ivory Game (2016)
1h 52m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 77%
- Our score 3.9/5
In Tanzania, Elisifa Ngowi's task force hunts Shetani, blamed for 10,000 elephant deaths. In Kenya, Craig Millar's patrols guard elephants. In China, investigators go undercover among dealers.
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32. Tell Me Who I Am (2019)
1h 26m • Documentary, Drama, Mystery
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 97%
- Our score 4.3/5
A motorcycle accident leaves Alex Lewis with no memory, and the only person he recognizes is his twin brother Marcus. Marcus helps him rebuild his life and tells him about their childhood.
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33. What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)
1h 41m • Biography, Documentary, Music
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 88%
- Our score 4.1/5
Nina Simone, a piano prodigy from a classical background, becomes a singer and civil rights activist. Her own tapes, her daughter and her friends tell her story.
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34. Athlete A (2020)
1h 45m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 100%
- Our score 4.4/5
Reporters at The Indianapolis Star look into how USA Gymnastics handled abuse complaints. Gymnasts Rachael Denhollander and Maggie Nichols describe abuse by team doctor Larry Nassar.
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35. HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé (2019)
2h 17m • Documentary, Music
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 98%
- Our score 4.9/5
Beyoncé headlines the 2018 Coachella festival, the first Black woman to do so. Her set celebrates historically Black colleges and universities with a marching band, majorettes, and step shows.
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36. Best of Enemies (2015)
1h 27m • Biography, Documentary, History
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 93%
- Our score 4.2/5
In 1968, ABC News pits liberal writer Gore Vidal against conservative William F. Buckley Jr. in ten televised debates. They meet during the presidential conventions in Miami Beach and Chicago.
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37. Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (2021)
1h 13m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 55%
- Our score 3.3/5
David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström trace how human activity pushes the planet past the limits that kept it steady for 10,000 years. Rockström's team found nine of them.
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38. Marty, Life Is Short (2026)
1h 42m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 97%
- Our score 4.4/5
Martin Short reflects on a life fueled by joy. The documentary gathers classic clips, fresh interviews and home movies that have never been seen.
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39. Quincy (2018)
2h 4m • Biography, Documentary
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 82%
- Our score 4.0/5
Quincy Jones works in music for seven decades. He comes to prominence in 1950s jazz as an arranger and conductor, then produces pop hits and film and television scores.
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40. Miracle: The Boys of '80 (2026)
1h 48m • Documentary, History
- IMDb 7.9/10
- Our score 4.0/5
In 1980, with the Cold War at its height, the United States Olympic hockey team reaches the semifinals against the Soviet Union. The players and their head coach are the underdogs.
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41. To Kill a Tiger (2023)
2h 8m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 100%
- Our score 4.4/5
Ranjit, a farmer in Jharkhand, India, demands justice after his 13-year-old daughter is raped. Women and men insist the community, not a court, should settle it with a forced marriage.
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42. Queen of Chess (2026)
1h 33m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 82%
- Our score 4.0/5
Judit Polgár grows up under her father's instruction. He trains all three of his daughters toward becoming chess grandmasters. She aims at the men's game, where Garry Kasparov holds the title.
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43. Jim Gaffigan: King Baby (2009)
1h 12m • Comedy, Documentary
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Our score 3.9/5
Jim Gaffigan takes the stage in Austin, closing out his 2008 stand-up tour with a set on laziness and overindulgence. The show follows his platinum-selling special Beyond the Pale.
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44. Untold: Malice at the Palace (2021)
1h 9m • Crime, Documentary
- IMDb 7.5/10
- Our score 3.8/5
The Indiana Pacers visit the Detroit Pistons in 2004 with tensions left from the playoffs. A late foul sets off a confrontation, and a thrown drink sends Ron Artest into the stands.
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45. WHAM! (2023)
1h 32m • Documentary, Music
- IMDb 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 87%
- Our score 4.1/5
George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley meet at school and form a pop duo, taping a demo in Ridgeley's front room that lands them a record deal. Their first single misses the chart.
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46. Becoming Led Zeppelin (2025)
2h 2m • Documentary, Music
- IMDb 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 85%
- Our score 4.0/5
In postwar Britain, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and John Bonham play in sessions and short-lived bands. In summer 1968 the four meet for a first rehearsal.
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47. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)
2h 22m • Biography, Documentary, History
- IMDb 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 92%
- Our score 4.2/5
With the spirit of America bleak after Vietnam and Watergate, Bob Dylan gathers Greenwich Village folk musicians for a tour of New England and Canada. Filmmaker Stefan Van Dorp documents it.
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48. Untold: Breaking Point (2021)
1h 19m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Our score 3.8/5
Tennis star Mardy Fish faces the pressure of continuing a winning tradition in American tennis while severe anxiety and mental health challenges reshape his life on and off the court.
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49. Neal Brennan: Blocks (2022)
1h 2m • Comedy, Documentary
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Our score 3.9/5
Neal Brennan muses on his life in a stand-up special. He moves from the relationship people have with dogs to why dating a model brings to mind owning a dune buggy.
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50. The Bleeding Edge (2018)
1h 39m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 100%
- Our score 4.4/5
Patients injured by Essure, artificial hips and vaginal mesh describe what the devices did to them. The devices reach the market with less study than drugs receive.
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51. Miss Americana (2020)
1h 25m • Documentary, Music
- IMDb 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 91%
- Our score 4.1/5
Taylor Swift wraps her 2018 Reputation Stadium Tour and moves into making her 2019 album, Lover. Cameras record the studio sessions while she weighs when to speak publicly about her politics.
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52. American Factory (2019)
1h 50m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 96%
- Our score 4.3/5
A Chinese billionaire opens a factory in a shuttered General Motors plant near Dayton, Ohio, and hires two thousand American workers. Fuyao, a Chinese company, occupies Moraine Assembly.
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53. Aziz Ansari: Right Now (2019)
1h 5m • Comedy, Documentary
- IMDb 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 84%
- Our score 4.0/5
Aziz Ansari returns to the stage for a stand-up set about his grandmother and his parents and the shifting rules of acceptable behavior. He also turns to his own misconduct controversy.
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54. Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (2022)
1h 29m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 91%
- Our score 4.1/5
Investigators dig into the history of Boeing and the two 737 MAX crashes within months of each other. They ask whether the manufacturer favored profit over passenger safety.
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55. Will & Harper (2024)
1h 54m • Comedy, Documentary
- IMDb 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 99%
- Our score 4.3/5
In 2021, Harper Steele tells her old friend Will Ferrell she is a trans woman. Two years later, the pair drive across the country together for seventeen days.
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56. Skyscraper Live (2026)
1h 57m • Adventure, Documentary
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Our score 3.8/5
Alex Honnold attempts a free solo ascent of Taipei 101, the 508-meter skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan, without ropes. The climb is broadcast live, with a panel of hosts commentating.
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57. The Redeem Team (2022)
1h 37m • Documentary, History, Sport
- IMDb 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 93%
- Our score 4.2/5
The United States men's basketball team returns from the 2004 Athens Olympics with a bronze medal. Four years later in Beijing, the American squad pursues gold.
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58. The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel (2026)
1h 35m • Documentary, Music
- IMDb 7.5/10
- Our score 3.8/5
Hillel Slovak picks up a guitar as a teenager in Los Angeles. He forms a band with friends Anthony Kiedis, Flea and Jack Irons, and shapes the early Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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59. Knock Down the House (2019)
1h 26m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 99%
- Our score 4.3/5
In 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush and Paula Jean Swearengin run for Congress. The four Democrats challenge long-time incumbents in primaries without corporate money.
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60. The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari (2022)
1h 38m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 83%
- Our score 3.9/5
The 2019 eruption on Whakaari / White Island in New Zealand is recounted, along with the rescue teams who went to help and the 22 lives lost.
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61. Hasan Minhaj: The King's Jester (2022)
1h • Comedy, Documentary
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 86%
- Our score 4.1/5
Hasan Minhaj returns to the stage for a second stand-up special, taped at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where he talks about fertility, fatherhood and free speech.
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62. Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley (2024)
1h 31m • Documentary, Music
- IMDb 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 75%
- Our score 3.8/5
Known more for acting than for music, Elvis Presley returns to performing in a 1968 television special. His former wife, a family friend and others discuss the gamble.
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63. Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
1h 29m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 100%
- Our score 4.4/5
Dick Johnson is a retired psychiatrist whose memory is failing. His daughter films him in staged deaths: falls, accidents, even his own funeral. He plays along with her.
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64. Sunday Best (2021)
1h 27m • Biography, Documentary
- IMDb 7.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 100%
- Our score 4.5/5
In television's early years, Ed Sullivan gives Black performers a place on his Sunday variety show, breaking barriers as the new medium takes shape.
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65. Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017)
1h 34m • Biography, Documentary
- IMDb 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 89%
- Our score 4.1/5
Joan Didion looks back at a writing life that carried her from a California childhood to Vogue and then to novels, essays and screenplays. Archival footage traces the eras she covered.
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66. Modern Masters: SS Rajamouli (2024)
1h 14m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.4/10
- Our score 3.7/5
A documentary about the filmmaker S. S. Rajamouli, his career and the pan-India film genre, told through interviews with collaborators, actors and directors, plus behind-the-scenes footage.
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67. They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)
1h 38m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 92%
- Our score 4.2/5
A documentary on Orson Welles's attempt to revive his career with The Other Side of the Wind, a movie about a veteran director finishing one last picture. Shooting starts in 1970.
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68. Girl in the Picture (2022)
1h 41m • Crime, Documentary
- IMDb 7.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 96%
- Our score 4.2/5
A young mother known as Sharon Marshall dies mysteriously, and her son is kidnapped. The case opens a decades-long mystery about her true identity and a federal fugitive at its center.
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69. Untold: Crime & Penalties (2021)
1h 25m • Crime, Documentary
- IMDb 7.4/10
- Our score 3.7/5
James Galante, a trash kingpin tied to the Genovese crime family, buys the Danbury Trashers hockey club. His son A. J., 17, becomes its president and general manager.
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70. Jamie Vardy (2026)
1h 30m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.5/10
- Our score 3.8/5
Jamie Vardy plays his football part-time before making his way into the professional game. His path leads to the Premier League, where he climbs toward the top against the odds.
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71. Sebastian Maniscalco: Aren't You Embarrassed? (2014)
1h 3m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Our score 3.9/5
A comic returns home to Chicago to take the stage before a sold-out crowd, where he examines modern society's shameless behavior through his old-world Italian-American upbringing.
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72. Cover-Up (2025)
1h 57m • Documentary, History
- IMDb 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 98%
- Our score 4.3/5
Seymour Hersh, the journalist who reported the My Lai massacre, agrees to talk about his career. He gives access to an archive that includes his work on Abu Ghraib.
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73. Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special (2022)
1h 27m • Comedy, Documentary
- IMDb 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 100%
- Our score 4.4/5
Health problems and the pandemic keep a comedian from taping before a live audience. He records alone in his producing partner's apartment, covering casinos, cannibalism and living wills.
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74. This Magic Moment (2016)
1h 41m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.7/10
- Our score 3.9/5
During the mid-1990s, Orlando's young basketball franchise rose behind Shaquille O'Neal and Penny Hardaway, beating the Bulls on the way to the 1995 NBA Finals.
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75. Selena y Los Dinos: A Family's Legacy (2025)
1h 57m • Documentary, Music
- IMDb 7.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 96%
- Our score 4.4/5
Selena Quintanilla sings with Los Dinos, the band made up of her family. A documentary uses never-before-seen footage and photographs to tell of her life and her start with the group.
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76. Get Me Roger Stone (2017)
1h 40m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 88%
- Our score 4.0/5
Roger Stone testified at the Watergate hearings and advised Donald Trump. A documentary follows the Republican strategist and lobbyist, a longtime force in conservative America.
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77. A Lion in the House (2006)
3h 45m • Documentary
- IMDb 8.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 100%
- Our score 4.7/5
Five families struggle with the ups and downs of cancer treatment over the course of six years.
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78. Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins (2019)
1h 31m • Documentary
- IMDb 8.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 95%
- Our score 4.4/5
A documentary portrait of Molly Ivins, the six-foot Texas journalist and best-selling author whose sharp political writing and humor spared no one in public life.
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79. Return to Space (2022)
2h 8m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 79%
- Our score 3.8/5
After the Space Shuttle retires in 2011, no crew launches from American soil. Elon Musk and SpaceX work for two decades to build rockets that can carry NASA astronauts.
On Netflix US
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80. Shirkers (2018)
1h 37m • Documentary
- IMDb 7.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes 99%
- Our score 4.3/5
In 1992 Singapore, teenager Sandi Tan and her friends Jasmine Ng and Sophia Siddique shoot a road movie with their mentor Georges Cardona. He disappears with the footage.
On Netflix US
Streaming availability in this article was checked on 9 November 2026.
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