Netflix movies and series: Documentary

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Netflix movies and series: Documentary

82 movies and series in the documentary category

Do you feel like watching something documentary? This overview contains all Netflix movies and series in the documentary genre and is updated with new releases daily. Currently, the best rated title in this category, with a rating of 4.65, is Travis: A Soldier's Story.

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Prince Philip: The Plot to Make a King

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2015 | 47 minutes

This documentary recounts efforts by England's elite to deny power to royal consort Prince Philip due to his German roots and ambitious family.

Tamsin Greig

World War II, Royalty, Documentary, ...

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Winnie

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2017 | 84 minutes

Winnie Mandela speaks about her extraordinary and controversial career, from her early life to her marriage to her ongoing efforts to end apartheid.

Fight the System, French, Documentary, ...

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Barbershop Punk

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2010 | 76 minutes

The subjects of file swapping and censorship get a human face with the story of a barbershop singer who fought the country's biggest cable provider.

Henry Rollins, Janeane Garofalo, Robb Topolski, ...

Business, Science & Tech, Politics, ...

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Wizard Mode

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2016 | 97 minutes

Pinball wizard Robert Gagno trains his focus on becoming a world pinball champion while simultaneously challenging social assumptions about autism.

Robert Gagno

Documentary, Canadian, Biographical, ...

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How to Change the World

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2015 | 110 minutes

In the 1970s, a group of activists who gathered to protest nuclear testing formed the iconic Greenpeace environmental organization.

Visionary, Going Green, Fight the System, ...

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When Elephants Fight

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2015 | 80 minutes

This penetrating documentary takes a look at injustices in Congo, a country rich in copper and other minerals but whose citizens rarely prosper.

Robin Wright

Fight the System, Documentary, Gritty, ...

She Makes Comics

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2016 | 70 minutes

Often forgotten or ignored, women creators have a rich history of achievement in comic books, a business and culture where some gender biases persist.

Art & Design, Documentary, Social & Cultural, ...

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Pablo Escobar: Angel or Demon?

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2007 | 81 minutes

This documentary traces the steps of druglord Pablo Escobar with vivid eyewitness accounts that reconstruct his bloody reign in Colombia.

Colombian, Drug Lords, Documentary, ...

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The Return

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2016 | 83 minutes

This film examines the many challenges of reintegration faced by convicts and their families after a new law mandates the prisoners' early release.

Prison, Fight the System, Documentary, ...

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A New High

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2015 | 100 minutes

This film follows residents of a Seattle drug treatment facility who join a yearlong rehabilitation program that trains them to scale Mount Rainier.

Documentary, Social & Cultural, Emotional, ...

Travis: A Soldier's Story

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2013 | 66 minutes

After Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills loses his limbs while serving in Afghanistan, he begins a courageous battle to rebuild his life at home.

Travis Mills

War, Documentary, Biographical, ...

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The Land of the Enlightened

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2016 | 83 minutes

In the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, armed bands of young boys survive by scavenging for old land mines, mining lapis lazuli and trading in opium.

Sohrab Nazari

Belgian, Sundance Film Festival, Documentary, ...

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NOVA: Arctic Ghost Ship

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2015 | 53 minutes

Sir John Franklin's search for the Northwest Passage ended in tragedy in 1848. In 2014, a team of scientists sets out to find one of his lost ships.

Documentary

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NOVA: Secret Tunnel Warfare

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2016 | 53 minutes

In the thick of World War I, Allied forces attempt the daring feat of planting over a million pounds of explosives beneath enemy lines.

Jay O. Sanders

Science & Tech, War, Documentary

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NOVA: Mystery Beneath the Ice

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2016 | 53 minutes

Scientists venture onto the ice to find out why krill, creatures crucial to the Antarctic ecosystem, are disappearing at an alarming rate.

Jay O. Sanders

Unexplained Mystery, Nature Doc, Deep Sea, ...

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NOVA: Secrets of the Sky Tombs

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2017 | 53 minutes

A team of scientists discovers ancient rock-cut tombs while uncovering how the first settlers of the Himalayas arrived, adapted and lived.

Unexplained Mystery, Documentary

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NOVA: Creatures of Light

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2016 | 53 minutes

In the darkest depths of the oceans, species generate light to hunt, mate and communicate, while scientists seek ways to harness their power.

Salvatore Vecchio

Deep Sea, Documentary, Science & Nature

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Maynard

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2017 | 99 minutes

Friends, family and political titans recall the impact of Atlanta's Maynard Jackson, the first African-American mayor of a major Southern city.

Halls of Power, Politics, Documentary, ...

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Meet the Trumps: From Immigrant to President

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2017 | 48 minutes

Learn about Donald Trump's family history, including his immigrant grandfather's gold-rush enterprises and his dad's development of a property empire.

Documentary, British, Historical, ...

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The Messenger

18 October 2018 | Documentaries | 2015 | 89 minutes

This documentary looks at the history of songbirds and speculates on what losing this imperiled species could mean for humanity.

Nature Doc, Hidden Gem, Documentary, ...

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