You will find a complete overview of all Netflix documentaries below. Netflix's content is updated with several new documentaries every week. Currently, the best rated title in this category, with a rating of 4.8, is Down The Fence.
June 15, 2019 | Documentaries | 2018 | 53 minutes
A Muslim women's activist group in India protests against oral divorces, starting a movement to reclaim their religious and constitutional rights.
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June 15, 2019 | Show | 2019
New interviews and an up-to-date analysis of evidence shed light on the 1992 murders of three girls in Spain and their profound impact on the nation.
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June 15, 2019 | Documentaries | 2019 | 40 minutes
In the grip of trauma, hundreds of refugee children in Sweden withdraw from life's uncertainties into a coma-like illness called Resignation Syndrome.
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June 14, 2019 | Documentaries | 2019 | 61 minutes
Oprah Winfrey talks with the exonerated men once known as the Central Park Five, plus the cast and producers who tell their story in "When They See Us."
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June 13, 2019 | Documentaries | 2019 | 142 minutes
In an alchemic mix of fact and fantasy, Martin Scorsese looks back at Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour and a country ripe for reinvention.
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June 8, 2019 | Documentaries | 2018 | 89 minutes
After a snowmobile accident paralyzed him, Grant Korgan became the first athlete with a spinal cord injury to push himself to the South Pole.
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June 8, 2019 | Documentaries | 2019 | 118 minutes
This documentary follows the life of Clarence Avant, the ultimate, uncensored mentor and behind-the-scenes rainmaker in music, film, TV and politics.
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June 8, 2019 | Show | 2019
Writer, director and food enthusiast Jon Favreau and chef Roy Choi explore food in and out of the kitchen with accomplished chefs and celebrity friends.
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June 3, 2019 | Documentaries | 2018 | 77 minutes
An aging blues guitarist and a grad student form an unlikely duo while busking on the street corners of 1980s Harlem.
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June 3, 2019 | Documentaries | 2018 | 83 minutes
A couple operates a bustling dog rescue out of their own home, vowing to give a safe space to the neediest pups on the planet -- 10,000 and counting.
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June 3, 2019 | Documentaries | 2019 | 82 minutes
A gripping profile of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving lead prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials whose lifelong desire for justice altered the rule of law.
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June 1, 2019 | Show | 2019
Brazilian TV personality and politician Wallace Souza faces accusations of masterminding the violent crimes he reported on and rallied against.
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May 25, 2019 | Documentaries | 2019 | 37 minutes
Displaced by Hurricane Maria, three Puerto Rican women navigate their families' uncertain futures as their federal housing aid in New York expires.
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May 23, 2019 | Documentaries | 2019 | 29 minutes
Mexico City restaurant star Gabriela Cámara opens sister eatery Cala in San Francisco, with a similar menu and unusually welcoming kitchen culture.
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May 19, 2019 | Documentaries | 2018 | 88 minutes
Seeking answers after a life-changing incident in 2012, filmmaker Hernán Zin interviews other war reporters about the personal toll of their work.
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May 19, 2019 | Show | 2019
Archival video and new interviews examine Mexican politics in 1994, a year marked by the rise of the EZLN and the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio.
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May 19, 2019 | Documentaries | 2019 | 84 minutes
After discovering the family of Solomon Linda, the writer of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," a reporter tries to help them fight for fair compensation.
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May 15, 2019 | Documentaries | 2018 | 94 minutes
Buoyed by hopeful experiences with medical marijuana, physicians and parents of children with cancer call for more research of its healing potential.
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May 13, 2019 | Documentaries | 2018 | 88 minutes
New Zealand film archivist Heperi Mita traces the cinematic legacy of his mother and trailblazing Maori filmmaker Merata Mita.
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May 11, 2019 | Documentaries | 2018 | 87 minutes
Participants recall the first integrated Little League game played in the racially segregated South during the summer of 1955 in Orlando, Florida.
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