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Best documentaries/real drama on Netflix?

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Sparrowlegs248 · 14/09/2019 20:44

Looking for recommendations please. Have watched the Ted Bundy tapes, the Madeliene McCann program, Three Girls.

Thanks.

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endofacentury · 15/09/2019 18:28

When they see us
The Kaleif Browder story - so sad
Making a murderer

IdentifyasTired · 15/09/2019 19:46

13th. Directed by Ava DeVerney (When They See Us). It is incredible. I learned more about black history from that movie than I learned through my entire school life.
Watch it.

sorrythisusernameisinuse · 15/09/2019 19:50

Dirty John!

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wichitalinemanswoman · 15/09/2019 20:37

The Staircase

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Sparrowlegs248 · 15/09/2019 21:00

@endofacentury the Kaleif Browder story was the first thing I watched on Netflix I think. Just awful.

Talking of history, id also be really interested in any documentaries about the Irish troubles.

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rosybell · 15/09/2019 21:14

The Great Hack was fascinating,

Last breath
Be here now

30not13 · 18/09/2019 19:58

Not Netflix but bbc iplayer
Just started watching a documentary on the Yorkshire Ripper. V good so far. Discusses the impact that 70s attitudes towards certain women in society had on the investigation.

HandsOffMyRights · 18/09/2019 20:04

It's a drama, but The People vs OJ Simpson is superb.

NewMe2019 · 18/09/2019 21:39

Definitely Mindhunter. One of my favourites.

Just finished Unbelievable.

Making a Murderer was great.

Watching for suggestions myself.

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Sparrowlegs248 · 04/10/2019 23:33

Just revisiting this for new ideas. I struggled through The Staircase , it seemed very slow to me. Fascinating though, I didn't like Michael Pieterson at all!

I started watching unbelievable this morning and finished it tonight. Very well done and absolutely shocking.

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LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 04/10/2019 23:56

November 13th- Attack on Paris. Made by the brothers who filmed the 9/11 documentary. The interviews with survivors are heartbreaking.

raskolnikova · 05/10/2019 00:29

Not Netflix, but I recommend listening to the This American Life episode that Unbelievable is based on too

www.thisamericanlife.org/581/anatomy-of-doubt

raskolnikova · 05/10/2019 00:38

I also don't think anyone has mentioned the Netflix documentary Shadow of Truth yet. Also quite shocking, especially the final episode.

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