Your favourite Netflix documentary?

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I’m looking for something new to watch and rather than series/films I think I want to start getting stuck into some documentaries.

So, what do you recommend please? New or old, what’s been your favourite? Open to all subject areas!

Agree with @DarkDarkNight the Last Dance is great.

That’s reminded me of the other basketball doc on Netflix, Last Chance U. It follows a college basketball team in East LA and its some of the best made TV I’ve ever seen.

I also really enjoyed both series of Cheer. Made by the same people.

These are my top two also. I hate nature programmes, especially anything to do with sea creatures but found myself weeping at the end of Octopus Teacher!

I also enjoyed Class Action Park which was about a theme park in upstate New York in the 80s. If you enjoyed the freedom of being a latchkey kid of the 80s you’ll identify with the joyful anarchy but also sadly, some of the dangers.

My octopus teacher 🐙

The Keepers is so good and so infuriating. Also enjoyed Don't F*ck with Cats and Audrey & Daisy (infuriating, again).

If you also enjoy podcasts while driving/cooking etc, there are some fab documentary series on BBC Sounds - a really good one about the Trojan Horse Scandal, A very British Cult is also good and I'm currently listening to one about the Crossbow Killing on Anglesea.

Wham! For me too

Our Father (about a dodgy fertility dr who used his own sperm) was horrifying and fascinating.

The hatchet wielding hitchhiker
Tiger king

I liked the one about Oasis, it just took me right back to that time.

Hope Frozen is a heartbreaking and very compelling story about a family who freeze their toddler just after she passes away in the hope to bring her back to life. Explores cryogenics and it's flaws.

I agree with Octopus Teacher (so wholesome), American Murder: The family next door (really haunts me and I think about those girls often), Making a murderer (so many twists and turns).

Lots of new ones to watch added to my list after reading this thread.

Woodstock 99 omg 😱 Constantly shocked over the three episodes

3 Identical Strangers

Blackfish

Fyre

The Deepest Breath

The Jinx (this might not have been on Netflix)

Making of a Murderer

Following

Yes! I thought that was fascinating.

Making a Murderer

Both great yet totally shocking documentaries!

Victim/Suspect - absolutely shocking, regarding young women reporting a rape crime but then the police arresting them for fake accusations (US)

Mark Cavendish - heartwarming

@honeyfox thank you, that sounds right up my street.

I agree with Tiger King!
I found the Woodstock 99 doc quite upsetting and didn't finish it.
The Tinder Swindler
Fyre
I can't remember the name sorry, but the one about the hitch hiker skateboarder, (better than it sounds lol) something hatchet?

Making a Murderer
The Staircase
Tiger King

Vatican girl
Where is Marta
Girl in the picture
Murder by the coast

All of these are great.

Tell Me Who I Am

Quite old now, but Free Solo and The Dawn Wall, both documentaries about climbers. Was watching Free Solo through my fingers, totally incredible.

Sherpa, about the Sherpas on Everest and the huge risks they take to provide for their families

Three Identical Strangers
The Tinder Swindler
Don’t Fuck With Cats (not an easy watch if you have pets, but still interesting)

Our Father
Three Identical Strangers
The Deepest Breath
Woodstock 99
Wham!

Some I really enjoyed:

American manhunt for the Boston marathon bombing

American murder - the family next door (about Chris Watts who killed his wife and children).