10 Best History Documentaries On Netflix Right Now

Last Updated: August 20th

History tends to be a type of topics you both discover insanely boring or massively fascinating. Often that comes right down to the execution of the historical past being conveyed — as a result of Dan Carlin sadly doesn’t have sufficient time within the day to relate each historic story to us.

Below we’ve compiled an inventory of among the greatest historic documentaries on Netflix. These are the outliers, the moments of pure madness, and the actions which have formed our world.

Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz (2018)

Run Time: 83 min | IMDb: 7.5/10

Some tales have to be retold again and again. The story of the final residing prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, that of Ben Ferencz, is a type of. This documentary follows Ferencz as he remembers liberating fascist demise camps in Europe as a soldier after which strikes into his time as a prosecutor of the Nazi’s notorious and murderous Einsatzgruppen troopers — the individuals straight answerable for murdering individuals in the course of the Holocaust.

Finally, the movie appears at Ferencz life after Nuremberg, whereby he championed “law not war” as he helped create the worldwide felony court docket for crimes in opposition to humanity. It’s a harrowing but promising story of how one man can battle nice evil — a narrative we have to hear proper now as so many toy with the concepts of racial supremacy but once more.