20 Best Documentaries On Netflix Right Now

Last Updated: March 19th

Streaming video is the very best factor that’s ever occurred to documentaries. People who would by no means have paid for a ticket to a theatrical nonfiction movie at the moment are, because of Netflix’s strong choice, scarfing down the stuff by the barrel. But the place to begin among the many lots? Here are 20 of the very best documentaries on Netflix proper now to get you going, protecting a wide range of themes and actual tales.

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Jiro Dreams Of Sushi (2011)

Run Time: 81 min | IMDb: 7.9/10

David Gelb’s meditative-yet-jaunty peek inside sushi chef Jiro Ono’s lengthy street to culinary perfection has confirmed such a sleeper hit on Netflix that the streaming service employed Gelb to make its nonfiction meals sequence, Chef’s Table. Whet your urge for food for foodie docs with Jiro, which, along with exhibiting us the method behind sustaining the excessive requirements of a three-Michelin-star sushi restaurant (even a tiny one), additionally doubles as a critical meditation on household legacy.

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13th (2016)

Run Time: 100 min | IMDb: 8.2/10

This 2016 documentary from Ava DuVernay gained an Emmy and was nominated for an Oscar throughout awards season two years in the past. The movie chronicles the justice system’s abuses in opposition to black individuals, making a case for institutionalized racism being an issue in America that’s solely emboldened by the jail cycle. DuVernay boldly explores how prisons and detention facilities are making a revenue off of free jail labor, most of it completed by black males which begs the query, is slavery actually useless?