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Documentaries on Netflix you NEED TO WATCH ASAP - You can thank me later 🫢

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Marissa Stahl

Who doesn’t love a good Netflix documentary?! Here are all of my favorites that are worth the watch. They all have that SHOCK factor about them.

Sections

Biographical 🎥

True Crime 😵

Serial Killers 🔪

Movies Based on True Events 😳

Medical / Family

Biographical 🎥

The Netflix documentary series Harry & Meghan follows the couple’s relationship from their secret early courtship through their marriage and eventual decision to step back from senior royal duties. It focuses on their experiences with intense med...

Harry & Meghan

The trial that had the world in a chokehold. Depp v. Heard is a three-part Netflix documentary about Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s 2022 defamation trial, presenting their testimony alongside courtroom footage. It also examines how social media transf...

Depp V. Heard

This documentary follows the collapse of a powerful South Carolina family after a fatal boating accident involving their son Paul. And is immediately followed by the shocking murders of Paul and his mother, Maggie. The series explores the family’s in...

Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal

O.J. Simpson is a four-part Netflix documentary about the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman and the sensational trial of O.J. Simpson that followed. It covers the famous police chase, the evidence and courtroom battle, and the enormo...

American Manhunt: OJ Simpson

A four-part Netflix documentary that examines Epstein’s decades of sexual abuse and trafficking, told primarily through the firsthand accounts of survivors. It also explores how his wealth, powerful connections, and a controversial 2008 plea deal all...

Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich

Untold: The Fall of Favre examines Brett Favre’s rise from legendary NFL quarterback to a sports figure surrounded by controversy, focusing on allegations involving inappropriate messages to Jenn Sterger and his connection to Mississippi’s welfare-fr...

Untold: The Fall of Favre

True Crime 😵

The story of Denise Huskins, who was kidnapped from her California home in 2015 while her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, was initially suspected of being involved. When Denise is returned, police and the media accused the couple of staging the kidnapping—un...

American Nightmare

Follows the disappearance and death of 22-year-old Gabby Petito during a cross-country van trip with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. The documentary examines the couple’s travels, the investigation and massive social-media attention surrounding the case,...

American Murder: Gabby Petito

A true-crime documentary about Lori Vallow, a mother whose religious beliefs became increasingly extreme. It follows the disappearance and deaths of her children, Tylee and JJ, and the investigation that ultimately exposed what happened to them.

The Sins of Our Mother

A series about the unsolved 1969 murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik, a beloved Catholic school teacher in Baltimore. It explores allegations of sexual abuse at her school and how former students spent decades seeking answers and justice.

The Keepers

A seemingly ordinary family whose hidden problems come to light after a shocking crime. It explores the secrets within the family and the investigation that reveals what was really happening behind closed doors. This case really shook me.

American Murder: The Family Next Door

This has to be one of the craziest documentaries I’ve ever watched. A young woman gets pulled over on the side of a highway after calling 911, she is begging for help after supposedly giving birth to her baby. EMS drives her to the hospital to be che...

Maternal Instinct

Serial Killers 🔪

A series that describes the life and crimes of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered numerous young men between 1978 and 1991. The series also focuses on the victims, the families affected, and the institutional failures that allowed Dahmer to c...

DAHMER: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

Movies Based on True Events 😳

A true-crime drama about serial killer Ted Bundy, told largely from the perspective of his girlfriend, Liz Kendall. It follows their relationship, Bundy’s arrest and trial, and how Liz struggles to accept that the charming man she loved was responsib...

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

1970s Los Angeles. A photographer posing as a serial killer. Women leave with him to remote locations under the impression that they will be his models, but to never return again. A young actress and a serial killer cross paths on a dating show title...

Woman of the Hour

Medical / Family

This documentary covers a real-life case involving Maya Kowalski, allegations of medical child abuse, her removal into state custody, and the subsequent legal battle involving her family and the hospital. As a parent of a daughter myself, this is abs...

Take Care of Maya

A high-school student and her boyfriend begin receiving hundreds of disturbing, anonymous text messages, apparently from someone who knows intimate details about their lives. As the investigation unfolds, the identity of the person behind the message...

Unknown Number: The High School Catfish

A fertility doctor decides to play God and take matters into his own hands by artificially inseminating his patients with his OWN sperm. One woman decides to get a paternity test and she finds out that she has 60+ siblings. Your jaw will be on the fl...

Our Father