Great Documentaries on Netflix
This is a list of great documentaries available on Netflix.
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jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy – ★★★★
The three-part documentary “jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy” filmed and directed by Coodie & Chike about the life of rapper, record producer and fashion designer Kanye West was released on Netflix. It features a detailed collage of natural moments and off-screen narration by Coodie, who knew Kanye from when he wasn’t famous yet and started filming
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Chinese Portrait – ★★★★
我的镜头 – (Chinese Portrait) is a great documentary film by Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai (So Long, My Son) from the year 2018. It features around 60 finely composed shots filmed over seven years showing people or the director himself in different locales and situations in China standing still and looking into the camera while life
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76 Days – ★★★★
The 2020 Chinese-American Documentary film 76 Days directed by Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and an anonymous third is available on YouTube and Dogwoof. It documents the situation in a Wuhan Hospital in China shortly after the beginning of the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of the city in February 2020 that lasted for 76 days. In
Cow – ★★★★
The great nonverbal documentary film “Cow” by British filmmaker Andrea Arnold that premiered last year at Cannes is now finally available for streaming on Mubi. The film is an intimate portrait of a milking cow and follows her in her everyday life on a farm in the UK. It’s style is naturalistic and contemplative with
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse – ★★★★½
Hearts of Darkness is a US documentary film about the chaotic and wild production of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 cinematic masterpiece Apocalypse Now. It was mainly shot and narrated by Coppola’s wife Eleanor and later edited and finished by George Hickenlooper and Fax Bahr who premiered it at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. The footage
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Sobibor, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 Heures – ★★★★½
This interview is another meaningful addition to the original Shoah project by French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann that was released in 2001. It features the eye witness account of Yehuda Lerner, a Jewish prisoner of the Sobibor extermination camp during World War II that participated in a revolt, which enabled him to flee from the camp
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Un Vivant Qui Passe (A Visitor from the Living) – ★★★★
In 1979, Claude Lanzmann interviewed Maurice Rossel as part of his Shoah documentary project, who was an official of the International Red Cross during the Second World War. Rossel is known for his visit of the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp and erroneously reporting that the living conditions of the Jewish prisoners there were almost normal and life in the camp
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Shoah: Four Sisters – ★★★★★
French documentary film director Claude Lanzman’s last released work before his death in 2018 features previously unreleased interviews with four women from different European countries who survived the holocaust. The accounts were part of the original Shoah project that was released in 1985 but in Lanzman’s opinion seemed to be stories of their own that
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John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection – ★★★★½
This 2018 documentary film by French director Julien Faraut is set at the final of the 1984 French Open between John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl at a time when McEnroe was the world’s top-ranked player. Vogue called it the best film about tennis that was ever made and it really makes for an very interesting
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