The streaming landscape can feel endless. It’s not and we’re here to help. Netflix has hundreds of documentaries in its streaming library, but they’re not all created equal, and we’ve narrowed down the options for you with 25 of our top picks for the best documentary movies currently available to watch on the streaming platform. If you’re looking for something light and visually stunning, you’ve come to the right place. If you’re looking for something gruesome yet fascinating, there are options for you below. If you only have half an hour or 40 minutes to kill, Netflix has something for you.
So peruse our list below, and get watching!
“Athlete A” Netflix
One of the best documentaries in recent years, “Athlete A” works on multiple fronts: First, it effectively chronicles the abuse perpetrated by Larry Nassar, a former sports medicine physician who used his position...
So peruse our list below, and get watching!
“Athlete A” Netflix
One of the best documentaries in recent years, “Athlete A” works on multiple fronts: First, it effectively chronicles the abuse perpetrated by Larry Nassar, a former sports medicine physician who used his position...
- 11/3/2023
- by Kayti Burt
- The Wrap
It’s not every day a silent film is discovered, restored, and screened for audiences 100 years since it was last seen by any audience but attendees at this year’s Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam are in for just such a treat. It’s been revealed that Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s “The History of the Civil War,” filmed in 1921, will screen at the festival for just the second time in its existence. The film will be shown with live musical accompaniment from the Anvil Orchestra, using a newly composed soundtrack written by Roger Miller and Terry Donahue, former members of the Alloy Orchestra.
The film was initially presumed to be lost, last screening for members of the Comintern in 1921. It was presumed that only a 12-minute snippet was all that existed. This print was part of a two-year restoration effort by film historian Nikolai Izvolov, who had previously brought Vertov’s 1918 feature,...
The film was initially presumed to be lost, last screening for members of the Comintern in 1921. It was presumed that only a 12-minute snippet was all that existed. This print was part of a two-year restoration effort by film historian Nikolai Izvolov, who had previously brought Vertov’s 1918 feature,...
- 10/20/2021
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Terry Donahue, the winningest coach in both UCLA football history and the Pac-12 Conference, died Sunday at his home in Newport Beach, California, following a two-year struggle with cancer. He was 77.
His death was announced by UCLA. The school said Donahue died surrounded by family.
In all, Donahue scored 151 UCLA wins, and 98 in Pac-12 play. He first coached the Bruins as an assistant from 1971 to 1975, then as head coach from 1976 to 1995. Among the future NFL players to be coached by Donahue were quarterback Troy Aikman, safety Kenny Easley and offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden.
Following his coaching career, Donahue called games for CBS, Fox and the NFL Network.
During the Donahue years, the Bruins won or shared five league titles. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2000, and the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 1997. A string of seven consecutive UCLA Bowl victories in the 1980s included the 1983 and ’84 Rose Bowls,...
His death was announced by UCLA. The school said Donahue died surrounded by family.
In all, Donahue scored 151 UCLA wins, and 98 in Pac-12 play. He first coached the Bruins as an assistant from 1971 to 1975, then as head coach from 1976 to 1995. Among the future NFL players to be coached by Donahue were quarterback Troy Aikman, safety Kenny Easley and offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden.
Following his coaching career, Donahue called games for CBS, Fox and the NFL Network.
During the Donahue years, the Bruins won or shared five league titles. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2000, and the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 1997. A string of seven consecutive UCLA Bowl victories in the 1980s included the 1983 and ’84 Rose Bowls,...
- 7/5/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
When we first see Terry Donahue on screen in the documentary A Secret Love, the octogenarian is wearing a green t-shirt emblazoned with the words, “There’s No Crying in Baseball.” Movie fans know that cherished line of dialogue from A League of Their Own, the 1992 film based on the true story of the first women’s professional baseball league, founded during World War II.
There’s good reason Donahue is wearing that shirt. She was one the real-life athletes who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
“One of the first things we did [for the documentary project] was we went to a reunion of the league [in] 2013,” recalls producer Alexa Fogel. “It was just extraordinary…to see the older girls and just how revered they were.”
Chris Bolan directed the Netflix documentary, which is now in contention for Emmy nominations. The film’s primary focus is not the baseball league of yesteryear,...
There’s good reason Donahue is wearing that shirt. She was one the real-life athletes who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
“One of the first things we did [for the documentary project] was we went to a reunion of the league [in] 2013,” recalls producer Alexa Fogel. “It was just extraordinary…to see the older girls and just how revered they were.”
Chris Bolan directed the Netflix documentary, which is now in contention for Emmy nominations. The film’s primary focus is not the baseball league of yesteryear,...
- 6/5/2020
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
There's no secret here: A Secret Love has pulled on the heartstrings of Netflix viewers. Warning, spoilers for the documentary film follow. The documentary tells the story of the decades-long relationship between Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel and their late-in-life health decline and conflicted decision to enter an assisted living facility. Directed by the pair's great-nephew Chris Bolan, A Secret Love features the two women recalling their early love story in the 1940s when they played baseball with the organization that served as the inspiration for A League of Their Own and tracks the family conflict surrounding Terry's declining health. "They just started telling us their story, dating...
- 5/5/2020
- E! Online
The love story between Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel is finally getting the spotlight it deserves.
The couple is at the center of Netflix’s upcoming documentary A Secret Love, and the trailer released Thursday shows how they met, fell in love and continued to hide their relationship for six decades. The documentary will hit Netflix on April 29.
The trailer starts with Donahue and Henschel touring a retirement facility and learning they’d be the first same-sex couple to stay there, which launches into their story. It then flips back and forth as it highlights the struggles of the Lgbtq...
The couple is at the center of Netflix’s upcoming documentary A Secret Love, and the trailer released Thursday shows how they met, fell in love and continued to hide their relationship for six decades. The documentary will hit Netflix on April 29.
The trailer starts with Donahue and Henschel touring a retirement facility and learning they’d be the first same-sex couple to stay there, which launches into their story. It then flips back and forth as it highlights the struggles of the Lgbtq...
- 4/22/2020
- by Ale Russian
- PEOPLE.com
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