Top 100 Netflix Documentaries to Watch Right Now (#70 to #66)

The quality is getting absurd now. Every doc in this batch is sitting at 88% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes, and the stories range from Beckham to the Murdochs to the Ukrainian revolution. This is the sweet spot of the list. And know that if you are watching these as we go, you are joining me on this journey too. I’ve seen maybe 30% of these already – and I’m watching the ones I haven’t seen yet, and I’m having a blast doing it. (Today’s list I have accidentally seen all of them already, and they are all bangers every one.)

Netflix Documentary #70 — Beckham

2023 | Series | Directed by Fisher Stevens

88% from critics and 93% from audiences. Whether you care about soccer or not, the Beckham docuseries is masterful storytelling. David and Victoria together on camera, sometimes contradicting each other in real time, is television gold. The series covers everything from his working-class roots to Spice Girl romance to that red card against Argentina. The interview technique where they react to each other’s footage is genius.

Netflix Documentary #69 — Queen of Chess

2026 | Film | Directed by Various

88% from critics and 92% from audiences. The Judit Polgar story is one of the greatest in sports history — a girl raised as an experiment in genius by her father who became the greatest female chess player ever and beat almost every male grandmaster on the planet. It premiered at Sundance 2026 and landed on Netflix. The family dynamics alone are worth the watch.

Netflix Documentary #68 — Winter on Fire

2015 | Film | Directed by Evgeny Afineevsky

88% on RT. This documentary covers the 2013-2014 Ukrainian revolution — the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv — with footage so intimate and intense it feels like you’re standing in Independence Square. Given everything that’s happened in Ukraine since, watching this feels prophetic. The courage of ordinary citizens standing up against a corrupt government is genuinely inspiring and terrifying.

Netflix Documentary #67 — Tiger King

2020 | Series | Directed by Eric Goode & Rebecca Chaiklin

89% from critics and a massive 96% from audiences. I mean… do I even need to explain Tiger King? Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin, a murder-for-hire plot, a missing husband, meth, mullets, and big cats. This was THE pandemic documentary. Everyone watched it. If somehow you haven’t, fix that. It’s bonkers from start to finish and only gets more bonkers.

Netflix Documentary #66 — Dynasty: The Murdochs

2026 | Series | Directed by Liz Garbus

90% from critics. If you watched Succession and thought ‘this can’t be based on real people,’ oh buddy, it is. This four-part series uses thousands of private documents, emails, and texts to chronicle Rupert Murdoch’s family power struggle. The sibling rivalry, the backstabbing, the billions at stake — it’s Succession but real and somehow even more dramatic.

The Complete Top 100 Netflix Documentary Countdown

This is where the list starts getting really hard to rank. These are all phenomenal. Fight me in the comments about the ordering.

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