Documentary

This is it. The top 5 Netflix documentaries of all time — according to me, backed by Rotten Tomatoes, and...

Top 10. We made it. The American Experiment. The Dinosaurs. The Only Girl in the Orchestra. An Oscar winner, a...

Top 15 to 11. Stutz — the highest audience score on the entire list at 97%. Pepsi, Where’s My Jet...

Still at 100%. We’re in the top 20 now. Found. Gone Girls. Elizabeth Smart. The stories are extraordinary and the...

100% on Rotten Tomatoes from here on out. Every single doc in the top 25 has a perfect critical score....

99% on Rotten Tomatoes. We’re in the top 30, and these docs are nearly flawless according to critics. Apollo 11...

98% on RT. Making a Murderer. Secret Mall Apartment. Wild Wild Country. We are in rarefied air now. These are...

The 97% club continues. The Keepers, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, The Tinder Swindler — plus the My Lai massacre...

97% on Rotten Tomatoes. This is where documentaries stop being ‘pretty good’ and start being life-altering. 13th is in this...

We’ve hit the 96% tier on Rotten Tomatoes. Every doc in this batch is near-universally acclaimed. Cheer, The Last Dance,...

Top 55 to 51 — and we’ve got David Attenborough, the Boy Scouts scandal, Obama-produced Oscar winners, and the OG...

Rolling Thunder Revue. Take Care of Maya. The Crash. We’re into Martin Scorsese territory now, and the hits just keep...

We’re firmly in the 90s on RT now, and honestly every documentary from here to #1 could be someone’s favorite...

The quality is getting absurd now. Every doc in this batch is sitting at 88% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes,...