Documentary Archives - Taylor Holmes inc. https://taylorholmes.com/category/cinema/documentary/ Movies, Books & TV for people who like to think.. Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:36:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://taylorholmes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cropped-light-bulb-1-32x32.jpg Documentary Archives - Taylor Holmes inc. https://taylorholmes.com/category/cinema/documentary/ 32 32 Top 100 Netflix Documentaries to Watch Right Now (#85 to #81) https://taylorholmes.com/2026/07/10/top-100-netflix-documentaries-85-to-81/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/07/10/top-100-netflix-documentaries-85-to-81/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=33751 Part four of the countdown, and we’re getting into docs that reviewers are starting to really love. The RT scores are climbing, the stories are getting crazier, and I’m having way too much fun putting this together. Let’s go. Netflix Documentary #85 — Abducted in Plain Sight 2017 | Film | Directed by Skye Borgman 74% from critics and 73% from audiences. This documentary is famous for making viewers pause it every ten minutes to say ‘WAIT, WHAT?’ out loud. […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/07/10/top-100-netflix-documentaries-85-to-81/feed/ 0 Top 100 Netflix Documentaries to Watch Right Now (#90 to #86) https://taylorholmes.com/2026/07/07/top-100-netflix-documentaries-90-to-86/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/07/07/top-100-netflix-documentaries-90-to-86/#respond Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=33750 Alright, we’re picking up steam now. If you caught the last batch, you know the drill — I’m counting down the best 100 Netflix documentaries, and each batch gets better than the last. Buckle up. Netflix Documentary #90 — Thomas Jefferson 2025 | Series | Directed by History Channel Part of Netflix’s massive USA 250 collection celebrating America’s semiquincentennial. This six-episode History Channel series digs into the deeply complicated legacy of the third president. Author of the Declaration of Independence […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/07/07/top-100-netflix-documentaries-90-to-86/feed/ 0 Top 100 Netflix Documentaries to Watch Right Now (#95 to #91) https://taylorholmes.com/2026/07/03/top-100-netflix-documentaries-95-to-91/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/07/03/top-100-netflix-documentaries-95-to-91/#respond Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=33749 Welcome back to my countdown of the 100 best Netflix documentaries! If you’re just joining, I’m working through my personally curated list from #100 down to #1. Some of these have perfect Rotten Tomatoes scores. Some don’t have scores at all. What they all have in common is that they’re worth your time. Let’s keep it moving. Netflix Documentary #95 — Nature Boy I’ve had this flagged forever. If this is the ESPN 30 for 30 that made its way […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/07/03/top-100-netflix-documentaries-95-to-91/feed/ 0 Top 100 Netflix Documentaries to Watch Right Now (#100 to #96) https://taylorholmes.com/2026/06/30/top-100-netflix-documentaries-100-to-96/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/06/30/top-100-netflix-documentaries-100-to-96/#respond Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:00:00 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/2026/06/30/top-100-netflix-documentaries-100-to-96/ Hey there everyone, super excited to share with you my own personal list of the top 100 Netflix documentaries. I have seen a lot of these, and the ones I haven’t seen I am systematically watching as I post these — because I love nothing more than a good documentary. Netflix has been absolutely blowing it up in this space. The documentary 13th? Non-hyperbolically changed my life. Don’t F— with Cats? Unbelievable. These are so good. So join me as […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/06/30/top-100-netflix-documentaries-100-to-96/feed/ 0 Untold Chess Mates The Scandal That Made the Whole World a Spectator https://taylorholmes.com/2026/04/08/untold-chess-mates-the-scandal-that-made-the-whole-world-a-spectator/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/04/08/untold-chess-mates-the-scandal-that-made-the-whole-world-a-spectator/#respond Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:22:59 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=33351 Taylor Trivia Time™. I love the world of chess. I love the characters. I love the competition. I love the drama. I especially love the influencer era of Hikaru Nakamura, and his twitch streams. I enjoy the chaos that Magnus Carlsen brings to the world. But do I like playing chess? NOPE. Do I understand the deep inner workings of strategy and end games? Absolutely not. I am highly dependent on commentators telling me what is happening from moment to […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/04/08/untold-chess-mates-the-scandal-that-made-the-whole-world-a-spectator/feed/ 0 Queen of Chess: Why You Need to Watch Netflix’s Documentary https://taylorholmes.com/2026/02/09/queen-of-chess-why-you-need-to-watch-netflixs-documentary/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/02/09/queen-of-chess-why-you-need-to-watch-netflixs-documentary/#respond Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:05:28 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=33133 Look, I’ve been waiting for this documentary since The Queen’s Gambit dropped in 2020 and got everyone suddenly obsessed with chess. Back then, I wrote about how Beth Harmon’s fictional story was glorious, and I made sure to mention the real-life player who actually lived a version of that impossible dream: Judit Polgár. Now Netflix has released Queen of Chess, directed by Rory Kennedy, and after watching all 94 minutes, I can tell you this: if you loved The Queen’s […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/02/09/queen-of-chess-why-you-need-to-watch-netflixs-documentary/feed/ 0 20 Mind Blowing Documentaries if You Enjoyed Secret Mall Apartment https://taylorholmes.com/2026/01/28/20-mind-blowing-documentaries-if-you-enjoyed-secret-mall-apartment/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/01/28/20-mind-blowing-documentaries-if-you-enjoyed-secret-mall-apartment/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:09:24 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=33075 I recently watched, and fell in love with, the documentary Secret Mall Apartment. I loved the subjectivity and liminality of it all, I loved the conjecture as to whether it was art, and not just illegality dressed up as culture. And if you also enjoyed it, and want other documentaries that scratch a similar itch??? Boy do I have a pile of documentaries for you. The first, and most obvious comparison I would make would be Banksy’s Please Exit Through […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/01/28/20-mind-blowing-documentaries-if-you-enjoyed-secret-mall-apartment/feed/ 1 The Liminal Spaces of Secret Mall Apartment are Amazing https://taylorholmes.com/2026/01/28/the-liminal-spaces-of-secret-mall-apartment-are-amazing/ https://taylorholmes.com/2026/01/28/the-liminal-spaces-of-secret-mall-apartment-are-amazing/#respond Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:43:09 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=33070 The Liminal Spaces of Secret Mall Apartment are Amazing. I had a near feral, subliminal, emotive response to Netflix’s latest documentary Secret Mall Apartment. The subversive art, the thumb in the eye to capitalistic oppression, the joy of just existing subterraneanly beyond the reach of society at large – the documentary scratched a hell of a lot of itches for me. Netflix’s documentary “Secret Mall Apartment” tells one of those stories that sounds too bizarre to be true—and yet, it […]

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]]> https://taylorholmes.com/2026/01/28/the-liminal-spaces-of-secret-mall-apartment-are-amazing/feed/ 0 A Quiet Masterpiece: The Perfect Neighbor Heralds a New Era of Documentary Storytelling https://taylorholmes.com/2025/12/23/a-quiet-masterpiece-the-perfect-neighbor-heralds-a-new-era-of-documentary-storytelling/ https://taylorholmes.com/2025/12/23/a-quiet-masterpiece-the-perfect-neighbor-heralds-a-new-era-of-documentary-storytelling/#respond Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:42:22 +0000 https://taylorholmes.com/?p=32984 In a streaming landscape crowded with true-crime retellings, The Perfect Neighbor (2025) stands apart not because of bells and whistles, not because of dramatic reconstructions or big-name talking heads, but because of its astonishing restraint — and its insistence on letting truth speak for itself. Directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir, this remarkable Netflix documentary delivers one of the most haunting and masterfully told real-life stories in recent memory, primarily through raw police body-cam footage and other recorded material, with […]

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