The 10 best documentary series on Netflix

Take a look at some of the best documentary series available on Netflix.

We have recommended documentary films for you to watch on various streaming platforms, but for further study of a particular subject, creators sometimes choose the path of documentary series. Here, the topic is explored in various episodes through different angles, and the public can see a full picture.

Here are the top 10 documentary series you can stream on Netflix:

1. The files of innocence

This new series on Netflix explores the case files of those who have been wrongfully convicted by the system. Many of them have spent years locked up in prison and have faced injustice. Not only the accused, even the victims of these cases have been waiting for justice.

2. Tiger King

Tiger King made a lot of noise as soon as the series started airing, and it continues to baffle people. Tiger King is the story of Joe Exotic, who runs a zoo and largely deals with his competition Carole Baskin, but that’s not all. This documentary series touches on stories of polygamy, elections, contract murder, drug abuse, murder, and even the formation of a cult.

3. The devil next door

This series follows the case of John Demjanjuk, suspected of being a Nazi guard in one of the death camps. The survivors of that time remember him as “Ivan the Terrible” due to his inhumane acts towards the prisoners. John sticks to his word that he is the infamous guard, but the opposition is certain that he is not who he claims to be.

4. Don’t fuck with cats: catch an Internet killer

This documentary series follows a human hunt for Luka Magnotta. Magnotta’s video of him killing kittens went viral, but online detectives had reason to believe he would kill again, and this time he was going to be human.

5. Wild Wild Country

In the early 1980s, Rajneesh’s followers began working to build a utopian city called Rajneeshpuram in Oregon, USA. USA The city met with much opposition from neighboring counties, which resulted in bio-attacks and led many of the followers to flee the country. Rajneesh was also arrested at the end of it.

6. Evil Genius

Known as the bizarre pizza robbery case, this documentary series follows a case in which a man is sent to rob a bank with a bomb around his neck. The man in question was a pizza delivery executive who ended up dying when the bomb exploded in front of authorities. Who planned the mission and was the victim also the mastermind?

7. Make a murderer

Steven Avery’s case received great attention when the first season of this series aired on Netflix. Unfair conviction and false testimony are the pillars of this murder case that led two men to spend decades in prison. After the success of season 1, the series also returned for a second season.

8. The disappearance of Madeleine McCann

What happens when a three-year-old girl is pulled out of her bed at a family resort in Portugal? Who is the suspect and are the parents involved? Madeleine McCann’s disappearance raised many of those questions, but she was unable to answer many of them. This documentary series follows possible suspects, the motive behind taking the girl and does not rule out the possibility that she is still alive.

9. Conversations with a murderer: the Ted Bundy tapes

The four-part documentary series begins with tapes recorded by a journalist while serial killer Ted Bundy was on death row in Florida. Here, two journalists meet and talk to Bundy and, although he does not confess to the murders on the tapes, he analyzes the murders taking the point of view of a third person to explain why a murderer would act in this way.

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10. The Guardians

This documentary series follows the unsolved murder of sister Cathy Cesnik who suddenly disappeared. Although initially suspected that someone might have kidnapped Sister Cathy, it eventually emerged that her disappearance was covered up by authorities, as there was a sex abuse scandal at the Catholic school where she taught, and she could have been the whistleblower. .

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