More People Need to Watch the Absolute Best Documentary Series on Netflix
Over the last year or two we’ve been making TV and movie recommendations. It’s been fun! choosing our favorite show on Netflixor the best sci-fi series on Prime Video. Most of the time it’s relatively easy to pick our favorites.
But when it was suggested I write about the “best documentary on Netflix” I began sweating. immediately. I maintain CNET’s list of best documentaries. I watch almost every documentary on the service as soon as they’re released.
Netflix has a lot of good documentaries.
I’d argue documentaries are the best thing about Netflix, period. There’s genre-defining true-crime series like Making a Murderer, Oscar-winning movies like Icarus, incredible nature docos like Our Planet. That’s before we even mention viral hits like Tiger King or Drive to Survive.
It’s almost impossible to choose just one.
But the nature of our recommendations at CNET is to choose something audiences might have missed, or something underrated. That’s why we tend to call out shows like Dark or For All Mankind on Apple TV Plus over established classics like Stranger Things.
So in that spirit, I am selecting Untold as my pick for best documentary series on Netflix. Because it’s rules. It rules so goddamn much.
Produced by the folks behind the also extremely good Wild Wild Country, Untold is a series of feature-length documentaries focused on sports. Which is like saying Game of Thrones is a story about an iron chair or Harry Potter is a franchise about a kid