Netflix's CCO Ted Sarandos Recommends Documentaries

Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos posted a list of interesting documentaries to watch over the holidays.

I am a huge fan of documentary films and helping our subscribers get access to them even if they don’t live in the big cities is one of my favorite parts of this job. Our documentary selection is a point of great pride for me and my team. Documentary films play a very important role in a world where news is coming is shorter and shorter bites and the stories of our lives are becoming more and more complex. Documentarians entertain, inform and sometimes change the course of history. This year has been a great year for docs and some of the world’s best storytellers have brought their films to Netflix for streaming. It is hard to choose just a dozen of the best documentaries recently added, but I thought it might be a way to help you catch up over the long holiday break.

Here's his list of recommended documenataries: Senna, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Waiting for "Superman", Winnebago Man, Buck, The Arbor, The Last Mountain, Forks Over Knives, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, Camp Victory, Afghanistan, and Storage Wars.

Comments

[Ethan]

Storage Wars isn't a documentary- it's staged.

[Damian]

He forgot DEAR ZACHARY, perhaps the most engaging film i have ever seen!

[LA]

Hmm...Dear Netflix users,
Since we aren't pushing any worthwhile content, please look at this list of documentaries that we have.

[Kiri]

LA--funny what your definition of 'worthwhile content' must be.

[Nate]

I watched The Pixar Story the other day and really enjoyed it. The tech side of it was interesting along with the back-stories to movies we all know and if you have kids have probably seen multiple times.

[the troll]

goodbye netfix it't been great while lasted

[Ransom]

The only problem being, none of the documentaries I want to watch are available for streaming through Netflix...much as with other film types.

[Daniel L]

Dunno about you guys, but my instant streaming queue always has 150+ movies in it, and I watch at least 1 movie a day.

I don't care for documentaries though. The only one I ever really liked was Encounters at the End of the World.

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I think I have lotsa time to check out those documentaries before the year ends. I'm looking forward for next years "something new" from netflix.

[Gobotron]

Apparently a lot of people associate the term "documentary" with stuff they watched in school for book reports, and therefore don't find the genre to be full of "worthwhile content".
Documentaries I've liked:
When We Left Earth
Objectified
180 Degrees South

It's too late for me to make lists.

[the troll]

don't like them as they are boring

[Kiri]

Troll--have you ever actually watched any?

[El]

I love documentaries but the ones listed aren't remotely interesting.

So far the three best docs available on Netflix for me has been:

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (6 part doc)
Pompeii: Back from the Dead
Ken Burns' Baseball

Documentaries that I am wanting to watch:
Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
The Dark Ages
Cars that Changed the Auto Industry
Railroads that Tamed the West