The streaming landscape can feel endless. It’s not and we’re here to help. Netflix has hundreds of documentaries in its streaming library, but they’re not all created equal, and we’ve narrowed down the options for you with 25 of our top picks for the best documentary movies currently available to watch on the streaming platform. If you’re looking for something light and visually stunning, you’ve come to the right place. If you’re looking for something gruesome yet fascinating, there are options for you below. If you only have half an hour or 40 minutes to kill, Netflix has something for you.
So peruse our list below, and get watching!
“Athlete A” Netflix
One of the best documentaries in recent years, “Athlete A” works on multiple fronts: First, it effectively chronicles the abuse perpetrated by Larry Nassar, a former sports medicine physician who used his position...
So peruse our list below, and get watching!
“Athlete A” Netflix
One of the best documentaries in recent years, “Athlete A” works on multiple fronts: First, it effectively chronicles the abuse perpetrated by Larry Nassar, a former sports medicine physician who used his position...
- 11/3/2023
- by Kayti Burt
- The Wrap
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Did Harry Styles really spit on Chris Pine? Why did Selena unfollow the Jenner sisters? Did Katy Perry actually steal Taylor Swift’s backup dancers? Who knows.
Tabloid media and TikTok sleuths be damned, most celebrity beefs end without a satisfying denouement. After all, the court of public opinion lacks subpoena power. And what celebrity is petty enough to spend millions of dollars — and years of their lives — airing their own dirty laundry?
WAGs, that’s who.
Short for Wives And Girlfriends, WAGs are the better halves of the ultra-famous British Association Football (aka “soccer”) players. And when two go to war, an impeccably styled irresistible force meets a glamorously immovable object. While their husbands settle their differences on the field, WAGs take it to the courts.
It all started in fall 2019 when Coleen Rooney, wife of legendary (now-retired) Manchester United footballer Wayne Rooney,...
Did Harry Styles really spit on Chris Pine? Why did Selena unfollow the Jenner sisters? Did Katy Perry actually steal Taylor Swift’s backup dancers? Who knows.
Tabloid media and TikTok sleuths be damned, most celebrity beefs end without a satisfying denouement. After all, the court of public opinion lacks subpoena power. And what celebrity is petty enough to spend millions of dollars — and years of their lives — airing their own dirty laundry?
WAGs, that’s who.
Short for Wives And Girlfriends, WAGs are the better halves of the ultra-famous British Association Football (aka “soccer”) players. And when two go to war, an impeccably styled irresistible force meets a glamorously immovable object. While their husbands settle their differences on the field, WAGs take it to the courts.
It all started in fall 2019 when Coleen Rooney, wife of legendary (now-retired) Manchester United footballer Wayne Rooney,...
- 9/23/2022
- by Daniel Novack
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Eddie Redmayne will star in an untitled film about Cambridge Analytica — the British data company and political consulting firm that was at the center of a Facebook data scandal during the 2016 election — and “Green Book” director Peter Farrelly is in talks to direct the film, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. However, another source said Redmayne’s deal is not complete and is still in very early talks.
The untitled movie comes from Agbo, the production company from “Avengers” directors Joe and Anthony Russo. “Avengers: Endgame” writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely wrote the script.
Agbo declined to comment.
Redmayne is expected to play Christopher Wylie, a Canadian data consultant who in 2018 gave The Guardian documents that prompted the scandal. Cambridge allegedly illegally gathered unauthorized personal and private data from Facebook, affecting as many as 87 million user accounts, all for the purpose of creating targeted, digital advertising...
The untitled movie comes from Agbo, the production company from “Avengers” directors Joe and Anthony Russo. “Avengers: Endgame” writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely wrote the script.
Agbo declined to comment.
Redmayne is expected to play Christopher Wylie, a Canadian data consultant who in 2018 gave The Guardian documents that prompted the scandal. Cambridge allegedly illegally gathered unauthorized personal and private data from Facebook, affecting as many as 87 million user accounts, all for the purpose of creating targeted, digital advertising...
- 7/9/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
On Thursday, Hillary Clinton will appear as the latest guest on The Dissenters, a new podcast series that features 21 interviews with leaders and activists on their meaning of “dissent.” The series is hosted by Debra Messing and Mandana Dayani, co-founders of the non-profit campaign I Am a Voter.
In an exclusive clip from their interview, Clinton discusses the importance of dissent and peaceful protest in light of recent demonstrations against police brutality. “I think about Dr. King, and I think about losing John Lewis — people not only willing to dissent and protest,...
In an exclusive clip from their interview, Clinton discusses the importance of dissent and peaceful protest in light of recent demonstrations against police brutality. “I think about Dr. King, and I think about losing John Lewis — people not only willing to dissent and protest,...
- 10/21/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came out swinging against the use of big data in political campaigns Friday night in New York City. In what she called a “war on truth,” Clinton said privacy rights are “one of the cardinal challenges” facing democracy. She appeared at an event in support of the Netflix documentary “The Great Hack,” which examines the U.K.-based data firm Cambridge Analytica and its role in the 2016 election, Brexit, as well as elections in Trinidad and Tobago and Kenya. Speaking pointedly to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, she urged him to act quickly to combat disinformation spread through fake political ads on Facebook.
“Mark Zuckerberg should pay a price for what he is doing to our democracy,” said Clinton. “Part of our problem, those of us who are appalled by this war on truth and this fake news which is truly surrounding us these days,...
“Mark Zuckerberg should pay a price for what he is doing to our democracy,” said Clinton. “Part of our problem, those of us who are appalled by this war on truth and this fake news which is truly surrounding us these days,...
- 11/2/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Featuring: Brittany Kaiser, David Carroll, Paul-Olivier Dehaye, Julian Wheatland, Carole Cadwalladr, Ravi Naik, Paul Hilder, Christopher Wylie, Emma Graham-Harrison, Gill Phillips, Sarah Donaldson, Roger McNamee | Written by Karim Amer, Erin Barnett, Pedro Kos | Directed by Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim
It is becoming increasingly clear that Netflix is at its best within its market of original content when it crafts documentaries. The Great Hack, directed by duo Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, reinforces said attribute tenfold with an eerie, informative and enlightening account with a subject matter on the world’s fastest-growing asset – consumer data. An extraordinary venture that begins with one man’s mission to gain his data back from a consumer and soon opens up a world that touches on firestorms ranging from political agendas and fraud, the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the infamous data scandal from Facebook.
The Great Hack is a deep and profound documentary that will...
It is becoming increasingly clear that Netflix is at its best within its market of original content when it crafts documentaries. The Great Hack, directed by duo Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, reinforces said attribute tenfold with an eerie, informative and enlightening account with a subject matter on the world’s fastest-growing asset – consumer data. An extraordinary venture that begins with one man’s mission to gain his data back from a consumer and soon opens up a world that touches on firestorms ranging from political agendas and fraud, the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the infamous data scandal from Facebook.
The Great Hack is a deep and profound documentary that will...
- 8/2/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
NetflixThe Netflix documentary reveals the faces behind the Cambridge Analytica scandal that shook democracies around the world in March last year. Manasa RaoEven as you click to read this review of a Netflix documentary, your digital journey has come some length— from the time you activated the Wifi or data connection to opening your phone or laptop, to clicking on the link and scrolling— hopefully— to the end. The data trail or ‘digital footprint’ is the hottest commodity in the 21st century’s modern capitalist society. This is why The Great Hack chooses to focus on one of the most jarring scandals in recent history that exposed just how much the actions of one social media giant has hurt millions of people around the world and their hard-earned democracies. The Netflix documentary revolves around the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal that shook the world in March last year. Investigations by...
- 7/31/2019
- by Anjana
- The News Minute
Did you know how important you are to the world’s movers and shakers? That’s the most charitable way to describe the unwitting technical mining of our personal data, and the manipulation of it in order to change our behavior, that’s turned into one of the most pressing issues of modern times.
Since it’s facilitated the rise in authoritarianism across the globe, it can’t be explained enough, or fought back against too strongly. With the new documentary “The Great Hack,” there’s now a sufficiently paranoid primer at hand to keep you questioning just what happens every time you engage with the world digitally, and why you should care about holding big tech accountable for their breaches of trust.
Directors Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim focus primarily on the scandal involving Facebook and now-bankrupt Cambridge Analytica, the sinisterly ambitious data firm funded by Republican moneyman Robert Mercer,...
Since it’s facilitated the rise in authoritarianism across the globe, it can’t be explained enough, or fought back against too strongly. With the new documentary “The Great Hack,” there’s now a sufficiently paranoid primer at hand to keep you questioning just what happens every time you engage with the world digitally, and why you should care about holding big tech accountable for their breaches of trust.
Directors Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim focus primarily on the scandal involving Facebook and now-bankrupt Cambridge Analytica, the sinisterly ambitious data firm funded by Republican moneyman Robert Mercer,...
- 7/24/2019
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Like most people, you’d probably never heard the name “Cambridge Analytica,” or were even aware of the company’s existence before March of 2018, when the New York Times and the Guardian began reporting on the firm’s harvesting of private Facebook user information. Unless, of course, you were a member of the Trump campaign’s team — then you were well aware of what these data analysts were doing for Ted Cruz’s bid for the Presidency back in 2015. Thanks to their targeting of certain types of potential voters, the junior U.
- 7/22/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Arron Banks, the British billionaire backer of the pro-Brexit campaign Leave.EU, has issued a legal threat to Netflix over its upcoming documentary The Great Hack.
The film, from Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, the duo behind 2013's The Square (which earned Netflix its first ever Academy Award nomination), explores the Cambridge Analytica scandal that erupted in early 2018 and exposed how millions of people's personal data had been harvested from Facebook without their consent. Journalist Carole Cadwalladr, who had been central to the investigation and is interviewed in the film, had earlier detailed how the data had been ...
The film, from Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, the duo behind 2013's The Square (which earned Netflix its first ever Academy Award nomination), explores the Cambridge Analytica scandal that erupted in early 2018 and exposed how millions of people's personal data had been harvested from Facebook without their consent. Journalist Carole Cadwalladr, who had been central to the investigation and is interviewed in the film, had earlier detailed how the data had been ...
- 7/21/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Arron Banks, the British billionaire backer of the pro-Brexit campaign Leave.EU, has issued a legal threat to Netflix over its upcoming documentary The Great Hack.
The film, from Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, the duo behind 2013's The Square (which earned Netflix its first ever Academy Award nomination), explores the Cambridge Analytica scandal that erupted in early 2018 and exposed how millions of people's personal data had been harvested from Facebook without their consent. Journalist Carole Cadwalladr, who had been central to the investigation and is interviewed in the film, had earlier detailed how the data had been ...
The film, from Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, the duo behind 2013's The Square (which earned Netflix its first ever Academy Award nomination), explores the Cambridge Analytica scandal that erupted in early 2018 and exposed how millions of people's personal data had been harvested from Facebook without their consent. Journalist Carole Cadwalladr, who had been central to the investigation and is interviewed in the film, had earlier detailed how the data had been ...
- 7/21/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: In a moment in which Facebook is finalizing a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission to pay $5 billion primarily for the 2018 Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, Deadline hears that Agbo is mounting a movie about the young pink-haired data consultant, Christopher Wylie, who purportedly was at the center of the whole thing.
David Gordon Green is in talks to direct an untitled film that has a finished script by Avengers: Endgame screenwriters Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely. I’m told Green is eyeing it for after he returns to helm the second leg of his massive hit franchise reboot Halloween with Jamie Lee Curtis for Blumhouse and Universal. Agbo will finance a film that is on a fast track for a 2020 start date.
Agbo will put together the whole package and will then secure a distributor for a film that will be a lot less flattering for Mark Zuckerberg than the last big movie,...
David Gordon Green is in talks to direct an untitled film that has a finished script by Avengers: Endgame screenwriters Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely. I’m told Green is eyeing it for after he returns to helm the second leg of his massive hit franchise reboot Halloween with Jamie Lee Curtis for Blumhouse and Universal. Agbo will finance a film that is on a fast track for a 2020 start date.
Agbo will put together the whole package and will then secure a distributor for a film that will be a lot less flattering for Mark Zuckerberg than the last big movie,...
- 7/16/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The Great Hack Trailer Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim‘s The Great Hack (2019) movie trailer has been released Netflix and stars Brittany Kaiser, David Carroll, Carole Cadwalladr, and Julian Wheatland. Plot Synopsis The Great Hack‘s plot synopsis: “They took your data. Then they took control. The Great Hack uncovers the dark world of data exploitation through the compelling personal [...]
Continue reading: The Great Hack (2019) Movie Trailer: A Doc on Data-mining during the 2016 U.S. Presidential & Brexit Vote...
Continue reading: The Great Hack (2019) Movie Trailer: A Doc on Data-mining during the 2016 U.S. Presidential & Brexit Vote...
- 7/12/2019
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
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