Genre Guide
The Best Documentaries to Stream Right Now
Start here: Planet Earth on HBO Max, Night and Fog on HBO Max and Paris Is Burning on HBO Max. Below, 18 titles worth your time, each on an app included with Spectrum.
Documentary filmmaking is in a golden era, and the evidence is all over streaming. These are the films and series that change how you see something. Not background noise. Not content. Cinema.
Checked September 23. Availability from TMDB, US.
Planet Earth
2006 · 8.6 TMDB
HBO Max
Night and Fog
1956 · 8.3 TMDB
HBO Max
Paris Is Burning
1991 · 8.0 TMDB
HBO Max
MythBusters
2003 · 7.8 TMDB
Hulu
Life
2009 · 8.4 TMDB
HBO Max
The Beatles: Get Back
2021 · 8.4 TMDB
Disney+
The Blue Planet
2001 · 8.4 TMDB
discovery+
The Jinx
2015 · 8.0 TMDB
HBO Max
Frozen Planet
2011 · 8.4 TMDB
HBO Max
Nathan for You
2013 · 8.2 TMDB
Paramount+
Mayday
2003 · 8.2 TMDB
Peacock
The Rehearsal
2022 · 8.0 TMDB
HBO Max
The Rescue
2021 · 8.0 TMDB
Disney+
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024 · 8.1 TMDB
HBO Max
The Men Who Built America
2012 · 8.0 TMDB
Hulu
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion
2020 · 8.1 TMDB
HBO Max
Welcome to Wrexham
2022 · 7.8 TMDB
Hulu
Gloria Trevi: Ellas soy yo
2023 · 7.8 TMDB
ViX
Spectrum Offer
Discovery+ is included with Spectrum Stream TV Signature ($100/mo for 1 year, then $130/mo), adding thousands of hours of documentary content to your lineup. Spectrum Internet is required and extra; Internet 100 is $20/mo for 2 years when bundled with TV.
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