Top 10 Best Documentaries on Netflix

This documentary unleashed a worldwide true crime obsession. The chilling story of Steven Avery, who is released after eighteen years of innocent imprisonment and is promptly accused of a gruesome murder, exposes the deep rot in the American legal system. Directors Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos invested ten years of their lives in this case, and you feel it in every second of this emotional rollercoaster.

You don't have to have anything to do with basketball to be completely captivated by this ten-part sports bible. The Last Dance profiles Michael Jordan's last championship year with the Chicago Bulls (1997-1998). The documentary switches masterfully between previously unseen archive footage and razor-sharp interviews with Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman.

What on paper sounds like an absurd premise – a South African filmmaker befriending an octopus – turned into an Oscar-winning masterpiece. Craig Foster escapes his burnout by diving into an ice-cold kelp forest every day. The visual beauty and the sincere, almost alien connection with the mollusk force you to take a completely different look at the nature around us.

The ultimate prehistoric trip, produced by Steven Spielberg and narrated by the rumbling voice of Morgan Freeman. Instead of boring computer animation, this series uses groundbreaking visual effects to show the rise and fall of the dinosaurs and other extinct giants. It is the theory of evolution in a Hollywood guise, in which nature's survival instinct plays a central role.

A nerve-wracking thriller that shows how the darkest depths of the internet can go off the rails. When a psychopath posts videos of himself abusing cats online, a group of amateur internet sleuths start the hunt. What starts as an online search escalates into an international manhunt for a real murderer. It looks like a fictional Hollywood film, but the reality is much sicker.

This documentary shows how dangerous modern dating can be. Shimon Hayut posed on Tinder as the wealthy son of a diamond magnate and extorted millions of dollars from women all over the world. The victims joined forces to get back at him through the media.

When the eccentric Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh builds a complete utopian city in the Oregon desert, an open war ensues with the local conservative farmers. What follows is a stunning chronicle full of wiretapping, bioterrorism and political assassination attempts. The series excels because it allows both camps to speak extensively, which makes your moral compass constantly spin.

The series that single-handedly transformed Formula 1 from an elite European sport to a global pop culture phenomenon. By letting the cameras look behind the scenes at the drivers and team bosses, Netflix creates a high-stakes soap opera full of jealousy, adrenaline and political games.

Not a dime a dozen sports portrait, but an in-depth look at the insane pressure of British tabloid culture. David and Victoria Beckham look back surprisingly candidly on his career, the hate campaign after his red card at the 1998 World Cup and the toll their immense celebrity status took on their family.

The holy grail of investigative journalism on Netflix. Filmmaker Bryan Fogel initially wants to make a simple documentary about doping in amateur cycling. However, he accidentally comes across the largest state-controlled doping scandal in Olympic history through a Russian scientist. Halfway through the film turns into a blood-curdling political spy thriller in which the protagonist has to fear for his life.