Netflix debuted dozens of brilliant documentary films and series throughout 2025. In this list, we count down our top 10.

We wanted to believe Stranger Things' #ConformityGate fan theory — but Netflix's new documentary seems to debunk it for good.

One of Netflix’s latest documentary offerings center around music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and is produced by his longtime nemesis Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. But the petty-ness seems to have been put aside given how mostly thorough this four-part project was.

Netflix documentary series Untold returns in 2026 with six more stories exploring the journeys of people at the heart of sports. These stories are personal, introspective, and character-driven. Previous Untold stories have followed, Steve “Air” McNair, Connor Stalions, and Hope Solo.

For the weekend of January 9 to 11—you can still watch them next week, too, though—I've mined a deep dive into a shocking Utah child abuse scandal, a legacy-defining look at one of the greatest NFL quarterbacks of all time, and a sobering historical exploration of Hitler's propaganda machine.