Five best Netflix documentaries to watch right now

Let’s just agree documentaries connect us all and Netflix has the best options for it.

Netflix has a bounty of great documentaries that cover a diverse range of subjects, from true crime to sports to even filmmaking.

Here is the five-assembled list of the best documentaries on Netflix to watch:

1) MH370: The Plane That Disappeared (2023)

In March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from radar. 239 people went missing, a global investigation into this greatest mystery.

This three-parter dives into the competing theories that attempt to explain what happened in 2014 when a Boeing 777 took off from Kuala Lumpur on a flight to Beijing but never arrived.

The crew and passengers’ loved ones give their thoughts, as do a plethora of journalists, internet sleuths and amateur experts whom some might call conspiracy theorists. Every possible explanation is unlikely; it’s up to you to decide which one is true.

2) Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey (2022)

Examines the rise of Warren Jeffs in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and his shocking criminal case.

Directed by Rachel Dretzin, the Netflix series features interviews with those who grew up in the FLDS community in Utah, documenting Warren Jeffs’ rise to power, the coercive rules he introduced, and his eventual conviction. Disturbing and heartbreaking, Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey is a captivating docuseries that hooks you right from the very start.

3) The Tinder Swindler (2022)

The most talked-about documentary of 2022 so far, The Tinder Swindler tells the astonishing story of Simon Leviev – an Israeli conman who used the dating app Tinder to manipulate his dates into sending him money.

4) Money Shot: The Pornhub Story (2023)

The website Pornhub is one of the major online phenomena of the past decade. It helped to pioneer free pornography on the internet, putting traditional producers and distributors out of business and making billions in the process. But as with so many things digital, the lack of regulation has caused problems in an industry already known for unethical practices.

This documentary tracks Pornhub’s rise while asking whether it has the will or ability to tackle serious problems such as non-consensual material featuring victims of human trafficking.

5) The Social Dilemma

This film features interviews with a number of technological bosses, from the co-creator of Facebook’s like button to a former Google design ethicist, which is spliced together with dramatized scenes starring Skyler Gisondo (Booksmart), Kara Hayward (Moonrise Kingdom), and Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men).