Best Social & Cultural Docs on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Social & Cultural Docs on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 100 titles in category code 3675. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. The Last Dance (2020)
Rated 9.2/10 on IMDb, from 2020. This docuseries gives a definitive account of Michael Jordan’s career and the 1990s Chicago Bulls, packed with unaired footage from the 1997-98 season.
2. Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, from 2013. This CNN original series has chef Anthony Bourdain traveling to extraordinary locations around the globe to sample a variety of local cuisines.
3. Dirty Money (2018)
Rated 8.7/10 on IMDb, from 2018. From crippling payday loans to cars that cheat emissions tests, this investigative series exposes brazen acts of corporate greed and corruption.
4. Lenox Hill (2020)
Rated 8.7/10 on IMDb, from 2020. Four doctors at New York's storied Lenox Hill Hospital balance their personal lives and their dedication to their patients in this documentary series.
5. 2,215 (2018)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, from 2018, 1h 29m. This intimate documentary follows rock star Artiwara Kongmalai on his historic, 2,215-kilometer charity run across Thailand in 2017.
6. Daughters of Destiny (2017)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, from 2017. Five girls from India's most impoverished families attend a boarding school designed to create opportunities as they strive for a brighter future.
7. Time: The Kalief Browder Story (2017)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, from 2017. This series traces the tragic case of Kalief Browder, a Bronx teen who spent three horrific years in jail, despite never being convicted of a crime.
8. For Sama (2019)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, from 2019, 1h 35m. During the uprising in Syria, a young mother weighs fleeing to raise her daughter or staying to fight for freedom in this harrowing documentary.
9. Winter on Fire (2015)
Rated 8.4/10 on IMDb, from 2015, 1h 38m. Over 93 days in Ukraine, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution and full-fledged civil rights movement.
10. Hip-Hop Evolution (2016)
Rated 8.4/10 on IMDb, from 2016. Interviews with influential MCs, DJs and moguls trace the genre's dynamic evolution from the 1970s through the 1990s in this documentary series.