Best Crime Documentaries on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Crime Documentaries on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 100 titles in category code 9875. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Forensic Files (2000)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, from 2000. Detectives and crime lab technicians use the latest and most fascinating procedures to solve crimes in this documentary-style show.
2. 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.
3. Wild Wild Country (2018)
Rated 8.2/10 on IMDb, from 2018. When a controversial cult leader builds a utopian city in the Oregon desert, conflict with the locals escalates into a national scandal.
4. Real Detective (2016)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, from 2016. This series blends documentary style with dramatic re-creations as actors portraying real detectives recall the cases that will haunt them forever.
5. Crime Files: The Homefront (2016)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 2016. Murder, fraud, drug-dealing and other illegal offenses that have torn apart once-happy families are the subject of this fact-based crime series.
6. The Staircase (2018)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 2018. Accident or murder? After the mysterious death of his wife, author Michael Peterson watches his life go under the microscope.
7. Examination of Conscience (2018)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 2018. Allegations of child sexual abuse in Spain's Catholic institutions are examined in interviews with survivors, clergy, journalists and other experts.
8. The Ivory Game (2016)
Rated 7.9/10 on IMDb, from 2016, 1h 52m. Filmmakers infiltrate the corrupt global network of ivory trafficking, exposing poachers and dealers as African elephants edge closer to extinction.
9. Icarus (2017)
Rated 7.9/10 on IMDb, from 2017, 2h 01m. An American filmmaker and cyclist unwittingly wades into a global scandal when a Russian scientist leaks shocking details of a vast doping conspiracy.
10. Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art (2020)
Rated 7.9/10 on IMDb, from 2020, 1h 30m. A woman walks into a New York gallery with a cache of unknown masterworks.