International Documentaries on Netflix

Over 93 days in Ukraine, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution and full-fledged civil rights movement.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 8.4
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:38:24
Netflix ID: 80031666 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This Emmy-winning, street-level view of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution captures the astonishing uprising that led to the collapse of two governments.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 8.1
Netflix rating: 4.2/5
Runtime: 01:45:06
Netflix ID: 70268449 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Renowned artist Vik Muniz joins Brazilian garbage pickers who mine treasure from the trash heaps of Rio de Janeiro's Jardim Gramacho landfill.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 4/5
Runtime: 01:39:02
Netflix ID: 70129386 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

French New Wave director Agnès Varda and muralist JR travel all across France, plastering giant portraits of people they encounter along the way.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 01:29:23
Netflix ID: 80194288 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This documentary follows the battle between the Dole Food Company and a pair of filmmakers who made a documentary about a lawsuit against the company.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3.9/5
Runtime: 01:42:46
Netflix ID: 70228010 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A documentary about Danish soldiers on a six-month Afghan tour of duty, and the boredom, adrenaline and confusion that comprise their daily routine.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Runtime: 01:41:08
Netflix ID: 70145739 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Set in Africa, a 3-D tour illuminates the mystical beauty, wonder and power of the natural world and reveals the astonishing creatures who inhabit it.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:27:15
Netflix ID: 80045786 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Mexican superstar actress Kate del Castillo reveals the untold story of her encounter with El Chapo Guzmán, the world’s most-wanted drug lord.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix ID: 80184569 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The rise and smash success of Elite modeling agency founder John Casablancas is chronicled in this biography of the man who invented the supermodel.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.3
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:21:34
Netflix ID: 80137087 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Documentary filmmaker Wim Wenders travels the world with Pope Francis, recording the controversial pontiff's humanist views in a sharply divided age.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 6.1
Runtime: 01:36:16
Netflix ID: 80244855 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A Viennese child who was kidnapped and held captive in a basement before escaping after eight years reveals her headline-making story of survival.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 6
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 00:51:09
Netflix ID: 80059342 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

What is anime? Through deep-dives with notable masterminds of this electrifying genre, this fast-paced peek behind the curtain seeks to find the answers.

Year: 2019
IMDb: 2.5
Runtime: 00:58:46
Netflix ID: 81143771 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In a last-ditch effort to prevent suicide, a clinically depressed young man travels to the Amazon to engage in an ancient hallucinatory ritual.

Year: 2016
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:22:35
Netflix ID: 80121855 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This documentary series examines the Einsatzgruppen, Nazis responsible for the mass murder of Jews, Gypsies and Soviet prisoners in Eastern Europe.

Year: 2009
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80134093 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A traveling trader provides a window into rural life in the Republic of Georgia, where potatoes are currency and ambition is crushed by poverty.

Year: 2018
Runtime: 00:23:50
Netflix ID: 80209006 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Survivors and first responders share personal stories of anguish, kindness and bravery that unfolded amid the Paris terror attacks of Nov. 13, 2015.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 80190097 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A director befriends a notorious robber, who shares his criminal wisdom while in jail to achieve their goal of creating a hold-up film.

Year: 2018
Runtime: 01:29:36
Netflix ID: 81145633 · Watch on Netflix