PLAYLIST BEST DOCS TO STREAM

It’s true – the real world offers better stories than any writer could dream up. So forget those dumb blockbusters and settle in for a gripping documentary…

Playlist Documentaries to stream

Turns out reality is better than fiction after all

Into the Inferno

Documentaries about biscuits, pot plants and careers in the civil service can be rather dull. But there’s nothing boring about volcanoes, especially when legendary director Werner Herzog is travelling around the world to peer into as many lava-spitting hell holes as possible. Netflix

Blackfish

Your love for orcas probably started when you welled up watching Free Willy. But if you thought snapping up Sea World tickets would be a good way to get closer to the real thing, this astonishing exposé will see you stuffing them straight into the shredder. Netflix

Hypernormalisation

Saying the last few years have been a bit mad is like saying the end of the world is ‘a bit unfortunate’. Bafta winner Alan Curtis attempts to unpick the mess we currently find ourselves in with this fantastic, ambitious documentary. iplayer

The Thin Blue Line

If you thought Making a Murderer was the first time the police arrested an innocent man, let’s take a trip back to 1988 – e

in Blue Line helped save Randall Dale Adams from death row. Definitely not to be confused with the dire Ben Elton sitcom of the same name. Netflix

I am Not Your Negro

Anyone who says America is the land of the free clearly hasn’t seen this Oscar-nominated 2016 documentary about racism in the US. Narrated by Samuel L Jackson, it proves that some Americans are freer than others. Amazon Prime

Amy

e music industry really is all about sex, drugs and rock’n’roll, but maybe that’s the problem. Amy follows Ms Winehouse’s rise to fame and her struggle with drugs and alcohol… before they claimed her life. Watch this, then go out and order a cranberry juice. Amazon Prime