Netflix debuted dozens of brilliant documentary films and series throughout 2025. In this list, we count down our top 10.

A Netflix documentary climbed ahead of a highly rated Spider-Man movie on the platform’s U.S. movie rankings. The shift came as viewership trends changed during the final week of 2025. The placement put a new true crime release above a Spider-Man film that holds a 97 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.

One of Netflix’s latest documentary offerings center around music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and is produced by his longtime nemesis Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. But the petty-ness seems to have been put aside given how mostly thorough this four-part project was.

Across the scope of two seasons and 12 episodes, Emmy and BAFTA-winning legend Sir David Attenborough hypnotically guides the viewer through the Earth’s many natural beauties. It’s a majestic undertaking that traces a solo elephant or a flock of penguins in one moment and lays bare how climate change affects these vulnerable animals in the next.

A Netflix documentary climbed ahead of a highly rated Spider-Man movie on the platform’s U.S. movie rankings. The shift came as viewership trends changed during the final week of 2025. The placement put a new true crime release above a Spider-Man film that holds a 97 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Netflix and WWE today announced an expansion to their long-term partnership that will see the giant streamer become the home of WWE’s library in the U.S.