Top 10 Best Underrated Documentaries of All Time (Netflix & YouTube) - Volume 1

Why do documentaries seem like the black sheep of the film world with many more watching fictional films than films that are actually about something in real-life? Do we prefer escaping into another world that we don’t know because reality can be too hard?

Whatever the case, it feels like a shame because sometimes truth can be stranger than fiction. So, here’s part one to an ongoing list of great documentaries that I want to recommend because boy do some of the documentaries that I’ve seen really live up to that notion.

These include everything from serial killer documentaries, true crime documentaries, nature documentaries, music documentaries, history documentaries, film documentaries, war documentaries, sports documentaries, science documentaries and even documentaries that you can watch on YouTube for free.

I've made a note of which documentaries you can watch on YouTube below, otherwise, most of them are also available to watch on Netflix or Amazon Prime.

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Full List (in video order):

American Movie (2000) dir. Chris Smith – Trailer Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMFZOu8rDUQ
7 Up! (1964) dir. Michael Apted & Paul Almond – Full Film Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LQZpiSfESE
Man on Wire (2008) dir. James Marsh – Full Film Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awr4WE0iBoo
Free Solo (2018) dir. Elizabeth Chair Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin – Trailer Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XhsuT0xctI
The Red Chapel (2009) dir. Mads Brügger – Trailer Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aQRC_4LheY
Hot Coffee (2011) dir. Susan Saladoff – Trailer Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBKRjxeQnT4
Collapse (2009) dir. Chris Smith – Full Film Below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olda6UNMRD4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFmy7_l14U8

Songs Used:

7,573 – Marco Beltrami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHpAgme6oIU
Gymnopédie No. 1 – Erik Satie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpExP_lPTO0
I’ll Sue Ya – Weird Al Yankovic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeXQBHLIPcw
Mr Bojangles – Jeffrey Jeff Walker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM6x5WG0DWw
Rest in Bluesky – Sicknessmp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrjnW8Xsrgw
What Would I Do? – The Monotones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgFuzIa96w0
Who Am I? (Part Two) – Present Music

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record. "Documentary" has been described as a "filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries. Documentary films were originally called "actuality" films and were only a minute or less in length.

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