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CNET does a "best of Netflix docs" list.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/e...022/#ftag=CAD590a51e


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Great BBC series called Connections, hosted by James Burke. Available on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/ConnectionsByJamesBurke

He also did one called The Day the Universe Changed. You can find those here:

https://archive.org/search.php...%3A%22James+Burke%22


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Wednesday on Netflix is fun.

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I watched an episode of Attack on Pearl Harbor: Minute by Minute, on Netflix. I wasn't aware of a lot of the details of how everything unfolded.

There are interviews with people who were there, including a Japanese pilot who survived. He was 103 at the time the doc was made last year. He looks amazing.

Two more episodes to go....


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Originally posted by Jack Frost:
Wednesday on Netflix is fun.

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We watched the first episode and it was a bit too YA/teen for our tastes. Should we stick with it?


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Wednesday on Netflix is fun.

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Originally posted by Jack Frost:
Wednesday on Netflix is fun.

Jf


We watched the first episode and it was a bit too YA/teen for our tastes. Should we stick with it?


It's going to continue to be YA-ish, but it was fun.
 
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I like Wednesday a lot but I love the Addams family in general ever since I watched reruns of the original black and white tv series as a kid. I thought Wednesday was a worthy addition to the lineup (unlike the last animated movie which was godawful.) It is YA/teen drama ish but I still thought it was good.

But Mr. Lisa and I both LOVED Pepsi Where's My Jet (the first documentary listed in that article). I highly recommend it - there's only 4 half-hour long episodes - the first one starts a little slow but it is definitely worth sticking with. It's hilarious and there's a pretty central character who shows up mid-story that you do NOT see coming which makes it all the more funny.
 
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There's a documentary series called "Untold" that I'm pretty sure is on Netflix. It has several titles in it--they all have to do with sports. But even if you're not a big sports fan, I highly recommend "The Girlfriend That Didn't Exist" (title might be slightly off) - the story of Manti Te'o, who was a college football phenom, later drafted into the NFL. While still in college, he was catfished by a person who ended up being his "girlfriend." It's a fascinating, creepy, and infuriating. Definitely worth a watch, in my opinion.
 
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