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Documentaries on Netflix you NEED to watch ASAP 🤯
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items The most shocking, disturbing, and unbelievable documentaries and true-crime stories on Netflix. From unsolved mysteries and celebrity scandals to cases that will leave you questioning everything, these are the ones you need to add to your watchlist!...
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Shocking True Crime Cases
Celebrity Controversies & Public Scandals
Dramatized Productions Based on True Events
Disturbing Scandals & Cover-Ups
Shocking True Crime Cases
HANDS DOWN ONE OF MY FAVORITES! 😳 This one had me hooked from start to finish. The twists, the unanswered questions, and the fact that this is a REAL story had me sitting there like… HOW DOES THIS EVEN HAPPEN?!
A woman is kidnapped from her own ho...
American Nightmare
This one is honestly SO heartbreaking and shocking. 💔 Gabby Petito goes missing during a cross-country van trip with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, and what unfolds becomes a case that captures the attention of the entire country. The details are devas...
American Murder: Gabby Petito
A pregnant mom and her two young daughters disappear, and what follows is a case that will leave you absolutely speechless. 😳 Through real footage, police interviews, and social media posts, you watch the investigation unfold and uncover what was re...
American Murder: The Family Next Door
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BUCKLE UP, GUYS AND GALS!!! 😳 A mother’s religious beliefs take an increasingly DARK turn, and things get even more disturbing when her two children go missing. The deeper you get into this case, the more shocking the details become. 🤯
The Sins of Our Mother
This case has EVERYTHING — a boating accident, a powerful South Carolina family, suspicious deaths, and secrets that start unraveling in ways you won’t believe. As investigators dig deeper into the Murdaugh family, a much bigger and darker story begi...
Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal
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This has to be one of the craziest documentaries I’ve ever watched. 🥴 A young woman gets pulled over on the side of the highway after calling 911, she is begging for help after supposedly giving birth to her baby. EMS drive her to the hospital to be...
Maternal Instinct
A nun’s unsolved murder leads to a much bigger investigation involving a Catholic school, former students, and disturbing allegations that people tried to keep hidden for YEARS. The deeper they dig, the more questions come to light, and the fight for...
The Keepers
Celebrity Controversies & Public Scandals
Harry and Meghan GO THROUGH IT!!! They open up about their relationship, their decision to step away from royal duties, and what they say really happened behind the scenes with the royal family and the media. From their love story to the headlines th...
Harry & Meghan
This trial had the world in a chokehold. They did CRAZY things to each other throughout their relationship. Can you say TOXIC?! 💀
Depp V. Heard
I have to say if you didn’t think OJ did it before, you’ll think he did it after watching this documentary 🥴
American Manhunt: OJ Simpson
Even if you aren’t a sports fan, you will enjoy this one. Favre’s rise from legendary NFL quarterback to controversy. Makes me sick how untouchable he was!!! 🫢
Untold: The Fall of Favre
Dramatized Productions Based on True Events
Evan Peters SLAYS this performance. A series that describes the life and crimes of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
DAHMER: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Lily Collins and Zac Efron are PHENOMENAL. A true-crime drama about serial killer Ted Bundy, told largely by the POV of his former girlfriend.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Love Anna Kendrick in this one! 1970s Los Angeles. A photographer posing as a serial killer. Women leave with him to remote locations under the impression that they will be his models, but to never return again. 😭 This is a dramatization about seria...
Woman of the Hour
Disturbing Scandals & Cover-Ups
This one was absolutely SHOCKING AND VILE. My eyes were glued to the screen from start to finish. This documentary dives into Jeffrey Epstein’s disturbing crimes, the young girls who came forward, and the powerful connections that surrounded him. The...
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
I hardly have words for this one. As a parent of a daughter myself, this scares me TO DEATH. 😳 Maya is a young girl hospitalized with a mysterious illness, but instead of getting the help her family believes she needs, her parents find themselves fi...
Take Care of Maya
YOUR JAW WILL BE ON THE FLOOR WITH THIS ONE. 😳 A fertility doctor secretly uses his OWN sperm to inseminate patients who believe they’re using donor sperm. YEARS later, one woman takes a DNA test and discovers she has DOZENS of half-siblings she nev...
Our Father
A high-school student and her boyfriend begin receiving hundreds of disturbing, anonymous text messages from someone who knows intimate details about their lives. When the person who was responsible for these messages were revealed, it was a total “W...
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish