The streaming landscape can feel endless. It’s not and we’re here to help. Netflix has hundreds of documentaries in its streaming library, but they’re not all created equal, and we’ve narrowed down the options for you with 25 of our top picks for the best documentary movies currently available to watch on the streaming platform. If you’re looking for something light and visually stunning, you’ve come to the right place. If you’re looking for something gruesome yet fascinating, there are options for you below. If you only have half an hour or 40 minutes to kill, Netflix has something for you.
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“Athlete A” Netflix
One of the best documentaries in recent years, “Athlete A” works on multiple fronts: First, it effectively chronicles the abuse perpetrated by Larry Nassar, a former sports medicine physician who used his position...
So peruse our list below, and get watching!
“Athlete A” Netflix
One of the best documentaries in recent years, “Athlete A” works on multiple fronts: First, it effectively chronicles the abuse perpetrated by Larry Nassar, a former sports medicine physician who used his position...
- 11/3/2023
- by Kayti Burt
- The Wrap
New Delhi, Oct 2 (Ians) Before the social media platforms were weaponised by political parties and their leaders, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was once asked if users’ data on his platform was at risk. He unambiguously had said ‘No’, adding that there was no way the data of his users could be breached or “improperly shared” on a large scale.
The massive Cambridge Analytica data scandal proved him wrong.
The Netflix documentary “The Great Hack” revealed the sordid tale of UK-based and now defunct political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica and its role in swaying US voters in the 2016 Presidential elections, which brought Donald Trump to power via illegally accessing data of 87 million Facebook users.
It was two whistleblowers from Cambridge Analytica — Brittany Kaiser and Christopher Wylie — who blew the lid off the dark secrets of their CEO Alexander Nix.
Cambridge Analytica had 5,000 data points on every American — invisible information that was...
The massive Cambridge Analytica data scandal proved him wrong.
The Netflix documentary “The Great Hack” revealed the sordid tale of UK-based and now defunct political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica and its role in swaying US voters in the 2016 Presidential elections, which brought Donald Trump to power via illegally accessing data of 87 million Facebook users.
It was two whistleblowers from Cambridge Analytica — Brittany Kaiser and Christopher Wylie — who blew the lid off the dark secrets of their CEO Alexander Nix.
Cambridge Analytica had 5,000 data points on every American — invisible information that was...
- 10/2/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
The idea that social media companies protect their users’ personal information has always been a farce, but data rights became an especially pressing issue during the 2016 presidential election when British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica harvested individuals’ Facebook data to assist Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Netflix’s documentary “The Great Hack” takes a deep dive into the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal that contributed to Trump’s eventual election while also giving a behind-the-scenes look at some of the data firm’s key figures. “The Great Hack” recently screened in Los Angeles as part of the International Documentary Association’s ongoing screening series.
Although Facebook and Cambridge Analytica’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election serves as the primary news hook of “The Great Hack” — the firm’s reported connections to Brexit are also discussed — the documentary looks more broadly at data rights and the gradual erosion of privacy in recent years.
“The Great Hack” co-director Karim Amer,...
Netflix’s documentary “The Great Hack” takes a deep dive into the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal that contributed to Trump’s eventual election while also giving a behind-the-scenes look at some of the data firm’s key figures. “The Great Hack” recently screened in Los Angeles as part of the International Documentary Association’s ongoing screening series.
Although Facebook and Cambridge Analytica’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election serves as the primary news hook of “The Great Hack” — the firm’s reported connections to Brexit are also discussed — the documentary looks more broadly at data rights and the gradual erosion of privacy in recent years.
“The Great Hack” co-director Karim Amer,...
- 11/13/2019
- by Tyler Hersko
- Indiewire
Featuring: Brittany Kaiser, David Carroll, Paul-Olivier Dehaye, Julian Wheatland, Carole Cadwalladr, Ravi Naik, Paul Hilder, Christopher Wylie, Emma Graham-Harrison, Gill Phillips, Sarah Donaldson, Roger McNamee | Written by Karim Amer, Erin Barnett, Pedro Kos | Directed by Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim
It is becoming increasingly clear that Netflix is at its best within its market of original content when it crafts documentaries. The Great Hack, directed by duo Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, reinforces said attribute tenfold with an eerie, informative and enlightening account with a subject matter on the world’s fastest-growing asset – consumer data. An extraordinary venture that begins with one man’s mission to gain his data back from a consumer and soon opens up a world that touches on firestorms ranging from political agendas and fraud, the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the infamous data scandal from Facebook.
The Great Hack is a deep and profound documentary that will...
It is becoming increasingly clear that Netflix is at its best within its market of original content when it crafts documentaries. The Great Hack, directed by duo Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, reinforces said attribute tenfold with an eerie, informative and enlightening account with a subject matter on the world’s fastest-growing asset – consumer data. An extraordinary venture that begins with one man’s mission to gain his data back from a consumer and soon opens up a world that touches on firestorms ranging from political agendas and fraud, the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the infamous data scandal from Facebook.
The Great Hack is a deep and profound documentary that will...
- 8/2/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Plenty of Sundance movies get a few tweaks after the festival. However, Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim’s Cambridge Analytica documentary “The Great Hack” saw a whole new level of adjustment after its 2019 premiere as a work in progress, including the introduction of protagonist Brittany Kaiser — a fascinating, moody woman with a sad poker face whose true values and beliefs even she does not appear to know.
“We didn’t know the degree that things would happen,” said Amer. “Every time you think you know the full story, there was a little more of the Mueller investigation. She’d forget to tell us she met with Julian Assange, or went to Russia.”
Few filmmakers are comfortable with turning their movies inside out, but Amer and Noujaim are used to collaborating with the news cycle. Noujaim first knew Amer as an activist; they met while she was filming “The Square” during the Arab Spring uprisings.
“We didn’t know the degree that things would happen,” said Amer. “Every time you think you know the full story, there was a little more of the Mueller investigation. She’d forget to tell us she met with Julian Assange, or went to Russia.”
Few filmmakers are comfortable with turning their movies inside out, but Amer and Noujaim are used to collaborating with the news cycle. Noujaim first knew Amer as an activist; they met while she was filming “The Square” during the Arab Spring uprisings.
- 8/1/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Plenty of Sundance movies get a few tweaks after the festival. However, Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim’s Cambridge Analytica documentary “The Great Hack” saw a whole new level of adjustment after its 2019 premiere as a work in progress, including the introduction of protagonist Brittany Kaiser — a fascinating, moody woman with a sad poker face whose true values and beliefs even she does not appear to know.
“We didn’t know the degree that things would happen,” said Amer. “Every time you think you know the full story, there was a little more of the Mueller investigation. She’d forget to tell us she met with Julian Assange, or went to a Russian intelligence meeting.”
Few filmmakers are comfortable with turning their movies inside out, but Amer and Noujaim are used to collaborating with the news cycle. Noujaim first knew Amer as an activist; they met while she was filming...
“We didn’t know the degree that things would happen,” said Amer. “Every time you think you know the full story, there was a little more of the Mueller investigation. She’d forget to tell us she met with Julian Assange, or went to a Russian intelligence meeting.”
Few filmmakers are comfortable with turning their movies inside out, but Amer and Noujaim are used to collaborating with the news cycle. Noujaim first knew Amer as an activist; they met while she was filming...
- 8/1/2019
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
NetflixThe Netflix documentary reveals the faces behind the Cambridge Analytica scandal that shook democracies around the world in March last year. Manasa RaoEven as you click to read this review of a Netflix documentary, your digital journey has come some length— from the time you activated the Wifi or data connection to opening your phone or laptop, to clicking on the link and scrolling— hopefully— to the end. The data trail or ‘digital footprint’ is the hottest commodity in the 21st century’s modern capitalist society. This is why The Great Hack chooses to focus on one of the most jarring scandals in recent history that exposed just how much the actions of one social media giant has hurt millions of people around the world and their hard-earned democracies. The Netflix documentary revolves around the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal that shook the world in March last year. Investigations by...
- 7/31/2019
- by Anjana
- The News Minute
Did you know how important you are to the world’s movers and shakers? That’s the most charitable way to describe the unwitting technical mining of our personal data, and the manipulation of it in order to change our behavior, that’s turned into one of the most pressing issues of modern times.
Since it’s facilitated the rise in authoritarianism across the globe, it can’t be explained enough, or fought back against too strongly. With the new documentary “The Great Hack,” there’s now a sufficiently paranoid primer at hand to keep you questioning just what happens every time you engage with the world digitally, and why you should care about holding big tech accountable for their breaches of trust.
Directors Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim focus primarily on the scandal involving Facebook and now-bankrupt Cambridge Analytica, the sinisterly ambitious data firm funded by Republican moneyman Robert Mercer,...
Since it’s facilitated the rise in authoritarianism across the globe, it can’t be explained enough, or fought back against too strongly. With the new documentary “The Great Hack,” there’s now a sufficiently paranoid primer at hand to keep you questioning just what happens every time you engage with the world digitally, and why you should care about holding big tech accountable for their breaches of trust.
Directors Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim focus primarily on the scandal involving Facebook and now-bankrupt Cambridge Analytica, the sinisterly ambitious data firm funded by Republican moneyman Robert Mercer,...
- 7/24/2019
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Do you really know who has your personal data on the internet? When you take a survey or share information on Facebook, where is it going? Many have never paid it a second thought. The new documentary The Great Hack, about to debut on Netflix this Wednesday, makes the case that this is a national failing. The doc propositions that data rights are a form of human rights, one being taken advantage of at every turn. With some visual flourishes, the work attempts to shock audiences into rising up to demand this new right. The documentary is a look at data exploitation, filtered through the lens of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. That controversy after the 2016 Presidential Election in the United States and the Brexit vote is just part of that dark world. Following David Carroll, as he seeks to find out what the company knows about him and what data of his they actually have,...
- 7/23/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Like most people, you’d probably never heard the name “Cambridge Analytica,” or were even aware of the company’s existence before March of 2018, when the New York Times and the Guardian began reporting on the firm’s harvesting of private Facebook user information. Unless, of course, you were a member of the Trump campaign’s team — then you were well aware of what these data analysts were doing for Ted Cruz’s bid for the Presidency back in 2015. Thanks to their targeting of certain types of potential voters, the junior U.
- 7/22/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
The Great Hack Trailer Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim‘s The Great Hack (2019) movie trailer has been released Netflix and stars Brittany Kaiser, David Carroll, Carole Cadwalladr, and Julian Wheatland. Plot Synopsis The Great Hack‘s plot synopsis: “They took your data. Then they took control. The Great Hack uncovers the dark world of data exploitation through the compelling personal [...]
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Continue reading: The Great Hack (2019) Movie Trailer: A Doc on Data-mining during the 2016 U.S. Presidential & Brexit Vote...
- 7/12/2019
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
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