TV Show Releases by Genre
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The New Yorker Presents: Season 1
February 16, 2016
The newsmagazine series produced by Alex Gibney features short films, comedy, poetry, animation, documentaries, and interviews.
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The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
December 4, 2017
The life and career of the Washington Post editor Ben Bradley is examined with archival footage, interviews, home movies, and photos in this documentary directed by John Maggio.
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The Presidents' Gatekeepers: Season 1
September 11, 2013
The two-part documentary interviews 20 former White House chiefs of staff including: James Baker, Rahm Emanuel, Leon Panetta, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, about events during their time administration.
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The Putin Interviews: Season 1
June 12, 2017
Airing over four consecutive nights, Oliver Stone's four-part interview with Russian president Vladimir Putin was recorded over a two years from over a dozen conversations.
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The Roosevelts: An Intimate History: Season 1
September 14, 2014
The 14-hour documentary series from Ken Burns covers the history and influences the family had from the birth of Theodore Roosevelt in 1858 to the death of Eleanor Roosevelt in 1962.
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The Seventies: Season 1
June 11, 2015
The eight-part documentary series follows last year's "The Sixties" with clips and interviews to illustrate a decade of change in culture and politics.
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The Sixties: Season 1
May 29, 2014
The ten-part documentary series executive produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog covers cultural and historical events that shaped the 1960s with interviews and clips.
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The Spymasters - CIA in the Crosshairs
November 28, 2015
Narrated by Mandy Patinkin, the documentary focuses on the controversial methods used by the agency after Sept. 11 with interviews with 12 former CIA directors, several operatives, and critics of the CIA.
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The Staircase [2018 Version]: Season 1
June 8, 2018
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade's 2005 Peabody Award-winning eight-part documentary about the Michael Peterson murder trial comes to Netflix with three new episodes (as well as the two episodes released in 2013 for a grand total of 13 episodes).
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The Tenth Inning: Season 1
September 28, 2010
Ken Burns returns with his four-hour sequel to his Emmy-winning documentary "Baseball." The two-part documentary covers a variety of issues that followed "Baseball's" airing. These include: the strike, the Red Sox's World Series victory, home run records, and steroid scandals.
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The Trade: Season 1
February 2, 2018
The documentary series from Matthew Heineman focuses on all sides of the drug epidemic, from the drug cartel in Mexico, the police in Ohio and the two families impacted by addiction.
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The Vietnam War: Season 1
September 17, 2017
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick returns with a 10-part, 18-hour documentary miniseries about the war features interviews, archival footage, home movies, photos, and audio clips, as well as original music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
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The World According to Dick Cheney: Season 1
March 15, 2013
Narrated by Dennis Haysbert, former vice president Dick Cheney is profiled and interviewed by R.J. Cutler in this 110-minute documentary.
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The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling: Season 1
March 26, 2018
The two-part documentary by Judd Apatow about the late comedian features interviews with over 40 friends and family, including James L. Brooks, Jim Carrey, Sacha Baron Cohen, David Coulier, Jon Favreau, Jay Leno, Kevin Nealon, Conan O’Brien, Bob Saget, Jerry Seinfeld and Sarah Silverman.
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There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane
July 25, 2011
The Liz Garbus documentary looks into the 2009 tragic accident of Diane Schuler, who drove the wrong way on New York's Taconic State Parkway before crashing into another SUV, killing herself and seven others.
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This Giant Beast That Is the Global Economy: Season 1
February 22, 2019
The documentary series about the global economy from Adam McKay is hosted by Kal Penn.
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Tig
July 17, 2015
The documentary follows comedian Tig Notaro over two years as she works on her standup, has a double mastectomy, finds a new romance, and tries to have a baby.
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TIME: The Kalief Browder Story: Season 1
March 1, 2017
The six-part documentary series produced by Shawn "Jay Z" Carter examines the case of 16-year-old Kalief Browder, who ended up at Riker’s Island prison for three years while awaiting trial after being accused of stealing a backpack (the charge was eventually dropped).
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Too Funny To Fail
October 21, 2017
Josh Greenbaum's documentary about the short-lived comedy The Dana Carvey Show features interviews with Dana Carvey, Steve Carell, Robert Carlock, Stephen Colbert, Jon Glaser, and Robert Smigel.
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Town of the Living Dead: Season 1
October 7, 2014
The docuseries follows a group of friends who have been trying to film a zombie movie based on a local urban legend in their hometown of Jasper, Alabama for the past six years.
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TV Nation: Season 1
July 19, 1994
Following the success of Roger & Me, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore moved to television for this humorous weekly newsmagazine that found Moore and a rotating group of correspondents (including Janeane Garofalo, Louis Theroux, Karen Duffy, Merrill Markoe, and Jonathan Katz) reporting on topics including corporate crime, politics, organized labor, and more. The show later moved from NBC to Fox for its second season, when it won an Emmy.
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TWA Flight 800
July 17, 2013
The documentary directed by Kristina Borjesson reveals interviews with investigators about the other possibilities on what caused the TWA flight to explode on July 17, 1996, after taking off from JFK International Airport.
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Ugly Delicious: Season 1
February 23, 2018
The documentary series follows chef David Chang and food writer Peter Meehan as they talk about food and culture while visiting restaurants from around the world.
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Vietnam in HD: Season 1
November 8, 2011
New, unseen footage is included in the six-part mini-series about the Vietnam War narrated by Michael C. Hall.
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Virgin Territory: Season 1
July 16, 2014
Each week the docu-series will explore the stories of four young people on their decisions to have sex for the first time.
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White People
July 22, 2015
Jose Antonio Vargas traveled across the United states to talk to young people about race for his documentary that is apart of MTV's Look Different campaign.
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Wishful Drinking
December 12, 2010
Carrie Fisher's one-woman show about her family, Star Wars, and being bipolar was filmed from a performance in New Jersey.
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Witness: Season 1
November 5, 2012
The HBO docuseries profiles three photojournalists as they work in Juarez, Mexico; South Sudan; Libya; and Rio de Janeiro.
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Years of Living Dangerously: Season 1
April 13, 2014
Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Harrison Ford, Michael C. Hall, and Ian Somerhalder are some of the actors, along with journalists such as Mark Bittman, Thomas Friedman, Chris Hayes, and Lesley Stahl who explore environmental issues in this documentary series executive produced by James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 60 Minutes producers Joel Bach, David Gelberm, and climate expert Daniel Abbasi.
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