13 Wild Netflix Documentaries You Should Watch Now

‘Tiger King’

Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness follows the ever-so eccentric Joe Exotic and other well, interesting cast of characters all with one shared love, big cats. 

But when Carole Baskin, an animal activist and owner of a big cat sanctuary threatens to put Joe’s roadside Oklahoma zoo out of business things take a dark turn igniting a rivalry that eventually leads to Joe’s arrest for a murder-for-hire plot. 

Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich

The mysterious tycoon Jeffrey Epstein had been accused of abusing women and underage girls for decades yet wasn’t arrested until 2019. 

Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich explores how Epstein manipulated and lied his way to the top of the financial world gaining extreme wealth and power while running an international sex trafficking ring. 

Don’t F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer

The internet went nuts when a mysterious figure in a dark green hoodie was seen killing two kittens which ignited a dangerous game of cat and mouse — and as internet trolls tried to track down the killer new and even more disturbing videos would emerge.

The Innocent Man

Getting national attention with John Grisham’s non-fiction book, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, this six-part documentary series focuses on two murders that shook the small town of Ada, Oklahoma, in the 1980s — and the controversial chain of events that followed.

‘Wild Wild Country’

Wild Wild Country tells the story of the Rajneesh movement led by the Indian mystic, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, also known as Osho.

Known to many as a “New Age sex cult”, the Bhagwan’s followers attempt to build a utopian city in the Oregon desert which ends up creating massive conflict with local ranchers producing the first bioterror attack in U.S. history and the largest case of illegal wiretapping ever recorded.

‘Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution’

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution is the untold story executive produced by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama that tells the story of a revolution that blossomed in a rundown summer camp for teenagers with disabilities, transforming their lives and igniting a landmark movement. 

‘Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes’

Thirty years after serial killer Ted Bundy confessed to murdering 30 people Nextflix released Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes showing us just how twisted Ted Bundy’s mind actually was  through exclusive, never-before-heard interviews from the “Jack the Ripper of the United States,” himself.

His good looks and sociable demenaor allowed him to hide in plain sight as he committed brutal sex crimes before being caught in 1978. 

This unique and gripping docuseries focuses on a man whose personality, good looks and social graces defied the serial-killer stereotype, allowing him to hide in plain sight as he committed the brutal sex-crime slayings of more than 30 women before being caught in 1978. While on trial, Bundy received extraordinary adoration from American women, which made his gruesome crimes doubly haunting, even in an era of anything-goes mayhem.

‘Evil Genius: the True Story of America’s Most Diabolical Bank Heist’

The truth behind the terrifying public murder of Brian Wells and one of the most insane bank robberies (that went horribly wrong) of all time — the extraordinary 2003 criminal case, known as the “pizza bomber heist,” is brought to light in the four-part series you could easily watch all at once.

‘Abducted in Plain Sight’

You think you’ve seen it all, just wait. Abducted in Plain Sight chronocles the kidnapping case of Jan Broberg, an Idaho teenager who was abducted by her decades-older neighbor Robert Berchtold in the 1970s — and right in front of her parents’ eyes.

Berchtold, known as “B” entrapped Jan’s religious parents in such a web of complicity and shame that he somehow convinced the family to drop charges against him. Really nuts.

‘The Keepers’

The story of about the unsolved murder of nun Sister Cathy Cesnik, who taught English and drama at Baltimore’s Archbishop Keough High School who disappeared in 1969 and whose body was discovered in months later is more than a murder mystery— the documentary exposes decades of child abuse within the church, the police force, and collusion to silence victims and cover up horrific crimes. 

‘Amanda Knox’

Was she a cold-blooded psychopath who murdered her roommate or a naive student abroad trapped in a never-ending nightmare? That’s the question Netflix has us asking ourselves. 

Amanda Knox features Knox herself describing what she went through as the police, the media, and as the entire world debated whether or not she was a cold-blooded killer — we also see interviews with her codefendant and former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, the attorney for the man believed to have really been behind the deadly attack, and the lead Italian investigator. 

Trust us, after watching you’re not gonna know what to believe. 

‘Welcome to Leith’

When Craig Cobb first came to the small North Dakota town buying up properties no one knew that he was part of a stealth operation to make Leith a haven for white supremacists — the true story will have you wondering if you’re actually watching a horror flick. 

‘Oklahoma City’

While watching Oklahoma City we learn about the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and the man who conceived it, planned it, and more or less singlehandedly executed it, Timothy McVeigh. And we come to realize just how much influence the alt-right movement had on him.