Best New Documentaries 2024. The best documentaries of 2024, so far “spermworld,” “onlookers” and “32 sounds” are worth watching for the different ways they allow us to see the world. Here are the 22 best documentaries streaming across various platforms, from rousing cultural portraits like 'paris is burning' on max to heartbreaking nature docs like 'fire.

The spring and summer seasons promise a hodgepodge of insightful, scandalous, activist, or unmistakably bizarre nonfiction films. The best netflix documentaries range from emotionally complicated true stories to wonderful depictions of nature.