Best Streaming Service for Documentaries Fans in 2026
Compare streaming services for documentary fans — ranked by top-percentile docs, catalog breadth, and free options.
Services Ranked: Documentaries
Best Documentaries on Netflix
View all →Highest-percentile documentary films & series available on Netflix.
Top 1%The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo
2020
Included
Top 3%David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
2020
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Top 3%BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG
2026
Included
Top 3%Squid Game: Making Season 2
2025
Included
Top 5%BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky
2020
Included
Top 7%The Last Dance
2020
Included
Top 7%Our Planet
2019
Included
Top 7%John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid
2015
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Top 8%My Octopus Teacher
2020
Included
Top 8%HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
2019
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Top 9%The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
2024
Included
Top 9%Shawn Mendes: In Wonder
2020
Included
Top 9%ariana grande: excuse me, i love you
2020
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Top 10%Apollo 11
2019
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Top 10%Avicii - I'm Tim
2024
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Top 11%Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
2015
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Top 11%The Greatest Night in Pop
2024
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Top 11%13th
2016
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Best Documentaries on Tubi
View all →Highest-percentile documentary films & series available on Tubi.
Top 3%Baraka
1992
Free
Top 4%Ennio
2022
Free
Top 5%The Look of Silence
2014
Free
Top 6%Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
2008
Free
Top 7%Lessons of Darkness
1992
Free
Top 7%Paris Is Burning
1991
Free
Top 7%Racing Extinction
2015
Free
Top 8%Queen: Days of Our Lives
2011
Free
Top 8%Blackfish
2013
Free
Top 8%The Cove
2009
Free
Top 9%Koyaanisqatsi
1983
Free
Top 10%Man with a Movie Camera
1929
Free
Top 10%Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
Free
Top 12%Honeyland
2019
Free
Top 12%Meru
2015
Free
Top 13%Inside Job
2010
Free
Top 14%Jiro Dreams of Sushi
2011
Free
Top 16%Flee
2021
Free
Best Documentaries on Prime Video
View all →Highest-percentile documentary films & series available on Prime Video.
- Top 3%
Baraka
1992
Free - Top 4%
Ennio
2022
Rent/Buy - Top 6%
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
2008
Included - Top 9%
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
Rent/Buy - Top 12%
Meru
2015
Rent/Buy 
Top 16%Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams
2018
Included
Top 18%Requiem for the American Dream
2015
Rent/Buy
Top 20%Apocalypse: The Second World War
2009
Rent/Buy
Top 20%Bowling for Columbine
2002
Included
Top 21%I Am: Celine Dion
2024
Included
Top 21%Grizzly Man
2005
Free
Top 21%Marley
2012
Rent/Buy
Top 22%Anvil! The Story of Anvil
2008
Rent/Buy
Top 22%Mayday
2003
Rent/Buy
Top 22%I Am Bruce Lee
2012
Included
Top 25%The Red Pill
2016
Free
Top 28%An Honest Liar
2014
Included
Top 29%Cartel Land
2015
Included
Top Documentaries Titles Across All Services
The highest-percentile documentary films & series in our catalog — regardless of which service carries them.
Nude
2017
Break the Silence: The Movie
2020
The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo
2020
Planet Earth
2006
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
2022
BTS Permission to Dance on Stage - Seoul: Live Viewing
2022
BTS: Permission to Dance on Stage - LA
2022
BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG
2026
Thriller 40
2023
Planet Earth II
2016
Cosmos
2014
Human
2015
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