The Apollo 11 moon landing, government cover-ups, and an Oscar-winning documentary short memorializing school shooting victims' bedrooms: EW's list of the 30 best documentaries on Netflix features the most powerful true stories streaming today.

Nature documentaries are a great way to get to know this big planet full of life that we all call home. Researchers are constantly discovering more and more about the Earth, and these films can offer the public an easy way to understand how human activity ...

The best nature documentaries — and I’m thinking especially of those narrated by Attenborough for the BBC — are great on their own terms — and I’ll say why in a moment. But they’re great in this important sense, too: Like those Impressionist paintings, they are ahead of their time. We are not yet ready to see them from the perspective of the future.

On first thought, a nature documentary may not be the first thing to put on for the Halloween season. Sure, nature can be horrifying, but it lacks the narrative of whichever October slasher reboot comes around this time of year. But the new Netflix ...

David Attenborough in 'Life in Color'; Craig Foster in 'My Octopus Teacher'; Bomman (left) and Raghu in 'The Elephant Whisperers' There's an easy way to explore all Earth has to offer, thanks to Netflix's deep catalog of nature and animal documentaries.