[00:00] Top 10 Documentary Movies, Number 10, My Octopus Teacher. A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
[00:15] If you're looking for something soothing, uplifting, and oddly beautiful, you should check out Pippa Ehrlich and James Reid's lovely documentary My Octopus Teacher. Even if you're not much for nature documentaries, you'll likely be enchanted by my octopus teacher.
[00:33] Number 9. Disclosure An in-depth look at Hollywood's representation of transgender people and the impact of those stories on transgender lives and American culture. Number 8. Cheer
[00:45] In the small town of Corsicana, Texas, hard-driving head cheer coach Monica Aldama demands perfection from her team of competitive college athletes. From the creators of Last Chance U, cheer
[00:58] will flip its way straight into your heart. Number 7 Miss Americana A look at iconic pop artist Taylor Swift during a transformational time in her life as she embraces her role as a singer or songwriter and harnesses the full power of her
[01:14] voice. The Taylor Swift Netflix documentary Miss Americana is far from your typical music doc. It isn't even really all that focused on Swift's music so much as it is on Swift as a person.
[01:28] More specifically, it's a film about Swift's long journey to figuring out how not to care what people think about her, and how that manifests in her feminist awakening and decision to publicly express her political opinion, which we see occur in real time.
[01:45] Number 6. The Great Hack The Cambridge Analytica scandal is examined through the roles of several affected persons. The 2019 Netflix documentary The Great Hack takes a deep dive into the Facebook Cambridge
[01:59] Analytica scandal and how, despite Facebook's denials, the social media giant used personal data harvested by its users. Through interviews with investigative journalists and Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Brittany Kaiser the film offers a shocking deep dive of how data has become the most valuable resource on the
[02:20] planet, and how data is used to target users with ads and fake viral videos and news stories to swing major elections. Number 5. The Way I See It. Former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Sousa's journey as a person with top-secret
[02:36] clearance and total access to the president. Official White House photographer Pete Souza captured two of the most iconic presidents in history, President Ronald Reagan and President Barack Obama. Using archival footage and his photographs, it's the ultimate lesson on just
[02:54] what it takes to be one of the country's most influential people. Number 4. Rising Phoenix. The history and current standing of the Paralympic Games, which has grown to become the world's
[03:06] third largest sporting event. Number 3. Collective. Director Alexander Naunau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sportular as they try to uncover a vast healthcare fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens Collective starts as one of the greatest journalism movies of all time and then it goes one step
[03:32] further, exposing democracy at war with itself. Number 2 13th. An in-depth look at the prison system in the US, and how it reveals the nation's history
[03:44] of racial inequality. Number 1 The Last Dance Charting the rise of the 1990s Chicago Bulls, led by Michael Jordan, one of the most notable dynasties in sports history.
[03:59] If you know anything about basketball, or even if you don't, you know something about Michael Jordan. This ESPN docuseries wisely doesn't cover every single aspect of his long, epic career,
[04:12] instead choosing to center around his last season with the Chicago Bulls.