50 Top-Rated Documentaries to Stream in 2025
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50 Top-Rated Documentaries to Stream in 2025
Discover the best documentaries to watch in 2025. Explore our top 50 picks that cover a range of topics and promise to inform and entertain.
Mar 23, 2024
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Pop princess meets the Princess of Genovia! 👑 Sabrina Carpenter arrested Anne Hathaway for being "the most perfect princess in the world" during her concert at Madison Square Garden. | Entertainment Tonight
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🚨 #JessePlemons proposing to #KirstenDunst?! 🚨🤭 We showed the #Bugonia star our clip of his wife talking about #ThePowerOfTheDog, and his (and #EmmaStone’s) reaction was priceless. #Bugonia | Entertainment Weekly
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51 Jaw-Dropping Netflix Documentaries to Watch Right Now
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Nat Geo Documentary Films on Instagram: "In 1960, Dr. Jane Goodall’s early fieldwork observing chimpanzees at Gombe Stream Game Reserve, in Tanganyika (now Tanzania), unveiled groundbreaking research of shared behaviors between humans and apes. The Jane Goodall Institute announced on October 1, 2025, that Jane Goodall died at 91. A primatologist, conservationist, animal advocate, educator, and National Geographic Explorer, her work revolutionized our understanding of the natural world."
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Nat Geo Documentary Films on Instagram: "In 1960, Dr. Jane Goodall’s early fieldwork observing chimpanzees at Gombe Stream Game Reserve, in Tanganyika (now Tanzania), unveiled groundbreaking research of shared behaviors between humans and apes. The Jane Goodall Institute announced on October 1, 2025, that Jane Goodall died at 91. A primatologist, conservationist, animal advocate, educator, and National Geographic Explorer, her work revolutionized our understanding of the natural world."
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