Streaming Watch List 📺

I happen upon good documentaries (and even bad ones). I watch a plethora of topics from entertainment to education. I have kept an ongoing list in a note on my phone. Although in disarray and not separated into categories, I only had to copy/paste most of this. 

I sent part of this list to a friend recently. After someone posted on Facebook asking for recommendations of documentaries, I ended up sending it to her and a couple more. I decided it would be easier to post so I can better keep up too. It really does call for a spreadsheet, but oh well. 

When you see BOATS, it means Based On A True Story.

I am not promising they are all good or will fall into your category of interest. That's the lovely thing about free will, you get to decide what to watch. 🤷 Some I watched a long time ago and may not be available any longer. I started keeping up with a list on my phone so I would know what I had watched and what I hadn't and recommendations from others. This ain't EVEN the movies or the documentaries from Prime. 🤯 I will update the list later. If it has a star, it was really good!

Documentary / DocuSeries

At The Ready – issues with keeping up with immigrants

Beastie Boys

Boys State – teens of different backgrounds and political views building a government

Ella Fitzgerald

Five Days at Memorial

Just Like You – about the stigma around mental health

Murder Under the Friday Night Lights

Price of Freedom – NRA (National Rifle Assoc) and politics

Selena Gomez

Still - Michael J Fox Documentary🌟

Velvet Underground

Movies

Eileen

Palmer

Smile

Split🌟

Series

A Million Little Things🌟

Black Bird 🐦‍⬛ - Inspired by a true story.

Dear Edward

Defending Jacob

Foundation

Hijack

Home Before Dark

Loot 👍🏻

Platonic - 🌟 

Presumed Innocent - DA accused of murdering another DA 🌟

Servant - psychological thriller

Shining Girls

Shrinking - 🌟 very good and funny

Silo

The Crowded Room

The Last Thing He Told Me - 🌟loved it

The Morning Show

Truth Be Told🌟

Documentary / DocuSeries

Candy - it was ok, it was interesting

Dead Asleep – crime during sleepwalking

Demons and Saviors – woman claiming an abusive childhood and her conviction of killing her own daughter

Diane Sawyer interview with Matthew Perry - 🌟loved it

Dopesick

God Forbid – Scandal involving Jerry Falwell the huge religious icon

Good American Family - ⭐Story about Natalia Grace

I Love You, Now Die – gf encourages bf to commit suicide via text and was she culpable

Jawline – kid from Kingsport, TN who develops an internet following as an influencer

Kid 90 – about Soliel Moon Frye “Punky Brewster”

Only Fans Selling Sexy – Just ok. It’s one you can have playing in the background and be on the computer.

Pam & Tommy – Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee leaked sex tape a follow up to Rich and Shameless

Pretty Baby – on Brooke Shields

Rich and Shameless – about Pamela Anderson (Baywatch star) and Tommy Lee (drummer for Motley Crue)

Scamanda - public scammed by a woman faking cancer

Secrets of the Octopus – a Nat Geo type show

State of TX vs Melissa - ⭐

Stolen Youth – a college scandal and a student’s father

Texas True Crime 

The Skinny Shot – on people taking insulin shots to lose weight

The Social Media Murders - interesting

Movies

Delivered - sort of a Lifetime type movie but good

Four Good Days

Run - ⭐

Ruthless

The Commuter

Series

Dr. Odyssey - it’s an ok watch

Evil 🌟

Fire Country 👍🏻

For the People – a Shonda Rhimes show

High Potential 🌟

How to Get Away With Murder – Shonda Rhimes show

Little Fires Everywhere🌟

Mid Century Modern - 👍cute and humorous series

Nine Perfect Strangers

Only Murders in the Building - was ok

Paradise - 🌟 SO good!

Rescue Hi Surf 🌟

Scandal – by Shonda Rhimes

Stitchers 👍🏻

Tell Me Lies

The Patient🌟

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives

Series

Baylen Outloud ⭐️

Goodrich

The Baldwins 🌟

The Last of Us

The Pitt 👍🏻 - fiction Medical show based in a Pittsburgh ED

The White Lotus

Documentary / DocuSeries

14 Peaks – climber attempts 14 peak climb in less than a year

Abducted in Plain Sight – kidnapping of a young girl

Aftershock 🌟 - earthquake that affected Nepal and Mt. Everest

Amanda Knox – American exchange student convicted of killing another exchange student in Italy

American Murder The Family Next Door – Father murders wife and two children

American Nightmare - The real life "Gone Girl", Boyfriend wakes up and his gf is missing. Hoax or really happen.

Athlete A – abuse in the world of gymnastics

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Audrie & Daisey – cyberbullying (kinda slow)

Bethany Hamilton Unstoppable – shark attack victim and her rise becoming a pro surfer

Capturing the Killer Nurse – nurse who was killing patients and how they caught him

Challenger The Final Flight – explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger🌟

Cheer – follows a TX college cheer team and the competitiveness🌟

Cocaine Cowboys – friends who got into the cocaine business

Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult 👍

Depp vs Heard

Diagnosis – rare medical conditions

Earthstorm 🌟 – follows several natural disasters

Escaping Twin Flames

Flint Town – riots in Flint, MI

Gaga

Girl in the Picture – girl kidnapped, raised by her kidnapper who married her

Harry & Meghan🌟

Hell Camp: Teen Nighmare

Keep Sweet Pray and Obey – Warren Jeffs and the LDS church

Killer Inside The Mind of Aaron Hernandez – NFL player who killed another NFL player

Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath🌟

Medal of Honor – US Military recipients of the Medal of Honor

Megan Leavy 👍🏻 - a deployed US Marine and her bond formed with a combat dog.

Meltdown Three Mile Island – nuclear power plant accident in PA

Meltdown: Three Mile Island - worse nuclear power plant accident

Metallica

Molly’s Game - former potential Olympic skier runs weekly poker games and eventually is arrested 👍

Murdauh Murders

Murder Mountain – cannabis and corruption – it was just ok

NYAD – Swimmer Diane Nyad attempts 110 mile oceanic swim from Cuba to FL🌟

Our Father – fertility doc who fathered kids with patients who were unaware🌟

Pamela A Love Story – The Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee story.

Poisoned: The Truth About Your Food – what the FDA tracks and doesn’t

Rotten – food supply chain corruption

Shania Twain

Sins of Our Mother – Lori Vallow story – divorced mom, remarried and her kids who went missing

Strong Island – murder and injustice

Surviving R Kelly - very eye opening.

Take Care of Mya 🌟 - a young girl who was “medically kidnapped” 👍

Take Your Pills – growing popularity of cognitive enhancement drugs (ADHD meds)

Take Your Pills - Xanax

The Accidental Twins -two sets of twins, switched at birth and their reunion many years later.

The Deepest Breath – free diver attempts to break world diving record

The Impossible – family touring Thailand and experience a tsunami

The Innocent Man – based on John Grisham’s book of the murders in Ada, OK 👍

The Keepers

The Man with 1,000 Kids - sperm donor who donated privately and with 11 different sperm banks 😱

The Mind Explained – how the brain works

The Pharmacist – Opioid crisis

The Return of Tanya Tucker🌟

The Staircase – man who may have killed his wife, was it murder or an accident

The Surgeon’s Cut – several surgeons and why they became surgeons

The Volcano Rescue from Whakaari – volcanic eruption during a tourist visit 🌟

Tiger King – ridiculously entertaining about a man who owned tigers🌟

Twin Flames Universe

Voyeur – peeping tom hotel owner

Who Shot the Sheriff – Bob Marley

Wild Wild Country – cult in an Oregon desert

Winter on Fire Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

Worst Roommate Ever – roommate horror stories

You Are What You Eat - study of dietary changes w/identical twins over 8 weeks - It was interesting.

Movies

1BR

A Fall From Grace

A Family Affair - cute movie about a movie star falling in love with his assistant's Mom

A Simple Favor 🌟 a psychological thriller

Bennett’s War

Birdbox

Blood Father

Brain on Fire

Bruised

Bullet Train

Dangerous Lies

Don’t Look Up

Don’t Move – it was ok, pretty predictable

Fatherhood

Fractured

From Scratch - romantic movie about true love. Tissues will be needed. 🌟

Homefront

I See You

Intrusion

La Dolce Villa 🌟

Leave the World Behind

Lost Girls

Madame Web - superhero movie, fourth in the Spider-Man Universe series.👍

Maid - young mom leaves an abusive relationship & begins cleaning houses in hopes to make a better life for herself and daughter. 💛

Mother of the Bride - young couple gathers family for their wedding to learn the bride's mom used to date the groom's father. 🌟

Polar

Queenpins

Spenser Confidential

The Guilty

The Outpost

The Paramedic

The Postcard Killings 👍

The Secret In Their Eyes

The Silence

The Stand at Paxton County

The Starling

The Stranger

The Unforgiveable

Trap - ⭐Psychological thriller by M. Knight Shyamalan

Unthinkable – based on true events

Wind River - 👍🏻crime/mystery based on true events 

Your Place or Mine

Series

A Man on the Inside – cute and funny

Baby Reindeer - 👎👎I watched the entire series but wasn't impressed. Expected more from a psychological series.

Banshee - 🌟pretty decent series but can be raunchy at times

Behind Her Eyes

Bloodline - 🌟

Bridgerton - I liked the first two seasons but by the time season 3 came out, I couldn't stay interested.

Broadchurch

Clickbait

Cobra Kai

Control Z

Dead to Me

Dirty John – based on a true story🌟

Firefly Lane - sweet limited series about the ups and down of two best friends.

Fool Me Once 🌟

Ginny & Georgia

Grace and Frankie - stomachache funny but with a good family dynamic storyline. 🌟

Graveyard - crime drama that was just ok

Longmire🌟

Lost

Maid🌟

Mindhunter🌟

No Good Deed

Nobody Wants This 🌟

Ozark

Reckoning🌟

Rectify - 🌟

Running Point - with Kate Hudson

Safe - a surgeon's teen daughter goes missing and he begins learning secrets of those closest to him.

Squid Game - gory but interesting; it was ok.

Sweet Magnolias - 🌟

The Diplomat - 🌟

The Madness -  🌟

The Night Agent - 🌟

The Perfect Couple -  👍🏻

The Residence - 👍🏻from Shonda Rhimes and gives the vibe of a cross between Murders in the Building and Clue

The Sinner

The Stranger

Unbelievable – based on a true story

Unit 42

Virgin River - romantic drama and one of my favorites. 💚🌟

Wind River

Documentary / DocuSeries

A Tattoo On My Brain - a neurologist becomes his own patient

Nepal Quake🌟

Movie

The Contractor - 👍

Series

Frasier - ⭐funny

Ghosts - ⭐ comical

Happy Face - 👍based on the true story of the Happy Face Killer

Landman - ⭐SO good

Lioness - 🌟SO very good

Matlock - ⭐the new one with Kathy Bates

Sky+Med

Tracker - ⭐

Documentary/DocuSeries

Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies

Southern Fried Lies - The mysterious death of a wealthy man in an AR rural community and a prominent real estate agent who set her daughter up with the man accused of stealing his fortune.

Movies

The 355

Black Bag - intelligence agent suspects his wife betrayed the nation. (Warning, they have British accents.)

Last Breath 🌟! - BOATS Rescue of a deep sea diver who gets trapped.

Love Hurts - a realtor in hiding ends up back in a world of crime and hit men.

Wicked

Series

Blue Ridge

Brilliant Minds

Long Bright River 🌟 - I really liked this!

Yellowstone 💛 - IYKYK

Documentary / DocuSeries

Chowchilla - Chowchilla, CA high jacking of a school bus of 26 kids in 1976.

Human Trafficking - very interesting

I Am Celine Dion

Shiny Happy People - about the Duggar Family

The Murder of Gabby Petito

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

Movies

47 Meters Down

47 Meters Down: Uncaged 

A Thousand Little Cuts 🌟- Good! "An injured young woman wakes up in the hospital without any recollection of how or why she's there. As a clever psychologist takes her back through memories and incidents leading up to a traumatic event.

Bliss

Herself

My Spy

Peanut Butter Falcon🌟

Population 436

Those Who Wish Me Dead

Wander

Without Remorse

You’re Cordially Invited

Series

Gracepoint - ⭐

Person of Interest

Secrets and Lies - ⭐⭐⭐VERY good

Taken (the series)

Tell Me Your Secrets

Terminal

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Gypsy Rose

Lifetime On Demand - The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard

HBO Max - Mommy Dead and Dearest

Hulu - The Act

Discovery+ or Hulu - Gypsy’s Revenge

Peacock - Snapped: Killer Couples Gypsy Rose and Nick A Love to Kill For

Natalia Grace

Discovery+ on ID or HBO Max - The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks