Top-rated Documentaries of 2020
The Pharmacist
Watch at: Netflix
Jenner Furst, Julia Willoughby, and Nason directed a new documentary of 2020 based on the U.S. opioid epidemic. The story of the series starts with pharmacist Dan Schneider who after the devastating death of his 22-year-old son gets hurts. Initially, the police investigation reveals that is an accident. But a month later the ripple effects of his son’s addiction and tragic death would find him again when a troubling number of young, seemingly healthy people begin visiting his pharmacy with high dose prescriptions for OxyContin.
McMillions
Watch at: HBO
Showing the McDonald’s Monopoly game scam occurred between 1989 and 2001, McMillions is a new documentary of 2020. The miniseries starts with McDonald’s Monopoly game scam during the 1990s and show over those five years, an ex-cop turned security officer duped his bosses at the firm as well as everyone at the McDonalds’ corporation and walked away with $24 million in stolen winnings.
Miss Americana
Watch at: Netflix
2020 best documentary “Miss Americana” shows the raw and emotionally revealing look of Taylor Shift during the transformation period of her life as she learns to embrace her role not only as a songwriter and performer but as a woman harnessing the full power of her voice. It covers all important events of Taylor Swift’s life and career, including the making of seventh studio album Lover, her past eating battles with an eating disorder and various others.
Cheer
Watch at: Netflix
Netflix’s documentary television series 2020 shows the powerful and impeccable ups and down stories of Navarro College’s cheer competition in Corsicana, Texas.
The six-episode series demonstrate the difficulties or the toll this sport takes on these athletes’ bodies. It shows the injuries of the Navarro team while preparing to compete at the NCA Collegiate Cheer Championships in Daytona Beach, Florida, for “top team in the country” title.
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Rise of Empires: Ottoman
Watch at: Netflix
Rise of Empires: Ottoman is a Turkish historical docudrama directed and written by Emre Sahin and Kelly McPherson.
The series shows the Ottoman Empire and Mehmed the Conqueror. It explains the story related to the fall of Constantinople from the Turkish perspective as part of the severally spreading of Islam across Asian Minor and into southeast Europe.
The Test: A New Era for Australia’s team
Watch at: Amazon Prime Video
Amazon prime documentary series “The Test: A New Era for Australia’s team” is directed by Adrian Brown. The series shows the Australian men’s cricket team path of recovery under the guidance of Tim Paine and Justin Langer. Series covers the tough phase of 18 months of Australian team and transition since the outbreak of the 2018 Australian ball-tampering scandal.
Gentefied
Watch at: Netflix
Netflix’s new documentary of February 2020 “Gentefied” stars Karrie Martin, Joseph Julia Soria, and various others. The series focuses on three Mexican American cousins of the Morales family who live and work in the rapidly changing East Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights. Struggling to follow the American dream and at the same time threatens the things they love the most that are their neighbors, their immigrant grandfather, and the family taco shop.
Yeh Ballet
Watch at: Netflix
Yeh Ballet is a new documentary of Netflix is a fictionalized version of a short documentary of the same name by Taraporevala and based on the true story of Mumbai boys Amiruddin Shah and Manish Chauhan and their Israeli-American mentor Yehuda Maor.
The story shows the struggling story of two boys who belong to a low-income family. In starting, they are disdainful of one another and compete for the attention of their ballet teacher, Saul Aaron (Julian Sands). But later, under Saul’s tutelage, they become great allies.
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness
Watch at: Netflix
An eye-catching tale of con artists, polygamy, rivalry, and revenge, Tiger King is the shocking Netflix documentary 2020. The true-crime documentary of seven twisted and interesting episodes touches deep points of the life of a tiger breeder and former owner of the private zoo, Joe Maldonado Passage also known as Joe Exotic.
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