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In August 2025, a number of documentary movies and sequence will probably be launched on Netflix, together with a brand new movie from the crew behind The Tinder Swindler.
Netflix documentaries have been going regular up to now in 2025. Some highlights embody The Tornado: Caught within the Storm and Gone Ladies: The Lengthy Island Killer. As we glance to August, true crime continues to take the forefront, however there are additionally a few distinctive entries, reminiscent of a music-based documentary-visual movie.
Christopher – A Lovely Actual Life
Coming to Netflix: August 2025 (Launch date TBA)
Danish Pop icon Christopher made his appearing debut within the 2023 movie A Lovely Life, through which he additionally composed the soundtrack. His actual life echoes the function he has within the movie.
Subsequently, this documentary follows Christopher as he chases his desires and finds himself getting ready to pop stardom. Nonetheless, the start of his second baby modifications his priorities. Is following his dream value the price of shedding valuable time together with his household?
Katrina: Come Hell and Excessive Water
Coming to Netflix: August 2025 (Launch date TBA)
Administrators: Geeta Gandbhir (101), Samantha Knowles (102), Spike Lee (103)
Producer: Sam Pollard
Government Producer: Spike Lee
Created by showrunner and producer Alisa Payne, this documentary sequence explores the devastating results and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which struck town of New Orleans in 2005. The hurricane noticed a whole lot lose their lives, in addition to billions of {dollars} in damages throughout town.
All through this 3-part documentary, the folks of New Orleans recollect the day of the hurricane, an occasion that modified their lives ceaselessly. Heavy and emotional, this documentary is certain to be an actual tear-jerker.
Stolen: Heist of the Century
Coming to Netflix: August 8
Director/Author: Mark Lewis
From RAW (the crew behind American Nightmare and The Tinder Swindler) comes Stolen: Heist of the Century. The documentary covers the story behind what’s develop into referred to as the world’s best diamond heist. The story begins again in 2003, happening in Antwerp, the place detectives from Antwerp’s ‘Diamond Squad’ the place referred to as in to research the disappearance of an extremely worthwhile diamonds — stolen from a near-impenetrable vault at the hours of darkness. The worth of the theft? An estimated half a billion {dollars}.
Curiously, that is the second diamond heist documentary to hit Netflix in 2025. The primary was Man Ritchie’s The Diamond Heist, launched in April.
Songs From the Gap
Coming to Netflix: August 13
Director: Contessa Gayles
Netflix has licensed 2023 documentary movie Songs from the Gap; the movie will land on the streamer on August 13. A documentary-visual album, the venture initially launched at SXSW, the place it received the Viewers Award within the Visions class.
The movie tells the story of James Jacob, who was sentenced to a double-life time period whereas solely 15 years outdated. Furthermore, only a few days later, his brother was tragically killed. Whereas marketed as a documentary, it’s a lot greater than that. It’s a musical autobiography, telling its story by a sequence of intimate and private music movies.
The Echoes of Survivors: Inside Korea’s Tragedies
Coming to Netflix: August 15
In 2023, Netflix launched Within the Title of God: A Holy Betrayal, which informed tales of 4 Korean religions leaders and their nasty thirst for energy. Now, from the identical director, Jo Seong-hyeon, comes The Echoes of Survivors: Inside Korea’s Tragedies.
The upcoming documentary sequence particulars a few of the most harrowing tales of Korea’s historical past, lined from firsthand accounts of survivors and uncommon archival footage.
Match for TV: The Actuality of the Greatest Loser
Coming to Netflix: August 15
Director: Skye Borgman
A 3-part documentary, this sequence paperwork the historical past of former actuality sequence ‘The Greatest Loser,’ which was a massively profitable competitors actuality present that aired within the US from 2004-2016. The sequence would take contestants and problem them to lose as a lot weight as potential, with the winner taking dwelling an enormous $250,000 money prize.
This sequence options interviews with former contestants, trainers, producers, and well being professionals. It explores the great, the dangerous, and the difficult.
The Reality About Jussie Smollett?
Coming to Netflix: August 22
Director: Gagan Rehill
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From the producers of Don’t F**okay with Cats and The Tinder Swindler, comes ‘The Reality About Jussie Smollett?’. The movie explores the story behind the Jussie Smollett.
All of it started in January 2019, when actor Jussie Smollett claimed that he was a sufferer of a racial and homophobic assault in Chicago. Nonetheless, additional police experiences concluded that Smollett had paid two folks to stage the crime.
This sparked an infinite investigation, through which Smollett was indicted, and the costs have been later dropped, solely to be reopened once more in 2020. The investigation has a number of twists and turns. This documentary movie explores the case in never-before-seen element, that includes interviews with police, legal professionals, journalists, investigators.
According to one report, the docu-series is Smollett’s greatest likelihood of redemption based mostly on what the actor mentioned to a small crowd, saying, “It’ll make sense when y’all watch it. They discovered the precise footage of the those that jumped me, and it simply corroborates each single factor that I’ve mentioned for the final virtually seven years.”
Unknown Quantity: The Excessive College Catfish
Coming to Netflix: August 29
Director: Skye Borgman
Netflix describes Unknown Quantity as a surprising and twisty documentary. This docufilm covers a harrowing case of cyberbullying, through which a teenage lady and her boyfriend discover themselves being contacted by an nameless cellphone quantity. After getting relentlessly harassed by an unknown quantity, the authorities ultimately get entangled… and the case spirals uncontrolled.
Unknown Quantity is a real story. The movie is helmed by acclaimed true crime director Skye Borgman (Woman within the Image, Kidnapped in Plain Sight).
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