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In August 2025, a number of documentary movies and collection will likely 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 in the Storm and Gone Women: The Lengthy Island Killer. As we glance to August, true crime continues to take the forefront, however there are additionally a few distinctive entries, comparable to a music-based documentary-visual movie.
Christopher – A Stunning Actual Life
Coming to Netflix: August 2025 (Launch date TBA)
Danish Pop icon Christopher made his performing debut in the 2023 movie A Stunning Life, in which he additionally composed the soundtrack. His actual life echoes the function he has in the movie.
Subsequently, this documentary follows Christopher as he chases his goals and finds himself on the point of pop stardom. Nevertheless, the delivery of his second little one adjustments his priorities. Is following his dream price 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
Govt Producer: Spike Lee
Created by showrunner and producer Alisa Payne, this documentary collection explores the devastating results and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which struck the town of New Orleans in 2005. The hurricane noticed a whole bunch lose their lives, in addition to billions of {dollars} in damages throughout the town.
All through this 3-part documentary, the individuals of New Orleans recollect the day of the hurricane, an occasion that modified their lives ceaselessly. Heavy and emotional, this documentary is sure 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 generally known as the world’s best diamond heist. The story begins again in 2003, going down in Antwerp, the place detectives from Antwerp’s ‘Diamond Squad’ the place referred to as in to examine the disappearance of an extremely useful diamonds — stolen from a near-impenetrable vault in the useless of night time. The worth of the theft? An estimated half a billion {dollars}.
Apparently, 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 challenge initially launched at SXSW, the place it gained the Viewers Award in the Visions class.
The movie tells the story of James Jacob, who was sentenced to a double-life time period whereas solely 15 years previous. 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 collection 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 collection 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 Largest Loser
Coming to Netflix: August 15
Director: Skye Borgman
A 3-part documentary, this collection paperwork the historical past of former actuality collection ‘The Largest Loser,’ which was a vastly profitable competitors actuality present that aired in the US from 2004-2016. The collection would take contestants and problem them to lose as a lot weight as attainable, with the winner taking residence an enormous $250,000 money prize.
This collection options interviews with former contestants, trainers, producers, and well being professionals. It explores the nice, the unhealthy, 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**ok 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. Nevertheless, additional police experiences concluded that Smollett had paid two individuals to stage the crime.
This sparked an infinite investigation, in which Smollett was indicted, and the costs had 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 primarily based on what the actor stated to a small crowd, saying, “It’ll make sense when y’all watch it. They discovered the precise footage of the those who jumped me, and it simply corroborates each single factor that I’ve stated for the final nearly seven years.”
Unknown Quantity: The Excessive Faculty Catfish
Coming to Netflix: August 29
Director: Skye Borgman
Netflix describes Unknown Quantity as a stunning and twisty documentary. This docufilm covers a harrowing case of cyberbullying, in which a teenage woman and her boyfriend discover themselves being contacted by an nameless telephone quantity. After getting relentlessly harassed by an unknown quantity, the authorities finally 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 in the Image, Kidnapped in Plain Sight).
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