The Best Documentaries New To Streaming In March

Available March 1

WWE fans will want to check out this 1999 documentary, now available to stream, about the lives of famous wrestlers outside the ring. Fun fact: Beyond The Mat technically features the feature film debut of future Hollywood superstar Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

Available March 1

You've heard of famous Motown musicians like The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, and Marvin Gaye. But you've probably never heard of The Funk Brothers: the studio musicians who played the instrumentals on many of those singers' iconic tracks. Given the breadth of their largely uncredited work, The Funk Brothers actually produced more hits than The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Elvis combined.

Available March 1

Morgan Freeman literally played God in the movies Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty. Now he leads this National Geographic series that investigates different cultures' traditions surrounding and beliefs in a higher power.

Available March 1

Fans of ZZ Top won't want to miss this new look behind the scenes at the formation, rise to fame, and successful career of the rock trio, featuring interviews with the band members themselves as well as famous fans including Billy Bob Thornton.

Available March 6

This wide-ranging docuseries goes in depth on the former presidential candidate's life, from her childhood through her time as First Lady through the fraught 2016 election. It's sure to be equal parts empowering and bittersweet.

Available March 6

Each episode of this travel and cooking show shines the spotlight on one wildly popular regional food. Season 1 already highlighted Korean BBQ, Nashville hot chicken, and authentic Italian pizza. Season 2 is ready to take fans around the globe and make their mouths water all over again.

Available March 10

The USC Trojans women's basketball team won back-to-back national championships and changed the fabric of women's basketball forever. Find out why their success was so remarkable and why it's had such an impact on the sport in this new HBO original documentary.

Available March 11

Each episode of this Netflix docuseries takes viewers inside a different remarkable — and remarkably infuriating — true story of corporate greed, fraud, and corruption. As if we need more excuses to get our blood pressure up in the year 2020.

Available March 11

In 2018, Australia's Men's Cricket Team was disgraced when players were discovered tampering with the ball. This emotional documentary picks up immediately after those events and chronicles the team's efforts to win back their integrity, respect, and glory.

Available March 19

Fake News! We're all familiar with the phrase these days, thanks to 45's tweets. But what is fake news, really? And what are its real-world consequences? This new HBO documentary examines the phenomenon and tries to get at the truth behind the rampant false truths.

Available March 20

Did Ford v. Ferrari make car racing seem dangerous and frightening? Then wait until you watch this documentary about Argentinian Formula One racer Juan Manuel Fangio. He raced a decade before the events of that Best Picture nominee — a time before many modern safety precautions, when racing was truly at its most dangerous.

Available March 20

True crime fans won't want to miss this bizarre documentary about Joe Exotic, an Oklahoma tiger breeder who was arrested for plotting to murder an animal rights activist who was one of his harshest critics. Tiger King hails from the team behind Netflix's popular Fyre Festival doc Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened.

Available March 25

In the 1970s, Camp Jened in the New York Catskills was a place for differently abled kids to spend their summers in a loving environment with other people like them; it then became the genesis of a nationwide disability rights movement. This inspiring true story was produced by none other than Barack and Michelle Obama.

Available March 26

Heading into the 2020 presidential election is the perfect time to examine how our country's elections can be tampered with by internal and external forces. Will the lessons of this frightening new documentary keep us from repeating history, or serve as a harbinger of things to come in November?

Available March 27

Netflix picked up this documentary after it aired at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019. Produced and directed by Ellen Page (Juno), the Oscar nominated actor draws attention to the plight of her home, Nova Scotia, and the efforts of its citizens — largely led by Indigenous women — to save the land from being destroyed by industrial development.

Available March 31

This HBO original documentary tells the shocking true story of the biggest criminal case in collegiate sports history… and how a 25-year-old ended up at the center of it all.