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r/NetflixDocumentaries

For The Documentary Obsessed. A place to share favorite documentaries that can be found on Netflix (or other streaming services) so that the rest of us obsessed with documentaries can enjoy. Further, it is a place to discuss documentaries and ask for recommendations. Founded 2016 · 101.5K members

101.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 10.4K upvotes, which works out to 102 per 1,000 members.

102peak upvotes per 1,000 members
101.5Kmembers
10.4Kbest post
1.7Kmost comments
301posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

65% 26%
Text 65% Question 26% Image 6% Gallery 1% Video 1% Link 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion 118 Current Hot Topic 61 Recommendation Request 51 ! Spoilers ! 45 Looking for a Documentary 13 Review 9 Mod Approved Content 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Raygun documentary worse than her Olympic performance.

↑ 10.4K 💬 1.7K image 2026

Taylor Parker’s first husband tried to warn Wade (Maternal Instinct)

↑ 4.7K 💬 1.2K image 2026

As horrific as Maternal Instincts is, the animal cruelty is hard to watch and diminishes the empathy I have for Wade

↑ 3.2K 💬 717 text 2026

Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly a documentary about a delusional Husband and Wife

↑ 2.8K 💬 932 text 2026

J P “THERE ARE ANTS IN MY EYES” Miller: the man who claimed Mica Miller had mental health problems.

↑ 2.5K 💬 279 video 2026

same energy

↑ 2.5K 💬 114 image 2026

Abducted in Plain sight: Wtf did I just watch

↑ 1.8K 💬 354 image 2026

“Maternal Instinct” excerpts of her interview from death row in Feb. 2025

↑ 1.3K 💬 657 image 2026

What documentaries sent you down the deepest rabbit holes?

↑ 1.2K 💬 907 question 2026

Taylor Parker may not ever face execution in Texas

↑ 1.2K 💬 734 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/NetflixDocumentaries, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/NetflixDocumentaries?
r/NetflixDocumentaries ("For The Documentary Obsessed") describes itself this way: A place to share favorite documentaries that can be found on Netflix (or other streaming services) so that the rest of us obsessed with documentaries can enjoy. Further, it is a place to discuss documentaries and ask for recommendations. It was founded in 2016 and has 101.5K members.
How many members does r/NetflixDocumentaries have?
r/NetflixDocumentaries has about 101.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 10.4K upvotes, which is 102 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/NetflixDocumentaries?
"Raygun documentary worse than her Olympic performance." reached 10.4K upvotes and 1.7K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/NetflixDocumentaries.
What subreddits are similar to r/NetflixDocumentaries?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone.
What kind of posts do best on r/NetflixDocumentaries?
Of the posts we hold, 65% are text posts and 26% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/NetflixDocumentaries?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 01:00 UTC (854 avg upvotes), Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (827 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 20:00 UTC (390 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/NetflixDocumentaries?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/NetflixDocumentaries has 662 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 81 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/NetflixDocumentaries, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.