#NETFLIX DOCUMENTARIES 2021 SERIES#

Ousmane Sembène, 'The Father of African Cinema,' is the subject of this captivating film, which explores the self-taught, Senegalese filmmaker and writer's one-of-a-kind creative process. In this Tribeca Film Festival-winning documentary, directed by Camilla Nielsson, viewers get a glimpse into Zimbabwean politics through the story of Paul Mangwana and Douglas Mwonzora, two bureaucrats forced to work together in order to draft the country's first constitution after Robert Mugabe's controversial 2008 presidential election win. On the film's website, it's described as 'an intimate story of resilience, courage, acceptance and self-determination told in an intimate, poetic way with a hope to make people more aware of the commonalities behind our humanity rather than the peculiarities of our multiple identities.' This film, directed by Jonny von Wallström, follows Cleopatra Kambugu, a transgender woman in Uganda, as she explores perceptions of gender identity in her home country and deals with the many challenges that arise from doing so. To find out if a film is streaming in your country, head here.) The Pearl of Africa (2016) (Note: these titles are currently streaming on Netflix U.S. Netflix has a decent collection of documentaries pertaining to the African experience, we included a couple of them in our Ultimate Guide to Streaming African Movies on Netflix last year, but the streaming platform has made some noteworthy additions since then.Ĭheck out our list of seven African documentaries-both older and newer titles-that you can stream now. Once in a while, though, you might want to watch something 'of substance'-whatever that means-and that's when Netflix extensive collection of documentaries comes through.

#NETFLIX DOCUMENTARIES 2021 SERIES#

Documentaries are cool and all, but sometimes it's hard to choose them over the mindless engagement of a 22-episode series that you could easily lose entire portions of your weekend (and life) to.

Netflix documentaries 2021