30 Best Documentaries 2022: Where to Watch Everything From 'Navalny' to 'Fire of Love' Online

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2022 offered a slate of great documentaries covering everything from political activism (All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Navalny) to unconventional love stories (Fire of Love). In this guide, we’ve compiled a list of the 30 best documentaries from 2022 and where you can stream them.

One of the best documentaries of the year is Navalny, which picked up the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 95th Academy Awards. The documentary follows the story of Alexei Navalny, the world-famous Russian politician (and former presidential candidate) who was poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent in 2020. Other contenders in the category included All That Breathes, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Fire of Love and A House Made of Splinters.

Although it wasn’t an Oscar-nominee, fans could finally enjoy the long-awaited Jackass reunion with another unhinged daredevil doc, Jackass Forever. The year also marked the release of Netflix’s The Tinder Swindler – a stranger-than-fiction story of a group of women who were swindled by a serial online manipulator. It broke Netflix’s viewership records at the time, becoming the streaming service’s most watched documentary ever. Netflix also produced 2022 docs such as Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. and Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist.

2022 was also the year popular streaming services ramped up their efforts to produce behind-the-scenes documentaries about their original content. For example, Disney+ released Lawrence Kasdan’s Light and Magic, a six-episode series showing the development of Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) and the company’s enduring impact on how movies are made to this day. Netflix followed suit with a behind-the-scenes look at Guillermo del Toro’s award-winning stop-motion animation, Pinocchio. There were also a number of popular music documentaries released in 2022. Director Brett Morgan told the story of rock icon David Bowie with Moonage Daydream, while several international pop stars shed light on what life is like behind the microphone in documentaries such as Olivia Rodrigo: Good 4 U and Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me.

With so many fascinating real-life stories documented on film in 2022, here are the X of the best (and where you can watch them).

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  1. Navalny

    Navalny

    2022

    #1

    Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery, he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.

  2. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    #2

    The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.

  3. Fire of Love

    Fire of Love

    2022

    #3

    Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.

  4. Moonage Daydream

    Moonage Daydream

    2022

    #4

    A cinematic odyssey featuring never-before-seen footage exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey.

  5. The Tinder Swindler

    #5

    Posing as a wealthy, jet-setting diamond mogul, an Israeli conman wooed women online then conned them out of millions of dollars. Now some victims plan for payback.

  6. Jackass Forever

    Jackass Forever

    2022

    #6

    The Jackass crew, along with some newcomers, returns for one final round of hilarious, absurd, and dangerous stunts.

  7. All That Breathes

    #7

    Against the darkening backdrop of New Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protecting one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite.

  8. The Elephant Whisperers

    #8

    Bomman and Bellie, a couple in south India, devote their lives to caring for an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu, forging a family like no other.

  9. Light & Magic

    Light & Magic

    2022

    #9

    Granted unparalleled access, Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan takes viewers on an adventure behind the curtains of Industrial Light & Magic, the special visual effects, animation and virtual production division of Lucasfilm. Learn what inspired some of the most legendary filmmakers in Hollywood history, and follow their stories from their earliest personal films to bringing George Lucas’ vision to life.

  10. A House Made of Splinters

    #10

    A temporary house for abandoned children near the front line in eastern Ukraine is run by a small group of social workers determined to provide comfort and safety. It may be humble and somewhat run-down, but this house is filled with love and offers up to nine months of refuge to kids whose fate will be determined by the system. During this short time, the caretakers try to nurture within them a sense of stability and normalcy.

  11. Sr.

    Sr.

    2022

    #11

    Follow the tender but appropriately irreverent account of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr., the fearless and visionary American director who set the standard for countercultural comedy in the 1960s and 1970s.

  12. Our Father

    #12

    After a woman's at-home DNA test reveals multiple half-siblings, she discovers a shocking scheme involving donor sperm and a popular fertility doctor.

  13. Girl in the Picture

    #13

    A young mother’s mysterious death and her son’s subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman’s true identity, and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all.

  14. Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me

    #14

    After years in the limelight, Selena Gomez achieves unimaginable stardom. But just as she reaches a new peak, an unexpected turn pulls her into darkness. This uniquely raw and intimate documentary spans her six-year journey into a new light.

  15. Trainwreck: Woodstock '99

    #15

    Woodstock 1969 promised peace and music, but its '99 revival delivered days of rage, riots and real harm. Why did it go so horribly wrong?

  16. Good Night Oppy

    Good Night Oppy

    2022

    #16

    The inspirational true story of Opportunity, a rover that was sent to Mars for a 90-day mission but ended up surviving for 15 years. Follow Opportunity’s groundbreaking journey on Mars and the remarkable bond forged between a robot and her humans millions of miles away.

  17. Inside the Mind of a Cat

    #17

    Cat experts dive into the mind of the feline to reveal the true capabilities of the pouncing pet in this captivating and cuddly documentary.

  18. OLIVIA RODRIGO: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film)

    #18

    Grammy® winner singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo takes a familiar road trip from Salt Lake City, where she began writing her debut album “SOUR,” to Los Angeles. Along the way, Rodrigo recounts the memories of writing and creating her record-breaking debut album and shares her feelings as a young woman navigating a specific time in her life. Through new live arrangements of her songs, intimate interviews and never-before-seen footage from the making of the album, audiences will follow Olivia along on a cinematic journey exploring the story of “SOUR.”

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  19. Haulout

    Haulout

    2024

    #19

    On a remote coast of the Russian Arctic in a wind-battered hut, a lonely man waits to witness an ancient gathering. But warming seas and rising temperatures bring an unexpected change, and he soon finds himself overwhelmed.

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  20. The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert

    #20

    On the 30th of January, 1969, the Beatles performed an unannounced concert from the rooftop of their Apple Corps headquarters at Savile Row, within central London's office and fashion district. Experience the final and unforgettable iconic performance of The Beatles in a special 60-minute presentation, digitally remastered into the image and sound quality of IMAX DMR technology.

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