Documentary · 2020s
The 2020s account for 12 of the 190 documentary shows here, and 12 opening sequences.
Netflix carries the most, with five.
12 shows12 sequences
1 sequence
Clarkson's Farm
Jeremy Clarkson farming a thousand Cotswold acres badly, and the year-shaped structure the titles borrow from.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWelcome to Wrexham
Two American actors buying a Welsh football club, and a title sequence that treats the town as the subject rather than them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceTiger King
Airbrushed big-cat portraiture and rhinestone lettering, executed with total sincerity — the subject's own aesthetic, borrowed wholesale.
- Season 1
1 sequencePrehistoric Planet
Attenborough narrating the Cretaceous as though a camera crew had been there, with a title sequence to match.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Last Dance
Archive footage cut to a hip-hop bed, treating a basketball season as a heist film.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMcMillions
The man who stole every winning piece in the McDonald's Monopoly game for twelve years.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHow To with John Wilson
New York filmed on the street by one man with a camera, and titles assembled from the same accidental footage the series is made of.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Vow
NXIVM told largely through footage its own members shot while they were still inside it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceI'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara's search for the Golden State Killer, finished by other people after she died.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCheer
A Texas junior college cheerleading squad, filmed as a sport rather than as a sideline to one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceCulinary Class Wars
A hundred anonymous Korean chefs cooking against twenty famous ones, the unknown half dressed in black throughout.
- Season 1
1 sequenceUnsolved Mysteries (2020)
The revival, which keeps the original's silhouette and drops its host.
- Season 1