1. Wrestling for Jesus: The Tale of T-Money
Site rank: 1, IMDb rank: 1
Director: Nathan Clarke
Clarke’s feature-length documentary began as a simpler thing: following a group in the southern U.S. that used professional wrestling to spread the Gospel. But over three years of filming, Clarke and his colleagues caught on film a sad, fascinating story about dreams deferred and how faith helps one man to keep his dreams and his life glued together despite grim news. As an additional twist, Clarke Kickstarted the final stretch of funding for his film, which eventually screened at independent film festivals.
If your interest in the 11 best Christian documentaries on Netflix streaming in 2015 lies in the more prurient, reality TV-flavored “debunking” shows, there’s plenty to suit you here, as long as you don’t take the questions or potential answers too seriously. And if you’re just a straightforward documentary fan, the award-winning feature-length documentaries on this list will give you plenty to chew on — issues of faith, but also adolescent crushes, questions about raising children, the ethics of mixing religion and vice, and more.
