1. Ken Burns: The War
Site score: 10, IMDb score: 10 Overall score: 20
Directed by Ken Burns
Year: 2007
The top spot among 11 best military documentaries on Netflix streaming in 2015 goes to another Ken Burns masterpiece, The War. This time, Burns sets his scopes on World War Two and how it affected the residents of four “quintessentially American towns”, Luverne, Minnesota, Mobile, Alabama, Sacramento, California, and Waterbury, Connecticut. The series consists of 7 episodes, each dealing with a period of war and its consequences on the American citizens left at home. It was named one of the best TV series in 2007 by the Times.