Grab your popcorn as we review the best sports documentaries on Netflix streaming in 2015.
We enjoy watching sports for various individual reasons, be it the competition, the thrill, or just the unpredictability of it. Unlike in life, the underdogs in sport often win, sometimes out of sheer determination and sometimes by pure stroke of luck. Sports documentaries take things one step further. They explain the mechanics of how a great athlete or team came to be and that process can often be fascinating, similar to the best space documentaries on Netflix streaming. That is why we enjoy them.
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To rank best sports documentaries on Netflix streaming in 2015, we had to devise a system. Going simply by IMDb rating just wouldn’t cut it, although we did include it in our final ranking. We also scoured dozen of lists on most popular sites in order to get an accurate feel on public opinion. We mixed it all together and came up with a genuine Insider Monkey ranking. These documentaries represent some of the greatest sport stories ever told on camera. Everything is here, from heartbreaking tales of missed chances to the greatest Cinderella stories. Let’s see what Netflix has in store for us.
