11 Best Travel Documentaries Streaming on Netflix

7. The Endless Summer

Site Rank: 6, IMDb rank 4 Total Rank: 10

Directed by Bruce Brown
Year: 1966

Bruce Brown is the man responsible for introducing the cliché plot traveling the world in search of a perfect wave of The Endless Summer which ranks 7th on our list of best travel documentaries streaming on Netflix. He spent 10 years making surfing documentaries and this is his masterpiece. The film follows two surfers from California who decided to travel to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Tahiti, and Hawaii in order to escape the cold waters of their home state during winter. Throughout the year they followed the summer across the globe, hence the title of the movie. Some of the sites they discovered, like Cape St. Francis, are today among the most popular surfing destinations in the world, thanks to this movie.