My Father, The BTK Killer. Kerri Rawson in My Father, The BTK Killer. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
13 new documentaries drop on Netflix in October 2025. Starting from music docuseries to true crime, there’s one thing for everybody.
Netflix’s debuted simply six documentaries in September 2025. As we enter October, that quantity greater than doubles with 13 new documentaries being added to the library. There’s a variety of them too; music, true crime, way of life, and past. We’ve compiled all of them beneath, together with once they’re streaming.
Rockstar: DUKI from the Finish of the World
Coming to Netflix: October 2
This documentary explores the lifetime of Argentine lure star DUKI. It revisits his formative years as a rap battle extraordinaire, to shortly changing into a worldwide phenomenon. This documentary is an intimate exploration of his profession — immediately from the star himself.
Rhythm + Movement France: After the Beat
Coming to Netflix: October 3
Rhythm + Movement France: After the Beat follows the journey of contestants from the French model of the rap competitors present Rhythm + Movement. This sequence dives behind the scenes, exploring the rise and evolution of upcoming musicians within the aftermath of their appearances on the present.
True Haunting
Coming to Netflix: October 6
5-episode docuseries True Haunting is likely one of the most fun upcoming documentaries coming to the streamer. Acclaimed horror filmmaker James Wan (Insidious, The Conjuring) affords up actual horror tales in his signature imaginative and prescient. It tells tales via chilling (and sometimes disturbing) reenactments alongside present-day interviews with these concerned.
Victoria Beckham
Coming to Netflix: October 9
Victoria Beckham is getting a 3-part documentary on Netflix all about her rise to fame, way of life, and naturally, her expertise as a >Spice Lady. This biographical documentary explores her trend empire and musical fame, that includes interviews with household and key trend trade figures.
My Father, the BTK Killer
Coming to Netflix: October 10
Kerri Rawson is the daughter of one in every of America’s most infamous serial killers. Her father, Dennis Rader, is called the BTK Killer, who dedicated 10 murders between 1974 and 1991. This movie explores how her father’s acts of pure evil affected Kerri mentally, as she seeks solutions and therapeutic.
This movie was made by Skye Borgman, who lately discovered large success with Unknown Quantity: The Excessive College Catfish.
The Excellent Neighbor
Coming to Netflix: October 17
A few of us are fortunate and have beautiful neighbours. Others have nightmare neighbours. This documentary follows one tight-knit neighborhood navigating a neighbor’s relentless harassment. It’s uncooked and chilling, that includes content material filmed from bodycam footage captured by dozens of police visits.
Flip of the Tide: The Surreal Story of Rabo de Peixe
Coming to Netflix: October 17
Again in 2023, Netflix premiered “Rabo de Peixe” (or Flip of the Tide in English). The story was loosely primarily based on true occasions, the place a sailboat sank off the coast of the Azores, spilling greater than 500 kilos of cocaine into the waters of a close-by village. This feature-length documentary recounts the actual occasions that the Portuguese sequence was primarily based on.
Who Killed the Montreal Expos?
Coming to Netflix: October 18
From crime and way of life, we now transfer on to sports activities. Who Killed the Montreal Expos explores the immense downfall of the Montreal Expos, Canada’s first Main League Baseball group. The documentary options interviews with followers and sports activities journalists, and even former gamers, together with Pedro Martínez and Vladimir Guerrero.
Mob Warfare: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia
Coming to Netflix: October 21
Described by Netflix as “MORE violent and MORE compelling than something ever witnessed in Gotham,” this documentary dives proper into the complicated and brutal mob wars in Philadelphia. The mafia in Philly was a lot worse than New York. There was prostitution, mortgage sharking, medication, the record goes on. This documentary spills all the small print, direct from interviews by those that witnessed it firsthand.
Babo: The Haftbefehl Story
Coming to Netflix: October 28
One other rap documentary, Babo: The Haftbefehl Story chronicles the lifetime of legendary German rapper Aykut Anhan (higher recognized by his stage title Haftbefehl). This documentary affords viewers an genuine and unfiltered have a look at his life, struggles, and the sacrifices he made. It options private interviews with Haftbefehl himself, in addition to these closest to him.
Nightmares of Nature: Misplaced within the Jungle
Coming to Netflix: October 28
Narrated by Maya Hawke (who lots of you may know as Robin from Stranger Issues), Nightmares of Nature is a documentary sequence that captures the hazard of nature… from the angle of the prey. It reimagines pure historical past filmmaking via a horror lens, the place timber bleed, zombie snails crawl, and vampire fish rule the waters. The sequence is break up into two seasons: season 1 drops on September thirtieth and season 2 drops on October twenty eighth.
Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers
Coming to Netflix: October 30
Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos murdered seven males throughout central Florida. And but, her motivations stay a deeply layered and debated. This documentary seeks to dive inside her thoughts, revisiting her insidious crimes and exploring her childhood abuse and death-row revelations.
Her story has already been coated in Hollywood, being performed by Charlize Theron in Monster (2003). Moderately than a film standpoint, this documentary dives deep into the case.
Juan Gabriel: I Should, I Can, I Will
Coming to Netflix: October 30
Juan Gabriel was an iconic Mexican singer-songwriter — at one level, he was Mexico’s main business musician. This documentary chronicles his life via unique and uncommon footage, displaying the sacrifices he made for his profession, and the duality between his flamboyant public presence and personal life.
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