10 Best Movies & TV Shows Based On Documentaries

Drawing inspiration from the documentary on the American Samoan football team’s redemptive journey, Taika Waititi’s upcoming sports drama Next Goal Wins joins the list of movies that are adapted from documentaries. Since the past few decades, documentary films and docu-series are garnering more mainstream popularity with some audiences being in sheer awe of the cinematic potential their non-fiction narratives capture. From Man on Wire walking between adrenaline-fueled archival footage and thrilling re-enactments to The Staircase drawing up the blueprint for future true-crime documentaries on platforms like Netflix, such documentaries have established a precedent dramatic enough for feature films and TV network originals to borrow from.