Nothing beats a docuseries that pulls you in, messes with your emotions, and leaves you deep in thought (or frantically Googling after the final episode). And in 2025, we’re in for a treat. From shocking true crime to second-chance love stories, these are the ten upcoming docuseries I cannot wait to binge—plus where you can stream them.
1. Good American Family
Adoption scandal? Questionable legal loopholes? A case so bizarre it feels like a movie plot? Hulu’s Good American Family dramatizes the Natalia Grace saga, where a couple accused their adopted daughter of being a grown woman posing as a child. Meanwhile, Natalia claims she was exactly what they signed up for—a kid, abandoned to fend for herself. One thing’s for sure: this series will have people talking.
📺 Where to Watch: Hulu
2. Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna
The Rust shooting sent shockwaves through Hollywood, leaving one major question—how does something like this still happen? Last Take goes beyond the headlines to unpack the tragedy, exploring film set safety, accountability, and the human cost of one fatal mistake.
📺 Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
3. 50,000 First Dates: A True Story
Love is patient, love is kind… and in this case, love has to reintroduce itself every single day. After a brain injury wipes her memory each morning, one woman and her fiancé are stuck in a heartbreaking loop: rebuilding their relationship over and over again. Equal parts romantic and devastating, this one’s going to have us feeling things.
📺 Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
4. Lenox Hill
If you thought real-life doctors couldn’t possibly be more intense than their fictional TV counterparts, Lenox Hill is here to prove you wrong. This gripping medical docuseries returns, following doctors at one of New York’s busiest hospitals as they juggle life, death, and everything in between.
📺 Where to Watch: Netflix
5. Daughters
A father-daughter dance is emotional enough—add prison bars and second chances, and you’ve got Daughters. This docuseries follows young girls as they reconnect with their incarcerated fathers in preparation for a dance that’s about much more than one night—it’s about rebuilding trust, hope, and family.
📺 Where to Watch: Netflix
6. The Journey Home
What if the key to healing trauma wasn’t years of therapy, but a mind-altering trip? The Journey Home takes us on 6 trips, inside the world of ketamine-assisted therapy, through veterans, first responders and abuse survivors as they face traumatic events from their past — and maybe, finally, find peace.
📺 Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
7. Time
Few things devastate families like incarceration, and Time makes sure we don’t forget it. This docuseries puts the spotlight on the people left behind—the spouses, the kids, the communities torn apart—and forces us to ask: who’s really paying the price?
📺 Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
8. To Dye For: The Documentary
Ever read the ingredients on a snack label and thought, What the hell is Red 40? To Dye For takes that curiosity and runs with it, uncovering the shocking ways synthetic dyes are affecting our health—especially our kids. Warning: you will rethink everything in your pantry after watching.
📺 Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
9. Sweethearts
Ah, young love. So pure, so dramatic, so doomed by the realities of adulthood. Sweethearts follows six high school couples on the brink of one of life’s biggest transitions: college. Will they make it? Should they make it? Either way, we’ll be watching.
📺 Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
10. Molly-Mae: Behind It All
Molly-Mae Hague has built an empire off of being perceived, but this time, she’s letting us in on what’s really going on. Breakups, business, and single mom life—Behind It All promises a rawer, unfiltered look at Britain’s most-watched influencer.
📺 Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
I already know Good American Family is going to be the kind of show that has the internet in a chokehold, and 50,000 First Dates is basically designed to make me sob. Then there’s To Dye For—which, let’s be real, is probably going to make me terrified of my own pantry. And don’t even get me started on The Journey Home—the whole ketamine therapy thing is fascinating, and I need to see how it plays out for each of these 6 very real people. Gonna be a binge-worthy year.
Elizabeth Kaplan
