Best Costa Rican documentary series

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  • Poster for Sean Combs: The Reckoning

    Sean Combs: The Reckoning 2025

    A revealing look at Sean 'Diddy' Combs' journey from music mogul to high-profile sexual offender, featuring footage and insider accounts that expose both his groundbreaking success with Bad Boy Entertainment and the troubling shadows behind his empire.

    Netflix
    74
  • Poster for American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden

    American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden 2025

    Featuring rare footage and interviews with CIA insiders, this edge-of-your-seat documentary series traces the epic hunt for Osama bin Laden.

    Netflix
    76
  • Poster for aka Charlie Sheen

    aka Charlie Sheen 2025

    Actor Charlie Sheen tells his story in this candid two-part documentary tracing his dazzling Hollywood rise, tabloid-topping fall and road to recovery.

    Netflix
    76
  • Poster for Amy Bradley Is Missing

    Amy Bradley Is Missing 2025

    This true-crime series investigates the 1998 disappearance of a 23-year-old woman from a Caribbean cruise and her family's tireless search for answers.

    Netflix
    72
  • Poster for Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser

    Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser 2025

    Takes an inside look at the making of the hit reality TV competition, exploring the good, the bad, and the complicated. Featuring interviews with former contestants, trainers, producers, and health professionals, the documentary examines the show's approach to transformation, the support systems in place, and the unique challenges of filming reality television.

    Netflix
    67
  • Poster for Cosmos

    Cosmos 2014

    Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson provides clarity for the vision of the cosmos as he voyages across the universe with never-before-told stories that delve into the scientific concepts of the laws of gravity and the origins of space and time.

    National Geographic
    89
  • Poster for MythBusters

    MythBusters 2003

    MythBusters is a science entertainment television program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The show's hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories.

    SBS
    82
  • Poster for The Last Dance

    The Last Dance 2020

    A 10-part documentary chronicling the untold story of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls dynasty with rare, never-before-seen footage and sound from the 1997-98 championship season – plus over 100 interviews with famous figures and basketball’s biggest names.

    ESPN
    85
  • Poster for Making a Murderer

    Making a Murderer 2015

    Filmed over 10 years, this real-life thriller follows a DNA exoneree who, while exposing police corruption, becomes a suspect in a grisly new crime.

    Netflix
    80
  • Poster for Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness

    Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness 2020

    A zoo owner spirals out of control amid a cast of eccentric characters in this true murder-for-hire story from the underworld of big cat breeding.

    Netflix
    69
  • Poster for Nathan for You

    Nathan for You 2013

    Self-proclaimed business expert, writer, director and comedian Nathan Fielder helps real small businesses turn a profit with marketing tactics that no ordinary consultant would dare to attempt. From driving foot traffic to an off-the-strip souvenir shop by using Hollywood flair and a Johnny Depp impersonator, to creating a rebate that can only be redeemed by climbing a mountain, to founding a coffee shop called "Dumb Starbucks,” Nathan has always gone to the limit to make his ideas come to life. With his unorthodox approach to problem solving, Nathan’s genuine efforts to do good often draw the real people he encounters into an experience far beyond what they signed up for.

    Comedy Central
    86
  • Poster for The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst

    The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst 2015

    Robert Durst, scion of NY's billionaire real-estate family, has been accused of three murders but has evaded justice for over 30 years. Durst speaks in this true crime series, revealing secrets of a case that has baffled authorities.

    HBO
    82
  • Poster for The Rehearsal

    The Rehearsal 2022

    With a construction crew, a legion of actors, and seemingly unlimited resources, Nathan Fielder allows ordinary people to prepare for life’s biggest moments by “rehearsing” them in carefully crafted simulations of his own design. When a single misstep could shatter your entire world, why leave life to chance?

    HBO
    82
  • Poster for Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes

    Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes 2019

    A unique look inside the mind of an infamous serial killer with this cinematic self-portrait crafted from statements made by Ted Bundy, including present-day interviews, archival footage and audio recordings from death row.

    Netflix
    73
  • Poster for Wild Wild Country

    Wild Wild Country 2018

    When a controversial cult leader builds a utopian city in the Oregon desert, conflict with the locals escalates into a national scandal.

    Netflix
    76
  • Poster for Evil Genius

    Evil Genius 2018

    This baffling true crime story starts with the grisly death of a pizza man who robs a bank with a bomb around his neck - and gets weirder from there.

    Netflix
    72
  • Poster for Ancient Aliens

    Ancient Aliens 2010

    Did intelligent beings from outer space visit Earth thousands of years ago? From the age of the dinosaurs to ancient Egypt, from early cave drawings to continued mass sightings in the US, each episode gives historic depth to the questions, speculations, provocative controversies, first-hand accounts and grounded theories surrounding this age old debate.

    History
    69
  • Poster for Night Stalker: The Hunt For a Serial Killer

    Night Stalker: The Hunt For a Serial Killer 2021

    Beneath the sunlit glamour of 1985 L.A. lurks a relentlessly evil serial killer. In this true-crime story, two detectives won't rest until they catch him.

    Netflix
    73
  • Poster for Welcome to Wrexham

    Welcome to Wrexham 2022

    Documentary series tracking the dreams and worries of Wrexham, a working-class town in North Wales, UK, as two Hollywood stars (Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds) take ownership of the town’s historic yet struggling football club.

    FX
    77
  • Poster for Cosmos

    Cosmos 1980

    Carl Sagan covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.

    PBS
    91
  • Poster for Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich

    Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich 2020

    Stories from survivors fuel this docuseries examining how convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein used his wealth and power to carry out his abuses.

    Netflix
    70
  • Poster for Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

    Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel 2021

    The notorious Cecil Hotel grows in infamy when guest Elisa Lam vanishes. A dive into crime's darkest places.

    Netflix
    64
  • Poster for The Keepers

    The Keepers 2017

    This docuseries examines the decades-old murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik and its suspected link to a priest accused of abuse.

    Netflix
    76
  • Poster for Through the Wormhole

    Through the Wormhole 2010

    Hosted by Morgan Freeman, Through the Wormhole explores the deepest mysteries of existence - the questions that have puzzled mankind for eternity. What are we made of? What was there before the beginning? Are we really alone? Is there a creator? These questions have been pondered by the most exquisite minds of the human race. Now, science has evolved to the point where hard facts and evidence may be able to provide us with answers instead of philosophical theories. Through the Wormhole brings together the brightest minds and best ideas from the very edges of science - Astrophysics, Astrobiology, Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and more - to reveal the extraordinary truth of our Universe.

    Science
    84