What Documentary Movies to watch on Discovery+

The film shines a light on present day LuLaRoe at the company's most recent incentive trip in Cancun, Mexico called LuLaRoe D.R.E.A.M 2021. Here, we meet LuLaRoe's first ever retailer and see that the company is still going strong, despite the growing community of Facebook activists, including former customers and retailers, who are determined to stop at nothing to take down the organization. Experts in the documentary reflect on how LuLaRoe seduced thousands of recruits, some of whom ended up risking their homes, their bank accounts, and their relationships with close family and friends - all in an effort to be their own boss by selling LuLaRoe leggings. The film explores the psychological techniques used by multi-level marketers, and how the company harnessed the full power of social media to onboard a massive pool of retailers.

Comedian and former Stoner of the Year, Doug Benson, brings you a hilarious documentary, Super High Me. While smoking marijuana for 30 days, he endures medical, IQ, and psychic evaluations providing unexpected results. Along the way Doug performs across the country and hangs with fellow notable comediansÑ creating an entertaining look at a controversial subject.

In Lunenburg Nova Scotia, a multi-generational family of fishermen embark on a research expedition in an attempt to solve the mystery of the recent explosion of Great White Shark sightings and encounters in their local waters.

A look at Los Angeles's Sisters of the Immaculate Heart, nuns who challenged the patriarchal conventions of the Catholic Church 50 years ago and are still taking a stand today.

In FIN, Roth and a professional group of scientists, researchers and activists sail around the globe to unveil the truth behind the death of millions of sharks, exposing the criminal enterprise that is impacting the extinction of the misunderstood creatures. FIN features work from photographer Michael Muller and the support of organizations such as Oceana, Sea Shepherd, and Wild Aid.

In June 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Ann Smart (Alana Boden) was abducted from her Salt Lake City home by religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell (Skeet Ulrich). He took her to a hilly encampment where, with his twisted accomplice Wanda Barzee (Deirdre Lovejoy), he held Elizabeth captive. She was starved, drugged, raped, and subjected to bizarre religious rituals until, nine months later, she enabled her own rescue.

Dr. Sandra Lee heads to Turks and Caicos with Dr. Austin Gallagher to explore the world of shark skin and how she can apply the science they gather to help human skin issues.

A documentary about a 15-day river-rafting trip on the Colorado River aimed at highlighting water conservation issues.

Twenty years after Princess Diana's tragic death, the life and death of one of history's most beloved figures is examined.

The documentary follows five kids who stutter ages 9 to 18, from all over the United States, who after experiencing a lifetime of bullying and stigmatization, meet other children who stutter at an interactive arts-based program, The Stuttering Association for the Young, based in New York City. Their journey to SAY find some close to suicide, others withdrawn and fearful, exhausted and defeated from failed fluency training, societal pressures to not stutter or the decision to remain silent. Over the course of a year we witness first hand the incredible transformation that happens when these young people of wildly different backgrounds experience for the first time the revolutionary idea at the heart of SAY: that it's okay to stutter.

This two-hour film will examine the tragic lives and deaths of the mysterious Hart family, exploring the void between their idyllic online persona and the heart breaking reality in which their children lived - calling into question a system that critically failed to protect six innocent children.

Documentary explores the impact on animal life in the area surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Planet by two scientists some 30 years after the worst nuclear accident in history.

A beloved couple goes missing from their rural Kentucky home, leaving behind a mysterious crime scene. Clues emerge across state lines sending investigators on a wild chase until an unlikely source reveals the shocking truth.

Speedway, Indiana, is famous for its fast cars and fast food, but in 1978, the town's popular franchise Burger Chef finds itself in the middle of a murder mystery that still has people asking questions 40 years later.

Is the human-ape hybrid the stuff of Science Fiction or a being that could walk the Earth? In 2021, news broke that scientists had grown human stem cells in a monkey embryo. Is this a breakthrough that promises benefits to humanity? Or is it an unethical step towards a human-monkey life-form? Researchers have pushed against these boundaries before. A hundred years ago, a Russian scientist was hell-bent on creating a human-chimpanzee hybrid. More recently, rumors swirled of similar experiments in the United States and the report that it led to a live birth. Is this mad science? Or could creating hybrids now help us defeat disease?

Fifteen giant dinosaur skeletons have been found buried in the Wyoming badlands, and an international team of paleontologists has been sent to investigate them to determine why they were here and what killed them 150 million years ago.

Driven by a mutual determination not to be "the generation that allows progress to slip," national social justice leaders Marc Morial of National Urban League and Janet Murguía of UnidosUS join forces to fight structural racism amid a troubling resurgence of white supremacy in the Trump era. Two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple takes a vérité approach to examine the experiences that have shaped Morial and Murguía into leaders of their diverse African American and Latinx American communities as they navigate the complex arc of racial justice in the pandemic years. - Jaie Laplante.

Rudolph and Werner Herzog take us on an unforgettable journey into space and living beyond Earth as they look to answer the big question: How close are we to fulfilling our dream of becoming space colonists? Over 7 billion humans walk this earth. Our resources are dwindling. Since time immemorial, we have looked up into the night sky wondering what's out there in the vast distance of space. There are over 100 billion planets in the Milky way alone. Could one of them be our future home?

Interviews with those close to the talented footballer reveal the different factors which may have contributed to his untimely end.

Experience a firsthand look at the events that unfolded at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, featuring interviews with members of Congress and exclusive accounts from police officers and first responders.

When 21-year-old hippie-millionaire Michael Brody Jr. decided to give away his fortune to anyone in need, he ignited a psychedelic spiral of events. An instant celebrity, Brody was mobbed by the public, scrutinized by the press, and overwhelmed by the crush of personal letters responding to his extraordinary offer. Fifty years later, an enormous cache of these letters are discovered-unopened.