Netflix’s November 2026 documentary slate puts true crime in the lead, but its strongest range comes from the subjects beyond crime: French rap star Ninho, photographer Richard Avedon, and actor Rob Lowe. Nine titles arrive across the month, mixing new films and series with previously released documentaries returning to the service.
Three titles debut on November 6, making that the month’s busiest date. The lineup also includes a three-part examination of the Natalee Holloway case, a film about Dane Cook’s embezzlement ordeal, and a documentary on the Isabel Fuentes murder in Spain. Here’s how the month’s releases break down.
For the rest of Netflix’s November schedule, see the streamer’s full November 2026 slate.
November 4: Ninho weighs the cost of fame
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Ninho: Fame Ain’t Worth It opens the month on November 4 with a portrait of a French rap star reckoning with what success has demanded of him. Ninho is among France’s biggest music acts, with an average of 8.3 million Spotify listeners a month and 18.2 million monthly streams, according to Chart Masters.
Produced by Jefe Films and Ninho himself, the documentary follows a decade of hit records and personal sacrifice. At the height of his career, the rapper considers leaving the music business altogether. Personal archives, backstage material, and interviews with friends and family offer the film’s view of the rewards and costs of fame.
November 6: Three cases, three different perspectives
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Taken: Natalee Holloway revisits a disappearance that has drawn sustained public attention for more than two decades. In 2005, 18-year-old Natalee Holloway went on a high school trip to Aruba and did not return. In 2023, Joran van der Sloot, a prime suspect in the case and a serial criminal, admitted to killing her on a beach.
The three-part series puts Holloway’s mother, Beth Holloway, at the center of its account. Co-directors Dani Sloane, whose credits include The Menendez Brothers, and Matthew Galkin, director of One Night In Idaho: The College Murders, lead the project. Netflix says it draws on access to investigators and previously unseen footage, offering a new look at a case that has already been the subject of other documentaries.
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Also arriving November 6, Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story (2026) traces a sharp reversal in the comedian’s fortunes. Cook became a major live draw with an edgy, dark comic style, and his album Retaliation went double-platinum. During that rise, he trusted his finances to his older half-brother, Darryl McCauley, who worked as his business manager.
Cook learned in 2008 that McCauley had taken millions from his accounts. The source puts the amount at $12 million to $15 million and says McCauley fled after the scheme came to light. The film includes interviews with Cook, McCauley’s former wife Erika, and people who worked with the brothers, including lawyers and agents. Netflix licensed the documentary.
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Unprotected: Murder in Galicia reconstructs the events behind the Spanish drama Murder in Galicia, which is due on Netflix the following week. The documentary centers on Isabel Fuentes, whose case began in April 2015, when she was found gravely injured at her home in Pazos, Galicia, after a burglary. She spent weeks in intensive care. As investigators examined the evidence, her husband became a suspect; Fuentes was killed in her hospital room more than a month after being admitted.
Her husband was arrested in July 2015 and sentenced to 31 years in prison in 2017. Director and writer Jorge Laplace says the question that stayed with him was: “How was it possible for her to be murdered in a hospital when it was known that she was in danger?” The film aims to examine the case on its own terms, beyond its connection to the scripted series.
November 11 and 17: A photographer’s legacy, then a return for RBG
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Ron Howard directs Avedon, arriving November 11, a documentary about photographer Richard Avedon’s work and influence. Best known for minimalist fashion photography, Avedon photographed figures including Marilyn Monroe, The Beatles, Andy Warhol, and Audrey Hepburn. The film draws on the memories of people who knew his world, among them fashion designer Calvin Klein and model Isabella Rossellini.
Howard’s credits include A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13. Netflix acquired Avedon after it received a positive response at film festivals, including Cannes and Telluride. The combination of Avedon’s portraits and firsthand recollections gives the film a clear way into both his craft and the culture around it.
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The 2018 film RBG returns on November 17. It follows Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s career, including her work co-founding the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project and her role as the first justice to officiate a same-sex marriage. Ginsburg, the second woman to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, died in 2020.
This marks the film’s second run on Netflix; it first streamed there in October 2021. Its return gives viewers another chance to revisit a documentary that charts a long career and the work for which Ginsburg became widely known. The earlier Netflix arrival was covered here.
November 20–24: Televangelists, a closely watched trial, and Rob Lowe
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Joe Berlinger’s Primetime Preacher$ arrives November 20. The Academy Award-nominated director, known for Paradise Lost and Brother’s Keeper, focuses on Jim Bakker, Jerry Falwell, and Jimmy Swaggart, three prominent and controversial televangelists of the 1970s and 1980s.
Archival footage and expert interviews frame a story of political organizing, rivalries, and scandals, tracking how the three figures helped make evangelical Christianity a significant force in American politics. Jason Bateman, Michael Costigan, Emma Ho, and Rachael Profiloski are producers.
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On November 23, the three-part The Trials of Karen Read revisits the case against Read, who was accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe. Co-directed by Danielle Johnson, whose work includes The Phantom, and Rob Miller, director of House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths, the series gathers accounts from Read, her defense attorneys, O’Keefe’s family and friends, and local journalists.
O’Keefe was found unconscious outside a colleague’s home in Canton, Massachusetts, in January 2022, after a night of drinking. Prosecutors alleged that Read struck him with her Lexus SUV and left him in the snow. Read maintained that she was framed as part of a police cover-up. The documentary examines the competing accounts and the trials that made the case a major subject of public attention.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 17: In this image released on September 20, Rob Lowe attends aa live taping of SiriusXM’s ‘Literally! With Rob Lowe’ at SiriusXM Studios on September 17, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
The month closes on November 24 with Rob Lowe: The Outsider, directed by Chris Smith, whose credits include Fyre and Biggest Heist Ever. The film traces Lowe’s career from his breakout as Sodapop Curtis in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 adaptation of The Outsiders through later work in The West Wing and Parks and Recreation. Interviews with people close to him shape the portrait.
Lowe is also set to appear in Tiffany Paulsen’s holiday romantic comedy In a Holidaze, alongside Maddie Ziegler and Graham Phillips. For documentary viewers, though, November’s most notable thread is the contrast between public personas and private consequences: it runs from Ninho’s doubts about fame to the cases and careers revisited across the slate.
