If recent trends are to be believed, Disney Plus is poised to cement its claim as the best streaming service in 2022.
As What'sOnDisneyPlus has spotted, Hulu has added almost 30 National Geographic documentaries to its "due" page by the end of March, and since the Disney streamer has its own dedicated National Geographic hub, we expect a lot of these documentaries from non-fiction. The features are coming to Disney Plus next month.
Disney has yet to confirm this, but now that Hulu and National Geographic are majority owned by The Walt Disney Company, it would be a huge surprise to see these documentaries, many of which are already available in international premieres on Disney Plus, elsewhere. .
They are also not small stand-alone features. Des series de longue date extremely popular as Nazi Megastructures appear on the list of sorting documentaries from Hulu, as well as new projects such as 9/11: One Day in America (who recently commanded the coincidence with the 11th anniversary of the attempts of XNUMX September).
Check out the full list of titles below:
- To catch a smuggler
- Milking with Mariana Van Zeller
- locked up abroad
- dad goes to the vet
- Drug Lords: The Next Generation
- drug wars
- medicines inc
- Hitler's last battle
- nazi megastructures
- North Korea: Inside the Mind of a Dictator
- blood on the wall
- great shark food
- cannibal sharks
- Shark Movers: Deadly Charge
- shark attack prediction
- Activate: The Global Citizen Movement
- Bin Laden's hard drives
- Superstructures: marvels of engineering
- The March on Washington
- Apollo: Return to the Moon
- armstrong's bands
- Ultimate World War II Survival
- extreme rescue
- legendary stronghold
- dead by dawn
- Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer
- the city of the snake
- September 11: A day in America
As we mentioned earlier, some of the documentaries on this list already exist on Disney Plus in regions outside of the US, so be confident that they will be moving from Hulu to Disney Plus in the very near future.
It also comes just a week after Disney confirmed that former Netflix shows Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, and The Punisher will be joining the Disney Plus Marvel TV catalog of shows on March 16.
Analysis: A frenzy for factual drama
The battle between platforms like Netflix, Disney Plus and HBO Max to stock the best movies and TV shows is well documented, but there is a growing focus on creating quality documentary content in every corner of streaming wars.
Buoyed by the pandemic-era popularity of shows like Tiger King and The Last Dance, Netflix has been particularly successful in producing some of the best documentaries in recent years. The focus paid off, too: For a while, The Tinder Swindler ranked as the biggest movie on Netflix (beating much more expensive feature-length projects on the service).
Disney, on the other hand, hasn't devoted as many internal resources to producing new documentary content, but its acquisition of National Geographic has outsourced the task to arguably the best filmmaking hands in the nonfiction business. won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2019, while 2021's The Rescue was nominated at this year's ceremony).
The arrival of 30 more documentaries, at least on the US version of Disney Plus, further increases the value of a streaming service that poses the biggest immediate threat to Netflix's supremacy.