1. The Men Who Built America
Site score 8, IMDb score 11; Overall score= 19
Directed by Patrick Reams and Ruán Magan
Year: 2012
And the first place on our list of best history channel documentaries on Netflix streaming in 2015 goes to The Men Who Built America. One of the best shows made by the History channel, it deals with the captains of industry who created the modern day America. In the 1870s, the US was a country ravaged by a civil war that left it divided. These men – Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan and Henry Ford – play essential roles in bringing it to the world stage and creating the most powerful nation the planet has ever seen. The show is divided into four 90 minute episodes.