11 Best Travel Documentaries Streaming on Netflix

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10. The Epic of Everest

Site Rank: 1; IMDb rank 8; Total Rank: 9

Directed by J.B.L. Noel
Year: 1924

Another documentary on our list of best travel documentaries streaming on Netflix about the Himalayas, but this time a bit older. The George Mallory and Andrew Irvine expedition set out in 1924 to conquer Mount Everest. Among their crew was Captain J.B.L. Noel, who reverently filmed the entire journey with a custom camera. Mallory and Irvine disappeared in the course of the expedition. Mallory’s body was discovered in 1999, but no conclusive evidence of what has happened to the two climbers could be discovered. The film was digitally restored in 2013 by BFI National Archive and features not just the climb itself, but sequences of Tibetan life filmed in the villages and monasteries of the Himalayas.

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