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Many great sports documentaries and series are on streaming platforms, from Netflix's Untold to ESPN's 30 for 30. Even if you're not a sports fan and you're just looking for a compelling true story (or in some cases, a true-crime tale, as many turn out to be), they'll hit the spot.
A lot is going on right now in the sports world. Week 1 of the NFL season is ramping up, the US Open tennis tournament is entering its final weekend, NBA star Jeremy Lin announced his retirement and more. Documentaries make great viewing companions for these momentous occasions.
The following titles are spread throughout the streaming world. If you want to dive into the Dallas Cowboys or athletes like Naomi Osaka, these three make for a good binge.
Over in Flushing Meadows, Queens, Naomi Osaka is in a pretty huge career comeback, as she enters the women's semifinal at the US Open for the first time in four years. Osaka's been thrilling the crowd with her power serve, custom outfits and Labubus. It's a welcome return to the court after she took time off to focus on her mental health and her daughter, Shai.
In the documentary The Second Set, which dropped on the free TV service Tubi in August, Osaka gets candid about her health and her career. It's the perfect thing to watch if you've been following her journey back to the majors.
Another great tennis doc that features several players who are competing in this year's US Open tournament, including Osaka, is Netflix's Break Point.
The Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles have the honor of kicking off the 2025 NFL season with a Thursday night game this week. It'll be a relief to finally have the teams back in action, rather than just discussing their summer training camps and, in Dallas's case, their highly publicized trade of Micah Parsons.
Just in time for their Week 1 game, you can watch America's Team: The Gambler and his Cowboys, the new Netflix series about Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, whose notable, occasionally controversial decisions helped make the team an institution.
There was a time in 2012 when NBA fans from all over were stricken with Linsanity. Jeremy Lin was a benchwarmer for the New York Knicks for much of that season, until he helped the team lock down a seven-game winning streak when he replaced a sidelined Carmelo Anthony in February of that year.
Lin's popularity exploded, and though he was traded in the following offseason, his dazzling performance cemented a lasting legacy. Lin left the NBA in 2019 to play internationally, and he just announced his retirement. You can recapture that magical month when he burst into our consciousness in the HBO Max documentary 38 at the Garden, which recalls just how (L)insane we all went for him.
