That is, until streaming changed the documentary business. She's helped ensure that nonfiction serialized work like Wild Wild Country and Making a Murderer are able to exist as artistic endeavors, without the confines of specific time or episode limits. Nishimura is behind Netflix gems like 13th, the documentary studying the criminalization of African Americans in the U.S. starting with the ratification of the 13th amendment. 13th epitomizes what Netflix is doing so well with documentary filmmaking — DuVernay takes an incredibly complex, harrowing subject and allows experts to explain it in clear, compelling language. “I learned early on that documentary was a category from the get-go that our subscribers are keen to engage with.”

Source: Forbes March 26, 2018 00:22 UTC