BEST OF: The best documentaries of 2024.

And where you can watch them.

Happy Christmas Eve!

The second instalment in my ‘Best Of’ series is the best documentaries of 2024. This year was a particularly good year for documentaries with Netflix delivering some mindblowing true crime docu-series and Disney+ giving us a hit of nostalgia with Brats.

On Boxing Day, I’ll be sending out the most underrated TV series of 2024 — just in time for your post-Christmas binge.

Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter

In 1974, Cathy Terkanian gave birth to a daughter who she named Alexis. She was only 16 at the time and when Alexis was nine months old, her mother convinced her to give the baby up for adoption.

It was a closed adoption, so Cathy had no idea what had become of Alexis until April 2010, when she received a letter from the adoption agency informing her that Alexis, who was now named Aundria, had been missing for 21 years. They wanted a sample of Cathy’s DNA so they could test it against the DNA of a body that had been found.

The DNA was not a match. But that test was jus…