Disney Plus is about to get even better

Date:
Tue, 08 Mar 2022 15:14:47 +0000

Description:
Disney Plus looks set to benefit from almost 30 new documentaries in the coming months.

FULL STORY ======================================================================

If recent trends are anything to go by, Disney Plus is about to strengthen
its claim on

the title of the best streaming service in 2022.

As spotted by WhatsOnDisneyPlus , Hulu has added almost 30 National
Geographic documentaries to its expiring page for the end of March and given that Disneys streamer boasts its own dedicated National Geographic hub, we expect many of these non-fiction features to land on Disney Plus next month.

Disney hasnt confirmed as much just yet, but with both Hulu and National Geographic now majority-owned by The Walt Disney Company, itd be a big surprise to see these documentaries many of which are already available on international versions of Disney Plus move elsewhere.

These arent small independent features, either. Hugely popular long-running series like Nazi Megastructures appear on Hulus list of outgoing documentaries, as well as newer projects like 9/11: One Day in America (which was recently commissioned to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks).

Check out the full list of titles below: To Catch A Smuggler Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller Locked Up Abroad Pop Goes The Vet Drug Lords: The Next Generation Narco Wars Drugs Inc Hitlers Last Stand Nazi Megastructures North Korea: Inside the Mind of a Dictator Blood On The Wall Great Shark Chow Down Cannibal Sharks Shark Movers: Deadly Cargo Forecast Shark Attack Activate:
The Global Citizen Movement Bin Ladens Hard Drives Superstructures: Engineering Marvels The March On Washington Apollo: Back To The Moon The Armstrong Tapes Ultimate Survival WWII Extreme Rescue Legendary Catch Dead By Dawn Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer Snake City 9/11: One Day in America

As we alluded to earlier, some of the documentaries on this list already
exist on Disney Plus in non-US regions Nazi Megastructures, for instance,
has been available to stream on the UK version of the service for some time which makes us even more confident that theyll be making the switch from Hulu to Disney Plus in the very near future.

This also comes just a week after Disney confirmed that former Netflix shows Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders and The
Punisher will be joining Disney Plus' back catalog of Marvel TV shows on
March 16. Analysis: a frenzy for factual drama

The battle between platforms like Netflix, Disney Plus and HBO Max to stock the best movies and TV shows is well documented, but more and more emphasis
is being placed on creating quality documentary content in all corners of the streaming wars.

Buoyed by the pandemic-era popularity of series including Tiger King and The Last Dance, Netflix has enjoyed particular success in producing some of the best documentaries of the last few years. The approach has paid dividends,
too for a time, The Tinder Swindler ranked as the biggest movie on Netflix (outperforming much more expensive feature-length projects on the service).

Disney, on the other hand, hasnt dedicated as much in-house resources to producing new documentary content, but its acquisition of National Geographic has outsourced the task to arguably the best filmmaking hands in the non-fiction business (Free Solo won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2019, while 2021s The Rescue is nominated at this years ceremony).

The arrival of 30 more documentaries, then on the US version of Disney Plus, at least further increases the value of a streaming service that poses the biggest immediate threat to the long-standing supremacy of Netflix. These are the best Disney Plus shows to stream right now



======================================================================
Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/news/disney-plus-is-about-to-get-even-better/


--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64)
* Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100)