I recently watched the three-episode Netflix miniseries about George Washington.

After watching that, I noticed that there were other documentaries about some other U.S. presidents on Netflix, too.

I just started watching the Teddy Roosevelt one. I’m at the point where Mr. Bullmoose himself is trying to rid turn of the 20th century New York City of its police corruption. Apparently he was always up for a challenge!

Hmmm…I thought to myself…

“It’s all fine and good to make a documentary about all of those “popular” presidents. You know? The ones that us Gen X kids so creatively re-wrote enclyclopedia articles about and turned in as our history classwork? JFK, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, Lincoln, Washington. “The great” ones.

Why stop there?

Shouldn’t Millard Fillmore have a riveting Netflix documentary produced about him too? William Henry Harrison? He may have only been in office about a month, but he sure did a lot of stuff before he made that super long inaugural speech, didn’t he? Why did he have that nickname “Tippecanoe,” for one? 

OK, OK…maybe violence against natives isn’t going to sit well with today’s woke audiences. Just slap a trigger warning at the beginning of each episode (done and done)! 

All of those “His Accidencies” and  “caretaker presidents” need some love, too! Calvin Coolidge was so much more than that guy whose daddy swore him in after Warren Harding died! Let’s learn more about that dry sense of humor and steadfast ethics he supposedly had! Let’s take a comic look at how he treated the vice presidency like a 9-5 job and told people to f— off (politely of course) when it turned 5 p.m.!

He grieved heavily when his 16 year old son died. What’s a documentary without tragedy?

They all loved making fun of another “caretaker” Gerald Ford and his supposed clumsiness back in the day. Didn’t Chevy Chase play him on SNL? But he was also a pretty classy fellow. Issuing a pardon on an unpopular former president so we would just all…move on, for one. Just his college football exploits alone will make great documentary fodder! Not to mention his wife, for whom a famous rehab clinic is named. 

As for Gerald Ford’s unpopular predecessor, Richard Nixon, let’s learn about his World War 2 poker games he set up in the Pacific Theater. Shouldn’t we learn a bit more about his “fun” side?

Truth be told, I would watch every single one of these presidential Netflix documentaries (except maybe…one). 

Step to it, Netflix! If you can make a documentary about that sleazy American Apparel CEO, yet another Woodstock ’99 documentary, a failed music festival in the Bahamas and the so-called “poop cruise,” you can make a documentary about each and every single one of our commanders in chief! 

They don’t all have to be three episodes long! 😂