The most popular Netflix title dominating the platform this week is a docuseries about an American military disaster that happened in the 1990s — one that director Ridley Scott later turned into a harrowing war movie.
The three-part Surviving Black Hawk Down, which has claimed the top spot on Netflix’s weekly global Top 10 chart of the biggest shows in the world, tells the real-life story that Scott dramatized in 2001’s Black Hawk Down, which won two Academy Awards for its portrayal of events stemming from the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia. Netflix publishes its ranking of the hottest TV shows each week, and we’ll take a closer look at Surviving Black Hawk Down below, as well as the rest of what’s hot on the streamer at the moment.
Netflix Top 10 shows
Here’s this week’s complete list of the Top 10 English-language shows on Netflix, based on the latest updated data from the company:
- Surviving Black Hawk Down — 7.9 million views
- Cobra Kai (Season 6) — 5.9 million views
- Apple Cider Vinegar — 5.6 million views
- Sweet Magnolias (Season 4) — 4.5 million views
- The Night Agent (Season 2) — 4.3 million views
- Love is Blind (Season 8) — 4 million views
- The Recruit (Season 2) — 3.3 million views
- Raw: 2025 (Feb. 10, 2025) — 2.8 million views
- Ms. Rachel — 2.6 million views
- Ghosts — 2.1 million views
To learn more about some of this week’s other most-watched series, you can go deeper by checking out our previous coverage of some of the Netflix originals above, such as the new drama Apple Cider Vinegar starring Kaitlyn Dever as a scammy wellness influencer. For now, though, let’s focus on the biggest Netflix TV release in the world at the moment.
Surviving Black Hawk Down — #1 on Netflix
The current top-ranked Netflix title in the world by viewership, Surviving Black Hawk Down, has a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes (as of this writing) a little over a week after hitting Netflix.
The Netflix docuseries reveals the myriad human stories behind the Black Hawk Down movie, with the camera focused on the actual soldiers as well as the Somali people who were there — the ones who survived the battle and who are now telling audiences directly what happened, in their own words.
Directed by Jack MacInnes, the docuseries draws on re-enactments, first-person interviews, and footage captured on the ground in Somalia before, during, and after the battle. The interviewees include members of the Army Rangers and Delta Force, as well as militiamen who fought US forces, local women who found themselves trapped in a war zone, and even a party photographer who abruptly became a war documentarian and brought his camera to the front lines of the battle.
Read more about the series here, from our previous coverage.
