Looking Back at the Obamas' Higher Ground Netflix Movies and Shows

Key Points:

• Higher Ground, the production company founded by Barack and Michelle Obama, is ending or significantly changing its partnership with Netflix after eight years and over 20 produced films and series, including the Oscar-winning documentary American Factory.
• While the company has primarily worked with Netflix, its first-look deal also allowed it to develop projects with HBO, Laika, and branch into live theater and podcasts, reflecting a diversification beyond streaming.
• Higher Ground's notable feature films with Netflix include Leave the World Behind, one of Netflix's biggest movies, Rustin, Fatherhood, and Worth, while its documentaries include American Factory, Crip Camp, Becoming, and Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds.
• The company has produced Emmy-winning unscripted series narrated by Barack Obama, such as Our Great National Parks and Our Oceans, as well as other series like The G Word With Adam Conover and the reality show The Later Daters.
• In scripted series, Higher Ground produced Bodkin and has upcoming projects All the Sinners Bleed and The Altruists, while in kids programming, it launched series like Waffles + Mochi, We the People, and Ada Twist, Scientist.