Netflix’s 2024 documentary film from Colombia, The Lost Children, makes for a highly intriguing and emotionally intense watch, both because of the content it deals with and also the style in which the case is presented. The 90-minute-long film is about four Indigenous children from the Huitoto tribe of the country who went missing in the thick Amazon forest after the small plane carrying them and a few other passengers crashed in the unexplored wilderness. The question of whether the kids can be rescued, if they are even alive, lingers on throughout the duration of the film, making The Lost Children an entertaining documentary film to watch.

Who are the four lost children?

The Lost Children on Netflix begins with the usual texts at the beginning of every usual documentary, reminding us that most of the footage used in the film is from real recordings made at the time, while...