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At the beginning of (and during) each month, Netflix adds new movies and TV shows to its library. Below, you’ll find our March 2017 recommendations. For more comprehensive coverage of the best titles available on Netflix and elsewhere, check out Vulture’s What to Stream Now hub, which is updated throughout the month.

Candygram for Mongo: Blazing Saddles

Pick your favorite reason for celebrating Mel Brooks’s hysterical 1974 comedy masterwork. The perfect, bean-powered spoofery of the Western genre? The insidious racial satire, with a plot that tasks a black sheriff with protecting a town of white, bigoted idiots who hate his guts? The wonderful, blue-eyed magnetism of the dearly departed Gene Wilder as an alcoholic marksman playing sidekick to Cleavon Little’s Sheriff Bart? Brooks recently took Saddles on a roadshow, and there was something liberating about laughing along with hundreds of strangers to the audaciousness of this humor in 2016. Available March 1.

Secret whisperings of the world: The BFG

You probably didn’t see Steven Spielberg’s latest family-fantasy epic, in which a lumbering Mark Rylance imbued Roald Dahl’s lovable, simple-minded giant with a heart and pathos that towered over his physical height, because the film made only a tiny, Sophie-sized amount at the box office. But The BFG is a true gem, with that familiar Spielbergian-storytelling magic carrying us through set pieces both whimsical (the opening, with the BFG strolling London’s streets at night, diving behind lampposts to avoid detection) and crass (a bit where everyone gets a little gaseous “whizpopping” action). Plus, Spielberg hews closely to Dahl’s beloved source material, resisting his usual urge to bang out a superfluous 15-minute epilogue. Available March 15.

Talking out loud: The Carmichael Show

Not since the golden era of Norman Lear has one sitcom so effortlessly compressed the political and moral upheaval of our time into one family’s living room. Jerrod Carmichael, the boyishly charming creator and star of the NBC series, wants us to see a modern black family argue about everything from gentrification to depression to gender roles — to have everyone present their perspective, forcefully, from armchairs and kitchen tables, and to find a wonderful kind of arch-comedy from the sorts of disagreements currently tearing America apart. The Carmichael Show just barely squeaked its way to a third-season renewal; this is a good time to catch up. Available March 31.

Noteworthy selections in bold.

TELEVISION

Available March 1

Angry Birds: Season 2

Dirt Every Day: Season 1

Epic Drives: Season 2

Head 2 Head: Season 2

Hot Rod Unlimited: Season 1

Ignition: Season 1

Kate and Mim-Mim: Season 2

Roadkill: Season 2

Available March 3

Greenleaf: Season 1

Available March 5

Señora Acero: Season 3

Available March 10

Buddy Thunderstruck: Season 1

Love: Season 2

One More Time: Season 1

Available March 16

Beau Sejour: Season 1

Available March 17

Julie’s Greenroom: Season 1

Marvel’s Iron Fist: Season 1

Samurai Gourmet: Season 1

Available March 18

The Vampire Diaries: Season 8

Available March 20

El Reemplazante: Season 1-2

Available March 23

How to Get Away with Murder: Season 3

Available March 24

Bottersnikes & Gumbles: Season 2

Grace and Frankie: Season 3

Ingobernable: Season 1

Available March 27

Better Call Saul: Season 2

Available March 28

Archer: Season 7

Available March 30

Life in Pieces: Season 1

Available March 31

13 Reasons Why: Season 1

Bordertown: Season 1

The Carmichael Show: Seasons 1-2

Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life: Season 1

Dinotrux: Season 4

Five Came Back

Rosewood: Season 1

Trailer Park Boys: Season 11

MOVIES

Available March 1

Blazing Saddles

Chicago

Deep Run

Friday After Next

Impossible Dreamers

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park III

Know Your Enemy — Japan

Kung Fu Panda

Let There Be Light (1946)

Memento

Midnight in Paris

Nacho Libre

Nazi Concentration Camps (1945)

Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane

San Pietro

Singing with Angels

Sustainable

Slums of Beverly Hills

The Craft

This Is Spinal Tap

Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress

The Negro Soldier (1944)

Thunderbolt

Tunisian Victory

Available March 4

Safe Haven

Available March 7

Amy Schumer: The Leather Special

Available March 8

Hands of Stone

The Waterboy

Available March 9

Thithi

Available March 10

Burning Sands

The Boss’ Daughter

Available March 13

Million Dollar Baby

Must Love Dogs

Available March 14

Disney’s Pete’s Dragon

Jim Norton: Mouthful of Shame

Available March 15

Disney’s The BFG

Notes on Blindness

Available March 16

Coraline

Available March 17

Deidra & Laney Rob a Train

Naledi: A Baby Elephant’s Tale

Pandora

Available March 18

Come and Find Me

Available March 21

Ali & Nino

Another Forever

Evolution (2015)

Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare)

Available March 23

Welcome to New York

Available March 24

Déjà Vu

Felipe Neto: My Life Makes No Sense

Spider

The Square (2008)

The Most Hated Woman in America

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Available March 25

The Student Body

USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

Available March 26

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Available March 28

Jo Koy: Live from Seattle

Available March 31

FirstBorn

GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling

The Discovery