The legacy - and controversy - surrounding America's Next Top Model is at the center of Netflix and E!'s documentaries, but how do the specials compare? America's Next Top Model, which ran from 2003 to 2018, followed aspiring models as they competed to receive a modeling contract, a fashion spread, a cover in a major magazine and a cosmetics campaign. After Hulu made episodes available in 2020, America's Next Top Model received backlash for its insensitive modeling challenges that featured concepts such as race-swapping, murder and eating disorders. "I didn't think it was controversial.