A documentary about Girl Scout Cookies — yes, the thin mints and shortbreads sold outside supermarkets every spring — has become one of the most talked-about nonfiction titles of the year, with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry among its executive producers.

Directed by Alysa Nahmias, Cookie Queens premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival and secured a distribution deal in March, as Variety reported. The film follows four young sellers through the present-day Girl Scout cookie season: 12-year-old Olive from Charlotte, North Carolina, who has set her sights on 8,000 boxes; 5-year-old Ara; 8-year-old Shannon Elizabeth from El Paso, Texas, aiming for 2,750; and 9-year-old Nikki from Chino, California, per Variety's review.

The stakes are real. According to the film, Girl Scouts sell over $800 million worth of cookies each year in a six-week season. The cookie programme itself dates back to World War I, when it was launched to raise money for American soldiers.

Variety describes Cookie Queens as a coming-of-age story about the joys, pressures, and tensions of the selling season — not a corporate explainer but a portrait of the children doing the selling. The opening credits run to the Julie Ruin's song "Cookie Road," setting an indie-rock tone from the first frame.

Meghan's connection to the project runs deeper than a producing credit. She is a former Girl Scout herself, a detail noted at a special Los Angeles screening she attended alongside Nahmias, as documented on Instagram. In a January interview with Variety, she spoke about what selling cookies taught her about business.

The promotional push around the film has leaned into that personal tie. On August 7, 2026, Meghan and Nahmias answered children's questions about the documentary in a video posted to her official Instagram account. Two days earlier, People magazine reported that the pair had teamed up with three of the Girl Scouts from the film to create a brand-new cookie.

Cookie Queens joins a production slate that Meghan and Harry have built under their Netflix partnership. Other titles bearing their executive-producer credit include Polo, Heart of Invictus, Live to Lead, Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within, and an upcoming adaptation of an Afghan war memoir, No Way Out, per Variety.

What gives Cookie Queens its bite is the scale of the thing it documents. Eight hundred million dollars in six weeks, moved largely by children under thirteen, is not a bake sale. It is one of the largest youth-run enterprise programmes in the world, and Nahmias trains her camera on the girls doing the work — the door-knocking, the booth setups, the sibling rivalries, the parental coaching that sits somewhere between support and management.

The film does not need to argue that this is a story worth telling. The numbers do that on their own.