Best Documentary Movies
The best documentaries out-plot fiction: stranger twists, higher stakes, real consequences. Music docs, true crime, nature epics and portraits of obsessive people doing improbable things, ranked by audience rating. Find where each one streams and build a watchlist of the real world.
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me (2022)
One Direction: This Is Us (2013)
Ennio (2022)
Friends: The Reunion (2021)
Blackfish (2013)
The Cove (2009)
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
13th (2016)
Citizenfour (2014)
Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry (2021)
Inside Job (2010)
Miss Americana (2020)
Avicii: True Stories (2017)
Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (2020)
Nirvana: Unplugged In New York (1993)
I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972)
Dua Lipa: Studio 2054 (2020)
The Social Dilemma (2020)
Making Squid Game: The Challenge (2023)
Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon (2011)
Lady Gaga Presents: The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden (2011)
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad (2013)
Tomorrow (2015)
Money Heist: The Phenomenon (2020)
The Edge of Democracy (2019)
Earth (2007)
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017)
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023)
Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (2022)
Finding Vivian Maier (2014)
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy (2004)
To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb (2023)
The Untold History Of The United States (2012)
Spielberg (2017)
Sicko (2007)
The Making of The Walking Dead (2010)
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)
Linkin Park and Friends Celebrate Life in Honor of Chester Bennington (2017)
Hanna-Barbera's 50th (1989)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
RBG (2018)
Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970)
Disclosure (2020)
The Pixar Story (2007)
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2026)
Creating The Queen's Gambit (2021)
Square One (2019)
Bruce Lee, the Legend (1984)
Music by John Williams (2024)
Jackass: Best and Last (2026)
The Red Pill (2016)
I Am: Celine Dion (2024)
The Deepest Breath (2023)
Sans Soleil (1983)