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.
Food, Inc. 2
2024
The Bit Player
2019
G-Funk
2017
Champion
2005
A Fuller Life
2013
The Matrix Revisited
2001
Making 1899
2022
Get Bruce!
1999
Wattstax
1973
On Her Shoulders
2018
The Movie Orgy
1968
Megadoc
2025
The Punk Rock Movie
1978
He Dreams of Giants
2019
Hal
2019
Jurassic Punk
2022
Bobby
2016
The Botany of Desire
2009
Shadows of Liberty
2012
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
Every Act of Life
2018
The Brothers Warner
2008
A Farewell to Ozark
2022
Howard
2018