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.
What Is Brazil? (2008)
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act (2022)
Kevin James: Sweat the Small Stuff (2001)
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (2016)
The 50 Year Argument (2014)
Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed! (2000)
Bettie Page Reveals All (2013)
The Matrix Reloaded Revisited (2004)
No Más (2013)
Delphine and Carole (2020)
McLibel (2005)
Four Days in October (2010)
Rain of Madness (2008)
Here to be Heard: The Story of The Slits (2018)
D.A.F.T. (1999)
The Psycho Legacy (2010)
Love, Cecil (2017)
Playing for the Mob (2014)
Mike Nichols: An American Master (2016)
Vittorio D. (2009)
One Night in Vegas (2010)
2012: Time for Change (2010)
Vienna (1968)
OnlyFans: Selling Sexy (2021)
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Echo in the Canyon (2019)
Untold: Caitlyn Jenner (2022)
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003)
The James Bond Story (1999)
Batman Returns: The Bat, the Cat, and the Penguin (1992)
The War Room (1993)
The Crash (2026)
Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics (2013)
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible (2010)
The Beginning or the End (1947)
Harry Benson: Shoot First (2016)
Bukowski: Born Into This (2003)
Marvel's Captain America: 75 Heroic Years (2016)
Daniel Radcliffe: Being Harry Potter (2012)
Cool It (2010)
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal (2005)
His Way (2011)
America: The Story of Us (2010)
GasHole (2010)
The Rocky Saga: Going the Distance (2011)
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006)
CKY 3 (2001)
THE BEATLES in HELP! (2007)
I'm from Hollywood (1989)
The Alien Saga (2002)
All Star Comedy Jam (2009)
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011)
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies (1992)
Very Ralph (2019)
The Meaning of Hitler (2021)
All the Love You Cannes! (2002)
Getting LOST (2024)
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (2025)
Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump (2011)
Altman (2014)