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.

Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump

2011

The American West of John Ford

1971

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute

2006

Richard Pryor: Icon

2014

Ballplayer: Pelotero

2011

ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads

2019

Star Wars: Evolution of the Lightsaber Duel

2015

… But Film Is My Mistress

2010

If These Walls Could Sing

2022

The Real Miyagi

2015

The Greatest Love Story Never Told

2024

ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff

2018

Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'

2007

Moments Like This Never Last

2021

Speed

1984

The Netflix Afterparty: The Best Shows of the Worst Year

2020

Being Eddie

2025

The End of the Line

2009

Spaced: Skip to the End

2004

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

2023

Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event

2022

Bobby Fischer Against the World

2011

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

2019

Leonardo DiCaprio: Most Wanted!

2021

Searching for Debra Winger

2002

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½

2005

Aftermath: Population Zero

2008

Trespassing Bergman

2013

Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini

2015

Gilbert

2017

City of God: 10 Years Later

2013

Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras

1997

The Blues: Another Story of France

2016

In Search of Tomorrow

2022

Running from Crazy

2013

Exhausted: John C. Holmes, the Real Story

1981

Mary Poppins Returns: Behind the Magic

2018

Trumped: Inside the Greatest Political Upset of All Time

2017

Divine Madness

1980

Kevin Hart & Chris Rock: Headliners Only

2023

David Blaine: Real or Magic

2013

Dying Laughing

2017

What Is Cinema?

2013

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

2010

The Gospel According to André

2018

The Magical World of Ella Enchanted

2004

You Cannot Kill David Arquette

2020

Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere

2025

I Am Evel Knievel

2014

The Velvet Underground

2021

Ghosts of the Abyss

2003

Tell Them Who You Are

2004

The Earth Day Special

1990

The Search for Life in Space

2016

Building Star Trek

2016

Bisping

2021

1925 Studio Tour

1925

Not Quite Hollywood

2008

Trekkies 2

2004

The Pigeon Tunnel

2023