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.
Sans Soleil
1983
The Beaches of Agnès
2008
Pearl Jam Twenty
2011
Burden of Dreams
1982
Listen to Me Marlon
2015
Sound City
2013
Beastie Boys Story
2020
Pictures of Ghosts
2023
Being James Bond
2021
Zero Days
2016
Chasing Ice
2012
HyperNormalisation
2016
Valley Uprising
2014
My Best Fiend
1999
African Cats
2011
Side by Side
2012
The Redeem Team
2022
Inequality for All
2013
Rammstein in Amerika
2015
Whitney
2018
Life, Animated
2016
Kiss the Ground
2020
Andre the Giant
2018
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
Another Day of Life
2018
Bus 174
2002
Val
2021
Sly
2023
