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.
Jedi Junkies (2010)
Who Do You Think You're Fooling? (1994)
John Ford: The Man Who Invented America (2019)
The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)
Fresh Dressed (2015)
A Fierce Green Fire (2013)
Gettysburg (2011)
Invisible World (2013)
Blood Road (2017)
That Guy... Who Was in That Thing (2012)
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift (2010)
Kevin Smith: Too Fat For 40 (2010)
Cinerama's Russian Adventure (1966)
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road (2021)
Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer (2024)
Spider-Man 2: Making the Amazing (2004)
Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010)
Living with Chucky (2022)
1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets (2010)
This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous (2017)
The Naked Bunyip (1970)
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web (2017)
Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards (2017)
Sex and Broadcasting (2014)
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000)
Chelsea on the Rocks (2008)
Valentino: The Last Emperor (2008)
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (2012)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1985)
Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003)
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)
Primary (1960)
Being George Clooney (2016)
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town (1988)
Famous T & A (1982)
Hollywood Uncensored (1987)
A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw (2008)
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020)
The Circle (2014)
Room 666 (1985)
Chris & Don: A Love Story (2008)
A Very British Sex Scandal (2007)
Backstage (2000)
Muhammad Ali, the Greatest (1974)
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon (2005)
Police State (2023)
Reagan (2011)
The Twister: Caught in the Storm (2025)
Deepsea Challenge 3D (2014)
Lover, Stalker, Killer (2024)
Hollywood Rated 'R' (1997)
50 Years of Star Trek (2016)
The Plot Against the President (2020)
Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping (2016)
Halftime (2022)
Beautiful Darling (2010)
Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (2000)
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies (2017)
Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin: Ladies Night Live (2022)