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.
Space Junk 3D (2012)
Jackass Shark Week 2.0 (2022)
Beatles '64 (2024)
Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story (2010)
Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008)
We Blew It (2017)
American Symphony (2023)
Be Pretty and Shut Up! (1981)
Metallica: This Monster Lives (2014)
Joe Mande's Award-Winning Comedy Special (2017)
Know Your Enemy: Japan (1945)
Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush (2003)
Comedian (2002)
The King (2018)
Moonraker: 007 in Rio (1979)
Survivor's Guide to Prison (2018)
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009)
Sinbad: Afros and Bellbottoms (1993)
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (2009)
Wilde Salomé (2013)
Jim Norton: Mouthful of Shame (2017)
Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson (2005)
Travis Scott: Look Mom I Can Fly (2019)
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story (2013)
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020)
Steve Jobs: One Last Thing (2011)
The Spirit of '45 (2013)
The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2009)
Sexo en el plató (2007)
Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (2003)
Creating an Army of the Dead (2021)
Porno Unplugged (2009)
Deep Web (2015)
La Bohème (2009)
Sex and Buttered Popcorn (1989)
Questioning Darwin (2014)
Dan Aykroyd Unplugged On UFOs (2005)
New World Order (2009)
Best of Stand-up 2020 (2020)
Teenage (2013)
Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (2019)
The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened? (2015)
The Age of Stupid (2009)
Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)
Some Nudity Required (1998)
Countdown to Zero (2010)
Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot (2015)
The Final: Attack on Wembley (2024)
Harmontown (2014)
Lamp (2003)
BaadAsssss Cinema (2002)
XY Chelsea (2019)
21 Years: Richard Linklater (2014)
Live from New York! (2015)
Scream: The Inside Story (2011)
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson (2019)
Moscow Strikes Back (1942)
Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy (2025)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of The Marvels (2024)
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (2015)