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.
Meeting Gorbachev (2019)
Legend of the Witches (1970)
Patton Oswalt: We All Scream (2022)
Why Horror? (2014)
The Obama Deception (2009)
Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism (2009)
Loving Highsmith (2022)
Women of the World (1963)
Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022)
1:42.08 (1966)
Putin's Witnesses (2018)
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal (2018)
Bobbi Jene (2017)
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate (2019)
Don't You Forget About Me (2010)
Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding (2020)
Done the Impossible (2006)
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022)
Jackie Chan: My Story (1998)
Tracy Morgan: Black & Blue (2010)
Untold: The Fall of Favre (2025)
Full Tilt Boogie (1998)
Generation Iron (2013)
Life After Flash (2017)
Kroos (2019)
Your Friend the Rat (2007)
Mansfield 66/67 (2017)
Chronic-Con, Episode 420: A New Dope (2015)
A Dirty Story (1977)
Soul Boys of the Western World (2014)
The King of Ads (1991)
USS VD: Ship of Shame (1942)
Idem Paris (2013)
Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon (2008)
The Fight (2020)
Anna (1993)
This Changes Everything (2019)
Naughty! (1971)
We, the Marines (2017)
On the Road (2016)
I Am Steve McQueen (2014)
God's Angry Man (1983)
Women He's Undressed (2015)
Unzipped (1995)
The Concert for New York City (2001)
The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968)
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return (2022)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)
Manny (2014)
The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)
December 7th (1943)
Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe (2019)
Untouchable (2019)
Cannes Man (1996)
Jackass Forever (2022)
Brother's Justice (2010)
The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy (1990)
Studio 54 (2018)
X-Rated Ambition: The Traci Lords Story (2003)
Cedric the Entertainer: Live from the Ville (2016)