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.
Il delitto Mattarella (2020)
Salinger (2013)
The Arrested Development Documentary Project (2013)
Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian (2013)
Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage (2021)
American Swing (2009)
Trekkies (1997)
Seduced and Abandoned (2013)
Mae Day: The Crumbling of a Documentary (1992)
Doc of the Dead (2014)
Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
A Good Job: Stories of the FDNY (2014)
Overnight (2003)
Ciao! Manhattan (1973)
This Is Paris (2020)
Seeing Stars (1922)
Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience (2009)
Misery Loves Comedy (2015)
Pixar 2021 Disney+ Day Special (2021)
Sailing with Bushnell Keeler (1967)
Anelka: Misunderstood (2020)
Crazy Nights (1978)
Def Comedy Jam 25 (2017)
Lumière & Company (1995)
Women Aren't Funny (2014)
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020)
Good Hair (2009)
A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995 (2012)
The Hurt Business (2016)
The Last Blockbuster (2020)
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond (2017)
Aquaman: Heroines of Atlantis (2019)
The James Dean Story (1957)
Report (1967)
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
Elon Musk: The Real Life Iron Man (2018)
Thrive: What on Earth Will it Take? (2011)
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)
Willow: Behind the Magic (2023)
2000 Mules (2022)
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2006)
Revealing Ukraine (2019)
American Animals (2018)
Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017)
1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story (2025)
Midgets vs Mascots (2011)
Stand (2023)
The Truth About Jussie Smollett? (2025)
Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)
Being Canadian (2015)
The Phenomenon (2020)
Untold: Jake Paul the Problem Child (2023)
Lennon or McCartney (2014)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Secret Invasion (2023)
TMZ Presents: The Downfall of Diddy (2024)
The Undefeated (2011)
Chaos: The Manson Murders (2025)
One Soldier's Story: The Journey of American Sniper (2015)