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.

The People vs. George Lucas (2010)

The Captains (2011)

Ultimate Fights from the Movies (2002)

Heckler (2007)

Passage to Mars (2016)

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League (2016)

My Date with Drew (2005)

Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora (2010)

Aliens of the Deep (2005)

Nitro Circus: The Movie (2012)

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony (2021)

Slacker Uprising (2007)

Back in Time (2015)

The Battle of Midway (1942)

Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life (2017)

Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil (2007)

Living with Michael Jackson (2003)

Freakonomics (2010)

Skin. Like. Sun. (2009)

Return to Jurassic Park (2011)

Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991)

Jackass 3D (2010)

Jackass Number Two (2006)

Great (1975)

Hello, Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea (2019)

Jackass 4.5 (2022)

The Problem with Apu (2017)

Behind the Curve (2018)

The Eternal Jew (1940)

American Pie: Revealed (2004)

The Aristocrats (2005)

This Is Me…Now (2024)

Jackass 3.5 (2011)

Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity (2018)

Super High Me (2007)

Farce of the Penguins (2006)

Jackass: The Movie (2002)

What the #$*! Do We (K)now!? (2004)

Jackass 2.5 (2007)

America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)

Hot Girls Wanted (2015)

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011)