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.
Jim Henson Idea Man (2024)
The Menendez Brothers (2024)
Above Majestic (2018)
Five Came Back (2017)
La trattativa (2014)
The House I Live In (2012)
20 Feet from Stardom (2013)
Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: A Schitt's Creek Farewell (2020)
Fantastic Fungi (2019)
Nothing Compares (2022)
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones (2003)
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski (2018)
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2017)
Wick Is Pain (2025)
Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend (1973)
Will & Harper (2024)
Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)
Don't F*#% With John Wick (2015)
The Soul of War: Making 'Hacksaw Ridge' (2017)
The Skywalker Legacy (2020)
Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012)
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
The Sparks Brothers (2021)
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 (2015)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990)
Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time (2019)
Boston (2017)
In Search of Darkness: Part II (2020)
The Making of Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley (2024)
Ghost Elephants (2026)
The Up in Smoke Tour (2000)
Grounded: Making The Last of Us (2013)
Attitudini: Nessuna (2025)
Dior and I (2015)
Becoming (2020)
Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story (2021)
Metallica: Cliff 'Em All (1987)
Gorillaz: Reject False Icons (2019)
Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (2000)
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema (2022)
The Dissident (2020)
The Work of Director Spike Jonze (2003)
Our Planet: Behind the Scenes (2019)
The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic (2014)
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011)
Daft Punk Unchained (2015)
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025)
Bathtubs Over Broadway (2018)
Bohemian Rhapsody: Recreating Live Aid (2019)
This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic (2017)
Jim Carrey: Unnatural Act (1991)
Michael Jackson: Number Ones (2003)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life (2009)
These Amazing Shadows (2011)
The Union: The Business Behind Getting High (2007)