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.
Score: A Film Music Documentary (2017)
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe (1977)
Michael Jordan to the Max (2000)
Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale (2021)
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (2019)
Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special (2026)
Chasing Trane (2017)
Crazy, Not Insane (2020)
Game of Thrones: The Story So Far (2017)
Michael Jackson Memorial (2009)
Van Gogh: Painted with Words (2010)
A Band Called Death (2013)
David Bowie: Glass Spider (1988)
Aziz Ansari: Right Now (2019)
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman (2006)
Lost in La Mancha (2002)
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead (2011)
Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster (2025)
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford (2023)
Songwriter (2018)
The Secret of the Wild Child (1994)
Blue (1993)
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song (1985)
Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II (2024)
A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' (2001)
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008)
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2015)
The Making of 'The Return of the King' (2004)
The Making of 'The Two Towers' (2003)
When Star Wars Ruled the World (2004)
Everything or Nothing (2012)
The Compleat Beatles (1982)
Black Swan: Metamorphosis (2011)
Maternal Instinct (2026)
Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here (2012)
Unity (2015)
Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey (2003)
The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021)
Making "The Matrix" (1999)
The Latin Explosion: A New America (2015)
A New Princess (2001)
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation (2019)
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' (2013)
Black Sabbath: The End - Live In Birmingham (2017)
Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel (2002)
Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary (2019)
Bergman: A Year in a Life (2018)
Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’ (2021)
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2012)
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens (2007)
mother! The Downward Spiral (2017)
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview (2012)
Son of a Mother (2022)
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016)
F@ck This Job (2022)
Bowie: The Final Act (2025)
Black Hawk Down (1997)
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King (2003)
The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018)
Muscle Shoals (2013)