Best Documentary Movies

Best Documentary Movies on Filmtally, ranked by rating and popularity. See where to watch and track what you want to see.

Score: A Film Music Documentary (2017)

Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special (2026)

Chasing Trane (2017)

Michael Jackson Memorial (2009)

Game of Thrones: The Story So Far (2017)

Crazy, Not Insane (2020)

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (2019)

David Bowie: Glass Spider (1988)

Van Gogh: Painted with Words (2010)

Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman (2006)

More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead (2011)

A Band Called Death (2013)

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford (2023)

Aziz Ansari: Right Now (2019)

Songwriter (2018)

The Secret of the Wild Child (1994)

Lost in La Mancha (2002)

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)

Blue (1993)

The Making of 'The Return of the King' (2004)

The Making of 'The Two Towers' (2003)

When Star Wars Ruled the World (2004)

I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2015)

The Compleat Beatles (1982)

Black Swan: Metamorphosis (2011)

Everything or Nothing (2012)

Unity (2015)

Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here (2012)

Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey (2003)

The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021)

The Latin Explosion: A New America (2015)

Making "The Matrix" (1999)

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)

mother! The Downward Spiral (2017)

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens (2007)

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2012)

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary (2019)

Bergman: A Year in a Life (2018)

Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’ (2021)

X-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016)

F@ck This Job (2022)

Bowie: The Final Act (2025)

Son of a Mother (2022)

Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King (2003)

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview (2012)

Black Hawk Down (1997)

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love (2023)

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me (2000)

The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018)

Muscle Shoals (2013)

How the Beatles Changed the World (2017)

A Man Named Scott (2021)