Best Documentary Movies

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

Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special (2026)

Michael Jordan to the Max (2000)

Crazy, Not Insane (2020)

Chasing Trane (2017)

Aziz Ansari: Right Now (2019)

Catwoman: The Feline Femme Fatale (2021)

A Band Called Death (2013)

Van Gogh: Painted with Words (2010)

Game of Thrones: The Story So Far (2017)

Michael Jackson Memorial (2009)

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

Blue (1993)

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

David Bowie: Glass Spider (1988)

Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford (2023)

Everything or Nothing (2012)

Songwriter (2018)

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

The Secret of the Wild Child (1994)

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)

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

Black Swan: Metamorphosis (2011)

The Compleat Beatles (1982)

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

The Making of 'The Two Towers' (2003)

When Star Wars Ruled the World (2004)

Unity (2015)

X-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)

Making "The Matrix" (1999)

The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021)

Thelma & Louise: The Last Journey (2003)

The Latin Explosion: A New America (2015)

Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation (2019)

Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' (2013)

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2012)

Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’ (2021)

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary (2019)

Bergman: A Year in a Life (2018)

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview (2012)

Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel (2002)

Black Sabbath: The End - Live In Birmingham (2017)

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens (2007)

The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018)

Muscle Shoals (2013)

mother! The Downward Spiral (2017)

I Know That Voice (2014)

Black Hawk Down (1997)

Son of a Mother (2022)

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016)

F@ck This Job (2022)

Bowie: The Final Act (2025)

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

How the Beatles Changed the World (2017)

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

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

SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Let There Be Light (1946)