Best Documentaries by Rank
2816
289
2016
Lonny Price
Terry Finn, Ann Morrison, Harold Prince, Stephen Sondheim, Jim Walton
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2816
289
2016
Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
Simon Bennett, David Byrne, Nika Danilova, Christian Delmotte, Nelly Furtado
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2816
289
2005
Jeff Feuerzeig
Daniel Johnston, Mabel Johnston, Bill Johnston, Jeff Tartakov, Louis Black
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2816
289
2005
Doug Block
Mike Block, Mina Block, Carol "Kitty" Block, Ellen Block, Karen Block Engwall
Documentary / Biography
Germany / USA
English
2816
289
2017
Laurent Bouzereau
Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Paul Greengrass, Lawrence Kasdan
Documentary / Biography / History / War
USA
English
2816
289
2016
Clay Tweel
Steve Gleason, Mike Gleason, Scott Fujita, Mike McKenzie, Michel Varisco-Gleason
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2816
289
2019
Frédéric Tcheng
Liza Minnelli, Marisa Berenson, Joel Schumacher, Naeem Khan, Pat Cleveland
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2816
289
1986
John Akomfrah
Pervaiz Khan, Meera Syal, Yvonne Weekes
Documentary
UK
English
2816
289
2008
Davis Guggenheim
Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack White, Bono, Larry Mullen Jr., Robert Plant, Meg White
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2816
289
2017
Eugene Jarecki
Alec Baldwin, Tony Brown, James Carville, Chuck D, Maggie Clifford
Documentary / Music / Biography / History
Germany / USA
English
2816
289
2017
Tom Volf
Fanny Ardant, Joyce DiDonato, Maria Callas, Aristotle Onassis, Vittorio De Sica
Documentary / Biography / Music
France
English
2816
289
2002
Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
William Bell, Jerry Butler, The Chi-Lites, Isaac Hayes, Sam Moore, Ann Peebles
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2816
289
2017
Jonathan Olshefski
Christine'a Rainey, Christopher Rainey, P.J. Rainey, William Withers
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2816
289
2013
Matthew Miele
William Fichtner, Rachel Zoe, Vera Wang, Joan Rivers, Karl Lagerfeld, Michael Kors
Documentary
USA
English
2816
289
2013
David Grohl
Dave Grohl, Joe Barresi, Butch Vig, Kevin Cronin, Joshua Homme, Lee Ving
Documentary / Music / History
USA
English
2816
289
2004
Morgan Spurlock
Morgan Spurlock, John Banzhaf, Bridget Bennett, Kelly Brownell, Ron English
Documentary
USA
English
2816
289
2006
Kirby Dick
Kirby Dick, John Waters, Atom Egoyan, Darren Aronofsky, Kevin Smith
Documentary
USA
English
2816
289
2012
Joe Berlinger
Paul Simon, Hugh Masekela, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ray Phiri, Miriam Makeba
Documentary / Biography / History / Music
USA / South Africa
English
2816
289
2018
Kevin Macdonald
Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bobby Brown, Nelson Mandela, Merv Griffin
Documentary / Biography / Music
UK / USA
English
2816
289
2017
Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis
Brittany Ferrell, Tef Poe, Kayla Reed, Tory Russell, Alexis Templeton, David Whitt
Documentary
USA
English
2816
289
2019
Jeffrey McHale
Elizabeth Berkley, Gina Gershon, Kyle MacLachlan, Paul Verhoeven
Documentary
USA
English
2817
290
2010
Ken Burns
Keith David, Keith Olbermann, Mike Barnicle, John Thorn Burns, Marcos Breton
Documentary / History / Sports
USA
English
2817
290
2011
David Lickley
Morgan Freeman, Birute Galdikas, Daphne Sheldrick
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2817
290
2010
Alex Gibney
Eliot Spitzer, Kim Allen, Wrenn Schmidt, Laura Somma
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2817
290
2008
Matthew Aeberhard, Leander Ward
Zabou Breitman, Mariella Frostrup
Documentary
USA / UK
English
2817
290
2005
Fatih Akin
Alexander Hacke, Baba Zula, Orient Expressions, Duman, Replikas, Erkin Koray
Documentary / Music
Germany / Turkey
German
2817
290
2014
James Keach
Glen Campbell, Bruce Springsteen, Bill Clinton, Paul McCartney, Jay Leno
Documentary / Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
2817
290
2010
Toni Myers
Leonardo DiCaprio, Scott D. Altman, Gregory C. Johnson, John M. Grunsfeld
Documentary / Short
Canada
English
2817
290
2021
Julie Cohen, Betsy West
José Andrés, Julia Child, André Cointreau, Susy Davidson
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2817
290
2019
Hassan Fazili
Hassan Fazili, Nargis Fazili, Zahra Fazili, Fatima Hossaini
Documentary / War
Qatar / UK / Canada / USA
Persian
2817
290
2009
Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud
Pierce Brosnan, Jacques Perrin, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Rie Miyazawa
Documentary / Drama
France / Switzerland / Spain
English
2817
290
2006
George Butler
Paul Newman, Stephen Squyres, Rob Manning, Dr. Charles Elachi, Wayne Lee
Documentary / Short
USA
English
2817
290
2017
Amanda Lipitz
Paula Dofat, Blessin Giraldo, Cori Grainger, Tayla Solomon
Documentary
USA
English
2817
290
2009
Ben Steinbauer
Jack Rebney, Ben Steinbauer, Keith Gordon, Nick Prueher, Joe Pickett
Documentary / Biography / Comedy
USA
English
2818
291
2009
Vikram Jayanti
Phil Spector, Lana Clarkson, Bobby Hatfield, Bill Medley, Ronma Perry
Documentary / Music / Biography / Crime
USA / UK
English
2818
291
2008
Adam Del Deo, James D. Stern
Michael Bennett, Bob Avian, Marvin Hamlisch, Donna McKechnie, Baayork Lee
Documentary / Musical / Biography
USA
English
2818
291
2000
David Shapiro, Laurie Shapiro
Tobias Schneebaum, Norman Mailer, Charlie Rose, Mike Douglas
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2818
291
2000
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Rupert Everett, Klaus Müller, Karl Gorath, Pierre Seel, Heinz F.
Documentary / History / War
UK / Germany / USA
English
2820
292
1942
Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister
Chesney Allen, Bud Flanagan, Leonard Brockington, Myra Hess
Documentary / Short / War
UK
English
2822
293
1967
Vilgot Sjöman
Lena Nyman, Vilgot Sjöman, Börje Ahlstedt
Documentary / Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2824
294
1987
Kazuo Hara
Kenzo Okuzaki, Emperor Hirohito
Documentary / War / History
Japan
Japanese
2825
295
1975
Patricio Guzmán
Abilio Fernández, Salvador Allende
Documentary / History
Chile / Cuba
Spanish
2830
296
1969
Jonas Mekas
Timothy Leary, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, John Lennon
Documentary / Experimental
USA
English
2832
297
2015
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman, Natalia Akerman, Sylvaine Akerman
Documentary
Belgium / France
French
2833
298
2006
Pedro Costa
Ventura, Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte, Gustavo Sumpta, Cila Cardoso, Isabel Cardoso
Drama / Documentary
Portugal / France / Switzerland
Portuguese
2839
299
1959
Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage, Myrrena Schwegmann, Jane Wodening
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2840
300
2022
Shaunak Sen
Mohammad Saud, Nadeem Shehzad
Documentary
UK / India / USA
Hindi
2840
300
2013
Steve Hoover
Rocky Braat, Steve Hoover
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2840
300
1993
Andrew Young, Susan Todd, Michael Roemer, Robert M. Young
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA
English
2840
300
2002
Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco
Mai Thi Kim, Heidi Neville-Bub, Gerald Ford, Tom Miller, Tran Tuong Nhu
Documentary / Biography / War
USA
English
2840
300
2017
Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles
Dina Buno, Scott Levin
Documentary / Romance
USA
English
2840
300
2006
Eva Mulvad
Malalai Joya
Documentary
Denmark / Norway / Finland
English
2840
300
2022
Violet Columbus, Ben Klein
Christine Choy, Todd Phillips, Ronald Gray, Atno Smith
Documentary
USA
English
2840
300
1998
Liz Garbus, Wilbert Rideau, Jonathan Stack
Bernard Addison, Burl Cain, George Crawford, Wilbert Rideau, Vincent Simmons
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA
English
2840
300
1991
Camille Billops, James Hatch
Camille Billops
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2840
300
1989
Al Reinert
Jim Lovell, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad
Documentary / History
USA
English
2840
300
1994
Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford
Ronnie Washington
Documentary / History
USA
English
2840
300
2023
Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
Nikki Giovanni, Taraji P. Henson, Virginia Fowler, Kai Giovanni, Thomas Giovanni
Documentary
USA
English
2840
300
2006
Juan Carlos Rulfo
Sofia García López, José Guadalupe Calzada
Documentary / Biography
Mexico
Spanish
2840
300
2017
Firas Fayyad, Steen Johannessen
Documentary / War
Denmark / Syria
Arabic
2840
300
2000
Deborah Hoffmann, Frances Reid
Mary Burton, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Mongezi Manqina, Thapelo Mbelo
Documentary / Crime
USA
English
2840
300
2007
Jason Kohn
Documentary / Crime / Biography
Brazil / USA
English
2840
300
2024
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
Documentary / Adventure
Norway
Norwegian
2840
300
2018
Derek Doneen
Asmita, Swati Jha, Sumedha Kailash, Arshad Mehdi, Bhuwan Ribhu, Kailash Satyarthi
Documentary
USA
English
2840
300
1985
Christian Blackwood
Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang, Charles Durning
Documentary
USA
English
2840
300
2009
Mads Brügger
Mads Brügger, Simon Jul Jørgensen, Jacob Nossell
Documentary / Comedy
Denmark
Danish
2840
300
2013
Talal Derki
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Syria / Germany
Arabic
2840
300
2014
Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos
Documentary / Biography / Drama
USA
English
2840
300
2014
Chad Gracia
Documentary / History / War
USA / UK / Ukraine
Russian
2840
300
1993
Peter Friedman, Tom Joslin
Liane Bonin, Tom Joslin, Mark Massi
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2840
300
2001
Kate Davis
Robert Eads, Lola Cola, Maxwell Scott Anderson, Cas Piotrowski, Corissa Anderson
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2840
300
2004
Leonard Retel Helmrich
Documentary / Religion / Biography
Netherlands
Indonesian
2840
300
1995
Steven Ascher, Jeanne Jordan
Bob Blankenship, Dean Eilts, Marge Harold, Gini Jordan, Grace Jordan
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2840
300
2015
Crystal Moselle
Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo, Krsna Angulo, Mukunda Angulo,
Documentary / Biography / Drama
USA
English
2842
301
1992
Barbara Hammer
Jerre, Maria, Ruth, Sandy Binford, Peter Cramer, Barbara Hammer
Documentary / Experimental
USA
English
2845
302
2016
Arthur Jafa
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Cassi Namoda, Bayard Rustin, Walter Scott
Short / History / Documentary
USA
English
2845
302
1958
Jean Rouch
Oumarou Ganda, Gambi, Petit Touré, Alassane Maiga, Amadou Demba
Drama / Documentary
France
French
2845
302
1970
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Gato Barbieri, Donald F. Moye, Marcello Melis, Yvonne Murray, Archie Savage
Documentary / Music
Italy
Italian
2849
303
1971
Werner Herzog
Heinrich Fleischmann, Vladimir Kokol, Fini Straubinger
Documentary / Biography
West Germany
German
2852
304
1993
Nikita Mikhalkov
Anna Mikhalkova, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Nikita Mikhalkov
Documentary / Biography
Russia / France
Russian
2852
304
2006
Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell
Donald Crowhurst, Francoise Moitessier de Cazalet, Simon Crowhurst
Documentary / History / Sports
UK
English
2852
304
2006
Amy Berg
Thomas Doyle, Oliver O'Grady
Documentary / Biography / Religion
USA
English
2852
304
1997
Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Keith Fulton, Terry Gilliam, Dorothea Braemer, Kristi Connors, Ken Haas
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2852
304
1995
Krzysztof Wierzbicki
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Documentary / Biography
Denmark / Poland
Polish
2852
304
2019
Michael Apted
Nicholas Hitchon, Tony Walker, Charles Furneaux, Bruce Balden, Peter Davies
Documentary
UK
English
2852
304
1994
Adawna, Frank Cardon, La Traun Parker
Frank Cardon, Adwana, Gloria, La Traun Parker
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2852
304
1997
Nicholas Barker
Aimee Copp, Michael De Stefano, Brenda Monte, Mikey Russo, Heather Feeney
Documentary / Experimental
France / UK / USA
English
2855
305
1983
David Perlov
Klaus Kinski, David Perlov, Mira Perlov, Neomi Perlov, Yael Perlov
Documentary
Israel
Hebrew
2856
306
1972
Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Documentary / History / Biography
Japan
Japanese
2857
307
1977
Chris Marker
Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Salvador Allende, Regis Debray, Yves Montand
Documentary / History
France
French
2858
308
1992
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Documentary / Sci-Fi / History
France / UK / Germany
German
2860
309
1974
Werner Herzog
Walter Steiner
Documentary / Biography / Sports
West Germany
German
2860
309
1978
Guy Debord
Documentary / Experimental
France
French
2860
309
1995
Tong Wang
Tao shu, Lu zhi, Shi jun, Zhang Shi
Drama / Documentary
Taiwan
Mandarin
2860
309
1965
Ken Loach
Geraldine Sherman, Carol White, Vickery Turner, Michael Standing
Drama / Documentary
UK
English
NR
-
2012
Mark Christopher Covino, Jeff Howlett
Alice Cooper, Bobby Hackney, Dannis Hackney, David Hackney, Henry Rollins
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
NR
-
2006
Eric Steel, Raymond Wood
Randall Blizzard, Harold Blizzard, Chris Piner, Allison Ruby Poss, Tommy Roche
Documentary / Biography
UK / USA
English
NR
-
2007
Brett Morgen
Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte, Mark Ruffalo, Roy Scheider, Liev Schreiber
Documentary / Animation / History / Crime
USA
English
NR
-
2004
Deborah Koons
Percy Schmeiser, Andrew Kimbrell, Dr. Ignacio Chapela, Dr. Charles Benbrook
Documentary
USA
English
NR
-
2010
Dmitry Vasyukov, Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Documentary
Germany
English
NR
-
2005
Philip Gröning
Documentary / Religion
France / Switzerland / Germany
French
NR
-
1943
Dave Fleischer, Dan Gordon, Isadore Sparber, Seymour Kneitel
Jack Mercer, Margie Hines, Dave Barry, William Pennell, Tedd Pierce, Gilbert Mack
Animation / Short / Musical / Family / Comedy / Fantasy / Comic / Documentary / Serial
USA
English
NR
-
2012
Thymaya Payne
Documentary / Adventure / Crime
Estonia / Philippines / Denmark / USA / Somalia / Canada
English
NR
-
1985
Jack Haley Jr.
Liza Minnelli, Shirley Temple, Gene Kelly, Mikhail Baryshnikov, John Travolta
Documentary / Musical
USA
English
