Best Documentaries by Title
2756
257
1906
Miles Brothers
Short / Experimental / Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2807
282
1922
Jack Cunningham
Cecil B. DeMille, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Marion Davies, Bebe Daniels
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
485
5
1935
Leni Riefenstahl
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Josef Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler
Documentary / Experimental / War
Germany
German
2840
300
1995
Steven Ascher, Jeanne Jordan
Bob Blankenship, Dean Eilts, Marge Harold, Gini Jordan, Grace Jordan
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2708
235
1945
Garson Kanin, Carol Reed
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert Harris, Peter Ustinov
Documentary / War / History
UK / USA
English
2807
282
2008
Doug McIntyre, Penny Peyser
Jack Sheldon, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, Chet Baker, Clint Eastwood, Billy Crystal
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2689
223
2003
Lauren Lazin
Tupac Shakur, Rappin' 4-Tay, Conrad Bain, Bill Bellamy, William J. Bennett
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2579
178
2023
Mstyslav Chernov
Mstyslav Chernov, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Liudmyla Amelkina
Documentary / War
Ukraine
Ukrainian
1907
65
1985
Michael Apted
Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2428
144
2013
Morgan Neville
Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Táta Vega, Judith Hill
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2807
282
2016
Kevin Burke
Mike Orlando, Joe Dante, Matthew Chojnacki, Laurent Durieux, Tal Zimerman
Documentary
Canada / USA
English
2006
81
1977
Michael Apted
Susan Sullivan, Peter Davies, Charles, Bruce Balden
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2761
259
1984
Eduardo Coutinho
Eduardo Coutinho, Elizabeth Teixeira, Ferreira Gullar, Tite de Lemos
Documentary / History
Brazil
Portuguese
2807
282
1945
Frank Capra
George C. Marshall, Anthony Veiller
Documentary / War / History / Short
USA
English
2807
282
2015
Pamela Tom
Tyrus Wong, Don Hahn, Sonia Mak, Kim Wong, John Canemaker, Andreas Deja
Documentary / Animation / Biography / History
USA
English
2497
157
1954
Nancy Hamilton
Helen Keller, Polly Thompson, Katharine Cornell, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2676
216
2011
Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin
Bill Courtney, O.C. Brown, Montrail 'Money' Brown, Chavis Daniels
Documentary / Biography / Sports
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
2756
257
1976
Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu, Julia Reichert
Kate Hyndman, Stella Nowicki, Sylvia Woods
Documentary / History / Music
USA
English
2792
274
1986
Peter Thompson
Peter Thompson
Documentary / Experimental / Crime
USA
English
2792
274
1986
Peter Thompson
Peter Thompson
Documentary / History / Experimental / War
USA
English
2666
210
1983
Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
Charles Chaplin, James Mason, Edna Purviance, Albert Austin
Documentary / Biography / Comedy / Family
UK
English (Silent Scenes)
2788
272
2013
Errol Morris
Donald Rumsfeld, Errol Morris, Kenn Medeiros
Documentary / Biography / History / War
USA
English
2801
279
2005
Rupert Murray
Doug Bruce, Daniel Schacter, Rupert Murray
Documentary / Biography
USA / UK
English
2852
304
1997
Nicholas Barker
Aimee Copp, Michael De Stefano, Brenda Monte, Mikey Russo, Heather Feeney
Documentary / Experimental
France / UK / USA
English
2605
188
2006
Henriette Mantel, Steve Skrovan
Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, Howard Zinn, Andrew Egendorf, Robert Fellmeth
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2860
309
1965
Ken Loach
Geraldine Sherman, Carol White, Vickery Turner, Michael Standing
Drama / Documentary
UK
English
2807
282
2006
David Leaf, John Scheinfeld
Walter Cronkite, Mario Cuomo, Angela Davis, Ron Kovic, John Lennon
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2792
274
1970
Pere Portabella
Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom, Soledad Miranda, Jack Taylor
Documentary / Horror
Spain
English
2792
274
1950
Isidore Isou
Jean Cocteau, Jean Louis-Barrault, Blaise Cendrard, Marcel Achard
Documentary / Experimental
France
French
2756
257
1939
Charles Lamont
Fernando Soler, Luana Alcañiz, Juan Torena
Drama / Documentary
USA
Spanish
2689
223
1950
Sergei Gerasimov, Ivan Dukinsky
Documentary / War
China / Soviet Union
Russian
2807
282
1943
Perce Pearce, James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, H.C. Potter
Alexander de Seversky, Art Baker, Billy Mitchell
Documentary / Animation / War
USA
English
2807
282
2016
Dave Davidson, Amber Edwards
Vince Giordano, Garrison Keillor, David Johansen, Terry Gross, George Wein
Documentary / Biography / History / Music
USA
English
2801
279
2008
Jennifer Burns
Vincent Falk
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2783
270
1987
Paul Cox
John Hurt, Marika Rivera, Gabriella Trsek
Animation / Biography / Drama / Documentary
Australia
English
2807
282
2023
Laura Bialis
Bradley Brennan, July Hodara, Declan Knappenberger, Vita Knappenberger
Documentary
USA
English
2411
139
1992
Stuart Samuels, Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Andrew Glassman
Ernest R. Dickerson, Michael Chapman, Allen Daviau, Caleb Deschanel
Documentary / History
USA / Japan
English
2605
188
1988
Nigel Noble
Leleti Khumalo, Baby Cele, Pat Mlaba, Miriam Makeba
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2788
272
2016
Terrence Malick
Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett
Documentary / Drama
USA / France / Germany
English
2801
279
1997
William Gazecki
Dan Gifford, Clive Doyle, Jack Harwell, Dick J. Reavis, James D. Tabor
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2689
223
2010
Davis Guggenheim
Geoffrey Canada, The Esparza Family, The Hill Family, The Jones Family
Documentary
USA
English
2676
216
2009
Don Hahn
Roy Edward Disney, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Tim Burton, Don Bluth
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2807
282
2005
George Scribner, Jerry Rees
Steve Martin, Tommy Chico, Jeff Lam, Sammy Davis Jr., Walt Disney
Documentary / Family / Serial
USA
English
2807
282
1964
James Neilson
Patrick McGoohan, George Cole, Kay Cole, Alan Dobie, Eric Flynn
Family / Adventure / Drama / Documentary / Crime / Action / Serial
UK
English
2807
282
1927
Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Animation / Family / Comedy / Documentary / Serial
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2633
194
1938
Ben Sharpsteen, Clyde Geronimi, Dick Lundy, Jack King, Jeff Kurtti
Florence Gill, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, Billy Bletcher, Cliff Edwards
Animation / Family / Comedy / Documentary / Serial
USA
English
2807
282
1956
Jack Hannah
James MacDonald, Clarence Nash
Animation / Family / Comedy / Documentary / Serial
USA
English
2807
282
1949
Jack Hannah, Jack King
Clarence Nash, Ronald Colman, Pinto Colvig, James MacDonald, Dessie Flynn
Animation / Family / Comedy / Documentary / Serial
USA
English
2807
282
1958
Charles Lamont
Annette Funicello, Don Grady, Tommy Cole, Eileen Diamond, Jimmie Dodd
Comedy / Family / Documentary / Serial
USA
English
2807
282
1959
Ward Kimball, Hamilton Luske, Jeff Kurtti
Walt Disney, Wernher von Braun, Leonard Maltin, Ray Bradbury, Heinz Haber
Documentary / Short / Animation / Family / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2756
257
1945
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Lloyd Nolan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
1198
28
1965
Peter Watkins
Michael Aspel, Peter Graham
Drama / Sci-Fi / War / Documentary
UK
English
2801
279
1993
Chris Hegedus, Christopher Hughes, D.A. Pennebaker
James Carville, George Stephanopoulos, Heather Beckel, Paul Begala, Bob Boorstin
Documentary / History
USA
English
2539
169
2010
Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim
Vik Muniz, Fabio Ghivelder, Sebastiao Carlos Dos Santos
Documentary / Biography
Brazil / UK
Portuguese
2665
209
1989
Pat O'Neill
Beth Block, George Lockwood, Joel Loriman
Documentary / Experimental
USA
English
2807
282
2004
Yaron Zilberman
Judith Haspel, Trude Hirschler, Anni Lampl, Hanni Lux, Ann Marie Pisker
Documentary / History / Sports / Biography
France / Israel / USA
English
2330
125
1973
Mel Stuart
The Staple Singers, Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas, Kim Weston, Johnnie Taylor
Documentary / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2801
279
2002
Sam Green, Bill Siegel
Bernardine Dohrn, Mark Rudd, Brian Flanagan, David Gilbert, Bill Ayers
Documentary / History
USA
English
2154
107
1982
Jim Brown
Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Arlo Guthrie, Mary Travers
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2740
249
1934
Friedrich Dalsheim, Knud Rasmussen
Thorvald Stauning
Romance / Drama / Documentary
Denmark
Danish
2732
245
2016
Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg
Anthony Weiner
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2756
257
1974
Michie Gleason, Christine Lesiak, Kathy Levitt
Documentary / Crime
USA
English
2413
140
2012
Amy Berg
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley Jr., Lorri Davis, Peter Jackson
Documentary / History / Crime
New Zealand / USA
English
2794
276
2019
Bruce Springsteen, Thom Zimny
Bruce Springsteen
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2807
282
2018
Rob Garver
Pauline Kael, Roger Ebert, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Schrader, Francis Ford Coppola
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2788
272
2018
Roberto Minervini
Kevin Goodman, Dorothy Hill, Judy Hill, Ashlei King, Ronaldo King
Documentary
Italy / USA / France
English
2801
279
2009
Joe Winston
Angel Dillard, Brittany Barden, Donn Teske
Documentary
USA
English
2546
171
1960
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2807
282
2013
Alan Zweig
Aaron Berg, Rodney Dangerfield, Gilbert Gottfried, Howie Mandel, Marc Maron
Documentary / Comedy / Religion
Canada
English
2633
194
2006
Spike Lee
Harry Belafonte, Terence Blanchard, Kathleen Blanco, Wynton Marsalis
Documentary
USA
English
1849
58
1996
Leon Gast
Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown, B.B. King, Mobutu Sese Seko
Documentary / History / Sports / Biography
USA
English
2807
282
2015
Michael Moore
Krista Kiuru, Michael Moore, Tim Walker
Documentary
USA
English
2663
207
2019
Matt Tyrnauer
Roy Cohn, Barbara Walters, Roger Stone, Ken Auletta, Anne Roiphe, Donald Trump
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2807
282
2014
Joe Berlinger
James 'Whitey' Bulger, Stephen Rakes, Tommy Donahue, David Boeri, Steve Davis
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA
English
2816
289
2018
Kevin Macdonald
Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bobby Brown, Nelson Mandela, Merv Griffin
Documentary / Biography / Music
UK / USA
English
2756
257
1987
Christine Choy, Renee Tajima-Pena
Lily Chin, Ronald Ebens, Starlene
Crime / Documentary
USA
English
2806
281
2021
Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler
Josephine Bolling McCall, Gwen Carr, Tiffany Crutcher, Carolyn Payne
Documentary / History
USA
English
2816
289
2017
Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis
Brittany Ferrell, Tef Poe, Kayla Reed, Tory Russell, Alexis Templeton, David Whitt
Documentary
USA
English
2756
257
1968
Elaine Bass, Saul Bass
Animation / Comedy / Documentary / Short
USA
English
2586
182
2005
Eugene Jarecki
Wilton Sekzer, Chalmers Johnson, William Solomon, Charles Lewis, Richard Perle
Documentary / History / War
USA / France / UK / Canada / Denmark
English
2807
282
2003
Judy Irving
Mark Bittner, Judy Irving
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2578
177
1958
Bill Colleran, Louis De Rochemont III
Yngvar Kjelstrup, Niels Arntsen, Nils Hermansen
Documentary
USA
English
2839
299
1959
Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage, Myrrena Schwegmann, Jane Wodening
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2127
103
2001
Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats
Philippe Labro, Jacques Perrin
Documentary / Family
France / Italy / Germany / Spain / Switzerland
English
2817
290
2009
Ben Steinbauer
Jack Rebney, Ben Steinbauer, Keith Gordon, Nick Prueher, Joe Pickett
Documentary / Biography / Comedy
USA
English
2597
186
1972
unknown
Rusty Sachs, Joe Bangert, Scott Shimabukuro, Kenneth Campbell, Scott Camil
Documentary / War
USA
English
2809
284
1930
unknown
Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black
Documentary / Adventure / Biography / History
USA
English
2756
257
1929
Aloha Wanderwell
Aloha Wanderwell, Walter Wanderwell
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1938
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herbert Kline
Documentary / War
USA
English
2756
257
1979
Stewart Bird, Deborah Shaffer
Roger Baldwin
Documentary / History
USA
English
2840
300
2015
Crystal Moselle
Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo, Krsna Angulo, Mukunda Angulo,
Documentary / Biography / Drama
USA
English
2807
282
2015
Gillian Armstrong
Darren Gilshenan, Deborah Kennedy, Louis Alexander, Nathaniel Middleton, Lara Cox
Documentary / Biography
Australia
English
2633
194
2018
Mark Cousins
Tilda Swinton, Adjoa Andoh, Jane Fonda, Sharmila Tagore, Kerry Fox
Documentary
UK
English
2801
279
1993
Ray Müller
Leni Riefenstahl, Marlene Dietrich, Walter Frentz, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess
Documentary / Biography / History / War
France / UK / Germany / Belgium
German
2514
164
2018
Morgan Neville
Fred Rogers, Joanne Rogers, Jim Rogers, John Rogers, Bill Clinton
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
469
4
1970
Michael Wadleigh
Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Roger Daltrey
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2807
282
2011
Robert B. Weide
Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Diane Keaton, Letty Aronson, Scarlett Johansson
Documentary / Biography / History / Music / Romance
USA
English
2546
171
1984
Jim Brown
Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2756
257
1977
Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein
Pat Bond, John Burnside, Sally M. Gearhart, Elsa Gidlow, Donald Hackett
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2807
282
2004
Eric Chaikin, Julian Petrillo
Mike Birbiglia, Joe Edley, Stefan Fatsis, Matt Graham, Marlon Hill, Joel Sherman
Documentary / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
2695
227
2006
Patrick Creadon
Will Shortz, Merl Reagle, Jon Stewart, Ken Burns, Indigo Girls, Bill Clinton
Documentary
USA
English
2807
282
2006
Ian A. Hunt
Nat King Cole
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2807
282
2008
Denny Tedesco
Brian Wilson, Cher, Nancy Sinatra, Micky Dolenz, Jimmy Webb, Lou Adler
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2807
282
2009
Aviva Kempner
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gertrude Berg, Lewis Berg, Sara Chase, Viola Harris
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2816
289
2019
Jeffrey McHale
Elizabeth Berkley, Gina Gershon, Kyle MacLachlan, Paul Verhoeven
Documentary
USA
English
2814
287
2007
Stephen Walker
Bob Cilman, Stan Goldman, Jeanne Hatch, Patricia Linderme, Steve Martin
Documentary / Drama / Music / Biography
UK
English
2737
248
1963
Abraham Zapruder
John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John Connally
Documentary / Short / History / Crime
USA
English
