Top Documentary Movies


The Top Documentary Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Documentary List". Lists are calculated daily.

121. Welcome to Leith

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker
Actors: Craig Cobb

122. Kedi

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Turkish
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ceyda Torun
Actors: Bülent Üstün
Plot: A journey through an ancient city and the unique citizens who inhabit it as seen through the eyes of a wily and beloved feline.

123. The Pixar Story

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Leslie Iwerks
Actors: Stacy Keach, John Lasseter, Brad Bird, John Musker, Ron Clements, Ollie Johnston
Plot: An interesting, informative and surprising look into the history and people of the animation company, Pixar Studios.

124. Grey Gardens

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Muffie Meyer
Actors: Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers, Norman Vincent Peale, Jerry Torre
Plot: Maysles brothers Documentary about the poor side of the family of Jacque O (Edith Bouvier Beale, and her daughter Edie)

125. Into the Abyss

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Werner Herzog, Michael Perry
Plot: Werner Herzog's intimate look into the mind of killer, the people affected and if capital punishment is the answer.

126. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alex Gibney
Actors: Peter Coyote, Michael Lugenbuehl, Mark Salzberg
Plot: A documentary about an energy/gas company, which became the 7th biggest industry of its time from humble beginnings. It shows the rise and fall of a huge empire because of human flaws.

127. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Nelson
Actors: Rebecca Moore, Janet Shular, Tim Carter, Stanley Clayton, Hue Fortson Jr., Garrett Lambrev

128. Side by Side

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Christopher Kenneally
Actors: Keanu Reeves, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Danny Boyle, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese
Plot: A documentary about film - specifically explores the history and implementation of digital and photochemical film creation.

129. Man with a Movie Camera, The ( Chelovek s kino-apparatom )

Year of Release: 1929
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dziga Vertov
Plot: In this inventive documentary we follow a man documenting a typical day in the Soviet Union... while also documenting the making of that documentary.

130. Bukowski: Born Into This

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Dullaghan
Actors: Charles Bukowski, Bono, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Harry Dean Stanton, Barbet Schroeder

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