Top Documentary Movies


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

271. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Errol Morris
Actors: Dave Hoover, George Mendonça, Raymond A. Mendez, Rodney Brooks

272. The U.S. vs John Lennon

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: David Leaf, John Scheinfeld
Actors: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Gore Vidal, Walter Cronkite, G. Gordon Liddy, Noam Chomsky

273. My Kid Could Paint That

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Amir Bar-Lev
Actors: Laura Olmstead, Amir Bar-Lev, Mark Olmstead, Marla Olmstead, Anthony Brunelli, Elizabeth Cohen
Plot: A look at the work and surprising success of a four-year-old girl whose paintings have been compared to the likes of Picasso and has raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars.

274. That's Entertainment

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Jack Haley Jr.
Actors: Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli, Frank Sinatra

275. Dogtown and Z-Boys

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Stacy Peralta
Actors: Sean Penn, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Tony Hawk, Henry Rollins, Skip Engblom

276. Terror in the Aisles

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andrew J. Kuehn
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Nancy Allen, Fred Asparagus, Joel S. Rice, Diane Stilwell, Lainie Cooke
Plot: A review of horror movies in the 70's and early 80's and their highlight moments.

277. Catfish

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Actors: Ariel Schulman, Yaniv Schulman, Melody C. Roscher, Megan Faccio
Plot: Nev is a young man who develops a crush on a girl he has met online and talked to on the phone a few times. His friends film the whole experience when Nev decides to travel to her house to meet her. Afterall, everyone on the internet is who they say they are, right?

278. Tarnation

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jonathan Caouette
Actors: Renee Leblanc, Jonathan Caouette, Adolph Davis, Rosemary Davis, David Sanin Paz, Joshua Williams

279. My Architect

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nathaniel Kahn
Actors: Louis Kahn, Nathaniel Kahn, Sue Ann Kahn, Frank O. Gehry, I.M. Pei, Robert A.M. Stern

280. Neil Young: Heart of Gold

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jonathan Demme
Actors: Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Ben Keith, Spooner Oldham, Rick Rosas, Karl T. Himmel

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