Top Documentary Movies


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

281. Best Worst Movie

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Stephenson
Actors: George Hardy, Michael Stephenson, Darren Ewing, Jason Steadman, Jason Wright, Patrick Gibbs
Plot: Michael Stephenson takes a look into the making of the now cult-classic Troll 2 - considered by many to be one of the worst movies ever made.

282. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kenneth Bowser
Actors: Peter Bogdanovich, Ellen Burstyn, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, William H. Macy, Cybill Shepherd

283. More Than a Game

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Kristopher Belman
Actors: LeBron James, Dru Joyce, Romeo Travis, Sian Cotton, Willie McGee
Plot: The story of a close-knit high school basketball team.

284. Blue Water, White Death

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Peter Gimbel, James Lipscomb
Actors: Tom Chapin, Phil Clarkson, Stuart Cody, Peter Matthiessen, Peter Gimbel, James Lipscomb

285. Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nick Broomfield
Actors: Nick Broomfield, Heidi Fleiss, Daryl Gates, Ron Jeremy, Jason Fleiss, Jesse Fleiss

286. N'sync: Bigger than Live

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: N/A
Actors: Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake, J.C. Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone

287. America the Beautiful

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Darryl Roberts
Actors: Anthony Kiedis, Jessica Simpson, Paris Hilton, Martin Short, Eve Ensler, Ted Casablanca
Plot: Filmmaker Darryl Roberts goes on a five year journey to examine America's growing obsession: physical perfection.

288. Blood Into Wine

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ryan Page, Christopher Pomerenke
Actors: Milla Jovovich, Fairuza Balk, Patton Oswalt, Bob Odenkirk, Maynard James Keenan, Tim Heidecker

289. The Loving Story

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nancy Buirski
Actors: Mildred Loving, Richard Perry Loving, Donald Loving, Peggy Loving, Lindsay Almond Jr., Lewis Jeter
Plot: In 1958, a white man and a woman deemed "colored" according to Virginia laws were arrested because they had gotten married. This documentary follows their fight to abolish the law preventing interracial marriage.

290. Pray for Japan

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stuart J. Levy
Actors: Hideo Otsuki, Seiji Yoshimura, Shu Chiba, Kento Ito, Shuki Ito, Hiroyuki Abe
Plot: Following the devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, heroes emerged and the country began the process of rebuilding. This documentary explores some of their stories so that the world may not forget.

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