Top Documentary Movies


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

311. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick
Actors: Mark Achbar, Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman
Plot: Follows the life of the intellectual, Noam Chomsky, as he battles the corporate media.

312. Buck

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cindy Meehl
Actors: Buck Brannaman
Plot: Documentary about Buck Brannaman, a real-life horse whisperer who endured a hard life to get where he wanted to be.

313. Naqoyqatsi

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Godfrey Reggio
Actors: Marlon Brando, Elton John, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Steven Soderbergh, Bella Donna, Ronald Reagan
Plot: Godfrey Reggio presents his brave new world: fusing everyday reality with digital techniques, Naqoyqatsi shows us a world once ruled by nature now ruled by technology.

314. Bears

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey
Actors: John C. Reilly, Victoria Naumova
Plot: Disneynature presents Bears - this documentary focuses on the life of bears living on the Alaskan coast and mountainous regions.

315. The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Julien Nitzberg
Actors: Jesco White
Plot: A portrait of America's last outlaw family.

316. Shoah

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Claude Lanzmann
Actors: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl, Hanna Zaidl, Jan Piwonski, Itzhak Dugin
Plot: The ground-breaking documentary about the survivors of the Holocaust is 9 1/2 hours of candid interviews with the survivors, witnesses and, secretly, ex-Nazis whose first-hand experience of the horrific genocide that faced the Jewish population and also explores how anti-Semitism is still an everyday way of life in some parts of Europe.

317. Let It Be

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Actors: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, George Martin
Plot: Documentary focusing on The Beatles trying to reignite their passion for music but ultimately showcasing the tension and deterioration of the band. Includes the last time The Beatles played together: the legendary rooftop performance atop Apple.

318. GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Brett Whitcomb
Actors: Emily Dole, Dee Booher, Angelina Altishin, Jeanne Basone, Dawn Rice, Lorilyn Palmer

319. Touching the Void

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Actors: Nicholas Aaron, Brendan Mackey
Plot: The true story told in documentary style of the hiking expedition between Joe Simpson and Simon Yates.

320. Collapse

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Chris Smith
Actors: Michael Ruppert

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