Top Documentary Movies


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

381. Eddie Murphy Delirious

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bruce Gowers
Actors: Eddie Murphy, James Argiro

382. God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of Sudan

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Christopher Dillon Quinn
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Panther Bior, John Bul Dau, Daniel Abol Pach
Plot: This documentary tells the story of young boys and girls in southern Sudan, separated from their families during civil war, who walked 1000 miles from Sudan to Kenya to escape in the early 1990s. A U.N. refugee camp was established at the border to receive them. When they grew up, some of them had the opportunity to come to the United States to go to school and get jobs.

383. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Greenwald
Actors: Rupert Murdoch, Bill O'Reilly, Douglas Cheek, Walter Cronkite, David Brock, Sean Hannity
Plot: Robert Greenwald's scathing documentary about the Fox News Network. Interviews with former FNN reporters and producers help cast an extremely critical eye towards deconstructing the neoconservative agenda that permeates all aspects of their broadcasts and commentaries.

384. Red Army

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Gabe Polsky
Actors: Scotty Bowman, Mark Deakins, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Anatoli Karpov, Alexei Kasatonov, Ken Kurtis

385. On Any Sunday

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Sport
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Bruce Brown
Actors: Bruce Brown, David Evans, Steve McQueen, Mert Lawwill, Malcom Smith, Dave Aldana

386. Black is... Black Ain't

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marlon Riggs
Actors: Angela Davis, Essex Hemphill, Cornel West, Michele Wallace, Bill T. Jones, bell hooks

387. The Agronomist

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jonathan Demme
Actors: Jean Dominique, Aboudja, Ronald Reagan

388. Street Fight

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marshall Curry
Actors: Sharpe James, Cory Booker, Spike Lee, Al Sharpton, Bill Bradley, Cornel West
Plot: Street Fight takes a look at the 2002 Mayoral race in Newark, New Jersey.

389. Imagine: John Lennon

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andrew Solt
Actors: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, David Bowie

390. Free Solo

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Actors: Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin, Alex Honnold, Sanni McCandless
Plot: Alex Honnold takes on a seemingly impossible task - to free climb the sheer vertical face of Yosemite's 3,000 ft El Capitan Wall. Planning, determination, daring - what goes into conquering such a task without the aid of ropes or safety equipment and achieving one of the greatest feats in rock climbing history.

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