Movie Forums: Top 100 Documentaries

2005

 1

  Grizzly Man

2010

 2

  Exit Through the Gift Shop

1988

 3

  The Thin Blue Line

1956

 4

  Night and Fog

2008

 5

  Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

1991

 6

  Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

2002

 7

  Bowling for Columbine

2012

 8

  The Act of Killing

1994

 9

  Hoop Dreams

2007

 10

  Waltz with Bashir

2008

 11

  Man on Wire

1999

 12

  American Movie

1929

 13

  Man with a Movie Camera

1985

 14

  Shoah

1996

 15

  When We Were Kings

1975

 16

  F for Fake

2007

 17

  The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

2013

 18

  Blackfish

2014

 19

  Life Itself

1983

 20

  Sans Soleil

1996

 21

  Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

 22

 

2008

 23

  Food, Inc.

2005

 24

  Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

1993

 25

  The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

2004

 26

  Super Size Me

2013

 27

  Jodorowsky's Dune

2012

 28

  Searching for Sugar Man

1975

 29

  Grey Gardens

2012

 30

  The Imposter

2004

 31

  Fahrenheit 9/11

2007

 32

  Encounters at the End of the World

2007

 33

  My Winnipeg

1938

 34

  Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations

2006

 35

  This Film Is Not Yet Rated

1992

 36

  Baraka

2006

 37

  Jesus Camp

2005

 38

  Bob Dylan: No Direction Home

1994

 39

  Crumb

2008

 40

  Anvil! The Story of Anvil

2011

 41

  Jiro Dreams of Sushi

1967

 42

  Dont Look Back

2006

 43

  Cocaine Cowboys

2010

 44

  Senna

1970

 45

  Gimme Shelter

1935

 46

  Triumph of the Will

1978

 47

  The Last Waltz

2015

 48

  Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

2007

 49

  In the Shadow of the Moon

2010

 50

  Restrepo

1967

 51

  Titicut Follies

2009

 52

  The Cove

1977

 53

  Pumping Iron

2011

 54

  Beauty Day

1999

 55

  My Best Fiend

2009

 56

  Last Train Home

2006

 57

  Deliver Us from Evil

2003

 58

  Capturing the Friedmans

1990

 59

  Close-Up

2010

 60

  Cave of Forgotten Dreams

2013

 61

  The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

2008

 62

  Religulous

1974

 63

  Hearts and Minds

2003

 64

  The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

1989

 65

  Roger & Me

1989

 66

  For All Mankind

1970

 67

  Woodstock

2012

 68

  West of Memphis

1922

 69

  Nanook of the North

1997

 70

  Little Dieter Needs to Fly

2012

 71

  Indie Game: The Movie

1974

 72

  That's Entertainment!

2010

 73

  Catfish

1982

 74

  Burden of Dreams

2003

 75

  Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

1976

 76

  Harlan County U.S.A.

1983

 77

  Koyaanisqatsi

1992

 78

  Brother's Keeper

2000

 79

  Dark Days

1969

 80

  Salesman

2014

 81

  The Seven Five

1963

 82

  The House Is Black

2014

 83

  The Salt of the Earth

2006

 84

  Jackass Number Two

1984

 85

  The Times of Harvey Milk

2007

 86

  Sicko

1922

 87

  Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages

1997

 88

  Histoire(s) du cinéma: Only Cinema

2002

 89

  Spellbound

2002

 90

  Jackass: The Movie

2013

 91

  The Missing Picture

1989

 92

  Island of Flowers

2015

 93

  Listen to Me Marlon

2005

 94

  March of the Penguins

2001

 95

  Dogtown and Z-Boys

2001

 96

  Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

1987

 97

  The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On

2005

 98

  Earthlings

2003

 99

  Touching the Void

1995

 100

  Anne Frank Remembered