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Official Top 250 Documentary Films

A companion piece to Dave Vis' list of here. It will be updated on a monthly basis and is an official list progress project on all-time stats pages for Pro and Patron . (See all films that have entered.)

ELIGIBILITY RULES:
• Documentaries must be feature-length (more than 40 minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release in its entirety.
• TV series, miniseries, and episodes are excluded but docs listed as 'TV movie' on IMDb are eligible. Exceptions made for series and episodes that also had a limited theatrical release.
• No behind-the-scenes featurettes unless theatrically distributed, even if feature-length (featurettes are marked…

  • Nathan for You: Finding s

    5

  • Deaf President Now!

    166

  • Stop Making Sense

    1

  • The Encampments

    17

  • Louis Theroux: The Settlers

    54

  • KIX

    192

  • From Ground Zero

    63

  • Yintah

    64

  • O.J.: Made in America

    7

  • Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

    195

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    161

  • The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

    153

  • No Other Land

    2

  • Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron

    56

  • Daughters

    70

  • Bray Wyatt: Becoming Immortal

    99

  • Gimme Shelter

    202

  • American Movie

    62

  • Our Body

    205

  • How to Save a Dead Friend

    214

  • Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

    227

  • Koyaanisqatsi

    21

  • Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

    12

  • 9/11

    95

  • The Great White Silence

    245

  • Blue

    94

  • Black Is… Black Ain’t

    34

  • Tongues Untied

    40

  • 20 Days in Mariupol

    28

  • Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

    66

  • STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

    204

  • The Times of Harvey Milk

    128

  • The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

    121

  • All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    53

  • Apollo 11

    136

  • Love, Deutschmarks and Death

    78

  • Moonage Daydream

    211

  • Prince: Sign O' the Times

    113

  • Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America

    228

  • Man with a Movie Camera

    33

  • Butterfly in the Sky

    176

  • The Salt of the Earth

    46

  • Woodstock

    83

  • The Murder of Fred Hampton

    114

  • Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

    77

  • I Am Not Your Negro

    69

  • Fire of Love

    118

  • The Last Days

    190

  • Free Solo

    182

  • The Rescue

    126

  • 102 Minutes That Changed America

    158

  • Original Cast Album: Company

    67

  • Tokyo Olympiad

    65

  • Jimi Plays Monterey

    110

  • Amy

    196

  • Little Girl

    189

  • Flee

    55

  • The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo

    76

  • The Metamorphosis of Birds

    71

  • Collective

    247

  • David Byrne's American Utopia

    38

  • David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

    68

  • Häxan

    208

  • Streetwise

    14

  • Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

    191

  • Disclosure

    138

  • When We Were Kings

    132

  • 13th

    22

  • Miss Americana

    216

  • Honeyland

    213

  • Senna

    39

  • For Sama

    13

  • Varda by Agnès

    183

  • Love, Antosha

    151

  • For All Mankind

    143

  • News from Home

    133

  • Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

    142

  • Shirkers

    238

  • The Beaches of Agnès

    23

  • They Shall Not Grow Old

    120

  • Minding the Gap

    25

  • Grey Gardens

    178

  • Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    72

  • The Gleaners and I

    42

  • The Work

    154

  • Faces Places

    101

  • Dont Look Back

    104

  • Burden of Dreams

    155

  • Paris Is Burning

    3

  • Harlan County U.S.A.

    20

  • Monterey Pop

    137

  • Long Strange Trip

    185

  • The Thin Blue Line

    172

  • Crumb

    81

  • Kedi

    210

  • Five Came Back

    241

  • LA 92

    85

  • HyperNormalisation

    90

  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling

    75

  • Tower

    224