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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…

  • Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

    142

  • The Battle of Chile: Part I

    29

  • Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

    191

  • My Voyage to Italy

    212

  • All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    53

  • Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

    145

  • When We Were Kings

    132

  • See Know Evil

    111

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

    12

  • The Dawn Wall

    181

  • Fire of Love

    118

  • Eno

    199

  • Daughters

    70

  • David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

    68

  • Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

    57

  • 63 Up

    102

  • Kedi

    210

  • Searching for Sugar Man

    116

  • Encounters at the End of the World

    184

  • Prince: Sign O' the Times

    113

  • Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

    195

  • Nazi Concentration Camps

    91

  • The Silence of Others

    203

  • Grizzly Man

    105

  • Crumb

    81

  • Hearts and Minds

    86

  • Concerning Violence

    125

  • The Battle of Chile: Part II

    31

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

    75

  • No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    88

  • Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

    66

  • Baraka

    15

  • News from Home

    133

  • No Other Land

    2

  • Miss Americana

    216

  • I'm Not Everything I Want to Be

    194

  • Lost, Lost, Lost

    165

  • Instrument

    162

  • How to Save a Dead Friend

    214

  • Bray Wyatt: Becoming Immortal

    99

  • Riverboom

    98

  • 102 Minutes That Changed America

    158

  • Louis Theroux: The Settlers

    54

  • The Times of Harvey Milk

    128

  • Gimme Shelter

    202

  • Fifi Howls from Happiness

    209

  • Minding the Gap

    25

  • Stop Making Sense

    1

  • Los Angeles Plays Itself

    148

  • Woodstock

    83

  • Love, Deutschmarks and Death

    78

  • The Metamorphosis of Birds

    71

  • Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    72

  • Revolution of Our Times

    150

  • Blue

    94

  • The Amazonian Angel

    107

  • Heima

    93

  • Grey Gardens

    178

  • Homework

    140

  • STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

    204

  • Original Cast Album: Company

    67

  • The Devil and Daniel Johnston

    130

  • Jimi Plays Monterey

    110

  • Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii

    10

  • When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

    24

  • Momentum Generation

    239

  • George Harrison: Living in the Material World

    103

  • Man with a Movie Camera

    33

  • Dressed in Blue

    92

  • Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird

    250

  • Butterfly in the Sky

    176

  • Bitter Lake

    149

  • The Beaches of Agnès

    23

  • Varda by Agnès

    183

  • Shoah

    4

  • The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived

    89

  • Little Girl

    189

  • The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

    121

  • Lake of Fire

    231

  • Faces Places

    101

  • A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

    51

  • The Thin Blue Line

    172

  • LA 92

    85

  • Lou Reed and John Cale: Songs for Drella

    249

  • Lakota Nation vs. United States

    229

  • Yintah

    64

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

    77

  • I Am Not Your Negro

    69

  • Harlan County U.S.A.

    20

  • Playing

    32

  • Tempestad

    232

  • 13th

    22

  • Twenty Years Later

    16

  • The Last Waltz

    47

  • 5 Broken Cameras

    48

  • Monterey Pop

    137

  • The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

    153

  • Cuba and the Cameraman

    180

  • Ocean with David Attenborough

    37

  • From the Notebook of...

    217